What was your favourite board game as a child?

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 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

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

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

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.

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?

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!

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.

Cluedo, Scrabble and the Game of Life.

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

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

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.

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

Sorry.

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

I can’t remember anything about it Mollygo. I just remember enjoying playing it with a great aunt when she came to stay.

Yes love scrabble - they have a scrabble club at the local community centre and love seeing the next generation now playing it still

winterwhite

Cluedo.

The thing about Cluedo was always trying not to lose the candlestick or other things you had to put in the rooms!

LadyGracie

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

I got Jacks as a present for some children recently - was fun to see them playing it - so cheap and simple!

When I was little, the whole family loved Frustration, with the Pop-o-matic dice in middle. It was like a souped up version of Ludo and we would all chase each others pegs around the board!

As we got older we enjoyed Cluedo. Monopoly took too long and dad always won so we weren't too keen. Later on, my son loved to play Monopoly with me but a game could last for several days. We also liked pick up sticks and Operation.

We still have cupboards full of board games and have played all the aforementioned, as well as endless different card games, some of which became quite vicious! Eg Hearts!! Tempers flared & cards thrown and one or other member of the family would storm out because they had the queen of spades!!!

Monopoly boards were frequently thrown in the air, with hotels on Park Lane and Mayfair lost forever under the sofa!

My children even managed to cheat at Snap and Racing Demon!!

Competitive lot................

Cluedo

I’ve still got the Jacks I had as a child they’re in a plastic container that used to house a spool of camera film, they live in my sewing box.

I wish I had someone to play board games with now.

We played a ludo varient called Coppit during school lunchtimes, then progressed to poker using the Shakespeare plays as chips! The books were small and there were lots of them as our form tutor was head of English.

At home we played more card games.
We played Rummy on Sunday evenings. My mum would only collect red cards, never black ones.

Now our older Gchn usually play board or card games when they are here. Current favourite is Rummikub.