We played euchre all the time in high school, but it's a very regional game.

We had a month of school left after the calculus AP exam, so our teacher used it to teach us how to play bridge.

Board games and card games were a huge part of my childhood, and indeed adult life. As a teenager I was particularly into strategy wargames, like Squad Leader or Rise and Decline of the Third Reich. (Props to my dad for owning Diplomacy too; there began my love of multiplayer cutthroat games. My parents also owned this odd little game called Spy Ring, which I found fascinating.)

At uni it was trick-taking card games, primarily 500 and Black Lady. Pit was a revelation. Nowadays, the card game I'm most into is Race for the Galaxy. I've played it, occasionally obsessively, for well over a year and it just never gets old.

Were you thinking of Great Game of Britain?

No, British Rails.

Erin, just knowing that Mrs. Mooney existed has improved my day.

One year my family went up to Tahoe almost every single weekend, and we spent every single night playing cribbage. I don't even remember how to play it anymore, but just seeing the board and the pegs makes me feel all content and warm and summer-nights-y.

No, British Rails.

Oh, our game was Great Game of Britain. There was a steam version and a current time version, but we stuck to current day. You could also do stuff to delay your opponent in their quest to get to their destination. God, we were obsessed.

Other than that, we played backgammon and word games. Once we came of age, we could even play Scrabble with parents! My mother is not the sort of woman who plays games with kids. She had helpers for that, or other kids. She wanted a real competition.

Oh, our game was Great Game of Britain.

Titular confusion. I checked it out; I particularly love that (according to the write-up) the game board was double-sided, allowing you to play "The Present" or "The Past".

Given the way you describe the game, of games currently in print, National Geographic's Expedition may give a similar feel. (It's global rather than British, and the mechanism is quite different I'm sure, but it contains the same goal of travelling to multiple destinations while trying to hinder your opponents.)

my favorite "Game of the States" which had something to do with the local manufacturing resources of each state and trucks transporting goods across state lines for sale.

Oh my goodness! I think we picked that up at a yard sale. The pieces were little trucks and you loaded little pucks into them, right?

You used to have to decide who to ask when you got to a room and made a guess. If the person you asked couldn't help you, that was it. And then you had to remember who you asked, and for what.

...Buh? I've never heard of this before; we always played that when you made a suggestion, it went around the board until someone disproved it. If the rules were changed, it happened a long time ago, because our copy was from the 70s if not earlier.

Oh my goodness! I think we picked that up at a yard sale. The pieces were little trucks and you loaded little pucks into them, right?

Yes. We had it at some point. Or a friend did.

Mmm, now I am going to have to get board games for when the boy comes down! I think Clue would be fun, and Sorry. And Uno.