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[Annarchy]

Here's a Board Game that dates back to Chinese history, a variation of Gomoku, traditionally played with black and white stones pieces, on a grid board with 19x19 intersections. A modern version was created in 1977.

Pente'

(Create a checker board. Find 2 or more sets of 10-20 different colored stones.)


Object of the game:

The players alternate in placing stones of their color on free intersections; White begins. The players aim to create five vertically, horizontally or diagonally connected stones of their color. Captures are obtained by surrounding pairs of an opponents' stones vertically, horizontally, or diagonally with stones of their own placed at the ends of the pair. A player cannot "cause" the capture of his or her own stones by moving into a surrounded position. The player who first creates five or more connected stones or captures five or more of the opponent's pairs wins.


Etiquette: To announce three in a row and four in a row to your opponent but it is not mandatory. The idea is to win in spite of one's opponent seeing every threat.

3 in a row is called Tria, 4 in a row is called a Tessera, 5 in a row wins.

[Mother]

Thanks Annarchy.

Here's some more variations on the game others might want to explore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku (with a link to variations on Pente too)


I can see us playing this on a cold winter night in the Big Valley in the Wagons Ho thread

[Amishway Homesteaders]

This sounds like a fun game to make an daslo to play.

And YES it would be a fun one for the trail...........
lets see - we are crossing some streams so maybe the 2 sets of colored stones could be bits of gold and silver? LOL

No really maybe buttons? or seeds?
corn and beans would work for now. and a piece of cloth, like a hanky, would work for the board. Put them all in a little drawstring bag you could make and there you go - a Wagon Train Trail Game!

I like it!

[Mt_Rider]

Our Asian daughters knew "go roku" . Also called Othello {available by Mattel}. The board is green with black stripes between the squares. But in the version I know, you play out all the pieces. Sometimes the game is won before the pieces are gone because one player is unable to do anything that won't get flipped to the other color.


Good game to develop thinking/strategy/several moves and consequences.

Great thread, btw!

Our DD's also spent a lot of time playing a version of jacks. But no ball and metal bits. Just some uniformly sized rocks. They would bounce them on the backs of their hands, throw them up and whatnot. I never did learn the ways&means of the game. But certainly low tech. lol

MtRider

[Leah]

You could make your drawstring bag be the board, as long as the drawstrings will let it open all the way flat.

[GirlNextDoor]

When I was a 5th grader I stunk at jacks. I was slow and clumsy. My dad gave me a golf ball to play with which stayed up much longer and bounced higher. Soon I was class champion even with the crappy rubber ball that comes with a jacks set.

[Annarchy]

I never was good at jacks.

How about Tiddlywinks. My brothers used to stomp me at it. (The Rules)

And of course Chess which dates back to the 16th century.

Edited by Annarchy, 16 December 2009 - 10:03 PM.

[Crazy4Canning]

Mmmm. The rules to those games changed all the time with the kids I knew growing up.

[Amishway Homesteaders]

speacking of old games..........

we STILL play the old ones like:
Sorry
Trouble
Parcheessa (?)
and other ones I can't remember now that I am posting?

Got most of them at yard sales - some where in mint condition for a buck!
Lots of the old card games too.
In the summer we played out at camp and now in the winter we have game night with friends once ot twice a week after supper. If we are not playing games or cards someone will bring a puzzle and we all work on it until it is DONE!

[Mt_Rider]

Cottage industry....making Lincoln Logs for the W*Ho kids. Plenty of raw materials in Big Valley.



That was one of my favorites. But I liked paper dolls too. Remember they always had Betsy McCall that you could cut out of the McCall's magazine?


Somewhere, I *think* I kept my paper doll collection.

I have Trouble....with the dome pop-up thingie for rolling the dice and not losing it. AND if you flip it upside down on it's dome and spin it, ours has a pattern printed that looks cool. Lots all the pegs to go into the holes tho. Use paper clips and such now.


We made croquet set using softball/baseball and bat and bent our own wires.



Several years ago we used to play cards with our close-by-friends. But now everyone is so ill and so pressed with working enough..... just can't. It's sad.





All this we've mentioned.....mebbe another thing to collect from garage sales, as Michael suggests.


MtRider [...wanna have time to play again....... ah well, W*Ho is partly play, isn't it? ]

[Mt_Rider]

OH.....just thot of something.


Does anyone remember a game called High Gear? I've been keeping an eye out for that one forever. I WISH my folks had not dumped that one. It was wonderful for teaching mechanical reasoning. My brother and I both score VERY high in that.

It's all plastic. [not pioneer-vintage....early 60's vintage lol ] Square with a black base and a series of interlocked gears on the top. The multicolored gears all turn together. The idea was to begin your pegs [each gear cog has a whole for the pegs] and if your peg lines up with the next gear, you get to hop over and continue down the course till you get to the top. Rolling dice tells how many "places" you get to move [or have to move...if it's not a good number]. But here's the catch: You don't move your pegs except to jump to the next gear. ...or when lined up and forced to move backward a gear . But moving only the very first gear [lined up like a rotary-dial telephone so you know how far to move it by the numbers]....the whole board moves. EVERYone's pegs move every turn. So you learn to calculate which way you want to move your aloted 3 spaces. Left or Right. Which will best position the most of your pegs? Or which direction will send your opponents pegs backwards? It was a brilliant game for teaching. And fun too.




I want one for my Grsons!


MtRider [...SEEEEEEEE why I'm the packrat that keeps EVERYthing..... ]

[HSmom]

Mancala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala requires only some stones (any colors) and depressions in or circles drawn on the ground.

[Amishway Homesteaders]

Mancala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala requires only some stones (any colors) and depressions in or circles drawn on the ground.

here's the recycle one we havea nd use:
take a egg carton (paper or foam) and cut off the top.
Now cut that in half (the short ways)
now the bottom is you game board and you tape the 2 halves of the top on both ends on the bottom so about half stick out- like little cups. This is 'home' for the ones you win.

Now get pennies, buttons or whatever you want to use as 'markers'.
We have evn used cown when on vacation and needed a game fast when it was raining out.
then go to that sit above to get the rules.

And there you are - FUN - Cheap - And you saved one egg carton from the dump.

[ol'momma]

Mancala is very popular of family camping trips. What about Scrabble? That was always popular at our house -a great vocabulary builder! And, the folks always played Cribbage.

Does anyone remember a card game called "Traveling" or maybe it was "Touring"? It came with a special deck of cards. Seems like it was probably something popular in the late 50's.

[Mother]

Ol'momma,,, I DO!!! Touring was a really neat game and our kids loved it.

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