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Your All Time Favorite Board Games

by lanfear63
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Not talking about video games here, the ones with a real board and pieces etc.

Mine was Chess, loved it. I could actually beat the early chess computers at their highest level but got fed up with them based on their long response time. But, computer chess improved drastically over time and is now unbeatable.

Liked Draughts (you call them Checkers in the US). And simple games of chance like Snakes And Ladders which I played as a kid, also Ludo, now called Frustration.

So what were yours?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Monopoly. .
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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        Originally Posted by discrat View Post

        Monopoly. .
        Same here. And I'm a poor winner. I gloat, laugh, and call everyone else losers. And if I lose? I never lose.

        My secrets are;

        I inflate the value of my motels when someone lands on them. And if my motel is next to a railroad, I claim the railroad came with the property.


        When someone says I owe them money, I claim I already paid them, and bribe other players to back up my story.
        I keep claiming I have the most hotels, no matter what's actually on the board.

        I claim I'm the winner, not matter who really won. And I refuse to admit defeat. Anyone who argues with me, I call a cheater.

        And I have printed several "Get out of jail free" cards...that I use at my discretion.

        And if someone else happens to win, and everyone else sees that they won, I throw the board on the floor and claim the game wasn't fair, and the rules were rigged against me from the start.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark Singletary
        Originally Posted by discrat View Post

        Monopoly. .
        +1

        When I was younger, I liked Scrabble but haven't played it in a long time.
        The last game I played was Mexican Train Dominoes. That's probably not classified as a board game, but still. Fun, fun.

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  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    Not talking about video games here, the ones with a real board and pieces etc.

    Mine was Chess, loved it. I could actually beat the early chess computers at their highest level but got fed up with them based on their long response time. But, computer chess improved drastically over time and is now unbeatable.

    Liked Draughts (you call them Checkers in the US). And simple games of chance like Snakes And Ladders which I played ad a kid, also Ludo, now called Frustration.

    So what were yours?
    Mine was chess also, (got up to level 4 out of 10 once before it broke, which l bought in the 80's).

    These days they cost almost $1000 instead of $100 but they are a decent board size with self moving chess pieces.

    Probably buy one soon along with everything else.
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  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    A great simple card game I forgot to mention, play it with your kids. So much fun.

    Distribute a shuffled pack of cards face down to the players.

    The Rules.

    Any Ace is worth 4 cards
    Any King is worth 3 cards
    Any queen is worth 2 cards
    Any Jack is worth 1 one card

    Each player in turn places a card from the top of their stack face up on the table on top of each other. If one of the above cards shows up, then the next player has to put the amount of cards required based on it's value, dealing from his/her stack, face up on top of it. If none of the above cards show up then the player who originally delt one that has value picks up the cards and put them under his or her stack. He/She then deals the first card again.

    If however the player in dealing the required cards comes up with one listed above, then the following player in line has to do the same. so if the next player does not produce any of the above, he or she wins the pile. And so it goes on. Obviously, the Jack is the most useful card to deal.

    The winner will eventually be the person who holds all the cards.

    Kids seem to adore this game.
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      Ok, ok I concede , finally a decent thread started by the maniacal Mark.

      It's about time!!

      Hell , even a broke clock is right twice a day,
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by discrat View Post

        Ok, ok I concede , finally a decent thread started by the maniacal Mark.

        It's about time!!

        Hell , even a broke clock is right twice a day,
        though
        That means a lot to me coming from the king of super interesting threads. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamell
    I started playing chess in my early twenties and I fell in love wth it eversince .I have always been a@fan of chess .
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    Gotta love Snakes an' Laddahs for the tactics tho.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    It's been so long since I played I have to relearn the game.

    But cribbage with a nice board
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  • Profile picture of the author chosenberg
    Chess is a game of the mind
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by chosenberg View Post

      Chess is a game of the mind
      Rook to Knight Four...

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  • Profile picture of the author Thuru
    Draughts, but i am not good in it. I play only the orginal draughts, not checkers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazlo
    none is my favourite
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael1989
    Go (or baduk, weiqi, igo as different countries call it differently). It it the oldest board game in the world and makes chess look easy
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  • Profile picture of the author olivia24
    I loved playing chess, carom board, and ludo. They all were a great pastime back in the days.
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