Remember outdoors? Back in the day, when you played until sundown and games required full-body exertion, not just swiping your finger?
Like you, games have grown up too. We don’t mean they’ve matured, though. They’ve just gotten much larger in scale.
To celebrate T-shirt weather, backyard barbecues, and playing offline with your friends, pick up one of these larger-than-life classics and relive your glorious youth.
1) Connect Four
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If you thought it was thrilling for Connect Four pieces to fall off the grid when you won the tabletop game, this will absolutely annihilate you with exhilaration.
Price on Etsy: $199+
2) Pick-up Sticks
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These may look like a regular pair of pick-up sticks, but each piece is three feet long. You’re definitely not losing any of these sticks.
Price on Etsy: $50
3) Scrabble
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Who says scholars aren’t outdoorsy? You can show off your bounteous vocabulary and bask in the diurnal light in serendipitous harmony.
Price on Etsy: $130
4) Yardzee
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You should also consider getting a bullhorn to scream, “Yahtzee!” in proportion to the game’s size.
Price on Etsy: $54.99+
5) Jenga
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You’d think securing a tower of large blocks was less stressful than a tower of small blocks, but then you realize removing one takes two hands.
Price on Etsy: $50
6) Dominoes
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Price on Etsy: $79.95
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