10 Board Games That Lead To Real-Life Violence

4. Sons Kill Their Mother Over A Game of Yahtzee

This is such a bizarre and horrible story, you keep sifting through it and trying to find the missing piece that makes it all makes sense, but if there is one, it’s never made it to the public. All that we know is that on Christmas Day in 2010, in Alberta, Minnesota, a tiny town of only about 100 people, Tamara Lee Mason was killed by her two teenage sons Andrew and Jacob Cobb and their half brother Dylan Clemens, before her body was stashed in a shed while the boys waited for the ground to thaw enough to bury her. The reason why… Mason and her children had come home from a christmas party and she wanted to play the classic push-your-luck dice game Yahtzee…and they didn’t. I mean, obviously there’s something else happening here, but that’s the legit reason the sons gave the police as to why they killed their mother, because they didn’t want to play Yahtzee. “It is very strange,” said Stevens County Sheriff Randy Willis. “She wanted to play Yahtzee and they didn’t. That seemed to be, in their minds, what expedited her sudden demise.” It’s a baffling and deeply unsettling case, it’s like Fargo but with fewer jokes and a classic dice game that actually holds up. I’d play Yahtzee on Christmas Day, and I don’t think I deserve to be killed for that.