Your Favorite Game to Play Together

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Holy Saturday already? Wow, 101 days ago was Christmas 1 more day till Easter! Where has the time gone? Thank you all so much for reading and giving me feedback! I love you all so much right now! Sorry this is such a short one...the descriptions of the two lesser known games came from an article titled; The Board Game Craze (1890's) by mortaljourney on April 16, 2011. Have a blessed Easter!

Your Favorite Game to Play Together:

Jack:

Snakes and Ladders (Older version or chutes and ladders)

Davey:

Chess

Kid Blink:

Jacks

Spot:

Checkers

Mush:

Parcheesi

Crutchy:

Dominoes

Racetrack:

The Game of Bulls and Bears – The Great Wall Street Game. (Players, taking the role of speculators, bankers, and brokers, made bets on whether the prices of stocks and commodities would rise or fall. A spin of the spinner determined the result of the player's bet. The board depicted fashionably dressed bulls and bears shearing penniless sheep (representing the general public).)

Boots:

Tic-Tac-Toe

Specs:

Round the World with Nellie Bly. (A popular game from the 1890's. Players spun a spinner and moved spaces on a game board with certain spaces sending you forward and other spaces sending you backward.)

Skittery:

Cribbage

Bumlets:

Tiddlywinks




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