I used to really enjoy board games when I was a kid. A lot of them are still around, but of course who plays them anymore? Some I enjoyed: Monopoly (of course - learn how to be a successful capitalist!) Stocks and Bonds (not really a board game, but capitalism at it's finest) Stratego (learn how to run an army - almost!) Risk (learn how to take over the world) Summit (ditto) Anyone notice a theme in the games above? Ever wonder how these games program our children? Also played: Win Place & Show (horse racing) Let's go way back! Chutes and Ladders Candyland The Game of Life Chinese Checkers (did that really come from China?) Checkers Chess and Go are excellent for improving memory and reasoning skills.
I play Candyland and Chutes and Ladders with my own children, and I played it as a child myself. Classic games, still love them!
I liked chess ever since I learned, but no one ever wanted to play. We played monopoly a lot (not that we played games all that much), but I always lost. Parchisi (sp?) is a good game. Battleship was fun, Life wasn't much fun (what does that say about me?) but we played that kinda often too. Mainly, though, we played card games: go fish, crazy 8 (uno), gin, rummy, and when i got older, my favorite game, euchre.
i'm still playing risk with my friends, we just play the 2210 edition, much more fun and strategy in that one.. stratego is alway fun, play it alot with kids on my work
My boyfriend and I like to play Scattergories together, but I also really enjoy Monopoly, Life, and Scrabble. I also love card games like Rummy, Euchre, and War.
Cootie (not a board game) Go to the Head of the Class Sorry Bang! Monopoly games took days, Risk lasted for hours, Stratego (where's that bomb?)
i remember all sorts of variations on chutes and ladders and parcheazy, don't remember the names of any of them though. my dad was usualy at work, my mom watching television and i was more interested in playing with my tonka trucks and endloaders outside in the dirt. didn't have any brothers and sisters, or cousins less that half a continent away. i did make friends fairly easily, which worried my mom, that and going for long walks by myself in the woods. by the time i would have been into board games i was into model trains and photography. we did have and play some though, i remember that, either with my dad, or my mom. though mostly mom and i would play card games like pishpasha (double solitare) 25 point, and rummy, both accumulative and single hand. =^^= .../\...
Candyland was my game of choice when I was very little. From stories I'm told, I used to want to play that constantly and I do remember playing it, but not constantly. Oh well *shrug*. It would be cool to play that again hehe.
The most addictive game I ever played was called APBA Baseball, which had cards for each player in both leagues. You would throw two dice and the result was looked up on these big play cards which contained every conceivable play. You could play a whole season's games, which I did once. I even had hundreds of blank scorecards printed up so I could keep track of every game. The stats were very realistic cause the odds of the dice throws were factored into the stats for each player. It was a mindblower for a 12 yr old. But by 13 my interests went elsewhere.
My son learned to play that game before he ever started school....he just recently got back from Iraq. He liked the board game alot better then the real thing.
I was playing the Simpsons version of Monopoly with my brother the other day. The last time I played that game I was seven and after all these years my brother still cheats.
