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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[Milkyway]

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

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[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

[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)

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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)

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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 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.

[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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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...

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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/

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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)

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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...)

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[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...

[Milkyway]

DRIVE...Still got this.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22582/drive

MASTERMIND;
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AN...

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[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

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C n C said:

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.

BEETLE... Sure I had that, plastic beetles that you had to assemble. First to complete... Won.
I have been told that the old original games are collector items now... some fetch good money.
( wish I’d kept my Scalextric & train stuff now too).
A lot of the games are in my brothers loft...

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[Milkyway]

I played this OLD video / board game a few years ago... really enjoyed it. ( Bit more for grown up kids on wine & cheese)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqyONCEv-AQ

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[Milkyway]

REBOUND...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ghqo163nhc

BAGATELLE:
https://cf.geekdo-images.com/wjwvqKbbUSxR5tVFJ4rW4...

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miniman said:

Can’t remember if I’ve played this or not...
My ex had a cupboard full of games... but only played a few.

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slopes said:

Monopoly
Escape from Colditz
Mahjong
Mousetrap if i was on my own

Later in life - Thud

Mousetrap: I also played ‘ Haunted House”... a very poor mans / child’s version.
https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/haunted-hou...

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