What kind of games do you play?

Jane43 my dad taught me to play cribbage because my sibs weren’t interested. It was good for maths though I didn’t know it at the time. Trying to make 31, his rhymes were 22, 9’ll do; 23, 8’s a spree; 24, 7’s the score; 25, 6 is alive; 26, 5’s a fix; 27, 4’s in heaven; 28, 3’s the weight; 29, 2’s in time. My DGC will play crib but don’t care for the rhymes.
Eloethan I love the puzzles in the i. I’d buy the paper just for them.

Classic Word (exactly like Scrabble) on my phone all the time.
I'm addicted to word games. And some cards like Spider Solitaire. And Mahjong.

Nothing except various word puzzles in the daily paper. Daily fix of at least the Codeword is essential!

Love playing games, keeps your mind active especially word games - if anyone wants to look me up on WWF2 I'm Linda-no-talk with a picture of a Golden Retriever and a cat.

I like jigsaws but I'm not very good at them.

I enjoy doing the codeword in the I each day but I can't do cryptic crosswords or sudoku. I don't like card games or Monopoly.

I do enjoy playing family Trivial Pursuit with the children and similar games.

Jane43

absent

I like logic games so Addoku is one of my favourites. I also do a cryptic crossword every day. I play board games with my grandchildren and I play backgammon against my computer. I can, if pushed, play chess but I never seem to have enough time to think what I am intending to do and am really not very good. I am better at Chinese chequers.

I should like to be able to play cribbage, a game my mother taught me and I used to play with my extended family. The two grandsons who I see most often are probably a wee bit too young, but I might show them how in the not too distant future. Mr absent is not interested.

When I was a child I used to sit watching my parents playing Cribbage for hours, it fascinated me, I can hear them now ‘Sixteen two, sixteen four, look all night you'll see no more’. When I was a teenager I asked them to teach me but I couldn’t grasp it. As a family we also played Newmarket for pennies, a card game called Fish and Monopoly.Nowadays I do a Soduko everyday on my iPad, I also like crosswords and Mah Jong. I started to play Candy Crush but stopped when I reached the very high levels and it took days, sometimes a week, to complete one level

My boys used to love to play Frustration, Computer Battleships, Mousetrap, Buckaroo and Operation

15/2, 15/4 etc.

I still play cribbage with DH and some DDs and GSs. I’m sure we’ll be taking a pack of cards on holiday.

Games with the younger grandchildren: UNO, Labyrinth, Connect 4, Game of Life, Othello, Pairs, Snap, Consequences (pen and paper game). I’m hoping to teach them Backgammon and Chess although I’m not very good at either of them!

Not really into computer games but years ago I played Myst and have recently been wondering if I should buy the updated version. Still, I spend far too much time on screens, so maybe not!

absent

I like logic games so Addoku is one of my favourites. I also do a cryptic crossword every day. I play board games with my grandchildren and I play backgammon against my computer. I can, if pushed, play chess but I never seem to have enough time to think what I am intending to do and am really not very good. I am better at Chinese chequers.

I should like to be able to play cribbage, a game my mother taught me and I used to play with my extended family. The two grandsons who I see most often are probably a wee bit too young, but I might show them how in the not too distant future. Mr absent is not interested.

When I was a child I used to sit watching my parents playing Cribbage for hours, it fascinated me, I can hear them now ‘Sixteen two, sixteen four, look all night you'll see no more’. When I was a teenager I asked them to teach me but I couldn’t grasp it. As a family we also played Newmarket for pennies, a card game called Fish and Monopoly.Nowadays I do a Soduko everyday on my iPad, I also like crosswords and Mah Jong. I started to play Candy Crush but stopped when I reached the very high levels and it took days, sometimes a week, to complete one level

My boys used to love to play Frustration, Computer Battleships, Mousetrap, Buckaroo and Operation

I enjoy chess and scrabble against the computer. Also spider solitaire. I worked in Las Vegas for a whole year and only gambled once. Lost $20 at poker.

Just played a board game with gs on last week called LOGO It was an older version so the logos were of my era so I won lol but there is an updated version with updated logos. KFC, JUST EAT etc etc.

Fishdom ( on the computer) is brilliant fun, but not the ipad game of the same name, which is nothing like.
Junes’Journey on the ipad, good fun building up your ‘estate’ and a useful memory game for ageing little grey cells.
Monument Valley on ipad is the best logic game I have ever come across, I absolutely love it ( for around a fiver you can’t get a better game) I have both Mon Vall 1 and 2 plus any add ons and am waiting impatiently for the new 3 game.
Other than that, Board games with the DGC, dominoes, jigsaws (done online) crosswords, wordsearches and logic puzzles.

Lucca I cuddle up with a book, while those around me play games, mainly board games. For us a classic Christmas scenario.

A lot of on telephone and online games seem to be very solitary.

abober

I want to play games of chance or something

I would never play games of chance, I don’t gamble and the only winner is the game owner.

I play Scrabble and similar word games to keep my brain exercised

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When people say they prefer reading I like that too but not as a group activity !

Thanks Fanny.

Lucca

Bridge (badly) online and not. Any card games really with friends, and have in the past had fun evenings with
Rummikubs, , Taboo, trivial pursuit, and Balderdash which has caused hysterical giggles. I like to play card or board games with the grandchildren too. They are 4 and 6 so any recommendations ?

Lucca
My recommendations off the top of my head are Sussed, Randomise (brilliant!) and Pass the Bomb.
All a bit hit with my SEN ks3 kids. Suitable for all ages.
All from Amazon

I don`t play games,i haven`t for around 10 years i prefer reading.

We recently introduced our 9 yr old GD to Lexicon - it’s a word game played with a special pack of cards. I’d kept my set from when I was a teenager. Our GD loves it and always asks to play it. We also like Labyrinth and for some silly fun, Beetle.
On my phone just play various versions of Solitaire and Words with Friends. I could never get into computer games.

DH and I play couple card games food general knowledge pub quiz etc. We also play Kalooki card game and are quite competitive it's just a break from tv.

Word games, scrabble, crosswords etc. I am hopeless at anything involving numbers.

Our favourite at the moment with the family is Uno. Great fun. I don’t bother with online games any more.

Bridge (badly) online and not. Any card games really with friends, and have in the past had fun evenings with
Rummikubs, , Taboo, trivial pursuit, and Balderdash which has caused hysterical giggles. I like to play card or board games with the grandchildren too. They are 4 and 6 so any recommendations ?

I too play scrabble online free two or three times a day. It gives me pleasure to outwit the computer.

I also play Mahjong and Solitaire.

When I’m not on the computer I play Rummikub with my friends pre-Covid.

Does a jig saw puzzle count as a game?