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-two years ago)

2. Snakes and Ladders

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

3. Tiddlywinks (using dice cup as tiddlywink cup)

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

4. Snakes And Ladders without the Ladders.

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

5. Draughts

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

6. Chess w/cardboard discs as pieces.

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

8. Backgammon

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

9. Nine Men's Morris

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

10. Mini 10 pin bowling. (possibly not)

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

11. Chinese Chequers.

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

13. Tiddlywinks

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

14. Poker Dice

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

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

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

16. Happy Families?

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

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

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

17. He-Man the Board Game

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

18. Spillikins/pick-up sticks

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

19. cribbage

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

This is certainly a deluxe set. In that case:

20. Mah Jong

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

21. Mousetrap!

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

Jacks

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

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

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

24 Reverso/Othello

25 Solitaire (pegs-in-holes version)

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

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

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

Er, yes, Reversi.

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

27. Pacman - the board game

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

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

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

28. Zaxxon - the board game

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

29. The AA Game of the Road

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

30. Blockbusters

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

31. Treasure Hunt - The Board Game

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

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

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

a weird version of noughts and cross'

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

Trivial Pursuit

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

does this set come with astroglide?

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

35. Travel Yachtze.

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

36. Oil Cap Pro

37. Cannon 3-D

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

38. Mancala

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

This sounds like a cool gift to me!

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

39. Hangman

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


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