The board games we play during childhood help us to learn some important life skills: patience, strategy, negotiation, murder, greed...

1. Five Terrible Life Lessons
from
BOARD GAMES
by The Pryz Manor

2. Clue taught us how to commit murder with everyday household objects
and get away with it (I’ll never be able to turn my back on a professor
wielding a candlestick again).
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3. Twister taught us that invading personal space is fun. Those values
have been making for some pretty uncomfortable interactions on public
transport systems ever since.
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4. Hungry Hippos taught us that the person who eats the most
wins. Possibly not the best way to combat the dramatic rise in
childhood obesity...
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5. Monopoly taught us that you can never own too much property.
Hard to imagine that backfiring... Doh! And don’t even get us started on
that ‘get out of jail free’ card.
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6. The Game of Life taught us that family, friendship and health are the
most important things in life. Just kidding- every child needs to learn
that amassing as much wealth as possible before you die is the
only possible goal of life. twodolla/flickr

7. The Game of Life taught us that family, friendship and health are the
most important things in life. Just kidding- every child needs to learn
that amassing as much wealth as possible before you die is the
only possible goal of life. twodolla/flickr