And Mouse Trap.

..three dimensional wooden pieces and board...now I'm reduced to two dimensional touch screen internet games..

and sooner or later people would quit.

my girlfriends once a month for years. Still play Video Poker on my IPhone.

Stratego
Risk
and my favorite, Chess.

at a certain point in time ...

(thank god for 'older kids' - always ready to impart wisdom and important details - how would we have ever found our way .. ?)
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kissing us and there I was letting a stranger kiss me. PS I liked it.

At home:
Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Mouse Trap🧡, High Gear🧡: literally a set of different size gears with little holes for pegs, you rolled dice, and advanced your colored pegs forward. You could only move to the next gear if your peg was right across from the corresponding open hole, and Chutes & Ladders🧡: ladders would move your marker up, and chutes, well, back down you went!

By my late teens I played Scrabble w my mom. 🧡 I play it digitally now.👍

Often for days!

I can't discount the togetherness that the game brings to a household, but, alas, the game itself is pretty bad.

How many times were you eliminated rather early while it took FOREVER for the remaining players to get the game over with? Which wouldn't be too bad in and of itself except that its gameplay is cumbersome, repetitive, stagnant, and predictable. It's rated a lowly 4.36 on boardgamegeek.com.

I think that the memory of Monopoly has actually tainted the willingness of many grown people to consider boardgames as a pastime. There are so many incredible choices these days!

about property--left the game. I guess if we followed the rules it would have been better. But we were kids.I will go to the link and check out the games listed. TY.

we made it brutal. It was fun brutal and usually drunk brutal that ended in laughs and hugs. Sorry was fun to play like that. I play that with my granddaughter now. At 5 years old we just giggle.

my parents and I play Monopoly and Battle Ships.

My sister and I would have a game going for days. Later my son and I did the same thing. Then he became a teenager and that came to an end.

(apparently, the first word in that game is "forbidden," who knew?)

In my misspent teens/early twenties, I played a lot of chess.

I remember the richest, most spoiled kid on our street got "Mousetrap," which I wanted badly, but it was too expensive. Boy, was I jealous.

-- Mal