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Favorite board games

Posted: Feb. 13, 2009

What was your favorite board game as a child? Please share your thoughts on this. I loved Life. That was Elizabeth Gardner’s favorite board game as well even though we both ended up in the poor house a few times along the way.

Kelcey Carlson’s favorite board game growing up was Clue. That seems to fit her personality. Kelcey is a great investigative reporter.

Some other newsroom favorites are Risk, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble and Candyland.

By the way, we have winners in the basketball contest. Will the following bloggers please email me their address at bleslie@wral.com so I can send you a CD: fishnett for the Carolina score, gingerush and philliard for the State score and khoggard for the ritual.

If you want a specific CD from me just let me know. Congratulations!

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I loved Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble.
carolinamissy
February 13, 2009 12:01 p.m.
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Risk was one of my favorites as was Clue. Passed a lot of evenings playing these with my brothers and sister
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February 13, 2009 12:08 p.m.
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Monopoly & Trivial Pursuit
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February 13, 2009 12:29 p.m.
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I liked Monopoly & still play it often with my son.
khoggard
February 13, 2009 12:30 p.m.
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i still love monopoly, but it's candy land or memory with the grandkids. my sister's favorite game was Mystery Date. poor thing, she usually always got the dud. i usually got the guy in the tux or the nice sports jacket. given a choice, we all would pick a card game first. maybe that can be the next idea. what's you favorite card game???
lynneslaughter
February 13, 2009 12:37 p.m.
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I've never completed a game of Monopoly -- all the other players would give up! My personal favorite is LIFE, too, even though I always ended up with two cars full of kids and a split-level home to boot. Lately, however, Scrabble is fun. Exercises your brain!
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February 13, 2009 12:41 p.m.
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I used to work as a residence director at Meredith College. I loved to play Trivial Pursuit with some of my RA's after they had finished their exams. They had to stay on campus until exams were over to keep up with their halls. Unfortunately for me, they were oh so bright, so I usually used cards from my music and TV version while they used the regular version with the hard questions!!!! I also love Scrabble. By the way, congrats to Fishnett!!!!
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February 13, 2009 12:42 p.m.
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My favorites were "This Game is B-nkers!" (for some reason the filters flagged that word as offensive, so replace the - with o) and "The Mad Magazine Game".

I recently started playing boardgames again as an adult but, they aren't the typical Milton Bradley or Parker Brothers variety. I now play more heavily themed games (some from Germany). Some gateway games I'd recommend if you're interested are: Ticket To Ride, Carcassonne or The Settlers of Catan.

For more info check out: http://www.boardgamegeek.com
areeves
February 13, 2009 12:51 p.m.
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When I was a child, a friend of mine had all of them...Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Hi-Ho Cherry-O and I loved to go to her house to play. As an adult, it was Monopoly until Trivial Pursuit came out just as I went off to college. I became a banker eventually and playing Monopoly helped me understand leverage, debt and other basic business concepts and negotiations because we were always making up our own rules...
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February 13, 2009 1:00 p.m.
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I'm with Kelsey-- I loved Clue! I don't like the game of life to this day--I always end up in debt. The thought of debt really affects my ability to enjoy it!
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