What kinds of board games do you keep at the cabin? We have monopoly, checkers, backgammon and payday and cards of course.
We play Imagineiff (SP?), Life, and of course Monopoly.
We have Monopoly, Scattergories, Scrabble. We have some others but I can't remember their names at the moment. We also have a dartboard on the porch. We're putting in a horseshoe pit and getting a bocci set. We have a winter carnival in our little town and they were playing snow bocci and it looked like a lot of fun!
We have scrabble, monopoly, yahtzee, dice, dominoes, and cards.
Oh yeah, forgot about the cards. We have them stashed all over the cabin. Everybody goes for the cards!
Monopoly
Chinese Checkers
Uno
Cribbage
Perudo (get this, lots of fun)
10 days in Asia
Triominos
Have horseshoes outside, plus I made a modular mini-golf course set this winter. 5 pieces in total with different ways to mix/match alter the setup hole by hole.
We have a 1964 version of Twister, yahtzee with a leather dice cup Headbanz (we laugh till we cry) cribbage boards, playing cards, poker chips Scattergories, Monopoly, etc.
KariCabin4
Wow - glad I came across this forum! There are games here I have never heard of. We play tons of cards at the cabin, but we also play other boards games too. I have never heard of Perudo or 10 days in Asia (from blmeanie) and so many others - I'll have to look into those!
Oh, forgot - one game that we play a lot with the kids on trainy days is called "I Spy". Its not a board game,its from my grandma, actually, but its endlessly entertaining for little kids. They love to chant "I spy with my super eyes!"
You take a small object like a spool of thread, a pen, whatever is at hand, and hide it in plain view somewhere in the cabin (like on top of a door ledge, where it is visible, but you have to look to see it, or somewhere its in plain sight but camouflaged due to color, etc). Then the kids start looking and you call out warm, warmer, hot, super hot, boiling hot, or you're on fire! as they get closer to it ... or cold, colder, freezing cold as they get farther away. Whoever finds it gets to be the hider next round. Kids get surprisingly good at finding things and you can really hide the object in some difficult places as they get better at it.
bought online today a couple more for the cabin, Rack-O (many good memories with my grandparents as a kid) and a large, oversized Chinese Checker board and game pieces.
apples to apples
cranium
balderdash
madgab
all these games are family favorites for the cabin!
Cranium is one of my all-time favorites.
I'll have to check out Rack-o - thanks for the suggestion, blmeanie. We play Chinese checkers sometimes, but we always lose the marbles.
the one I just bought online doesn't use marbles (because too easy to lose them) it has pieces that fit in the holes. Plus it is an over-sized board.
I love Balderdash. Probably my favorite board game. And it's the only one I never play to win. My sole goal in that game is to make someone laugh hard enough to do a spit take. And by those rules, I almost always win.
Andy Bennett, Associate Editor
could not have said it better andy. ever achieved your goal with a definition for "furdung"