The Games We Used to Play Open Thread

So I did this post as an open thread for Christmas, but then didn't like the reduction of the holiday to its commercialized aspect.

But I think it's okay if I post it on Christmas Eve, maybe?

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." -- A Christmas Carol

Does that cover me?

Board games of the 70s, including the one where you have to escape from the sinking Titanic. I have it cued up to that one but feel free to check out the others.

Stay Alive -- the survival game. I never understood the appeal of this one.

Mousetrap. I tried to make the trap work -- I didn't bother playing, just assembling the trap -- and I was disappointed. I don't remember making the Rube Goldberg contraption actually work.

The classic -- ? -- Connect Four commercial.

Bermuda Triangle game commercial. A how-to-play for Bermuda Triangle.

Merlin commercial one. Merlin commercial Two. This song continues as an earworm in my head.

Simon in the 70s, with Vincent Price as the pitchman. Simon in the 80s and the 90s. You can tell it's the 90s because now Simon is RADICAL!

Stop Thief!, after the end of a Norelco commercial.

And of course: Mattel's handheld electronic games, including football.

A short playthrough of Dark Tower.

Unrelated:

Scarborough says there's nothing damning on Trump in the new Epstein Files

“One of the great mysteries to me … we've had reporting for some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump”pic.twitter.com/SeWRQuXztD
— Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) December 23, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

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1 Pokeno.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (EXyHK)

2 Of course, Michigan Rummy is the holiday game of choice here. Almost beats Euchre.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (EXyHK)

3 Kinda relevant:

https://youtu.be/SLi7Ljcy6n8

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (lUFok)

4 I could have been first but I was looking for my Stratego game.

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (vFG9F)

5 "For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." -- A Christmas Carol

Does that cover me?
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Works for me.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 04:26 PM (bQ4nt)

6 I still have my Merlin and Coleco Electronic Quarterback.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (CNl8/)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (LdBR/)

8 “One of the great mysteries to me … we've had reporting for some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list.

We were reliably told that we had planted evidence. What has happened to our people on the inside?!

Posted by: Joe "The Intern Hunter" Scarborough at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (mexfo)

9 If you run the audio here:

https://tinyurl.com/3y26h9ff

with the video here:

https://tinyurl.com/4b6j8rxu

I don't know why it works, but it works.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (pIfcn)

10 "Life"

One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (NuV6c)

11 Mousetrap. I tried to make the trap work -- I didn't bother playing, just assembling the trap -- and I was disappointed. I don't remember making the Rube Goldberg contraption actually work.
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Maybe you left out a key step. I was able to get the Rube Goldberg contraption to work OK. It was a bit janky, but it would do the job.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (ESVrU)

12 Somalis invented board games too.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (QGaXH)

13 Mousetrap NEVER worked! It was designed by communists to drive little budding American engineers to despair.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (kpS4V)

14 I could have been first but I was looking for my Stratego game.
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (vFG9F)
===

Played a lot of Stratego when I was kid. My sisters preferred "The Game of Life". The wheel went "WWwwwwzzzzzzz"

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (rj6Yv)

15 If you go to a bookstore and look through the children’s books, of course they have pictures. But books written for adults usually don’t have any drawings. What a person can supply in his mind is so much better than what I could give them on the screen.

— Scott Adams, How the Gamesman Began, p. 51

One of these days I need to finish one of his games. They were always fun and there are emulators available

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (EXyHK)

16 It's okay to acknowledge the commercialization of Christmas, Ace, In fact, I've been told that it is run by a big eastern syndicate.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (5yDGQ)

17 Mumblety-peg.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (abIsI)

18 Board games are not funny!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zQLjY)

19 Morning Joe cancelled in 3, 2, 1...

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (2vrAX)

20 I recently found Mouse Trap at a classic games store. It was in great condition except . . .yep, you guessed it, missing the key rubber band. I have zero clue how the game actually works, but I remember making the trap work and wanted to challenge my four children. It took a couple years of trying out different sizes of bands, but they eventually got the trap to work. We still have no idea how the game is played, however.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, YA FILTHY IDIOT!

Love of course to the Horde this Christmas. I miss this place, but full-time work plus a side gig has its price.

Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (ZSsrh)

21 "Hey good lookin', we'll be back to pick you up later!!"

https://tinyurl.com/6vhazt7e

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (NuV6c)

22 Stop Thief! is a pig in a pet store.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (pkeXY)

23 Hey All -

Merry Christmas Eve

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (grNgC)

24 I'm watching "Demolition Man", a high point in 90's explosions and squibbage. I'd forgotten how great Wesley Snipes was as the Jokeresque villain.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (kpS4V)

25 Board games are not funny!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zQLjY)

Well that fell flat.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (zBIzS)

26 I'm weird. I've never liked games. Not because I am a dour sort. I believe it's more about me having the attention span of a 2 year old boy who drank too much Mountain Dew.

I simply get bored, really quickly, and it turns into a chore for me to pretend to be interested.

Except Pictionary. I am good at that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:33 PM (0aYVJ)

27 What about those vibrating-panel toy football games, where every play was a chaotic melee of players buzzing randomly around the field?

Those were really lame, even for the '70's.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (COQGW)

28 >>Board games are not funny!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie

>>Well that fell flat.

Can we interest you in a Tonka toy, Rachel?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (NuV6c)

29 24 I'm watching "Demolition Man", a high point in 90's explosions and squibbage. I'd forgotten how great Wesley Snipes was as the Jokeresque villain.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Sandra Bullock looked hot in that movie.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (abIsI)

30 We played Monopoly so much that my brothers memorized the board and could instantly tell you where to move your token from your dice throw. Sped up the game, but took the fun out of skipping your piece along the street.
I liked managing the property deeds, so that was my job.
The rule was Loser Puts Up the Game.

Posted by: sal at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (f+FmA)

31 Those were really lame, even for the '70's.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (COQGW)
==

Tiny felt footballs.

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

32 Mumblety-peg.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (abIsI)

That's a gateway game to Russian roulette, you know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (COQGW)

33 Beavis says what?

Dayum! It's cold out there. Four below zero, and snowing lightly, and a breeze, too. Too flippin' cold for me to want to fire up the snow blower. Put the #1 Suburban into 4High, and ran back and forth to make tracks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (npFr7)

34 My childhood memories of board games is that they created equal amounts of fun and arguments.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CNl8/)

35 You left off the Atari 2600.

I spent more time on that console than any other device in my life. I'd rather play Combat than Fortnite.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (Vh9CX)

36 Clue
Parcheesi

. . . and Backgammon ftw!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (NuV6c)

37 ZORK

That was Peak Gaming.

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (grNgC)

38 I liked to play Risk. Global conquest was exciting.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (abIsI)

39 I still have my 2600. Get it out once every few years just to see if it still works.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (CNl8/)

40 The cool kids got "Operation" for Christmas. BBbbbbzzzzz

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:37 PM (rj6Yv)

41 Landslide was the best game...shame it isn't being made today...taught the electoral college like a champ while also teaching kids how to backstab, gamble, and go for it all to win...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (tOcjL)

42 Axis and Allies > Risk

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (CNl8/)

43 Mumbledy Peg with open pocket knives.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dGdfE)

44 Mattel football was awesome to play during church. The secret was if you took the battery lid off, it disabled the sound. I think many sermons were missed due to this little beauty.

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (/xmMU)

45 >> I still have my 2600. Get it out once every few years just to see if it still works.

Nice. I still have a Playstation I and II.

I sold my Sega Genesis and all its components and games years ago. Big mistake. Apparently that sealed Final Fantasy that I included in the package was worth more than half a dozen of the consoles.

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (grNgC)

46 All we got to play was Rock, Paper, Scissors...though we weren't quite sure what 'scissors' actually were.

Then, there was Tic-Tac-Toe, using sticks to mark the dirt.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)

47 One Christmas my lunatic and very leftwing Aunt brought us a Ouija board game. After she left, drunk as usual, Dad grabbed it threw it in the fire and said never listen to a thing she says.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)

48 10 "Life"

One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (NuV6c)

A few years back, Target had a version that was labeled "Now, With Crushing Debt!"

Always regretted not buying that--it was a one-season offering.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (h7ZuX)

49 Mumbledy Peg with open pocket knives.
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dGdfE)

Mumbledy, mumbledy Peg Bundy. Why, yes, I would.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (npFr7)

50 My childhood memories of board games is that they created equal amounts of fun and arguments.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CNl8/)

I recall either Joe Mannix or YD commenting about how their Monopoly games always ended in violence. This was some years ago.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)

51 33 Beavis says what?

Dayum! It's cold out there. Four below zero, and snowing lightly, and a breeze, too. Too flippin' cold for me to want to fire up the snow blower. Put the #1 Suburban into 4High, and ran back and forth to make tracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (npFr7)

High today in AJ is 71.

I saw you plan to travel after Christmas. Safe journey!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (QGaXH)

52 When I was a kid, I had the Electric Football Game with the vibrating field where the players would move. Also had Hot Wheels cars and a Track.

Look back now and it looks like a ridiculous football game that no kid would play with in today's world.

Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (J9q9v)

53 One Christmas my lunatic and very leftwing Aunt brought us a Ouija board game. After she left, drunk as usual, Dad grabbed it threw it in the fire and said never listen to a thing she says.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)

He was quite wise no matter his BAC.

Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (ZSsrh)

54 Naked, coed Twister was a big draw for me.

No, really.

Ah youth. . .

Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (cYBz/)

55 We had a delightful computer game called "Machiavelli", where you started out trading and could amass enough wealth to bribe senators, assassinate cardinals, and become pope or doge (or both!).

Posted by: FollyHerself at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (dyewR)

56 Oops - off hard charging sock.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (cYBz/)

57 The first computer program I was ever paid for was a knockoff of Mattel’s baseball game for the TRS-80 Model 1. Sold it to a computer magazine for $200 which was a lot of money back then. Of course, I put it back into computer peripherals. An expansion interface to bring it from 16k to 48k. Wide open memory!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (EXyHK)

58 Axis and Allies > Risk
Posted by: Mark1971
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Are you talking about fun or hours required?

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)

59 One Christmas when our kids were maybe 5 and 10 we spent the entire break playing board games - I only remember Battleship, but there were others too.

Good Memories!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (QGaXH)

60 We loved a card game called Pit.
It was based on commodities trading and the goal was to corner the market.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (NuV6c)

61 Then, there was Tic-Tac-Toe, using sticks to mark the dirt.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)

You had toes? LUXURY!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (rbvCR)

62 The problem with Christmas is that it was usually too cold for Lawn Darts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (COQGW)

63 How about "Rockem Sockem Robots"....

Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (J9q9v)

64 Stocks and Bonds FTW
-Jim Cramer

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (QGaXH)

65 Are you talking about fun or hours required?

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)

LOL. My cousins and I played a game of Axis and Allies that started in early afternoon and went to 6 am the next morning.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (CNl8/)

66 I liked Stratego too. Bombs and everything.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (abIsI)

67 I should add today, my kids spouse and I played Wits and Wagers Las Vegas and then followed up with a board game escape room.

If you all don't have a version of Wits and Wagers, ala the fair Trivial Pursuit game, b/c it's not what you know, it's who you gamble on, you're missing out. And it's done in 7 questions per game...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (tOcjL)

68 Pretty sure that I've never had an electric-powered toy or game.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (XeU6L)

69 One Christmas my lunatic and very leftwing Aunt brought us a Ouija board game. After she left, drunk as usual, Dad grabbed it threw it in the fire and said never listen to a thing she says.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Probably a good move in general, but now look at your life--spending Christmas even sh*t-posting on the moron site with all of us losers

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (/xmMU)

70 How about "Rockem Sockem Robots"....
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (J9q9v)

I remember being so jealous of kids that had those!

I liked games in phases. Hungry Hungry Hippo was always fun tho.

Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (ZSsrh)

71 No a board game but rather, the best toy ever!!

Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set

I'd kill someone to have one again.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)

72 Are you talking about fun or hours required?

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)

LOL. My cousins and I played a game of Axis and Allies that started in early afternoon and went to 6 am the next morning.
Posted by: Mark1971
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Respect

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (/xmMU)

73 60 We loved a card game called Pit.
It was based on commodities trading and the goal was to corner the market.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (NuV6c)

That one was raucous!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (h7ZuX)

74 We have the Titanic game. My 4 year-old boy was so fascinated with all things Titanic that we were convinced he'd been on the darn thing in a past life.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (GSe6k)

75 I recall either Joe Mannix or YD commenting about how their Monopoly games always ended in violence. This was some years ago.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)

Probable Hasboro could have gotten more sales if they had the "Bankruptcy expansion pack"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (rbvCR)

76 53 He was quite wise no matter his BAC.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (ZSsrh)

I think it was the Aunt that was drunk.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (QGaXH)

77 Back when people were not such idiots and Little Karen's I had a Chemistry Set and you could go down to Woolworth Store and buy Chemicals.

Hell, Now the toothpaste is locked up so people will not steal them...

Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (J9q9v)

78 Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set

I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)

Chy-nah scarfed them all up to build the Three Gorges Dam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (npFr7)

79 Maj. Healey: "One Christmas my lunatic and very leftwing Aunt brought us a Ouija board game. After she left, drunk as usual, Dad grabbed it threw it in the fire..."

Smartest move of the game. Kindling.

What a total scam of a game. Worst. "Game." Ever.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (gLikB)

80 Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set

I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)\

How did you contain the plasma?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (rbvCR)

81
“One of the great mysteries to me … we've had reporting for some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump”

___________

What's the mystery? Trump can find his own quiff just fine. He didn't need Epstein.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:47 PM (tgvbd)

82 Back when people were not such idiots and Little Karen's I had a Chemistry Set and you could go down to Woolworth Store and buy Chemicals.
--------

Nanci Griffith, 'Love at the Five and Dime'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:47 PM (XeU6L)

83 Once I got my .22 and my Fly Rod...I never played with games much at all.

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (grNgC)

84
Gettysburg!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (tgvbd)

85 Speaking of games, I just saw this on YT. Name a famous character you see yourself as. I had a hard time and was leaning toward Archie Bunker but eventually settled on Rumpole of the Bailey (although I no longer appear before the bar.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

86 I always liked Battleship. Very simple rules. Quick to play. Destroy your friends. Not much more fun than that.

Well, maybe NERF football.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 24, 2025 04:49 PM (gLikB)

87 Somalis invented board games too.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Who Can Eat the Monopoly Money Fastest? Great game.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 04:49 PM (mlg/3)

88 but eventually settled on Rumpole of the Bailey (although I no longer appear before the bar.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

How do you appear after the bar?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (npFr7)

89 I still have my Star Wars: Escape From the Death Star board game, received either in 78 or 79. Everything is still there, just not in the greatest of shape.

I think I last pulled it out 15 years ago and played it with my kids, when they were actually still kids.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (5yDGQ)

90 Back when people were not such idiots and Little Karen's I had a Chemistry Set…

I had a nice one. I don”t recall following the instructions. Just mixing stuff at random over the burner and noting which had the most interesting (i.e. explosive) results.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (EXyHK)

91 Speaking of games, I just saw this on YT. Name a famous character you see yourself as.

Hey, I don't even need to de-sock from two threads ago for this one.

Posted by: Squidward at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (3nLb4)

92 I had a hard time and was leaning toward Archie Bunker but eventually settled on Rumpole of the Bailey (although I no longer appear before the bar.)

You do still enjoy a nice glass of Pomeroy's Plonk or Chateau Thames Embankment though, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (COQGW)

93 Merry Christmas, all!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (NuV6c)

94 Cooties

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (NFX2v)

95 Merlin had a few games on it. One was a timed thing that my brothers and I played obsessively trying to beat each other's lowest times. It would have been a very boring electronic toy if it weren't for our competitive nature.

Posted by: 496 at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (kTtsV)

96 There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump

-
Like murdering an intern.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (L/fGl)

97 Any one remember "Situation 4"?

Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (R/m4+)

98
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)

99 Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set

I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete

How did you contain the plasma?
Posted by: Kindltot

It's easy once you map out the laminar flows, boundary layers, and skin friction drag.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (cYBz/)

100 I guess I’m one of the few who played Candyland and Chutes and Ladders.
We also played Mastermind and Uno a lot.

Also Trivial Pursuit was popular when I was a teen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (6ydKt)

101
Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set

I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete

I had one of those. Spent many an hour pumping and dumping water.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (pkeXY)

102 You do still enjoy a nice glass of Pomeroy's Plonk or Chateau Thames Embankment though, right?
Posted by: Cicero

Of course.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

103 There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump

There are some rather strong suggestions that Donald Trump is a heterosexual male. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (COQGW)

104 Cooties
Posted by: L - No nic

Fun for a time but by college, they moved into a whole different realm.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

105 100 I guess I’m one of the few who played Candyland and Chutes and Ladders.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Just seeing them runs my blood cold.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 04:53 PM (NFX2v)

106 We used to play a card game called "Spoon". Games would sometimes end with some crying.

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (vFG9F)

107
Smoky Mountain Christmas songs
for background music

https://is.gd/h7xfMF

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (yreN9)

108 I remember Snakes and Ladders. When did snakes become "chutes"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)

109 Battleship, Monopoly, Stratego, Risk. As I got older, my friends and I played the Avalon Hill and SPI wargames, as well as Diplomacy.

Posted by: RPL at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (6lCOl)

110 Simon was a fun game, as were Pitfall, Adventure and Haunted House on the 2600.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (31p00)

111 It's easy once you map out the laminar flows, boundary layers, and skin friction drag.
Posted by: Tonypete
--------
Ah. Fluid dynamics have entered the chat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (XeU6L)

112 I had a Civil War rifle. Put a cap on the bullet casing and it would shoot a red plastic bullet 15 or 20 feet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (L/fGl)

113 The most entertaining game from my youth was Jarts wars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (0U5gm)

114 Connect Four was a favorite forever, even had the mini/travel version that folded into a case with all the checker pieces inside.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

115 SOUND OF CHRISTMAS (Full Album)

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=R-5L8mZtyMI&list=
PLJkeDBmFGaFCtwYv4dJRDYUBfXHWrXIWq

Might be the best Christmas LP I own.

Posted by: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO at December 24, 2025 04:58 PM (grNgC)

116 Also Trivial Pursuit was popular when I was a teen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

I would be kicking everyone's butt and then would hit the popular culture questions and stalled.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:58 PM (0U5gm)

117 Jarts FTW. Learned about danger and injuries, the rub dirt on it ethos.

Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (M6VqZ)

118 I remember Snakes and Ladders. When did snakes become "chutes"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)

The Pentecostal version of the game had the snakes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (COQGW)

119 I had mousetrap and like ace I never played it just set it up. I also had a worm wrestling, or wrestling worm, it was a wrestling ring with a motor down inside of it that spun a spinning magnetized shaft. The worms were stamped steel zigzags that spun around the shaft and would get thrown out of the ring. You bet on your color worm.

I also had a merlin, like most cool hip kids who were down with it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

120 108 I remember Snakes and Ladders. When did snakes become "chutes"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)

The Milton-Bradley version since 1943 was always Chutes and Ladders, but it’s basically the same game I think.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

121 104. Fun for a time but by college, they moved into a whole different realm.
Posted by: Tonypete

Aha! So I've heard. 🤨

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (NFX2v)

122 I remember those Mattel guns with the Greenie Stickum Caps, and "shootin shells". The casings had a spring in them to propel the bullet, and the plastic bullets had pawls in the that snagged the inner rim of the casing. When the hammer hit the cap, it drove the casing a little further into the chamber, where a raised area would depress the pawls, and allow the spring to "fire" the bullet down the barrel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)

123 I think Life, Risk, and Monopoly were out Christmas season games.

I mostly preferred to read. Then came video games, like SNES games and that was it for human interaction.

Oh yeah, we did still play dice games. Not craps. More like Yatzeee and some offshoots like Zilch. Literal hours of each day of everyone sitting around a kitchen table, eating snacks and rolling dice.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (xcxpd)

124 We should be thankful this time of year. I'm thankful that H-wood hasn't tried to remake It's a Wonderful Life in 2025.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (mlg/3)

125 Buzkhazi was a good time.

Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (M6VqZ)

126 Naked, coed Twister was a big draw for me.

No, really.

Ah youth. . .

Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

I recall a few raised eyebrows when I went to the checkout line with a Twister game, a large jar of Crisco Oil and thirty feet of rope.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (0U5gm)

127 Twister!! We had more fun with that than we did with anything else.

Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (6NOyf)

128 Sure we had pick-up-sticks. And my Mom said "you're gonna put your eye out!".

Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (UslNH)

129
Might be the best Christmas LP I own.
Posted by: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO

Your link is farked.

https://is.gd/4QMuSi

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (yreN9)

130 Stratego, Battleship, Monopoly, lots of Avalon Hill, 500 rummy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (Cjt/F)

131 >>Your link is farked.

Thanks for fixing it for me...never tried linking an Album in Playlist Format.
Apparently, I fucked that up.

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (grNgC)

132 I vaguely remember Mille Bornes. A French card game based on road trips.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (npFr7)

133 I remember jigsaw puzzles. Put it out on a table, everybody talks while they pick over the pieces, it may take the whole holiday to finish it. Or not. Games where someone has to win don't interest me.

Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)

134 Woo-hoo!

The new Mr. Coffee machine just arrived. (An emergency Christmas present to myself.)

The world is a better place already.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (gKDq2)

135 Ever step on jacks?

Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)

136 Rockem Sockem Robots! Knock someone's head off! Excellent!!

Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (UslNH)

137 Most of my board games were hand me downs, so probably 50s 60s games. Balancing acrobats that you stacked weights on, another one had these plastic characters on springs and suction cups you would press down and then have to do something before they popped back up. I'm sure a lot of drugs were used by the game designers. Trippy.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9)

138
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?

President answers calls from NORAD.

With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:

https://is.gd/eDNe9D

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (yreN9)

139 98
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)

Easter.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)

140 Not a board game person as such but Pictionary is a riot with the right people.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (E0p3T)

141
Ever step on jacks?

Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)

__________

Then: Legos

Now: Dog kibble

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:06 PM (tgvbd)

142 >>Ever step on jacks?

Yes. He had some weird kinks.

Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (grNgC)

143 >>> Ever step on jacks?
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)

Yes, still better than clear plastic Christmas bulb caltrops.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (3uBP9)

144 I remember jigsaw puzzles. Put it out on a table, everybody talks while they pick over the pieces, it may take the whole holiday to finish it. Or not. Games where someone has to win don't interest me.
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)

My friend's parents, until the days they died, kept a puzzle on the dining room table, except at holidays. It was always a many hundred-piece puzzle and it would just sit there and those passing by might put a piece or two in. Completing it might take weeks. I have no idea what they did with all those puzzles.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (gKDq2)

145 Avalon Hill board games. PanzerBlitz. France 1940. Later Jim Dunnigan's Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) games, which carried the war gaming series much further.

Yes, I used to be a 14 year-old boy. Some would argue I still am.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (MZ+PY)

146 We had Stratego in the game drawer as a kid, but I never got to play it. I always wanted to play that

Posted by: 496 at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (khVJI)

147 Well, time to go to the store, and get some cranberry sauce, which I inexplicably forgot yesterday. And some rum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)

148
You see that?
The Pentagon's NORAD took calls from children, and the President talks to the kids.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (yreN9)

149 My least favorite game from that era was called, I think, either "Tantalizer" or "Tantalus," and it was very similar to "Operation" in that you tried to retireve things with a pair of tweezers, and if you touched the walls, it gave you an electric shock. But Tantalizer was way worse because you had to do the whole thing backwards in a mirror reflection -- i.e. you could only see the thing you were trying to get reflected in a mirror, hidden out of direct sight.

I found it utterly impossible, and constantly got shocked, every five seconds.

I later read that the game was basically training to be a dentist, because dentists often have to look at your teeth (and do procedures) reflected in one of the long "dental mirror" rods.

If you do good at Tantalizer, it sends a message to the American Association of Dental Surgeons, and within minutes men in black suits and dark glasses show up at your door and abduct you for training and a lifetime career as an indentured dentist, whether you like it or not.

Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (oraVG)

150 124 We should be thankful this time of year. I'm thankful that H-wood hasn't tried to remake It's a Wonderful Life in 2025.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (mlg/3)

I generally don't like the remakes but I did enjoy the remake of The Bishop's Wife almost as much as the original. Of course they had to do a race swap but you can't have everything.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (QGaXH)

151 My first favorite video game was Pole Position.

We had the Atari 2600 and I mostly played Pac-Man, Pitfall, and Frogger.

Then with Nintendo it was Super Mario, Top Gun, and Legend of Zelda.

Played a lot of other games, too, but those were my favs.

I had a Sega Game Gear and Genesis was last, played John Madden Football to death, before moving on to PCs.

Haven’t owned a console since the late 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:08 PM (6ydKt)

152 I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
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Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)

I agree. Being born is pretty easy. Rising from the dead? Not so much.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:08 PM (gKDq2)

153 With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:

Just love the looks they give each other toward the beginning. Genuinely happy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (EXyHK)

154
Ever step on jacks?
Posted by: tubal

On Jack's what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (pkeXY)

155 Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)

How are you Wenda. I hope you are hanging in. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (E0p3T)

156 We played with metal Slinkys and Silly Putty for hours on end. (Enough! Get off the damn steps & leave the newspaper alone! yelled the parents.

Then we went over to playing Twister and shoving and punching each other.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (NFX2v)

157 >>Then with Nintendo it was Super Mario, Top Gun, and Legend of Zelda.

Contra was my jam when I went to a friends house. We didn't have a Nintendo.

Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)

158 sockOFF

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)

159 Sheesh. You elites with your games.
I got put outside and told to find a stick to play with.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (2WIwB)

160 If you do good at Tantalizer, it sends a message to the American Association of Dental Surgeons, and within minutes men in black suits and dark glasses show up at your door and abduct you for training and a lifetime career as an indentured dentist, whether you like it or not.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (oraVG)

Aha! We now see revealed the roots of your obsession with conspiracies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (npFr7)

161 My favorite 2600 game was Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Took awhile to figure out how to find the Ark. The instructions were purposefully vague. You had to explore and piece things together.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (CNl8/)

162 139 98
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)

Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)

No love for National Donut Day?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (QGaXH)

163 In dentured dentist!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:11 PM (pkeXY)

164 i forgot Operation.

Loved that game.

It was also good to get on Mom’s nerves with by intentionally hitting the edges to get it to buzz.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

165 >>>Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set

I never had that one but I had the skyscraper one and the bridge one. It taught me that my path in life was engineering. (Math later convinced me otherwise.)

Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (1wjle)

166 138
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?

President answers calls from NORAD.

With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:

https://is.gd/eDNe9D
Posted by: Soothsayer

She's lovely, always.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (NFX2v)

167 Sorry! Loved that game as a kid. Clue too.

Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (lJ0H4)

168 The goofy game for dopey doctors.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (pkeXY)

169 Football II was the stuff.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (dK+Kv)

170 recall a few raised eyebrows when I went to the checkout line with a Twister game, a large jar of Crisco Oil and thirty feet of rope.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Did anyone direct you to where they were selling courgettes?

Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (vi3Cj)

171 When I was a lad, any kid would be satisfied with a stick and a hoop!

Posted by: Granpa Ace at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)

172 We used to have Boardgames like Monopoly, Scrabble, Dragnet, I got by sister the game of Clue for Christmas and I had the Addams Family Boardgame and Dastardly and Mutty in their Flying Machines and we also had Sorry as well

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:14 PM (FLiOE)

173 Contra was my jam when I went to a friends house. We didn't have a Nintendo.
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)

Had a friend who owned Contra.
Borrowed that one several times to play it.

Probably the first great military game, at least in my mind it is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

174 We've done Ginger v. Mary Ann so how about Princess Kate v. Melania?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (L/fGl)

175 My favorite 2600 game was Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Took awhile to figure out how to find the Ark. The instructions were purposefully vague. You had to explore and piece things together.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (CNl8/)

Waders of the Lost Narc. Tragic story of a DEA group fishing vacation to the headwaters of the Missouri River, gone terribly wrong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (npFr7)

176 >>> I remember jigsaw puzzles. Put it out on a table, everybody talks while they pick over the pieces, it may take the whole holiday to finish it. Or not. Games where someone has to win don't interest me.

sometime in the early 2000s I discovered 3D jigsaw puzzles.

Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (1wjle)

177 My brother and I played Stratego endlessly - that was a good one!

Not a board game, more of a body puncture game - has anyone mentioned Jarts?

My high point with Jarts was when we were visiting an uncle I didn't really like, and it was only my parents and me. (brother and sister got dropped off somewhere, they were lucky) So the adults all talked in the living room, and I got sent out in the yard to play by myself. I found a set of Jarts, and decided to see how high I could throw them. Yeah, the fun is in dodging them. (that's what 12 year old boys do)
But he had trees in his yard, and one got stuck in a branch about 25 feet up. So I said to myself "uh oh I'm gonna be in trouble, better knock it down." Well you know what happened. After Jart #2 joined #1, it wasn't long before #3 and #4 were up there as well.

Luckily about then parents called "time to go!" and I just said goodbye to Uncle I didn't really like anyway and never said anything to anybody. Heh I do wonder about the next time anybody went out to look for those things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (uWKK8)

178 Avalon Hill board games. PanzerBlitz. France 1940. Later Jim Dunnigan's Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) games, which carried the war gaming series much further.

Yes, I used to be a 14 year-old boy. Some would argue I still am.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (MZ+PY)

I liked the S & T games, with the hexagon map grids. Stalingrad, Frigate (War in the Age of Sail), Gettysburg, etc.. Spent hours playing those.

There was this two-book game called, I believe, 'Ace of Aces'; a WWI dogfight game. It was a small flip book and each player had one, calling out pages (for manouvers) until either both planes flew away from each other or one of you got shot up. That was fun. Lots of imagination in picturing the dogfight in your head. Easy to carry around, too.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (gKDq2)

179 >>>We had Stratego in the game drawer as a kid, but I never got to play it. I always wanted to play that

it was pretty good! I really liked the pieces and the nineteenth century theming.

Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)

180 I liked Clue, too,
But few people around wanted to play it so I rarely got to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

181 Stratego was great.

Unfortunately, I had to have a friend over if I wanted to play Stratego. My sister would never play that one.

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (grNgC)

182 Hi, ellipses.
My granddaughter Maria died two weeks before Christmas last year, so this first anniversary has been tough. But I've sort of had my Christmas reading about all of yours.

And tomorrow night my son arrives with his kids and some of their friends, so for the next month (!!) I will have a houseful.

And since my son is the bossiest man you will ever meet, I'm not even bothering to plan. He'll do it all!

Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (FRS+s)

183 84
Gettysburg!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (tgvbd)

My dad had an awesome Gettysburg game, with the hexaganol movement spaces. He loved wargames - he would always play as Lee, and let my brother and I have the Federal Army. He always kicked our asses.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (uWKK8)

184 Merry Christmas, Ace.

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (grNgC)

185 One Christmas my lunatic and very leftwing Aunt brought us a Ouija board game. After she left, drunk as usual, Dad grabbed it threw it in the fire and said never listen to a thing she says.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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I don't know who gave us a Ouija board-- parents did not approve-- but it was there in our game closet.

I remember getting scolded, when caught playing it with my friend. It's an evil thing, Mom said.

Year or so later, Mom hollered at me for "rescuing it" from the trash can. (I had not.)

Then Mom burned it, like she "should've done when it first arrived."

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (rdVOm)

186 >>>I remember Snakes and Ladders. When did snakes become "chutes"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I only hear Snakes and Ladders on British tv or in British books.

Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (1wjle)

187 We had "mousetrap" as a kid. The fun part was starting the Rube Goldberg contraption you have to build and watching the basket fall on the mouse

Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (vi3Cj)

188 Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set >> Erector set

Girder and Panel in general was a great toy. We used to build them for our slot car layouts.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (abIsI)

189 >>>The Games We Used to Play Open Thread

No Steve Jackson Games Car Wars?

https://carwars.sjgames.com/

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (dK+Kv)

190 2 The problem with Christmas is that it was usually too cold for Lawn Darts.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (COQGW)
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Winter means Basement Jarts! 🩸

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (kpS4V)

191 Can you Imagine Biden on the NORAD phone with the kiddies?

'I'll bet your hair smells good little girl....wanna touch the hair on my leg?'

I will always wonder if it wasn't an unwritten rule around the 'in' crowd to keep your young daughters away from him.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH)

192 I =loved= the Bermuda Triangle game, though it was probably twitchier than Mouse Trap (which worked about 75% of the time for us).

Also King Oil, Gambler, and some oldies like Careers, Go To The Head of The Class.

Kinda a golden age before video games killed it and it became niche.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (asXVI)

193 Stratego, to me, was a lower level chess. So it was more fun. Chess was work, even as a 10-year-old.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (gKDq2)

194 Yeah, it could be Milton-Bradley was facing a copyright issue with Snakes and Ladders so they just renamed it Chutes and Ladders.

Quite a common move in board games.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (6ydKt)

195 Opened a 1997 Port wine I had since probably no later than 1998 and guess it was as perfect as it gets. Very sweet

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (Ia/+0)

196 Holidays with aunts and uncles were mostly a time for card games. Rummy, gin rummy, and pinochle. Pinochle was a bitch to learn as a 10 year old. Got better at 14.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (bQ4nt)

197 There was this two-book game called, I believe, 'Ace of Aces'; a WWI dogfight game.

-
Loved that!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (L/fGl)

198 I only hear Snakes and Ladders on British tv or in British books.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (1wjle)

In the Canada of my yoot, we had toys, books and games of British origin, and also toys, books and games of U.S. origin. Best of both worlds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (npFr7)

199 >>>One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.
Posted by: Lizzy

kind of the same. I think I rquit when I started out with a crappy job.

Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (1wjle)

200 And if Mr Bzenskii ( whatever) thete is no ghete give itvup, tjere is no there

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

201 166 138
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
---

Dated a girl who was much like out First Lady.
Courted her, in retrospect spent more money on her than any other girl. She insisted on being good friends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (2ef5s)

202 194 Yeah, it could be Milton-Bradley was facing a copyright issue with Snakes and Ladders so they just renamed it Chutes and Ladders.

Changer in 1943 to make it more Kid friendly

Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (VE6XX)

203 I remember mousetrap working about 90% of the time if set up right. Version we had did have punched holes in the board, so most pieces had firm anchor points.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (KaHlS)

204 Also, board games are less about "commercializing the season" and more about having fun with friends and family.

My mom and I were talking about how much things have changed and how people aren't into getting stuff on Xmas so much, but it's because back in the day you got stuff two days out of the year, and now you can get pretty much anything whenever.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (asXVI)

205 ARiK, I think the whole Ashley diary has been leaked since. But it is mostly about her own adult struggles (some of her own design, like affairs).
The family is suboptimal. Hunter's kid with the stripper is probably going to turn out best.

Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (vi3Cj)

206 Afternoon, all,

I don't recall playing many home games as a kid. There were a few with the little arrow spinner that you flicked to have it tell you where to start play, but I don't recall actual names. I was more into the plastic assembly kits, Aurora, Revell, AMT, etc.

Oh, and I just got off the phone with my oldest friend. He's doing well in Florida. Like me, he admits he's become something of a hermit now (despite having his wife of many years and his grown sons there with him), and doesn't trust people like we used to. I told him, "A low-trust society? It stinks."

He's a big Trump supporter, and even used the term "The Deep State." Guess he got it from Trump; I don't know if he reads much alternative news on the 'Net.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (wzUl9)

207 Stay Alive -- the survival game. I never understood the appeal of this one.
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Some marketing genius thought "Lord of the Flies" was a good premise to promote a kid's game. I got a kick out of the winner having a Brooklyn dialect.

Posted by: Orson at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (dIske)

208
My mother had a high school education and still whipped my ass routinely at Scrabble.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (tgvbd)

209

My nurses bought me the Grinch christmas version of Operation, and we will be playing it tonight!

Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviara at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (D836D)

210 “See, we put a general in charge, because we want to be sure it works out right.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (EXyHK)

211 Yahtzee !
Got the kids thinking about gambling and poker hands. What's not to like?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (abIsI)

212 Talk of a WWI dogfight game triggered a memory of a board(?) game where you had a biplane and...ball bearings were involved somehow... I think the biplane rested on a board with these two collapsible props, and you shot your ball bearings at the opponent and tried to crash him by taking out those props.

I remember having fun at that. And the smell of the plastic-soldier/monster/whatever factory. Smelled so toxic and good.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (asXVI)

213 Hadrian your mothets HS education was probably much better than what the Universities have these days

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)

214
I'm watching Car 54, Where Are You's Christmas episode:

click here & enjoy too

https://is.gd/QBIaIJ

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (yreN9)

215 3-D Chess is a simple game that one can play with human friends.

Posted by: Spock, son of Sarek at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (0sNs1)

216 What's that game where you pop the dice in a plastic bubble in the center of the game board? You could smash that thing a million times and it would still work?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)

217 The smell of the Thingmaker heating up Plasti-Goop is my lemon madeleine.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (kpS4V)

218 What's that game where you pop the dice in a plastic bubble in the center of the game board? You could smash that thing a million times and it would still work?

Sorry!

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (V362x)

219 >> What's that game where you pop the dice in a plastic bubble in the center of the game board? You could smash that thing a million times and it would still work?

Boggle?

Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (grNgC)

220 In the 70's I tried out a board game called Ogre, which still lives on today.

Designer Steve Jackson was trying to come up with a "microgame" that could be sold inexpensively ($3). He wanted to make a science fiction wargame. He had a limited budget for pieces, and had a brilliant idea: what if one player only had one piece, but it's a really strong piece?

One player controls the Ogre, a giant cybernetic tank with lots of guns and missiles. The other player has a force of tanks, combat hovercraft, artillery, and infantry.

When I played it back in the day, whoever had the Ogre would win. As an adult I realize the game is balanced and the Ogre can be beaten.

It's still available and still has hardcore fans.

Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (LNPSJ)

221 -----

Winter means Basement Jarts! 🩸
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (kpS4V)
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Break barrel BB pistol with a set of darts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (2ef5s)

222 Yahtzee !
Got the kids thinking about gambling and poker hands. What's not to like?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:24

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When I was a kid it was the height of hilarity to remove the bottom from the dice cup when the other players weren't looking.

Posted by: Bigsmith at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (1Au9i)

223
Losing a "Sorry" game to my granddaughter has made my Christmas Eve.

Losing a Cribbage game to my son later will make it a perfect day.

Posted by: Auspex at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (YAFrp)

224 Anybody remember Careful? A plastic tower game; a larger version of Jenga. When that tower fell, well, it was something. Taught you dexterity.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (gKDq2)

225
Trouble?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (yreN9)

226 I had to search for it online. Trouble had the bulletproof dice bubble.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (abIsI)

227 214
I'm watching Car 54, Where Are You's Christmas episode:

click here & enjoy too

https://is.gd/QBIaIJ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (yreN9)

Sung in increasing frantic voice:

There's a holdup in the Bronx

Brooklyn's broken out in fights

There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights

There's a scout troop short a child, Kruschev's due at Idylwild

CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (QGaXH)

228 150 124 We should be thankful this time of year. I'm thankful that H-wood hasn't tried to remake It's a Wonderful Life in 2025.
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"It's A Wonderful Knife" (2023) is absolute trash and woke and obvious.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)

229
Hadrian your mothets HS education was probably much better than what the Universities have these days

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)

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I have a general-education book she bought in school in the 1940s. You'd be better educated reading that than most college students today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (tgvbd)

230 #216

I think you are thinking of Trouble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_(board_game)

Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (LNPSJ)

231
the name of the game is...

Ball Buster

https://is.gd/PvL7XQ

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (yreN9)

232 What's that game where you pop the dice in a plastic bubble in the center of the game board? You could smash that thing a million times and it would still work?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)

Trouble.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (gKDq2)

233 You with your fancy board games

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (DoBxX)

234 Our game was Kill the Ball Carrier. Whoever had the ball, everyone else would try to inflict as much damage on the other players so they could take the ball away and be ball carrier.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)

235 There was no score and no winner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)

236 Our game was Kill the Ball Carrier. Whoever had the ball, everyone else would try to inflict as much damage on the other players so they could take the ball away and be ball carrier.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)

We smeared ours.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (dK+Kv)

237 132 I vaguely remember Mille Bornes. A French card game based on road trips.
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (asXVI)

238 My grandmother taught us how to play Canasta. Darned if I can remember how now.

Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (lJ0H4)

239 Mousetrap comes with instructions how to set it up.
Follow them and it will work.

Just like Ikea shelving.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (/lPRQ)

240 Can I vent a little bit?
(Maybe I should use my non seasonal nic for this - bob (moron incog.)

I have two WWII peeves and one just got triggered at another site.

1. That damn "survivor bias" meme with the image of the plane with bullet holes. You all must know it.
I refuse to believe that the engineers at the time were too stupid to understand the importance of control lines, fuel tanks, and pilots. I will say no more.

2. (The one that got triggered.) Gerry Can v. US fuel cans -- "look how inferior the allies were."
Why do people insist on comparing a disposable can used to ship boatloads of fuel and distribute all over the continent to a utility can designed to be reused? Do they really think the Americans were so stupid they just had no good ideas at all? It's a wonder we won.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (fsyiM)

241
What about the simple stuff?
Do kids know how to make paper dolls, anymore?

Paper airplanes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (yreN9)

242 We played Life last year and I decided to do everything the opposite of what I did in real life. No college, no wife, no kids. Still wound up broke.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (u73oe)

243 Oh well....wife has last minute errands for me to run in the torrential (for us) rain.

Maybe see everyone on the ONT?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (QGaXH)

244 What's that game where you pop the dice in a plastic bubble in the center of the game board? You could smash that thing a million times and it would still work?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)

Trouble.

Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (ZSsrh)

245 231
the name of the game is...

Ball Buster

https://is.gd/PvL7XQ

Posted by: Soothsayer
LOL
No mention of wearing eye protection.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (abIsI)

246 Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (FRS+s)

I remembered you had had something happen but I wasn't sure if it was around Christmas or not. Happy to hear there is some good around.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (E0p3T)

247

Growing up in Brooklyn, it was kick the can, stickball, box baseball, Ringo-Lee-vee-O , pitching pennies, and so on and so on.

A vanished world I'm afraid. Long ago and oh so far away...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (x0n13)

248 Hi all. I’m talking to myself on a thread above this one.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (leOJv)

249 I vaguely remember Mille Bornes. A French card game based on road trips.
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (asXVI)

We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (dK+Kv)

250 I remember when Legos meant a big box of bricks, not a thousand dollar Death Star.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (kpS4V)

251 My Mom was playing Bunco (sic?) every month with her friends for years until COVID ended that.

As far as I could tell it was an excuse for old ladies to get together, drink wine, and eat Brie.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

252 237 132 I vaguely remember Mille Bornes. A French card game based on road trips.
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)

They call a flat tire a Puncture.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (abIsI)

253 Definitely some good around. And a lot of it is here.

Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (FRS+s)

254 Found it: 1975's Sky Battle

Only $375 today lol

https://www.ebay.com/itm/223971974974

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (asXVI)

255 On an oldntime radio program from the 50s the other day they had a blurb advertising about farm buildings (cardboard) that were included in cereal boxes. They gushed that the Barn had a real sliding door!

I guess kids were easier to please back in the day.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (HbU2V)

256 You with your fancy board games
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (DoBxX)

We had those, yes, but we also played cards.

One game we played was just with just paper and pencils.

Each drew a six by six grid. Starting with one person, they'd name a category, American Rivers for example. Everybody put that as a header. And so on until five across the top are named. Then the next person chooses a letter. Each person puts that letter on the left. Then, using a sand timer from some other game, you'd have to fill in the grid. Duplicates cancelling out, the one with the most points wins. Kind of like Trivial Pursuit, before there was Trvial Pursuit.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (gKDq2)

257 First game I ever "hacked" was Careers, which actually had a brilliant groundbreaking game design -- the first game (I believe) in which each players determined their own victory conditions (kept secret from the other players), so yu never knew exactly what your opponents were striving for. You had to simultaneously satisfy your wn victory conditions, but also (through careful observation) try to figure out your opponents' victory conditions and they try to thwart them.

Much later, this concept was re-invented for much more recent "collectible card games," but no one had ever thought of it before Careers.

Anyway, afer multiple plays, I realized that the winning strategy was to alwasy choose "50 Happiness Points, 0 Money Points and 0 Fame Points as your victory condtion (i.e. go all in on "Happiness"), then SKIP COLLEGE, and then just take the little loop in the board after the college zone, and just go around and around -- the loop allowed yoi to consistently get a few happiness, but almost no Money r Fame points, so everyone just skipped it. But round and round I went, and very quickly I hot 60 Happiness and the game was over, with me winning.

Hacked.

Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (oraVG)

258 Our game was Kill the Ball Carrier. Whoever had the ball, everyone else would try to inflict as much damage on the other players so they could take the ball away and be ball carrier.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31
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Along the lines of Red Rover, British Bulldog and Smear the Queer.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (bQ4nt)

259 A vanished world I'm afraid. Long ago and oh so far away...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (x0n13)
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That's so Baby Sharks and Jets!

*snaps fingers*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (kpS4V)

260 They call a flat tire a Puncture.
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The foreign aspects of the game add to it, I think.

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We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
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Heh. Natch.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (asXVI)

261 I remember (sorta, kinda) playing a card game with my grandmother about 65 years ago called "Flinch". I couldn't play it today if my life depended on it.

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (/enuJ)

262 Actually, it was 60 Happiness Points, not 50.

You had to allocate 60 points amongst various catepgirois to accumulate, in order to win.

Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (oraVG)

263 For a while a stupid game was you hold your pencil between two hands and some other kid tries to break it with his pencil. And then you take turns. Economically unfeasible in the long run. Just trading punches was better.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)

264 Hacked.
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Ha, I'll have to try that, Zombie. I have four copies of "Careers", through an odd set of circumstances, and they're different versions (because they kept updating it).

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)

265 Just trading punches was better.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)

We did that, too. Bloody knuckles, etc.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)

266
Do they really think the Americans were so stupid they just had no good ideas at all?

___________

Yes. It's important always to disparage and minimize any American idea or operation.

- Strategic bombing did nothing.
- The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger
- We won only because we threw more metal

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (tgvbd)

267 There was no score and no winner.

Glory lasts forever, and chicks dig scars.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:43 PM (EXyHK)

268 One of my buddies, his dad z"l was from Sicily and one night we "played" the game and pretty much destroyed all of the shrubs in his front yard. He was furious. Years later we would drive by his house and still see the damage.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (VMttT)

269 Risk

Posted by: Fuzzy Lumpkins at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (slsCi)

270 At home we played a card game my father knew called Fan Tan. No idea now what was involved.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

271 They call a flat tire a Puncture.
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The foreign aspects of the game add to it, I think.

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We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
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Heh. Natch.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025

***
"The thicket wins"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

272 >>> Yes. It's important always to disparage and minimize any American idea or operation.

- Strategic bombing did nothing.
- The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger
- We won only because we threw more metal
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (tgvbd)

I knew a russian guy that said there had to of been some grand secret conspiracy between the axis and the US because it was impossible that the US could have had as many victories and the war ended so soon. And boy did he have all sorts of statistics and anecdotes to prove his point. Crazy, but funny to listen to.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (3uBP9)

273 Noodus Charlottesville

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (wzUl9)

274 - The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger

Posted by: Hadrian

These are all good examples. I defended the Sherman for years, but now, with the internet, I see people starting to understand that the US needs were very different and so what we designed was very different.

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 05:49 PM (fsyiM)

275 My strategy for Stratego was to build a fortress of bombs with some sevens in there and then hide my flag somewhere else but still well protected.

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (vFG9F)

276 274 - The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger

Posted by: Hadrian
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The Chrysler engine could be easily maintained
The transmission on a Sherman could be replaced in a day. A Panzer transmission had to be sent back to Ukraine to be overhauled by Porche.
We didn't have the capability to ship a tank as big as a Panzer.
We could field 6 Sherman's to 1 Panzer, over run it, and go ahead to provide artillery for the infantry.
_recalled VDH monologue

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:11 PM (2ef5s)

277 Played Parcheesi and Yahtzee. Cousins also played Spoons. I had a lot of cousins in the area at the time, 16+, and we ran out of spoons. Used forks too--one time. After an actual stabbing occurred we played in a group defined by the number of spoons available.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 24, 2025 06:38 PM (ky7/T)

278 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (3nLb4)

279 Played lots of above mentioned games, my all time favorite game was AH's Midway. Still have it and many other war games.

Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (SBJWI)

280 I remember King Oil very fondly.

I used to play a game with my dad where you traded and auctioned classic cars. EG Stanly Steamer or Stutz Bearcat. Can't remember the name but he always kicked my ass

I recently had a chance to paly a game from the 80s that I somehow missed called Thunder Road. It was a delight.

never heard of Colditz but I'm intrigued.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at December 24, 2025 09:29 PM (2Q1nt)

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