Family Games Competition
Playing family games together is one of the many lovely additions of my children growing up increasingly popular at Villa Lancaster especially as the weather is deteriorating and rainy days are on the increase. I love the sound of Lil H and Diva G squawking with laughter as they score or win. Esdevium Games sent us a couple of games to review and they also have one of each for me to giveaway too, perfect timing for October half term and Christmas.
Fly Trap Action Board Game
We are waiting for cousin Dan to come over to play Hey That’s My Fish Board Game
To enter to win just leave me a comment, tell me what your favourite childhood game was, mine was Guess Who? Additional entry options for tweeting, facebooking etc. are optional. Good luck!
Category: competition 132 comments »
September 27th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
My favourite game as a child was beetle drive. Each player had to throw the dice to earn the body, head, antennae and legs of a beetle and the aim was to be the first one to complete their beetle.
The head was worth 6, the body 5, the antennae 4, and the legs 3. So you had to throw those numbers to get the parts for your beetle.
September 27th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
I have always loved Monopoly.
September 27th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Mouse Trap and Monopoly
September 27th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
Scrabble – I fell in love with it when I learned my first letters in school
September 28th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I grew up with 2 brothers and we regularly played Battleships. I loved it but was never good at it, me elder brother always won!
Another family favourite was Yahtzee. The game with 6 dice. I remember sitting round the kitchen table with my mum and brothers. It could get really competitive but little did I know it was like a sneaky maths lesson from my mum
September 29th, 2012 at 7:36 am
Loving all this reminiscing! So many games that i loved, Guess Who was one of my favourites and also loved Downfall and Boggle when i got a bit older
September 30th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Scrabble and it still is!
September 30th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
My favourite was a sort of imagination game. Obviously barbie and action man were a couple, but my favourite game was taking them on holiday to the sandpit in their aeroplane (milleneum falcon) with their children (pippa and strawberry shortcake ) and their pet ewak (little brown ewak, wicket??).
They would have a great holiday out there until annoyed older brother would swap ewak for R2D2 and things went a bit down hill!! Great fun!!
Board games were not so easy in the sand pit, but I do remember playing battleships in the back of my dads brown estate car when we were meant to be sleeping on a drive on holiday once! Probably the highlight of that holiday!
October 1st, 2012 at 2:44 pm
I always loved Sorry, but always wanted Mousetrap but wasn’t allowed it!
October 1st, 2012 at 3:07 pm
dungeons and dragons or game of life – good times lol
October 1st, 2012 at 3:08 pm
my fave had to be frustration! Infact this year I’ve bought it for my son ;0)
October 1st, 2012 at 3:08 pm
My favorite as a child was Frustration. It kept us occupied for hours and was a really fun game that we could all play. Its been 30 years and the game is still going strong in our house now with my children. We have seven children in all and every one of them love Frustration.
Another good thing about it was there were hardly any bits and bobs to lose and the dice was sealed in so there wer no tears when half of the bits of the other games had gone a miss. They have bought a new Frustration out but its no where near as good as the old one. If I see the older version on the car boot I always buy it so we have lots of spare parts if any of the bits go missing which they harldly ever do.
October 1st, 2012 at 3:11 pm
i loved monolopy!
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October 1st, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Cluedo was always my favourite oooohhhh and Scrabble too!
October 1st, 2012 at 3:15 pm
LUDO – ANYTHING WITH DICE
October 1st, 2012 at 3:24 pm
I used to love Kerplunk with the straws and the marbles…excellent!
October 1st, 2012 at 3:26 pm
My favourite game used to be operation and mousetrap
October 1st, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Probably Monopoly, but I did always enjoy anything that was ‘Pop-o-matic’ – Frustration and Ludo spring to mind. Pop-o-matic was where the 2 dice were in a plastic popping thing in the middle of the board that saved you from throwing the dice around yourself. Ideal if you were a bit lazy!!! No idea if they still do that nowadays.
October 1st, 2012 at 3:26 pm
I always loved board games! We were lucky to have loads as kids, although my favourite was probably Mousetrap!
October 1st, 2012 at 3:30 pm
junior scrabble…was always easier
October 1st, 2012 at 3:41 pm
I always loved monopoly as a child
October 1st, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Had to be Othelo! My sister was brilliant at it so I had to cheat!
October 1st, 2012 at 4:18 pm
definetley cluedo, bets game ever and oh mastermind.
October 1st, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Scrabble but like Jenga too! and Trivial Pursuit!
October 1st, 2012 at 4:26 pm
I loved mousetrap
October 1st, 2012 at 4:39 pm
I liked Guess Who? and Connect 4
October 1st, 2012 at 4:40 pm
my fav as a kid was pass the pigs, not really a board game but brilliant!
October 1st, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Mousetrap – a nightmare to set up as a child (my sons more recent version is easier, thank goodness!) but a great game, win or lose, as you had all the moving parts and traps going off – brilliant!
October 1st, 2012 at 5:06 pm
My favourite game has always been Monopoly since I was little! Must be the money lol xx
October 1st, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Love monopoly
October 1st, 2012 at 5:23 pm
I loved playing Cludeo!
October 1st, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I loved Guess Who!
October 1st, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Don’t Panic! Although it did panic me a lot!
October 1st, 2012 at 5:55 pm
My favourite game was either Backgammon or Monopoly :3
October 1st, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Pop Up Pirate! & we have it for our kids too, they think it’s great!
October 1st, 2012 at 5:57 pm
No one would play mouse trap with me as a kid !
October 1st, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Snakes & Ladders
October 1st, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Great competition! I loved Bugs and Mousetrap!
October 1st, 2012 at 6:18 pm
mousetrap!
October 1st, 2012 at 6:49 pm
My favourite game was ludo
October 1st, 2012 at 6:53 pm
i loved monopoly and game of life!
October 1st, 2012 at 6:58 pm
i loved my toy cars, i had hundreds of them.
October 1st, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Monopoly
October 1st, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Risk for me, but these games look great fun – just rught for our foste placement!
October 1st, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Scrabble and it still is! My kids and grandkids also love it
October 1st, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Ludo was (and still is) my favourite!
October 1st, 2012 at 7:56 pm
I liked Mouse Trap and Screwball Scramble, remember my friends bringing them in on a toy day before the holidays at school, and going home to ask my mum for them
October 1st, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Always loved monopoly and tiddly winks
October 1st, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Hungry Hippos!
October 1st, 2012 at 8:49 pm
My favourite game was monopoly! and still is now!
Me and my younger sister used to play for hours and hours on end every night ( When we were supposed to have been in bed for school!)
We had fun, and one of us always used to get in debt!
October 1st, 2012 at 9:06 pm
i loved Mouse-Trap
October 1st, 2012 at 9:29 pm
guess who
October 1st, 2012 at 9:44 pm
connect 4
October 1st, 2012 at 10:19 pm
It was game of life, we loved that one
October 1st, 2012 at 11:30 pm
I loved hotel! Not many remember it!
October 2nd, 2012 at 1:32 am
My Grandma taught us all sorts of card games, and we must have spent hours and hours playing Monopoly – we used to play until one of us had literally every property and all the money! Great times
October 2nd, 2012 at 3:11 am
Kerplunk – was my absolute favourite!!
October 2nd, 2012 at 5:10 am
Monopoly
October 2nd, 2012 at 5:45 am
We had The Game of Life, you had a little car and spaces for your growing family as you acquired them going around the board! Loved it at the time!
October 2nd, 2012 at 5:53 am
Monopoly
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:29 am
Not sure I had a favourite game. We played cards most of the time but Monopoly, Cluedo and Ludo all made regular appearances
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:48 am
My favorate game was Kerpluk, we would scream with delight when our older Brother lost. : ) ……They were happy times.
October 2nd, 2012 at 11:15 am
Mousetrap and frustration
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:04 pm
I used to like, buckaroo and frustration, can’t beat the good old games:)
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:06 pm
if we visited my grandmar we would ALWAYS play happie families, loved that game never got sick of it, lol can still remember some of the characters, 36 years on lol
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Mousetrap
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:57 pm
LOVED MOUSE TRAP
October 2nd, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Probably Hungry Hippo’s, although i did LOVE playing with my typewriter
@pipersky1
October 2nd, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Monopoly or Jenga
October 2nd, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Connect 4 i loved it!
October 2nd, 2012 at 2:42 pm
It would be Guess Who for me
October 2nd, 2012 at 3:26 pm
We used to play cards, love pelmanism!! My kids now love ingenious!! X
October 2nd, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Hungry hippos was mine as a child
October 2nd, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Mousetrap!
October 2nd, 2012 at 7:02 pm
I was mad on marbles as a kid and collected 100′s of them. In the summer I used to love playing on my local estate with friends, not that I knew what I was doing as we used to make the games up as we went along!! I know I lost quite a few of my favourite marbles to friends
Still have a few now!
October 2nd, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Buckaroo or operation! don’t make me decide
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Screwball Scramble
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Mousetrap was my fave even though it was so long winded to set up x
October 2nd, 2012 at 8:17 pm
i loved guess who and mousetrap and operation, i think is i had to choose my favourite i would say guess who
October 3rd, 2012 at 7:00 am
I loved hungry hippos!
October 3rd, 2012 at 8:44 am
Monopoly was my favourite
October 3rd, 2012 at 9:57 am
It has to be screwball scramble!
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:01 pm
I loved Frustration. X
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Monopoly – I used to be the bank – and I can’t swear that I didn’t steal a bit of cash from time to time!!
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:29 pm
I use to love my Junior scrabble game it was great,Me and my sister played it for hours
Xx
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:35 pm
I used to love pass the pigs game. We would play this as a family for hours lol
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:43 pm
I loved operation
October 3rd, 2012 at 3:55 pm
A competitve game of snakes and ladders
October 3rd, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Frustration
October 3rd, 2012 at 5:15 pm
MONOPOLY
October 3rd, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Guess Who!
October 3rd, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Monopoly
October 3rd, 2012 at 6:23 pm
oooh It has to be monopoly, my boys love it too
October 3rd, 2012 at 6:35 pm
My Childhood was mostly spent playing outside games – The whole gang of us used to play 40/40 and British Bulldog nearly every day -
October 3rd, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Hungry hungry hippos
October 3rd, 2012 at 11:59 pm
Tiddlywinks
October 4th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Scrabble – actually got the whole family sitting down together for more than five minutes!
October 4th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Mouse trap, I loved it !
October 4th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Hungry Hippos was a firm favourite for my brothers and I when we were kids. We used to bash the hippos like mad. Very noisy but fun! I can’t believe it’s still around these days, I might get it for my kids this Christmas.
October 4th, 2012 at 10:15 am
my favourite game was a board game called “Sorry”.
October 4th, 2012 at 10:59 am
I love mousetrap
October 4th, 2012 at 11:27 am
Hungry Hungry Hippos, we made such a racket when we played this!!
October 4th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
I loved guess who (still do) x
October 4th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Hungry hippos without a doubt! Many a sibling rivalry occuring during that game back in the early 90′s.lol
October 4th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Hotel was my favourite game as a child, not many people have heard of it, its like a 3d monopoly!
October 4th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Monopoly
October 4th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
operation
October 4th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
My favourite childhood game was Guess Who?
October 4th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Monopoly and kerplunk
October 4th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I think my favourite was probably Monopoly, though I also really liked MasterMind, Othello and Cluedo.
October 4th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
I used to love a game of family trivial pursuit!
October 4th, 2012 at 5:32 pm
My favourite game was Kerplunk – I used to love marbles!
October 4th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
used to love guess who and cludo as a kid x
October 4th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Screwball Scramble!! It was awesome, I would love to play that again x
October 4th, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Oh I loved all sorts of games as a child…but I think I will go with Scrabble as I still love to play that now!
October 4th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Popup Pirate
October 4th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Guess Who, Frustration, Dreamphone
October 4th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
i loved monopoly when i was growing up.. it was really funny, my dad used to cheat every single time by swiping some money out of the bank and putting it into his own pile.. we all used to pretend we didnt know he had done it. it just made it even funnier because of course he used to always win and think we didnt know why..
to this day we have never told him we know what he did, haha…
October 4th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
I used to love ‘The Game of Life’ where you got married and added children to your car, beats Monopoly hands down.
October 4th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
I always like Buckaroo
October 4th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Mousetrap and Snakes & Ladders
October 4th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
operation
October 4th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
My favourite was always monopoly but i used to be a bit of a cheat and if i wasn’t winning throw the board up in the air – my brothers put up with it a few times but eventually refused to play with me
cant wait until my niece and nephew are old enough to learn 
October 4th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
I loved mousetrap and monopoly
October 4th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
scrabble
October 4th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Uno, Monopoly and Cluedo!
October 4th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
I loved snakes and ladders! Still do!
October 4th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
mouse trap was always a favourite in our house
October 4th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
i had ready set spaghetti, great game.
October 4th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
I loved playing mousetrap
October 4th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
MONOPOLY
October 5th, 2012 at 12:08 am
i used to love playing mouse trap with my nan