“If we take last week, in the Top 10 [des ventes], we have five board games, great classics always like La Bonne Paye, Docteur Maboule, Qui est-ce? … “, Explain Rodolphe Brondy, purchasing manager at the JouéClub Village. In the aisles of this Parisian department store, toone floor is dedicated to board games. During this Christmas shopping season, sellers are constantly reloading the shelves, you even have to zigzag between customers who stack the boxes in their arms.
“They are easy to install games, continues the manager, accessible to all ages, from four or five years old for some“. Games that have known how to renew themselves, such as Monopoly for example, now available in 10 versions: Star Wars, Naruto or Casa De Papel ….
With this comeback, board games have even become intergenerational. “In our youth, we played Risk and apparently our grandson enjoys, says Annie, 74, I know that one came out on France. It is a safe bet because it is played with the family. The package will be opened right away, that’s expected!“
During confinement, adolescents and adults relearned to play. New kids have therefore appeared on the shelves. “There I have three different games. There is one that has made a lot of talk: Exploding Kittens, details Yann, 27, who has decided to offer board games to all his relatives. I don’t know the others at all, I was drawn to the image.”
“I find it nice that we can all play together after a meal, for example.”
Yann, board game fan after the mealto franceinfo
It is also a way for parents to distract the youngest from the screens. “It’s gonna get her off her phone and social media, welcomed Anne, came find a game of chess for his daughter Violette. I was very happy that she ordered this from me. It will occupy part of the evenings, already time to learn, and then it’s a nice sharing, I think. “Violette has already planned a game on Friday evening, just after the opening of the presents.