what was the first board game you played?

I can't remember if it was checkers or sorry
I think it was checkers

My dad drew a racing track on a piece of hardboard and we moved
toy cars around on the throw of a die. That was my first board game.

After that "Snakes n Ladders" and Ludo.

Favourite game as a kid was "Formula 1" - a classic. Don't see it around any more.

I'm curious to see if chess was anyone's first board game

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Favourite game as a kid was "Formula 1" - a classic. Don't see it around any more.

Yes. It had a very innovative and well measured game system which rewarded and/or punished risk taking to a finely attuned degree. My family played "Formula 1" more often than "Monopoly" when I was a kid [and I haven't played Monopoly at all since I discovered "Poleconomy"].

"Escape From Colditz" was another unique game system although being the German Garrison was pretty much the short straw for those couple of hours of entertainment.

Another innovative mechanism was the one used in "Election X" although I remember not being able to summon up enough interest in others to play it as often as I wanted.

Originally posted by lemondrop
I can't remember if it was checkers or sorry
I think it was checkers

Mine was checkers but Chinese Checkers.

Originally posted by lemondrop
I can't remember if it was checkers or sorry
I think it was checkers

I used to love playing "spin the bottle" with all the girls at the co-ed school I went to. I believe you played it at school also Lemon. What was the name of that all boys school you went to?

Originally posted by radioactive69
I used to love playing "spin the bottle" with all the girls at the co-ed school I went to. I believe you played it at school also Lemon. What was the name of that all boys school you went to?

I went to the School of Hard Knockers. It was a faux Med School.

Parcheesi; Checkers; Chinese Checkers and Monopoly until a kind Swedish Uncle taught me the fundamentals of Chess at the age of nine..

Originally posted by radioactive69
I used to love playing "spin the bottle" with all the girls at the co-ed school I went to. I believe you played it at school also Lemon. What was the name of that all boys school you went to?

I don't think spin the bottle is a board game and I'm sure you played it alone

the girls, I'm sure, were nothing more than wishful thinking

Originally posted by wolfgang59
My dad drew a racing track on a piece of hardboard and we moved
toy cars around on the throw of a die. That was my first board game.

After that "Snakes n Ladders" and Ludo.

Favourite game as a kid was "Formula 1" - a classic. Don't see it around any more.

You had a good dad at least in that respect.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Parcheesi; Checkers; Chinese Checkers and Monopoly until a kind Swedish Uncle taught me the fundamentals of Chess at the age of nine..

Yep, yep, yep, yep and yep. Except my dad taught me chess around age 8.

Before all those, I played Chutes and Ladders and Sorry.

And card games. We played a lot of card games when I was a kid. But that's not 'board games'.



I also like Backgammon. For some reason, Backgammon is ideal for a romantic, after-dinner game with a bottle of wine, maybe in front of the fireplace. 🙂

Originally posted by Suzianne
Yep, yep, yep, yep and yep. Except my dad taught me chess around age 8.

Before all those, I played Chutes and Ladders and Sorry.

And card games. We played a lot of card games when I was a kid. But that's not 'board games'.



I also like Backgammon. For some reason, Backgammon is ideal for a romantic, after-dinner game with a bottle of wine.

I just became interested in Backgammon

Originally posted by Suzianne
Yep, yep, yep, yep and yep. Except my dad taught me chess around age 8.

Before all those, I played Chutes and Ladders and Sorry.

And card games. We played a lot of card games when I was a kid. But that's not 'board games'.



I also like Backgammon. For some reason, Backgammon is ideal for a romantic, after-dinner game with a bottle of wine, maybe in front of the fireplace. 🙂

My wife and I also enjoyed Backgammon in precisely the venue you describe in your final sentence during our two year courtship.

Originally posted by lemondrop
I'm curious to see if chess was anyone's first board game

Mine was chess, age 8, a cousin taught me but he moved and that was that for 10 years.....