I bought Monopoly for Laura, last Christmas, but it was the "modern" British version. Streets are replaced by different towns, stations have become airports etc. and you start with about £1million. We play that and Scrabble and also Upwords which is a bit like Scrabble but you can change letters on the board. Laura likes Snakes & Ladders too and she has a very complicated Dr Who board game that we try to avoid unless we're press-ganged into it.
It's a tradition in our house that on Boxing Day all the family gathers here. We go out for lunch to the nearby pub then the evening is spent eating the buffet it's taken me a fortnight to prepare, getting preserved in alcohol and playing games like Trivial Pursuit, Catagories (brilliantly funny - especially when you're sozzled), Yahtzee etc. The board game will never die in my house.
