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My science teacher used to use Jenga as a test prep. He split the class into 2 groups, and asked 1 side a question. If the person got the question wrong they had to play, but if they got it right they got the option to play or pass to the other side of the room and they had to play. Whichever side caused the tower to crash, everyone on the other side got 10 bonus points on the test. I fondly remember the time I got a question right and my team was begging me to pass, but I said play because I had been eyeing the perfect move for 10 minutes. The next person on the other team got their question wrong and they barely touched a piece before it collapsed.
I'm 76 but used to play board games almost every day. I definitely can't pick out one favorite- but these are the ones that I loved playing- Boggle (no one could beat me), Labyrinth, Backgammon, Chess, Risk, and Clue.
Pacheesi was my family tradition, and no quarter was asked or given. The last game I played was in 2007, with four generations sitting around the table: my Gram, Mom, myself, and my teenage son. My youngest son, barely a year old, sat in my mom's lap. She taught him how to hold and roll the dice. Well one, anyway, as his hand was too small to grab both, ha ha! Logan passed later that year, and Mom put a die in his hand as a remembrance. Both Mom and Logan are gone now, but rather than sadness, I always smile at the memories of that final race around the board.
I remember a game called MASTER MINDS, It came out I think in 1976. My 7th grade math teacher loved it and challenged any students to play it with him. Naturally, I passed.
Back in the 1970s when I was a kid, we played on a 1949 edition of "Clue." We handled the lead pipe. It was definitely bendable. It wasn't hollow though. I'm sure it would break easily. I think we even got a little lead 'residue' on our fingers.
RISK was one of my faves when I was younger. Growing up in the 60s and 70s, we had a stack of over a dozen games that our mother would play with us. Along with the Atari 2600.
My favorite growing up was Dark Tower. It was one of the first board games that had a computerized component. This tall Dark Tower would sit in the middle with various keys for different spaces. As you would take your turn you would hit one of these buttons. Sometimes you would find treasure in a tomb or ruin, buy things at the bazaar, or have ro fight brigands. This little primitive computer from the 1980s kept track of it all. Then after making your way around all 4 countries and receiving the gold, silver and bronze keys, you would have to fight the large band of brigands at the Tower. The first one to make it all the way one. You could play 1 to 4 people and it had an option for you to play against the Tower computer if you were alone, which most of the time I was. I still have mine today.
I used to play Boggle during lunch hour with my high school biology teacher. We both won and Mrs Smyth was proud when I beat her. My mum and I used to play scrabble and boggle together but we changed the rules with no word smaller than three letters, sometimes it was four letter words in scrabble. We also used to play Chinese checkers and I hardly ever won.
My favorite board game is an odd one: Phalanx, by Whitman. A strategy game with flat, differently-shaped pieces that represent various factions of an ancient army. The goal is to capture all opponent pieces by making contact with 2 sides of each piece
There's no such thing as 28k gold. 24k is the highest at 99.99999999999999999% pure You just divid the karat by 24. So 10k is 41.7% gold. Which is why you'll see 417 on 10k gold sometimes or 750 on 18k etc. So 24/24 is 1 or 100%
This video made me remember the time my history teacher brought this WWII game to my school's history club. I don't remember what it was called, but it had pieces for (if I'm remembering right) the US, UK, Germany and the USSR. The instructions were so overly-detailed and confusing that none of us knew what we were supposed to do, so we just ended up screwing around with it and I took over the entire world in the name of the USSR 😂 Edit: I got curious and googled wwii board games, and the one I'm remembering might've been Axis & Allies
Yeah my science teacher had it! Dude knew the rules so well that he made learning to play easy (I bought a copy years later and see just how confusing it can be). He let us keep it set up in the back of the classroom, playing after school, and kept pics of the board to prevent cheating. One game would take us about a week to finish! Now they make 2 versions of it but if you put the boards together you get one huge world map and need 9 players!! 😅
My two brothers and I spent many happy hours in the mid nineteen fifties playing Battleship. We called it "Sink a Ship" and what was great about it was exactly as he said: you only needed a couple sheets of paper and two pencils. The words "clunk" and "glub" have a special meaning to me.
Lots of great information in this one. Some of these games I've never heard of, but others are old favourites. Thanks again, Mike, for a great presentation!
I taught all of my kids, grandkids and now some great grandkids mancala as soon as they could put beans in the board. It's still a keeper at Christmastime.
I have many of those 80's board games from when i was a kid, i even have a New Zealand version of monopoly with cash and cards, which was given to me by the sales rep from Milton bradley as a christmas gift, when i worked in a toy store.
I swear I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but think that "solid 28K gold" reference was a little engagement bait for the RUclips algorithm. And apparently it worked, because here I am talking about it.
battleship works better as a paper and pencil game because you can place your ships diagonally, as well as horizontally and vertically. It's also way less expensive and doesn't take up space in the game closet, LOL.
Childhood favorites: that same electronic Battleship you showed in the video. I played it with my father all the time. He always beat me and I think back now and am pretty sure he could see my pieces. I’d give anything for one more game with him. I also loved Dark Tower because I could play it solo. War of the Networks was a favorite too. Players are heads of TV networks trying to put together the most successful lineup of programming. Current favorites are: Acquire, Dune Imperium, Western Legends, and Star Wars Outer Rim. There are plenty of other current favorites that are too numerous to mention. I might add that Return To Dark Tower is phenomenal and STILL works as a great solo game when no other players are available.
LOL, no it doesn’t, but saying that is turning this episode into gold for Mike. Comments “help with the algorithm“ and increase his payout. Many of us couldn’t resist correcting him.
During highschool in the 70s, we mostly played battleship on paper as we often played round robin tournaments. It was also a favourate way to get through a boring class. That was, until you got caught. Since my mother happen to teach in my highschool, after being caught, i expected to be having a discussion about it at supper that night. Oddly enough, the subject was never raised. In french class the next day i discovered why. The teacher discreetly returned my confiscated game sheet with an added note from my mom on the back. "So glad to see that you are doing so well in french you can devote your time to other pursuits". That i can remember it, word for word, 50 years after the fact, shows you how impressionable my mother's style of discipline was. 😄
A lot of kids stuck with clandestine games of Hangman. In high school, I was a whiz since I knew certain words that had a double digit number of letters. The word I almost invariably set up was "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis".
Axis and Allies, Fortress America, It from the Pit, Dead of Winter, Warehouse 13, King of Tokyo, and Betrayal at the House on the Hill have been my favorites over the years! And if self contained card games count then Red Dragon Inn is easily a top contender! When I show people how to play it quickly becomes a staple in their collection. Oh and anyone reading this, did you ever play Scotland Yard? It’s also fun.
My family is all about Dungeons and Dragons. When my son died, he was found with D&D dice in his pockets - the dice my husband had given him when they played their first game together. He had over 300 dice, but it was those dice that he kept close.
Parcheesi!! We play every day when it's nice enough to be on the deck. We each play 2 colors at once. He's green and blue. I'm red and yellow. Anyone else watching gets confused! Great vid, Mike! Happy upcoming Solstice!
Cool video! You should do a couple on card games like ones with regular playing cards and one on card based games like Cards Against Humanity, What do you meme, Scruples, and other such games. Also shouldn't forget another list about card games such as Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and similar games.
Yay, algorithm! We had a late 80s version of Monopoly that we would breakout a few times a month. My mom would order pizza. My two siblings, my mom and I, would play until we got tired. I'm told she still has the game. If that board could talk...
We would play board games every Sunday at my house. I always wanted to play Monopoly. My sister was the absolute master of that game. My mom and I would lose every single time but I still love that game. I think my mom has the old game still. And like you said if that board could talk…😂😂
@@joannewilson1162 She knew the red and orange properties were more valuable than any on the side featuring Short Line R.R. (Liverpool St Station to the Poms and Aussies).
10:50 who can forget Terry Pratchett's Discoworld. He was just really into partying in the 70s. 13:38 5870 BCE is nearly 8000 years ago but not over 8000 years ago.
25. Thanks to a computing magazine, I used to have a digital version of this game on CD-ROM, under the name "The Royal Game of Ur". It came with a story of "you" as a soldier during the Gulf War going through a sandstorm and encountering a merchant who challenges you to this game just to pass the time. 23. Say what you will about playing on your phone in church, at least it doesn't leave its mark on the seats. 22. I think I had that exact version of Electronic Battleship. (Also, a CD-ROM version that played animations whenever someone fired.) Also, I think I'd rather remember it for being the inspiration for that one minigame in The Wind Waker. Spli-i-i-i-ish. KA-BEUUUUUM! 19. Well... I guess it'd be as much a problem as running water that you might ingest through lead pipes, i.e., harmful over time, but not as immediately as being bashed on the head like Mr. Boddy might have in some games. (There's still the possibility of any of the model weapons being a choking hazard, but material basically doesn't matter in that scenario.) 16. Oh! A little after the last time I've been to WDW! Maybe somewhat before I went to EPCOT. I think. 13. I didn't think Scrabble was so concerned with definitions, except insofar as a word has one. Given that, I would've thought "bit" would already qualify based on its diverse definitions, such as the one to do with horse tack, the part of a drill that makes holes, a comedy routine, even physical currency, usually dated, obsolete, or historical. 11. The same CD-ROM from my comment on #25 also had Patolli. In this one, the story had you challenged by an Aztec demon called "Smoking Mirror". 7. I have seen Chutes and Ladders with pictures of people doing bad things in the squares at the tops of chutes, and pictures of people doing good things in the squares at the bottoms of ladders.
Scrabble is definitely my favorite board game. Trivia Pursuit is another favorite. Battleship is my son's favorite. Risk is my Brother's favorite. And Chinese Checkers is my mom's favorite.
If I had to pick a favorite board game it would have to be chess. There is a beauty in its complexity and infinite possibilities. The greatest thing about it is that no matter how well you play, you can always improve. Other board games I enjoy include Omnigon and All The King's Men (sort of a chess variant only with pawns, archers, and a king instead of multiple style pieces).
During the pandemic, I bought a bunch of board games and my kids and I had a lot of fun playing them. I bought battleship, Rocco, and clue master detective, which is like clue kicked up a few notches. We already had Monopoly, Life, and Scattergories… we played those games all the time. My daughters have moved out but every time we get together, we still end up playing some sort of game at the very end of the day. And all those games I bought during the pandemic are still chilling in my basement.❤️❤️
Remember the tv advert (with jingle) for the game "Trouble"? --- "If you have Trouble, wait don't run. This kind of Trouble has lots of fun. Pop the "Matic" pop the dice. Pop a 6 and you'll go twice. Race your man around the track. (and) try to send the others back" That's "Pop O Matic Trouble"...("by Irwin").
Henry Kissinger's favorite board game is Diplomacy. No dice, no cards, just using your negotiation skills to move armies in an attempt to take over Europe. No wonder he liked it ... Basically practice for real life diplomatic events.
We learned to count in German in our German class (no surprise). To make it more interesting, we had to say Buzz if the number was 7, a multiple of 7, or just had 7 ending. The prime number 17 was Buzz as well as the prime number 37. We play by sitting in our seats, and we count off. To begin, first person says Eins. Next person says Twei. Third person says Drei. Fourth person says Feir … etc. Then seventh person says Buzz. Eight person says Acht … etc. The Fourteenth person says Buzz.
I had the electronic Battleship game because I couldn't trust my nieces to tell the truth if their ships were hit. But when the batteries went low, the game itself would lie to me. The smallest ship had 2 peg holes. So when I noticed one red peg surrounded by white on all sides, I knew the game was lying/cheating You just can't trust anyone OR ANYTHING anymore either. SMH!
I have several vintage games- my favorites are Milles Bornes and Park and Shop. I also have older games like Aggravation, Life (1964), Go to the Head of the Class and Stay Alive.
For years me and my older brothers played Life and Monopoly. I played a lot of Chutes And Ladders and Candy Land with my own kids. Another favorite game of mine is Lotería. I played that game a lot in my Spanish classes when I was a kid
Not mentioning that battleship is also in zelda as sploosh kaboom is a sin, it's basically like the height of popularity if it even becomes a mini game in a game it has no business being in
I won a game of trivial pursuit once. The rules we were playing with, you would gather your full pie then try to land in the center. Normally the player would choose the category but if it was for the win, the other players got to pick the category. Web were all pretty good so we made a rule that for the winning question after seeing all the questions on the card. They chose the question, "This Soviet Leader was born in Georgia. I had just turned in a school report on the Soviet leader born in Georgia, so without hesitation I said Joseph Stalin. Everyone was shocked
I remember Battleship as a paper and pencil game. When the plastic one came out it seemed like a gimmick. Also, Go has an approximate complexity of 361! (factorial), much greater than chess.
Battle - that brings back precious memories of my dad creating a graph on engineering paper and we would play all evening. That was at least 60 years ago
I remember that Disney version of trivial pursuit. After awhile, we realized anytime you didn’t know an answer about anything remotely musical or involving dance or performance you should say Michael Jackson. It was correct an incredible amount of times
All of the Chutes and Ladders boards I’ve seen have grade school level “morality” lessons printed on them. The ladders have a kid doing something smart or good at the bottom, with an appropriate reward at the top. The chutes have them doing something bad or dumb at the top, with a consequence at the bottom.
Nice video, I remember about the Specialist cards in Operation. I'm Canadian and I remember two games I used to play with my older Cousins, the first I think was called Poleconomy? and may have been too complicated for me at the time, I was maybe 7 or perhaps 10 in the early 80's. The other game I don't remember the name but it had to do with the gold rush in the Yukon, you travelled around the board over the mountains, through the Chlikoot? pass and down through town collecting gold and claims, or getting stranded in an avalanche etc. Do you know the name of it? It's real fun. Thanks.👍
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There is no 28 carot gold... its 24
My science teacher used to use Jenga as a test prep. He split the class into 2 groups, and asked 1 side a question. If the person got the question wrong they had to play, but if they got it right they got the option to play or pass to the other side of the room and they had to play. Whichever side caused the tower to crash, everyone on the other side got 10 bonus points on the test. I fondly remember the time I got a question right and my team was begging me to pass, but I said play because I had been eyeing the perfect move for 10 minutes. The next person on the other team got their question wrong and they barely touched a piece before it collapsed.
Gay story bro
Thats awesome
I have a feeling old mate watched a lot of _Family Feud_ and got inspired.
Don't forget the sometimes weeks long games of Risk! LOL!
Still have a 70s Era risk game. I got all the board games my family owned because I enjoy them now still
I'm 76 but used to play board games almost every day. I definitely can't pick out one favorite- but these are the ones that I loved playing- Boggle (no one could beat me), Labyrinth, Backgammon, Chess, Risk, and Clue.
Labyrinth is AWESOME!! And I could definitely give you a good challenge at Boggle.
I love clue when i have someone to play with😅
@@cherylcampbell9369 Absolutely, Labyrinth is AWESOME! It would be nice to have a good challenger, but I'm too busy reading.
@@eloquentsavage Yes, it's always good to have an opponent. LOL!
@woofer13 LOL 😂
My sister and I play “Aggravation “. It’s played on a wooden board with different color marbles.
Pacheesi was my family tradition, and no quarter was asked or given.
The last game I played was in 2007, with four generations sitting around the table: my Gram, Mom, myself, and my teenage son. My youngest son, barely a year old, sat in my mom's lap. She taught him how to hold and roll the dice. Well one, anyway, as his hand was too small to grab both, ha ha!
Logan passed later that year, and Mom put a die in his hand as a remembrance.
Both Mom and Logan are gone now, but rather than sadness, I always smile at the memories of that final race around the board.
I remember a game called MASTER MINDS,
It came out I think in 1976.
My 7th grade math teacher loved it and challenged any students to play it with him.
Naturally, I passed.
I used to have this one too
@@list25I still have the game
My best friend and I used to play this all the time. He used to win more than me but it was still a fun Game.
That's the one where you have to guess which colour the hidden marbles are, right? I loved that game.
@@aaroncoroner5915 Correct. Some variations allowed a blank to act as an extra colour and others allowed duplicate colours.
Merry Christmas Mike have a great 2025 thx for all the great content
Back in the 1970s when I was a kid, we played on a 1949 edition of "Clue." We handled the lead pipe. It was definitely bendable. It wasn't hollow though. I'm sure it would break easily. I think we even got a little lead 'residue' on our fingers.
24 K gold is 100% pure gold; you can't have more gold in gold than 100%.
Your eyes have to be made of gold. Then when you look at it, the extra glow is higher than 24K.
🤦99.9% = 24k gold
Mancala is a cool 2 player game
And easy to learn
RISK was one of my faves when I was younger.
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, we had a stack of over a dozen games that our mother would play with us.
Along with the Atari 2600.
G'Day, Mike!
And Happy Holidays!
My favorite growing up was Dark Tower. It was one of the first board games that had a computerized component. This tall Dark Tower would sit in the middle with various keys for different spaces. As you would take your turn you would hit one of these buttons. Sometimes you would find treasure in a tomb or ruin, buy things at the bazaar, or have ro fight brigands. This little primitive computer from the 1980s kept track of it all. Then after making your way around all 4 countries and receiving the gold, silver and bronze keys, you would have to fight the large band of brigands at the Tower. The first one to make it all the way one. You could play 1 to 4 people and it had an option for you to play against the Tower computer if you were alone, which most of the time I was. I still have mine today.
Have you checked out the new version of Dark Tower that came out a couple of years ago? It's absolutely awesome.
@@toddboughn5168 I could never find a copy; probably because none got distributed to Bluey's home town.
That game was pulled from shelves and MB later took the mechanics and made _The Ωmega Virus._
We, senior citizens, played Caton last night in Clearwater.
My top 4 games
Cooperative: Flash Point Fire Rescue, Toy Story: Obstacles & Adventures
Competitive: The Godfather: Corleone's Empire & Tiny Towns
10:15: There's no such thing as 28 karat gold. 24 karat is pure gold. Loved the video, though.
Well, you've go the amplifier that goes to 11, and the gold that goes to 28. It's four better.
I used to play Boggle during lunch hour with my high school biology teacher. We both won and Mrs Smyth was proud when I beat her.
My mum and I used to play scrabble and boggle together but we changed the rules with no word smaller than three letters, sometimes it was four letter words in scrabble. We also used to play Chinese checkers and I hardly ever won.
They call it Chinese Checkers, but it is actually Hungarian in origin.
My favorite board game is an odd one: Phalanx, by Whitman. A strategy game with flat, differently-shaped pieces that represent various factions of an ancient army. The goal is to capture all opponent pieces by making contact with 2 sides of each piece
My family was pretty big into Mousetrap. I think, being the youngest of 4 boys, I lost a lot. Lol.
There's no such thing as 28k gold. 24k is the highest at 99.99999999999999999% pure You just divid the karat by 24. So 10k is 41.7% gold. Which is why you'll see 417 on 10k gold sometimes or 750 on 18k etc. So 24/24 is 1 or 100%
Came here to see if anyone else caught that. Bugged me for sure.
Favorite Boardgame: Dune Imperium +Rise of Ix. Current Obsession: Ark Nova
This video made me remember the time my history teacher brought this WWII game to my school's history club. I don't remember what it was called, but it had pieces for (if I'm remembering right) the US, UK, Germany and the USSR. The instructions were so overly-detailed and confusing that none of us knew what we were supposed to do, so we just ended up screwing around with it and I took over the entire world in the name of the USSR 😂
Edit: I got curious and googled wwii board games, and the one I'm remembering might've been Axis & Allies
Yeah my science teacher had it! Dude knew the rules so well that he made learning to play easy (I bought a copy years later and see just how confusing it can be). He let us keep it set up in the back of the classroom, playing after school, and kept pics of the board to prevent cheating. One game would take us about a week to finish!
Now they make 2 versions of it but if you put the boards together you get one huge world map and need 9 players!! 😅
My two brothers and I spent many happy hours in the mid nineteen fifties playing Battleship. We called it "Sink a Ship" and what was great about it was exactly as he said: you only needed a couple sheets of paper and two pencils. The words "clunk" and "glub" have a special meaning to me.
This is my jam. Favorite is Scrabble. Then, now, forever.
And Labyrinth is very cool. It's a good game to play with multiple generations.
If you have "AEINRST" on your rack, you can form many words that will get you that extra 50 points.
I was surprised to see Battleship described without the words "graph paper". It made set-up essier.
Bit was already a word. As in "the dog bit me."
The moment I saw the viking game board, I thought of Thud.
Lots of great information in this one. Some of these games I've never heard of, but others are old favourites. Thanks again, Mike, for a great presentation!
28 carat gold? 😂
I taught all of my kids, grandkids and now some great grandkids mancala as soon as they could put beans in the board. It's still a keeper at Christmastime.
Used to have epic backgammon games with my family on winter weekend nights when there were only 3 TV stations and nothing to watch.
If you used the doubling cube, how high was the highest you doubled to?
I have played cribbage for years. Since I was about 10 and I am 69 now.
Learned to play cribbage out at sea since you only need one other petson to play unlike spades or hearts.
@@OceanGopher33 All you needed was a pone and you can peg up a square of 11.
You're the best, Mike! I need cheering up, I turn to List 25's Mike!
Terry Pratchet's DISC word, not disco world. LOL
I have many of those 80's board games from when i was a kid, i even have a New Zealand version of monopoly with cash and cards, which was given to me by the sales rep from Milton bradley as a christmas gift, when i worked in a toy store.
I swear I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but think that "solid 28K gold" reference was a little engagement bait for the RUclips algorithm. And apparently it worked, because here I am talking about it.
List25 you guys are awesome keep up the great work
battleship works better as a paper and pencil game because you can place your ships diagonally, as well as horizontally and vertically. It's also way less expensive and doesn't take up space in the game closet, LOL.
... and mom and sis don't need to be in the kitchen doing the dishes.
If you had graph or grid-lined paper, even better.
@@JamesDavy2009 I just made rows of dots
Had an Electronic Battleship. The darn thing cheated!
😂😂
Childhood favorites: that same electronic Battleship you showed in the video. I played it with my father all the time. He always beat me and I think back now and am pretty sure he could see my pieces. I’d give anything for one more game with him. I also loved Dark Tower because I could play it solo. War of the Networks was a favorite too. Players are heads of TV networks trying to put together the most successful lineup of programming.
Current favorites are: Acquire, Dune Imperium, Western Legends, and Star Wars Outer Rim. There are plenty of other current favorites that are too numerous to mention. I might add that Return To Dark Tower is phenomenal and STILL works as a great solo game when no other players are available.
28K gold doesn't exist.
LOL, no it doesn’t, but saying that is turning this episode into gold for Mike. Comments “help with the algorithm“ and increase his payout. Many of us couldn’t resist correcting him.
During highschool in the 70s, we mostly played battleship on paper as we often played round robin tournaments. It was also a favourate way to get through a boring class. That was, until you got caught. Since my mother happen to teach in my highschool, after being caught, i expected to be having a discussion about it at supper that night. Oddly enough, the subject was never raised. In french class the next day i discovered why. The teacher discreetly returned my confiscated game sheet with an added note from my mom on the back. "So glad to see that you are doing so well in french you can devote your time to other pursuits". That i can remember it, word for word, 50 years after the fact, shows you how impressionable my mother's style of discipline was. 😄
A lot of kids stuck with clandestine games of Hangman. In high school, I was a whiz since I knew certain words that had a double digit number of letters. The word I almost invariably set up was "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis".
Axis and Allies, Fortress America, It from the Pit, Dead of Winter, Warehouse 13, King of Tokyo, and Betrayal at the House on the Hill have been my favorites over the years!
And if self contained card games count then Red Dragon Inn is easily a top contender! When I show people how to play it quickly becomes a staple in their collection.
Oh and anyone reading this, did you ever play Scotland Yard? It’s also fun.
28 karat gold?
Really?
Get your facts straight man.
My family is all about Dungeons and Dragons.
When my son died, he was found with D&D dice in his pockets - the dice my husband had given him when they played their first game together. He had over 300 dice, but it was those dice that he kept close.
Parcheesi!! We play every day when it's nice enough to be on the deck. We each play 2 colors at once. He's green and blue. I'm red and yellow. Anyone else watching gets confused! Great vid, Mike! Happy upcoming Solstice!
A popular variant where two players took on two colours.
Cool video! You should do a couple on card games like ones with regular playing cards and one on card based games like Cards Against Humanity, What do you meme, Scruples, and other such games. Also shouldn't forget another list about card games such as Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and similar games.
Homer -D'oh ! 😂😊❤
Yay, algorithm!
We had a late 80s version of Monopoly that we would breakout a few times a month. My mom would order pizza. My two siblings, my mom and I, would play until we got tired. I'm told she still has the game. If that board could talk...
We would play board games every Sunday at my house. I always wanted to play Monopoly. My sister was the absolute master of that game. My mom and I would lose every single time but I still love that game. I think my mom has the old game still. And like you said if that board could talk…😂😂
@@joannewilson1162 She knew the red and orange properties were more valuable than any on the side featuring Short Line R.R. (Liverpool St Station to the Poms and Aussies).
10:50 who can forget Terry Pratchett's Discoworld. He was just really into partying in the 70s.
13:38 5870 BCE is nearly 8000 years ago but not over 8000 years ago.
Clue was always my favorite. My brother and stepfather would try and team up to beat me. I won anyway!🤣
25. Thanks to a computing magazine, I used to have a digital version of this game on CD-ROM, under the name "The Royal Game of Ur". It came with a story of "you" as a soldier during the Gulf War going through a sandstorm and encountering a merchant who challenges you to this game just to pass the time.
23. Say what you will about playing on your phone in church, at least it doesn't leave its mark on the seats.
22. I think I had that exact version of Electronic Battleship. (Also, a CD-ROM version that played animations whenever someone fired.) Also, I think I'd rather remember it for being the inspiration for that one minigame in The Wind Waker. Spli-i-i-i-ish. KA-BEUUUUUM!
19. Well... I guess it'd be as much a problem as running water that you might ingest through lead pipes, i.e., harmful over time, but not as immediately as being bashed on the head like Mr. Boddy might have in some games. (There's still the possibility of any of the model weapons being a choking hazard, but material basically doesn't matter in that scenario.)
16. Oh! A little after the last time I've been to WDW! Maybe somewhat before I went to EPCOT. I think.
13. I didn't think Scrabble was so concerned with definitions, except insofar as a word has one. Given that, I would've thought "bit" would already qualify based on its diverse definitions, such as the one to do with horse tack, the part of a drill that makes holes, a comedy routine, even physical currency, usually dated, obsolete, or historical.
11. The same CD-ROM from my comment on #25 also had Patolli. In this one, the story had you challenged by an Aztec demon called "Smoking Mirror".
7. I have seen Chutes and Ladders with pictures of people doing bad things in the squares at the tops of chutes, and pictures of people doing good things in the squares at the bottoms of ladders.
"Bit" (in conjunction with "pi" and "at") was shown as an example play in the instructions.
Love this one !!!
Scrabble is definitely my favorite board game.
Trivia Pursuit is another favorite.
Battleship is my son's favorite.
Risk is my Brother's favorite.
And Chinese Checkers is my mom's favorite.
What about Mousetrap??
Oilman and the farming game are pretty fun too, my buddys and I used to have a few drinks and play them when we were younger
So what your saying is our government is operating under monopoly rules?😅
If I had to pick a favorite board game it would have to be chess. There is a beauty in its complexity and infinite possibilities. The greatest thing about it is that no matter how well you play, you can always improve.
Other board games I enjoy include Omnigon and All The King's Men (sort of a chess variant only with pawns, archers, and a king instead of multiple style pieces).
You can now play monopoly with landlord rules. You can't flip-flop back and forth in the same game though.
During the pandemic, I bought a bunch of board games and my kids and I had a lot of fun playing them. I bought battleship, Rocco, and clue master detective, which is like clue kicked up a few notches. We already had Monopoly, Life, and Scattergories… we played those games all the time. My daughters have moved out but every time we get together, we still end up playing some sort of game at the very end of the day. And all those games I bought during the pandemic are still chilling in my basement.❤️❤️
What about Eels and Escalators?
"Aw, (dolphin noises)!" -Spongebob Squarepants
The snakes in Snakes and Ladders must get hissy when feeling pawns go down them.
I have that exact disney trivial pursuit game 😊
Remember the tv advert (with jingle) for the game "Trouble"? --- "If you have Trouble, wait don't run. This kind of Trouble has lots of fun. Pop the "Matic" pop the dice. Pop a 6 and you'll go twice. Race your man around the track. (and) try to send the others back" That's "Pop O Matic Trouble"...("by Irwin").
As much as I enjoy video games, there’s just no substitute for a good old fashioned board game. Monopoly & Parchesi were my favorites as a child.
I love playing chess. I'm not one of those guys that memorizes everything and sure, I lose sometimes but damn, I love it!
Henry Kissinger's favorite board game is Diplomacy. No dice, no cards, just using your negotiation skills to move armies in an attempt to take over Europe. No wonder he liked it ... Basically practice for real life diplomatic events.
😮 on scrabble I did "montaines" on one triple !! 😅❤
We learned to count in German in our German class (no surprise). To make it more interesting, we had to say Buzz if the number was 7, a multiple of 7, or just had 7 ending. The prime number 17 was Buzz as well as the prime number 37.
We play by sitting in our seats, and we count off. To begin, first person says Eins. Next person says Twei. Third person says Drei. Fourth person says Feir … etc. Then seventh person says Buzz. Eight person says Acht … etc. The Fourteenth person says Buzz.
My all time favourite game is Trivial Pursuit then Scrabble
I regularly play "Fleet Battle" with my daughter. It's Battle Ship but it's an app. It's pretty great actually!
I haven't watched a video from this channel in a long time but now I remember and I remember Mike and he's got older since I last watched
I had the electronic Battleship game because I couldn't trust my nieces to tell the truth if their ships were hit. But when the batteries went low, the game itself would lie to me. The smallest ship had 2 peg holes. So when I noticed one red peg surrounded by white on all sides, I knew the game was lying/cheating
You just can't trust anyone OR ANYTHING anymore either. SMH!
Walt would be pleased that you have Trivia on his company...if you don't mind hearing that.
I have several vintage games- my favorites are Milles Bornes and Park and Shop. I also have older games like Aggravation, Life (1964), Go to the Head of the Class and Stay Alive.
I loved Mille Bornes, particularly the _coup fourré_ move that some players would simply call F.U.
Park and Shop was my favourite back in the50s. And Milles Bornes my father bought from a second hand store. Loved them both.
For years me and my older brothers played Life and Monopoly. I played a lot of Chutes And Ladders and Candy Land with my own kids. Another favorite game of mine is Lotería. I played that game a lot in my Spanish classes when I was a kid
Not mentioning that battleship is also in zelda as sploosh kaboom is a sin, it's basically like the height of popularity if it even becomes a mini game in a game it has no business being in
I won a game of trivial pursuit once. The rules we were playing with, you would gather your full pie then try to land in the center. Normally the player would choose the category but if it was for the win, the other players got to pick the category.
Web were all pretty good so we made a rule that for the winning question after seeing all the questions on the card. They chose the question, "This Soviet Leader was born in Georgia.
I had just turned in a school report on the Soviet leader born in Georgia, so without hesitation I said Joseph Stalin. Everyone was shocked
I remember Battleship as a paper and pencil game. When the plastic one came out it seemed like a gimmick.
Also, Go has an approximate complexity of 361! (factorial), much greater than chess.
28 karat gold???? LOL Still enjoying it though Mike - watch every single episode! Doing great
You could have used funk instead of fork. It did make me chuckle when you said, "Fire truck." 😂😂
Battle - that brings back precious memories of my dad creating a graph on engineering paper and we would play all evening. That was at least 60 years ago
I remember that Disney version of trivial pursuit. After awhile, we realized anytime you didn’t know an answer about anything remotely musical or involving dance or performance you should say Michael Jackson. It was correct an incredible amount of times
I knew you filmed from your house in the pandemic but I didn't realize you still did. I can't imagine you would take everything in to a studio.
Thanks, Mike; this was totally interesting, but I’ll still settle for a tournament of either Uno or Flinch. LOL
There’s no such thing as 28k gold. Pure gold is 24k gold.
I love you kiddo 😂... your never boring 😊..thank you for your personal input... happy holidays 🎉❤❤❤
Happy Holidays!
All of the Chutes and Ladders boards I’ve seen have grade school level “morality” lessons printed on them. The ladders have a kid doing something smart or good at the bottom, with an appropriate reward at the top. The chutes have them doing something bad or dumb at the top, with a consequence at the bottom.
My favorite growing up was likely Crokinole. Though battle ship, and electronic battle ship I did play a lot as well, that and cribbage.
Another cool (my opinion) yet really simple game is called "Isolation". -- Another always cool video!!! Thanks! Keep rockin'!
I have the 1967 battleship, the first electronic one came out when I was born in 1977.
Cool I like Chinese chess and three dimensional chess.Jerome❤❤❤
Monopoly,, every Saturday night me my family would play Monopoly 🤗
I remember that electronic Battleship game. Trying to program each piece without messing up.
The fact he checked the date on every game lol thats my m.o.😂
My favorite board game is aggravation deluxe party edition. Mines from 1970.
Nice video, I remember about the Specialist cards in Operation. I'm Canadian and I remember two games I used to play with my older Cousins, the first I think was called Poleconomy? and may have been too complicated for me at the time, I was maybe 7 or perhaps 10 in the early 80's. The other game I don't remember the name but it had to do with the gold rush in the Yukon, you travelled around the board over the mountains, through the Chlikoot? pass and down through town collecting gold and claims, or getting stranded in an avalanche etc. Do you know the name of it? It's real fun. Thanks.👍
Sadly a lot of the original board games inventors were ripped off example Landlord/monopoly
the alanis morrisette reference cracked me tf up
I loved Trivial Pursuit. Some of my friends wouldn't play it with me because I won a lot.
Mike, im so excited about your book! I just got it a few days ago for my boyfriend as an xmas present 😃
Thanks. I hope he likes it!
@list25 We love you Mike, of course he will! We're never disappointed with your show. Its just what we need to relax sometimes 🙌💯❤