Favourite Board Games?

Alex_Alumni

Recently I was reminded of a favourite childhood board game of mine, Mousetrap!

I was wondering, do you think board games are still as popular as they ever were, and what are some of your favourites? 

A few more of mine to help with discussion include: Ludo, Cluedo, and Pigs Might Fly! 

Karen7788

Scrabble and Monopoly are the favourites in our house, lots of cheating goes on though. 

Sandy_123

Monopoly definately

emancherry33

There was a game I played I think it was called game of knowledge, based on plannets and wining rings to win the game came out early 1980,s

life

Scrabble and a simple game of connect 4. Enjoyed snakes and ladders at school.

66Mustang

Another vote for Monopoly from me.

I think board games have made a comeback. Before Covid when I went through a good patch of being able to see some friends, I went to a board game bar where they had about 1,000 different board games which you could play for free, and you just paid for the food and drinks. It was quite good fun.

Alex_Alumni

That sounds amazing @66Mustang were there any which really stood out to you?

Monopoly is clearly the popular choice, I always find we can never finish it at home, mostly because we all make "deals" to stay playing when we should be bankrupt!

Game of Knowledge sounds fun @emancherry33 I bet there's loads of forgotten gems out there. 

My grandma had one called "Scoop!" where players compete as journalists to make the most interesting newspaper front page   

Binky1234

Frustration 
Snakes and ladders 
Cludo
Monopoly 

These are the favourites in our household.

L_Volunteer

Ooh, snakes and ladders reminds me of some of my favourite days! 

iza

I used to play Monopoly or Eurobusiness (similar to Monopoly) games and did lots of puzzles. Together with my sister we also played Mastermind game. Plenty games using standard cards too especially during campaign time. Also quite popular were games written down on the paper (country , cities, names, rivers  or hit the boat) Today, I would chose good walk/ hiking trip over any boarding game. 

SBSpIMuleX

love monopoly (have 4 different versions of it) and still have and love mouse trap and frustration

Alex_Alumni

Thanks for sharing @SBSpIMuleX, I've not heard of Frustration, how do you play?

SBSpIMuleX

tricky to try and explain if you not heard of it, might be easier to look up online, but its a bit like ludo i think it was called in my parent day, but its a dice in a dome in the middle that u click to spin and you move your 4 coloured pieces around a plastic board and if you jump another players tocken then that piece goes back to their starting home and the winner is the first to get all 4 pieces safely home

Helen09

I love it. Especially Monopoly and Mafia.

Alex_Alumni

Thanks for explaining @SBSpIMuleX I do remember playing Ludo with my grandparents Sounds good!

L_Volunteer

That sounds like great fun Pam. What's your favourite thing about monopoly? 

Alex_Alumni

Pam said:

L_Volunteer said:

That sounds like great fun Pam. What's your favourite thing about monopoly? 

I superglued all the figures down on the board 

Do you keep it out on display? I can imagine it would be tricky to play with all the figures set in place! 

rudolf

It has to be Bananagrams for me.

Scrabble can be frustrating as you sometimes wait a long time whilst everyone has their go.

With Bananagrams you are all doing something throughout.

csno01

Monopoly was my favourite boardgame growing up, I played it constantly. It is one of the very few games I have to this day.

I’m not sure based on popularity nowadays, as it has been ages since I last played a board game. I have seen that become more expensive, Compare to how much they cost back then. 

L_Volunteer

Oh, I haven't heard of Bananagrams @rudolf. Would you like to tell us a little bit more about that? 

It sounds like great fun, just as monopoly does given @csno01's description! I would agree about the price increase too though  

rudolf

L_Volunteer said:

Oh, I haven't heard of Bananagrams @rudolf. Would you like to tell us a little bit more about that? It sounds like great fun

@L_Volunteer

Yeah it’s called Bananagrams as you get all the tiles in a zip up bag in the shape of a banana and you have to find anagrams from your tiles.

It works best with 3 or more people. So with 3 people you each start with 21 randomly chosen tiles.

Once you turn your tiles over so you see what letters you have you all start at the same time to arrange your letters on your table so you make up your own Scrabble board looking grid of words.

if you want to “dump” a letter you put your one tile you don’t want face down in the pool of letters (in the middle of the table) facing downwards, mix them up a bit, then pick up three random tiles from the pool of letters. Best not to “dump” unless you really need to as picking up three tiles is quite a lot.

When you’ve used all your face up tiles on your word grid and there are still the face down ones in the middle of the table you say “peel” and then you all pick up one tile.

The player who uses up all their face up tiles and there aren’t enough face down tiles in the middle for them to say “peel” and all to take one tile they say “Bananagrams” and win.

It’s good to help each other out here and there. We tend to stick to words in the Seiko Oxford electronic dictionary. No brand names etc!