I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who did and I’ve brought this up at parties before.
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.
Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages. People going bankrupt faster is a positive.
Alternate Free Parking rule for faster gameplay: Landing on Free Parking immediately bankrupts the player.
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.
I prefer Antimonopoly.
It’s a real game, look it up.
I love how Wikipedia says the idea for anti-monopoly goes back to The Landlord’s Game, which is what became Monopoly in the first place. 🤣
I remember we had that when I was a kid with all the other family board games, but I don’t remember anyone ever playing it.
We always did free parking, but I pretty much only ever played Monopoly with my best friend who lived around the corner, so if the game took a week, it wasn’t a big deal.
It did not help that neither of us were willing to be vicious to the other. It was a very friendly monopoly game with occasional jabs.
Not even once in my case.
Yes to both, thought only a couple of times each…
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.
Well I’ve finally met someone!
Many, many times, yes. We always used the cards for Operation and played Mousetrap quite a bit when I was little.
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
Yes and yes.
Yes and yes. I followed the rules as a kid. I played the games with the full rules multiple times even, in defiance of everyone saying that everyone only does so once.
Looking at YouTube playthroughs for nostalgia, it looks like the game rules today have the trap set up to start? When I played, the rules were that you had to build it up slowly over the course of the game, one piece at a time, and only once it was built could it be activated. Yes, I played that way.
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…
If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building?
To see the little man get flipped into the pool. Duh.
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.
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?
I don’t get this complaint. What didn’t work? It always worked 100% for me.
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.
I’m guessing it’s the reverse- quality control got less over time. The Mousetrap I’ve seen recently looks much crappier than the one we had, which was from the 70s. Which is weird since it’s just plastic.
Each player gets a hand of “specialist” cards at the start. Each turn a player draws a “doctor” card and attempts to retrieve the part on the card and if they are successful are awarded the money listed on the card. If they aren’t successful the player who has the specialist card gets to attempt it and wins the (larger) sum of money listed on the specialist card. In some versions of the game, there air no “specialist” cards, only “doctor” cards
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
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.
Mousetrap was lit, hell yeah
Yes we played the Mousetrap board game as kids. It was quite fun to be fair, even just playing with the mechanics solo was fun.
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
There were cards in Operation?
If there were, then they’d long been lost by the time that well used game found its way into my hands.
