We all have those ‘generational’ memories…
I found another pic from the 60s of some of the girls at the pool party…
Yes, it’s black and white, and the suits are plain, but the girls are nice!!!
And 20 years later, there was a ‘new’ board game that caught everybody’s attention…
It’s a complete game set I haven’t pulled out in years… This is an original version dating to 1984, that we used to play back in the day. It spawned a lot of ‘trivial pursuit’ games in bars, and we had one helluva team and won quite a few drinks over the years! 🙂
Strangely, our best sports answerer was a young lady who was into statistics!!!
And to be perfectly honest, I think the real board games were a lot more fun that playing online. You got to see the actual expressions real time, and could make fun of the outlandish answers…
What games do you have squirreled away? Do you still play any of them???
My grandkids are now playing Monopoly, Risk, and a few other real boardgames. It’s also teaching them how to plan tactics, and how to lose gracefully… mostly… 🙂
Great picture . We used to play quite a few board games , they were fun . My wife usually quite a mild tempered person , gets very competitive at board games , and loves to beat the pants off everyone . Downright mean when she gets to winning . A long whiles back , my wife and our two kids aged 12 and 14 got kicked off the go cart track at Branson Mo , for driving a little too competitively . I was sitting the ride out watching them go round and round and they got flagged off the track . But that is a different story .
Healthy , well built young women.
No visible (probably none at all) tats and no visible piercings.
Just pretty girls as God made em.
not really board games, but, being an old salt myself, I occasionally break out the cribbage board, or the acey ducey (backgammon, for you land lubbers) board. dominoes, pinuckel and spades are also personal favorites, when the family is gathered.
Yeah I remember all of those games ….one I can’t remember how to play we just called “bar dice” or “ship,captain, and crew” also played with dice ashore , at the NCO Club ,or anywhere else off the ship it was dimes, nickles , and quarters and never amounted to much stakes, but it got fast moving at times , but you could play it half in the bag kinda leisurely . It was fun and made you pace yourself on the beers and kept the grey matter working . Plus it was a friendly way to share beer money .
I should dig out my old “You don’t know Jack” install CDs. Those were fun!
Boats- Snerk… Why am I NOT surprised…
B- No tatts, no piercings…
Dennis- Ohhhh, cribbage and Acey Deucey… played a LOT of both in the Navy.
Ag- LOL, another good one!
They aren’t FAT! They fit my memory of girls back then. The food industry has a lot to answer to.
Will- We were a LOT more active back then…
We got rid of all our board and card games in our last move. Avalon Hill ‘Squad Leader,’ I remember well. In college another student and I played a Stalingrad routine in the common room and it went on for about 10 weeks> I played the Russians. It was cold, and grim. My guys were defending the Dzerzhinsky Tractor Works. I made the opponent … *pay*.
The only physical games I have left are felts and chips for craps and baccarat, and a four-deck shoe. Haven’t played in years. Got a riichi mahjong tile set recently, but memorizing the payouts is taxing, and tempting to let a phone app do it for me as a crutch.
I don’t know if I still have it but, after making a VBS project for a class that would play 1 million craps games and spit out payoff averages, and even the average number of dice throws for once a point is made – I modified the program to create “d8 craps.” NINE and 14 (iirc?) became the new winners on the pass line and 2, 3, and now 4 were craps on the low end and iirc I had to add 15 as a ‘crap’ on the high end and similarly 15 and 16 were a ‘push’ on the Don’t Pass. The house advantage was just about identical to d6 (‘normal’) craps. I painted a custom d8 craps felt that I used to run at con game rooms, and I just might have that – somewhere in the house.