At last someone mentioned Balderdash! We converted our Triv. Pursuit playing neighbours to it. We've spent many an evening laughing helplessly at that one. (I find the thought of yet another game of Trivial Pursuit boring, but once I get started, the knives come out!)
Balderdash is a very simple game, but so funny. It's on the lines of "Call my Bluff" in that you have to guess a correct definition of a word or initials, say what happened on a given date, say what a particular named person was famour for, give the basic outline plot of a film title etc. Here it's from amongst those submitted anonymously from the other players. As the real definitions are often a little bit odd, it's good fun.

When we were first married there used to be a lot of Risk played in our house, especially when friends came back after an evening in the pub. One year my SO asked for a Mah Jong set for Christmas - we never got beyond trying to build the wall as the rules were in an incomprehensible form, and 25 years later it's still on the shelf.

Dominoes, I play 5s and 3s, like they do in the pubs here. I used to be in a darts and dominoes team, and I get quite serious about it.

I used to play Backgammon a lot many years ago, but kept losing (money) too much. I like Scrabble too. But I was hopeless at Bridge - I couldn't work out the bidding. After that it just seemed like Whist, and I'm ok at that. When I was a student I kept being dragged in to make up a foursome. I used to hate it. It was the same bloke who used to beat me at Backgammon that used to force me to play Bridge too!

I mainly play basic Rummy now.

Andrea