Being 50, I'm also surprised the average age is that high!
This is probably the reason I keep getting beat by most people. Games like monopoly/risk/draughts just doesn't give the necessary level of extensive eye/hand co-ordination training of the playstation generation.
And in response to the poll; the more the merrier as far as I'm concerned, because people will always come/leave; just us diehards that always return.