Experiment to see how hard game is...

[Kobal2fr]

"It's one of the first board games" doesn't mean there aren't virulent strains of the plague with more entertainment value to them than your average game of Monopoly . I mean, you don't play Pong anymore, do you ? (And now my mind reels because the idea is dawning on me that there's probably a USMA Regional Pong Champion out there...)

And I'm not knocking board games either, I love 'em. Settlers of Cathane ? Brilliant game !
But given a choice between playing Monopoly and say, drilling a hole all the way through my skull with a rusty pickaxe, I'd consider the pros and cons of an open-topped brain, and find the silver lining in septicaemia. Monopoly lost its appeal to me when I was 8 and there weren't any more metal pieces or dice to swallow.