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what are good in-person activities for making friends? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Board games. Either just standard board games and chat while you play, or something like wavelength, that's a question, or herd mentality to actually get to know people through the game.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    On the other side, I notice that when I'm meeting up with friends, we sometimes get focused so much on the game, that we don't really talk anymore about things going on in our lives. Sometimes that's good, but if you are a person that finds it difficult to talk and focus on a game at the same time, it can be kinda frustrating.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yes, I've met a bunch of interesting people through board games, and one of them is one of my closest friends now! Facebook and Meetup are the top ways to connect, though I try to also promote the lowly, nonprofit GameNight.host whenever I can.

    Anyway, Hard to Get is another, solid cooperative discussion game: it's like Codenames, except everyone is on the same team that's trying to pare the grid down to just the 1 assassin word; the clue giver gives highly restricted, awkward/irrelevant clues about it versus all the rest.

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