Board Games. Remember Those?!

Mini me lately has been really into playing board games. She calls them "old fashioned" games. Paleeeze child! Anyway, she digs as of late "Life," "Operation," and UNO. Even though that one is a card game, she picked up on it quickly and kicks butt! When I grew up with 6 siblings, board games always kept us entertained. Until that is, when the oldest of the 7 of us decided he would bring home a Ouiji Board game from a friends house. I, to this day, cannot even look at one. Scary paranormal stuff. Oh, then he decided to get really spooky on us and introduced & talked all of us younger kids in to having a séance. Yes, cruel and unusual older sibling. One in every bunch!

I preferred games such as Life, Clue, Battleship, and Scrabble. Does anyone play board games these days or is everything electronic? Do you or have you introduced your favorite childhood games to your children?

 OMG last night we had serious UNO war with the kids

It was so funny my kids started using Acronyms. My oldest would say "OMG dad will you go"  dad says "OMG?  what are you saying"  after that the whole conversation went to acronyms to see how crazy we could drive dad during the game (dad tends to cheat so it was fun).  Needless to say we were ROFLMAO in tears.  Anything that had a F in it he thought the kids were cussing it drove him batty (they werent).  Needless to say my kids are good with acronyms but haha some that mom used they had no clue on - mom is good!  

 

pente -- a board game played with glass pebble like pieces.

I am an absolute stud at backgammon.  Don't even mess with me.

trivial pursuit was cool, but kinda hard.  i always eyed the starwars edition in the store thinking i could own, but never did buy it.

balderdash was a really cool game.

connect four.

chinese checkers.

theres a japanese card game thats worth checking out called sakuda.

anyone here played a little game called Dungeons and Dragons?

Still Have the Family's Stratego Board and Pieces and My Mother is a Chess Set Collector  so we occasionally still play Chess.

The rest of the board games pieces and boards have been lost over the years of moving or damaged/worn over the years.

Digital isn't  neccisarily bad though, as last month I was playing Chess with my Niece and we where using her laptop with a chess game as the "Board and Pieces"

Same is true for Stratego,Monopoly and other board games...most of them have digital versions that allow 2 people to play on 1 laptop or even play each other via network or internet in real time

But yeah don't go near the Fancy Ouji Baoards in the toy department cause one of them "might be real" just as I avoid all versions of Jamanji...especially if I hear drumbeats comming out of it.

how about UNO. i know we have all got down on some UNO.

Laugh.Think.Feel.

I bought a 60's mint chipboard Ouiji board off eBay.  It's beautiful.  Not a scratch.

When I finally decorate, it's going to hang in my computer room.  I might protect it in a shadowbox.  I don't believe in ghosts so it will be cool.  At least that's what that demon-guy said last time I played it alone.

I used to love playing the gamne "Risk"... Haven't played for a while but I'm gonna dig it out of attic and have the 2 sons play with me.

Heck yes! I love board games. 

Monopoly takes forever, but I remember Guess Who? I think my favorite was Mouse trap. I love that thing. Oh, I had a Goosebumps one too.  I wonder what happened to that thing. Unfortunately I didn't have many game boards as a kid because I needed more players than just my cousin.

Making them is fun too! The last one I made was on Schizophrenia. Too bad my professor kept it

My granddaughters have been with me a lot this summer.  Of course they like to get on the computer and play games and do their Webkin and Club Penguin stuff, but they also have been playing some board and card games.  They have Trouble, Candy Land and the Junior Monopoly, and they make me play Yahtzee with them frequently.  I'm happy  the 9 year old can do her own score keeping on the Yahtzee.  She's very good at math.