Popular Board Games You Have Never Played

LivelineDipso

I have never played a game of Scrabble. Never had the game. Never knew a friend that did and I do not think I have ever even seen the Scrabble box in real life.

Mr. Rager

Ouija Board.

im invisible

chess or buckaroo?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Screwball Scramble.

Naked twister was always awkward at christmas with the parents, wish I hadnt played that.

Celly Smunt

cluedo.

mikemac1

im invisible wrote: »

buckaroo

The sport of Kings!

Ghandee

Monopoly, 21, checkers and chess.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

Pottler

Baccharat. Very big in Monaco, never really caught on here in the bogs of Kildare. I think you need a tan to be able to play it.

LivelineDipso

NEVER EVER mess with an Ouija Board. Even if you are an aethists its a machine that creates madness is people.

In Thirty Years Among the Dead (1924), American psychiatrist Dr. Carl Wickland claims that using the Ouija board "resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated."

Ouija Board Induced Hysteria

Police arrested seven people in El Cerrito, California after they used a Ouija board on March 7, 1920. One fifteen-year-old girl was found naked because she said it facilitated communicating with spirits. Later, the hysteria spread to others, including a police officer who shed his clothes and ran into a local bank. Officials brought in mental health professionals to examine the townspeople. To prevent future hysteria, Ouija boards were banned from town.

Ouija Board and Murder

In the 1930s, courts convicted Dorothea Turley and daughter Mattie of murder after the child killed her father with a shotgun. Fifteen year old Mattie testified how the Ouija, used by her mother, directed her to kill him.

The judge and jury determined the murder was more involved with a life insurance policy and Dorothea’s secret lover. She was sentenced to prison, while Mattie was sentenced to reform school. A higher court overturned Dorothea's sentence three years after her incarceration. Mattie remained in reform school until she was twenty-one.

In 1935, seventy-seven year old Herbert Hurd of Kansas City told police he killed his wife, Nellie, because she received messages from the Ouija board claiming he had an affair and he had given his lover $15,000.

Nellie tortured Herbert by tying him to bedposts and whipping him. She burned him with a hot poker, stabbed his shins and forced a confession by holding a gun to his head. Herbert got the gun after Nellie left it on a nightstand. He grabbed the revolver and killed her. The court ruled the killing a justifiable homicide.

Carol Sue Elvaker of Minco, Oklahoma killed her son-in-law, then put her daughter and two grandchildren into a car and drove toward Tulsa. She slammed into a road sign trying to kill all of them. She managed to vault a median barrier, tear off her clothes and run naked into the forest with two broken ankles. Elvaker was charged with first-degree murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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hoodwinked

Oh god im a board game whore! :eek:


ive played them all!

gidget

Trivial Pursuit & Backgammon

keith16

Never ever played a game of pictionary or twister.

Celly Smunt

hoodwinked wrote: »

Oh god im a board game whore! :eek:


ive played them all!

want to play rape?

Smeggy

Never played Monopoly, looks boring...

ChunkyLover_53

pmcmahon wrote: »

want to play rape?

well that escalated quickly!

all the girls love a charmer.

Malibu Sunshine

Smeggy wrote: »

Never played Monopoly, looks boring...

:eek:

Malibu Sunshine

+1 on Cluedo

Looks like a game for brandy sipping, slipper wearers

hoodwinked

pmcmahon wrote: »

want to play rape?

thats a: not a board game and b: not popular!

come back to me when it is! :pac:

Celly Smunt

hoodwinked wrote: »

thats a: not a board game and b: not popular!

come back to me when it is! :pac:

Red Hand

It would be easier for me to say the board games I have played:

Chess, checkers, backgammon and battleship.

Ihatecuddles-old

Does anyone know the name of the game where you put 4 different coloured balls behind a screen, and the player has to guess with their balls :P

and you give pegs for however many they get right, and have a certain number of guesses. Im sh*t at explaining things

A_Sober_Paddy

hoodwinked wrote: »

thats a: not a board game and b: not popular!

come back to me when it is! :pac:

Its massive in India







...Too soon???

Captain Chaos

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Does anyone know the name of the game where you put 4 different coloured balls behind a screen, and the player has to guess with their balls :P

and you give pegs for however many they get right, and have a certain number of guesses. Im sh*t at explaining things

Mastermind.

keith16

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

well that escalated quickly!

all the girls love a charmer.

You are supposed to say "No, I do not wish to play rape"

At which point "pmcmahon" would swiftly reply: "that's the spirit"

mackg

Pictionary.

orestes

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Does anyone know the name of the game where you put 4 different coloured balls behind a screen, and the player has to guess with their balls :P

o_O

That's not a game, that's sexual harassment.

Ihatecuddles-old

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Mastermind.

Yes!! Thank you, was wrecking my head!

3ndahalfof6

If I never played it, I'm guessing its not popular.

A_Sober_Paddy

Operation

Where To

There are no board games for one player.

Fcuk me, this forum makes me feel like Mr.Bean sometimes.:(

keith16

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

If I never played it, I'm guessing its not popular.

Oh well lah dee dah "Mr. Zeitgeist"

3ndahalfof6

keith16 wrote: »

Oh well lah dee dah "Mr. Zeitgeist"

That song is going to wreck my head for the next, oooooo times up.

Zab

Where To wrote: »

There are no board games for one player.

Not true, I'm sure you'll be very glad to hear.

Where To

Zab wrote: »

Not true, I'm sure you'll be very glad to hear.

Friday, the second game in Friese's Freitag-project, (Black Friday was the first) is about Robinson and Friday (Freitag). The player is Friday and must help Robinson to survive and prepare him for the last two battles against the pirates.
Friday is a deck-building game in which you try to add good cards to the deck and get rid of the bad ones. With this deck you fight against the dangers. If you defeat one danger (card), you will add this card to your deck (good). If you lose against a danger, you lose some health tokens, but you can get rid of the cards you lost with (generally weaker cards).
If you have no health tokens left and lose one more health point: game over; if you defeat both pirates, you win.






I can barely contain my excitement.

kfallon

Worked for Hasbro in my teens, board games bring back some bad memories, Trivial Pursuit I can't even look at these days :mad:

G.K.

Backgammon

kfallon

G.K. wrote: »

Backgammon

Had a lovely bit of that for me dinner with some Parsley sauce

hoodwinked

kfallon wrote: »

Worked for Hasbro in my teens, board games bring back some bad memories, Trivial Pursuit I can't even look at these days :mad:

Was it the pie or the chips they stuffed up there?

im invisible

Where To wrote: »

There are no board games for one player.

there is a one player board game called solitare, which involves jumping pegs over other pegs into empty holes, not to be confused with the one player card game, coincidently called solitare

Lyaiera

Zab wrote: »

Not true, I'm sure you'll be very glad to hear.

Ha. I had a few geeklists lined up thirty seconds after I saw the original post. :P






There's thousands of board games I've never played, but I'm disappointed I never got a go at Kerplunk when I was a kid.

TwoShedsJackson

Where To wrote: »

Friday, the second game in Friese's Freitag-project, (Black Friday was the first) is about Robinson and Friday (Freitag). The player is Friday and must help Robinson to survive and prepare him for the last two battles against the pirates.
Friday is a deck-building game in which you try to add good cards to the deck and get rid of the bad ones. With this deck you fight against the dangers. If you defeat one danger (card), you will add this card to your deck (good). If you lose against a danger, you lose some health tokens, but you can get rid of the cards you lost with (generally weaker cards).
If you have no health tokens left and lose one more health point: game over; if you defeat both pirates, you win.






I can barely contain my excitement.

Good game too.

phasers

I've only ever played Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders

I have Cluedo but it looks feckin complicated so I can't be bothered

Wing126

Settlers of Catan
Pandemic
Carcassone
Ticket to Ride
Risk