Amber gives her take on the best board games.

I always thought I only liked Scattergories and Taboo until I met Curtis and now the sky's the limit.

Amber's Top Ten Board Games:

10: Taboo. This will forever be one of my favorite games and I am a MASTER at it.

9: Signorie.

8: Takenoko

7: Castles of Burgundy

6: Small World. - It's a world of slaughter for sure. I do love this game a ton and I was super weirded out by it at first. Played it at my first MeepleCon in Vegas and was sort of horrified by it and then we started playing, and about 4 rounds in, I got it and ended up loving it and have ever since.

5: Dominion

4: Five Tribes

3: Legendary Encounters

2: Carcassone. Simple but strategic, easy enough to play with family but also good for people who are still stuck on games like Monopoly and Sorry; gives them a little oomph in their life without the overwhelm of a heavy euro.

1: Pandemic! Aaaggghhhhh! I LOVE this game to my bones. LOVE. Something about it being an end of the world scenario that plays to my Dan Brown fandom and conspiracy theorism and everyone working together to stop the end of the world - that's what we are really doing in life, aren't we? It makes you think and you really have to be mindful of how you use your movements and your turn in conjunction with the other players skills and doing all that before the outbreak is just thrilling and also stressful for me. But I love it! The On the Brink expansion is super fun with the little petri dishes and gives it an extra dimension. And I still need to play Pandemic Legacy.

If I can play these games, basically anyone can. I have the attention span of a gnat so that's never an excuse for "Oh I don't have a good attention span." And half the time during a game I am getting up getting up getting up to attend to a kid. So I am proof that anyone can find some great games that they jive with, and get on board with this board game movement that is sweeping the nation and is amazing and fun.