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Bingo! Kaleb Michaud found his passion for European board games after playing The Settlers of Catan with a college friend who worked for a games magazine.

Risk has come to Facebook. Scrabble is one of the top iPhone apps. And several board games are enjoying a long life on game consoles. In the digital age, you better be ready to Hasbro-down. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away families had a game night--once a week they'd pull out a stack of boxes from a closet and everyone would flex their knowledge of trivia (Trivial Pursuit), vocabulary ...

Huge versions of Monopoly, Clue and other board games will take over parts of the Greenwood Public Library when middle-school age young people meet for the third annual Life-Size Lock-In on Jan. 27.

Electronic toys, board games and sporting goods are among some of the most popular toys for teenagers according to the results of a survey conducted by Spielwarenmesse, organizers of the Nuremberg Toy Fair where the latest products for 13-17 year olds will take center stage. 

2011 was a tricky year: my family went through a major move, from our tiny rural town in western Kansas to a bustling metropolitan center in the Pacific Northwest. For me, it meant scaling back on game nights as I was preparing for moves and — gasp!

Jeff Bauspies of Lake Villa and owner of Distinctive Signs in Antioch earned the Guinness World Records title for largest collection of board games with 1,531 board games.

2011 was a tricky year: my family went through a major move, from our tiny rural town in western Kansas to a bustling metropolitan center in the Pacific Northwest. For me, it meant scaling back on game nights as I was preparing for moves and — gasp!

There was a time when conferences were born simply out of geography and necessity. Travel was relatively difficult, and you needed teams to play. So Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma formed a conference, as did most of the teams on the West Coast. In 1938, here is how major college football conferences took shape: Major Conferences Big 6 : Iowa State, Kansas ...

Over the holidays, we had a family board game night. The power was out, the cellphones had died and the devil was finally getting a flood on his backyard rink because the last time we had a family game night I vowed I’d do that again when Hell froze.

Electronic and online games may be increasing in popularity, but they are yet to push out their unplugged counterparts.