Your Favourite Board Game

kfallon · 2011-04-21 19:58:56

When you were growing up what was your favourite board game to play? For me I've always loved Chess and liked a game of Cluedo (would often say 'Just one more question' while looking crosseyed before delivering my verdict :pac:) when I was younger. For some reason I never liked Monopoly! So AH'ers what was/is your fav…

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#62 22-04-2011 04:49AM

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kfallon wrote: »

When you were growing up what was your favourite board game to play?

For me I've always loved Chess and liked a game of Cluedo (would often say 'Just one more question' while looking crosseyed before delivering my verdict :pac:) when I was younger.

For some reason I never liked Monopoly!

So AH'ers what was/is your fav board game?

*In before 'Yore Ma', 'Blasting people with piss' and all those other unfunny retorts!

That's because you know in the first twenty minutes who's going to win and it still goes on for about five hours.

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#63 22-04-2011 05:09AM

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Scrabble is my favourite. Played it with a mate the other day in Belgrave Square when the sun was out. I really should have worn a beret; we were so bohemian. :pac::pac:

I like chess and draughts too.

Kerplunk, Jenga and Jackstraws are great games if ye're all pissed and there's a 50c forfeit. As is "Operation".

All board games are good, and most of the good ones have got a mention.

I think Risk has been undervalued. Good game.

"Sorry!" should get a mention. It was like interesting Ludo.

"Othello" was a great game. Don't know what happened to it.

But, after 60 posts, the one that I'm really surprised hasn't got a mention is "Escape from Colditz".

Am I the oldest man on boards?

It was a cracking board game.

"I just need 30 more feet of rope and a Staff Car." :pac:

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#64 22-04-2011 06:27AM

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Connect4 is the sh*t.

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#65 22-04-2011 06:58AM

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Upwords is one of my favorites.
Triominoes is good,
Pictionary is great fun for a group.

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#66 22-04-2011 07:10AM

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Mouse Trap!
Im 23 and still LOVE that game.

Scrabble is where its at though.

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#67 22-04-2011 08:11AM

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Well I played a lot of board games when I was young. I still play them now the odd time.

Escape from Colditz was epic, although the rules were a bit complex.

Civilization (and later Advanced Civilization) was probably the best board game I've ever played, don't think I've ever managed to finish a game though:D

Axis and Allies is good too, again takes ages.

Talisman is also good crack. There's a new version out too, which is good to see.

Anyone else ever played Totopoly? Great horse racing game.

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#68 22-04-2011 08:34AM

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anyone remember screw ball scramble? What a legendary game, I could play that for hours when I was a kid, can still buy it on some of the retro sites I thinks..

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#69 22-04-2011 08:45AM

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I love a good game of chess! I remember a pub that had a chessboard...it's gone now

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#70 22-04-2011 08:48AM

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Cranium is great.

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#71 22-04-2011 09:01AM

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Little Acorn wrote: »

I always wanted Dream Phone, one of those presents from childhood [also a Furby] that I always wanted but never got.:(

It was Hungry Hippos for me. Still haven't got over it

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#72 22-04-2011 09:04AM

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xsiborg wrote: »

my brother got a board game called called "discovering europe" one christmas, basically you travel around europe travelling to all the different cities, i was only about ten years of age but i still got a laugh out of one time landing on brest in france and muttering under my breath "famous for it's dairy produce!", ohh innocent times back then!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brest,_France

Oh gosh, how did I forget to mention Discovering Europe?! Definitely a big favourite in our house. We were even able to get the Dad in on it too, and that was saying something.

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#73 22-04-2011 09:26AM

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Loved it. Had the floodlights and stretched my pitch over some chipboard to give a better surface. Gradually, all my players dissappeared, got stood on or went up the hoover though. They were ahead of their time in their indiscipline and willingness to flirt with the vacuum cleaner.

Great. I remember getting the astroturf pitch. It was on a rubber mat and you just rolled it out. Made life easier than trying to keep the cloth pitch flat. Must have been about 25 years ago:eek:

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#74 22-04-2011 09:44AM

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#75 22-04-2011 12:35PM

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I still play board games once a week with friends. There's nothing like getting a few people together for a night, getting in the beers, and a table full of munchies and battling it out to see whose nation is the mightiest or whose champion will end up as king of the empire.

Board-games are a big thing in Germany. Something to do with them all being protestants so Sunday was a family day with no "work" so it ruled out going shopping with the family, and they were generally against television and sports on Sundays as well. That left family time and board games filled in. They've invented some ingenius games. Stuff that really gets you thinking about tactics and strategy.

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#76 22-04-2011 01:09PM

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EverEvolving wrote: »

Now, Scrabble is my favourite, but I also love Taboo, Yatzee and Cranium - have any of you played this btw - it's a great game

I love pretty much all board games but I think Taboo is probably the most fun, especially when you start panicking and come up with the most ridiculous clues/descriptions that no-one in their right mind would ever get! . I also love the "wtf" moment when you pick up a difficult card that has something you never even heard of written on it. Only downside is you need 4 people to play, so we don't get to play it too often.

I love word games like Boggle and Scrabble; unfortunately, my sister is freakishly good at Boggle and so she always wins. And my family refuse to play Scrabble because it supposedly "takes too long". I'm pretty sure they used play Scrabble when I was small but it caused a lot of fights so they had given up by the time I was old enough to play. :pac:

I used be really good at Chess when I was younger; won my school's chess competition when I was in 2nd year. :cool: Haven't played for years though so I'm probably very rusty now.

I played Trivial Pursuit for the first time ever this year; it went on for 5 hours while we all got steadily drunker. I won though! :cool:

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#77 22-04-2011 01:09PM

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Balfie wrote: »

anyone remember screw ball scramble? What a legendary game, I could play that for hours when I was a kid, can still buy it on some of the retro sites I thinks..

Can't believe I forgot about this one, I loved this game!
My favourite bit was trying to get the ball through the maze.:)

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#78 09-10-2011 09:33PM

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love board games, down fall use to be my favourite when i was younger but know moved onto things like risk. if your looking to find retro games again check out this page on boards http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68451920

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#79 09-10-2011 09:56PM

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cosmicfart wrote: »

Chess has to the greatest of all board games

Aoifey! wrote: »

Everyone seems to love Chess. I never learned how to play. I sit really any good?

Yeah it's brilliant, proper strategy.

Should check this out too, a friend recommended it to me. I have not got around to getting it yet but it's on my to do list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29

Balfie wrote: »

anyone remember screw ball scramble? What a legendary game, I could play that for hours when I was a kid, can still buy it on some of the retro sites I thinks..

Was going to post about that but couldn't remember the name!

We played option in my house too, similar to scrabble but with a little twist!

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3516/option

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#80 09-10-2011 10:23PM

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Shogun before it got turned into the PC game , with 5 players it went on for days.

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#81 09-10-2011 10:24PM

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scrabble... unreal! never gets old

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