I like to do multiple things at once. Take right now for instance. Not only am I writing this, but I'm also paying bills and making a lovely chinese chicken salad. So when I watch TV, I usually like to play something relatively mindless like Uno at the same time. It's pretty slow paced and doesn't require constant attention. However, between the random cock shots via the Xbox Live Vision Camera and constantly being booted from rooms for which I can only guess is not having a camera myself, I became interested in finding a new diversion.
Then I played the demo for Carcassonne. The game is kind of like Scrabble with map pieces. You randomly are given the pieces to lay out on the map with the goal being to make complete towns and roads. It gets a bit more complicated than that, but that's what tutorials are for and I'm lazy. Anyway, point being is Carcassonne is a great game to play in the background while you're watching TV...or pretending to listen to your mother talk on the phone. My only gripe with the game is that not enough people are playing it on Xbox Live.