10 Board Games That Lead To Real-Life Violence

8. A Man Brings A Gun To A Battleship Fight

No-one likes it when someone sinks their battleship. People who play Battleships don’t like it, most battleship captains don’t like it and Rihanna didn’t like it. A tough time across the board, but the board game Battleship manages to mitigate against tempers flaring up all the time, with the simple strategy of being really bloody boring. In late 2014 the Utah County police were called to a trailer after a 911 call. Outside the trailer they found a pair of battleship boards smashed on the ground, and inside they found a drunk man John Valenzuela who, drunk and enraged at being accused of cheating at the game by his 17 year old daughter, had pointed a loaded gun at her and barred her from leaving the trailer. In this case, no one was seriously hurt, thank goodness, but that is a deeply scary way to be about an incredibly tedious game. I’d hate to see what would happen if that family played Jenga.