Games and Activities for Couples

Games play a part in couples' satisfaction in their own relationship. Research into marital satisfaction over the past 50 years shows that there are changing patterns in the ways in which partners in a couple relate to one another, in their expectations, and, in fact, in the free time they invest in couples and family focused activities.

What is emerging - and this will probably not surprise anyone - is that couples today expect a greater degree of emotional intimacy than did previous generations.

In 1970, an Israeli postmaster invented a board-and-peg version of a much older paper-and-pencil game that challenges one's logic as one tries to decipher the other person's code and he called it, Mastermind. The game became immensely popular and is now a classic.

Here are three versions of the game:

1. The original classic being sold as a vintage copy,

2. Super Mastermind, with 5 instead of 4 pegs, making it even more of a challenge,

3. A smaller traveling set that is easy to take in a purse to the beach or the park.

Cribbage was first developed in the 1600s in England and has grown to be a popular game in the English-speaking world.It is essentially a card game where points are kept by moving pegs along the wooden scoreboard, called a "crib".