Offers guests a buffet of playtime options and they want to make your home the season’s hottest destination. They will arrive early, stay late, terminate processes and call you the greatest host since Jay Gatsby. All it takes is a backyard full of games to suit all ages and abilities, a place where family and friends can gather to face off — whether it be for an innocent competition or a heated grudge match. In other words: If you build it, they will come.

But the impact of this kind of leisure loyalty, you need some advanced games. We are not talking about staid badminton or weak willpower Wiffle ball. You want games of skill and strategy, again played by warriors and Kings games — games like bocce, horseshoes and Croquet.

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