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.
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.
What Would Hüsker Dü?
Corn cobs.
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.
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:
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.
pssst Spexx: Chutes and Ladders. Unless your version you shot at people as they ascended ladders. ;)
In shoots and ladders, when you get penalized, you REALLY get penalized! :blush:
Some kind of category game.
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 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.
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
monopoly is a sucky game. http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/09/25/how-to-organize-and-host-a-gaming-evening/
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.
Usual suspects :
- Monopoly
- Scrabble (both French and English)
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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?
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.
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:
Game pieces?
Beer mug
Monkey
Troll
Some Amish Guy
?????? more?
Typewriter
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:
Manhunt? The one in my post? :p:
Never played Clue much.
Brilliant idea!
I know some yellows but the kinder gentler poster won't say.
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.
Manhunt? The one in my post? :p:
Never played Clue much.
OK so why are you thanking me? I never linked to manhunt.. :confused:
Typewriter
Dick broom
Liberty bell
OK so why are you thanking me? I never linked to manhunt.. :confused:
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.
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.
*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.
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.
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.
Dick broom
Liberty bell
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.
For Cellaropoly, instead of an Amish guy, shouldn't that be a hobo? .
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"
*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.
If you can't say something nice...:p:
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"
Yeah, well, I never won much at monopoly anyway. :lol:
If you can't say something nice...:p:
.....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?
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.
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.
...another railroad/empire building one that we used to play in humanities.
Rail Baron
Rail Baron
ooh, could be, I'll look that up too, thanks.
Isn't it okay for me to voice a different opinion?
Sure. Whenever you actually have one. Meanwhile, do you have to pay rental for using other people's? :D
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.
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.
Rail Baron
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/592404/board-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/toys-the-ahoy-series-board-game-shipping-co-1-c-l0w6w2xmluThe game on Ebay they link to, though, is an American version called "Ship Ahoy". There is a game called Shipping, same year, same idea.....
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what is that and why is Inspector Needham speaking scottish?
It's from "Comfort and Joy" by Bill Forsyth. Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, etc.
We played all the usuals growing up. I hated Trivial Pursuit. Always did and probably always will. I am just not good at trivia. Loved Risk, Axis and Allies and Monopoly. We play a game sometimes called Settlers of Catan. It's pretty addictive.
I really want to play Settlers of Catan with my family. I keep meaning to buy it, but $40 wow. Do you play the basic game, or do you need to get the extensions, kerosene?
Last time we had a family reunion, my cousin brought Settlers of Catan and we stayed up late playing it. It wasn't too hard to learn, but it really helped having one person truly familiar with the game to teach us along the way. It would have been much harder if we were all trying to learn at the same time. The funny thing was, the next morning we realized that every single one of us had dreamed about the game in some way. :) It's a pretty damn good game.
We got Hunters and Gatherers by the same people. It's a good game the kids enjoy. Sort of entry level for Catan, I understand. Eventually we will get Settlers. When we find it on sale ;) Actually, I might get it from the downtown games store with my "Thanks Coach" downtown gift voucher. Or I might get TransEurope (European and slightly harder version of TransAmerica) Or I might get a massage ;)
We used to play a game called Dark Tower. Obsessively, marathon all day sessions sometimes.
It was a cross between a board game, a fantasy game and a "computer" game, although all the computer really was, was an electronic way of putting a random element in.
I didn't realise, but Dads had the game from early November, and learned all the rules, and painted all the figures. This meant we hit the ground running at Christmas, and could play as a family. Also, when a schoolfriend raved about the game after playing it for hours at our house, her Mum bought it for her. Imagine all our surprise when the brightly painted pieces (especially the dragon) were just plain plastic!
She barely played it - the adults in her house weren't interested so it was only ever a two player game with her brother. Nowhere near as much fun.
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I love Scattergories, but once I moved away from my peer group I didn't get as many opportunities to play it. Not because my new group of friends didn't like games, but because they perceived it as my special game which I only wanted to play because I won. Which wasn't true - I simply loved it.
I had another one which in the end NO-ONE would play with me, for the same reason. It was called Evolution (I think) and it was all about the origins of words and phrases. I was accused of memorising all the cards. Bollocks. Yes, I did learn a lot from the game, but it was only through playing it, and the fact I found it fascinating. But yes, I always did win. Gave it to a charity shop in the end.
I also liked Pass the Bomb but found few takers. Word games, all. Hated Risk or any other games of strategy :) Liked Monopoly because you could bumble about and rely on luck.
BTW - how come Shawnee AND IM get to appear on the Cellar Monopoly board? It's a monopoly! Can we have Dana in the pink if IM gets to be in the brown? Although Dana should really be somewhere more serious and worthy. Pink, anyway - what part of the board is that? Are you thinking of burgundy - Pall Mall, Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue?
And no, I have no idea why rent on Piccadilly was £22. Please explain.
I really want to play Settlers of Catan with my family. I keep meaning to buy it, but $40 wow. Do you play the basic game, or do you need to get the extensions, kerosene?
I don't think you would need extensions, unless you have more than 4 players. I like that the board is so variable, that you end up having to come up with new strategies each time. They also have an online version, that is free to play. I want to get a hold of some of the extensions, but with three of us most of the time, I wonder if it might not be much fun. If there were 6 of us, it might be different.
Last time we had a family reunion, my cousin brought Settlers of Catan and we stayed up late playing it. It wasn't too hard to learn, but it really helped having one person truly familiar with the game to teach us along the way. It would have been much harder if we were all trying to learn at the same time. The funny thing was, the next morning we realized that every single one of us had dreamed about the game in some way. :) It's a pretty damn good game.
We learned from some friends. It is much better to learn from someone who knows. We played it one night and didn't have the patience to wait until we could get it cheap, so we spent the 40 bucks at target.
BTW - how come Shawnee AND IM get to appear on the Cellar Monopoly board? It's a monopoly! Can we have Dana in the pink if IM gets to be in the brown? Although Dana should really be somewhere more serious and worthy. Pink, anyway - what part of the board is that? Are you thinking of burgundy - Pall Mall, Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue?
And no, I have no idea why rent on Piccadilly was £22. Please explain.
it wasn't/isn't burgundy. it was/is pink. And Pink totally has to be the strawberry festival queen triumvirate. And if im and shawnee can vote in the zengumnamepoll, they can totally do this.
Risk, Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders (when we were little), Parcheesi, Life....
I used to like monopoly when I was younger, but not so much now. Not sure why.
I like pictionary but prefer card games like 500.
I never learned to play chess till I was in HS, Backgammon as well, which I became totally addicted to playing.
Oh yeah, backgammon is an awesome game. I play it online sometimes.
Where? I would like to do that. Post a link.
It's built in to the games section when you get windows 7. You just select your skill level and then you're connected anonymously to someone of similar skill.
I'm sure there are other sites though. Maybe I'll have a look around later.
Uggggg,,,, switched to MAC last year, couldn't be happier. Thanks.
Scattergories & Ker-Plunk.
I love Balderdash and Mad Gab.
Used to like monopoly as a kid, but my sis always won.
Also, I know its not a board game, but the card game Spoons is awesome! Most of the time it gets kinda violent and thats when its the best. :)
I've woken up bruised the day after having played Spoons.
We play a card game called 'Pass The Trash' (aka 'Fuck Your Buddy), and a dice game called 'Greedy' Or 'Greed'. Rules are prolly in the Google, I'm too lazy to post them.
Not a board game, but my friends and I play Left Right Center.
Starts with 3 quarters each, last quarter on the table wins the pot. You could play with dollars or anything.
http://www.toycrossing.com/lcr/I love this thread.
I have restrained myself from posting until now, because I have several board games and games of other sorts. I post now because I just added a new game to my collection, really a deck of cards suitable (ha) for numerous games.
Are there any Hanafuda players out there?
Here's a game for some of you:
My abiding memory of board games as a kid is that other people's board games were always more interesting.
We had loads. Monopoly and Cluedo, and Snakes and Ladders, Draughts, and Ludo and Trivial Pursuits, Connect Four and that game with the mystery faces, and Scrabble and Boggle, and Scruples (great fun for all the family, or grounds for divorce: you choose) and stuff that lit up and stuff that made noises and games with notepads and little pens.
But ahhhh....my cousins had Mousetrap! and Bucking Bronco, and Operation and KerPlunk. And my best friend had Game of Life, and a pirate treasurehunt game with little chests full of miniature ingots and maps with X marking the spot.
it wasn't/isn't burgundy. it was/is pink. And Pink totally has to be the strawberry festival queen triumvirate.
Good point well made if it is indeed pink.
We played on a board which I think may have been the first ever sold in the UK. Some of the banknotes were genuine forgeries - Dads always was superb at copying other people's work; hence our "Disney" frieze. I can only assume enough were lost over the years to make the game unstable without replacements.
Also I have NEVER, in any other set, seen the pieces we played with. Thinking now, they must have been replacements. D'oh! Why didn't I ever question the fact no-one else had a bulldozer in their set? And the fact my favourite piece was the train, which was blue and looked like a TGR.
So I accept now our board was obviously discoloured, as well as the other issues.
And if im and shawnee can vote in the zengumnamepoll, they can totally do this.
This argument I do not accept, except as proof she is guilty of voting fraud.
You didn't spill the beans about the rent in Piccadilly!
Please?
And if im and shawnee can vote in the zengumnamepoll, they can totally do this.
Hey wait! Where did this come from? It was a multiple choice poll. I just did it a little differently. :lol2: And i didn't hide it.
:mad: I've never even cheated at games. What's the point of winning if it's not a real win? But I WILL win. ;)
Guilty.
Sorry - I mean I like you and all that, but sentence has been passed.
You are no longer eligible to vote in Cellar polls. I PM'd Mr Undertoad about it.
:lol2:
Well poo. Now what?
We play a card game called 'Pass The Trash' (aka 'Fuck Your Buddy), and a dice game called 'Greedy' Or 'Greed'. Rules are prolly in the Google, I'm too lazy to post them.
Is Greed the same as 10,000, Zilch, or Farkle? I love that game, a friend taught it to me years ago by not telling me the rules and making me figure them out as we played.
I have lately been spending time with another unemployed friend who loves games, we've been playing Wordfeud (it's like Scrabble) online on her iPad and my Android phone, and also have been playing cribbage in person and online the same way. I also taught her backgammon, and once we find a version that will play on both devices, we'll play that as well.
and a pirate treasurehunt game with little chests full of miniature ingots and maps with X marking the spot.
Buccaneers?
Yarrr, I kno, on te sides of me buccan-head. Arrrr.
Oooooh. I think it might have been aye!
[eta]Just googled it and yes, that was the game. I loved it.
wolf--
I've heard the dice game called zilch, farkle and greed, and 5000. I *also* learned it by sight, much to the cruel amusement of my learned opponents. I love this game (and many many others).
there's another one, same dice of course, called Liar's Dice. It's so fun, and so flexible.. we've played it with as many as eight guys or so. This meant we had calls like "I have twenty six fours,
Everyone can stop worrying now.
I found o9ut the reason for Piccadilly rent only being £22.
Yup. Found it out myself.
Turns out there's this thing called a "search engine"... and I don't need you lot any more!
Well.... maybe just a lickle bit...
Well, what is the reason? We need YOU!
