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Board and Card Games I like

Growing up, my family played both card games and board games. If we were bored and getting on my parents’ nerves, they’d put a deck of playing cards on the kitchen table, and we’d play. Sometimes, we’d play for hours, but more often than not, a few games in there’d be some argument over accusations of cheating.

Christmas was the time the whole family got involved. We always got board games and playing cards for Christmas (sometimes, we’d end up with a pack of cards made up from various other packs because we’d have so many in the house, and most of them had missing cards).

Here are a few of the board games and card games I like:

Guess Who?
Guess Who? was a staple for us growing up. It’s a simple game of asking ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions to determine who your opponent’s randomly chosen character is.

My husband and I bought The Super Mario Bros. version over Christmas (it’s the same as the original, only with characters from The Super Mario Bros. franchise), and it’s great fun!

Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders (or, if you’re in the USA, Chutes and Ladders for some reason) is a classic. It involves rolling dice and moving a counter around the board. If you land on a ladder, you move up a row, land on a snake (or a chute), you go down a row. The first to the top left of the board wins. We spent many Christmases playing this game.

Scrabble
You can’t go wrong with Scrabble if you’re looking for a fun game—or an argument. It’s one of my favourites—but also one of the most contentious games we played as a family because some of my siblings would try and cheat by making up words, which is annoying to someone who has always been a stickler for rules and order. If you play by the rules (and yes, I kept a dictionary nearby), you’re apt to have hours of structured fun—which is the best kind.

Pop-Up Pirate
Pop-Up Pirate is a weird game—but I loved it as a kid. A pirate is hiding in a rotating barrel—and the point of the game is for players to stick plastic swords into the slots around the barrel until the pirate pops up. The person whose sword makes the pirate pop up loses.

Buckaroo!
Buckaroo! is a game in which you load up a mule with ‘stuff’ until it can’t hold any more and bucks, sending said stuff everywhere. It’s one of those games that is an awful lot of fun until you start to lose most of the items you’re meant to hang on the mule.

Patience
Patience (or Solitaire if you’re North American) is perhaps my favourite card game. You can play it by yourself (my favourite way to play a game), and you can’t really lose. It’s just a matter of matching cards up into their corresponding suits.

Well, that’s another post down. I can’t believe we’re on post 27!
As always, thanks for stopping by to read my words. I appreciate it so much.

Until next time,

George

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