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I’m running out of games! No, not games for me to play, but games for the children in my books to play.
In the last book, the kids played Candyland. In the book before that one, I believe Go Fish was mentioned. For the book that I’m currently writing, the hero and heroine are playing Chutes and Ladders with a six-year-old. In the next book I’m going to have an upper elementary school child…and I’ve run out of games.
Sooooo, I thought I’d be proactive and ask for input on common games (either cards or board games) that would be familiar and age appropriate.
While I’m at it, I’d like to know what games you played as a child and if that game is still available. 
I remember Monopoly, The Barbie Game, Life, Mousetrap (was that even a game?) and for cards, Go Fish and UNO.
I’d love to hear what you remember…
Oh and I almost forgot…I’ll be drawing one winner from everyone who comments. That lucky person will win a copy of a Special Moments put out by Mills and Boon that includes two books, “The Christmas Proposition” by moi AS WELL as Christyne Butler’s “A Daddy for Jacoby.”
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Apr 30th
2011
8:42 am
EllenToo Said:
As well as those you mentioned Clue and Sorry are two I remember also playing but we spent a lot of time outdoors or reading quietly in our rooms.
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Apr 30th
2011
8:56 am
Kirsten Said:
I don’t remember any specific games I played at that age.
I always loved word games when I was younger. Coming up with an animal for each letter of the alphabet, or a different food… Using the last letter of a word to be the begin letter of a new word. (Word, Dream, Mother, Reading etc) That kind of thing. Could possibly work in a story if the kid is giving hints to the adults about their relationship, or the adults are getting caught up in it and forget the child is present…. Just a thought.
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Apr 30th
2011
10:05 am
Tori Said:
I used to love board games as a kid! We played most of the ones that you already mentioned, but I also remember Connect Four, Sorry, Clue, Hungry, Hungry Hippo, Cootie and Simon Says even though that isn’t technically a board game. Does anyone else remember Cootie?
A fun new take on an old game is Uno Attack. It’s an electronic version of the original game and it’s tons of fun. My ten year olds and their friends play this all the time.
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Apr 30th
2011
10:25 am
Minna Said:
Well, let’s see… We used to play Monopoly, Go For Broke, “the star of Africa” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikan_t%C3%A4hti) and checkers.
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Apr 30th
2011
10:28 am
eap Said:
Scrabble and Pictionary
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Apr 30th
2011
10:57 am
Cindy Kirk Said:
Ellen,
I remember Clue and Sorry!
Kirsten,
Thanks for the reminder. I used to play those kind of games with my daughter!
Tori,
I’d forgotten all about Simon…and Cootie. I LOVED both of them.
Minna,
I’d never heard of the Star of Africa(thanks for the link)….but how could I have forgotten checkers!!
eap,
Scrabble and Pictionary….thanks for the reminder. I have to admit I adore scrabble and was horrible at Pictionary. lol
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Apr 30th
2011
12:54 pm
catslady Said:
Oh I just love playing games of any kind. Besides the ones mentioned there is Life, Trouble, Guess Who, Tri-Ominos or dominoes, Tiddly Winks, Rack-o, Chinese checkers, Boggle, Aggravation, Backgammon, Parcheesi, Risk, Yahtzee, Tripoly (we made our own board when I was a child) and Uno is a great favorite. We played tons of card games since all you needed were cards – canasta, rummy, gin, fights or war, crazy eights, hearts and oh so many more lol.
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Apr 30th
2011
1:13 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Catslady,
Thanks for bringing up so many great games. Chinese checkers was one I’d forgotten as well as rummy and crazy eights.
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Apr 30th
2011
1:24 pm
Serenissima Said:
We used to play Monopoly, Uno, The Star of Africa (it is a Finnish game) and Kimble. Nowadays we have a very nice tradition to play these games once a year during Christmas-time.
When I and my siblings go home to meet our parents, we play card games together. It is a tradition as well. But board games; only at Christmas-time.
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Apr 30th
2011
1:26 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Serenissima,
I’m really going to have to check out The Star of Africa and Kimble (another one I’ve never heard of before)
What a nice holiday tradition…board games at Christmas!
Thanks for sharing!
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Apr 30th
2011
1:59 pm
Solveig Said:
you´ve named most of the games I remember except maybe battle ships :Ö)
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Apr 30th
2011
2:00 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
OMG, Solveig….I’d forgotten all about the battleship games!!
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Apr 30th
2011
2:18 pm
Jane Said:
I love Clue, too. We played a lot of board games like Stratego, Life, Payday, Chutes and Ladders, Risk and Boggle.
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Apr 30th
2011
3:53 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Jane,
Oooh…Stratego and Risk….fun games.
These posts are bringing back all sorts of pleasant memories as well as providing material for future books!
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Apr 30th
2011
6:11 pm
chey Said:
I remember a card game called Garbage.
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Apr 30th
2011
6:22 pm
Shana Said:
Operation was fun. Also all the card games, like War. We played that a lot. Connect Four was another. Yahtzee…
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Apr 30th
2011
8:40 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Chey,
Garbage….that’s one I definitely hadn’t heard of…
Shana,
I remember War! And I loved Connect Four…
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May 1st
2011
9:03 am
Kay Said:
Jenga was my fav when I was a kid!
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May 1st
2011
9:31 am
Sandra G. Rogers Said:
My grandmother and I use to play cards games..Finch, Rook. We also played 500 rummy whenever we were together. There is also Chinese checkers.
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May 1st
2011
12:35 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Kay,
I “think” of heard of Jenga…going off to look it up.
Sandra,
Rook is actually a card game I looked up to use in another book! Finch is one I’m not familiar with….putting that on the list to look up.
Thanks for sharing! I’m getting lots of good suggestions but if you have more….I’ll take ‘em!
BTW, the drawing for the winner of the book will be tonight at nine.
So everyone, check back then!
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May 1st
2011
1:54 pm
StacieDM Said:
We played UNO, Life, Clue and various card games.
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May 1st
2011
5:54 pm
Cindy Kirk Said:
Stacie,
All this talk about UNO makes me want to pick up a deck and play again!
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