# Your Favorite Table Games
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 17, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913 "2000-01-17T14:18:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/1 "2000-01-17T14:18:00Z")
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- I’m doing kind of a research poll: I want to know what (_non-electronic_) board games you like and a brief description about them (in case I don’t already know). It can be games you played when you was a little runt, or games you enjoy as an adult; just be sure to say what age of participants it was designed for. It doesn’t matter if the game is still available new or not. - Card games count here also, but sorry: for my purposes, Twister isn’t acceptable. - MC
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/2 "2000-01-17T14:21:00Z")
Poker, chess, scrabble. I hope you don’t need further descriptions.
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/3 "2000-01-17T14:25:00Z")
Kismet: dice game similar to Yahtzee, only with multicolored dice. Scores with poker like hands. (ages 8-up)
Yahtzee: 5 dice, roll to create full houses, straights, three of a kind, etc. (ages 8 up)
Scrabble: need I describe? (ages 8 up)
Scattegories: roll one big-assed die with most of the alphabet on it. Create words based on categories provided to you and the letter you roll. (not sure of ages- probobly about 10 and up)
Taboo- similar to the gameshow “Password”, only you can’t give the best clues to describe your word. (Say your word is “clock”. You have to get your partner to guess that word without using clues like “face”, “hands”, “time”) Very fun. (ages- about 10 and up)
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/4 "2000-01-17T14:28:00Z")
Outburst-Form teams and shout out items related to a subject, earn points. FUN. Fun on the pc too!
Of course Trivial Pursuit, no explanation needed
Risk-Take over the world with your army.
Uno, Jenga, Pass the Pigs, so many.
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-Benjamin Franklin
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/5 "2000-01-17T14:30:00Z")
Scattergories
Outburst - A game most people here would likely get into.
Compatibility - Relationship game, but it is pretty fun
Monopoly - This is where my capitalistic side comes in.
Trouble - Everyone needs some mindless fun.
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Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/6 "2000-01-17T14:33:00Z")
“Pass the pigs??” Sounds like breakfast at Bob Evans. What kind of game could that be?
I do vaguely remember a game called, "Makin’ Bacon,’ though. I had a couple of trickily balanced plastic pigs you would roll like dice. Points were scored according to how they landed, ass up, heads up on their side or, of course, Makin’ Bacon. Pretty silly unless you are quite drunk; then it becomes a matter of the utmost import.
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What do I believe in? Not much that can’t be proven by logic and scientific experiment, and you better believe, I want to see the logic and laboratory equipment. --P.J. O’Rourke–
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/7 "2000-01-17T14:36:00Z")
Whoops, it was called, “Pigmania.” Here’s a link to a better description of the ‘game.’
[http://www.pioneergroup.net/enterprise/reality78.html](http://www.pioneergroup.net/enterprise/reality78.html)
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/8 "2000-01-17T14:38:00Z")
Yep Unclebeer, that’s Pass the Pigs, or at least the name it goes by now. Definately a drinking game.
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/9 "2000-01-17T14:42:00Z")
Clue. That was my fave board game as a kid. Also played lots of Yahtzee, Uno, and Kismet (couldn’t believe I saw someone else mention that game!)
Now I really like Trivial Pursuit, Taboo, and Tribond. Anyone else play Tribond?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/10 "2000-01-17T14:45:00Z")
Fluxx - a card game. The interesting part is that the rules of the game are printed on the individual cards so that as you play cards on the table the rules keep changing.
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### Author:  [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/11 "2000-01-17T14:52:00Z")
I like Tribond, 3 things, what do they have in common.
I also like Life. Great game to play with the kids. and Parcheesi, I am a serious game player, board games, video games. I’ll never grow up!
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-Benjamin Franklin
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### Author:  [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/12 "2000-01-17T14:55:00Z")
Some of my favorites are Spades, Backgammon, Chess, Pictionary, Outburst, Trivial Pursuit, Sorry, Risk and Yahtzee.
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### Author:  [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/13 "2000-01-17T15:26:00Z")
I used to love to play “Hearts” when we’d go up to visit my grandparents. My dad, my sister, stepmom, and grandparents would all sit down and play a rousing game. It’s more poignant now, when I think about it, cause Grandma has Alzheimers and lives in an adult foster home cause Grandpa can’t take care of her anymore (he’s 88!). ::sigh::
I like Outburst (mostly cause I’m a know-it-all with a big mouth) and Trivial Pursuit.
My husband is forever nagging me to play Chess, which I don’t like cause it requires me to sit still for too long!
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### Author:  [@Glitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glitch)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/14 "2000-01-17T15:30:00Z")
Monopoly.
Risk.
Press Your Luck. Not based on the game show (it predates it considerably). No, this is game based on guts and luck! The board looks like a stop sign. There are 11 columns marked 2 to 12. Each column is progressively taller than the previous (think a stop sign with the 2 and 12 out the outer edge, and the 6,7,8 in the middle), the 2 and 12 columns are 6 slots high. Gameplay is as follows. You roll a pair of dice. You place a marker on the column shown on the dice. You roll again, if you roll the same number you move the marker one step higher. If you roll a different number you put a marker on that column. Roll again. You can stop before any roll of the dice in which case you remove your markers and replace them with another a colored marker (when you turn comes back if you put a marker on that column you will start from your colored marker instead of the bottom). If you roll a number that you don’t have a marker on and have no markers left (of the three) you turn ends AND you remove your the three non-colored markers without replacing them with colored markers i.e. you lose any advancement you made during that turn. This game is an IMMENSE amount of fun.
Chess.
Crib or Cribbage.
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### Author:  [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/15 "2000-01-17T15:42:00Z")
The game you must play in order to be accepted in my family is Pitch. Bascily a bid and take tricks type card game. Also play hearts. As for board games, I’m very good at Backgammon, Stratego, and Othello, and used to be okay at Chess. Hehe… I made my own chess board. Shot glasses for pieces. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/16 "2000-01-17T15:59:00Z")
I think it’s still Monopoly, even though my wife found out why I always wanted to be the banker. I guess my days of “no-interest” loans are over.
We like some of those Milton Bradley wargames like “Axis and Allies” but they take up a lot of time to set up, then my 2-yr old will sneak up and take a few playing pieces from the board. I lost an entire British army in North Africa because of him. Also, due to the aforementioned Daddy Is Cheating By Being Banker in Monopoly Scandal, I am not allowed access to the money or troops in the MB board games as well. She has also squealed to our friends. so now I am closely watched. Playing these games by the _rules_ is really a drag.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/17 "2000-01-17T16:14:00Z")
Bridge, spades, occasionally Scrabble or Trivial Pursuit.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/18 "2000-01-17T16:48:00Z")
MadPoet: Wow, someone else that plays pitch. It has turned into a familial institution for us.
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### Author:  [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/19 "2000-01-17T16:49:00Z")
ROFL Bluepony!
I like all the words games mentioned above: Scattergories, Outburst, Taboo, oh yes and Balderdash too. I love that one!
Card games: Uno, Phase 10, Gin Rummy.
Stratego, Operation(I got this for x-mas this year! Does that count as a board game?), Chutes and Ladders, Chess, Connect four, I could go on and on…
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### Author:  [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-table-games/12913/20 "2000-01-17T16:59:00Z")
Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, and Balderdash are my fave boardgames. Although I have a million others. Mindtrap is pretty good, too. My friends and I have all night Trivial Pursuit marathons (the answers get pretty silly by 5am :))
Gin and Hearts are my favorite card games.
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