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Post by Dave on Nov 10, 2010 22:53:00 GMT
Do today’s modern young families play board games as we once did when we were young? I can always remember as a child there being a black and white TV in the house, but family board games happened many nights of the week.
My favourite and only because I was good at playing it was draughts, a simple game with few rules but skill needed in small degrees to end up the winner. I did learn to play chess but never really liked the game and not long after learning to play it gave it up.
I loved snakes and ladders and what a frustrating game that could be at times when you landed on the snake and went back down the board again. I remember another game I enjoyed playing but can’t remember its name. Maybe you can help? You had four coloured counters and in the middle of the board were four spots the same colour as your counters you had to get them all on. There were four colours in total and you moved your counters one at a time by the throw of a dice.
Never really liked cluedo and the game I hated playing the most was monopoly, a game that could go on for hours and hours and bored me to tears I’m afraid.
So what board games did you play and what others can you remember, what ones were you good at and what ones did you not enjoy playing and finally have you any board games now you had as a child.
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Post by stuartB on Nov 10, 2010 22:59:13 GMT
is your mystery game Ludo?
I loved all sorts of board games as a kid and we still play with our children now.
The twins are great at disney trivial persuit, with the older ones enjoying TP, CSI, Scene It - Harry Potter and various music quizzes. We mainly play when down on hols to make up for the lack of internet and Sky TV.
This, unfortunately, is being taken over by the likes of Wii
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Post by stefano on Nov 10, 2010 23:21:53 GMT
Do today’s modern young families play board games as we once did when we were young? Ludo! My father was in the Royal Navy so I saw him for about two weeks every year (well they had ships then and of course to my young mind that's what it seemed like!). However he always came back and introduced new rules and all I really remember is my mother, who was clearly very competitive and is still so at 90, getting infuriated and throwing the whole board and pieces in the air. Not once, not twice, not three times ... always! Perhaps the moral is not to introduce a stupid rule ... like not allowing the goalie to pick the ball up from a back pass! For heavens sake!  |
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Post by Dave on Nov 10, 2010 23:26:20 GMT
is your mystery game Ludo? Yes that's the name of it and if I remember correctly you had to get the right number to land on those spots and if not you counted back out again. |
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Post by stefano on Nov 10, 2010 23:34:27 GMT
is your mystery game Ludo? Yes that's the name of it and if I remember correctly you had to get the right number to land on those spots and if not you counted back out again. That depended on what rules my Dad had brought back from Singapore or wherever. Normally involved a blocking system where all his counters could get through but others were 'blocked' by his crafty defences. I would have thrown the board in the air, but I was just too young! |
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Post by Mr_W on Nov 11, 2010 0:16:29 GMT
........aaah, here goes - Haunted House, Sir Francis Chichester Game, Masterpiece, Mastermind, Mousetrap, Blastoff, Totopoly (Horse Racing game), Pro Shot Golf, Campaign, Risk, Axis and Allies, Diplomacy, Raving Bonkers, Subbuteo Angling - all just for starters - feel another Top Deck Shandy moment coming on....... www.boardgamegeek.com...probably the most geeky site in the world, just put your game into the Search Engine under Board Games - sure to be there - my old Francis Chichester Game was and that was from 1967 ffs............... .........oh, btw, I have absolutely no idea what I-Pods, Blackberries, Blue Teeth (Tooths??), Wiis, I-Tablets or I-Phones are really or what any of them do and as I'm approaching 50 next year have no real intention of ever finding out either, I also have never owned a suitcase with fuucking wheels on, I have no idea of how to put photos on facebook and I own a fully functioning album collection of 300 LPs/singles with a working turn-table - should I see a doctor?.............. ...."and cue Supersonic"..........(and gasps of recognition from my learned friends Lord_Chelstongull and Jon - "fancy him remembering that as well")............... |
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Post by stefano on Nov 11, 2010 7:41:38 GMT
...... I have no idea of how to put photos on facebook and I own a fully functioning album collection of 300 LPs/singles with a working turn-table - should I see a doctor?.............. Fiona Bruce on the Antiques Roadshow would probably be a better bet, but with you Mr W if you did see a doctor it would probably be Dr Hook |
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Post by chelstongull on Nov 11, 2010 9:08:52 GMT
...... I have no idea of how to put photos on facebook and I own a fully functioning album collection of 300 LPs/singles with a working turn-table - should I see a doctor?.............. Fiona Bruce on the Antiques Roadshow would probably be a better bet, but with you Mr W if you did see a doctor it would probably be Dr Hook 300 pah!! I must have nearly 600/700!! |
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Post by aussie on Nov 11, 2010 17:58:54 GMT
Kaplunk - Enough said!
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Post by Mr_W on Nov 12, 2010 3:49:53 GMT
...........but with you Mr W if you did see a doctor it would probably be Dr Hook .......loving it    ......... .....all together now, off the top of me head, without a safety net..... ....sing along with Mr_Chelstongull, Jon, stefano and I - Phil on nose flute, Jon on finger cymbals, stefano on Somerset crumpet horn, me on tin whistle - after 4, with feeling and think of England.......... ................"well we're big rock singers, we got golden fingers and we're loved everywhere we go, we sing about beauty and we sing about truth at 10,000 dollars a show, we take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills but the thrill we've never known, is the thrill that'll hit ya when ya get ya picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone"........................... "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone" - Dr Hook .......was I close?.................. |
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Post by The knight who says "nee" on Dec 7, 2010 21:43:35 GMT
Me and my brother used to play an old game called "soccerama", was my uncles before us and we found it at our Nans and dusted it off.
Probably rose tinted specs but i remember it being quality, a fore-runner to your championship manager if you like.
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Post by Bayern Gull on Dec 8, 2010 15:23:22 GMT
Me and my brother used to play an old game called "soccerama", was my uncles before us and we found it at our Nans and dusted it off. Probably rose tinted specs but i remember it being quality, a fore-runner to your championship manager if you like. I remember Soccerama - what was great about it was that you started in the 4th Division and worked your way up. I don't believe there were any other games around like it. Most football games tended to be of the Subbuteo type where you played a single game. I also seem to remember that a star player in Soccerama cost 75,000 . . . My favorite game of that era was The Sigma File and I've recently picked up a copy on e-bay. Along with Escape from Colditz they get played as much as the more modern games we have. Memoir 44 and TransEuropa are the best of the modern games we've got but as the children have got older the Chess set has been out more often. |
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Post by loyalgull on Dec 8, 2010 16:24:17 GMT
anybody played the ouija board? i havent,had it drummed into me at an early age by my mum,dont mess with a oiuja board it will bring you bad luck,never have so just wondered
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Post by Bayern Gull on Dec 8, 2010 19:02:24 GMT
anybody played the ouija board? i havent,had it drummed into me at an early age by my mum,dont mess with a oiuja board it will bring you bad luck,never have so just wondered I think your Mum was right on this one. Dennis Wheatley was also succinct in his advice; "Don't meddle!" |
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Post by Dave on Dec 8, 2010 21:51:59 GMT
I had nearly finished writing a post on this thread when we were plunged in darkness.They work all through the night down the road on the junction improvements and it looks like they have hit the main power cable. Now where did I put those candles  |
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