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I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology


I’ve always loved games.I grew up in the 1970s and 80s surrounded by them. Board games were a constant—boxes stacked in closets, missing pieces replaced with coins, rules bent or rewritten depending on who was winning. I played casual Dungeons & Dragons with friends, rolled dice on living room floors, and imagined worlds far bigger than the rooms we were sitting in.Later, video games took over. RPGs. Sports titles. Consoles that grew faster, flashier, and more immersive. Somewhere in my 20s, pro

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