As as a kid, what was your favorite board game to play with your friends? Mine was Chutes and Ladders, Battleship, Clue

[debm55]

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[murielm99]

1. I liked that one, but

when I was really young, I liked Candyland.

[debm55]

4. Thank you murielm99. It was a favorite of mine too

[lastlib]

2. Chess, Stratego, and Monopoly

In that order

[debm55]

5. Thank you lastlib. Very good choices.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Clue. "Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the lead pipe!"

My son has inherited the original game we had back in the 60's. The box is pretty beat up and some of the pieces have been lost over the years, but his kids still enjoy using the old tokens and cards when they play the new edition of the game.

[debm55]

6. Thank you Arkansas Granny, I had the game, but friends were not interested in playing.

[Ontheboundry]

7. Axis and allies

Was my absolute favorite.

Risk also

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much, Ontheboundry.

[Ocelot II]

8. Clue, Monopoly, Scrabble

[debm55]

11. Thank you, Ocelot II, I like Clue, Though it was very hard to find players.

[CrispyQ]

9. Pirates of the Caribbean, Clue, Monopoly.

The pirates game was the best game ever. Parker Bros I believe. It was a friend's game, not mine. Years later I looked for one but games of the same name aren't the same.

Today I keep Snake Oil Salesman in my truck. It's a great game for a big group of people cuz it's easy to learn & it moves fast & it's funny as hell. If you're a good bullshitter you'll be good at this game.

[debm55]

14. Thank you CrispyQ, I will have to look for it.

[happybird]

12. Clue, Sorry, Chinese Checkers, Life

Mom turned my little bff and I into Yahtzee fiends.

[debm55]

16. Thank you, happybird. Very good choice of games.

[DBoon]

13. Clue

"Colonel Mustard in the bedroom with the candlestick"

[debm55]

17. Thank you DBoon. Later when I had friends interested in Clue, I played it. Really enjoyed it.

[wnylib]

15. Candlyland when I was really young, then Scrabble.

Played checkers with my older brother and had no skill at offensive strategy. But I was so good at defensive strategy that the games dragged on and on even though I'd lose in the end. Sometimes my brother threw the game to me just to get it over with, so I guess that was a strategy of sorts, although not planned.

He would not play Scrabble with me because I read a lot, had a better vocabulary, and was a good speller.

[debm55]

18. Thank you wnylib. I remember checkers where someone was backed into a a corner and would back and forth. Some had to

give in and throw the game.

[EYESORE 9001]

19. 'Sorry', the board game

I was never very sorry

[debm55]

20. I would play that too as I got older. TY EYESORE 9001

[AllaN01Bear]

21. battleship and monolpoly

[debm55]

22. Thank you Allan01Bear. I really liked battleship.

[AllaN01Bear]

27. you sank my battle ship

i learned how to play it using graph paper and pencils.

[surrealAmerican]

23. backgammon ...

... checkers, and some of the others already mentioned.

[debm55]

25. Ty surrealAmerican.

[Bev54]

24. crokinole

[debm55]

26. Thank you Bev54

[Wicked Blue]

28. Monopoly and chess

[debm55]

32. Thank you, Wicked Blue.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

29. Risk

Still enjoy it when the opportunity presents. Wish I still had my copy with the wooden pieces.

[debm55]

33. Thank you DJ Synikus Makisimus. I still like to play Clue and Battleship. Have fun!.

[happybird]

39. I will not play Risk

We had epic, often nasty, battles when I was in college.
I’ll never forgot one morning, during an exceedingly long round, we had to stop to go to class. We took the board, pieces still in place, over to a friend’s Mom’s house. John’s Mom was the only person deemed trustworthy enough to watch over the board for the day (John was already long defeated and relegated to beer and snack retrieval duty). We slow rolled across town at 20 mph while he and a witness sat in the back and carefully held the board so no pieces slid out of place. It never even occurred to our sleep-deprived, trash-talking, overly-competitive, kind bud-addled, dumbass brains to just write everything down.


Never Again!


RIP Nathan. We had fun and you are missed.

[OldBaldy1701E]

30. Life and Monopoly. (n/t)

[debm55]

34. Thank you, OldBaldy1701E

[arkielib]

31. Monopoly, Battleship, Clue, Chinese Checkers

Brings to mind some good memories.

[debm55]

35. Thank you arkielib. I still play some of those games.

[Onthefly]

36. The Game of Life

If you get too many children, they won’t fit in the car. I would store them on the buildings. 😅

[debm55]

41. Thank you Onthefly. That's a neat idea

[LoisB]

37. Monopoly

[debm55]

38. TY LoisB I don't think I ever completed a game of Monopoly

[northoftheborder]

40. Monopoly

[debm55]

42. TY, northoftheborder

[mia]

43. Sorry, Chinese checkers, Clue, Monopoly

We also played man different card games - more often the board games.

[debm55]

44. We played card games too. Did you play the card game Fish? Thank you , mia!