Old fashioned family games we played.
Discussion
mmm-five said:
Still play Scrabble, and have 3 sets (one nice glass one, one magnetic one, and one deluxe version).
Otherwise it's dominoes, ludo, snakes & ladders with my nieces and their kids.
LEXICON = Word gameOtherwise it's dominoes, ludo, snakes & ladders with my nieces and their kids.
https://www.board-game.co.uk/lexicon-review/
Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 13:14
Milkyway said:
Radec said:
Not board games apart from the occasional monopoly and mouse trap.
In the house we would play blind man's bluff, hide and seek, french cricket.
We used to play scabbie queen a lot when we got older.
SCABBIE QUEEN.... tell me more.In the house we would play blind man's bluff, hide and seek, french cricket.
We used to play scabbie queen a lot when we got older.
( if you can)
I can hardly remember the rules but you took all the queen's out bar one, everyone had a hand of about 6 cards and then you picked cards off each other.
Whoever would be left with the solitary queen was the loser, first one out was the winner but that wasn't so important as opposed to not be the last one left.
The loser would then have to cut a full deck and the number it landed on was the amount of times you would get a wrap on your knuckles with a full deck.
If you had an evil older brother like me the point would be to get the knuckles to bleed and scab over hence the name scabbie queen.
It's not really a game to play with the parents around some cheese and crackers but more for siblings and mates.
I've still got some scars on my knuckles after all these years.
Milkyway said:
BT Summers said:
We used to play a lot of card and domino games, Crib, Solo, canasta and rummy, and variations on dominos,
Father was a cheat and had to be hit in order to stop.
Rummy, clock patience .trumps & pontoon in our house...Father was a cheat and had to be hit in order to stop.
Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 13:01
Radec said:
It might have been known as Queenie to other people.
I can hardly remember the rules but you took all the queen's out bar one, everyone had a hand of about 6 cards and then you picked cards off each other.
Whoever would be left with the solitary queen was the loser, first one out was the winner but that wasn't so important as opposed to not be the last one left.
The loser would then have to cut a full deck and the number it landed on was the amount of times you would get a wrap on your knuckles with a full deck.
If you had an evil older brother like me the point would be to get the knuckles to bleed and scab over hence the name scabbie queen.
It's not really a game to play with the parents around some cheese and crackers but more for siblings and mates.
I've still got some scars on my knuckles after all these years.
CHEERS, New one to me... have to bank that one.I can hardly remember the rules but you took all the queen's out bar one, everyone had a hand of about 6 cards and then you picked cards off each other.
Whoever would be left with the solitary queen was the loser, first one out was the winner but that wasn't so important as opposed to not be the last one left.
The loser would then have to cut a full deck and the number it landed on was the amount of times you would get a wrap on your knuckles with a full deck.
If you had an evil older brother like me the point would be to get the knuckles to bleed and scab over hence the name scabbie queen.
It's not really a game to play with the parents around some cheese and crackers but more for siblings and mates.
I've still got some scars on my knuckles after all these years.
( might be a few newbies on here...)
Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 14:25
Milkyway said:
Radec said:
It might have been known as Queenie to other people.
I can hardly remember the rules but you took all the queen's out bar one, everyone had a hand of about 6 cards and then you picked cards off each other.
Whoever would be left with the solitary queen was the loser, first one out was the winner but that wasn't so important as opposed to not be the last one left.
The loser would then have to cut a full deck and the number it landed on was the amount of times you would get a wrap on your knuckles with a full deck.
If you had an evil older brother like me the point would be to get the knuckles to bleed and scab over hence the name scabbie queen.
It's not really a game to play with the parents around some cheese and crackers but more for siblings and mates.
I've still got some scars on my knuckles after all these years.
CHEERS, New one to me... have to bank that one.I can hardly remember the rules but you took all the queen's out bar one, everyone had a hand of about 6 cards and then you picked cards off each other.
Whoever would be left with the solitary queen was the loser, first one out was the winner but that wasn't so important as opposed to not be the last one left.
The loser would then have to cut a full deck and the number it landed on was the amount of times you would get a wrap on your knuckles with a full deck.
If you had an evil older brother like me the point would be to get the knuckles to bleed and scab over hence the name scabbie queen.
It's not really a game to play with the parents around some cheese and crackers but more for siblings and mates.
I've still got some scars on my knuckles after all these years.
( might be a few newbies on here...)
Actual rules https://hobbylark.com/card-games/How-to-Play-the-C...
BT Summers said:
ALTERNATIVE...SUBBUTEO CRICKEThttps://www.google.co.uk/search?q=subbuteo+cricket...
DRIVE...Still got this.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22582/drive
MASTERMIND;
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AN...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22582/drive
MASTERMIND;
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AN...
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 5th September 01:45
BATTLING TOPS....these links just sums up this thread & my / our childhoods (or playing with the family).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1L4sW5C9WU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1EUL5U-RIU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1L4sW5C9WU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1EUL5U-RIU
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 5th September 14:23
We also used to play a fair number of games as a family when I was growing up.
The usual Snakes and Ladders, Top Trumps, Scrabble and Monopoly. We had a modern Monopoly set (for the 70s/80s) but my mum also had a set from when she was young - the pieces were cardboard cutouts set in a wooden base, and the houses and hotels were all made of wood.
Also card games - Whist, and Newmarket.
Risk, Yahtzee, and Game of Life were also regulars.
I also remember playing " Beetle" at a Beetle Drive a few times with quite a lot of people in teams sat a different tables - maybe it was at cubs/scouts or similar.
As kids, and at school, we'd also play Scabbie Queen (mentioned above), and sometimes chess, backgammon, Go, and occasionally Rummicub.
The usual Snakes and Ladders, Top Trumps, Scrabble and Monopoly. We had a modern Monopoly set (for the 70s/80s) but my mum also had a set from when she was young - the pieces were cardboard cutouts set in a wooden base, and the houses and hotels were all made of wood.
Also card games - Whist, and Newmarket.
Risk, Yahtzee, and Game of Life were also regulars.
I also remember playing " Beetle" at a Beetle Drive a few times with quite a lot of people in teams sat a different tables - maybe it was at cubs/scouts or similar.
As kids, and at school, we'd also play Scabbie Queen (mentioned above), and sometimes chess, backgammon, Go, and occasionally Rummicub.
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