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In reply to the discussion: Games you played before screens took over. I liked --The Game of Life.What about you? [View all]electric_blue68
(15,041 posts)21. At my cousin's Parcheesi, Life, and Monopoly which I didn't like too much...
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.👍
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Games you played before screens took over. I liked --The Game of Life.What about you? [View all]
debm55
Apr 13
OP
Thank you thomski64, To be honest, I found Chess too hard. but I did play Checkers.
debm55
Apr 13
#9
TY Raven 123. Thank you also for the link. I dont think I ever finished a game of Monopoly, as we didn't follow the rule
debm55
Apr 13
#8
My older cousin would play this at her parties. Your right about imparting wisdom. Gee my parents didn't believe in
debm55
Apr 13
#16
Scrabble and Monopoly. I still play Scrabble when I can find someone to play against.
LoisB
Apr 13
#17
Me too!!!!!! When I was a kid, I used to go to card parties put on by the church. TY sakabtou
debm55
Apr 13
#20
At my cousin's Parcheesi, Life, and Monopoly which I didn't like too much...
electric_blue68
Apr 13
#21