What were/are your favorite games board and nonboard games to play indoors. I liked chutes and

[debm55]

ladders when I was a kid and battleship
Edited to add games that included board and nonboard games

[mercuryblues]

1. Tripoley

My gambling addiction started at a very young age.

[KarenS]

7. Our whole family played this with pennies,,,,

Loved this game!!

on edit: We played Hearts too

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. Scrabble

and Monopoly

[Diamond_Dog]

6. My two favorites, too, MOMFUDSKI

Mainly Scrabble. I play, or rather waste time on WordMaster a lot.

[barbaraann]

3. Bridge.

It never gets old. The only hard part is rounding up exactly four people.

[Ocelot II]

4. Clue, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit.

[debm55]

13. I liked Clue and Trivial Pursuit. No one wanted to play scrabble.

[Thunderbeast]

5. Cribbage, Backgammon

[Jrose]

8. Clue board game

Fond memories of rainy Saturdays at my teenage friends' house, playing for hours while we shared Chinese food and listened to Beatles records.

[GPV]

9. Payday, mastermind, acquire

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Ah, Monopoly, RISK, checkers, chess, and too many others to name. Bridge is another one,

along w/ Hearts, Gin Rummy (not sure of spelling), I do love the board games but getting a partner to play is a different story. Who plays board games now-a-days?

[jpak]

15. Loved RISK

Yup

[SWBTATTReg]

16. Yes, I remember the knock down, and at them fights w/ playing RISK, it was free-for-all,

especially when you had multiple players who joined w/ each other in a team effort against each other. We literally played for days and days. Especially when you had a matching set of cards that allowed you to get yet even more 'troops/tokens' and then the game would take an entirely different route, unless someone else had a matching set of cards too, and then it started all over again!

[flor-de-jasmim]

11. Parcheesi, Clue, Monopoly, Scrabble

[dameatball]

12. Overall it was chess, but in the late 50's we had a "Concentration" board game that I loved.

It was modeled after the popular tv game show. It was fun winning the prizes and guessing the answer to the puzzles that were gradually revealed. Unfortunately there were only so many puzzles available to be solved and after a while it was easy to guess the answers. Maybe there is a digital version today that has a multitude of puzzles to solve without repeating them much.
Anyway, as a youngster I enjoyed that game a lot for quite a while. I think my brother and I got it for Christmas.

[debm55]

14. I had concentration game too. You are right, after awhile you would know the answers.Liked the

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Password game

[Prairie_Seagull]

17. Stratego and started chess pretty early.

Then all Risk all the time. We even played double board Risk, a drinking game. haha

[LeftishBrit]

18. Scrabble- still play it regularly with a friend

Consequences, as a pencil and paper game.

As a child, Snakes and Ladders when very young and Yahtzee, Monopoly and Careers a little later.

[Rastapopoulos]

19. Some of the newer games are great...

Catan, Carcssone, Ticket to Ride

[Coventina]

20. Clue and an ancient board game called "Messenger Force"

I also quite liked Parcheesi.

[Archae]

21. Monopoly and Uno.

I now have Cat-opoly and Sheboygan-opoly too.

[Upthevibe]

22. debm55...........

When I was a kid we mainly played cards: Rummy, Gin, Spades, etc. (I can't remember some of the other games).

When I was a young adult we mainly played Backgammon and Cribbage.

Now, when I have game night with friends, we play Charades, Taboo, Scattegory, and others. We played a fun game a few months ago. Every one writes on separate pieces of paper a random sentence (such as a bird is flying over the sea). You then pass your paper to the person to your right. You then draw what is on the paper you just received. Then that paper gets passed and you write what you think the picture is showing. The game continues from there. It's fun to play with a larger group. I think there were about 10 of us. I don't draw well but it was still fun!

[debm55]

23. I like Charades, Taboo, and Scattegory. Thank you

[Upthevibe]

25. debm55..

I just added another game to my post.

[electric_blue68]

24. I loved Chutes & Ladders! Checkers. ?Sorry at our cousin's....

"Chinese Checkers" (having been reminded of it I wonder if it had another name - will look up).

Scrabble came later. I still play if I get a chance


Here's an answer

"Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany in 1892 based on an older American game by the name of Halma, the only difference is that Chinese Checkers is a star shape which allows more players to engage. The game is still widely played in East Asia and Europe, and is a great game for pastime for group of people."

Who knew. 👍

[birdographer]

26. Sequence

Love this game, but moved away from the person I used to play it with...so now it sits in a drawer...

[zanana1]

27. Sorry

It's a passive aggressive game!

[Jrose]

28. Mad Libs was (and still is, I think) a very creative and funny word game

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Had This Fun Bowling Game - Edited

It had pins like in candlepin bowling (pic in link). They were made of a hardwood (maple, maybe) with a little detent on the bottom, so they sit still on a little rounded nub.
On the side, there was a wooden rod about 2 feet high, and hooked to it by a pivot was a chain with a wooden ball at the end.
You would swing the ball out & around the stick and try to knock down the pins. It was scored like duckpins or candlepins so there were 3 shots per frame.
I got it probably around 9 or 10. I was still messing with in high school.
It was a fun game. I wish I could remember the name.
i found it. Skittle Ball
https://www.ebay.com/b/Vintage-Manufacture-Skittle-Bowls/19100/bn_7023272107

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling