Old-fashioned Board Games

[Madge Bumstead]

We still play regularly. Once a month we have a board game night at our house and welcome our friends and family to bring over any board game they want to play, what fun we have!

Life, Masterpiece, and Monopoly remain my all-time favourites.

I remember as kids, it was nothing to fritter away an entire afternoon on the living room floor playing board games! A bowl of popcorn at our reach, and we have everything we needed.

Does anyone else still play?

 

[Don Alaska]

There was a lot of game board play going on when all our children were back for Wife's birthday. Risk was a favorite, and they played something called Mexican Train, which is a bit like dominoes with a twist.

 

[Marie Mallory]

We used to play board games especially as kids.
Hubby aka Jake and I played scrabble, monopoly and Trivia, cards now and then. Haven't done so in about 10 years.

 

[April Vee]

My favourite game is CANDY LAND.. I have a 1978 version of the game which is the one I started out playing in the 80s...

 

[Madge Bumstead]

We used to play board games especially as kids.
Hubby aka Jake and I played scrabble, monopoly and Trivia, cards now and then. Haven't done so in about 10 years.

Too bad distance is the stumbling block between us, Marie, otherwise we'd extend an invite to you to do a board game night with us!

 

[Madge Bumstead]

My favourite game is CANDY LAND.. I have a 1978 version of the game which is the one I started out playing in the 80s...

I never heard of Candy land before. Will be doing a search on it.

 

[April Vee]

I think you will like it!!

The 1978 version is the last GOOD VERSION.. They literally destroyed that game!!

 

[Mary Robi]

Chinese Checkers, Sorry, Parcheesi, The Game of Life, Monopoly of course, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders. We played board games a lot as kids.

 

[Ken Anderson]

I liked Monopoly, but it takes too long to play. I haven't played it since the 1970s, but when I was renting an apartment with a friend of mine in California, we had an ongoing game of Parcheesi. We worked different shifts, so we rarely saw one another except on weekends. He'd make a move before he went to work, and when he got home, I'd do the same. We used a notepad to explain what occurred during each move. On weekends, we'd play together.

 

[April Vee]

Talk about a long game.. RISK TAKES FOREVER!!

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Chinese Checkers, Sorry, Parcheesi, The Game of Life, Monopoly of course, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders. We played board games a lot as kids.

We had a Snakes & Ladders game in our house as kids, and what fun that was.

 

[Mary Stetler]

We used to play board games especially as kids.
Hubby aka Jake and I played scrabble, monopoly and Trivia, cards now and then. Haven't done so in about 10 years.

I would be afraid to play scrabble now although I used to love it. Too many technological words that I would not know if they were real or not now. My daughter and I recently played SORRY. A big favorite in my youth. We played Monopoly and card games back then too. And yes, Marge Bumstead, we should all get together sometime for some games.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I would be afraid to play scrabble now although I used to love it. Too many technological words that I would not know if they were real or not now. My daughter and I recently played SORRY. A big favorite in my youth. We played Monopoly and card games back then too. And yes, Marge Bumstead, we should all get together sometime for some games.

Mary, we don't play any games anymore. Although it was fun while it lasted.

 

[Von Jones]

I play board games with my granddaughters. It wasn't easy at first because of their tablets but I put my foot down. Now it's always 'Grandma, can we play a game.'

 

[Madge Bumstead]

I would be afraid to play scrabble now although I used to love it. Too many technological words that I would not know if they were real or not now. My daughter and I recently played SORRY. A big favorite in my youth. We played Monopoly and card games back then too. And yes, Marge Bumstead, we should all get together sometime for some games.

What fun we'd have, Mary!

 

[April Vee]

I play board games with my granddaughters. It wasn't easy at first because of their tablets but I put my foot down. Now it's always 'Grandma, can we play a game.'

Ah Good for you Grandma

God bless!

 

[John Brunner]

We had a Snakes & Ladders game in our house as kids, and what fun that was.

My mother being British, so did we. America has Chutes & Ladders. Same game, but sliding boards rather than snakes. You slide down on your own asps.

We also played Monopoly. I don't think anyone plays by the real rules. And it can drag on until you got tired of it or the dining room table was needed for a meal. I liked Cribbage (still have the old board somewhere) and Scrabble. There used to be a pretty good online Scrabble game that I played against the computer, but it went to a fee model. (Scrabble is still trademarked, so there is just the one site for the real game.) We did not have Candy Land, Life or Sorry.

We also had Mouse Trap, if you can call that a board game. When I used to watch my neighbor's 2 boys on the parent's Date Night, I bought them the game. The youngest was impressed because his friends also had the game, and he was the only one (at that point in time) who had all the parts!