5 Table Games to Avoid At All Cost During Self-Isolation

This has to be the worst game in the history of card games. It is completely mindless, extremely frustrating, and is everlasting.  In fact, this game goes on so long, if you start playing on Monday you'll be lucky to be done in time for online church Sunday morning. If you have a deck of Phase 10 cards in the house, destroy it now before it's too late.

When you talk about mindless games, Mexican Train Dominoes is right near the top of the list. Believe me, I've played more than my share of this game over the years. It all comes down to the luck of the draw at the beginning of the game, which means your brain can take the next three hours off. Meanwhile, you'll be praying the end comes quickly.

I like Scrabble because it makes you think. The problem is that it makes everybody think. That means during a three-hour game you get about three minutes of actual playing time, and two hours and fifty-seven minutes of sitting and waiting for it to be your turn. You might as well be watching paint dry. It wouldn't be any less exciting.

Risk is a game of strategy. It requires skillful planning and forethought. if you lack these skills, you're gonna get your butt kicked and spend the entire game slowly sinking into complete annihilation and domination. Perhaps my feelings about this game have to do with my personal history of totally sucking at it, but I think it would be a whole lot more fun just to stick my finger in a light socket.

Another game I grew up playing is Aggravation, and, believe me, there aren't many things in the world more aggravating than being so close to getting a marble home, and then getting sent back to start. That is true aggravation - marble after marble after miserable marble. If you have ever played the game Sorry! you know what I'm talking about. Sitting on a red ant hill with my bare cheeks would be more fun than enduring a game of Aggravation.