What was your favourite board game as a child?

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?

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 😂

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.

I only possessed Snakes and Ladders.

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

Macaydia
Oh yes!

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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).

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

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.

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.

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?

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!:

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.

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.

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

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.

Cluedo

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................

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.

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!

winterwhite

Cluedo.

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

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

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