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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun- The Games Your Family Played

It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 


Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1)  Think about the games that your whole family would play when you were a child. 

2)  Tell us about one (or more) of them - what was it called, what were the rules (as you remember them), who played the game, where did you play the game, who usually won?

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.
I know that we had a few family game nights, but it wasn’t often. My oldest sister and I are nine years apart, so my parents probably got a lot of time to play games with her. 

My brother, twin sister and I would play card games which include, War, Old Maid, and Gold Fish together. My brother taught us how to play these games. I believe my brother won most of the games because he had more experience.

My family had a lot of board games. Several include Candyland, Sorry, Monopoly, Operation, and Trouble.

When my twin sister and I would play Connect 4, she always had the yellow markers, and I had the red markers. This was because those were our favorite colors.   The rules were the same as listed in the instructions. She would win most of the time since I would not see the spot to block her. 

In our younger years, ages 3-6, we would go outside and play Red Light/Green Light, Duck, Duck, Goose, and several other games. My mom would be the "stoplight" or my brother. These were certainly fun games to play. 



I miss those happy carefree days. 


 Thanks for reading,


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  1. Linda StufflebeanApril 12, 2020 at 8:57 AM

    Fun memories. Those were carefree days, weren't they, especially with the pandemic with which we are living at the moment.

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