Best 3 board games proven to reduce social anxiety

Board games are fun to play. Everyone knows that. However, clinical research started to point out the benefits of board games to relieve psychological diseases such as social anxiety. Researchers are tying to explore new and innovative ways to manage stress and reduce social anxiety. Work, study, multiple deadlines and COVID are many factors that increase our fear and anxiety from our fellow human beings. Now, with the end of COVID and the health regulations on a global scale. It is time to enjoy our long-missed relationships face to face and what a better way to celebrate friend’s reunion than a board game session. In the following list, I compiled the best 5 board games to have fun and enable the player to impersonate a role. This impersonation is what makes the player immerse in the game and improve his verbal and non-verbal social skills without the fear of being judged on results since it is a game with friends. Still, every person personality is unique and some people may enjoy a game and dislike another. So here we go:

Monopoly

Monopoly is one of the most famous board games. The player impersonates the role of a greedy capitalist whose goal is to buy lands, stations and companies to control and monopolize all the board. The player can build houses and hotels after he buys lands with same color. Every player gets a fixed amount of money after each lap. If the player stops her/his turn on another player land or house, he must pay rent for that stay. The winner is the last player standing after the bankruptcy of others players or the one with most money if the game is time limited.

This game if full of twists. The rush for conquests and defeating the other players forces the player to embody the role of capitalist and use social skills without the pressure of social pressure.

Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing game. One player serves as the Dungeon Master, while the others control embodies a single character who has a functional role in the party such as a wizard or knight. The player characters constitute a “party” of adventurers, with each member have a special role or skill. The success or the party depends on the teamwork of the players.

The players impersonate the game characters and interacts socially between them. They use a combination of social and other useful cognitive skills such as logic, basic mathematics, and imagination. All those factors immerse the player in a fantasy world that allows them to have a funny yet a mission driven social interaction.

Cards against Humanity

This game is card games. The cards are divided in black and white cards. The black cards have question and the white cards have answers. In the beginning a ‘Card Czar’ is chosen randomely. Then, the Card Czar draws the black cards and reads the questions. The players tries to answer the questions by drawing the white cards face down and passing them to the Card Czar. The Card Czar reads the combination of question and answers. The best ‘Funny’ combination is retatined. The player with the retained answer is awared an “Awesome Point”. This play game turn ends and a new Card Czar is chosen for a new game.

The funny and crazy combination of this game makes it a hilarious game to play. Furthermore, the combination of question and ansewers make the game play breath taking and surprising. It is one of the best games when all players individually interact in a competitive yet funny and hilarious atmosphere.

Conclusion

Board games are an affordable and easy way to have fun. Clinical researchers are trying to find new and creative ways to use mainstream activities to overcome anxiety and manage stress. Board games can be an effective, cheap and funny way to help people in need and teach them new ways to cope with their pain and learn social skills with the pressure of conventional therapy.