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¿Question #4232?
skelebone: Since you've been a gamer, what's the longest period you've gone without playing any games?

ocdspectrum: More than a decade.
Jrtolf: A couple of weeks, I think.
ctimmins: Maybe, like, two weeks.
Darksan: A few months.
Woelf: A couple weeks.
Felimid: Just minutes, probably.
Der Ubermolch: It's been recently... about two and a half months. I'd just moved here to Ankara, and hadn't found anyone to play anything with yet. I swear to God, I was getting the shakes.
puffinge: 12 minutes 36 seconds
hob69: Ah, define "game" - because though I might not be boardgaming, very little time goes by without WoW. Ironically, or perhaps frighteningly, it is when I lay off the WoW for a while that the board games come back out.
Junichirou: Just over a week, IIRC, and that was due to a stay in a hospital. Too sick and in pain to do anything but recuperate.
Squigherder: 6 days
Typh: 5 years, too long!
dante9: Typically less than 24 hours.
Evonine: Probably the month I was on a college trip to Europe.
tsievers: Several months, while packing and moving to a new house. It was not enjoyable.
diehard4life: That depends.
BKRoot: 2 months
CharmlessMan77: like a couple of months. Had to get my wife into it. Plus I was working crazy hours, and doing school. Man that totally blew
jtrleone: That was my withdrawal period. I think I was too focused on motorcycles. Crazy. Most likely 8 months to a year.
Tricuspa: Months, but never longer than a half a year.
DHEK: Maybe two weeks.
aleo09: a couple weeks
Geosmores: week
biggdork: Currently I have gone about 25 days now since my boy was born.
POvidiusNaso: Two weeks or so.
Magnus the Blue: 2 weeks max...
DoctorWu: 1 week
greglios: A few weeks maybe.
vampywife: maybe up to a month, if that long.
SisyphusX: A month.
brainrob: 8 weeks since my son was born ...
The Unbeliever: 42
MisterCranky: 42 minutes.
Nekura: A week.
John3: boardgames-20 years
Laudwic: 6 months - first year of law school
WatchmanX2000: 4 years
dietevil: If only board games, probably a few weeks. If you count computer games, probably not more than two weeks.
banjoseamonkey: Two months, while moving from Kentucky to Wisconsin.
Chemik: About 1.5 months
skrutsch: Oh, probably a month or two.
stray_flux: three weeks, I was on vacation in Cuba with a non-gamer
scriptorum: A few months.
Cavedog_pdx: a month?
Ozvortex: Probably a couple of years (since becoming a parent).
Fawkes: About two years due to get my graduate degree.
Loquutus: About two years. It was a rough time.
Tushratta: There was a sad period of years of non-gaming. But I'm over that now.
Andrew Snyder: maybe a year, not counting computer games
TaliaIsabelle: a week or two
djlg: Couple of weeks.
Dave: Up to 4 weeks between F2F boardgame sessions.
LudesFactor: probably a few years
archduke: 2 months
Unexpected Party: 3 months
davedanger: 2 seconds
jttm: Probably two weeks, if I'm not playing, I'm buying new ones.
chaddyboy_2000: Probably around a week.
Randy Cox: Just in the past year, there has been an 8-week lapse, and I bet that in the 1980s, there were lapses of six months or more.
Spielfreak: After I made the commitment to play every Tuesday night, the longest I've gone without playing any games has probably been 2 weeks.
Lord_Prussian: a few weeks maybe
CDRodeffer: This month has been my longest stretch I remember -- almost 3 weeks now.
CortexBomb: Oh, I don't know, back in the day I probably went several months
skelebone: I've not played games in around two weeks, and I'm starting to get the shakes.