Traditional games sweep online during the confinement due to the coronavirus - La Provincia

Thelockdownfor himstate of alarmbycoronavirusIt has made Spaniards have to find other ways to entertain themselves without leaving home, and among the most chosen ways are online activities based ongames of a lifetimelike ludo,gamesof cards, questions or drawing.

Parcheesi is one of the most traditional board games in Spain. During confinement, su digital version has increased its use by 50 percentin the last month in the case of Fr9 Parchis, a free online platform, according to data from its creator, Wiprojects.

Card games

Also, thecard games or playing cardsThey are also being another option for people tohave fun and playwith your friends or family at a distance to traditional games.

The Board Game Arena platform offers different 175 free games from the browser -compatible with mobiles and computers from different operating systems and even consoles-, from simple card games such as brisca and UNO to digital versions of board games.

TheFr9 community,For its part, with 5 million registered players, it forms another platform of this type that offers, in addition to Parcheesi, another 16 games such as dominoes, chinchon, tute, bingo, poker, checkers, and letter crossers.

Houseparty: video calls with games

Video calls have grown exponentially due to quarantine, andpeople are using them to keep in touch with family and friendsIn the distance. Through Facebook, calls have increased 70 percent a month and video calls and voice messages have grown 100 percent on WhatsApp.

Houseparty is an example of an application that combines video calls with mini-games, such as' Trivia 'and' Quick Draw ', which are based on the mechanics of traditional Trivial Pursuit -with various categories of questions, with some as specific as' superheroes'- and Pictionary, respectively, as well as 'Heads Up!', which consists of a mime game.

This 'app', although at the moment it is only in beta -forAndroid, iOS, Mac, PC and as an extension of Chrome-, "in recent weeks it has become part of daily routines around the world," according to its creators.

Trivia games and drawing

Another type of traditional games that are an option to entertain yourself on these dates are thePictionary type games, in which the player has to be the first to guess the meaning of the drawings that another person makes.

An example of this format is online playPaintbrush 2-available in the form of an app, Chrome extension and web version-, which has two million players per month.

The remaining traditional game format is the quiz games or crossword puzzles. There are many mobile applications that allow you to play games of trivia and crossword games, such as Triviados and Apalabrados, both from the Argentine studio Etermax.