Always good for the empire builder in us all.

Played it with friends yesterday after a long snowy walk and boozy lunch. Excellent fun.

...is our family's Christmas tradition.

fun for all the family.

Absolute winner! They couldn't stop playing. Even kept them off the games consoles for a couple of days.

Have done some 1000 piece ones with the kids in the past year. Certainly kept them off the consoles for a couple of days.
One of the kids got "The Logo Game" for Christmas and that proved a big hit with the adults.

not a "game" per se. But you can waste hours with it. I'm 23 and wish I could still get away with playing with it without seeming sad. I'll wait till I have children.

I haven't done one for a while, mainly because the FPO expects me to clear it away before it's finished - a bit of a problem with the concept, methinks.
Scrabble (the tactile one, not the stupid words allowed on-line version) is fairly regularly out here. Travel Scrabble has passed away many a holiday evening and is great for whiling away the time on a long flight.
We quite like Bezique on holiday, which is a good two-handed card game.
But as the answer apparently is david Bowie, I think we should be told whether these have the Dame's stamp of approval.

Yep,

I went to a dinner party last night (all people I didn't know). There was a 12 year old boy there and he was massively keen to break out a board game.

Monopoly came out and three of us set about competing against each other. I asked the father how he played and he replied "businesslike", thus giving me the green light to thrash the other players with time honoured Monopoly tactics which have been handed down from generation to generation.

It was a shame the boy had to go to bed at 10pm because I would have thrashed him easily!

What was nice was the boy had Monopoly on his iPod (as I have it on my iPhone), and we got to discussing the merits of playing the game for real rather then playing against a computer. All were agreed that playing the game with people was far more ruthless and strategic, and the father (a lawyer) reflected on how similar the game play was to real life high level business transactions.

A good night was had by all!

would have thrashed him easily!"

That's the spirit!

It can get a little fast and furious sometimes!

er... Pull my finger ?

...after fifteen years of saying I would never do it, I have recently returned to playing a dice and paper role-playing game with some old chums. It is an absolutely splendid combination of nostalgia, thrills and serious belly laughs. I will be 39 in February.

Why is it that so many pass-times which you are supposed to leave behind upon reaching man's estate are actually a gazillion times more entertaining and stimulating when you're old enough not to care?

EDIT: Actually I take back the statement in the Subject line. What with MMORPGs and all that, the old sitting around with your pals, talking to one another tpe of game is somewhat archaic. Hurrah!

What are these exactly, Carl?
An older relative used to win Monopoly every time - I was 8, he was 11 - and somehow he used to get Mayfair and Park Lane very quickly, every game. It was years before I'd realised there had been trickery afoot with the dice.
He became a banker. Sad story.
Forty years on, I saw the 'Beatles Monopoly' in a store the other day. Looked extremely lame.