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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

10 favorite games from my childhood.

playing cards with my dad, originally blogged here
...what a fun topic! games were big in my family. we played a lot. and a few of us were pretty competitive about it :-)

1. cards - from go fish when I was young to rummy and then hearts and spades when I was a teenager. my grandmother attempted to teach me bridge at least twice and sadly, I never got it. I have a terrible memory for the cards that have been played so it makes "strategy" hard.

2. candy land and chutes and ladders - favorite first board games. I loved the cards in candy land, especially the gum drops.

3. monopoly.

4. life - the newer versions aren't nearly as much fun as the one I remember playing with the cars that had little holes for you to place the blue pegs for baby boys and the pink ones for girls.

5. yahtzee - I first remember playing this with my grandfather on a family vacation to the ozark mountains in arkansas when I was seven or eight.

6. cribbage - the different boards are so much fun.

7. twenty questions - still a favorite for car trips.

8. sorry.

9. parchesi - now I can't even remember what this game was about. a board, pegs, cards maybe? but the name has stayed with me.

10. solitaire - I knew a lot of versions in addition to the traditional one with seven piles. there was a pyramid one and one where you laid out all 52 cards in four rows. that one took a lot of table or floorspace, because of course I played with real cards!

I'm short on time this morning, so apologize for the absence of links...but looking forward to checking out a few of my favorites on line to see if they still exist! this was fun - thanks, carole!

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7 Comments:

Blogger Carole Knits said...

I love that photo, and your list is great. This could be one of my favorite topics ever!

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011  
Blogger Annie said...

We played all kinds of card games. I knew different kinds of Solitaire!

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011  
Blogger Beth said...

I second Carole - what a great photo! And I totally forgot about Yahtzee. My grandma and grandpa were big Yahtzee players and that was a fun treat when I visited them in the summer. We'd have a bowl of ice cream and play Yahtzee before bed. Thanks for helping me recall a great memory!

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011  
Blogger Lydia said...

yes, love the photo. my list will be very similar.

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011  
Blogger Suzanne said...

Darn, I forgot Candy Land, I knew there was one I couldn't think of. And Cribbage. We always played Cribbage with my father.

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i love that picture!! we loved parchesi too. i think it was similar to sorry but i remember a red cardboard canister that you shook the dice in.

Tuesday, 18 January, 2011  
Blogger Angela said...

That is a fantastic picture. I really thought it was a posed shot from a magazine when I first saw it. What a great keepsake of your dad!

Monday, 24 January, 2011  

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