Toys And Games From The Past

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  1. Tony Page

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    I remember getting this toy back in the 50s that me and my brother played with a lot. It was called "Bombs Away". It was a different type of dart game, because the dartboard laid on the floor it had targets like buildings Bridges Etc each having a value. The idea was to hit these targets with a dart to collect the points associated with that Target. The difference was the darts loaded into a periscope type holder. It held 4 darts, you look through an optical system what a mirror and you can see the board below you as you stood over it. There was a release button for each dart, so you will align yourself with a Target then press the release button to score points.
    Does anyone else have a favorite toy or game from the past?
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    I never saw that one, @Tony Page .

    I played a game with my children that called for dropping clothes pins in a quart jar or a bottle with a large top. They stood on a chair to drop the clothes pins but I didn't have to.... thank goodness. :)
     
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    Shirley,
    That sounds like fun I'm going to try with my grandkids thanks
     
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    Just to make it fair, let them use a quart jar and you use a Coke bottle. :)
     
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    Coke bottle? That's not fair.

    I never had a toy that I played withy that I can remember.
     
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    Yes, it is. Anybody can drop a clothes pin in a quart jar. :) So to give the kids a fair playing field, you have to make it harder for the adult.
     
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    I had a Lie Detector game.

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    It came with cards with pictures on each. The cards had holes punched in them. As I recall, you would put one of the cards face down in the big plastic Lie Detector Machine (that was your Suspect), and then insert a witness card one by one that had some characteristic on it (hair color, eye color, male, female, etc.) You would push a probe into the hole, and the machine would *DING* if the characteristic were TRUTH, and the needle would go to LIE if the characteristic was not one held by the Suspect. Using the True/False descriptors, you would guess who the suspect was.
     
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    It was the butler in the kitchen with a knife. :)
     
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    John
    Sounds like another version of Clue
     
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    Yup.

    I don't recall how you used it with multiple players.
     
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    This was one of the few board games even adults would play with you. I can't remember how it went now. Took this one with me, along with Monopoly and a fancy Scrabble board. Haven't play any of them since. :(

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    I don't remember how to play any of the boardgames that I had. We used to play once or twice a month with my cousins and Friends, we'd go to a different house each play date. My favorite board games were Clue, Probe, and Masterpiece.
     
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    It's tough to remember when we would make up different rules every time we played.

    I still don't know if putting money in the middle of the board for whoever lands on Free Parking is a real Monopoly rule or a made up thing that somehow everyone found out about...before the internet was invented, no less.
     
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    Board games made great "get-togethers" you had fun I think brought people closer together. During our run a playing board games I wound up with a collection of 51 games. I always like trying new games, one of them called ecology we never did figure out how to play it.
     
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    When I was in high school a few of us played Diplomacy. You formed alliances and built armies. I was always the first one out...the first country taken over.
     
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