Our family plays a handful of marble games with enough variety in gameplay that us adults can get quite the competition going, but we can dial it back when the kids play or we want to keep things conversational and light. We came back around to marbles when the kids got a little older but are still kids. It was brought on by a pursuit to hang out with them without any screens. Sports are great, but sometimes you don't have cooperative weather or enough space. So, we have our go-to activities at home as a fam and when we have family/friends over; and it's easy to take with us when we travel (this is HUGE). So we play a variety of card games (Uno, Phase 10, etc), checkers, chess, and all of our Marble Go games.