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Post by Sparky on Feb 27, 2022 22:34:59 GMT
I've been to a couple of Toy Fairs and seen the Sweeney board game on sale for quite a hefty amount. The box is always shabby and on it's last legs.
There was another board game, I came across - long after my school days, and ironically it was in the Officers Mess at Catterick Garrison - that game was called "Axis & Allies". I found it quite amusing that Army Officers would be sat round a Board game playing War.......
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Post by Batgirl on Feb 28, 2022 14:23:10 GMT
Someone brought in "Perfection" - with the clicky timer, where you had to fit the small shapes into the board in a given time. I can't seem to find the game these days.
Here an Ad:
Perfection
My younger brother had 'Perfection' which was a hand me down toy from an Aunt though it looked slightly different than in the video. It was bigger with more shapes to place. Seriously it was impossible to get all those shapes in correctly before the timer buzzed and all of them were flung out of the holes. We still loved trying though always got a shock when the buzzer went off. Actually maybe it wasn't bigger, we just couldn't master it.
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Post by Batgirl on Feb 28, 2022 14:34:34 GMT
I remember a multiple collection of games in a large tin being something to be particularly pleased to have and take to school (or away on holiday).
The tin contained double sided wooden boards with different games. Ludo, checkers, chess, and there was always some odd game that no one knew how to play. I'm sure the game makers just made one up to advertise more games. This tin was a good one to take to school for games day but too big for the school bag.
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Post by Del Boy on Feb 28, 2022 14:45:59 GMT
I remember a multiple collection of games in a large tin being something to be particularly pleased to have and take to school (or away on holiday).
The tin contained double sided wooden boards with different games. Ludo, checkers, chess, and there was always some odd game that no one knew how to play. I'm sure the game makers just made one up to advertise more games. This tin was a good one to take to school for games day but too big for the school bag.
Travel games they were called here Batgirl. They were a great thing to have for a rainy day or a long journey.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Feb 28, 2022 21:42:25 GMT
I haven’t heard of half of these! . We still had days at the end of term in Primary school where we could bring in games (‘97-‘04 for me) and some of these were still the ones people brought in. Connect 4 has been ruined for me by my husband who beats me within three moves regardless. Needless to say we don’t play that anymore . I too used to just set the mouse trap up without playing the board game because I very rarely had anyone to play with but was quite content with my imagination. I’ve always found Kerplunk a bit ... naff.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 1, 2022 12:59:16 GMT
My younger brother had 'Perfection' which was a hand me down toy from an Aunt though it looked slightly different than in the video. It was bigger with more shapes to place. Seriously it was impossible to get all those shapes in correctly before the timer buzzed and all of them were flung out of the holes. We still loved trying though always got a shock when the buzzer went off. Actually maybe it wasn't bigger, we just couldn't master it. Funny you say that - I thought the Perfection game I saw was a bit bigger, and the shapes a little smaller - more of them too. They were really fiddly to get in, in the prescribed time.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 1, 2022 13:01:27 GMT
I remember a multiple collection of games in a large tin being something to be particularly pleased to have and take to school (or away on holiday).
The tin contained double sided wooden boards with different games. Ludo, checkers, chess, and there was always some odd game that no one knew how to play. I'm sure the game makers just made one up to advertise more games. This tin was a good one to take to school for games day but too big for the school bag.
Travel games they were called here Batgirl. They were a great thing to have for a rainy day or a long journey. The travel games I saw were Mini-Chess, Mini Draughts and a Mini Scrabble - all had the obligatory requirement of having bits missing. I used to assume they did that on purpose at the factory - so the game was to find what bit was missing, empty out your bag 20 times and pull all the seats to peices in the bid to find it!
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Post by Del Boy on Mar 1, 2022 17:05:51 GMT
Also the problem with second hand jigsaw puzzles
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Post by Sparky on Mar 1, 2022 18:49:56 GMT
Also the problem with second hand jigsaw puzzles Ahh yes, the second hand 2000 piece Jigsaw puzzle with only 1997 pieces.... Or the Car Boot style Jigsaw - always 4 or 5 pieces missing, but replaced with a mixture of rogue pieces from another jigsaw.
Do they still make the 3D jigsaws - we had a Big Ben 3D jigsaw at school.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2022 7:15:00 GMT
Monopoly still gets played, guess ya can’t go wrong with that, think it’ll always be around!
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