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Saturday Puzzle-Contest: Vintage Board Games
Saturday, September 28th, 2024

When I was a kid, I loved board games. Of course, we had the multi-board game packages that included chess, checkers, Chinese checkers, Yahtzee, etc. Then we had Monopoly. I personally loved Operation and Mousetrap. As an adult, I don’t have the patience for board games, but I do love a trivia game.

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me what games you loved as a kid and whether you still love board games. Enjoy the puzzle! It’s a picture of one of my old faves.

20 comments to “Saturday Puzzle-Contest: Vintage Board Games”

  1. Deb Brown
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 9:42 am · Link

    Monopoly was always a favorite. Also played jacks, pickup sticks and Chinese checkers and regular checkers. Haven’t played to many lately as I spend more time reading or puzzles



  2. Anna Taylor Sweringen
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 10:42 am · Link

    As a little kid I loved Candyland and Chutes and Ladders. I still love Clue. Our church has a quarterly game night where people bring scads of board games.



  3. Eileen McCall
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 10:56 am · Link

    Mousetrap was fun, but we usually played either Monopoly or Life. Now, I like Ticket to Ride!



  4. Anna Marie
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 11:14 am · Link

    Mousetrap was fun. My favorite was Sorry.



  5. Colleen C.
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 12:15 pm · Link

    I loved Monopoly and Life… I will play a game once in a while with my nephew.



  6. Jennifer Beyer
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 12:22 pm · Link

    I love math board games but I don’t like competitive board games. I find them super frustrating.



  7. Debra Guyette
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 12:32 pm · Link

    We liked Battleship. I used to play more but my brother was terrible and took all the fun out of the game.



  8. cindy
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 12:41 pm · Link

    Mouse Trap–always wanted that game. We played a lot–my sister and I. As a family, we did Monopoly and a couple of the others. Still enjoy playing, but unfortunately, my sister is blind not and doesn’t live close enough or on a bus line for me to get to her. What we used to do was put 4 or 5 boards from different games side by side. Why stop at 1 game… keep going through them all. THEN, when you get to the end of the last board, turn around and head back to the beginning. Now, reverse the directions, if you can. For example… go up chutes and down ladders. Loads of fun and it lasts way longer.



  9. Theresa Privette
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 4:20 pm · Link

    I loved playing Sorry cause I was never sorry to knock someone back home. On the same line we played aggrevation that was fun as well. As a family there was just us two girl and our parents we never lived close to any other family so we spent numerous Sunday’s spending time together playing games since Daddy worked 6 days a week 14 hour days. He always made sure every Sunday that he spent quality time with us no TV or phone course all we had were a few channels and landlines then, but no matter how long his honey so list was there was always time in there for us. We played a good bit of board games Clue and Masterpiece, but cards were more often than not! Love playing various card games to this day. Your questions always take me back to my childhood treasures. Thank you for that! Hugs and prayers, continued healing and peace, Theresa



  10. Mary Preston
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 5:42 pm · Link

    I played Scrabble a lot. These days I love Monopoly.



  11. Pansy Petal
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 8:01 pm · Link

    Oh goodness. We played them all, including card games. Cribbage was my favorite card game. Board games, that’s a tougher one because it meant family time. Looking back, that’s what made them all fun. But I suppose, if I have to pick, it would be Monopoly because that was also a favorite will my kids for our family time.



  12. Diane Sallans
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 9:06 pm · Link

    I still have my Stratego game – I also enjoyed & still enjoy the various versions of Trivial Pursuit.



  13. AMY FENDLEY
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 9:26 pm · Link

    I don’t want to be in line for the gift card but I have a funny story to tell. My daughter is getting married and they created a registry. On her registry were the following games: Munchkin Deluxe, 7 Wonders, The Dating Game, Twister, Risk, Operation. The last ones are in a Book Style packaging. I asked her, did she even know what the Dating Game was. She replied that she didn’t but they would find out. I had the Dating Game when I was 10 or 11, so that would be at least 50 years ago. They have game nights and it rotates places every week or two. They have a great time.



  14. BN
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    · September 28th, 2024 at 10:33 pm · Link

    Monopoly



  15. Rachelle Lerner
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    · September 29th, 2024 at 12:18 pm · Link

    I like solving mysteries so I would say that Clue is a favorite board game. I like word games on my phone.



  16. Beverly
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    · September 29th, 2024 at 1:55 pm · Link

    Monopoly & later on when I got older…Trivial Pursuit. Of course as kids we played Candyland & chutes & ladders. Played them also with my own children & grandchildren.



  17. Mary McCoy
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    · September 29th, 2024 at 2:29 pm · Link

    Sorry was always my favorite. I married a guy who loves to play strategy boardgames like Axis and Allies or Shogun. We both enjoy Trivial Pursuit or Apples to Apples.



  18. Courtney Kinder
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    · September 30th, 2024 at 5:29 am · Link

    I loved playing Chutes and ladders, Checkers, Guess Who, and Battleship as a kid. I like to play Clue and Apples to Apples now.



  19. Beckie
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    · October 2nd, 2024 at 2:46 am · Link

    Battleship, Monopoly, Sorry, Trouble, Hungry, Hungry Hippos, Aggravation, Checkers, chess, Barrel of Monkeys, Cootie, cards, connect 4, domino’s, Yahtzee, Simon says, and many more.

    I still love games, the problem is more finding someone else to play with.

    Now I also like Trivia games, UNO, Tenzi, Jenga, pictionary, and more.



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