Trivial Pursuit, definately. I can beat my parents on everything but the Baby Boomers edition.
Aggravation. The object of this game is to move 5 marbles around the board once and into your “home”. If you land on your opponent’s marble, they have to move it back to the beginning and start over-- hence the name.
Yahtzee, Kismet, Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk, Blackjack, and Craps.
Craps isn’t a board game? Well, it’s a table game.
Oh, does anyone remember the old Dark Tower game with the animated tower?
– Sylence
I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.
Trivial Pursuit
Clue
Uno
Mille Borne (card game where the contestants drive race cars and are trying to get 1000 miles first.) Monopoly
Stratego
and of course checkers.
Risk (used to have epic 12-hr games when we were all single guys);
Coppit: an old British board game I’ve had since I was about 6 yrs old. Essentially like “sorry”, except the men ar little cones, and you capture the others by landing on top, then have to get back home safely, before someone else ‘cops’ you. Simple and yet a lot more fun than it sounds;
Escape From Colditz: no kidding, a British board game about escaping from the famous POW camp in Germany.
Mr.KnowItAll, I used to LOVE playing Mille Borne. I have never met anyone who knew the game, even though I ask everyone. We lost a bunch of the cards when I was in High School and I haven’t seen the game in any store since!
“It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
(Assuming that Avalon Hill wargames like Fighting The Battle Of Gettysburg In 15 Minute Increments With One Marker Representing 5 Soldiers are sort of exempt from this category.)
I’m a bridge player, although my friends and I indulge in so much table-talk and general silliness while playing that we’d be thrown out of any respectable game (favorite moment- one of us, as his first bid, threw his hand on the table, slammed his 600-page “Goren’s Book Of Bridge” on top of it, leaned forward onto it, and stated calmly, “Pass.”).
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Risk is good - but Trivial Pursuit is really the only one I’ve played in years. I think I need a new edition, however. The one I own is the first edition - the last time I played I was getting questions like, “Who is the Movie critic at the NY Times?” Well, not only would I never know that now, but I was seven years old in 1980. (This works as a great excuse, however, when my dad slaughters me for the umpteenth time.)
Just an FYI for the Kismet fans out there…
Long story short- It was my favorite game growing up- after many, many years of looking for this game in every store and yard sale I finally found it on E-bay. I payed an obscene amount of money for it, then a week later found it at a local variety store (a modern version, not the original by Lakeside). It was 7 bucks. So if anyone starts getting nostalgic and looking for this game, let me know and I’ll send it to ya. Don’t pay a bunch of money for the old version…
Zette
Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high.
I bought “Cranium” after playing it at a friend’s house. It’s almost like playing four different games. There is one category for trivia, one for word definitions, another where you have to act out the clue, and another where you draw a picture or sculpt something out of clay. It’s quite fun and (supposedly) uses several parts of the brain.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou all you people who described “Kismet.” For most of my childhood, half of a Kismet game lived at my family’s cabin. No rules, only a few dice, etc. It perplexed me for years. I wanted to play it badly, but could never figure out how.
My cousins and I used to play a game called “Pit.” Does anyone remember it?
It’s a card game based on the Chicago Board of Trade. There were nine cards each representing commodities like wheat, rice, corn, etc. There were also the double-edged “Bull” and “Bear” cards. Play consisted of rather raucous trading, aimed at gaining a ‘corner’ in a particular commodity.
I always had a blast screaming out my trade offerings! I understand that the game is ‘out of print’ now, but I managed to find a set of Pit cards at a yard sale a while back.
I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free…
I must have played these when I was learning to count, because images of them come up when I compare numbers. UW was a Candyland-like game where the pieces moved along a windy, numbered path. And Concentration was a 5x6 grid of boxes numbered 1-30.
I have some sort of weird conglomeration of these two in my mind. And when I think in higher magnitude of numbers, the pattern repeats.
Weird, eh?
I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright
I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush
