Remember playing them Vintage Board Games ~ Parker Brothers Milton Bradley and Such


I used to play The Game of 20 Squares, the oldest board game which has come down to us.

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Pretty Cool Mojado Piso ~
 
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I used to play The Game of 20 Squares, the oldest board game which has come down to us.

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In 1928, Sir Leonard Woolley excavated five playing boards in a royal tomb in the Sumerian city called Ur. They were made between 2,600-2,400 BC (or BCE if you prefer) and were found with playing pieces and 4-sided dice but no rules. Boards were later found in Iran, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Crete, King Tutankhamen’s tomb, and the palace of Assyrian king Sargon II. It was played by all social classes.

In the 1980s, Dr. Irving Finkel found the game rules on a crumbling clay tablet in the British Museum and translated them.

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The tablet was written in 177-176 BC by a scribe named Itti-Marduk-balatu. Itti was an archaeologist who discovered and recorded the rules of this forgotten game, abandoned long ago for its derivative backgammon.

This is Assyriologist Dr. Irving Finkel in his curator's office in the British Museum. He still lives among us, but he dwells in a mental world long before the invention of the safety razor. He lent one of his ancient chess sets for use as a prop in the first Harry Potter movie.

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You can play The Game of 20 Squares online here:

https://royalur.net/

It was a gambling game with beer as the usual wager, but it could also be used in fortune telling and that I think is unique among board games.
 
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Love board games.
Ticket to Ride & Rummykub are big in our house.
And Upwords. It’s like Scrabble but you can stack letters vertically.

Cards too. Pinochle & Michigan Rummy.
 
I have a strange one it's called Rhumb Line it's some kind of compass game .
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Vintage board games like Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley bring back so many memories. I remember family game nights with classics like Monopoly and Clue—it was always a blast, especially when we’d argue over who was the best at rolling doubles!
 
Years ago I tried getting into the Avalon Hill tabletop war games... which were tedious and tiresome.

Recently ordered the banned and forbidden board game "Ghettopoly." Got it a few months ago but was doing a lot of home improvement work, so I haven't got around to opening the box yet. Apparently it's like Monopoly but with guns and crack, lol.
 
All I remember was candyland, monopoly, chinese checkers, and some weird game with cartoon cards of high school girls and guys? I'm sure I'm not remembering that right. Might have had a valley girl in it (I had sisters).
 
1985 - Scotland yard - was fun. My sister asked about it the other day.
1964 - Camp Granada - Was fun when we were kids - I bought a replacement for my sister to play with her grand children.
1965 - Mystery Date - My sister really enjoyed it, I had fun.
Parcheesi was a fun family game night, in the 60's

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We had this cool game called masterpiece that we played at my grandma's. Lots of fun.

I just got "sorry" for my niece and I to play. It was fun.
 
My wife bought Operation for the grandkids to play. Buzzer is still annoying but the pieces are tiny and plastic and the board with the guy on it is flimsy. Not like the good old wooden ones.
 
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As long as D&D does too.
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40K is definitely played on a “board”, just a lot more involved than most board games.

Me and my peeps have played many a game of D&D where we had physical representations on a board to help set the scene. It’s mainly mental, but we felt the models helped. It’s just hard AF to find model representations for some of the stuff you run into.

I say it counts, board or no. It’s still in the same spirit of things.
 
As kids we played most of these games back before the internet or personal computers. Risk was our favorite and eventually we had redrawn the board to cover an entire ping pong table, where 10 or more players would gather to war in multi-day marathons. People had a lot more time for interactive play back then; there were only 3 major networks, telephones were physically wired to walls, blue rays, dvds, vhs, cds, were yet to be invented, and if you wanted to play something you had to reach out to other people and physically get together.

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