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Out with the old and in the new, Monopoly is replacing the Thimble, Wheelbarrow and Boot board pieces with a Rubber Ducky, T-Rex and Penguin.

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Can't really say I'm a big fan of this move (no pun intended). Is nothing sacred? My favorite has always been the car (can actually remember making vroom noises playing as a kid whenever I'd pass "Go"), what about you?

I always liked the shoe (hopefully that's not the same thing as the boot), but my brother had to be the race car.

Ellen wrote: "I always liked the shoe (hopefully that's not the same thing as the boot), but my brother had to be the race car."

Sorry to say that the boot and the shoe are one and the same.

Very devastating, but they have also changed Candyland, and in my opinion have completely ruined the concept. Now comes in a box slightly larger than the size of paper, I mean sheet of paper. You can get the original Hasbro Candyland off Amazon, But you have to make sure you are choosing the retro option. Which is sad. Even my children grew up on the same Candyland as I did. This one doesn't look remotely as interesting.

Amy wrote: "Very devastating, but they have also changed Candyland, and in my opinion have completely ruined the concept. Now comes in a box slightly larger than the size of paper, I mean sheet of paper. You c..."

I prefer to play with retro games. They have more flavor. But, I have to say, I think the rubber ducky is a cute idea.

Love the thimble!

I think the new ones sound cute. But then, I'm not a big Monopoly fan, anyway.

I play more of the European games, the most famous here in North America being Settlers of Catan. I also enjoy Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, Arkham Horror, Ticket to Ride...

I was never a big Monopoly player (I loved Parcheesi) ... but I did like the thimble, the race car, and the shoe.

I'm a Texan; getting rid of a boot of any kind is sacrilegious!


I was never a big monopoly fan either. Can a game be any longer? But, I loved Clue and they did something similar to the weapons and characters in Clue recently.

Regina wrote: "I'm a Texan; getting rid of a boot of any kind is sacrilegious!

I was never a big monopoly fan either. Can a game be any longer? But, I loved Clue and they did something similar to the weapons a..."

LOL on the boot! I didn't know they'd changed Clue recently. That was a fun one!

My parents bought a Swedish version of Monopoly when we lived there in 51/52. It doesn't look like the one here, though it is laid out the same. When you land on Centrum with a hotel it costs you 40,000 kroner. I've always preferred this one and still have it. My father translated all the chance cards.

Charlie wrote: "Out with the old and in the new, Monopoly is replacing the Thimble, Wheelbarrow and Boot board pieces with a Rubber Ducky, T-Rex and Penguin.

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Can't really say I'm a big ..."

Since the top hat has been my token of choice since they came out with cool ones, this doesn't bother me as much as it would otherwise. I guess they have to keep it current.

My sister had the car because it went fast around the board, my dad the wheelbarrow to carry all of his money, me the top hat because it sits on top (and during my mid to late teens I was on a long winning streak with Monopoly, so it fit well!). I don't remember who used what and why for the rest of the family who played (not my mother as she likes word games) but everyone had a piece and a reason for their piece. Yes, we liked to have our fun with these things.

But I am no longer a fan of the game, and not just because my winning streak came to an end. It's just too darn long.

My cousins and I used to have (and still occasionally have) EPIC Monopoly games! They can last all night and there are so many of us that there are typically 2 or 3 games going at once. Then, once you lose, which I typically do fairly quickly, you just hang out and chat. But, most of my family is cut-throat competitive so the games get interesting!

Great memories playing Monopoly.

I am not a huge fan of the changes to Clue. Mainly the changes to the people's names. It was still fun though when I played this past Christmas :)

LibraryCin wrote: "I play more of the European games, the most famous here in North America being Settlers of Catan. I also enjoy Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, Arkham Horror, Ticket to Ride..."

I used to play as the dog. I really like the new monopoly pieces. If I ever play again, I'll definitely be happy being a penguin (my fav animal) or a t-rex.

I've never had the patience for monopoly. After the first hour or so I get bored of it. Do love games more like what Library Cin mentioned- love Settlers of Catan. I played Arkham Horror once- it was pretty depressing, lol. Have you tried Pandemic? That's a fun one.

My favorite is cards against humanity ;)

Nicole R wrote: "My cousins and I used to have (and still occasionally have) EPIC Monopoly games! They can last all night and there are so many of us that there are typically 2 or 3 games going at once. Then, once ..."

My family is also competitive! But now when we get together it's other games. For a while it was Quiddler, then they all discovered a game my kids and I got tired of years ago, the only playing card game my mother has ever liked, Sequence.

My favourite games (please be shocked ;) ) are the ones I do better with, such as Taboo and some game my sister in law owns were you throw a multi-sided die with letters on it, and you have a certain amount of time to come up with a list of words that start with that letter (there are sheets with categories that vary). We don't own Taboo, though, so I've only played it a few times.

We play some Monopoly here! Also Sorry, Rummy Q, and the retro Candyland. One of my patients mentioned the new Candyland today. Says she can't bear to play it since it got ruined, so I am not alone!

Who remembers playing Parcheesi and Backgammon? I like Parcheesi better than Sorry (Sorry is a spin off of Parcheese, or so it seems to me, and I think Trouble was as well). How about Life? I remember when Trivial Pursuit first came out and my sister was floored that I knew the answer to "What does a polyorchid man have three of?" I guessed, but since I was doing a minor in biology, it was an educated guess.

Yahtzee was a big one at our house (we don't play it here because I can't stand the sound of the dice rattling in that cup and even with hands, my kids got tired of it, but when I was a kid we played it at my grandparents' house--on the other side it was Cribbage that was the big game).

My parents were big on Scrabble, my mother's only game when I was a kid. We also played things like Canasta (card game with 2 decks and I forget the rules) plus other card games.

Battleship, Stratego, Uno, Risk, the original Clue, plus forgettable ones.

BIG MEMORY OF CANDYLAND. My mother, who was 26 at the time, burned a game of Candyland when I was 4. NO, she was not normally destructive but didn't realize that 4 year olds don't just clean up games like that on their own. She told us that if we didn't clean it up (I am the eldest child, so my sister was 2 1/2 or 3) she was going to burn it, and by golly she kept her word. I will add that she never tried that again :).

Wow that is some memory! I wonder what folks would make of that if they were looking deeply. You seemed to have turned out extremely well for the lesson learned.

Amy wrote: "Wow that is some memory! I wonder what folks would make of that if they were looking deeply. You seemed to have turned out extremely well for the lesson learned."

I cheated and did some googling for some of the games--but not the burning incident. It made a huge impact on me, although it did NOT teach me to clean up :). It was so uncharacteristic of my mother, who is a lovely person.

I love backgammon! And I have an odd live of dominos. I think because I played them both all the time when I lived in the Bahamas.

And my family plays a poor-mans version of Yahtzee, called Farkle. I like that as well.

Joi wrote: "Do love games more like what Library Cin mentioned- love Settlers of Catan. I played Arkham Horror once- it was pretty depressing, lol. Have you tried Pandemic? That's a fun one...."

One of the things I like about Arkham is that it's a cooperative game! And it can be played with just 2 people (each playing a couple of characters), so that always made it easier.

I haven't tried Pandemic. I don't play any of them nearly as much as I used to. My ex was the one really into board games, with his friends, so between he and his friends, we often tried new ones and collected many. We've been apart for 10 (!!!!!) years now, and I don't have as many friends who play... or we just dont' think to, so I haven't tried any new games in a very long time!

Karin wrote: ""15-year old Dee is quite a character! She is a chatty girl and she has a bit of a loud “old lady” gravelly voice. She is very friendly and likes attention. She also likes to explore" ..."

That one's Scattergories.

Karin wrote: "Who remembers playing Parcheesi and Backgammon? I like Parcheesi better than Sorry (Sorry is a spin off of Parcheese, or so it seems to me, and I think Trouble was as well). How about Life? I remem..."

I liked Parcheesi. My grandma had that one. Sorry was fun.

Only learned Backgammon as an adult, but found it kind of boring! :-( It's too bad because I had bought myself the game.

Life was fun; I still like Yahtzee. And cribbage. And Scrabble.

LibraryCin wrote: "Life was fun; I still like Yahtzee. And cribbage. And Scrabble..."

YES on cribbage!

I have to admit though, my family is much bigger card players than board gamers.

Nicole R wrote: "I love backgammon! And I have an odd live of dominos. I think because I played them both all the time when I lived in the Bahamas.

And my family plays a poor-mans version of Yahtzee, called Farkl..."

I loved Farkle, don't play it much anymore

Karin wrote: "Who remembers playing Parcheesi and Backgammon? I like Parcheesi better than Sorry (Sorry is a spin off of Parcheese, or so it seems to me, and I think Trouble was as well). How about Life? I remem..."

My best friend and I would have Parcheesi "tournaments" ... that's what we called them, but it was really just a marathon of playing ... over and over and over. We could play that game all day long and we frequently did.

Karin wrote: "BIG MEMORY OF CANDYLAND. My mother, who was 26 at the time, burned a game of Candyland when I was 4. NO, she was not normally destructive but didn't realize that 4 year olds don't just clean up games..."

My father once swept all our not-picked-up toys into the garbage. He'd told us - more than once - if we didn't pick them up he would throw them out, and he did. You only needed to learn that lesson once!

LibraryCin wrote: "I haven't tried Pandemic. I don't play any of them nearly as much as I used to. My ex was the one really into board games, with his friends, so between he and his friends, we often tried new ones and collected many."

Pandemic is also cooperative, which is why I mentioned it actually, haha. You play as a team of 2-4 ppl to rid the world of a spreading pandemic disease and find a cure. I liked it because you could be a researcher or scientist as opposed to most games where you have to be a fighter or killing people.

LibraryCin, It's funny you mention that because an ex-boyfriend is EXACTLY the reason I've played all these games too. I don't really anymore- but it was fun at the time.

Am I the only OCD person about putting games away? I always had to have everything stacked perfectly, all the tokens in one place- all the cards facing the correct ways with a rubber band around them. We'd use old film canisters or Altoids tins to organize the game pieces even more.

Joi wrote:"

Pandemic does sound like a fun one!

Putting games away - I do some of those things (cards facing the correct way, elastic... but not film canisters, though that's not a bad idea to make use of extra little container that might otherwise be thrown out or recycled. ("Upcycle" first. :-) )

LibraryCin wrote: "That one's Scattergories."..."

Thanks! I googled to double check and of course that's exactly it!

Nicole R wrote: "LibraryCin wrote: "Life was fun; I still like Yahtzee. And cribbage. And Scrabble..."

YES on cribbage!

I have to admit though, my family is much bigger card players than board gamers."

Did you have little rhymes like my dad did? "15 two, 15 four and the rest don't score" etc? Or any 4 point hand he'd manage to do that. Plus lots of cliche sayings. He played it, my mother's parents played it, but my mother or my dad's parents. We kids played it.

Joi wrote: "LibraryCin wrote: "I haven't tried Pandemic. I don't play any of them nearly as much as I used to. My ex was the one really into board games, with his friends, so between he and his friends, we oft..."

Oh, I've seen that game, but can't recall if I every played it or not (might have once only).

Joi wrote: "Am I the only OCD person about putting games away? I always had to have everything stacked perfectly, all the tokens in one place- all the cards facing the correct ways with a rubber band around them. We'd use old film canisters or Altoids tins to organize the game pieces even more. "

No one uses my games (I own hardly any of my very own, I'm not talking our family ones) unless I am there so I can make sure they are not messed with during clean up. Ironic given that I am not a tidy person (not extremely messy, but cluttered due to lack of space because because I like my drawers and the insides of boxes well organized. They can't be well organized if they are to crowded. It really gets my goat that I can no longer keep all of my dresser drawers organized right now due to lack of storage space and having to give one up for other things.

Joi wrote: My favorite is cards against humanity ;) "

I bought that this Christmas. It's hilarious!

Joi wrote: "Am I the only OCD person about putting games away? I always had to have everything stacked perfectly, all the tokens in one place-."

I'm the same way. I put all the houses and tokens in ziplock baggies and rubber band all the cards.

Karin wrote: "Did you have little rhymes like my dad did? "15 two, 15 four and the rest don't score" etc?..."

We didn't have any rhymes like that! It was actually through my grandma that I learned. I think I played more with Grandma than I did with my parents. I don't really remember playing crib with Mom and Dad, but I must have. I know for sure I played with Grandma!

I'm a huge game player --- I used to run a girls boardgaming group that met every other week at a cafe to play games.

We played more of the strategy games like Settlers, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride. My husband and I also play a lot of games. Our favorites are Pandemic, Marvel Legendary, Race for the Galaxy, Seasons and Smallworld.

As a kid, we played a lot of cards and board games. My brother and I would make up rules to the adult games that my parents owned. I wan't a huge fan of Monopoly although I did make a reading challenge version a couple years ago.

After our girls got married we started a tradition of an annual family vacation. On the first one we brought Taboo along. One of the son-in-laws called "boys against girls." BIG mistake. I've lived with these girls so long I knew exactly how to play the game. My youngest is a big history buff like me. All I had to do was put use presidential history and she nailed it quickly. Some examples:

"Flip Flop"
Republicans beat John Kerry because they labeled him ____"
Nailed it

"Florida"
Hanging chads
Nailed it

Jelly Bean
Ronald Reagan favorite and its colorful ____________

Bathtub
President Tuft got stuck in ____________
Nailed it

Skinny dipping
John Quincy Adams and Teddy Roosevelt loved to do this in the Potomac
Nailed it

Tracy got sausage and all he could say is

"it's long.....it's long...um"

The sons - in - laws were flabbergasted

We still kick their butt every time.

@Regina -- love it!!!

Regina wrote: "After our girls got married we started a tradition of an annual family vacation. On the first one we brought Taboo along. One of the son-in-laws called "boys against girls." BIG mistake. I've lived..."

Now that's impressive! If I were to meet you and play, I would want to make sure that you and your youngest weren't partners ;).

Lol! I love this story!

My family used to play a lot of Catch Phrase and the interaction that will go down in infamy was this one:

"New York"
My brother: " Oh! Where Boston is!"
My cousin, Dylan: NEW YORK!

Nailed it? We are from the midwest and New England geography is hard...

Even though I'm sad about the thimble going, I like the rubber ducky and the penguin. And, it doesn't impact me too much because I just play my Star Wars versions and as long as I can be Yoda in the original trilogy version or Obi Wan in the prequels version, then I'm a happy camper, lol.

Nicole R wrote: "Lol! I love this story!

My family used to play a lot of Catch Phrase and the interaction that will go down in infamy was this one:

"New York"
My brother: " Oh! Where Boston is!"
My cousin, Dylan:..."

Bahahaha! Love this.

Karin wrote: "Regina wrote: "After our girls got married we started a tradition of an annual family vacation. On the first one we brought Taboo along. One of the son-in-laws called "boys against girls." BIG mist..."

You'd think they would have changed it up. But now it's kind of a fun tradition. One of the boys will now say after the babies go down, "let's go let the girls kick our butt at Taboo now."

Nicole R wrote: "I love backgammon! And I have an odd live of dominos. I think because I played them both all the time when I lived in the Bahamas.

And my family plays a poor-mans version of Yahtzee, called Farkl..."

You love backgammon???? ME TOO!! We should play on Facebook sometime . . .

Open invitation to any backgammon lovers!!

In terms of the monopoly pieces, I'm a little unclear what the little animals have to do with commerce, but I am ALWAYS the ship. Always. always. So, as long as that exists, I'm good.

Regina wrote: "Skinny dipping
John Quincy Adams and Teddy Roosevelt loved to do this in the Potomac
Nailed it"

Wow you guys know your presidents!
I wish this thread had appeared last week- this was LITERALLY a question at trivia this past week and we got it wrong! How am I supposed to know which president skinny dipped in the Potomac?! Lol.

Not sure if it's "a game" but I/we LOVE trivia. For the past year and a half- two year I go to trivia every Tuesday. We started at a wine bar, we've done it at bars, taphouses, whatnot. LOVE IT! We've won giftcards, winery tours, two weeks ago we won a cast iron skillet, lol.

We always played games in my family growing up. The Scrabble board would often be set up on the dining room table for weeks at a time. Facts in Five (a precursor to Scattergories), Rummikub, and eventually Trivial Pursuit. Great memories.

Have any of you played Bonkers or Milles Bournes? Those were my favorite games growing up. You can still buy Milles Bournes, but Bonkers is out of print now. I found a game on eBay and gifted it to my parents one Christmas.

Jenni Elyse wrote: "Have any of you played Bonkers or Milles Bournes? Those were my favorite games growing up. You can still buy Milles Bournes, but Bonkers is out of print now. I found a game on eBay and gifted it to..."

Oh, I loved MIlles Bournes! Haven't played it in decades ... though I think I still have it in the house somewhere.

Jenni Elyse wrote: "Even though I'm sad about the thimble going, I like the rubber ducky and the penguin. And, it doesn't impact me too much because I just play my Star Wars versions and as long as I can be Yoda in th..."

Not disappointed you are.