What was your favourite board game as a child?

I remember Sorry. Great game for children who hated losing. No choice but to obey the instruction on the card.

Sorry.

Did anyone play, ‘flutter’?
I loved the game and realise now it was a great introduction to controlling one’s finances.

DH was a fanatical cribbage player. He taught me to play and recently, though I hadn’t played for a long time, I taught the rudiments of it to GS. He still needs to pick up the finer points but I think he is a fan! We sometimes get the cribbage board out when he stays over. I wish he could have learned from his grandad but though he taught him many card games, cribbage wasn’t one of them.

I was born before some of the games mentioned but I remember snakes and ladders and Chinese chequers happy families and a bit older monopoly
My family used to play cribbage and I think I learnt that when I was about 10/11

Loved most of the games and still play lots of cards, not bridge but anything from whist, to snap.

Cluedo, Scrabble and the Game of Life.

I remember playing Careers, Monopoly, and Totopoly, a game from the same stable as Monopoly and based on horse racing.

Although I have never been interested in playing board games, I have played them as child and adult because I was in the company of family or friends who wanted to play games.

I just remembered, I did enjoy playing poker with an uncle who had been a professional footballer. In those days even Division 1 football teams travelled to matches by train and they would play poker on the train to wile away the tedium of the journeys. We played with the contents of a tin of cowrie shells that belonged to my grandfather, not with money. But I was good at poker, but poker is not a board game.

One of my older brothers loved playing Risk and Camelot - anyone remember them? I hated both these games as he regularly thrashed me at both!

Just remembered Careers, made by the same people as Monopoly, I think. You had to go through various careers on the board, earning money, fame and happiness points IIRC. Used to play it by the hour with a friend when we were children. Does anyone else remember it?

LadyGracie

We played a lot of draughts and chess but my favourites although not board games were Pick up sticks and Jacks.

Oh yes, jacks! I liked that too.
The toy that could cripple you if you left one lying around.

We played a lot of draughts and chess but my favourites although not board games were Pick up sticks and Jacks.

I liked to play ludo as a child and as an adult. My friends and I played a game about the Top Ten(I think) but I can't remember its name. It's the only game where my very honest upright friend cheated! We ribbed her about it everafter. As an adult, we moved to Trivial Pursuit which became a favourite, then Kniffel, a German game using dice

I was never much interested in board games as a child and I am even less interested in any games, board or online as an adult.

I suspect this is because I have ADHD

We loved Game Of Life ( piling all those kids in the car - if you know you know!)
And one called What's My Word - recently found an old one on Ebay so my daughter and I are happily playing again

I think my mum would ave thrown me up in the air if I'd done that

My older grandson used to be a terrible loser, too.

I'd run myself ragged so i could beat him at swingball every time.

I used to play drafts as a child. Enjoyed this but my younger brother was not a good loser and threw the board up when things didn’t go his way.

I hated Monopoly, still do...I liked ludo, drafts dominos

Chinese chequers, chess and draughts. I preferred playing card games like euchre and whist.

Ludo and Snakes and Ladders.

I expect most of us had dominoes, drafts, chess and cards.

The best thing about cards was that you could play lots of games on your own.

Wheniwasyourage and Cossy - I also has Sorry and still have Scoop.
Scoop is really only kept for nostalgic reasons. Haven't played it for years...

I had a game called Scoop about newspapers and a game called Trek with plastic camels.

I remember playing draughts with my grandad. He had many grandchildren & we used to all visit at the same time; he used to sit in his chair with his teeth gritted for the duration. But he did enjoy a game of dominoes or draughts if there was room to find a surface to play on.I didn't like listening to the grown-ups gossiping, so it was usually me & him playing.

I never liked monopoly
Safe to say I'll never be a property tycoon.