# What what your favorite boardgame as a kid?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 5, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157 "2004-11-05T11:51:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/1 "2004-11-05T11:51:43Z")
As a kid, some of my favorite games were:
**Operation** : the drama and tension as you tried to remove a wishbone. My mom never got this game for me, so when I played it at friends houses it was even more coveted.
**Perfection** same reasoning as Operation.
\*\*Score [Four](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19102&item=5931154647&rd=1) was always a popular game with us kids and is readily available on Ebay. Great Strategy game.
**Monopoly** who doesn’t love trying to bankrupt your playmates by charging them outrageous rents on the shitty purple properties?
**Scrabble** One of the best games ever. EVAH!!!111!!!
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/2 "2004-11-05T11:55:15Z")
[The Farming Game!](http://store.yahoo.com/boardgames/farminggame.html)
My grandparents lived in the Yakima Valley, where the game was created, and sent me one of the first editions to come out. I absolutely loved it.
I recently ordered a new version and introduced it to my family here in Japan. The reactions were all the same: skeptical at first, but then completely addicted by the second or third turn around the board.
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/3 "2004-11-05T15:03:20Z")
I don’t think it came along until my teens, but **Scattergories** has always been one of my favorites. As a child I liked playing a game my grandpa had called [Qubic](http://www.vintagegamestore.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&itemid=2112), which was like a 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe. **Connect Four** and **Uno** were also fun favorites. I wish I had discovered **Scrabble** sooner, as I probably would have kicked ass at this game as a child.
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### Author:  [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/4 "2004-11-05T15:15:07Z")
There was an old game called \*\*Heroquest \*\* which I used to play a lot. Its more of a geeky game though, lots of spells and monsters.
Umm, is \*\*Snake and Ladders \*\* a boardgame? :o I kid I kid
Anybody remember **Orient Express**?
That was pretty fun.
🙂
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/5 "2004-11-05T15:30:23Z")
**Risk**.
Yes, I have megalomaniacal tendencies, what of it? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/6 "2004-11-05T15:33:17Z")
Monopoly 🙂
When my daughter was little she always wanted me to play Life with her. Oh, how I hated that game! Insurance, the mortgage, the doctor bills! I was up to my ears in that in the game of IRL !!
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### Author:  [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/7 "2004-11-05T16:04:47Z")
My parents had an old copy of **Careers** that I loved to play. I don’t know if that game exists any more, or if it was even produced during my childhood (I’m 37 now)…
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/8 "2004-11-05T16:11:28Z")
**Life**
I bought it for my girls a few years back and we had a family game night. It was then that I discovered that the geniuses at Milton Bradley have changed the game. Now more gifts when you have babies. You can switch careers in the middle of the game…
Bastids!
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/9 "2004-11-05T16:20:22Z")
My family were not as highbrow. We liked **Trouble**. I think the pop-o-matic fascinated them.
As for \*\*Operation, \*\* have you ever tried to play while the other players are nudging the table? Very competitive, my family is.
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### Author:  [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/10 "2004-11-05T16:30:46Z")
Monopoly…
And it still is!
My bathroom is decked out in Monopoly stuff… I have a room dedicated to my collection and I am beginning to overflow it…
I spend too much time on Ebay - must ration self better! 😃
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### Author:  [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/11 "2004-11-05T16:50:20Z")
Another vote for **Operation**
- **Cluedo, Monopoly, Campaign and Mousetrap**
There was a game called **Spyring** which I had a flash of nostalgia for. Got it off eBay and wished I hadn’t. Grrr.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/12 "2004-11-05T16:53:23Z")
I LOVED games that had bells and whistles and gadgets (Oh my!), like the aforementioned Operation and Life. Beyond that, there was…
Mousetrap
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Which Witch was Which (that I tracked down on eBay, a pathetically trashed cheap version too, that ended up not nearly being as fun as I remembered :()
-and-
Simon (I’d go to sleep at night hearing those sounds and imagining patterns)
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Candyland (probably 'cause it was just so _cute_!)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/13 "2004-11-05T19:44:39Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#):
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> **Life**
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> I bought it for my girls a few years back and we had a family game night. It was then that I discovered that the geniuses at Milton Bradley have changed the game. Now more gifts when you have babies. You can switch careers in the middle of the game…
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> Bastids!
I’m with you there, I was the Life champ in my house. I still have my 1979 edition, although the spinner is missing the peg between 6 & 7. I recently bought the [Simpsons Edition](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/12545) - which uses the new rules of course - and found that the spinner can be used in the older game.
> [@Lips\_Obsession](#):
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> My parents had an old copy of Careers that I loved to play. I don’t know if that game exists any more, or if it was even produced during my childhood (I’m 37 now)…
Hey, so am I!
Boardgame geek has [images of several editions](http://www.boardgamegeek.com/imagegallery.php3?gameid=1475), the one we played must have been from 1971. [Looks like it’s still being made](http://www.toys2wish4.com/cagabypabr.html).
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/14 "2004-11-05T19:49:28Z")
Life, Perfection. Um…Trouble did have the cool Pop-O-Matic, but as I was an only child, it didn’t have much fun to play alone.
I liked games I could play by myself.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/15 "2004-11-05T19:52:15Z")
Mine were Monopoly, and Scrabble. Words and spelling have always been my gig, and I used to love to play Scrabble with my mom. I couldn’t play it with anyone my own age, though, due to their vocabulary and spelling issues.
I still play it with my wife. A couple of weeks ago, she beat me.
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### Author:  [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/16 "2004-11-05T23:37:11Z")
Well, as a small child I loved **Candyland** , and my brother and I loooooved **Hungry Hungry Hippos** , too – Mom hated that one, though, because of all the noise the marbles & hippos made.
**Sorry** was a popular one in our household, as were **Boggle** and **Booby Trap**.
And **Mousetrap**! Ooh, that one was lots of fun!
One year on vacation, we had a game of **Uno** that went on for 4 hours. I kid you not. We kind of lost interest in it after that…
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/17 "2004-11-05T23:37:54Z")
Chess.
It’s given me self-confidence, loads of friends, caused me to travel and now is my job! 🆒
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/18 "2004-11-06T01:09:20Z")
Risk was my number one game. My friends and I played it almost every day after school. I like the concept of MouseTrap, but not to play it all that often.
As for stupidfied games, Life has been, but so has Careers. My wife used to do toy reviewing, so she got all the new editions, and that has been PCed, so no more hearts in Pago Pago. But the number one stupidfied game is Uncle Wiggly. The old version had cards with negative numbers, when the Uncle had to go backwards. This is now considered way too hard a concept for kids to understand, and the negative numbers have vanished. ☹
We do a Games Night for the Gifted kids in our school district, and they love a newer mechanical game called Loopin Louie, which has something to do with an airplane swinging around and knocking off chickens.
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### Author:  [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/19 "2004-11-06T01:33:23Z")
oh how I used to love boardgames. Of course that led to becoming a game geek, but that’s not neccessarily a bad thing. Here are my fave’s
Youth: Careers, Life, Monopoly, Parcheesi, and a game, believe it or not, about winning the presidency via the electoral college.
Teens to 20s: Risk (my favorite to this day), Dungeon, Nuclear War (a card game actually), Panzer Blitz, Talisman and Imperium
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-what-your-favorite-boardgame-as-a-kid/273157/20 "2004-11-06T03:05:34Z")
Risk and Monopoly. On both games I could be defeated, but I never gave up and conceded a game. If I was losing I would back down on my last country, or mortgage my last property, to make the winner take extra time to win. I was stubborn.
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