Me and my niece managed to convince my sister to join in with some board games over the weekend, possibly the first time that she's ever played anything outside of Monopoly/Cluedo... hopefully this'll be the start of getting more of the family playing board games at Christmas.
Started off simple with a bit of Forbidden Island as it doesn't take more than two turns to really understand how the game works.
That may have ended up being the shorted game ever as the luck of the cards was completely against us with Fool's Landing sinking in the space of two player's turns.
We followed that with an introduction to something a bit more complex with Betrayal at House on the Hill.
It had a bit of a slow start with the need to explain things as we went along, after about 4/5 rounds the game started to flow quite nicely and we made it up to 9 on the Haunt track before triggering it... my sister somehow managed to get all of the good Omen/Item cards so naturally the game decided to screw us and make her the traitor.
It ended up being quite a fun scenario that we activated, turned out she was a werewolf and with the mission of turning the rest of us into werewolves. Out of all of the Haunts, that one appears to be one of the most overpowered enemies ever! (if you have the revised version of the game, look at scenario #5)
...we lost but it was fun seeing how long we could run away for.
I was tempted to bring out Ultimate Werewolf as a follow-up, but it doesn't really work with 3 people.