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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6170618" data-attributes="member: 221">You argue best when you argue from facts, not opinions; or, when using opinions, stating them as such.  There is a tactile sensation to using physical cards that is sensually different from that of using a computer screen. Furthermore, the delay in processing moves (when people do it face to face) and the interaction of moving physical objects around, create a different set of mental processes than that normally offered by electronic play.A good example of this is Ticket to Ride. The app game is fine, but the game experience is completely different than when playing on a board; even when you are playing on a single device, handing it around. The distinction in play is enough to make me think that I far prefer the board game to the app game.  Same would be true of a card game (of which Trivial Pursuit is not), in which the cards are manually shuffled, dealt and handled; at least for me there would be a distinct difference. Now for a game in which one person reads to another, a computer or other electronic device might not change the play too much, or the experience of the play. But put me in the camp of also preferring the book to an electronic medium, both for casual reading and game play. Besides the sensation of holding the book, once I know the contents of the book, it is always faster for me than trying to look it up on an app. I just turn to the right page and there it is. That might be alien to you, but having tried both, the experience is different and, as already mentioned, I can easily understand myself those who prefer the books.</blockquote>

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