What the heck does one do with a barrel of monkeys?

I know what you mean about board and card games - although it's worth noting that all these are board and card games, I know you mean "traditional ones" - I have so many happy memories of sitting playing Crazy Eights, Rummy, Scrabble, Boggle, and Parcheesi. Or of watching my mother and sister play Submarines and Yahtzee, two games I never really enjoyed.