Board Games
 

Do you play them? Did you as a kid? What are/were your favorites? We have so many it's nuts -the 4' wide cabinet we have for them is overflowing and they're stacked on top to the ceiling. But we all love to play. When Banana Lady (MIL) visits that pretty much all she and the kids do.

My dad used to keep a book recording the high scores in all the games we played. Until he started losing to my sister and I. Maybe this is what led to my hippy "playing-is-winning" attitude? :lol:

My families both stuck with assembling large puzzles instead. Unless you count my mom and stepdad's poker parties, but I wasn't allowed to participate in those.

My stepkids really aren't into games (they both have major problems with losing, but having figured out that we expect everyone to lose gracefully as the occasion arises, instead they just pretend they don't like to play.) Blokus is the only one that's come out with any frequency over the last couple of years, unless you count my playing Guess Who? with Minifob.

Yes, I have some that I still play when I'm in the mood and I can find players.

Usual suspects :

- Monopoly
- Scrabble (both French and English)

I used to play Trivial Pursuit but stopped when my family complained that I won all the time. Even with additionnal extensions.

I now play Scrabble mostly against a computer and sometimes online but I love to get out my wooden board and play around a table with friends or family.

Trivia games (I miss the old Trivial Pursuit with the Art and Lit category. Mom killed us in history, but we teased her that it was because she lived through it all.)

Rummikub

Husker Du with my nieces

So many others I can't think of. I love games. When my family and I play a new game, we decide first if it's a "blurter" game or not. For example, you can't just keep blurting out answers in Trivial Pursuit until someone goes "THAT'S IT" you have to settle on one answer or shut up. Some games are all about the blurt.

As much as I love wordplay (like cryptic [british] crosswords) I've never been very good at scrabble or boggle...anything with making words out of a set of letters. Weird.

monster: my friends and I play yahtzee a lot and I make them put their name and the date at the tops of their score cards so we can look back at scores and who won when. I'm competitive too. ;) Well, also, we can see how badly we mess up the cards after so many beers.

What Would Hüsker Dü?

Growing up we played most of the usual: Shoots & Ladders, Candyland, then Monopoly, Clue, Chess, Stratego. As a late teen, I played a lot of Risk (even triple-board Risk), and a (I think) little known game called Careers. As an adult we usually got the new games and played with family and friends: Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, Blurt, Taboo. BTW, drunk and stoned Memory (ages 3 and up) is a challenging blast. But mostly we were and are a card playing family. I was playing Pinochle and six-handed Canasta when I was about 10 years old. We still play Hearts and Oh Pshaw Bridge fairly regularly. In our early teens, my brother and I would go through Hoyles and learn new games. Learned Cribbage that way.

Corn cobs.

parcheesi

We have several shelves of a large bookcase devoted to the ones we still play. Once they are outgrown, they get freecycled. Current favorite is probably Ticket To Ride, which is a railroad building game. It's a good balance between strategy, luck, risk taking, and paying attention to everyone around you. Young grade schoolers can play against adults with success and fun for both.

OH, as a kid my friend had Go For Broke. Opposite of monopoly, you tried to SPEND all your money.

pssst Spexx: Chutes and Ladders. Unless your version you shot at people as they ascended ladders. ;)

When we were kids, someone gave us anti-monopoly, which was a really cheaply made game and was basically about breaking up monopolies. I don't remember the details of the game but it was basically monopoly in reverse. A real commie game.

This was Go For Broke:

The game I was the best at and so had the most fun playing was Pictionary. My family also played a version of Balderdash before it was a board game, and although I didn't rank as a top player it was tons of fun. I currently love Cranium because it has a little bit of everything. Of course all the 'blurters' are great too. I used to play Risk regularly with a group of friends and the winner kept the little guy on a horse piece as a trophy until the next game. I miss that one a lot.

I can't remember the game we just played at bro and sis-in-law's house. Some kind of category game. Played guys vs girls and had ALL age groups represented and the men kicked our butts. We surmised that women are more likely to be like "you know, schnauzer is one answer but maybe even better would be collie, what do YOU think?" while the men blurted us out of the water! :lol:

monopoly is a sucky game. http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/...aming-evening/

Backgammon
Monopoly (I also have the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and QVC versions)
Battleship
Risk (I sucked at it, gave my board to a friend's kid when I moved)
Chess (not a good chess player, but I'm smart so I think I should play this. I do fairly well at chess problems not so well at actual play)
Scrabble
Parcheesi
Pente

I never had a lot of the really well-known games as a kid, only played Sorry, Life, and Trouble at other kid's houses, but I did have Toss-Across.

I'm sure there are tons of others, but I can't think of them right now.

In shoots and ladders, when you get penalized, you REALLY get penalized! :blush:
Scattergories? Facts in Five?

Bookshelf games were fun.

*snort*

Alrighty then...mudderplucking sassafrassa crap shit board games. I SPIT on you. I SPIT on you all. :lol:

Here's a game you might like...stand right over.........THERE.

Ha d a Monopoly-type game, which used all the peices from Monopoly, called Heads and Feds. It had a pot theme.

I still like battleship.

Looking for Feely Meely.

Stage II trivia...all the answers lead to another answer.

We currently play TransAmerica quite a bit -similar principle -level playing field. Will look up Ticket to Ride, thanks.

chutes 'n' ladders = snakes and ladders
parcheesi = ludo

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We don't play Monopoly often, but we have fun when we do. I guess it must depend on your mindset going in? For a "luck-based" game with an "inevitability" factor (if those aren't mutually exclusive), it is surprising that some people always seem to do well regardless of their starting position/position early in their game, and some do not.

I'm guessing perhaps you and the article's author are not two of Monopoly's winners?

I rather think that if one needs to read detailed blogs about how to hold a gaming evening, one is almost automatically doomed to failure. maybe I'm gameist.

What version of Monopoly? Is there a French one? Paris?

We Brits all grew up with the London version, but now there are versions for most major British cities.

Did anyone ever work out why the rent on Piccadilly wasn't 24 quid instead of 22?

Oh wow, this is awesome! Thanks monster, for years I wondered what the game was but just now was prompted to look for it online.

I had a detective game when I was a kid, where I actually kept records of everything, who was the culprit how the clues worked out. Documenting that like I did, it's not surprising I landed in a field where it's all documentation all the time. I was pretty young as I recall, when I had the game. I tried to google it and I'm sure this was the game! What memories. I played this one by myself a lot. I wish I still had it.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4969/manhunt

edit: it came out in 72 so I was like 8 or 9.

Cellaropoly. If you pass go collect 200 posts.

tax and super-tax = tip jar and super tip jar.
Free Parking features cellar car
Jail = banning
bankrupcy = permabanning
utilities = internet services, beer
Chance examples: Shawnee123 changes username, miss one turn; Taunt Happy Fun Wolf -go directly to ban; compliment dwellar who hates your guts, move to free parking.......

The sets (I'll use the Brit colors)

hmmm. I think you'll need to fill in some of the gaps here, i might ruffle feathers.... I'll start you off ;)

Brown: infinite monkey, monster
light blue: cloud, sky, ____
pink: brianna, sundae girl, shawnee123
orange: ____, ____, ____
red: UG, Merc, ____
yellow: ____, ____, ____
green: footfootfoot, griff, glinda
Dark Blue: wolf and glatt

hmmmmm :lol:

Brilliant idea!

I know some yellows but the kinder gentler poster won't say.

Game pieces?

Beer mug
Monkey
Troll
Some Amish Guy

?????? more?

Which game?

Clue = Cluedo for those completely unbilingual, btw. Hebe loves this game once we taught her how to play. I used to be totally crap at it, right into adulthood, then beest pointed out he couldn't understand why -it was just a huge logic problem of the type I love to do for fun and that was a lightbulb moment! I have no idea why that never occurred to me as a kid. I just thought everyone had some superintuition I was missing. I now suspect my dad deliberately kept me in the dark about that so there was one game he could still win.... :lol:

Typewriter

Manhunt? The one in my post? :p:

Never played Clue much.

yeah, that was kind of where I chickened out too. maybe i should be in the yellow section? I'll need a new username to feature twice though. oh wait, anonymous, of course!

The Simple Dollar is one of my favorite blogs, and it's a personal finance blog. The blogger is also a gamer, and I find his reviews of board games interesting and valuable, even if you do not. He also advocates playing board games as a family, or as a low-cost party activity with friends.

Monopoly is boring and long and it still sucks. Just because it's a classic, doesn't mean that it's the best or most fun for a lot of people.

OK so why are you thanking me? I never linked to manhunt.. :confused:

Dick broom

Liberty bell

Heeeheee...for bringing up the thread so my mind could free-associate all the way back nigh on 40 years ago. :lol:

I'd thought about it from time to time but never when I was in a situation to look for it. Serendipity. My memories are searing, branded iron hot.

*snort*

Those who can, do, those who can't teach/preach/blog..... :lol:

I'm amused that it's OK for you to come here and criticise a game (if "sucky" actually qualifies as a criticism) then link to a blog that also criticises the game, but it's not OK for me to criticise that blog/blogger.

I'm still trying to track down a couple of games from my youth -One I think was called "Shipping", and another railroad/empire building one that we used to play in humanities.

Leather paddle

For Cellaropoly, instead of an Amish guy, shouldn't that be a hobo?

I LOVED Which Witch. Thanks for reminding me about it.

Had a Clue board, but never played it much ... it sucks as a two-player game and much of the board game playing involved me and siswolf.

yup. and hobo killin' needs to feature highly in the chance/community cards.

Maybe hobo eviction costs instead of housing repairs.

Chance card "Hobo moves onto your sofa, pay $100 every day until evicted"

If you can't say something nice...:p:

Yeah, well, I never won much at monopoly anyway. :lol:

.....blog. :p: :p:

it is of course, okay for you to criticize anybody you wish. Isn't it okay for me to voice a different opinion?

OH! My family used to play "The Dictionary Game" every single Thanksgiving, which I found out years later is basically Balderdash except you have to look up your own weird words instead of having a deck of cards to draw good ones from. I loved that game.

Rail Baron

ooh, could be, I'll look that up too, thanks.

Sure. Whenever you actually have one. Meanwhile, do you have to pay rental for using other people's? :D

heck YES!!!111!1111!!!

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I picked up a webster's 1859 dictionary at a tag sale it was awesome for Fictionary, There were so many old, odd words that were no longer used and a lot of common words had completely different meanings. I am sorry I gave it away.

No, it wasn't that I seem to remember it was a race from east to west coast.

Hmm, apparently I'm not the only Brit in the US who remembers Shipping

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/5924...-game-shipping

(I searched my email and found a reply from my dad about the game with enough details to google this....)

The game on Ebay they link to, though, is an American version called "Ship Ahoy". There is a game called Shipping, same year, same idea.....

http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/t...1-c-l0w6w2xmlu

OK found it. This is the game I remember

images bring nostalgia