The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat was your favorite board game as a kid?
22 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
Checkers | |
0 (0%) |
|
Chess | |
1 (5%) |
|
Candyland | |
0 (0%) |
|
Mouse Trap | |
1 (5%) |
|
Life | |
0 (0%) |
|
Monopoly | |
9 (41%) |
|
Chutes and Ladders (Snakes and Ladders for the Brits) | |
0 (0%) |
|
Sorry! | |
1 (5%) |
|
Clue | |
3 (14%) |
|
Other | |
7 (32%) |
|
0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
Show usernames
Disclaimer: This is an Internet poll |
![](du4img/smicon-reply-new.gif)
hlthe2b
(103,056 posts)Last edited Fri Dec 8, 2017, 06:04 PM - Edit history (1)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/English_ouija_board.jpg/220px-English_ouija_board.jpg)
kidding, just kidding.... sorta.... (We only succeeded in freaking ourselves out)
![](/emoticons/evilgrin.gif)
Lunabell
(6,279 posts)It never really worked.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)![](/emoticons/scared.gif)
![](/emoticons/beer.gif)
![](/emoticons/beer.gif)
![](/emoticons/beer.gif)
![](/emoticons/wow.gif)
![](/emoticons/evilgrin.gif)
TheCowsCameHome
(40,170 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,826 posts)My best bud, Pam, and I used to play with an older woman who lived on the block. We'd spend hours at a time at it!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,170 posts)Still my over-all fave.
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)We'd always play that when we went to her house for the holidays.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)was pretty popular, too.
Arkansas Granny
(31,586 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)I also played the game that came out before Clue called Mr Ree, same theme.
hedda_foil
(16,403 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,675 posts)Those games went on for days..........
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)I played that more in college. We played Risk for shots. If you lost a country, you took a shot.
Blue_Adept
(6,417 posts)True Dough
(17,581 posts)I remember getting together with high school buddies on early Saturday afternoons and playing Axis and Allies for hours. Loved that game.
Blue_Adept
(6,417 posts)One of those things where it was left in the basement playroom and we'd let the game run its course over a couple of days, alternating with some time in the above ground swimming pool. Spinning 45's, chilling, good times. Simpler times.
genxlib
(5,560 posts)The games of Risk that my brother and I would play could sometimes result in fisticuffs. It was intense.
2naSalit
(88,058 posts)JDC
(10,224 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)![](https://www.starlitcitadel.com/games/media/catalog/product/cache/7/image/66ffab2fe682907a17e1679a1175a522/r/i/risk_got.jpg)
I cannot tell you how jacked I am.
FSogol
(45,700 posts)We've added Pictionary over the years.
Grammy23
(5,820 posts)One tournament that had been going for days got abruptly ended when a gust of wind came along and blew money and property cards all over the porch where we were playing!
Other favorite games were Cootie, Go Fish and Chinese Checkers. Oh and Parchessi.
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)I don't think I ever played the game. I just built the cootie bugs.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and Monopoly. My brother and I could try to kill each other over the results of both those games.
But then we would play again.
( still have that Monopoly game)
JenniferJuniper
(4,518 posts)The pre-chess preference of all small INTP children...
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)That was fun!
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)![](http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m9_iJpmUEx5spSArjL0oPMw.jpg)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I think we played the Game of Life most, but I also enjoyed a lot of other board games mentioned here.
I used to play a game called Fireball Island about 20 years ago, when I wasn't exactly a kid, then. It was a great game that got more fun as the evening wore on and the alcohol got consumed.
![](/emoticons/loveit.gif)
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,985 posts)And before those, Chutes and Ladders.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,010 posts)The original version, the the over-simplified one that came out some time later.
Also the original Sorry! That's another game that got updated, somewhat simplified and isn't half as fun. Fortunately it's possible to get Classic Sorry! at Target.
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)We play it now every now and then.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Wargames are a slippery slope.
red dog 1
(28,203 posts)then Clue, then Chutes & Ladders
flor-de-jasmim
(2,132 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Callalily
(14,918 posts)it still is one of my favorite board games.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I played with my grandma every summer and she was merciless in both playing words and challenging mine. I'm a pretty good scrabble player now because of it. I played Words with Friends on my phone for a while but my family and friends got tired of getting beat and I got tired of being accused of cheating by random strangers.
I believe strategery is is as important as vocabulary.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,061 posts)My Grandma taught all of us to play Cribbage, she thought it was good for our math skills.
lastlib
(23,665 posts)Won school championship three straight years. Still damn good--but haven't played a lot, and almost no strong competition in my circle.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)ProfessorGAC
(66,239 posts). . .i guess i infer a different meaning to board game, so i didn't include chess, which i liked as a kid. I know it's played on a board, and it's a fair choice in the poll, but for some reason when i read Board Game, i conjure up an image that doesn't include checkers or chess.
Not sure why.
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)Chess being an ancient game, and all. Have you ever played Chinese chess? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi
ProfessorGAC
(66,239 posts)Not only have i never played it, it's the first time i've ever seen it.
Thanks
Floyd R. Turbo
(27,201 posts)![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Battleship_game_board.svg/1920px-Battleship_game_board.svg.png)
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Was and still is my favorite and just put another under the tree for the Toys for Tots my company always tries to help.
geardaddy
(25,014 posts)It's a bigger board, so you get quadruple word and letter scores.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I've had the same scrabble board since college (that's 35 years ago). Thanks for the heads up.
Iggo
(47,736 posts)But nobody else liked to play those.
So, Monopoly.
Glorfindel
(9,781 posts)Stratego, Battleship, etc. Never got the hang of chess, and checkers was boring.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)played candyland with my sister then we would play battleship and stratego when we got older. Played Risk and Axis and Allies in high school. Played some a couple of tile games based on WWII.
Scoopster
(423 posts)It was the first game I ever considered playing competitively. Didn't make past the regional championships tho. This was when I was 8-10.
Later on, some of the competitive discipline I learned while practicing Monopoly came in very handy. I started playing Magic: The Gathering competitively as well. Unfortunately my success with MTG hasn't gone as well (I've never made Day 2 of a Grand Prix, tho I did get within one match win once).