What was your favourite board game as a child?

MissAdventure

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

Me too! Day by day, week by week...tho online is good for a lot but its not the same is it. I can get out more than you tho.

I do see DGC but they live way away - and I should try lotto or similar to lure them off devices, but that's where they are at now.

Me and my daughter played board games all through her teens, if we had a free couple of hours.
We'd make up some snacks, and play cluedo, drafts, card games, chess, even noughts and crosses or hangman.

My boy would think i was off ny rocker if i suggested that to him!:

Aw, happy days MissA .
I promise to try with the DGC.

Can you or anyone else remember the name of that game where you have a long slip of paper and draw a head, then fold it over and pass it on and the next bit is drawing to the waist, then you fold over again and so on and end up with funny cartoony people?

Oooh yes! I remember it now you've mentioned it.
A variation is wrting a sentence, folding the paper, with the last word on show, then passingit to the next person so they can write the next sentence off that one word.

Oh yes, that a good one. New to me. A sort of easy version where someone starts a fictional narrative and every one adds to the twists and turns.

Yes, it can be hilarious at times, depending on the imaginations of the players.

We used to fold paper into a pointy beak-like shape and write yes-no-maybes on the inside and have other children ask a question and give a number and then we would put our fingers in the holes, count and move the paper shape with our little fingers until it would reveal their fortunes.

My favorite was Sorry but I just recently purchased MasterMind (again).

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Macaydia
Oh yes!

We used to play Consequences too. Not a board game, but pencil and paper.

I only possessed Snakes and Ladders.

I remember playing Pick Up Sticks with my mum with her knitting needles. We also played games on paper - remember Dots and Squares? - Hangman and Beetle. Frustration with a Pop-o-matic was always a favourite, and Old Maid. We had a pack of cards with people on (butcher, baker etc) which we used for rummy and snap. For some reason I can’t recall my dad always called it ‘baggy pants snap’. Happy memories.

NotSpaghetti

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.

Oh how I hated dominoes. Then ended up playing it with the old folk at work, but because they had dementia I would end up playing for us all. All that knocking didn’t do my knuckles any good 😂

Musicgirl

Cluedo, Scrabble and the Game of Life.

Gingerrice I think the car version of this game came out in the 1960s - was it a "moralistic" game like the original?