The pandemic-era hunger for screen-free socializing did not fade it hardened into a habit. Game night is having a genuine revival in 2026, with friend groups, couples and families trading another evening of streaming for cards, dice and the kind of face-to-face competition that turns acquaintances into regulars at someone’s kitchen table.
The appeal is older than the trend suggests. “Games go back thousands and thousands of years,” Geoff Engelstein, an award-winning table-top game designer, told the New York Times. “The earliest tombs that they’ve found have dice in them. They very rarely find...
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