Old fashioned family games we played.

[Milkyway]

In my youth, as a family, we would sit around the table & have great fun ( most of the time) playing board games...
Or... just games in general. ( requiring more than 1 player).

Kids of today don’t know what they are missing.
Obviously. One of my favourites was this F1 game. (Brake, brake, brake...damn)

http://thumb2.zeppy.io/d/l400/pict/293020700250/vi...

TWISTER ANYBODY....

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[toastybase]

Kids still take top trumps or old maid with them to play when they come along for dinner parties etc.

Board games are really back in fashion of late

[Tuna]

Board games have been having a huge revival over the last few years, and the pandemic accelerated that. It's a billion dollar industry.

There are dozens of new games coming out, review sites, you can play online or with a traditional set.

Modern classics include Carcassonne (place tiles to build roads and villages) and Ticket To Ride (build railways across America), party card games like Werewolf (also an app) and Exploding Kittens, strategy games like Pandemic (resource management) or deck builders like Disney's Villainous (play as a famous Disney baddie).

There are board game simulators so you can play on your computer and online - Tabletopia and Tabletop Simulator play both traditional games and many modern ones.

And then you can play tabletop roleplay games, from the classic D&D to modern alternatives like Starfinder, Call of Cthulhu or Warhammer.

And if you want a more gentle, puzzle oriented game you can play by yourself or with friends, you could try Railroad Ink

[akirk]

We had that one as well - lots of fun!
Will have to see if it is still at my parents’

Most of the games we played as children we still play with the addition of a lot of good new ones (Settlers of Catan etc)

Am now starting to make my own wooden versions of some of them…

[Bright Halo]

We dug out our old top trump cards and the grandchildren thought they were great.
Also played some old board games, Moviemaker, Ulcers, Risk and a bit more of a retro update in Mercedes F1 monopoly.

Nice break from staring at screens all the time.

[Milkyway]

ESCALADO
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHqJRkZ4m0

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[BT Summers]

Owzthat


Good for a wet sunday afternoon in cricket season

[Milkyway]

BT Summers said:

Owzthat


Good for a wet sunday afternoon in cricket season

Bit like ‘ Pass the pigs’
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_Pigs

[jdw100]

Othello

Skirrid

Triominoes

[Milkyway]

Bright Halo said:

We dug out our old top trump cards and the grandchildren thought they were great.
Also played some old board games, Moviemaker, Ulcers, Risk and a bit more of a retro update in Mercedes F1 monopoly.

Nice break from staring at screens all the time.

I reckon that would be fun... with some really old sets.
( cars would be interesting ... top speed 88mph)

[mmm-five]

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.

[Milkyway]

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.

Can’t beat the classics...draughts & battleships.
( Good old compendium set)

[austinsmirk]

Escape from colditz. From memory impossible not to escape.

[Milkyway]

austinsmirk said:

Escape from colditz. From memory impossible not to escape.

Feeling all nostalgic now;

From memory, nobody wanted to be the Germans...did they?
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/715/escape-

F1 ( of course)
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38885/f1


Dads Army... Can’t remember, mates game.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13106/dads-arm...

On the Buses...
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16644/buses

Kojak: Catch the bank robbers ( who luvs ya baby)
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2971/kojak-det...

Chartbusters: Make a record, Gigs & try to make a No1)
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3325/chartbust...

‘Go’: Go around the world collecting various souvenirs.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7097/go-intern...

Up periscope: ( Basically.... posh battleships)
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6377/periscope

Cluedo: ( no explanation required)
Bingo: ( All numbers in a blue bag & covered the card with little square bit of card)

Others we played;
Risk: ( Strategy)
Mine a million (Oil)
Sir Francis Chichester (Sailing)

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[insert coin]

We’ve been playing Fortnite, Star Wars and original Monopoly, my kids love it.

[Milkyway]

insert coin said:

We’ve been playing Fortnite, Star Wars and original Monopoly, my kids love it.

Kids loved the junior version... based around a fun fair.
(Still gotta cheat though)... bloody Dodgems.

[jet_noise]

Milkyway said:

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I can remember the railway building game

Railroader?
F1, Monopoly as mentioned.

Is Spirograph a family game?
Careers.
Mousey, Mousey.
Sorry.

[McGee_22]

Milkyway said:

BT Summers said:

Owzthat


Good for a wet sunday afternoon in cricket season

Bit like ‘ Pass the pigs’
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_Pigs

As a family we still play Pass the Pigs

[Radec]

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.

[Milkyway]

jet_noise said:

Railroader?
F1, Monopoly as mentioned.

Is Spirograph a family game?
Careers.
Mousey, Mousey.
Sorry.

Spirograph... bloody annoying when it slipped
( my Dad did the big owl... it took him ages, but it was really good)
Railroader... sounds familiar.
I’ve got a game called DRIVE.
Got to lay various directional cards to build a road to reach your finishing point. ( Similar)

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