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Does anyone still play boardgames? - Even if you don't what was your favourite one?

Knight Rider

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Over the weekend, I spent some time with a girlfriend of mine and we visited her family. To my surprise they still have a family game night. It had probably been years since I last played one, but I had such a good time playing Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Checkers with them. It was a pretty good ice-breaker for all of us and we had a lot of fun.

So my question to you is do you still play boardgames? Even if you don't, what was your favourite one when you did? Mine was Monopoly. For some reason I was very good at it and usually was able to come up with a strategy to win. The next favourite one for me was Risk, as it was all about strategy and forming alliances in order to defeat your opponents.

Peace guys

KR
 
I used to like risk, monopoly and poleconomy...I positively hated trivial pursuit.......I loved backgammon...used to play that almost daily........

I still try to play scrabble online with some facebook friends, although I stopped when I found out they had a limited dictionary, and didn't allow obvious words from websters........I played the word pathogen for a triple word score of around 100 and they wouldn't allow it....fuckheads...lol.....
 
Snotty Snotter, I love it!

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I definitely played Monopoly while growing up. I was consumed with owning all of the properties including the boardwalk and the 4 train stations. Like Douglas eloquently said from one of his popular movies.....Greed is good.
 
I definitely played Monopoly while growing up. I was consumed with owning all of the properties including the boardwalk and the 4 train stations. Like Douglas eloquently said from one of his popular movies.....Greed is good.

How often did you end up in jail :biggrin2:
 
It's funny, whenever I go to my parents' cottage I see all these board games we used to play when we were young. I try to get the young ones interested on them but they have their own TV games on.
 
It's funny, whenever I go to my parents' cottage I see all these board games we used to play when we were young. I try to get the young ones interested on them but they have their own TV games on.

it's funny you say that....i did some work at the muskoka wharf in gravenhurst and they were putting together an exhibit of "cottage life" and they had all kinds of board games that were donated. I don't remember them all but they had some I'd never heard of from the 20's and 30's......

The thing about "cottage life" now is that we have satellite tv, wifi, 4 radio stations....back in the day, you could only get 1 station on tv and no radio...so all you had at night were cards, board games etc.......

Hell, I even remember going to a cottage that had an outhouse and no potable water.....(you had to get it from a handpump outside)....the water in the cottage was from the lake and only good for showering or washing dishes...
 
I like Trivial Pursuit, even though I suck soooo badly.

https://slacktory.com/2011/11/what-your-favorite-board-game-says-about-you/


Yahtzee: People often compliment your sweaters.
Clue: You know how British TV works. (Also you call it “Cluedo”.)
Settlers of Catan: You can identify multiple kinds of sake by taste.
Scattergories: You’ve successfully contested a parking ticket.
Risk: You have unresolved issues with your parents.
Battleship: You eat ice cream too fast and get brain freezes.
Candy Land: You believe that there are tiny people inside Mom’s iPod.
Great Train Robbery: You get the references in Quentin Tarantino movies.
Cranium: You tell people you’re a writer even though you’re an ad sales assistant, because you’ve had something published in McSweeney’s.
Balderdash: You have a wide assortment of coffee mugs, no two alike, all with stained tea rings near the top. You make fun of people who say “so many books, so little time”. Your book club is excitingly combative.
Carcassone: You put your shirts in the closet in a specific order.
Scrabble: You’ve had to lend a friend a few hundred bucks.
Dungeons and Dragons: You’ve had a writing credit on a TV show.
Monopoly: You love telling people about the time you voted Republican.
Your city’s version of Monopoly: You know about minor league baseball rivalries.
Mancala: You’ve used an apple to smoke pot.
Life: You watch Whitney because “at the end of the day I just want to turn my brain off.”
Sorry: You follow Ashton Kutcher on Twitter.
Bananagrams: Your purse is a tote bag from a bookstore.
Boggle: You take pictures of funny signs.
Chess: You’re evangelistic about not using Facebook.
Checkers: You know when and where it’s legal to hunt deer.
Chinese checkers: Your entire house is carpeted. You have a stocked pantry and exercise equipment in the basement. You used to own a Saturn.
Backgammon: You drink scotch.
Go: You call unwanted job offers “spam”.
Connect Four: You are on a bad first date at a coffeeshop and the other person will not finish their damn drink.
Othello/Reversi: You independently invented the premises of The Matrix and The Truman Show.
Parcheesi: You are so fucking bored.
Trouble: You look forward to the automated car wash.
Apples to Apples: You like to plan day trips.
Stratego: You made a sandwich for dinner.
Axis & Allies: You could afford to eat sushi every night, but you made a sandwich for dinner.
Diplomacy: You have never, to your knowledge, actually lost an argument.
Operation: You claim you can taste the differences between M&M colors.
Zombies!!!: You think you’re the first person to add bacon to a particular baked good. You buy clothes from ThinkGeek.
Jenga: You run a youth group.
Pandemic: You send your kids to a school without gym class.
Trivial Pursuit: You’re a “continuing education student” at a local college and you don’t see why the younger students don’t want to participate in class.
Pay Day: You can explain why house rules “break” Monopoly by dragging it on.
Snakes and Ladders: You read Highlights and you think Stone Soup is pretentious.
Pictionary: You remind people that hallucinogenics have fewer long-term effects than alcohol.
Taboo: You’ve been meaning to take some improv classes.
Mouse Trap: You think it’s OK to shove people in a crowd if you say “excuse me” a lot.
Twister: Very cute, Horny McGrabbyHands. We said pick a board game.
 
it's funny you say that....i did some work at the muskoka wharf in gravenhurst and they were putting together an exhibit of "cottage life" and they had all kinds of board games that were donated. I don't remember them all but they had some I'd never heard of from the 20's and 30's......

The thing about "cottage life" now is that we have satellite tv, wifi, 4 radio stations....back in the day, you could only get 1 station on tv and no radio...so all you had at night were cards, board games etc.......

Hell, I even remember going to a cottage that had an outhouse and no potable water.....(you had to get it from a handpump outside)....the water in the cottage was from the lake and only good for showering or washing dishes...

I remember going to my ex gf's cottage every summer and played plenty of card or boardgames during the evenings. We didnt have any cable except a VCR for rental movies. SO many great memories. Now I just think it is unfortunate that many people/cottagers dont appreciate these quality moments as they are too busy being associated with today's technologies which drive them further apart from their own families.
 
Art, I would play blackjack with this woman...does she have any Asian female friends? :)
 
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