Old fashioned family games we played.

[BT Summers]

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.

[Milkyway]

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...

Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 13:01

[Planet Claire]

jdw100 said:

Skirrid

That's a blast from the past - we had that, in fact I wonder if my parents still have it

[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.

LEXICON = Word game
https://www.board-game.co.uk/lexicon-review/

Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 13:14

[Milkyway]

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.
( if you can)

[Radec]

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.
( if you can)

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.

[Wacky Racer]

[Jasandjules]

Board games got banned in our house due to cheating and then the strops.........

[BT Summers]

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...

Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 13:01

Cards and games were normal in our house, it passed the time and it was a family activity. Many years later I was surprised to find out that other families did not play games at home, I had to teach my ex how to play cards, even basic games such as whist and rummy.

[Milkyway]

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.
( might be a few newbies on here...)

Edited by Milkyway on Saturday 4th September 14:25

[Radec]

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.
( might be a few newbies on here...)

It was basically a version of Old Maid.

Actual rules https://hobbylark.com/card-games/How-to-Play-the-C...

[808 Estate]

On a recent trip to the UAE, we were sat in the bar playing happy families.
Using all the hooker cards we had found.

[Dibble]

Crokinole is a good one. A table top game rather than a board game as such, a bit like indoor curling with wooden discs.

[Einion Yrth]

Wacky Racer said:

That looks quite old, yet it still suffers from a grocers' apostrophe.

[Zio Di Roma]

Einion Yrth said:

Wacky Racer said:

That looks quite old, yet it still suffers from a grocers' apostrophe.

You mean grocer's apostrophe.

[Milkyway]

BT Summers said:

Owzthat


Good for a wet sunday afternoon in cricket season

ALTERNATIVE...SUBBUTEO CRICKET
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=subbuteo+cricket...

[jet_noise]

Zio Di Roma said:

Einion Yrth said:

Wacky Racer said:

That looks quite old, yet it still suffers from a grocers' apostrophe.

You mean grocer's apostrophe.

Move can be a noun

[Milkyway]

DRIVE...Still got this.
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

[Milkyway]

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

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 5th September 14:23

[C n C]

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.