What was your favourite game as a kid? As an adult? I always loved cards

[applegrove]

as a kid. Multiple solitaire was a favourite on a rainy day. Racing demons, War, Rummy 500, etc. There was also a game called "murder" where cards were dealt face down, where the person who got the Jack of Spades was the murderer, and had to try to wink at everyone else to kill them....without being seen by anyone else. Each person who got killed would wait about 30 seconds and then feign dying in a dramatic fashion.

As an adult I must say it is Trivial Pursuit. I like it even more than Tetris.

[fizzgig]

1. i love cards

my husband and i play a lot of cribbage, gin and rummy and i play euchre, spades and hearts online.

i'm pretty good at trivial pursuit, too.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I have never played Pokemon or YuGi Oh..

But wanted to. I used to get together with my high school friends and we would play some fantasy card games or did Dungeon and Dragon type role playing games. Many of them were into Magick The Gathering. That always seemed too confusing to me. I was pretty Geeky and most of my friends that we played cards with were guys. I tried to bring a girl friend into a game once, and she got bored and left. (Knew we should have had beer!!)

I remember long hours though of playing "Werewolves the Apocalypse". My character was a werebear. I loved playing that character cause he was far stronger then the Werewolves..and we defeated the Vampires many times over.

I also had a female Ninja kind of character as well. She was small and could crawl into tight places. She was excellent with a grappling hook and throwing stars tipped with either a knock out drug or lethal poison. (To this day, I don't recall how she knew the difference when she was tossing them!)
Those were some great days indeed. I would love to do that all again.

[quickesst]

3. When I was a little kid....

....in the first, second, and third grade and living in Nome, Alaska, we played a game called muna-muna. Basically, it was teams competing against each other, and the boundaries could encompass up to six blocks or further. Two circles were drawn in a diameter of about ten to twelve feet approximately one hundred yards apart on a main street, with a "jail" marked off ten feet from the "home" cirle. The object of the game was for members of each team to successfully circumnavigate thier way around each other's circle and make it back to home base without getting tagged. If tagged, you go to jail, but, a member of your team can get you out by tagging you. It's up to you then, to get free. Ten wins the game. Wierd? I know, but it was some of the most fun I've ever had in my life. We were all over the neighborhood, and NOONE panicked or cared. We were just the kids having fun. Thanks
quickesst

[sakabatou]

13. I played a game like that in the school yard

Except getting home from being free, you were safe as long as you held your free-person's shoulder.

[csziggy]

4. We played a lot of cards as kids

Many Sunday afternoons spent at my grandmother's house involved card games. She and her friends played bridge and the kids got the decks that were partials - missing cards.

The best game to play with multiple decks missing some cards was one called Spite and Malice. Sort of like Solitaire but with multiple players. Sometimes all ten of the grandkids would be playing and we'd have five or six decks involved, maybe more. For rainy winter afternoons, it was a perfect way to keep a big crowd of kids busy!

[applegrove]

5. Oh yeah I used to play Spite & Malice with my grandmother.

[7wo7rees]

6. Monopoly and Boggle as kids but I wrecked 'em at Trivial Pursuit.

They showed me canasta, poker and gin by age 8. Could shuffle two decks at 8. Euchre thru college. Still love poker most.

[Joe Fields]

7. Tag was my favorite game.

When the weather wouldn't permit us kids to go outside, we would play Monopoly endlessly, making up our own rules where games would sometimes last a couple of days.

[LiberalEsto]

8. Chess nt

[NightWatcher]

9. Naked Jello Twister and Angry Birds

As a ten year old, I dominated naked jello twister. Why, the sound of ten pounds of it going splat on that plastic tarp takes me back to Sister Mary's 4th grade class. Long gone are the days where I'd beat four or five nuns at a time. We had to stay quiet however, because if Father Patrick heard the nun's squeals or asses hitting the plastic, he'd shut the game immediately and steal the cash pot riding on the game.

Oh, Angry Birds is cool too.

[Graybeard]

10. Canasta

As a kid in the 1950s I would watch my family playing Canasta for hours on end at the big kitchen table. It was like Rummy on steroids, played with 2 decks.

When they let me join in the game I felt so grown up!
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[madmom]

11. When I was a kid my favorite solitary game was jacks, I got quite good. If I was

able to go outside and had friends around, we just like to use our imagination, we had an old boat in our backyard, we sailed the world many times over. As an adult we play a card game called hand & foot (cross between canasta and rummy)or trivial pursuit.

[sakabatou]

12. Pokemon

:blush:

[Amaril]

14. Ghosts in the graveyard

Kinda like Hide & Seek, only it's played at night with a flashlight (for the Seeker to "tag" the Hiders with)......and while it didn't have to be played in a graveyard, if there was one handy, that made it even better.


Edited to fix "Ghosts" from "Ghost"

[alsame]

15. As a kid and teenager, I played this for hours and

hours.



My parents had this exact edition of the game and they played with other couples. We kids soon caught on and started playing it too. As I got older I taught my own friends and played throughout college.

[frogmarch]

16. Stretch'em was my favorite game as a kid.

It was sort of like Twister, except Stretch'em was played with knives.

I can't think of any games I play now, unless playing fetch with my dog counts.

[trof]

25. I used to play that. Where did you grow up.

We found out it was a real bad idea to play that game barefooted.
;-)

[frogmarch]

29. Alliance, Nebraska.

We found that out too. lol

[Kat45]

17. When I was in college, I loved playing kitty whist.

There was a game going on constantly at the house where I lived. Everyone loved playing and people would watch the game, waiting for the opportunity to play when someone in the game finally had to leave to go to class. Sometimes if someone had finally gotten into the game and it was time for class, he'd blow off the class and keep playing.

When Trivial Pursuit came along several years later, I absolutely loved playing it, though I didn't have as much opportunity to play as I'd have liked.

I can't remember what my favorite games were when I was a little, there were so many.

[SwissTony]

18. Fitba (soccer) as a kid, chess as an adult

Every day, a bunch of kids would get together and play football ("fitba" in Glaswegian). Membership in teams was fluid in that kids would be called in to eat and someone might have to change teams to keep the sides roughly equal. Sadly, when I went back to Scotland on a visit, all the areas where we'd play had signs saying "No ball games". One of the guys I used to play against went on to play for Glasgow Celtic and Scotland. And that was when Scotland had a decent football team.

[raccoon]

19. Clue. nt

[applegrove]

31. When you play with one person you can mark down all their guesses as not in their hand. Speeds up

the game quite a bit.

[raccoon]

34. I used to guess things that I was holding, to throw others off.

But most of the time, you can do what you said.

[applegrove]

35. Yeah. I've done that too. If you both know the trick it really doesn't work anymore.

[book lady]

20. Parcheesi was my favorite board game, but

I loved playing marbles in the school yard...I always had a huge sack of marbles and boulders that I won :)

[meegbear]

21. When I was a kid, board games were my thing ...

Monopoly, Stratego, Clue and such.

Now, I'm more card related, mainly Uno and (Strip) Cribbage.

[southlandshari]

22. What a great thread!

As a kid I remember Candyland and Sorry! most from evenings playing with my parents and sister. I also remember being big-time into playing the card game Spades with my friends starting in junior high school.

As an adult I still love cards and board games, but Apples to Apples is most definitely my favorite. I haven't read the whole thread yet, and it's probably already been mentioned. It is a great game that adults and kids can play together with fun for all.

:toast:

[michaelslomo]

23. My favorite game is ABBCELRS

SCRABBLE

[michaelslomo]

24. Sorry!, Parcheesi, and Clue . . .

were among my favorite board games as a kid.

[trof]

26. I remember playing Kick the Can for hours until it was too dark to see.

[Chan790]

27. Cribbage.

I was the best damned cribbage player in 3rd grade. I have no recollection of how to play anymore.

We had a saloon casino night in HS (for charity, no money went out) and I mopped up at Faro. I'm an awesome Faro player.

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. Growing up -- Life, Monopoly and what's pictured below.

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[applegrove]

32. Monopoly is such an old standard. Went up to my granmother's attic when we were kids and

found my dad's monopoly game from when he was a kid. I think my sister still has it.

[WinkyDink]

30. Poker. Even as a kid, for money with relatives.

[dimbear]

33. Duplicate bridge. We were the only highschoolers amongst the

retirees.

They'd give us champagne on holidays.

A blast.

[applegrove]

36. Oh yeah. I used to play bridge with my brother, mother and grandmother. I never knew the rules

though.