10 Board Games That Lead To Real-Life Violence

5. Woman Shoots Her Husband After A Bad Game of Bridge

Again, Bridge is the kind of game you associate with the Golden Girls, or playful old dears, frowning at you from the other side of cigarette stained felt table, but like everything else on the list, what was supposed to be a nice way to pass the time, left someone with no more time to pass. Bridge is an interesting game, insofar as it’s not played individually, but rather in pairs, with you forming a partnership with the player sitting across from you, and working with them to bid and win tricks. I won’t go further into the rules of bridge because we’ll tie ourselves up in diagrams, but all you need to know is that relying on someone else to win a game is a frist class ticket to Stressville, a town on the outskirts of Resentmentburg. In 1929, husband and wife Jack and Myrtle Bennett sat down and partnered up for a game of bridge, and needless to say it didn’t go well. After a run of either bad luck or bad play, Myrtle declared Jack to be a quotes “bum bridge player” which apparently was the worst thing you can call someone in roaring 20s as a fight between the two broke out. The fight ended with Myrtle pulling a gun and shooting her husband to death, proving that their issues were definitely not water under the… no I don’t want to, like it was nearly 100 years ago but no I don’t want to.