Favorite Board Games
 

Growing up, we all played them. From Candy Land to Monopoly, whether you were bored out of your mind or stuck inside on a rainy or snowy day, what was YOUR GAME?!!?

We did not have many games, my brother and I, but one of our faves was DON'T BREAK THE ICE.

SORRY!
 

Pictionary

This is not a board game, but dominoes

When I was younger, my brothers and I loved our "Ants in the Pants" game...we couldn't go a day w/out playing it!! :D

In college, my friends and I went out and purchased a Monopoly game. We lived in a suite (8 people) and of the 8, 5 of us were seniors, and we only had 12 hours each, filled mostly with classes we didn't really need....so, when everyone finished for the day and was just having down time, we would pull out the board and go at it until somebody won!! And since we seemed to always have down time, we were always playing!! :)

When I was younger we played the game of Life, Monopoly, Sorry, and Trouble. Trouble was my for real for real favorite.:D

This isn't a board game, but my sister and I would go crazy over Connect 4....lol! I was such a little nerd that I loved to play Scrabble (still do).

I forgot
 

My brother and I were some LIFE and Connect 4 playing mojos.
We did not play a whole lot of Monopoly until both of us were teenagers and it would be an aaaaaaaalllllllll day affair.

We also played Trouble.

Monopoly, my sister used to always be the banker and cheat by hiding money under the board :mad:
Sorry!
Trouble
Candy Land
Checkers
Connect Four
Life
Operation
Hungry, Hungry Hippoes

Some of these aren't exactly board games, but I still liked them!

LMAO, I was the banker too and would either pay myself twice or just dip into the bank when the funds were low and the debts were high :cool:

ditto on those. Hungry, Hungry Hippoes was the GAME right there!!! :)

Also, my mother's favorite game was Parchesi (sp?), so we played that a lot.

Bargain Hunter, I loved that game, lol, cuz it had a credit card thingie! Loved it!!!

I will have to ditto your list. Man, to be a child again.

I loved Connect four, Othello and Trouble.

'Trouble' was our family game with my poppy (RIP)

My mom normally beats the pants off me playing 'Scrabble' but I got her back recently by using all my letters TWICE during one 500-pt game. Needless to say, I beats the pants of HER that game. :)

My six-year-old almost always beats me in 'WAR', go figure.

When I get together with my cousins, uncles and aunts, we LOVE card games like 1000's (a wildcard version of 500 Rummy) and King's Korner (a modified version of Solitare but plays up to 4 people). We also play 'UNO' and 'Spades'.

'Spades' was the game back on campus though. If you didn't take it seriously and continually reneged, you would find yourself without a partner for the next few gatherings!

I love Scrabble and Trivia Pursuit.

Hungry hungry hippoes!
twister!
Spades!
Dominoes!
Battleship!

I didn't play a lot of games requiring more than 1 person because I was an only child. The neighborhood children were "bad" so my mom didn't let them come in the house a lot. But when I did play games it was:

Monopoly
Checkers
Connect 4
Memory
Hungry Hungry Hippos

I'm having a moment here trying to figure out the name of this one particular game. Somebody help me!!!

You have these different colored pegs on one side and the opponent has about 5 tries to figure out the same sequence of the pegs you have set up.

WHAT is the name of THAT game?????????:confused:

Favorite Games
 

Monopoly (* play this game with my roommate all the time when we are bored)
Life
Trouble
Sorry
Operation
Hungry Hungry Hippos (*played with my cousin while growing up)
Connect Four
Chinese Checkers
Scrabble

OTHER GAMES
Spades
Tonk
500

Could that be Battle Ship? It sounds from your discription that it could be, but I'm not sure.

I loved
Monopoly
Connect 4
Uno
Clue
and Operation

I just got CandyLand for Christmas, you better believe I was geeked!!

Back in the day, you could find me playing that Babysitter's Club game all day. But at night I was into the outdoor hood games.

I'm shocked no one has mentioned Operation or Aggravation.

I'm shocked no one has mentioned Operation, Aggravation or Pay Day.

When I was a kid:
Shutes (sp?) and Ladders
Don't Break the Ice
Uno
Connect 4
Operation
Monkeys in the Barrel
Life
Twister

Currently:
Taboo
Chess
BS (card game)

Trival Pursuit, I brought the new version for one of our family Christmas presents.

My collection
 

I collect games (based on TV show):

Jeopardy! "Old School" (MB 1964-82)
Jeopardy! "New School" (Pressman 1985)
Wheel of Fortune, both editions (Pressman 1985-88)
Now You See It! (MB, 1975)
Blockbusters (MB 1980)
$ale of the Century
High Rollers (Parker Bros. 1988)
Hollywood Squares (Ideal, 1974) Peter Marshall on box
Hollywood Squares (MB, 1986)
Tic Tac Dough (Ideal, 1978)
Family Feud, 3rd Edition (MB, 1979)
TV Scrabble (Selchow & Righter, 1986)
The Match Game (MB, 1963)
The Price is Right, 3rd Edition (MB, 1974?)
The Price is Right (MB, 1986)
Concentration, 23rd Edition (MB, 1978)
Classic Concentration (Pressman, 1989)
Concentration, 40th Anniversary Edition (Endless Games, 1998)
The $10,000 Pyramid, 2nd Edition (MB, 1974)
The $20,000 Pyramid, 3rd Edition (MB, 1976)
The $25,000 Pyramid (Cardinal Games, 1986)
Password, (MB, 196?)

Of these games, the ones my family and friends would most frequently play would be:

The Match Game (Old School version, as opposed to classic "Match Game '7X", which was played entirely different)
Jeopardy! (Old School)
Concentration
High Rollers

My favorite games...
 

I would have to say that almost all of my favorite games have already been mentioned by some of you all, but here is the run down:

1. Clue (brings back those family game night memories)
2. Hungry Hungry Hippos (I use to go at them lil white balls with
a vengence)
3. Monopoly (I don't think we have ever had a honest banker)
4. Scrabble (To this day I think moms cheated on some of those
words back in the day)
5. Operation (The reason I didnt go into medicine)
6. Monkeys in the Barrel

BUT you all have neglected to mention some of the classic games of the 80's....:):):)

1. Scategories
2. GUESS WHO!! (How can we forget that game
some of those people just looked a fool)
3. Pictionary
4. Outburst
5. Taboo
6. Gestures (This definately makes for some
embarrasing memories)
7. Mall Maddness (My first experiences with shopping)

I know! I know!
 

ANSWER=>> MASTER MIND!!!!!
I LOVE that game!

I collected board games/others for a while. We were four daughters so we had nothing to do, haha. I had about 75+ of them including:

Risk
Scotland Yard
Pay Day
Trouble
Double Trouble
TOPPLE! <<---Remember this one?
Girl Talk <--LOL, yes I had this one.
Clue and Junior Clue<<--it was Professor Plum, in the kitchen, with a knife!
Monopoly (the old and new versions)
JENGA!
Battleship <<--not the electronic one! You had to yell "You sunk my battleship" when you lost!
Operation<<--used to scare me when the buzzer went off!
TABOO!
SCATEGORIES<<----SO MUCH FUN WITH MANY PEOPLE!
Chinese checkers and Parcheesi
Guess Who
and most of what others have mentioned already...
***How many of ya'll had PLAY DOUGH and LEGOS, or The Garbage-pail kids trading cards(LOL!)?

I always wanted:
Mouse Trap
Teddy Ruxpin - The Talking Bear (ROFLMAO!)
Although I did get a Strawberry Shortcake bicycle with basket in front and a banana seat for my 8th birthday!

Thanks for the thread...so many memories :)

I played Taboo and Cranium this weekend. Cranium is good but the directions can be a little confusing.

I loved to play

Life
Monopoly (slumlord version- hotels on Baltic Ave)
Operation
Concentration
Perfection (secretly wanted SuperPerfection)
Connect 4
Cat's Eye
Backgammon
Candy Land (at 7 i was riggin the deck)


Card games
BullSh!t
Speed
I De Clare War!
Stack Uno


I still play monopoly, backgammon and connect 4....wish i could find a good Speed player to play with..