I’m sure everyone can draw a line back to the time when their board game story began. Ours started out a little over two years ago. I met an amazing Dutch lady when she came over to discuss whether I would board her cat. Yup! I love cats too! Anyway, over time we became friends, started going out together and one day her husband invited us over to play board games. At first, my husband Shawn and I raised an eyebrow. Board games? Were we going to sit around playing Monopoly? Wasn’t our idea of a great Sunday but we had no plans and well why not?

Imagine our surprise when we are introduced to his collection. 250+ board games neatly stacked in shelves. I think my jaw dropped right to the ground. My entire experience with board games (I should mention that we live in India) has always been Snakes and Ladders, Ludo and Monopoly. Monopoly probably being the most intricate game. We had never heard of any of the others.

I still remember the games we played that day. We started out with Hanabi and then went on to play Ghost stories. When you talk about the game that flipped the switch… For us that game was Ghost stories. I remember telling anyone and everyone who would listen about how amazing the game was and how the tiles would flip around and change the set up of the game, so you technically never played the same set up twice.

That was how we began on our slippery journey to becoming board game addicts. To say that we spent numerous weekends playing board games is probably an understatement. We spent every single chance we could playing. Good company, access to board games and so much more made every meet one to remember.