Board Games/Card Games your family played growing up

[TennNole17]

Did you family gather and play board games or card games 'around the table' growing up? Does you continue this today?

Usually every sunday after church, we played games at my grandmas. Lots of scrabble, monopoly. Card game were spades, and something I recall called "runs and sets"

 

[BrunoMars420]

Pepper (a better version of Euchre)
Poker Solitaire
Played a lot of Gin Rummy —that’s with runs and sets you speak of

 

[Brian_Fantana]

Pepper (a better version of Euchre)
Poker Solitaire
Played a lot of Gin Rummy —that’s with runs and sets you speak of

Very similar - was either Euchre, Pepper, 500 or gin rummy, depending on who was around and who knew which game. My folks were in a card club when I was young that played 500, so learned that game well. Still love all those games and played a lot of Euchre and Pepper in college.

 

[QChawks]

 

[BrunoMars420]

Very similar - was either Euchre, Pepper, 500 or gin rummy, depending on who was around and who knew which game. My folks were in a card club when I was young that played 500, so learned that game well. Still love all those games and played a lot of Euchre and Pepper in college.

Yeah my friend group always play pepper for money if we are on a guys trip or have a get together at someone’s house. You can get pretty lit and win or lose quite a bit of money on $10 games with $5 sets lol

 

[BrianNole777]

I played Monopoly a few times but mostly my brothers and I played video games.

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[Hawki97]

Euchre and Pitch. I'm from the midwest. It's required curriculum.

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Lots of Uno, Connect Four, Guess Who, SkipBo, War, and Go Fish, but one I recall that I enjoyed the best was Tripoley, which combined hearts, rummy, and poker.

Into high school/college the games turned into spades and tonk, and drinking games of asshole, quarters, flip cup, beer pong, chandeliers, and circle of death.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Monopoly
Scrabble
Pitch-I didn't really play this much other than sitting in for an adult who took a short break. My parents were one of four couple who played about once a month.
Hearts
Gin Rummy

 

[CaboKP]

Growing up my family played board and card games all the time.
Euchre, Chicago style euchre, canasta, and pinochle were the primary card games.

Board games (some cards only)
Solar quest (sort of a space version of Monopoly), Life, risk, stratego. Can't think of them all.

My dad would stop by Goodwill and check for board games. He picked up some really good old ones. I'm sure some are considered rare and worth something now.

We actually took time and created a few of our own that we played a ton using basketball / baseball trading cards.

 

[Brian_Fantana]

Yeah my friend group always play pepper for money if we are on a guys trip or have a get together at someone’s house. You can get pretty lit and win or lose quite a bit of money on $10 games with $5 sets lol

Same - Pepper and Euchre with buddies pre-gaming before the bars. As the booze flew, the price of games and hicks/sets went up. Kept a running ledger of who owed what because no one ever had enough to pay! Those were some good times

 

[PoopandBoogers]

I'm not sure of the name, and it wasn't that common in Fl, but when I was out in CA for awhile a game that was extremely popular at bars was the game where you shake dice in a cup and slam it down on the bar and make a poker hand out of the die. That and dominoes. Kinda weird to see when I was used to the usual bar games of darts, pool, shuffleboard and foosball.

Also remember in the 10's, the giant jenga blocks becoming a thing when craft beer bars started taking off.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

My maternal grandma would play this with us all the time. I've never seen this game out in the wild anywhere else.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Didn't play a lot of board/card games with immediate family but when seeing extended family on holidays there was often a Euchre game going.

Good old midwest game that I need to start teaching my wife and kids.

It's actually kind of amazing how regional Euchre is. No one seems to know how to play unless they spent time in the midwest.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Euchre
Pinochle
Red Dog ( Montana Red Dog )
Poker
Booray

 

[gohawks50]

We played Pitch, 500, Hearts, Rummy, Kings in the Corner, Golf, UNO, and Mille Bornes. We went through spurts of games like Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary. It's what my parents and their friends did for fun. Get together and play games.

 

[gohawks50]

I'm not sure of the name, and it wasn't that common in Fl, but when I was out in CA for awhile a game that was extremely popular at bars was the game where you shake dice in a cup and slam it down on the bar and make a poker hand out of the die. That and dominoes. Kinda weird to see when I was used to the usual bar games of darts, pool, shuffleboard and foosball.

Also remember in the 10's, the giant jenga blocks becoming a thing when craft beer bars started taking off.

Was it Yahtzee or Farkle?

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Euchre - 4 or 6 handed depending on the day

Scrabble

 

[TennNole17]

It's what my parents and their friends did for fun. Get together and play games.

This is how I was exposed to alot of card games. My parents would have over another group of parents from the soccer team, they'd play cards or games, the kids joined in some of them but we mostly screwed up the flow and ended up playing something else.

Not sure if parents getting together like this is still a thing?

 

[Dauminator]

Yes. With immediate and extended family growing up. With the kids now. Though the board game rule has certainly expanded quite a bit these days. All kinds of things. The one that's persisted most with the rents is pinochle, once we were old enough to learn it. I'm trying to pass it onto my kids though they're less into it.

 

[hawkeye54545]

If there were 5 or more we played a game called Royal Rummy for pennies.

If there were 4 we played 10 point pitch.

 

[TennNole17]

Played a lot of Gin Rummy —that’s with runs and sets you speak of

Part of my thought behind this thread, are card games regional? My grandma brought in Runs and Sets as an Ohio transplant. Most of the other games played from people in this region was just...spades. Rummy and all that seems midwestern to me, and I don't know why.

 

[Lindemann]

We'd play a game called Wahoo at my grandparents when I was young. Apparently it's similar to Parcheesi.

Wahoo (board game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[On Iowa]

Pitch was the most common. 4 point with 2 or 3 people, 10 point partners with 4, and 10 point call for partner with more. Also played some 500, Horse Thief, and Canasta. Once we were older, Trivial Pursuit moved in to favor. That gets to be pretty cutthroat.

 

[millah_22]

I played Monopoly a few times but mostly my brothers and I played video games.

Mass simulator 2000?

 

[fredjr82]

Pepper
31
Cribbage
Uno
Yahtzee

 

[SeaPA]

My favorite that we played a lot growing up was Tripoley; it's a card game that combines parts of hearts, poker, and rummy.

 

[On Iowa]

We'd play a game called Wahoo at my grandparents when I was young. Apparently it's similar to Parcheesi.

Wahoo (board game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We played this, too. My dad had a board from when he was a kid. Some kind of pressed board. We still play it some. We usually called it doghouse. This was our board style.

 

[BrunoMars420]

Part of my thought behind this thread, are card games regional? My grandma brought in Runs and Sets as an Ohio transplant. Most of the other games played from people in this region was just...spades. Rummy and all that seems midwestern to me, and I don't know why.

There are many variations of rummy that have all types of names but run on the somewhat same premise.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Was it Yahtzee or Farkle?

Yahtzee! Now that I remember it, it was pretty common, but when I saw it played in a bunch of bars in Cali, it caught me for a loop.

 

[BrianNole777]

Mass simulator 2000?

Never heard of it.

 

[king_henry5]

Card games:
Euchre
Pepper
500
Rummy
31
Shit on your neighbor
Solitaire
UNO
SkipBo
Royal Rummy
Golf
7-up
Now we play a lot of 7 spades.
Guessing some of these have different names, but it’s what we call them.

Board games:
Monopoly
Life
Clue
Catch phrase
Pictionary

The real question is: do you play with or without jokers when playing euchre.

 

[Ferentz_Fan]

Domino MF!

 

[NDallasRuss]

My family regularly played games growing up - monopoly, chinese checkers, uno, etc.

Used to play games more regularly when the daughter was younger - risk, stratego, phase 10, uno. The older she got, the less often we played board/card games. Did go through a period where her and I would play video games like Call of Duty together - it was fun, but she was way better than me, so it was mostly me running around waiting for her to find/shoot me.

Edited to add: at family get togethers we'd regularly play Trivial Pursuit, which was a lot of fun.

 

[seminoleed]

Myself and my parents played tons of spades growing up, and still play it all the time even now in my 70s. My grandmother taught me how to play Canasta, and I loved that game, but never could find anyone else who knew how to play--and today, I can't remember a thing about it except red 3s and black 3s had some significant meaning. And my mother taught me bridge, which I found was a good thing, 'cos my freshman year the floor I was on had a lot bridge players, and we go for hours. Which of course, might help my lowly GPA that first year.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Pepper
31
Cribbage
Uno
Yahtzee

My circle of friends and associates played a lot of cribbage. 2, 3 or 4 handed it was always a great way to spend some down time.

 

[beanerhawk]

Extended family it was 31 every Easter, Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving. Grandma loved it. Played with dimes. When I was 7 and would win that $3 dollar pot I'd get so excited!

At home with parents and brother and sister it was about any board game you can think of, with friends it turned into Pepper a lot and Euchre some. Poker by the time I was in high school.

 

[Finance85]

Monopoly
Scrabble

Hearts, Spades, Rummy, Blackjack