What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?
Once again, you get the introvert answer. I loathe those long assed games where people get together and socialize for hours playing Monopoly or Bridge. I’m ready to leave before it starts.
I had the chance to play video games in 1981 before Nintendo came out with the orange button controller. I knew then that I didn’t have time to waste playing the same scenario over and over, although I get the attraction to others.
If I play a card game, it’s going to be solitaire. I don’t really play it anymore, rather spend my time writing and learning, but anytime I can do something to not drain my social battery quickly.
I played golf yesterday. I can be alone there also. I have my earbuds in and tune out the world.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Usedta love bridge way back when you could scare up a good 4some. Same with double-deck pinochle — got addicted to it while on a yearlong arduous sea-duty assignment.
Downright exciting to link up with another mind who can read your tells as well as you can read his, in any card game involving partners. Consistent winning is fun !
Wife and I went through a cribbage phase decades ago . . . taught her the game and before long she was beating me 60% of the time.
She also got good at Acey-Deucey, but I went to sea again and by the time I got back she’d lost interest in favor of a buncha other wives involved in wifey stuff, like cookin and takin care of chilluns. Also she’d moved from one house to another while I was gone and lost track of the board and dice-shaker tower I’d made.
Damned woman’s brain operates faster’n mine . . . only problem is she never loaded all the files and archives concerning science, history, and other stuff that interested me, so other than kids, domesticity, and sex, board & card games were about all we could fall back on in those pre-electronic nanny days.
‘Course them ain’t bad things neither.
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