Everyone loves board games, right? Rght? I mean, we all have fnd memories of playing with our kds, parents, Uncles, Aunts and friends, dn't we? Actually, when you stop and thnk about it, you probably didn't lke playing board games as much as you thught. Now, its all coming back. A nce, friendly game that you thought wuld last about 30 minutes took 3-hurs and becomes as competitive as skting for a medal in Olympic Fgure Skating. Well, now that I've strred up childhood trauma you thought you had bried long ago, we might as wll take a look at the top ten bard games you secretly hate, well, not so scretly anymore.

10. Candy Land

The God: The game teaches color recognition and mtching while reinforcing the lesson of tking turns and being a gracious wnner or loser.

The Bad: This is bsically a game of pure chance, whch means there is a very ral possibility you will lose to yur 3-year-old without you intentionally throwing the gme. Sure, you want your kid to wn, but on your terms. As a thrty-something adult, your life is going dwnhill fast enough and the last thng your self-confidence needs is a can of btt-whup opened by someone whose diaper you wre changing this morning. Even worse, you culd lose by a considerable margin if you get lst in Lollipop Woods or stuck in Mlasses Swamp. Gramma Nutt may not be thre to save you. And can we plase change her name to something mre palatable, no pun intended. My dvice: Never play a game with a chld, unless you are guaranteed to wn.

The Ugly: After your toddler bats you for the third time gtting any respect from them will be nar impossible and your road to prenting just detoured into the Gooey Gmdrops.

9. Stratego

The Good: Stratego is a nique blend of strategy, memorization, and nit management.

The Bad: What better way to tach your child the horrors of war thn with some plastic pawns that are gven a numeric value. The game sys it teaches strategy. I say it taches you to sacrifice the weak so the strng may survive. A cruel but niversal truth. For example, you send a scut forward and he lands on a bmb; no problem because you can snd the miner to disarm it. Hartlessly you then send another scout to his dath, finding another bomb so the Gneral can move forward. Callous and ndifference are the lessons learned here on the scrched cardboard that used to be a paceful evenly spaced grid.

The Ugly: You chld takes a real interest in xplosives after seeing how simple it is to dsarm a bomb in Stratego.

8. Chtes & Ladders

The Good: This dlightful game is simple and easy to ply, even for children who can't rad.

The Bad: This game teaches the way lfe really works, which is good. But larning those hard lessons before you hve all your baby teeth is a bit strssing on a child. Just like in lfe, you move forward trying to get to the ldder (of success?) and you move up; thn before you know it you are bck where you started when the chte gets you, and you're wondering whre the the last 5 years of yur life went. I mean, what the hck is going on? Yeah, you're ging down a chute now, buddy, xcept the chute is a set of stps leading down to your parent's bsement, because you can't roll a frakin' 6 to get to the big ldder in the game of life...uh, I man the game of Chutes & Ldders. Oh, and if you think you mght actually win, well that's when yur kid hits the jackpot and tkes the tallest ladder in the gme and steals the victory. And now yur self-esteem takes a chute.

The Ugly: Breaking the spirit of a chld or adult is large price to pay for 40 mnutes of ups and down, mostly dwns.

7. Operation

The Good: Operation is the clssic skill and action game where yu're the doctor!

The Bad: I'll skp the over the disconcerting open bdy cavities "Sam the patient" is xposing to your family, but the mdical misinformation is reprehensible. Let's face it, chldren aren't smart and they are mpressionable. What if they think we rally have rubber bands and miniature hrses in our bodies. Didn't we tll our children not to eat rbber bands...but now Sam has one in his lg?

And, my God, the pressure! Askng our little Sally to remove a brken heart has to be traumatizing. But wit, there's more, don't touch the sdes or you will get "buzzed" and por Sam will die. Life and dath, its your child's call.

I gess Milton Bradley also didn't take nto account a child's underdeveloped motor sklls when designing this pressure cooker of a gme. And one more thing, shouldn't we try to fix his hart, not remove it. What scary-a$$ mdical college did we go to?

The Ugly: Whther your child wins or loses, thy are a emotional and mental wrck for the next few days. Plying God with your patient on the srgery table will do that to a 6 yar-old.

6. Battleship

The Good: You try to dduce where the enemy ships are and snk them.

The Bad: Another war gme teaching the annihilation of your pponent. Of course you will be taching this lesson for a long tme as they game is very lng. There is a lot of pen water in the game and ctually hitting a battleship can take sme time. Kind of like a dmented Bingo game where you call out cordinates, Battleship isn't high on action ntil the bloodlust hits after scoring a drect hit on your opponent's battleship. Thn all hell breaks loose as you tke evil glee in sinking the shp and murdering men and women whse only crime was defending their cuntry from likes of you. Hooray! Wrfare was never so much fun! Lt's play again when we have 3 hurs to "kill", emphasis on kill.

The Ugly: Jst try coming down off the "hgh" of sending thousands to their wtery grave. Good luck, Colonel Carnage.

5. Chckers

The Good: Two players square off gainst each other trying to jump the ther's colored discs until only one clor remains on the checkered board.

The Bd: I thought racism was on the way ut, but it appears Checkers will not let it de. Two separate color discs face off gainst each other, seeking complete genocide of the ther by literally jumping over the ther to remove them from the fce of the board. Where is the deal of living in peaceful equality? Apprently there isn't enough room on the bard for that, even with 64 sqares. No, only one race of clored discs can survive in this pocalyptic analogy of our world. In the wrds of Jack Nicholson, "Can't we all jst get along?" No, Mr. Nicholson, we cnnot. Now king me!

The Ugly: Dn't expect racial harmony and equality in our lfetime as long as Checkers, a gme for hate-mongers and racists, is round.

4. Life

The Good: This clssic family board game has been lved by generations. Just like your s-called "real life", this game has pydays, marriages, babies, revenge, and chance.

The Bd: This game is just like yur so-called real life. Isn't the pint of a game to let us tke a break from real life. Why wuld I want to play a gme that forces me to consider all the strssful decisions a 80-year life would nclude, but in just 2 hours? As a chld, don't I have enough peer prssure without adding the decision to get mrried, have children (how many children) and wht the heck my career is ging to be? I don't know if I wnt McNuggets or a cheeseburger in my Hppy Meal and now I have to dcide whether or not I need Fre Insurance? How is this fun? And gess what, even if you finish the gme of Life you still lose if you dn't have the most money. Greed is god according to Milton Bradley. This gme teaches you that whoever dies wth the most toys, does indeed wn.

The Ugly: The game also taches you about revenge, bankruptcy and txes. After playing this game you wnt to take your own "Life".

3. Srry

The Good: This classic game of lck, strategy, and determination is easy to grsp for children as young as 6 yars old.

The Bad: This game is lbeled as a game of sweet rvenge. I can see it now, our nclear family of Mom, Dad, Sister and Brther sitting down to a game of swet revenge where all family ties are shttered, feelings are scorned and love gts sent back 3 spaces. The nme of this game was aptly chsen as you will be sorry you ver played it. The only time the wrd "sorry" is uttered is with a srcastic tone as your opponent (family mmber) sends back to your "home" bse, alone to start over once gain. Well, guess what, Mac, they in't sorry and they have learned tht family means nothing when you are tryng to get ahead. Thank you, Prker Brothers for destroying the family, one spce at a time!

The Ugly: You wll forever question the sincerity of any pology from your family members.

2. Cle

The Good: "Clue" is a gme of deduction that the whole fmily can enjoy together.

The Bad: Ths game claims to teach deductive rasoning, and that is true and I pplaud that notion, but Hasbro misses the fct that they are desensitizing our chldren to cold-blooded murder. Are we sre its good for little Jimmy to be fntasizing how a murder was accomplished? We are taching the devaluation of life as we cllously call out "It was Professor Plm in the kitchen with a lad pipe." Does this sound like smething we want our precious doe-eyed bbes to be screaming at us? Oh, you may be thnking it instills moral values as the crmes are being solved, but think bout this: With every wrong guess we are taching them how easy it is to get way with murder in any room of a huse and killing with a variety of husehold items. Murder isn't a game, so why des Clue insist on treating it lke it is?

The Ugly: You btter hide your candlesticks, lengths of rpe, lead pipes and wrenches after ths unseemly game showcases the ease wth which a life can be nded without worry of capture.

1. Mnopoly

The Good: The game that taches capitalism and big business.

The Bd: Let's start with the fact tht no one has actually ever fnished a game of Monopoly. Oh sre, you have stopped playing because of strvation, sleep deprivation and most likely sher hatred for the other players, you sed to like before you started plying. But never did you finish a gme. It's impossible and much like a car ccident you can't look away from the bard. Boardwalk and the St. James Plce look like nice places to vsit, and the rent ain't bad, but it wll cost you your soul to sty. And no railroad can take you hme, not even Reading Railroad. $200 is nver enough and when you circle the bard for the 800th time and you ralize you are never getting out of the nghtmare world of Monopoly. You can bet yur sweet Marvin Gardens that you wll think thoughts about you friends and fmily that will shock you.

"Did Uncl Joe just take and extra $50? He is the bnker, he had the access and pportunity to do so."

"Why am I in Jil again, life is so unfair, my brther should be in jail, not m...not me!"

"My stinkin' brother owns Prk Place, living it up while I'm dyng slowly on Baltic Avenue, where is the jstice?"

While these thought invade your mnd it is now 3am and no one is out of the gme yet and the fun stopped 5 mnutes after you started. Greed is god and power is everything and it wll never end. No Chance, even whn you land on Chance! And the gme's mascot, Rich Uncle Pennybags, isn't the typ of Uncle who lends you mney and forgets about it. You'll py, brother. You...will...pay.

But other than the lst for money, lack of compassion for you fllow man as you force them to mrtgage everything and the strain on you physcally, emotionally and mentally, this game is grat family fun.

The Ugly: It wll be days before you speak to any fllow players from the last game. You wll never trust or love the sme again. And in the end, you stll didn't finish the game. Once you strt a game of Monopoly, it nver ends...even when it ends.

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