Monday, April 29, 2013

Y is for Yahtzee

Yahtzee was one of my favorite games as a child! We also played the game many times while my children were growing up.

On Wikipedia I found that Yahtzee was made by Milton Bradley in 1956. It is a game that was a development of earlier dice games such as Yacht and Generala.

When my kids were young we would have a set amount of time that we did chores and then we were all rewarded by playing table games or having a read aloud. It was always such fun!


What was your favorite game as a child?

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  1. It was my FAVOURITE game too, Kat. I do LOVE Yahtzee ... if we ever meet we will have to have us a go. I like playing the whole card at once, is what my g/f and I used to do. x

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    1. You're on! I like to play the whole card at once too!

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  2. Love it too.. and "Sorry" was awesome! lol!

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    1. Oh, we used to play Sorry too! Now I play it with my granddaughter!

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  3. My sister plays loads of games with her kids and they get new, more difficult ones as they're getting older. They invariably trounce me at anything we're playing. I can't even win Guess Who? most of the time!

    I'm going to a friend's small housewarming party later on this week and apparently after I left the pub the other night they decided that after dinner, we'd play some board games. I'm looking forward to it, even if I don't have much to offer. I reckoned the crowd of Germans might not be too happy if I brought along my English Boggle and it's not really the right crowd to offer Muppets Top Trumps to either. I think I will try and find Pass the Pigs though - I got that when I was about fifteen and we played it every day we were on holidays that year. Hilarious game, especially if you have any competitive people playing!

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    1. Too funny...playing English Boggle with Germans:) You'd win for sure! Pass the Pigs is a good one! Haven't played it for awhile.

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  4. Haven't playedit for years, but there's a box around here somewhere. I should find it and put it in the RV for camping.

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    1. We love to take games for camping! That's about the only time I can get hubby to play games with me!

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  5. I remember not particularly enjoying board games when I was growing up. It seems like I was always getting soundly beaten by my older siblings when we played Monopoly or Risk. Now I do ok at Scrabble or Trivial Pursuit, but since my kids are all adults, I still rarely am a winner.

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    1. It is fun to win at least some of the time. My daughter and granddaughter like to play board games so I play a lot when I'm there. My granddaughter's new favorite is Payday.

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