h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What games are so much of a nightmare to set up they're hardly worth playing? Which ones 'really' wind you up?

Hell no. Setting them up is more fun than playing them in the majority of cases.

Hero Quest was a particular favourite of my my brother and I. We used to get all the pieces out, spend an hour meticulously arranging them, decide which characters to be and then pack it all away again. Great fun!

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never spent an xmas morning trying to figure out how mousetrap goes together while the kids are screaming have you

Every Mousetrap set I ever owned was missing the spring that kept the Helping Hand down, so I spent hours finding ingenious ways around it.

Anyway, surely the whole point of Mousetrap is to put it together over the course of the game?

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Is it?

We're not allowed to play Monopoly in our house. It always ended badly so we've simply banned it

I can't stand board games of any discription, never have, they really, really bore me (pardies the pun)
But, yes, spent Xmas morn fiddling about with Mousetrap, and the hand thingy never ing works with or without a spring, always have to give it a nudge when it gets to that bit...and the trap doesn't come down...so have to kind of jiggle it.

Same here, re. Monopoly. We have several different editions, including a Star Wars one, but no one is allowed to play anymore since my son has screaming tantrums if he doesn't get to buy both Park Lane and Mayfair. He's 13 now and still gets like it!

There's also a Spiderman board game which son loves to play but both hubby and I groan inwardly whenever he suggests it.

On the plus side of board games, we all love to play Talisman and I personally have a soft spot for Scrabble - though the other 2 aren't overkeen most of the time

My goddess, Talisman, not played (or even seen) that for several years!

I haven't played board games for years, used to play loads as a kid. I've got a big collection at home.

I had a game called 'Escape from Colditz castle' that used to do my fruit.
There were about 250 'chance' cards, of which 249 must have been 'You have been recaptured and returned to Colditz' Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Our Talisman is about ...ummm..... 18 or so years old I think.

Haven't seen one in the shops for donkeys; I think they're out of print, which is a shame, as it's a really great game and I didn't get all the expansion packs at the time.

We've also got loads of D&D books, figures and stuff, and games like HeroQuest too.

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I used to rather like Traveller, I've still got those books somewhere.... to loft to look

I refuse to play Risk or Monopoly with my brothers - it always devolves into a shouting match. Plus, with Risk we always ended up having to pack it away and make notes about who had what before we could finish a game.

We had to rewrite the rules of "Escape from Colditz" before it became playable.

One time when my kids were younger, I actually read over the mousetrap directions, something I never bothered to do when I was a kid playing it.

Not only is the mousetrap supposed to be assembled over the course of the game, but when it's your turn to turn the handle, if the mousetrap doesn't work properly, the player under the mousetrap gets another chance. The point of the game is not to fiddle with it to make it work properly, but to see if it will work properly when you land on the space where you can use it, and of course all kinds of things can affect the outcome, whether it's an accidental jiggle of the board while turning the handle causing something to not work right, or a part that just wasn't put together quite right to begin with.


As players are eliminated by being trapped, whoever is left continues taking their turn rolling the dice and moving spaces, until the only one left is finally declared the winner.

I always thought it was more fun just to assemble the thing and watch it work though.

Odo is a VERY competitive Monopoly player. She goes into self-denial when she loses.

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Monopoly with my brothers has come to fisticuffs. That was when we were all much younger though.

>>Monopoly with my brothers has come to fisticuffs<<

What got Monopoly its ban was me winning a game and my brother destroying *everything* I owned. I retaliated by destroying everything he owned plus his bedroom.

That little spat is a taboo subject with my family, no-one officially talks about why Monopoly was banned, it just was