The author is dead.

Your family plays uno. So does mine. But we dont play the same game, in our uno you can skip over different colours, in yours you can't.

Board games live among players - we give them the context they exist in. When we play less we play it with a 1 minute timer. When we play Catan we double the starting resouces.

It's easy to change board games. Don't like the relic cards in Diamant? Take them out.

Board games are great.

They belong to the people that play them.