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What was your favourite board game, do you still have it & what does it sell for?
Chartbusters, yes & ca £70
Being a hoarder, I still have all mine.
Chartbusters, yes & ca £70
Being a hoarder, I still have all mine.
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Scrabble , thread over
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Scrabble.
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L'Attaque, military board game with playing pieces of different ranks, including the spy, the only piece that could capture the opposing commander in chief.
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Let’s play war,not monopoly?
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Echelon. Pretty rare, but entertaining. It involves reading a few paragraphs from a famous book (on a card) and answering questions on your recall of it.
Much better than I made it sound. The Really nasty horse racing game, which I got again but haven't played again. I'm going to now. The king of board games has to be monopoly. I always found the deviation from the actual rules to have been puzzling. Like "you can't buy anything on the first go round the board" or "you can't trade while in jail", neither of which is right. My brother and I can have 4 or 5 complete games of Monopoly in an hour, thanks to an entire youth being built on playing the game. I had many dozens over the years, gave some away, sold a couple at boot sales, lost the bits to some. Computers have more or less killed board games. |
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King of board games monopoly, you fool
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STUDY, another rule variation I played was all fines are put in the middle of the board. First player to land on free parking takes the lot. If nothing in the middle, then consolation of £50.
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Risk, the original version, not the crap updated one.
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Risk. Daughter loved Payday
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Despite having no interest in horse racing when I was young I did love Totopoly.
I remember Marmaduke Jinks  |
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Bought a old copy of Totepoly for 50p when the kids were little.
Had hours of fun just using the racetrack side. The game is flawed to say the least , the gambling side has no say whatsoever in winning the game. My son got hooked on RISK .....after seeing Victor Meldrew playing in an episode.  |
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I'm pretty sure this was the version I had, with the lovely picture on the box.
. http://www.vintage-playtime.com/vintage_board_games/prod_2477117-Totopoly-Board-Game.html |
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I see that's the 1949 edition. I had mine in the 70s. I'm sure that was the one I had.
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STUDY, my older brother always commandeered the ship piece and insisted I had the boot. Could have been worse though, I could have had the car which in our set was missing a wheel.
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Did anyone ever have or play the horse racing game that had a 12" record? It would play the first part of a race commentary and then skip to different grooves of the record for different results. My uncle had it in the 70s.
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No, I had Brimardon.
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We still have that record, Stow. Inherited from my ex-Mrs's granddad when he died.
32 potential races. Bonnie, I always wanted to be the iron. Which, as an "eastender" used to draw howls of derision and P taking when I played Monopoly with schoolmates. |
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The version of Totopoly we have has metal horses.
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Great stuff, STUDY.
Another rule variation we used that has just come to mind is that if you were on say Oxford St and threw an 8 to land on GO itself, you got a monkey rather than the usual £200. |
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Anyone know who invented the game monopoly?my ignorance
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sixtowsix, we had metal horses too. I recall Leonidas (red?) and Elton (number 12). Elton and its fellow light blues always seemed to run badly, must have been a stone out of the handicap.
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The kids renamed our horses , we printed sheets out , I entered form figures and odds
I recall Quixhall Crossett was number 12. |
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Monopoly
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I’ll see your Totopoly and raise you an Escalado. Anybody else have this? We used to clamp it to a table in the drawing room and it shredded the top of it to buggery.
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And if you haven’t seen Escalado before here’s how this wondrous game looks in action:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHqJRkZ4m0 |
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Take a look at this too, this guy’s probably the greatest handicapper on earth:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pfSECkhQqp8 |
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I never knew that rule adaptation, Bonnie.
The legs broke on a couple of our Escalado horses, so I fixed them with a pin, some cotton wound round them and some copydex. I was like an escalado vet! Then about 20 years ago, I bought a brand new Escalado. It was nowhere near as good, all plastic and didn't work as well. Totopoly was a game we only played a couple of times. Flipping the board over felt like a pain and hard work for no real reason. |
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‘I was like an escalado vet!’
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Betfair forum - all life is here
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Many happy hours playing Wembley and Escape from Colditz
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I have Escalado, Monopoly, Frustration, Ker Plunk and Cash n Guns all mint and boxed.
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Escalado was Great , I also Like a Football game by waddingtons where a tiddly wink was used as a Ball was a flat Cardboard pitch and a Goal at either end
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howzat, sort of cricket
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rolling hexagonal dice
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Without a shadow of a doubt the king of all board games is CHESS.
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Internet has killed off board games, prize crosswords, newspapers and a lot more.
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Monopoly, Scrabble and Draughts the only games I remember playing.
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