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What Games Amuse you

scottyrocks

I'll Lock Up
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Pinochle is a big family tradition, and we still play it after Sunday dinner (which is around 2pm) for hours if we are all together. My granda used to make a supplementary income playing pinochle. It was the only gambling he ever did, and he rarely lost.

You just reminded me that my grandfather also played pinochle. I remember once looking at a pinochle deck and asking him what happened to all the 2 through 8s.

I like Monopoly, Scrabble, Blackjack, chess, checkers, and a board game called Frustration (later Trouble) I guess because it resembles a racetrack, and can move almost as fast, too. The original Trivial Pursuit was fun because it was a novel idea at the time, and allowed us to reminisce, which is always fun. I was in my early twenties when it first came out.
 

Miss sofia

One Too Many
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1,675
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East sussex, England
I like a bit of cribbage, although i'm a bit rusty. I don't mind various card games, pontoon, rummy, a bit of poker. Backgammon used to be my favourite game when i was younger, but i don't know anyone who likes playing anymore.
 
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Orange County, CA
When I was growing up there was a place at South Coast Plaza called Gamesmanship which specialized in board games -- Gawd, I really miss that place! One of the things I vividly remember about Gamesmanship was the vast selection of backgammon sets and pieces in every imaginable color which fascinated me as a littl'un.
 

BriarWolf

One of the Regulars
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United States
Draughts, chess, backgammon, billiards, though I'm rubbish at the latter two. Love the cards as well. Was raised on Five Card Draw but the one and only game anyone plays around here is Hold 'Em. By their reactions you'd think there wasn't any other card game on the planet. I'm also an enthusiastic if casual Whist player, always plagued, as mentioned, by the fact no living soul around would ever touch anything but Hold 'Em.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
I grew up playing five card draw -- every Friday night my mother used to have her neighborhood cronies over to play penny ante, and from the age of about six, I'd sit in. Kept myself in bubble-gum money for several years that way. I never heard of hold-em until the TV poker fad in the '90s, and I still don't have any idea how to play it.
 

Vera Godfrey

Practically Family
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915
Location
Virginia
We play a lot of card games around here...canasta, gin (my favorite), one my grandmother taught me that we call Kings in a Corner, speed, stressed, just to name a few. We also love a rousing game of Munchkin :)
 

Horace Debussy Jones

A-List Customer
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The Bowery
Wow. Too many to count. Chess I think would be my number one. But there are SO many Milton Bradley and Parker Bros. games such as Stratego, Dogfight, Rook, Risk, Monopoly, etc.
The 3-M bookshelf games were cool too. Twixt is still a favorite. Easy to learn, yet often resulting in some intense battles with a worthy opponent.
I've recently been collecting old board games i find in the antiques places from time to time. My favorite is the "You bet Your Life" game based on Groucho's famous TV show. My most recent unusual find was a British version of Monopoly from the 60s. Missing it's tokens, but all the deeds to the different streets, chance cards, money and all are still there.
 

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