What was/is your favorite childhood board game?

[notoppings]

Thought I would put this one up to see if any of our older members childhood board games are still popular with some of our younger members.

Probably some of the classic games would still be popular but there always seems to be a new board game coming out to temp the gift buying adult.

Anybody remember their favorite Board Game?

[searcher]

Probably Cluedo, and probably because I always won. *laughs* We never really played it that much unless there were family down though.

[dandylion]

Monopoly. People don't seem to be into it as much as I am, though. I also enjoyed the Game of Life and checkers. Now the only board games I play are chess and scrabble/literati.

[ssrprotege]

Monopoly. I don't play it anymore, but it was a birthday gift (well, I had only one good friend in grade 3) from my friend. Fun game.

[Antisocialite]

I would agree, Monopoly was a popular game in my house. Also, The Game of Life.

[Krazy P]

Chess was a favorite. Also the war game of Borodino (Bonaparte in Russia).

I also like Go.

[ssrprotege]

Ah, I was never good at chess. Oh, Risk is another good board game I think.

[Pouthas]

Monopoly.

Aside fom Monopoly, I would rather play poker or euchre.

Have any of you heard of a very old card game called Rook?

[True Rune]

Monopoly. My dad didn't like how my mom would stray from the exact rules. but us kids loved playing with our mother. We'd have 6 hour games. I enjoyed chutes and ladders as a really little kid.

[Eric86]

I played Risk a lot, and always won.:)

[Arcani]

Chutes and Ladders! Oh, and there was Sorry and... oh yeah, Mousetrap.

Then I moved into Stratego, Chess, Othello (Reversi if you wish), Clue and Scrabble.

Monopoly and Risk were too long for my hyperactive childhood and by the time I could sit through a game I was old enough for my parents to say "No, it takes too long, lets play something else". The Game of Life was fun but I never owned it.

Backgammon is my big board game now, though I also enjoy a good game of Khet (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) or Polarity (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

[Vathir]

I loved to play Chess when I was a kid. However, finding a suitable opponent was a challenge.

[Eric86]

I also played Scrabble a lot with some of my family (especially my grandma, who died last year), and pretty much always beat them by a few hundred points each time.

[Seppuku Savant]

Chess

[phantasma]

Scrabble, Checkers, Mancala, and Stratego.

[bladeserver]

Decline and fall of the Roman Empire. I just loved rewriting history as a very cunning vandal or goth.

[MFG]

Monopoly

[Scorne]

Chess.

[faedra]

Risk and Cluedo and Monopoly and basically anything I could win at :laugh:

[Erika Redmark]

I used to like this Greco-Roman-mythology-based board game called "By Jove". Also, Apples to Apples (still), and Stratego (I played it a few times and liked it, but I never owned it, so I never played it enough to get good at it). I'm also a fan of Scrabble, but I could never get anyone to play it with me (my parents don't like it for some reason). I played that against myself a lot. XD

[Fridays Child]

Walking the plank, me hearties. That, and keelhauling. Good times.

[Stealth]

Stratego, Chess, Risk, Scotland Yard, Diplomacy, and The Settlers of Catan.

[Dave C C]

Risk - for the strategy and manipulation needed on multiple player games.
Chess - if you can find players better then yourself to play against.

[enfpchick]

Lol am i the only one who chose Candy land.
It was bright and colorful and easy. I was and still am mesmerized.

[jikin]

Monopoly, but no one would ever play it with me. Othello was probably a close second.

[Assiette]

I really liked RISK and Othello. I also enjoyed LIFE, but then grew tired of it after playing it 4 gazillion times one summer.

[pallasathena]

I love Scrabble, which I still play. I grew up playing Monopoly, Sorry, Perfection, Aggravation, Concentration, and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Game that I got one Christmas.

[Arcani]

Lol am i the only one who chose Candy land.
It was bright and colorful and easy. I was and still am mesmerized.

I never really liked Candy land, it was too... fluffy, for me. *shudder*

[TheReal]

Scrabble was our main game at home, and probably my favorite. My dad was the best at it, and we would always try to beat him. I liked playing boggle too because I owned at it. Cranium is a good game too.

[seoa]

Pictionary...

couldn't stand all those games that were mostly luck-based (monopoly etc)... so annoying!! plus older sister used to cheat, more often than not :)

and anything too intellectual (scrabble, trivial pursuit) were just horribly unfair when playing with genius-level older sister (she didn't need to cheat on these ones)... *sad*

[skqt]

Checkers! and Chinese Checkers! So fun because you could play with upto 6 people.

Cluedo was also fun.

[ScurvyRose]

These are the earliest ones that I remember........Connect Four! Checkers, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Ice Breaker, Ant's in the Pants, Don't spill the beans, Slap Jack!

Later it was Pictionary!! Scatagories, Taboo, cards, still love to play pictionary though. Most of my friends are not into it.