Games

From Mayuri Desai, pathology, and Redwood City wellness leader: For the past several weeks, my family of four has been playing a board game every night after dinner. My son, a first year law school student is in the middle of finals right now. My daughter, a senior in high school is preparing for her AP exams and finals. Despite their academic schedule, we have found that spending time playing a board game has many benefits for each of us and for our family as a whole. It is establishing a routine that we all look forward to each day. The winner decides which game to play the next day. As you can see from the photo, our favorite games have stayed out on our table for the past several weeks. The others are still in the closet, but they come out from time to time. We have found that playing Apples to Apples, Whoonu, Sorry, etc is still fun even though the kids have grown up now. Since your family likes Ticket to ride, I have to say that we have played USA, Europe, India and Switzerland and just added Rails and Sails to our collection last week. Even though they are all Ticket to ride, they have some differences so it does not appear that you are playing the same game. You will like Codenames and Decrypto too. Also, we learned that certain games like Catan, Codenames, etc could be played with family and friends virtually through their website. Physician Health & Wellness was organizing board game night for Redwood City and San Mateo physicians and families every other month in the past and it has been a great success. I am waiting for shelter in place to be lifted to start offering that again. If you have not been to Games of Berkeley, you should check it out when they open up again. They have a really large collection of games and several game rooms. You can drop by to play any game, that way you get to try out different games.