What was your favorite board game as a kid?

[geardaddy]

22 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Checkers
	0 (0%)
	Chess
	1 (5%)
	Candyland
	0 (0%)
	Mouse Trap
	1 (5%)
	Life
	0 (0%)
	Monopoly
	9 (41%)
	Chutes and Ladders (Snakes and Ladders for the Brits)
	0 (0%)
	Sorry!
	1 (5%)
	Clue
	3 (14%)
	Other
	7 (32%)
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[hlthe2b]

1. Ouija

Last edited Fri Dec 8, 2017, 06:04 PM - Edit history (1)

kidding, just kidding.... sorta.... (We only succeeded in freaking ourselves out)

[Lunabell]

2. It was one of mine

It never really worked.

[RKP5637]

11. Same here, nothing! n/t

[RKP5637]

12. "666" Oh, it kept pointing to Kushner's apt. bldg. address!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Chinese checkers.

[NanceGreggs]

5. That was the one for me, too.

My best bud, Pam, and I used to play with an older woman who lived on the block. We'd spend hours at a time at it!

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. A quick moving, simple game that even the very youngest could play.

Still my over-all fave.

[geardaddy]

7. My grandma had a set

We'd always play that when we went to her house for the holidays.

[Binkie The Clown]

32. +1 for Chinese Checkers. nt

[janterry]

4. backgammon

was pretty popular, too.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Clue. It was Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead pipe.

[CatMor]

8. Same here for Clue...

I also played the game that came out before Clue called Mr Ree, same theme.

[hedda_foil]

17. Me too for Clue but The Game of Life came really close.

[RKP5637]

10. Ouija Board n/t

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. Risk!

Those games went on for days..........

[geardaddy]

14. Yes!

I played that more in college. We played Risk for shots. If you lost a country, you took a shot.

[Blue_Adept]

15. Risk and then graduated onto Axis and Allies

[True Dough]

34. You too?

I remember getting together with high school buddies on early Saturday afternoons and playing Axis and Allies for hours. Loved that game.

[Blue_Adept]

36. We only played during the summer

One of those things where it was left in the basement playroom and we'd let the game run its course over a couple of days, alternating with some time in the above ground swimming pool. Spinning 45's, chilling, good times. Simpler times.

[genxlib]

16. This

The games of Risk that my brother and I would play could sometimes result in fisticuffs. It was intense.

[2naSalit]

31. Yup! ...nt

[JDC]

56. +1

[Dave Starsky]

57. Just got this one for Christmas:

I cannot tell you how jacked I am.

[FSogol]

18. Risk was our favorite. Also played Stratego, Dogfight, Clue, Monopoly, and Scrabble.

We've added Pictionary over the years.

[Grammy23]

19. Hands down, it was Monopoly. We had tournaments that went on for days.

One tournament that had been going for days got abruptly ended when a gust of wind came along and blew money and property cards all over the porch where we were playing!

Other favorite games were Cootie, Go Fish and Chinese Checkers. Oh and Parchessi.

[geardaddy]

20. We had Cootie

I don't think I ever played the game. I just built the cootie bugs.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. Parcheesi, yes!

and Monopoly. My brother and I could try to kill each other over the results of both those games.
But then we would play again.
( still have that Monopoly game)

[JenniferJuniper]

21. Stratego

The pre-chess preference of all small INTP children...

[geardaddy]

23. My neighbors had that.

That was fun!

[geardaddy]

22. We also had this game

[gratuitous]

25. I remember Qubic

I think we played the Game of Life most, but I also enjoyed a lot of other board games mentioned here.

I used to play a game called Fireball Island about 20 years ago, when I wasn't exactly a kid, then. It was a great game that got more fun as the evening wore on and the alcohol got consumed.

[shenmue]

41. Cool

[bobbieinok]

24. Only real favorite: Chinese checkers. Did/do like Clue too

[FuzzyRabbit]

27. Scrabble and Chinese Checkers

And before those, Chutes and Ladders.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. Careers

The original version, the the over-simplified one that came out some time later.

Also the original Sorry! That's another game that got updated, somewhat simplified and isn't half as fun. Fortunately it's possible to get Classic Sorry! at Target.

[geardaddy]

43. My mom still has her Sorry! board from the 40s

We play it now every now and then.

[Codeine]

29. Risk. Then Squad Leader. Then Advanced Squad Leader.

Wargames are a slippery slope.

[red dog 1]

30. Monopoly

then Clue, then Chutes & Ladders

[flor-de-jasmim]

33. Clue and Parcheesi

[bluecollar2]

35. Ludo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo_(board_game)

[Callalily]

37. Scrabble, and frankly

it still is one of my favorite board games.

[OriginalGeek]

55. I love Scrabble

I played with my grandma every summer and she was merciless in both playing words and challenging mine. I'm a pretty good scrabble player now because of it. I played Words with Friends on my phone for a while but my family and friends got tired of getting beat and I got tired of being accused of cheating by random strangers.

I believe strategery is is as important as vocabulary.

[stopwastingmymoney]

38. Uno and Cribbage

My Grandma taught all of us to play Cribbage, she thought it was good for our math skills.

[lastlib]

39. Chess!

Won school championship three straight years. Still damn good--but haven't played a lot, and almost no strong competition in my circle.

[crazycatlady]

40. Not a board game but card game-- Skip Bo

[ProfessorGAC]

42. I Went With Monopoly, But. . .

. . .i guess i infer a different meaning to board game, so i didn't include chess, which i liked as a kid. I know it's played on a board, and it's a fair choice in the poll, but for some reason when i read Board Game, i conjure up an image that doesn't include checkers or chess.

Not sure why.

[geardaddy]

44. I can see what you mean.

Chess being an ancient game, and all. Have you ever played Chinese chess? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Interesting

Not only have i never played it, it's the first time i've ever seen it.

Thanks

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. Battleship! More of a pencil and paper then a board game.

[leftynyc]

47. Scrabble

Was and still is my favorite and just put another under the tree for the Toys for Tots my company always tries to help.

[geardaddy]

48. Have you tried Super Scrabble?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Scrabble

It's a bigger board, so you get quadruple word and letter scores.

[leftynyc]

50. I've never even heard of it

I've had the same scrabble board since college (that's 35 years ago). Thanks for the heads up.

[Iggo]

49. Stratego, and later Risk. (And Chess, but that's not what I think of when I think kid's board game).

But nobody else liked to play those.

So, Monopoly.

[Glorfindel]

51. Scrabble was my favorite, also liked Monopoly, Clue, Chinese Checkers, Rook, Parcheesi (sp.?),

Stratego, Battleship, etc. Never got the hang of chess, and checkers was boring.

[Thomas Hurt]

52. Don't remember having a favorite more like a progression..

played candyland with my sister then we would play battleship and stratego when we got older. Played Risk and Axis and Allies in high school. Played some a couple of tile games based on WWII.

[Scoopster]

53. I didn't just love Monopoly..

It was the first game I ever considered playing competitively. Didn't make past the regional championships tho. This was when I was 8-10.

Later on, some of the competitive discipline I learned while practicing Monopoly came in very handy. I started playing Magic: The Gathering competitively as well. Unfortunately my success with MTG hasn't gone as well (I've never made Day 2 of a Grand Prix, tho I did get within one match win once).

[applegrove]

54. Careers, Clue. But mostly we played solitare in a group of 11.