If you could have..

[C.Ann]

Only one board game back from your childhood, which one would you choose?

Mine would be "Candyland"..

 

[Liberty Belle]

Hmm...either Ting-a-Ling Bingo or Kerplunk.

 

[clh2]

Parchesi

 

[Acklander]

Chess

 

[dizluvah]

hungry hungry hippo

 

[CajunMomof3]

Go to the Head of the Class

 

[KristaTX]

Trivial Pursuit. I got it as a gift when I was around 13. I still have it.

 

[akcire]

hungry hungry hippo

I was permanently scarred (on one finger) by a plastic nub left on a Hungry Hungry Hippo's marble. I had to have 2 stitches---I was like 3 at the time.

For that reason I must disagree with HHH as the ultimate game, and instead propose Sorry! In my household it was a favorite, and safer.

 

[arminnie]

Chutes and Ladders - I don't remember one thing about it. I just remember that was the name of a game I liked.

 

[DVCLiz]

From my childhood - Monopoly.

From my childrens' childhoods - Peter Rabbit. It was a lovely little game with raspberries for playing pieces and tiny little clay pots for markers. They loved it and it was the one game I never got tired of playing with them.

Unlike - sorry, C. Ann - CANDYLAND - the worst children's game ever invented because of the inability to cheat at it and get it over with before either I or my child had a screaming meltdown. Remember getting almost to the end and getting sent back to the beginning?? Sheer diabolical genius...

Also, Mousetrap was hell. It NEVER worked the way it was suposed to and inevitably one of those plastic pieces would break/get lost. Just awful...

 

[SAHDad]

Unlike - sorry, C. Ann - CANDYLAND - the worst children's game ever invented because of the inability to cheat at it and get it over with before either I or my child had a screaming meltdown. Remember getting almost to the end and getting sent back to the beginning?? Sheer diabolical genius...

DS cheats at Candyland. And blatantly, I might add. If he doesn't like the card he draws, he has a tendency to simply draw again (and again and again) until he gets one that is acceptable.

The game I want most from my childhood is Dark Tower. Stop Thief (the electronic cops & robbers game) would be a second choice.

 

[walden]

Oooh, games!

We called it "snakes and ladders" (born British) not "chutes and ladders," it is my earliest remembered game. I did not like it much, but the slinky snakes on "our" Brit board made it palatable. I saw the chutes. Why would any kid like a clean chute instead of an icky, slimy, disgusting snake to fall down?

Harrumph! My compatriots and I (regrettably) re-invented the rules and played this game in reverse. The more slides down the snake (chute) you won!

Then there was "Ludo." Does anyone else remember that? I am so old.

But you want my absolute favourite game? Scrabble! I always loved Scrabble,even at the age of seven when I always lost. I will always love Scrabble and play it today. And win these days!

I also played lots of Monopoly. Good game but never my favorite.

 

[MinnieTink]

I would have to say Trouble. There's just something about that die-in-a-bubble game that brings me back.

Oh and the character who sends you back to the beginning of Candyland? His name is "Plumpy." Evil. Pure evil. However I have cheated many times in Candyland! I distract the kid and rig the car pile so they win---and quick. Hahaha. And that Plumpy is safely at the bottom of the deck! Lol.

 

[Diznotyzed]

The Game of Life

I still have mine from the 70s with Art Linkletter on the money.

I loved it when the car filled up with kids!

 

[lemondog]

Clue or Life. Loved both of them!

 

[Halloweenqueen]

Life, but I cheated.

 

[maciec]

The original Electronic Battleship. The new one just isn't as good

 

[NHdisneylover]

What I loved most as a child was playing 42 (a domino) game with my grandparents and great uncle (you must have 4).

As for actual board games, when I was little I liked checkers or once i learned how to play, chess. When I got older Trivial Pursuit came out (I think I was 11). I remember it being VERY expensive and desperately wanting it and getting it for Christmas. I loved it.

Sorry C Ann but I never liked Candy Land. Even as a preschooler I had not patience for games of pure chance. Strategy is my thing

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

We had a game called "Which Witch?" where the gameboard was a 3-D haunted house. You were trying to reach the top of the staircase, but (I'm a little fuzzy on the details; it's been a while!) if a metal ball got dropped down the chimney, it would randomly come out one of the staircases -- and if you were on it, it would bowl you over.

Any chance anyone remembers this game?

Also, "Lost Gold," where you used a little metal detector to find where your opponent hid their three gold stashes...kinda like Battleship.

Ah, nostalgia. Off to eBay...

 

[PollyannaMom]

Trivial Pursuit - or rather, the group of kids I used to play it with. I still have the board and cards, but it's just not fair playing at 39 against my 9-year-old.