May. 9th, 2025
Dr Johnson on card-playing.
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liv's post on board-games, which are not so much about that specific issue of 'games all the family can play' across generations, although some of these we must have done.
Not sure there was always generation of kindness, because there was a certain degree of e.g. sibling competitiveness in play with certain recreations.
These would be played within family and sometimes also with family friends.
Various pencil and paper games - my maternal grandfather was very into these and as I recall even had duplicated blanks made up.
Board games such as Sorry, Monopoly, Scrabble, Scoop, which I have never come across anyone who has played - there was also a very old Snakes and Ladders board, where you went up a ladder for doing a good deed, and down a snake for committing A Sin, but I'm not sure we ever played on it. And later on, Trivial Pursuit, well, we would, wouldn't we. (Original classic edition, I guess? it had only recently come out.)
Mainline, a card game which is now a rare vintage item, apparently, in which you had cards with bits of railway line and had to fit these together within certain rules, and honestly I can't remember what the ultimate outcome was meant to be.... the description there says to get rid of all the cards in one's hand.
On a less cerebral level, Pit - as I daresay is common, the Bear got very tatty and had to be very carefully concealed when trying to pass.