ETA: Also, I expect the morality pictures no longer exist, which is a shame.

They do, actually. If you're talking about the US version. They're appalling.

(I never played the game as a child. My family was not much for board games. I actively rue the day we brought that nasty freaking moralising piece of puritanical propaganda into our home.)

Never played Candyland either.

It was never one of my favorites. And then they ruined it by adding characters anyway. Not as bad as what they did to Clue, but still, leave my childhood games alone people!

P-C, here's the history of the game. [link]

Chutes and Ladders has no snakes!!! Paging Dr. Freud...

Yeah, I checked out that page and saw that it originated in India, which may explain why we had Snakes and Ladders.

SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!

ahem...

I may be a bit excited.

They never let you join in any of the reindeer games, eh?

No! Meanies! runs away and hides

morality pictures

nasty freaking moralising piece of puritanical propaganda

Wait, what? In a board game?

Maybe I'm just as glad we didn't have it. We had enough puritanical moralizing as it was.

I grew up with board games! Monopoly, Tripoly, Sorry!, Pit, Operation, Which Witch?, and so many others.

Oh, and card games, everything from gin rummy to cribbage, poker, canasta (with my grandparents), pinochle (with my aunt and uncle), and endless games of solitaire (which I always cheated at by pulling out the turned-down cards from the bottom of the piles).

SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!

For summer? Or just forever?

(Sorry, I automatically go to the Alice Cooper place when I see that phrase.)

We played Monopoly, and checkers and Chinese checkers, neither of which I remember how to play now. My folks played a card game called Rook, which I never played and have no idea how it's done.

Mostly I spent I my childhood in a self-imposed timeout, in order to avoid other humans as much as possible.