Board Games on Christmas anyone?

[Chillywilly]

Board Games on Christmas Anyone? IF so what game do you play?


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[scooterbugs25]

We like Monopoly and we also play a OLD card game called Pit.. Normaly towards Christmas day evening times..

[dominick]

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[MerrySouthernChristmas]

Okay that (^^^) is sooooo cool!

Usually we play

a)Packer Monopoly
b) Scrabble
c) Risk
d) Trivial Pursuit: 20th anniversery
e) Trivial Pursuit: 80's Edition
f) Pass the pigs (a pig version of Yahtzee)
g) Friends: the board game
h) Texas Hold 'em

[joyfulheart]

The kids usually each get a new game for Christmas, and we'll play them.

Oldest is getting Clue Jr.
Middle is getting a new uno type game (cant remember which one)
and youngest is getting Hungry hungry hippo

:D

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

Santa always gives our family a board game for christmas!

[Head Elf]

We haven't played any board games since my mom passed away. But we play Yahtze (alot), we throw darts, play dominoes, pool, foosball. When we did play board games it would be trivial pursuit, scattergories, parchesi, scrabble. I use to have a Mousetrap game, and I always wanted a Hungry Hungry Hippo game to go with my collection of hippos.

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

You have a collection of hippos?

[Storeytime]

We ususally play whatever board games the kids get for Christmas.:notice::notice:

[Billy Battles]

I usually don't play board games on Christmas. However I am undefeated at Scattagories

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

Luv that game... me and my nana love to play it!

[Chillywilly]

We play Monopoly every year along with Domino's as the side game.

[AL_Storm_Chaser]

Santa always stops early on Christmas Eve to deliver one early present which is a board game that we play that evening at my in-laws. The past ones have included Clue (DVD Version), Uno Attack and Life. Can't wait to see what he brings this year!

[officepro4u]

I usually don't play board games on Christmas. However I am undefeated at Scattagories

Uh oh! I smell a challenge coming on....I am undefeated in my family!

Diana

[Billy Battles]

Uh oh! I smell a challenge coming on....I am undefeated in my family!

Diana

Any time, bring it on

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

Uh-oh, this could lead to trouble...

[officepro4u]

Any time, bring it on

You got it!!! Too bad you don't live closer, 'cause I would take you up on it!! LOL cheesy

[scooterbugs25]

I would join in on this; I'm undefeated in my family!

[gameshowguy2000]

Speaking of Monopoly, check this out: http://www.tdcgames.com/MYO.htm

[Chillywilly]

I would join in on this; I'm undefeated in my family!

Competion can be fun!

[Minta]

Usually we get at least one new baord game for christmas that we end up playing on Christmas night. We also have over 20 different games now and we hold a game night about once a month with our friends.

[Chillywilly]

20 games are a lot of game to have. What a collection.cheesy

[Billy Battles]

Competion can be fun!

Thats the problem they would be no Competition

[sugarplum fairy]

We usually will play whatever games the kids get for Christmas.

[holidaytwinkle5289]

1. Scrabble
2. Mononpoly
3. Card Games
4. Sorry!
5. Jinga

And those are only a few....
I know more just can't think off them right now.


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"It isn't christmas without your family...":tree:

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

ooo! I love Jinga! and Sorry!

[LittleMissLaura]

We play monopoly & trivial pursuit :)

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

I love trivial pursuit! Last year we got the 80's version. I hope this year santa gives us the home version of 'Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader'!

[Chillywilly]

This seems to bring family and friends closer. :notice:

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

Here are the games I remember playing the most

Backgammon
Battleship
Beat The Clock
Cars (or Wheels) don’t remember the exact name.
Clue
Checkers
Chess
Dealers Choice
Frustrations
Ker-Plunk
Mastermind
(Disney Mastermind)
Masterpiece (loved that game)
Monopoly
Operation
Risk
Roulette
Scrabble
Sorry
Steeplechase
Stratego
Tip It
Trivial Pursuit (including the Silver Screen Edition)
Trouble
Twister
Uno

We don't play board games as a family anymore, my mom and I used to whip out the Trivial Pursuit game before her stroke, now it just isn't fair for me to win every time. We play card games now and then. I enjoy playing and buying board games for the grandchildren. They have quite a few of the games I had when I was younger. I'm so glad that board games are still being sold at Christmas.

[irishgirl]

We love board games. We just played one last night (it was raining here so we had to do something)

We like to play:

Scene it (we have both Harry Potter versions plus you came play it on demand)
Clue (both standard and FX)
Are you smarter than a fifth grader (I am not!)
Apples to Apples (this is family FAVORITE!!!)
Monopoly
Trouble
Sorry
Chess
Checkers
Card games of all kinds
Rummicube

I could go on.. we are adding Scattergories this year. I just played this for the first time last week and loved it!! I did pretty well!!

[Maureen]

AMD - you have practically listed every single game I had (and I still have Masterpiece!!!) I thought I was dreaming Tip-it because nobody I know remembers it. It was in the same era as Kerplunk, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and that one with the tops that spun in an arena and banged against each other. Can't remember what that was called but it was fun!

I also had The Game of Life and The Inventors which had a really cool machine for rolling the dice!! Santa always brings a game for Christmas - last year it was a new Monopoly as my old one was a little battered around the edges and I'd had a fight with Ian Crawford (about whether or not you put all the tax money and fines etc. onto "No Parking" and if you landed on it, you got all the dough) He said you did, I said you didn't and he still has 1/2 of my rules..............!!!!!

[christmascreations]

Speaking of Monopoly, check this out: http://www.tdcgames.com/MYO.htm

Now talk about the what to give someone who has everything!!! THen again if you give them that what do you get for them next year??? :snowball:

[DoubleA]

I love board games! We play them whenever there are a lot of people around.

My fav. is Monopoly, but noone ever wants to play it.
Clue, Scattagories, Taboo, Sorry, Balderdash, Scene It, they are all fun.

[novelist]

:rudolph:Lasdt Christmas, my husband and i played yahtzee. I hope we play it again this year.

[jody664]

We don't play board games on Christmas but we ALWAYS play Bingo on New Years Eve. The adults also play Euchre. We often have 2-3 tables of Euchre going at a time.

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

AMD - you have practically listed every single game I had (and I still have Masterpiece!!!) I thought I was dreaming Tip-it because nobody I know remembers it. It was in the same era as Kerplunk, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and that one with the tops that spun in an arena and banged against each other. Can't remember what that was called but it was fun!

I also had The Game of Life and The Inventors which had a really cool machine for rolling the dice!! Santa always brings a game for Christmas - last year it was a new Monopoly as my old one was a little battered around the edges and I'd had a fight with Ian Crawford (about whether or not you put all the tax money and fines etc. onto "No Parking" and if you landed on it, you got all the dough) He said you did, I said you didn't and he still has 1/2 of my rules..............!!!!!

cheesy I forgot to mention the Game of Life, and we had th Rock-Em Sock 'Em robots too. Did you ever have or play the game Mille Bournes. It was an English game translated from French and was similar to UNO, but it had traffic signs on the playing cards. I think the first one I ever had all to myself was TROUBLE. My dad has a shot of me on an old slide carrying the game in my hands to show him what I got and every time they showed it to visitors my parents always joked, "here comes Trouble". We had those whirl twirl spinning tops too. The name of it will come to me when I'm trying to decide whether or not I should sleep or think about stuff.

My Great Aunt's favourite game to play was Rumoli. She called my brother a "crook and a thief" because she thought he was cheating just cause he beat her at the game. Interesting - I was shopping and passed the game aisle and half of the games I used to play are still on the shelves.

[AuntieMistletoeDear]

By jove, I think I've got it. The game we had was Battling Tops.
We also had Hands Down, Reebound and a few others.

When lotteries first started out, each member of my family had a ticket pinned to the inside our shirts and we went on about our day like that. When our numbers didn't come up, we wanted to make our dad feel rich.

We came home from school the next day, took our play money from Monopoly and Masterpiece and stapled 1,000.00 to our mom's Rubber Tree in the living room before dad got home from work. Nearly killed the plant, but my dad liked his money tree. What he wanted the money for was to buy a 38-foot yacht. So for Christmas that year, that's what he got, only it was a plastic one from the local Joke Shop.

There were a few games I played at my friends cottage on rainy days when we were a bit older like Pick-up-sticks, Don't Break the Ice and Perfection, they had a closet full of games and puzzle just in case.

[starflake]

DH and I play the board games UpWords, Scrabble, The Game of Life, Monopoly, and Backgammon. If we got another game, it'd probably be Boggle.

My favorite group games are Rummikub, Catch Phrase (the electronic handheld version), Cranium, Taboo, and Guesstures (oh how many good memories we have...).

Off the top of my head, as a kid I adored Battleship (electronic version), Connect Four, Pictionary, Parcheesi, Trouble, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and although it's not a board game, good ol' Uno and pick-me-up sticks.

[Mumof2]

We love Scrabble and Monopoly,When the kids are asleep we play redsox checkers.

[Chillywilly]

It is exciting to see the different games listed that I have never heard of before. Thanks everyone for sharing.:cry:

[Maureen]

YES - Battling Tops!!!!!!! I'd forgotten about Hands Down - all those different coloured hands to hit!!

I actually have 2 games of Mille Bournes in my bedroom cupboard as we speak!!!!!!! I was going to mention that one but for some reason thought nobody would've heard of it

Has anybody mentioned Twister?? Still a good game although now I'm more likely to throw a disc out!!

Anybody have that labyrinth game where with 2 knobs you had to tilt the surface and make a marble roll around a given course without falling down one of the many holes???

[irishsnow]

We always have a game of Monopoly at Christmas.

[golodenqiueenalicia]

Christmas Bingo:snowball:

I wrap gifts that are strickly for males in green and gifts for girls in red gifts for either in gold and the winner picks a present out of the gift basket

(either would be food like candy bars, movies, cards etc...)
(girls would be nail polish and lipgloss, barrets, socks etc...)
(boys would be cars, trucks, guns, balls etc...):rudolph:

[Courtney]

We play Trivial Pursuit and/or Balderdash. :smile:

[jody664]

Christmas Bingo:snowball:

I wrap gifts that are strickly for males in green and gifts for girls in red gifts for either in gold and the winner picks a present out of the gift basket

(either would be food like candy bars, movies, cards etc...)
(girls would be nail polish and lipgloss, barrets, socks etc...)
(boys would be cars, trucks, guns, balls etc...):rudolph:
What a great idea!! I may have to try that this year!!!!

[sdkluger]

Now that some of our kids are old enough to play games we play Risk, Rail Baron, Axis and Allies, and Fortress America. We usually have to play at least one other game like Yahtzee so the younger ones can play, too.

Tim
http://www.customsofchristmas.com
http://www.myspace.com/sdkluger

[HouseElf]

We love board games - we buy a new one each year! I have not found this years yet!

[Chillywilly]

We love board games - we buy a new one each year! I have not found this years yet!

That is awsome. We used to buy one every year as well. We have so many that we don't need to anymore.:cry:

[trackrebel]

usually we don´t....but last year we played a few rounds of "Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht" http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Mensch_aergere_dich_nicht.jpg/280px-Mensch_aergere_dich_nicht.jpg

I think it´s comparable to Parcheesi....or however that is spelled.

[christmasgranny]

This has been a good thread, and perhaps that is a great new tradition to start. A Christmas Eve game night.....
I do not know which of my children will be here for Christmas Eve, other than my son in Pennsylvania, and perhaps my daughter, but we'll see what happens!

[trackrebel]

I forgot as I was little....we were also playing checkers and cards and stuff like that....but just my big bro my cuz and I....sometimes my moms would play with us for a moment...or my uncle or dad....but mostly, we did it.....the grandparents, uncle, aunt and parents were mostly watching us and have discussion sourrounding everything....:D

[George Broderick, Jr.]

Taboo at my Dad's house... or Scatagories... or Trivial Pursuit... pretty much any of those will start the friendly bickering amongst us siblings...

We tried to play Pictionary once but nobody wanted to play against the family artist (me)... cheesy

[Dawnfletch]

I use to get 2 board games each year we use to take it turns with the games. Now im to tired to play games. But i guess when Joseph gets older we can play games again.

[Ms_Speedy_Elf]

I don't care much for board games ,but I love to play UNO.

One game I used to play when I was little and would love to get is "Operation".

[trackrebel]

I love UNO as well...very cool game

[MerrySouthernChristmas]

I used to love the game Risk,
But it's been banned from the household. My dad and brother get too competitive.
Good times. Good times...

[Chillywilly]

Just thought I would bump this for our new members and family.