Games Night: The Best Board Games To Play With Friends

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House parties have successfully relaunched themselves back into the cool arena and slowly but surely, board games are following suit. In an effort to create some indoor fun that's more social than a Netflix marathon, we're leaning into the OG fun of board games.

Hear us out: Board games no longer need to be relegated to lacklustre rounds of Yahtzee or exhausting fights over Scrabble. These days, the available options are packed full of adult-friendly thrills — from outrageous meme-making card games to maniacal twists on old classics. Hanging out with friends has never felt more freeing than with a sassy round of Hot Ones or the Russian roulette-style Exploding Kittens. So instead of pulling out a dusty Monopoly box from 1998, shake things up with one of these hilarity-inducing games ahead.