Board game geek

[Catmando]

A favorite pastime of mine is to play board games, since I was 7 or 8! My Dad would often buy a new boardgame at Christmas time. Great memories!

Some of my favorite board games or similar games:

a) Careers

b) Game of Life (which I love playing with my girlfriend and her 7 year old son!)

c) Yahtzee

d) Wit's End

Many, many others, however if there are any other board games or card games that some of you enjoy and wish to discuss, post away!

Ray

[navneeth]

The desktop computer is only a recent entrant into this part of the world, relatively speaking, and most of us spent time playing board games when inside the house. If I had a lot of time to waste, especially during summer vacation, Monopoly was a favourite. As a kid, things like Snakes and Ladders interested me. And with the limited vocabulary I had, I sometimes used to "assist" the adults in the house while they were playing Scrabble.

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[jamiebk]

Board games...wow, as a kid we played them all the time. TV (fortunately) was not as prevalent as it is today. Most of us would head out the door in the AM, play all day running, making up games, and getting into mischief. Board games were for the evening. We liked:

Sorry!
Chutes and Ladders (US version of Snakes and Ladders)
Candyland (very early age)
Easy Money (monopoly knock-off)
and of course Yahtzee

Today, we seldom play board games...when we do it's usually scrabble or Scene-it. We still like Trivial Pursuit

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[bignaf]

I and my family play Risk, Monopoly and Chess (does this qualify?)

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

I was never fond of kids' board games, with the possible exception of Mousetrap. Didn't play the game, just built the Mousetrap and then triggered the wondrous Rube Goldberg sequence. <sigh!> Monopoly, occasionally, but usually under protest because everyone else wanted to play.

Scrabble is a good game. I'm not sure if it's really a board game, or if it counts as a word game like crossword puzzles, or the crickler puzzles, or hangman. I like all those.

[DavidS]

Selma - by "Mousetrap" do you mean "Cludo" (based on the Agatha Christie murder mysteries)?
As a child I used to play Draughts (Checkers) with my Grandpa (there was a Polish version with more squares and slightly different rules), Chess (a real serious business - learnt the rules at the age of 5!) Snakes & Ladders, and of course Monopoly.

[BigJon@Work]

I would play 4-player Monopoly by myself. I'd keep games going for weeks, since I knew the thought processes of each player. Must be why I'm the financial super-genius I am today.

Mastermind was another favorite.
King Oil, remember that one? http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2608 My kids still play it with me. (Same game board from childhood, I keep everything)
Life was big in my house

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Or it may have been Mouse Trap.

That was the name of the game. Object of the game was to trap the mouse, and this was done by building this weird and wondrous assembly of whatnots that included a basketlike mouse trap. It fell down a pole and trapped the plastic mouse, once the trap was assembled and triggered.

Never heard of "Snakes and Ladders". There was, however, a "Chutes and Ladders" game that somebody gave us one Christmas. Goodwill finally got it.

[navneeth]

Hmmm...My earlier post in this thread has been shortened quite mysteriously. I did edit it once, but that was just to fix a typo.

And that concludes my first (of many?) bug report for this new format.

[DavidS]

Or it may have been Mouse Trap.
That was the name of the game. Object of the game was to trap the mouse, and this was done by building this weird and wondrous assembly of whatnots that included a basketlike mouse trap. It fell down a pole and trapped the plastic mouse, once the trap was assembled and triggered.

How sadistic!
Reminds me of when our cat caught a mouse and instead of finishing the poor thing off started playing with it, so to put it out of its misery I grabbed it by the tail and did the job. But the ungrateful little blighter bit me first!
Another time, I got bitten in the finger and woken up by a desert/field mouse when taking a (legitimate) outdoor nap on military reserve duty.
The only kind of mouse I see now is the optical model.
BTW: Would you say that Angela Lansbury/Jessica Fletcher is the US equivalent of dear old Aggie?

Never heard of "Snakes and Ladders". There was, however, a "Chutes and Ladders" game that somebody gave us one Christmas. Goodwill finally got it.

"Snakes and Ladders", is the UK equivalent, with drawings of snakes your counter slides down when it lands on a square with the top end of one on it. I forget whether the head or tail.
Another (European I think) variant is "Ropes and Ladders".

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

How sadistic!

Sadistic? Let me reiterate. Plastic. Mouse. They're not terribly sensitive.

Would you say that Angela Lansbury/Jessica Fletcher is the US equivalent of dear old Aggie?

Probably not. One is an actress, another is the fictional character she portrays, the last is an author.

We have quite a few very good lady mystery authors, but nobody writes Agatha Christie mysterys. Except, of course, Ms. Christie!

[DavidS]

Wow! I just googled Agatha Christie and found she died 30 years ago!!!
How time flies!
I was one of the lucky ones who saw The Mousetrap at the Ambassadors in my youth. and I've read all of her books.
Going back to other threads - this dear lady is a case in point of immortality.

[Trumpetmaster]

Life
Operation
Risk

Here are some interesting web sites.....


http://www.thenwhen.com/games/

http://www.neatstuff.net/games/games.html

http://www.hasbro.com/games/

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/ ... ntors.html

[Shapley]

We used to have Mousetrap. There was another game similar to it, I don't recall the name. As I recall you move around the board, adding pieces to the Rube Goldberg contraption. You have to have all the pieces in place in time to catch the mouse or you lose.

Another old game I had was Snakes Alive!. Sort of like Russian Roulette, with a spring-loaded snake in a basket. You took turns sticking your finger into holes in the basket, collecting 'rubies' everytime the snake didn't pop out. I believe my sister took all the plastic rubies to make costume jewelry, and we had to play the game with poker chips until the hinges on the basket finally broke.

[Trumpetmaster]

We used to have Mousetrap. There was another game similar to it, I don't recall the name. As I recall you move around the board, adding pieces to the Rube Goldberg contraption. You have to have all the pieces in place in time to catch the mouse or you lose.

Another old game I had was Snakes Alive!. Sort of like Russian Roulette, with a spring-loaded snake in a basket. You took turns sticking your finger into holes in the basket, collecting 'rubies' everytime the snake didn't pop out. I believe my sister took all the plastic rubies to make costume jewelry, and we had to play the game with poker chips until the hinges on the basket finally broke.

I remember those games....
Had them!!!!