5 Ways British and American Board Games Are Very Different
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- With Autumn fast approaching, I wanted to take a look at some of the biggest differences between British and American board games. Here are five of them.
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I spilled some coffee this morning. It was absorbed by Hasbro.
Did Hasbro buy out the paper towel companies too?
@@Colorado_Native Yes. Yes they did.
Lmao that was brilliant.
🤭 And now Hasbro rules them all!!
I never knew that Hasbro had taken over the board game planet. ☹️
My take from all this: resistance is futile, all your board games will be assimilated by Hasbro.
Joe R M Hasbro does seem like the Borg of board games, maybe we should start calling them Borg games instead. 🤔
"We are Hasbro. Resistance is futile."
As far as I can find, Mattel, which my father worked for when I was a kid, has not been assimilated by Hasbro. I can't even find U-Do; I get too many irrelevant hits.
"All your games are belong to us"😉
😂😂😂😐😯😒😕😔
And one Hasbro has bought all the board games they will in turn be eaten by Disney
I noticed a VERY distinct theme in this whole thing.."Absorbed by Hasbro"..take a shot for each time you hear that.
Are you trying to kill us all through alcohol poisoning?
Dam you I was going to say the same joke I guess I can be absorbed by Hasbro now
Fiiiiive 🥴
Take a shhhot...Issht Ok. I cann hhhhhandled itch.
Retch
"Anthony Pratt, or A. Pratt, to his enemies..." made me laugh until I coughed for an embarrassingly long time. Ah, age!
I don’t think I heard anything else after “a Pratt”. I’m still giggling.
I believe your good years might have been... absorbed by Hasbro.
Today I learned that games are different over seas and that every company has been absorbed by Hasbro.
Still even in overseas, wherever that may be, it's spelled overseas, not over seas.
You play shuffleboard over seas.
So, is Hasbro going to buy Disney, or will Disney buy Hasbro....
Wal-Mart is gonna buy them both!
Dear God I do NOT want that to happen, It was a joke! All three companies already own enough crap(in their respective industries) as it stands! Now I am worried that in a few years one of these companies will actually own the other two!
@@JacksonOwex Amazon will absorb all of them.
@@ClockworkWyrm And then there will be a Monopoly.
Disney buy Hasbro, if they get back on their feet after this year. Hasbro's been slowly losing money because kids just don't play with toys or board games much anymore.
Google buys both.
As a kid I loved “The Game of Life” as an adult it just got depressing
I am sure though that at one time or another, many a parent on a bad day wishes they could do like at the end of the game - sell off their kids. lol
I always ended up with more than 4 kids so they didn't fit in the car. "Tie 'em to the roof rack!"
Jennifer Pearce I always ended up with two cars!
@@chelseagirl278 How do you get two cars? I don't remember an option to get another one. Didn't you have to buy it at the beginning? It's been a while since I played.
Jennifer Pearce You put them on the roof. I just used another car. Lol
I always got really confused when people called "Cluedo" "Clue".
I always assume that Cluedo was a non-copyright name of Clue
Clue just sounds so wrong.
@@BubbleFizz I can see how it would seem weird if that's not what you're used to lol to me Cluedo sounds so weird
Come over to Germany, where the e in Cluedo isn't silent
For me it's exactly backwards! Im used to hear "clue"!
I've always used chutes and ladders, and snakes and ladders interchangeably and no one has ever raised an eyebrow. State-side btw.
Same in Canada. Depended who crafted the board we were using.
Totally, never really thought about it, but I wouldn't blink if you said either. Hell, I have probably said both without even realizing I was calling it two things.
I think Candy Land is based on the snakes/chutes/ladders game....
the generic versions we have in our house for our kids have “snakes and ladders” as the name - stateside here too :)
I've heard someone say "Snakes and ladders", but I thought they were just trying to be cute... oops. Lol
Watched this video approximately one hour after it was uploaded and shortly before the entire channel was absorbed by Hasbro.
"And by British, they really meant London" Glad to hear Americans aren't the only ones that do this 😂
Wandering ravens hiiiiii!
"By British meant London" translates in America as "by from Louisiana means from New Orleans." For edification, northern Louisiana was predominantly settled by people of British heritage.
@@liscolco8076 ah yeah, and Nevada is just Vegas..
at least the example of new york meaning just new york city to people is.. a bit justified, sharing the name and all that.
@@KairuHakubi And California is just Los Angeles, and a little bit of San Francisco even though San Jose is larger.
I was today years old when I learned Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley were bought up by Hasbro.
Absorbed!
“Sorry, not Sorry” 🤣 My favorite line.
When I was growing up my great aunt Patsy had Down Syndrome and lived with my grandparents. She loved playing Sorry and Parcheesi with us! ❤️
Later in the game of Monopoly, it is beneficial to remain in jail.
Why's that? You're not allowed to collect rent while you're in jail.
Bio Kimistry if it’s taking that long, you aren’t following the rules
lawman592 probably because if all the places immediately after jail are owned, it will cost you more than it’s worth
@@lawman592 Your playing by house rules.
Official rules you can collect rent, pay off mortgages, and buy/sell houses and trade with other players while in jail. which is why it is beneficial to be there late game.
Also if you stick to official rules a game will rarely last over 2 hours. The excruciatingly long games people know come from house rules like the free parking pot and not auctioning properties when someone lands on it but doesn't buy for the stated price.
@@lawman592 There's no rules in the game that says you can't collect rent while in jail.
You should start selling a shirt saying "Absorbed by Hasbro"
I wonder if it would sell.... Hmmmm... But wait. If I made money off of it, my small business would be .... you guessed it ...absorbed by Hasbro.
Makes me wish I could retroactively wear it to an MLP convention.
Or even better
Towels and cleaning cloths
Hasbro is A Monopoly! Now that’s ironic!
Almost as bad as what Macy's has done to once-iconic local department stores
@@elultimo102 Yep, they skirt monopoly rules by saying the regional holding companies make them individual entities that are never officially managed by the top.
Instead of vertically aligned trusts, it's horizontal holding companies. Look up the closed department stores page on Wikipedia. It's depressing.
Soon there will be no regional variations left because every industry has their one owner with all the brands being made by that one owner.
Bring in the trust busters.
Even more ironically, Monopoly isn’t. Because of The Landlord’s Game, a judge ruled Hasbro doesn’t own the rights to the mechanics of the game, only the parts like the drawings. That’s why there are so many Monopoly knockoffs (Cat-opoly, etc)
asmodee is worse in that aspect though.
The Clue movie is amazing, I hope you've seen it. It's timeless.
There was even a documentary made several years later about it as has such a cult following!
I took my Mom to see Clue when it came out, and when Charlie Chan appeared she signed with such a deep pleasure ... by the end of the movie she was totally confused.
“And ya see that’s what happens when bad deeds are rewarded with a go on the slide” 😂
Slippery slope
“I did a bad thing... WHEEEE! Let’s do that again!”
Someone needs to have a backwards rules version of Chutes and Ladders...
We have Snakes and Ladders here, though it goes by "Serpentes e Escadas", which is the literal translation to Portuguese. I have memories of nearly vicious games in primary school. Chutes, as in slides, would have never been played, as it was the snakes in the box that caught our eyes.
"Thousands of years ago a game emerged in Mediaeval India," said with a totally straight face.
The Indians seemed to have too much free time.
I think the point is that medieval is not thousands of years ago.
Laurence says everything with a straight face. You have to be attentive to not miss jokes!
@@madmoody100 not for europe it isn't. but india's had a pretty long go of it, their literal 'middle ages' would be millennia back.
Settlers of Catan!
Whenever you bring up board games, someone has to mention Settlers of Catan. It's a law of nature.
YES!!!!!!
He did mention Mayfair in Monopoly. Mayfair held the rights to Catan for many years, until they decided Catan needed to be its own company.
Pandemic is better. (Not joking, just awkward timing.)
I got Settlers of Catan for my birthday. In March.
It hasn't left the box yet.
@@theresat4782 Through covid and all, you never bothered to give it a try? You should.
"And then the company was absorbed by HASBRO". Yeah, that pretty much happened. To every game company ever.
You learn something new every day. Today I've learned that Hasbro eats (just about) everything
for a short time my favorite board game was Payday. Don't ask my why. I would ask any and all friends/cousins that came over if they wanted to play. It got to the point I had asked so often that no one wanted to play it with me. I also liked Life and sorry.
Me too! Everyone else in my family hated it
I loved Payday! I never even knew anyone else who even had it
My sisters and I used to play Payday all the time growing up.
Pamma Sheppard LOVED payday!
Loved Life and Mousetrap!
Every time Lawrence says "absorbed... by Hasbro," I laughed harder.
It is the Hasbro Borg; you will be assimilated.
It sounds like Hasbro is the board game equivalent of Disney.
Hasbro sounds like The Blob.
@@davincent98 They kinda are, they also own Wizards of the Coast (and they own D&D). The primary resistance to Hasbro's Monopoly in all things physical game is Mattel. Since they've got Uno and stuff.
Growing up Clue was my favorite game. It's one of the only board games still kept at Mum's house. Of course, as a Downton Abbey fan, when I discovered there was a DA version of Cluedo revolving around season one, I had to get that as well. Unfortunately for me, it was no longer available and I wound up paying large amounts of money for what turned out to be the season five rendition which a) has no basis in the show's plot, b) makes no real sense, and c) features my favorite character as the murder victim. As soon as I get a printer up and running I plan on remedying these faults by refacing all of the cards to make my OWN version which will not be absorbed by Hasbro, although if I get the chance it might be forcibly shoved somewhere.
If this happens, you can be fairly certain it was me, in the small library, with the rolling pin. Thomas helped.
And the US would go on to make the movie Clue, easily one of the best cult classics. If you haven't watched it yet Laurence, you should and I would be shocked if you didn't love it.
Tim Curry is so great in the movie.
When it was released in theaters, different theaters got randomly selected different endings, which caused much confusion and a general “wtf” attitude among viewers, but once it was released to video and people could watch all the endings one after the other in a “that’s what might have happened, but what about this?” progression just works so much better than any individually
@@IONATVS Also Kellye Nakahara from MASH played the cook in the movie. Sadly, she passed away in Feb 16, 2020
I thought I agreed until I realized I was confusing Clue with Murder By Death, another movie I got a kick out of.
Definitely the absolute best movie ever made based on a board game. 😀
me a german speaker playing LUDO with a brit: "Don't be mad man."
Human, don't anger yourself
As a Dutch speaker watching this I was genuinely disappointed that Ludo/Parcheesi just had a word as its name in the UK and the US rather than a warning
@@robinredd7734 In Switzerland we call it "Eile mit Weile"
I am Locutus of Hasbro, Resistance is futile.
Your unique games will be added to our own. Your games will exist to serve us. All will be assimilated.
OMG 😂
It's the Disney of the gaming world, LOL
Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own
Our name is Hasbro, for we are many.
US born and raised and I remember my older brother having a travel game of “Snakes and Ladders.” I was Today Years Old when I learned that is actually the British name of the game....I always just figured it was supposed to be a funny parody (although, snakes are the farthest thing from “fun” I can imagine).
since parker bros hadn’t trademarked “Snakes n’ Ladders” in the US, many smaller companies were able to release equally good copycats under the original name. The original game is public domain, after all, so the trademarked name was the only thing other companies had to dance around
Isnt it snake and ladders in spongebob too? I supposed that was the American name
julian Chutes n’ Ladders was the single most popular US edition, but was also Trademarked, so any other company making the same game (and importantly for the Spongebob thing, any media that didn’t want to negotiate royalties with Parker Bros) called their version “Snakes and Ladders”. And before Hasbro bought them all, including Parker Bros, there were a LOT of other game companies that wanted a piece of that pie and sold their version for cheaper. Sort of like how Sorry, Trouble, and Parcheesi were all different large game companies’ versions of Pachisi/Ludo for the American market, and Parcheesi (as an Americanized rendering of the original Indian name for the game) couldn’t be trademarked, so was treated as the US generic name for any even smaller companies that wanted to sell a version...all of which are now owned by Hasbro.
@@IONATVS And Milton Bradley used to have their own knockoff of Monopoly too, called "Easy Money".
I do also.
Jail is the best place to be when your opponent has hotels on Mayfair.
TY for sharing your research
Very informative!
looks like laurence just got done with a 24 hour game of monopoly!
Ooh, something fun about Clue, it's entirely possible that Miss Scarlett was shortened in the American version, to avoid copyright infringement on Gone with the Wind.
"I will never! Go hungry! Again!"
Tlu can't copyright a persons name or ylu would have lawsuits out the ass
@@richardgrace4500
names aren't subject to copyright, but characters are, and having the same name in addition to a similar appearance increases the chances of legal trouble.
@@sirmoonslosthismind
Did Miss Scarlet ever resemble Scarlett O'Hara?
@@joeymama4666
comparing live action film to cartoonish drawings can be kinda difficult, but the broad strokes of the two were clearly the same. the name may have been the deciding factor in court, or at least someone in the legal department must have felt that way.
This episode brought to you by Hasboro.. which has absorbed lost in the pond
Another excellent video, Larry
Thank you! Your videos are so funny I laugh out loud. And you keep it clean so I can watch it with my nine year old too.
I spent my Junior Year Abroad at University of Hull. I lived in a hall of residence as the only American student among about 19 English students. The whole time I was there (about 9 months), I wanted to try playing the English version of Monopoly, but it seemed like every time anyone started a game, I showed up just late enough to be too late (this might sound like suspicious timing, but I really don't think it was personal). At the end of the year, everyone in our "block" (our section of the hall of residence), got together and bought me my own English Monopoly set and they all signed it with a very nice "goodbye" message. I still have that set to this day.
I went to Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and most of our British exchange students went to University of Hull. (This was about the time Black Adder Goes Forth came out, and there was a funny joke at the expense of University of Hull.)
Do they sell Monopoly sets of different cities in Anerica. For instance, my city in Kent (England) has it's own Monopoly which only we sell.
@@rsmith6366 I'm pretty sure they do. In fact, there's probably hundreds of different variations of Monopoly out there.
@@rsmith6366 I think some cities and towns may have novelty sets.
@@GailGurman It's always interesting to see where they put the 'poor' places. For instance, they put Pilgrims Hospice and Catching Lives (Homeless Charity) in the first 2 spots. 🙈
It's interesting how ancient Indian games have survived so well. My favourite board game is from ancient Mesopotamia, and it was very popular for a few millennia, but people quit playing it about a thousand years ago, apparently because this cool new game came out, called backgammon. Anyway, the Royal Game of Ur is really fun.
This was fascinating, thanks so much! My family loves board games (and card games) and we have a game night several times a month.
New follower... Just found you ( I know, you did not know you were lost); anyhow, binge watched this series. Excellent info and humo(u)r. Thank you for the entertainment.
Interesting!
Ludo/Parcheesi is known as "Mensch ärger dich nicht" aka literally translated as "Human, don't get angry" in Germany!
Im actually surprised England and the US both call it "board games".
Thank you for this excellent episode!
Always learning something new here! Thanks LB
I used to play board games but then I got absorbed by Hasbro.
I remember reading somewhere that the properties in Monopoly are named after locations and streets in Atlantic City, NJ.
I am from that area and it is true. The original Monopoly game is based on street names from Atlantic City, NJ.
Correct. There are also local variants and special editions available. Including a Star Wars version. I don't know what the streets are for that. Probably include Tatooine and Aldaraan. I don't think I'd buy the latter of the two.
He did mention that fact...
I heard the other day that some of the streets in the game have been renamed in real life, which is sad.
Love this channel and the videos! This was a little weird though, most of the video you weren't looking at the camera, but to the side of it. It felt like you were talking to a person on my right and not me. Your videos are so personable it felt off.
I love your videos!
I’m sure that I read somewhere that the Landlord’s Game was meant to be a warning against uncontrolled capitalism.
Actually had a game called Trump back in the 80's where you bought property... Yes that Trump. LOL 😂
Quite the opposite. The only problem is that Landlord's game is more a warning against restrictive government. In capitalism new players enter the economy all the time, in the game, once it starts no new player are allowed to join, thus creating Monopolies.
@@bubbaclemson5566 Trump the Game, my dad had it, it was basically a more aggressive take on Monopoly since you had cards for buying properties that could kick other player’s bids out. (And cards that countered that.)
TheBaldr thanks for that
The difficulty with getting the message of the Landlord's Game is that while almost all players should be miserable by the end, there's still one person who is happy.
I have a friend whose ultimate insult is, “dude you’re such a hasbro”
Laurence, interesting video. Also, I already knew, before I found your channel several years ago, that the list of terminology differences between here and there is extensive, I never knew until now that 'patent' is on the list. As you probably already know from being here for nigh unto a long time, we say PAT-ent, you say PAY-tent.
Your script is absolutely amazing.
I had Chutes and Ladders and a game called Candyland, that was basically a dentist’s nightmare... my friend had “Scotland Yard” a game I just rediscovered and now play with friends (I’m a great Mr. X because I know how to get lost in London. I only lost once and that was totally by accident.)
@Bio Kimistry I remember the fully built mousetrap worked properly about 1 time and then something would get stuck somewhere.
Laurence, my man.... I love your videos!! You should open a P.O. Box for fans. I’ll send you a hair brush..
OMG i thought the same thing.🤙Me thinks Lawrence is giving a nod to Boris Johnson. 😁🤭
3:50 oh my, I laughed, (actually out loud), when he said "pay-ten-tid"! How very endearing!
You need a part 2 for this one!
I feel the need to tell you that here in Canada it is still the proper Snakes and Ladders. We canadians fear no snakes. It's the moose that worry us..
I figure it's too cold for snakes in Canuck Land. I'm on the west coast and during hot months we got tons of snakes. My friends in the southwest (Arizona, Texas, Nevada, etc) have TONS of sidewinders, rattlesnakes, etc. They have to be careful and look for them on the ground. But not as bad as the desert at night. WHen the lights go down, I can HEAR the scorpions coming out at night and the ground looks like it's moving....
@@Frankie2012channel Oh no, we have snakes up here. We even have the Massasauga rattlesnake around where I live. The snakes just know their place. A 1500 pound bull mouse on the other hand..
@@DeadnCold Oh, the moose know their place as well. It's just that a 700kg bull moose's place is "pretty much wherever he wants."
And the beavers
Are you by any chance the writer of the intro for monty python and the holy grail
Fascinating. As a ten year old kid I enjoyed playing RISK with my brothers. It was a game of conquering different countries. I think it's still sold.
I love that game I have it on my xbox 360 and my Nintendo switch!
Scotland Yard was my favorite game as a child, but I don’t know if it’s any different in the UK or Europe (other than translations on the Continent). Great post! Thanks!!!
“They’ll be setting fire to your rug before you can say Marty McFly” you definitely know your back to the future, such a small part in the movie
Well, the Hasbro version still teaches the real morality lesson: that luck is very important for success.
LMAO on 1987 I was 18 and playing other kinds of "games"...which also involved morality! 😂😂😂
Oh the references! So many references! Cracking video, sir, you are a National Treasure.
Oh Wow, I forgot about Parcheesi. I loved that game as a kid! The timing of this video is amazing. I've recently been acquiring board games. I actually found a nice wooden Shut The Box.
I was taking a swig of Gatorade when Lawrence said you shouldn't eat the checkers pieces and I nearly did a spit take! 🤣
In Bikini Bottom , Snakes and Ladders is called Eels and Escalators.
Luv board games especially Monopoly ,but Lawrence I was distracted by your hair in the video
Ole son you had a major case of bed Head going on 😂 hair jell and a check from your lovely could have made for a better viewing experience! Cheers from Tennessee
Too funny. I am the same age as you, and I remember Snakes and Ladders. I honestly thought I just remembered it incorrectly. I still remember the Parker Brothers jingles on TV in the 90's.
What is going on with Lawrence's hair? He looks like a 1968 Beatle!
I want to play Settlers of Catan with you and Uncle Toby.
The poker face humour is lovely! "A. Pratt, to his enemies" 🤣🤣
deadpan is the term I think you were looking for ¬_¬
@@nekroneko yes, thank you. I shud have used deadpan here, i agree.
Having said that, hope ur comment was not sarcastic, going by that emoji type face u added at the end of ur sentence. English is not my 1st language and I speak 3 to 4 languages on a daily basis (including english). So if u are an english speaking person with no knowledge of any other language, maybe u shud think twice before judging "the rest of the world"
@@thesocialmisfit I was intending the emoji to look like a deadpan face bruh. Chill
I loved the game Frustration as a child (I believe its called Trouble in the USA).
My game had lost one of the red pieces at some point so it has replaced by a bit of a red crayon which done the job. The little metal clicky plate went a bit rusty too and the plastic dome got scratched up (by my brother on purpose as he likes to mess up my things) so it was difficult to read the numbers on the dice.
There is also a more grown up version called “Aggravation”. It’s filled many a Friday and Saturday night around my house. No one goes unscathed! LOL.
Hasbro: taking over the world before Disney decided to.
Hmmm >_>
Great Scott! Did you watch BTTF right before making this video?
I subscribed the exact moment after you say “ON a board!” 🤣
I never thought about the snake significance before, but it does make sense. The British Isles do not have the venomous--venomous, mind you, not poisonous, edible they are, though who knows why one would do that--serpents that America has. This point was brought home to me when I discovered a baby rattlesnake in my yard, and another time when I heard a neighbour scream as if her husband were murdering her. It turned out that her shrieks were calling her husband to come quickly because there was a rattlesnake on their patio. As far as I know, no-one has ever experienced a venomous bite from a playground chute.
I've had a chute or too give me a good bite, venomous or not it hurts like hell!
I was so expecting you to say to leave our favorite board games in the comments, and "whether they were bought up by Hasbro."
I live in Salem, Massachusetts around the corner from where the Parker Brothers factory was. The factory was torn down in the mid 90s; apartments there now. And yes, all of the PB products were absorbed by Rhode Island based Hasbro.
Risk has always been one of my favorites. I played Battleship a lot as a kid, too. And Euchre is a Michigan institution.
When I worked in a nursing home, I had the honor c to work with the cook that had worked for the Hassenfeld family, the family that owns HASBRO. She left to partial retirement. She had lots of stories of the family, and her food was fabulous. She made a cake for my college graduation, it was amazing. God bless you Ohla
2:00 We do have Snakes and ladders here in the US and I'm not sure why you havent run across it.
Perhaps it depends on where you live within the US.
I"ve seen both versions
Chutes and Ladders was trademarked while Snakes and Ladders was not so any competitors of the company that actually owned the game (Parker Brothers?) would release their own versions with the name Snakes and Ladders.
The delivery in this video is 10/10
One of my favorite board games from some 40 years ago is Scotland Yard. Supposedly it was very popular in Britain and later brought to America by Milton Bradley. It disappeared here within probably five years of it's introduction.
In my family we have a tradition in Monopoly (started by my younger brother) that when someone bankrupts you and takes everything you own you get to throw your token at them and exclaim, "You might as well take this also!" which causes us all to laugh and gives some satisfaction to the fact that you are out of the game.
Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs": written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. Truth!
I. . . I don't recall any of the Beach Boys going by the name of Bruce Johnston. I'm guessing he was one of the post-Brian Wilson Beach Boys.
@@mournblade1066 Wiki for Bruce Johnston: On April 9, 1965, Johnston joined the Beach Boys in New Orleans, replacing Glen Campbell, who briefly filled in as a touring member for Brian Wilson, and had declined an offer to officially join the band
@@cluny Ah, got it. Was he a part of the Wrecking Crew? (I know Glen Campbell was.)
The delivery is so dry it's dying of thirst.
I love it!
"Secret livestream..." That caught me by surprise! I'm still laughing!!
I never knew the streets were different on American Monopoly, that seems so weird to me that the U.K. London street version isn’t the original
It might not be the original but the UK version is the most famous and generally that version is what was sold to other countries outside the US.
I grew up by Atlantic City and we took pride that the streets were named after AC streets. (Baltic Ave really is the least desirable street) Of course, everything has to be changed & "Vegas-ified" like our Miss America pageant... I must admit that I was tempted to betray AC with the Star Wars edition. Star Trek?
I think we might have a german version of Pachisi which is called " Mensch, ärgere dich nicht"
(Don't get agitated)
Yess same thing in the Netherland 'mens erger je niet' (:
There's a UK game that's similar to Pachisi too that's called Frustration (you can see the similarity)
"don't get mad" in Spanish "no te enojes".
But I've also heard parchís and ludo
I s’pose it’s not my favorite game, but I have fond (?) memories of playing a game with my big sisters in the 60’s called “Park & Shop” - you were dealt a shopping list and traveled around the board trying to complete it. What fun. And don’t even get me started on Mystery Date - “Is he a dreamboat? Or a dud?” Ech.
We often played Risk, Dogfight, Chess & checkers (both kinds) in addition to Monopoly. We mostly played card games thought - Mille Bornes, Racko etc.
I like those games, along with Stratego, Risk, and Axis & Allies. Also, you need to get a shave and a haircut. ;)
Two Bits!
A haircut anyway. The beard isn't too bad yet.
It must be Covid hair!
@@monicaolteanu7490 Or humidity hair! I am not sure what the weather is like in Indiana though! I know it isn't too bad right now in Iowa
I used to have a Japanese version of Monopoly when I was assigned there in the Air Force.
Ludo is called "Eile mit Weile in Switzerland ("hurry while you linger").
Funny enough my favorite board game was a childrens reycling board game called Emil räumt auf (Emil cleans up).
All the property names in Monopoly are taken from streets in Atlantic City NJ (except for Boardwalk, which was namd after the amusement pier). So, many of Atlantic City's streets are named after states.
Are we supposed to take shot every time he says absorbed by Hasbro or just “Uncle Toby”
A shot for every "absorbed by Hasbro" and a sip of tea for every "Uncle Toby."
And if you take the wrong action, you receive the absolutely most severe punishment conceivable to a Brit: being embarrassed. In front of other people, nonetheless.
I like the game othello. I don't know the origination of the game.
Used to play Othello... not as often as I'd have liked... Never really got the chance at "Go"... You might look into it. ;o)
'Reversi' was invented in 1883, usually attributed to Lewis Waterman. I first learned of it from a 'Hoyle' book of game rules from the 1940s. Othello (which is Reversi with a couple of minor changes) was patented in Japan in 1971, with a U.S. edition in 1975 (thanks, Wikipedia). As one writer said at the time, leave it to the Japanese to discover the true Shakespearean significance of the game.
They do sell Snakes & Ladders in the USA. We purchased it for my son a couple years back for Christmas. It is one of his favorite games.
Parcheesi in my country (Belgium - the Flemish side) is called "Paardjes spel" = "Horses game" and the homebases are their stables. :)