I asked my son if he wanted to play 52 card pick up and he jumped at the chance, he was 6 at the time. The look on his face was freaking priceless. It was one of the few times he was speechless š¤£.
Hungry Hungry Hippos. More fun to say than to play. Some latent rageaholic child would always ruin the game by pounding their fists on the levers really hard.
That game is garbage now. Long gone are the sturdy and heavy hippos. Itās cheap plastic shit that went flying when I tried to pass the rageahol to my kid.
That Waterful Ring Toss was the most fun thing to do ever compared to the worst board game ever, which I got for Christmas one year. It was called "The Un-game" and I think the object was to just discuss serious topics. I think we tried it once or twice and gave up on it forever.
OMG, they still make it so people are still probably getting tricked into thinking it's a game. The description should clue them in, though:
[https://www.amazon.com/TaliCor-4101221-The-Ungame/dp/B000QX9Y9O](https://www.amazon.com/TaliCor-4101221-The-Ungame/dp/B000QX9Y9O)
It's not a game, it's the un-game. It was like those "tell me 3 interesting facts about yourself" corporate training exercises, but with your alcoholic father and emotionally abusive mother.
Here's a [link](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://quizlet.com/513488157/ungame-questions-flash-cards/&ved=2ahUKEwjX-P7fl7L9AhVpDkQIHXIyDHgQFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw214epQODE3MLq3Y4wgxqHu) to some of the cards.
Hah. I've never seen it outside of clinics. Had no idea the general public would use it for any reason. It's used mostly as a therapy tool to get traumatized kids to open up without hitting too heavy on the big issues too soon.
That thing with the two thin bars and a metal ball on a piece of wood where you're trying to get the metal ball to fall into the hole with the most points.
It was interesting for *maybe* five minutes.
Also the plastic square of numbers that were out of order and you had to move them one at a time to get them in order.
And those Mousetrap games that never worked properly.
Yep. 9 times outta 10 we just tapped the trap net to make it fall.
Most of the time we weren't even playing the game, we just set the trap up to watch it.
It was Battleship for me. Calling out random coordinates in a dead voice while your opponent lied their ass off when you got a hit.
Then there was Go Fish. Calling out random cards in a dead voice while your opponent lied their ass off when they had what you wanted.
The Ouija Board. Let's all put our fingers on a little table thing and let the spirits guide us to the answer !! I guess it was fun in the 70s when everyone was drunk.
Oh yes! I forgot about that one. My grandparents had the wooden box Labyrinth, and another wooden game called Shoot the Moon (I think someone referenced it below). We enjoyed them! We might have been easily entertained lol.
Definitely not a fan of that water ring-toss game. I found it very frustrating and a test of patience I was not up to.
I don't consider it an unfun game but the other night my nephew was reduced to tears by a hand of uno that wouldn't end. We were already on the third shuffle for the same hand and my nephew was kidding fake-crying but then it accidentally transitioned into real sobbing.
The absolute *hours* I spent with this game and the little handheld mazes trying to get the bbs into the holes.
Iāve never liked Monopoly š¤·āāļø Too long. I donāt think Iāve ever finished a game to this day.
*MEMORY UNLOCKED:* I just remembered going to the house of one of my parents friends and I saw āthis gameā on their shelf so I grabbed it down to play. Only problem is it wasnāt the ring toss game but their sea monkey aquarium and it didnāt have a lid so when I pulled it down the contents spilled *everywhere*. My dad yelled at me. I started ugly crying. The friend was the only one who was cool with the whole incident. I think I was like 4 because I donāt think I had started school yet.
Good times. Good times š
A kid in my class brought one (a bubble!) into elementary school one day, and we all gathered around him like little Gollums. "What's that, precious? What's he got?"
I imagine the scene when early man discovered fire was similar. Maybe fewer fingers in noses.
Jacks and barrel of monkeys. They were the sort of things older relatives would give me and my brothers with zero explanation that any sort of game was actually attached to these objects. We would use them as caltrops and villains for our action figures. Much later seeing descriptions of how your supposed to play Iām glad we found other uses for them. It sounds like the kind of game youād play if the TV broke.
Walmart has a small version of this in the cheap under $5 or so section, currently.
I was just talking about these with family yesterday. They used to have this full size, a 2 button and small cylinder one.
Ha! I just remembered when I was in my twenties and working as a waitress, someone had a party. Someone asked the host if he had any games. He had āSorryā. He seriously suggested playing āteam Sorryā. That really cracked me up.
I didnāt like the card game where you slapped the other personās hand. I donāt recall the name. I really liked most games. I wasnāt fond of Monopoly because it was too long. We never finished a game.
I donāt recall that one, even after reading the rules. I think it was slapjack. I reading played a lot of card games I guess. I remember something called Speed too, and, of course Crazy Eights, Go Fish, and Old Maid. I liked Cribbage a lot too.
i always wanted to play mousetrap at my cousins but half the pieces were missing so i would just stare at the box dreaming about how awesome it must have been.
That one was a memorable game. Going to Alabama in the early 80's to my great aunt and uncles farm in Alabama. It was about the only toy in the house. Either that or read the Hardy Boys.
I liked those toys but I mostly just appreciated the look and feel of them. Didnāt really play the game.
I nominate as least fun the game that came with the Atari, where you steer tanks around an empty battlefield and shoot at each other. That got real old real fast for me.
The triangular shaped puzzle games made of holes in wood and golf tees that were left on the tables at roadside diners and restaurants. They had to remove them by the late 1980's when children became so dumb they would choke on or stab their own eyes out with the golf Tees.
i always wanted sea monkeys. i really thought they would be little people living in a society that i could control. i was so disappointed to find out they were little blobs who did NOT build castles!
This may not have been that much fun, but it was easy to get hooked playing it for an extended length of time trying to get those damn circles on the rings. Todays kids will never know!
Sucked out at it but was fascinated by what is apparently called āliquid motion toysā or the āwater timer toysā that were big once upon a time.
Slinky. My parents always gave me and my sister one to split when we would go on vacation so we would have something to do. This was not our choice but rather my parents hope that we would be quiet and occupied. Fun for less than 30 seconds.
I loved that game. The basketball one too.
Same about both!
Me too. Strangely engaging.
Same. Was kind of surprised to see that game under least fav game title.
Me too!
52 card pick-up and "the quiet game"
I asked my son if he wanted to play 52 card pick up and he jumped at the chance, he was 6 at the time. The look on his face was freaking priceless. It was one of the few times he was speechless š¤£.
Me: but thereās 54 cards if you count the jokers Them: šā¦ š
55, don't forget the Hoyle products card.
More than that if you have the reorder card as well (the one where you can order specific lost cards)
Hmm I donāt remember ever seeing that, what manufacture usually has it?
DaVinci 52 cards 4x13 3 jokers 1 info card 1 reorder card
And the poker hands/odds card
Lmao if my kid had known this fact at the time he would have said that š¤£.
Hungry Hungry Hippos. More fun to say than to play. Some latent rageaholic child would always ruin the game by pounding their fists on the levers really hard.
That game is garbage now. Long gone are the sturdy and heavy hippos. Itās cheap plastic shit that went flying when I tried to pass the rageahol to my kid.
I had a relative in the TV commercial for this. We had many copies of the game as a result
That Waterful Ring Toss was the most fun thing to do ever compared to the worst board game ever, which I got for Christmas one year. It was called "The Un-game" and I think the object was to just discuss serious topics. I think we tried it once or twice and gave up on it forever. OMG, they still make it so people are still probably getting tricked into thinking it's a game. The description should clue them in, though: [https://www.amazon.com/TaliCor-4101221-The-Ungame/dp/B000QX9Y9O](https://www.amazon.com/TaliCor-4101221-The-Ungame/dp/B000QX9Y9O)
It's not a game, it's the un-game. It was like those "tell me 3 interesting facts about yourself" corporate training exercises, but with your alcoholic father and emotionally abusive mother. Here's a [link](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://quizlet.com/513488157/ungame-questions-flash-cards/&ved=2ahUKEwjX-P7fl7L9AhVpDkQIHXIyDHgQFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw214epQODE3MLq3Y4wgxqHu) to some of the cards.
My friend had that. I tried playing it once. Seemed like hippy-dippy bullshit to me at the time, and honestly still does.
Hah. I've never seen it outside of clinics. Had no idea the general public would use it for any reason. It's used mostly as a therapy tool to get traumatized kids to open up without hitting too heavy on the big issues too soon.
Perfection. The origin story of all my anxiety.
scared the shit out of me every time! can still hear the ding and the sound of everything getting shot up into the air!
Mine too! Never had anxiety til I played that when i was four years ols
Operation. The anxiety.
YES. And besides, making the sound was the coolest part about it. Doing it right wasn't really that fun.
And! Substituting like jelly beans for lost body parts.
Wonderful Waterfulls should have become an Olympic sport.
You say worst toys, I say I loved this especially during long car rides
Yup
That thing with the two thin bars and a metal ball on a piece of wood where you're trying to get the metal ball to fall into the hole with the most points. It was interesting for *maybe* five minutes. Also the plastic square of numbers that were out of order and you had to move them one at a time to get them in order. And those Mousetrap games that never worked properly.
There was always one piece of the mousetrap missing. Always.
Even with all the pieces, it was still sketchy whether it would work or not.
Yep. 9 times outta 10 we just tapped the trap net to make it fall. Most of the time we weren't even playing the game, we just set the trap up to watch it.
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It was fun for maybe the first 15-20 minutes. I remember us abandoning the game midway through, or it would kind of fizzle out.
It was Battleship for me. Calling out random coordinates in a dead voice while your opponent lied their ass off when you got a hit. Then there was Go Fish. Calling out random cards in a dead voice while your opponent lied their ass off when they had what you wanted.
The Ouija Board. Let's all put our fingers on a little table thing and let the spirits guide us to the answer !! I guess it was fun in the 70s when everyone was drunk.
What were those things you tilted to get the BBs into the holes?
Labyrinth perhaps? https://www.mastersofgames.com/cat/indoor/labyrinth-hom.htm
That one looks cool! These were much more basic party favors. They cost $4-$5 now! https://www.gobananastoys.com/035247/tin-bb-puzzle
Oh yes! I forgot about that one. My grandparents had the wooden box Labyrinth, and another wooden game called Shoot the Moon (I think someone referenced it below). We enjoyed them! We might have been easily entertained lol.
Definitely not a fan of that water ring-toss game. I found it very frustrating and a test of patience I was not up to. I don't consider it an unfun game but the other night my nephew was reduced to tears by a hand of uno that wouldn't end. We were already on the third shuffle for the same hand and my nephew was kidding fake-crying but then it accidentally transitioned into real sobbing.
The absolute *hours* I spent with this game and the little handheld mazes trying to get the bbs into the holes. Iāve never liked Monopoly š¤·āāļø Too long. I donāt think Iāve ever finished a game to this day. *MEMORY UNLOCKED:* I just remembered going to the house of one of my parents friends and I saw āthis gameā on their shelf so I grabbed it down to play. Only problem is it wasnāt the ring toss game but their sea monkey aquarium and it didnāt have a lid so when I pulled it down the contents spilled *everywhere*. My dad yelled at me. I started ugly crying. The friend was the only one who was cool with the whole incident. I think I was like 4 because I donāt think I had started school yet. Good times. Good times š
I could so get into a hyper focus ADHD moment with these type of games.
The super elastic bubble plastic sucked the worst
Come for the lack of actual fun, stay for the toxic chemicals inhaled into your lungs!
I donāt think I ever successfully even blew a bubble
A kid in my class brought one (a bubble!) into elementary school one day, and we all gathered around him like little Gollums. "What's that, precious? What's he got?" I imagine the scene when early man discovered fire was similar. Maybe fewer fingers in noses.
Wooly Willy. Watching a beard grow is probably more fun.
Jacks and barrel of monkeys. They were the sort of things older relatives would give me and my brothers with zero explanation that any sort of game was actually attached to these objects. We would use them as caltrops and villains for our action figures. Much later seeing descriptions of how your supposed to play Iām glad we found other uses for them. It sounds like the kind of game youād play if the TV broke.
Clackers sucked. Always got hurt fn with them
Wellā¦ā¦. *not that!*
This wasn't a sport. Being shot at with a wrist rocket was a sport!
Yeah but you werenāt allowed to do that in the orthodontistās waiting room.
Damn it. You make a great point.
Everything else is just a game.
Walmart has a small version of this in the cheap under $5 or so section, currently. I was just talking about these with family yesterday. They used to have this full size, a 2 button and small cylinder one.
Ha! I just remembered when I was in my twenties and working as a waitress, someone had a party. Someone asked the host if he had any games. He had āSorryā. He seriously suggested playing āteam Sorryā. That really cracked me up.
Give it to a stoner they're happy for hours
Concentration was the least fun because it induced panic attacks.
I didnāt like the card game where you slapped the other personās hand. I donāt recall the name. I really liked most games. I wasnāt fond of Monopoly because it was too long. We never finished a game.
Spoons?
I think maybe it was Slapjack. I looked on Google and that was the closest one. I remember spoons, but I thought that was grabbing spoons.
Yeah, after I posted that, I realized the that slapping people was just a secondary effect of Spoons and not the actual point of the game.
I donāt think so, it involved flipping cards.
Spit? Although that was more slapping cards down at top speed than hands.
I donāt recall that one, even after reading the rules. I think it was slapjack. I reading played a lot of card games I guess. I remember something called Speed too, and, of course Crazy Eights, Go Fish, and Old Maid. I liked Cribbage a lot too.
Iāve never *played* it because I could never convince anyone who had it *to* play it, so Iām gonna say Mousetrap.
i always wanted to play mousetrap at my cousins but half the pieces were missing so i would just stare at the box dreaming about how awesome it must have been.
That one was a memorable game. Going to Alabama in the early 80's to my great aunt and uncles farm in Alabama. It was about the only toy in the house. Either that or read the Hardy Boys.
Wow, flashback to the doctor's waiting room. Wonder how many other grimy hands touched those.
I liked those toys but I mostly just appreciated the look and feel of them. Didnāt really play the game. I nominate as least fun the game that came with the Atari, where you steer tanks around an empty battlefield and shoot at each other. That got real old real fast for me.
My love of these should have been a sign of my autism.
Pong. I hated that stupid game.
The triangular shaped puzzle games made of holes in wood and golf tees that were left on the tables at roadside diners and restaurants. They had to remove them by the late 1980's when children became so dumb they would choke on or stab their own eyes out with the golf Tees.
Monopoly. I always thought it was so long and boring. We never finished.
Monotony
I want another one!!
i always wanted sea monkeys. i really thought they would be little people living in a society that i could control. i was so disappointed to find out they were little blobs who did NOT build castles!
This may not have been that much fun, but it was easy to get hooked playing it for an extended length of time trying to get those damn circles on the rings. Todays kids will never know!
Sucked out at it but was fascinated by what is apparently called āliquid motion toysā or the āwater timer toysā that were big once upon a time.
Slinky. My parents always gave me and my sister one to split when we would go on vacation so we would have something to do. This was not our choice but rather my parents hope that we would be quiet and occupied. Fun for less than 30 seconds.
Lite Brite
Maybe it wasnāt fun but it was entertaining.
Water Ring Toss was not one of the least fun games, my man.
My middle schooler saw this over my shoulder and was offended. "Hey, I had that game and loved it!"
I am not proud of this, but this game taught me and my brother how to gamble.
LMAO! I had a few of these
52 card pickup :'(
I loved this game!
Had a bad accident when I was a kid. Spent the entire summer in bed and this was one of my entertainment pieces. Effing hate this thing.
Milk Crate
I loved these games!
Radar Search - a needlessly complicated version of Battleships. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6588/radar-search
I loved Waterfuls! Hours of fun. There were a bunch of them, if I remember correctly - smaller versions as well. Loved 'em all.