What old school board game did you used to play for hours?

United States
February 9, 2007 3:41pm CST
Lets stroll down memory lane for a bit! Remember before satellite dishes and the internet? What board game do you remember playing for hours?
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@Stringbean (1273)
• United States
9 Feb 07
We played hangman before school, during recess, at noon, and after school for weeks at a time. Then our teacher would lose patience and make us go out to play for a while, but soon we would be at it again. I guess kids still play it today.
• United States
9 Feb 07
I LOVE HANGMAN!!! I would play that with my children in doctor's offices and other places when we had to wait for long periods. To think that they made millions on the game by twisting it to the television version "Wheel of Fortune."
@bethack52 (407)
• United States
9 Feb 07
connect 4!!!!!
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@cupoftea (714)
• United States
9 Feb 07
We used to play Monopoly alot but the game we played most often and for hours on end was Euchre. We still play alot when we go to friends house. I love that game. Yatzee is a good one to.
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
9 Feb 07
I think that my family had one called "Bargain Hunt" or Bargain Hunter that we used to play for hours. I know that I really loved it, but my dad was always beating me at the game, lol! We also played Monopoly, of course. I've rarely heard of a family that hasn't *laugh* But the other games that we had, I simply can't remember the names of anymore. I remember owning "Operation", if you'd call that a board game, but I never did well with it and don't remember playing it with the family, per se. I also remember owning Hungry Hungry Hippos, which was such a cute game! ^_^
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• United States
9 Feb 07
I haven't heard of Bargain Hunt. Sounds fun! My children played Operation and Hungry Hippos! I loved watching them do Hungry Hippo..it was cute..but LOUD!
9 Feb 07
Risk!!! You remember it! i used to play it for days! it was a map of the world and you had to try and conquer the world with your armys. i still think of that map for countries in the world. so in my mind siberia and countries that have gone now still exist, lol
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• United States
9 Feb 07
Believe it or not, I had never heard of it until I met my husband! He still had his from his college days. He taught my sons and they played it for days at a time too!
@ksloane (42)
• United States
10 Feb 07
This one is very easy for me. I'm the biggest monopoly fan. I love it!! Still do (and I'm almost 30). I have several versions (I got 2 new ones for Christmas) and I believe in playing them - not keeping them for collector's sake. lol
• United States
10 Feb 07
Good for you! (using something instead of packing it away as a collectors item!)
@tentwo67 (3382)
• United States
21 Feb 07
I loved "Sorry" and would play it constantly. I'm starting to revisit board games now with my son, but he's only 4, so his favorite right now is "Candyland."
@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
10 Feb 07
When I was reallllly little, us kids used to love playing chutes and ladders and candyland. When we got older, my dad and I used to mostly play cards, but we'd play yahtzee, connect 4, & aggravation-that was probably our favorite one.
@missyd79 (3438)
• United States
13 Feb 07
when we were kids, my brother sister nand i use to play monoply for hours and if we got bored with that we would play battleship. i still play monoply with my boyfriend now.
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I was addicted to connect 4, othello, checkers, chutes and ladders(when I was way little). We used to play Life for hours. Also Monopoly. One of our other favorites was Careers. I am pretty sure my sister cheated at most of them except Othello. I always beat her at that one. My best friend had more electronic type games like Simon and Quizmaster.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
22 Feb 07
I played Parchesi and Stretego. Oh boy am I going back in years here. I also loved a game that was called Stop Theif. It was a who done it type game that was really cool because it came with this electronic device that depending on where you were you'd hear footsteps, door creaks etc. It was a lot of fun to play. I've only seen it once since and that was at a Goodwill. I wish now I would have gotten it.
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@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
11 Feb 07
Scrabble and Yahtzee. I love them both and will play anyone anytime!
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@inked4life (4224)
• United States
9 Feb 07
Monopoly....that is a board game that just cannot be finished quickly. We didn't play for hours because we loved it, we did it because someone had to win...I remember on more than one occassion trying to bankrupt myself by eating the houses and hortels I had amassed when no-one was looking...I'm sure the contents of my stomach must look like Wisteria Lane right now
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• United States
9 Feb 07
Honest to God Inked,I so look forward to your contributions to my discussions! I've got a visual of your large intestine with the hotels lined haphazardly down the walls, intersperced with an occassional polyp or diverticulum. Sorry, just can't help it. Seen too many colonoscopies.
@Bizziebod (3497)
11 Feb 07
I can remember playing the usual monopoly and yahtzee, one game me and my fiends always used to play was 'game of life' It's a great game and I just brought 'The Simpson' version for my daughter for Christmas - brought back alot of happy memories!
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@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Do you remember Candy Land and Mouse Trap? I used to love both of those games. Of course Scrabble, Life, Monopoly, and Trivial Pursuit, but those came later as we got a bit older. Do people still play board games these days? I know the kids probably use strictly computerized games. Our way was sure a lot cheaper, wasn't it?
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@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Mind Trap II - Mind Trap 2 was one of my all time favorite games. Have you ever played?
We playe tons of games at our house because of our range in ages, we had alot to chosed from. Mind Trap II was a game we used to play for hours when we were adults. You had to figure out the answer to various mind benders. It was really interesting and you had to read between the lines alot. I loved it. When I was younger us kids always played monopoly and clue. I liked going to my father's for the weekend because my step bothers had Life and we played that all day. They also had battleship and risk. I really liked risk that's where my love for the pc game Civilization comes from ...lol
@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
10 Feb 07
We played "LIFE" I can even remember the tune and a few stray words of the jingle. We played for hours. If we did not finish a game we left it out to play again the next day. BattleShip was another favorite. I also loved Clue.
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@biwasaki (1745)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Monopoly and Life were our two favorites while we were growing up. On occasion, I'll still go and play the online version of Monopoly live with other players too.
• United States
10 Feb 07
Hi Ho Cheerios!!! I used to play that game CONSTANTLY when I was little. And, I just bought it for my kiddos for Christmas. They love to play it as much as I did. It's a great counting game.
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• Philippines
10 Feb 07
My sisters and i always love to play monopoly and scrabble
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