Games | pad patter 12.28.21

221b Baker Street.
I still have it and TJ likes it a lot too.

 

My fav board game as a kid wasn't a board game, but rather Milton Bradley's Try-it marble maze ...



I rec'd it for my birthday in 6th or 7th grade (mid-1960s) and played with it all the time. Another fav was "Cootie."

I'm still not a big board game fan, but I'd say Trouble is my favorite game to play with my grandkids. Candy Land is my least favorite game, I much prefer chutes and ladders.

 

Aggravation.

(Not my images, but this is exactly what the one I played with as a kid looked like.)





I haven't thought about it in a very long time and googled for images of it. I see they still make a version of it now; I should get one and play it with my daughter, who loves board and card games.

 

Candyland. LOL

Honestly, we didn't play too many board games. Mom and Dad just didn't sit down with me to play. Mom was always grading papers in the evenings and Dad would take his shower after dinner then sit down to read the paper and we went to bed early since Dad got up early for work. He worked construction and usually traveled at least an hour each way every day making long days for him.

In my 20's I would play board games with myself. Not that fun. We would play cards when the family gathered, usually "Spoons" and later "31". When I'd visit my cousin's after she got married and before kids, we would play the card game, Mille Bourne. That was a hoot. With the advent of computers, I have begun to love them more. When I pull out my laptop, I'll play Clue or The Game of Life for hours.

 

I'm not sure which was my favorite as a kid but I know I played Clue, Monopoly, and Careers a lot with my siblings.

All my adult life my favorite board game has been Scrabble. A very close second would be Scattergories. Unfortunately, those are not my family's favorites so I don't play them much. Thank goodness for Words With Friends!

 

I LOVED board games as a kid, but my sister hated them, so I would literally bribe her to play with me! I loved Life, Monopoly & Scattegories.

We play a lot of games as a family- we just went through our game baskets & reorganized since the new ones from Christmas wouldn't fit any longer! lol A few of our faves are scrabble, monopoly, parchessi & yahtzee. We play a lot of card games too- BS, Rummy, Cribbage.

 

Kid - Chutes and Ladders, Sorry, Trouble.

Teen - Scrabble, Upwords, Pictionary, Balderdash

I love board games. Alas, my family, not so much.....

 

As a kid, probably Sorry.
As I got older word games were my fave: Scrabble and Boggle (LOVE Boggle)

I still love word games but nobody really likes to play with me...because I dominate. Haha!

We love games around here. I think we got 6 new games for Christmas from family members. We just played Suburbia. It took a bit to figure out but was really fun.

My 11-year-old LOVES Monopoly and she owns 6 different versions. She got Lion King Monopoly for Christmas...we spent 3 evenings playing it. Have I mentioned that Monopoly is my least favorite? That's true LOVE right there. Haha.

 

We used to have so many board games as kids, but my favorite was Scrabble.

Now we don't have many board games in the house, having a teenager that loves his gaming pc means its rare he comes to join us. But we do like card games and Uno and Cards Against Humanity are in amongst our small collection og games we own.