I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who did and I’ve brought this up at parties before.

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    Everyone who owned Mouse Trap played it properly once, learned that the game itself was fucking lame, and then just proceeded to fuck around with the contraption part.

    I’ve played Operation, but I guess I never played it right because I don’t even remember cards being part of it. Or maybe I just played a newer version or something because you removed the parts based on spinning a thing.

    Return question: Do you or do you not use the “Free Parking” rule in Monopoly? IE all money paid to the bank goes in the middle of the board or under the Free Parking spot and you can claim it all if you land directly on Free Parking.

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      Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages. People going bankrupt faster is a positive.

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      IMO, the “free parking rule” is necessary for a healthy game of Monopoly. Otherwise, the game will drag on for hours with players just slowly whittling away at each other’s properties until eventually everybody has been completely bled out.

      However, that’s an intentional part of the game design; the original Monopoly was meant to showcase just how agonizing unchecked capitalistic greed can be, so games that run a long time with Pyrrhic victories are completely intended. But if you’ve got a life to live, you need to play with a few house rules to speed things along.

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    I played both. And Hungry Hungry Hippo too. And The Game of Life.

    All of those I only played max 3x before I switched to just using the props and dispensing with the game though.

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    Many, many times, yes. We always used the cards for Operation and played Mousetrap quite a bit when I was little.

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    I’ve played both but every copy of mouse trap I’ve ever had either didn’t work or worked very shittily. Massive disappointment all the way around

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    The Mousetrap game was janky and barely worked. I don’t know if our Operation board still had cards by the time it got to me. I was the third, so… Mousetrap was new when I was a kid, so that came to me new in the box.

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    Yeah I had Mousetrap, and as others said it barely worked which sucked a lot of the fun out of it. Also don’t remember there being cards in Operation, was it just to determine which body part you’re supposed to remove or did they do something else?

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      I don’t get this complaint. What didn’t work? It always worked 100% for me.

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        Maybe they improved quality control at some point (or decreased it before my time, idk), but as I recall, the issues were mostly with some of the later contraptions, like the diving board, the diver going into the tub, and the final cage itself.

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    My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.

    I didn’t know Operation has cards…

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    Of course, we played the crap out of those games when they first came out. Back then kids didn’t have ALL THE STUFF, games like that were coveted

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      I don’t know what back then means. I grew up in the 80s and we just never did either. Mousetrap was awesome because it was this complicated machine, but triggering it was the fun part, so that’s all we ever did. And Operation, you just went for the one you thought you could get.

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    We did, for both games, although we didn’t play Operation much. It kind of lost its novelty fast, especially with the buzzer the TV commercials conveniently left out.

    We played a lot of Mouse Trap, though. Everyone complaining about the trap not working half the time seems to have missed that that was the point. You might land in the trap zone and have one of your siblings get the chance to trap, but it wasn’t a guarantee that you’d be trapped. If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building? At that point it’s just a game with an instant lose square. If the trap worked or failed you needed to reset it for the next attempt, and as part of that reset you could adjust or fix any parts that had failed. Or maybe try to subtly sabotage it again if you’re worried you might be next…

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    Yeah, me and my cousins kept mousetrap working for an entire summer back in the eighties. I liked it a lot, but as others have said, it was beyond janky. It was the idea I liked tbh.

    Operation, I had forgotten there were cards at all lol.

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    Man I’m so fuckin glad you asked. We did! I’m not sure if we played the rules properly but I def remember trying.

    I think we were missing pieces to this one and were bummed about it though

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    Sadly, I never learned any of those games. I was an only child that had nobody to teach me any of those sort of games as a kid.

    I remember my parents bought me Chutes and Ladders when I was 5, apparently nobody realized it’s meant as a multiplayer game. Trying to figure it out for myself, I got bored in like 10 minutes.

    Monopoly? Go Fish? UNO? Hah, not a chance, nobody bothered to teach me any of those.

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      Oof, they bought you chutes and ladders (snakes and ladders where I grew up, I guess chutes makes a lot more sense) and never even played it with you…? Damn. I’m sorry