We make a habit around Xmas to get the family together and play a board game or two.
When my daughter was younger, she loved playing all manner of board games but now its a question of her WII, Ipod etc....think technology has pretty much kicked traditional board games into touch.
not really a board..game...but oh how I loved Subbuteo. used to have mini leagues with freinds and everything. Right up till I was 30 used to play....used to have a sunday afternoon..subbetteo league.
Such fun.
ah many a round of trivs was played in our house along with men are form mars n women from venus, but its a couples game so dont play that one anymore lol
humbug was a good one too, before the dvd bit joined the game
i still have quite a few board games its just rare they leave the cupboard now
as a nipper there were board games in the house. Cleudo, ludo (a kind of compendium thing, other games involved) Monopoly... all good.
But I was an only child, and my parents weren't particularly involved... so they rarely saw the light of day.
a mate had Risk. Anyone remember that?
A good military strategy game... little nob-headed counters and a world map... thats about all I can remember.
I say: "was an only child", ordinarily you'd think I still was... but I have borrowed a child from the estate for the last few weeks and have done some catching-up an all that business that was sibbling rivalry and all that.
I realise now that I had really missed out.
It's great. Obviously the borrowed-brother is smaller and weaker (quite an achievement to be weaker than me, he should be proud) and I have great fun delivering dead-legs and chinese burns.
He will occassionally call out for mummy and of course...there is no mummy... wonderfull!
a poke in the eye soon ends the calling-out.
strangely, he is not showing a great deal of interest in sitting down to a nice sunday afternoon of Monopoly.
I think I'll get another one.
lp
... and I wasn't refering to my "mates" as nob-headed counters, I meant the small plastic representations of our armies.
lp
... and when I use the term: "mates" I use it very loosely.
I hated childhood.
ucking stupid board games.
lp
... when I say I hated Childhood... I really meant I hate myself...
I blame Chad Valley
lp
are you up for a chinese burn?
lp
poke me in the eye?
Sisterhood!
lp
I always bought board games for my boys, we still play with some of them now, my eldest has a Battleship set that we still use, Monopoly, Uno is a great game, we had an electronic Uno a few years ago that when you had a certain card you pressed it and it would randomly shoot cards out at you, sometimes you`d end up with half the pack, but what a great laugh it used to be.
We have an old bingo set too that belonged to my great aunts, its like a family antique with little wooden tiles to cover your numbers with.
When we had our caravan and used to go for regular weekends with a big group of friends we played board games every night, Trivial Pursuit was a fave and Who Wants to be a Millionare is a good game too.
Nostalgia brings it all rushing back to you.
I used to play risk too, but a home made version..it involved bicycles and trains....very board(ha ha)kids game....
Mah Jong, now that is a game I would like to learn to play.
I have a set of counters, or tiles... I got them simply because I like them, they look good.
What to do with them I have not a clue.
lp
... the tiles are lovely though aren't they?
... and they rattle together making a wonderfull sounds... like a handfull of Minstrels.
lp
