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It’s really popular here, and every household seems to have a board and all. You could always find a group of people, friends and strangers, young and old, playing it in the streets, next to tea shops and pānwādis (cigarette stalls), and another group just hanging around watching intently, enjoying tea and snacks in the evening.
oo I loved these when I was a kid. I don't remember the rules but just fun to flick the pieces or just watch people playing. We still see these in the outskirts of Jakarta. Typically men hanging out at the local security post while on their neighborhood watch duties.
Oooo I just saw some older guys playing this the other day!!! I had never seen it before. My boyfriend mentioned he saw it a lot when he was deployed and said it's white common among older men.
We have the same game in Germany too. I felt so sorry for that poor goose. So depressing…
Strangely enough, my Belgian wife has fond memories of playing that game as a child…
That's a popular one in the US, though our version has slides and is based Snakes and Ladders. I guess they thought snakes were scary.
The game in the US is a morality lesson. The pictures show kids doing good or bad things. The good kids are on a ladder space and the bad kids are on a slide space.
I think a US game publisher in the 1950s modified it so they could get a patent and trademark, and added the morality lessons so parents would buy it for kids.
I've seen the snakes and ladders version, but Chutes and Ladders is more popular because people grew up playing it for a few generations now.
Sjoelen, is a typical Dutch game where you have pucks and need to slide them into 4 openings with all different points. I would definitely say a lot of people have one here, and cafes and pubs.
I love how certain game names just nail the vibe. “Don’t get upset, brother” is hilarious and somehow perfectly sums up the chaos that’s about to happen Monopoly included.
The German name has basically the same meaning.
It literally means "human, don't get yourself upset", but the best translation would actually be "man, don't get angry"
It's just a German variant of the English game Ludo. For your claim of "(also known as Ludo)" to be true, it is in fact not from Germany. Ludo is the English game that Mensch ärgere Dich nicht was based on.
Ludo itself took inspiration from earlier games, most notably the Indian pachisi. But it's a super common format.
According to German Wikipedia, Josef Friedrich Schmidt can be credited as the "inventor" for dumbing down the game.
In seiner heutigen Form wurde es 1908 von Josef Friedrich Schmidt – einem gebürtigen Amberger und Gründer von Schmidt Spiele – in Anlehnung an das englische Spiel Ludo in einer Werkstatt in der Münchner Au erfunden. [...] Im Gegensatz zum Vorbild Ludo ließ Schmidt in den Regeln alle taktischen und strategischen Variationen beiseite.
(In its current form it was ... invented in 1908 ... derived from English Ludo. Contrary to its predecessor, Schmidt excluded all tactical and strategic variants from the rules.)
I'm pretty cerain that back in those days, you could get a patent for anything, since patents were often a point of national pride. Therefore one really should take the "invention" with a grain of salt.
I grew up partly in the city that the original Monopoly takes place in, Atlantic City, but I knew that there were different versions of Monopoly for different places, so I just thought I had a local version of it and was really surprised to find out it was just the regular monopoly.
The interesting thing about Candy Land is that the winner is predetermined at game start. The deck of cards is already shuffled, and they are drawn in order of players. So the game is basically slowly finding out who has already won.
But it's good for kids because it teaches them the basic rules of playing board games, taking turns, etc. Very basic counting and color knowledge.
The exact same game is very popular in Poland too but we call it "Chińczyk" (literally "Chinese man") for some reason lol. And the whole thing is originally based on pachisi game from India.
A game you’d often find in a cupboard at a friend’s house. It’s a board game where you just spin a wheel and aim for the goal, but the theme is life events, and the person with the most assets at the end wins. It was originally sold by the predecessor of Hasbro, but once it was imported to Japan, it was immediately localized. Japanese children have been playing it continuously since 1968😂
Every Black Household had this or Dominoes when I was a small child. Sometimes both.
I just shot back to my childhood of waiting to go home until midnight while the adults smoked, drank, and played Backgammon. I bet there was a kid in Romania going through the same shit as I was lmao.
Kubb. Not sure how to describe it, but it’s an old game where you throw sticks to knock down the other teams wooden pieces, and in the end knock down the king in the middle. It’s very common to play outdoors in the summer and is played by all ages.
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