Board games...Are they a thing of the past?

[Wacky Racer]

Monopoly, Cluedo etc..



When was the last time you played one?

[Rawwr]

I play a lot of Scrabble online but that's about it. Monopoly was banned in our house after the... incident. Some people don't take losing well.

[NordicCrankShaft]

Scrabble, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Trivial persuit and various other dice and card games are played regularly in this household, especially over Christmas.

[Ikemi]

My Mum plays a lot of Scrabble and is part of a small social circle that meet once or twice a week to play. I normally play a few games against her, as my Dad sleeps off his Christmas dinner, but even though I'm not too shabby at it, I very rarely win ... ever.

[Jimmy Recard]

We actually did play Cluedo last night (me, my sister, my mother and my sister in law. My brother refused to consider it) and it was pretty fun.

Sister in law won

[oldbanger]

My 8 year old daughter is obsessed with board games, especially monopoly.

[Foliage]

I like a good board game, have a look at youtube the web series tabletop.

Games like catan, ticket to ride Europe etc to me seem to be more child friendly and more defined than cluedo/monopoly.

Co-op games are good to, pandemic, castle panic, munchkins(kinda co-op but not) etc.

And their are some really fun bluffing games like the resistance.

[Eric Mc]

I started a game of "Colditz" back in 1974 - I've still not escaped yet (where did they hide that bloody rope ladder).

[Orchid1]

Bearded hipsters still like playing them whilst uploading pictures of themselves playing said games and drinking beer nobody has ever heard of before onto instagram.

[DoctorX]

Eric Mc said:

I started a game of "Colditz" back in 1974 - I've still not escaped yet (where did they hide that bloody rope ladder).

Excellent game, once you've finally understood the rules and found some mug to play the Germans.

Quite like Ticket to Ride at the moment, good game.

[Hooli]

We play Scrabble occasionally, include slang, swearing & 'local spellings' it's quite funny.

[soad]

I've played checkers absolutely ages ago.

[silverfoxcc]

Yep,
slowly building up the collection of Waddington Games from the 60's
Careers
Bucaneer
totopoly
Cluedo
others invclude
Test Match
fleet Street ( I think)
Wembley.. brilliant FA Cup game

All easy to understand and kid friendly

[Hooli]

Did anyone ever finish a game of Risk?

[jimothy]

Play monopoly a lot - I have a limited edition star wars set.

Had a cracking game the other day that went on for hours, ended up with my wife and I owning half the board each with hotels on everything and the bank got so low on cash the £200 for passing go got paid using £10 notes. I eventually won!

[ChrisnChris]

I don't see this mentioned very often when these topics come around.

An excellent opportunity to be mean!

Highly recommended!

[Negative Creep]

Came across my old one of these when clearing out my Granddad's stuff



Wasn't allowed to give it to my nephews though. Spoilsports.

[sploosh]

Anyone remember Dealers Choice? Used to play that a lot in the 80s

[slybynight]

apparently there's been something of a resurgence in the last 20 yrs. I took the advice of our office boardgamer and he recomended settlers of catan to me as the "gateway drug" of boardgaming. By boxing day 'll know if ive aquired a new habit.

[sidicks]

Stone Age and Ticket to Ride are both recommended!