Top 101 Games To Be Found In A 'Compendium Of Games' That Cost £9.99 And You Get Given As A Christmas Present By A Well-Meaning Aunt

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1. Ludo

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

2. Snakes and Ladders

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

3. Tiddlywinks (using dice cup as tiddlywink cup)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

4. Snakes And Ladders without the Ladders.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

5. Draughts

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

6. Chess w/cardboard discs as pieces.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

7. tiny wee pack of playing cards which = actually too small to use

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

8. Backgammon

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

(Of course 7 is the urgent and key item, accompanied with a little rule book of twenty five different card games - the veracity of the rules being a next to impossible to discern due to tinyness of writing - with at least one Polish game that no-one has ever heard of).

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

9. Nine Men's Morris

― gobemouche, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

10. Mini 10 pin bowling. (possibly not)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

11. Chinese Chequers.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:56 (twenty-three years ago)

12. That thing with multi-pronged metal 'jacks' that one throws and scores points from, depending on how they land.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

13. Tiddlywinks

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

14. Poker Dice

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

15. Snap! (cf 3 and 13) (also using v.small pack)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops - sorry. 13 is a rogue game and we must now make it to 102.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

16. Happy Families?

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

#16 is an extravagance as it can perfectly well be played with #7

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Well yeah but Mr and Mrs Bun are so much nicer than Mr and Mrs Seven.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

17. He-Man the Board Game

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, it's got 101 games in it - it is an extravagant box of pleasure!

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

18. Spillikins/pick-up sticks

― gobemouche, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

19. cribbage

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

This is certainly a deluxe set. In that case:

20. Mah Jong

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

21. Mousetrap!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Jacks

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.expat.or.id/images/congkak1.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

24 Reverso/Othello

25 Solitaire (pegs-in-holes version)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

How could I have forgot Reversi?? ('Reverso'?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, yes, Reversi.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

26. Shove Piggy Shove (tho i'm not sure what this is - i thought it was like Tiddlywinks, but what about Pass The Pigs?)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

27. Pacman - the board game

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(i think we are being unfair to this particular aunt)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

28. Zaxxon - the board game

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

29. The AA Game of the Road

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

30. Blockbusters

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:09 (twenty-three years ago)

31. Treasure Hunt - The Board Game

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

32. Random bits of board games bought at a jumble sale.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

a weird version of noughts and cross'

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

33. Voltron - The Board Game.

(At my parents' house last weekend, was saddened to see my copy of Voltron: The Board Game seems to have disappeared.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Trivial Pursuit

― Fergal Cussen (Burger), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

34. Cheap self-contained puzzle (with clear plastic top) the object of which is to roll and maintain in place several small steel ball bearings into holes punched into cardboard bottom.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

does this set come with astroglide?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

35. Travel Yachtze.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

36. Oil Cap Pro

37. Cannon 3-D

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

38. Mancala

― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

This sounds like a cool gift to me!

― modJ, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

39. Hangman

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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