What's your game?

[scottyrocks]

'Board' games we played as kids included Scrabble, Monopoly, Life, Frustration (before it turned into Trouble), checkers, Chinese checkers, and then later, chess. The first card game my mom taught me was Casino. And of course, War. We also had a few non-adult board games. Actually, my brother had a game called Uncle Wiggly. Something about a rabbit.

Last year we got a new Scrabble set that has slots for the letters, and the board rotates on a lazy-Susan. Keeps the game so much neater.

 

[Edward]

Is Parcheesi what we call Ludo over here? I seem to remember reading that what we know as Cluedo was simply called Clue in the US because you don't call Ludo Ludo, and so the pun is lost.

We used to play a lot of board and card games round the table in the caravan, on wet nights on holiday. Dad liked to get us playing monopoly because he reckoned it helped teach us to manage money (of course, I also learned the intended lesson behind the popular game which Monopoly refined - I'm not a capitalist ).

A game I recently discovered which Loungers might like is called Ticket to Ride. It's set in the 1890s or so, and players compete to build railways across Europe. Sort of reminds me of Risk, but much mess complicated. Ideal post-food Dinner Party game.

 

[davidraphael]

I loved Monopoly as a kid, particularly the vintage set I had with its wooden and metal pieces.

Lots of plastic in the 70s: Mousetrap, The Operation Games, Buckaroo, but they were fun.

Cluedo was great too.

Now that I live in Germany I have discovered 'Mensch ärgere dich nicht' ('Don't get angry, man!')