hey u hav a fantastic collection,I hav a good collection of board games also like Careers,Monopoly,Ulcers,RatRace,Risk,Scotland Yard,Squatter etc. I wonder if there is anyone else in the whole wide world thats plays the boardgame of careers as much and My Wife and I and nutty boardgame freak Robster. We have had sessions of up 12 hour
i love the careers game also. i played it with my aunt, uncle and cousins, they've got an older version at least from the late 70's, but it didn't look like the one from the 70's you've got, it looked more like the 50's board, l've got one from about 2000 or late 90's it's an awesome game
Board games are cool. I used to have a lot of board games when I was younger, but I don't have many anymore. I like Monopoly, but Scotland Yard was always my favorite game.
lol mccaw.. its a tucan and i never heard of master mind dont think they have that in the u.s or i never pay attention to the less atractive games in the board game section
I absolutely love board games. your collection got me thinking of my games and i can't wait to find some more now. my friend has a new version of careers, it's a fun game. Clue used to be one of my favourite games!
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Careers kind of reminds me of the American (I guess it's american?) game 'Life'. Anyway, lovely vid/collection.
i collect dice,mostly because my dad gave me my first dice and i liked the design of it so i started collecting them..i was about five when i started.and im 14 now so i dont know how many i have.
Are you or someone else listening to the Beach Boys in the back?...my cousins and I dressed in skirts and danced to some of their songs back like almost 20 years ago, lol. Memories...
You are so sweet and such a darling! I like your passion for collecting old things and listening to you talk about them. Hearing the Beach Boys in the background was such a nice touch. Lovely!
The career game looks like so much fun. I also agree with what you said about the time it was made. Just the idea of "seeing a rare butterfly" would never appear on a game nowadays. The 70's version is much more of what we see now ... "your sacked" and the likes. I would love to journey back through to another era. Ahhh, if only we could all be Doctor Who ... Great Video!
hey Bryony thanks for bringing some good memory for me! mastermind! the cover, those big multi coloured pieces and the smaller white and black ones. the little brown plastic shield thing! amazing! mine one had the indian woman too i think!
That is probably one of the most interesting collections I've seen!
I never really noticed the way fonts and colors and designes look on things like games, but it really is nice, isn't it? You have a great appreciation for them; very cool.
You have a great collection ! My favourite games are Scoop and Totopoly , although Careers is also good . You should keep them wrapped up in clear plastic sacks to stop the games discolouring over time . I have a great game called DRIVING TEST which is awesome !
I have an old Mad Magazine game which is basically Monopoly in reverse. You start out with a bunch of money and the object is to lose all of it. The first person to go broke wins.
This is all I could find on Grandfather's Whiskers:
"This is a 3-in-1 card game by Waddington's. Anyone who has played the drawing game where the first person draws a head and turns it under, the second person draws the neck and shoulders without looking at the head and turns it under, the next draws the middle of the body etc. will recognise the first of the games. The other two games aren't so easy to describe so I'll leave it to the "How to Play" cards with the pack."
I swear it must have been made by members of academia. You could choose to go to work right away or go to university. The only way to win the game is to go to university. Brainwashing, I tell ya!
I live in the US and I used to play a lot of board games and stuff. Connect 4, Scrabble, Life, Clue Jr., Parcheesi, Othello, and regular card games were my favorites. But it's true most people around here aren't really into board games, like, at all.
cool. I remember about 10 years ago there was a revival of board-gaming - I seem to remember a few places opening up in London that were like cafe-bars specifically for playing board games, but it seems to have died out. It makes me slightly sad to think of families on holiday now, all sitting with their ipods on, playing on their gameboys...I think I learned a lot about life and interacting with people in caravans, playing board games, with the rain hammering down outside....
;) great video! i think board games are a very british kind of thing. I'd be interested to know how much other youtubers from elsewhere played board games as a child. i assume it is a british thing cos it rains so much here...? my favourites = risk & totopoly. war and gambling... mmmmm... guess what sex i am? :)
i game i rember from being a kid was where you were on a desert island made up of blocks and every turn a piece of the island was taken away and you had to save all your men with a little boat b4 the island sank and avoid the sharks - cant rember what its called tho :)
If you like Careers, you should definitely check out The Game of Life. Nearly the same concept as Careers, except instead of going through jobs, you go through life. It ranges from education, to taxes, to employment, to love and to children. Pretty fun game to play on a boring night.
You did not mention that the man on the Master Mind box is considerably older than the woman. Her father? Not likely. Her mentor or perhaps her graduate advisor? That's what I see. Also, apparently, her lover, considering her pose. She's oriental because the artist is playing to two ethnic stereotypes. Oriental women are supposedly smarter than western women and more subservient than western women. She is therefore intelligent, but not threatening to the game's mostly male demographic.
The design of the 70s version of "careers" is awesome! The fonts, the layout, the colors, the round edges...
This kind of design is quite popular in the web today. There are many websites out there which use exactly the same design elements. Now I know where they got the idea from. ;-)
I've the very same Super Mastermind right here. The picture on the front cover is so cool. I love this game.
i ADORE mastermind! i think you have an awesome collection too! i collect dice, playing cards, and journals... so i understand your collection, and i kind of envy you for it, because now i want to collect them! i also like fonts too, and my mom makes fun of me, when i go places and i go "that font's Scriptina!!" or whatever. i'm really a dork.
Great stuff Paperlilies, I heartily endorse your nerdy antique boardgame obsession. I've got a really old copy of Monopoly kicking around somewhere... I should pull it out and find out just how old. By the way that Amoeba game looks pretty cool, very simple but aesthetic design like you say.
Here you will find the rules for Grandfathers Whiskers... enjoy! It's a little hard to read.. but fairly simple to understand... keep making the vids!
I put some rubbish in my earlier comment. We certainly had "Kan-u-Go" but the game like "Scrabble" we had, was called "Funworder". It was brought back from New Zealand for us by a family friend. (We called her "auntie".) I think it was identical and marketed in NZ under that name. Funny how the name came just came back to me after all this time.
I've always loved games and as a child I played a lot of board games.Monopoly,cluedo,escape from colditz,formula one,stratego and lots more.They look kind of dull and simplistic compared to pc games but I think the need for live human opponents made them more fun and better learning tools.Certainly you learn that most people cheat and find losing difficult.
Oh! Careers... Theres a board game that looks like it in Canada. Or dunno if there's some in USA ou UK but umm... It's called Like and it's pretty fun! Theres card that comes with it and it's really colourful Uh... anyways =P It's not an old board game so... umm!
I played a lot of Careers at my Grandparents' house growing up. It was a red Parker box but the board wasn't all 70's like that, so maybe it was a 60's version.
Once when I was about 5 I was playing Mastermind with my mom, and when she left the room and came back I miraculously figured out the sequence on my first try. I got a well-deserved lecture about cheating.
GRANDFATHERS WHISKERS: for 2 or more platers. deal cards face down. the players must not look at the face side of their cards. the player on the left of the dealer leads and turns his card face up in the center of the table. each player plays a card in turn. each successice card should be quickly plaed so that the body is fitted to the head on the last card played. the title line 'grandertahers whiskers' on the back of each card indicates the half containing the body.
That was really fascinating! When I was a kid we played Ludo on a board which was from the early 1950s. I remember "Kan-u-Go". I seem to remember it was something like Scrabble. I wonder if "Careers" was inspired by "Monopoly". The layout looked rather similar. Thanks again!
I love your glasses. I too have a bit of a board game love. They are remaking old games, like the original Candyland. Clue is my favorite game and I rule at it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/angabel/cluebracelet.jpg It isn't mine; I wish! Those are the original little characters I think.
Oh, btw.. I collected stamps and coins which made me very bored. Then god created Atari 2600, and Nintendo and Sega, and PC's and I haven't been bored since.
Cool, Thanks for sharing that. Some of those games are crazy. Gotta love a bit of Beach Boys once in a while :) Pleasent change. Looks liek you beat you youtube block.
xcellent selection of games. I used to play careers all the time. That bird was a toucan by the way. :P You might enjoy http://www.nostalgiagames.net/
This is a really fun game by Waddingtons, or rather three games because there are several ways you can use these cards. Anyone who has played the drawing game where the first person draws a head and turns it under, the second person draws the neck and shoulders without looking at the head and turns it under, the next draws the middle of the body etc etc. will recognise the first of the games. There are some very strange beings made in this way.
I Grew Up playing mastermind with my Mom.It was wone of her favorite games...along with Gin Rummy..Battleship,Life (which seems to be alot like Careers)...Have a great day...
I also liked A lot role playing games...I forgot to mention games like blood royale,Sorry,Trivial Pursuit...Board games seem to bring people together...Hmmm I misss them really...
I think that's because it was really called "Take the Brain"? Here's someone else making the same mistake (only spelling "numbskulls" in a more traditional way):
Grandfather's Whiskers should have 48 playing cards, each with a head and body on, and 4 instruction cards. The idea is you lay the cards down one on top of the other to create a person with head and body. If you lay down an old man's head on a bed, you then have to call if his whiskers are in or out of the bed.
The backs of the cards also comprise six separate jigsaw type puzzles; the cards numbered from 1 to 8 make a simple puzzle, and the remaining groups pf cards become successively more difficult. The last group of cards (41 - 48), in which grandfather and his whiskers are depicted, is the most advanced puzzle of the whole series.
maybe not as "technically well done" as some others, PL, but ranks as one of my favorites of all time. You have a very unique gift of making the viewer feel you're talking to just him/her. The video has a very genuine feel to it. Thanks for sharing that with us.
um, i think it was a tocan (i dont think i spelt it right)I really loved this video, im a succer for old stuff - especially from the 70s. (can i ask what music that is in the background - i really like it!)
When I use to live next to a Goodwill store it became a tradition of me and my friends to grab a case of beer and then stop by the thrift store and each pick up an interesting looking board game. We use to spend our evenings drinking and playing these games, often having to make up our own crazy nonsensical rules when the original instructions they were not included. Those were great times.
....Damn!...that's a lot of boardgames. I do get what you mean about the 'feel' of boardgames... they're their own form of entertainment, and that's just awesome. :)
haha - Love the Rocketship on Careers! Have you ever played "The Game of Life" - it's a pretty popular boardgame here in the US. Slightly similar to that careers game, but I think the board is a lot cooler. there are plastic houses & mountains that add a "3-D" aspect to the board.
Clue is great too! I never saw Amoeba or Master Mind - they look cool!
Even though it's just done with a vid-cam, you could submit this to film festivals and win awards in the short documentary category! Every consider it?
Do collect only board games or do you also collect electronic board games...cuz i heard that monopoly became an electronic game only in England. Do you still play those games. You shouldn't play with other people because it might get messed up/dirty. For me, I collect keychains from all sorts of places: museums, amusement parks, states, countries, islands, etc.
The ship you're in explodes and all you lose is your cash? lol that's too politically correct.
manudosde 1 year ago
Too bad none of those games are fun.
KomonHouseholdObjex 1 year ago
I suppose she took down the Religious Pamphlets video.
plica06 2 years ago
@plica06 nope its still up
Bexxx19 1 year ago
careers sounds vaguely like the game of life in america
Halifae 2 years ago
That's a nice collection you got there. I loved playing board games as a kid.
mazon111 2 years ago
(yawn)
prican124 3 years ago
I LOVE Careers! I played it a lot when I was a little child.
ThePineApplePioneer 3 years ago
hey u hav a fantastic collection,I hav a good collection of board games also like Careers,Monopoly,Ulcers,RatRace,Risk,Scotland Yard,Squatter etc. I wonder if there is anyone else in the whole wide world thats plays the boardgame of careers as much and My Wife and I and nutty boardgame freak Robster. We have had sessions of up 12 hour
bowlcuts 3 years ago
Careers sounds really fun. Where did you get it?
= )
artsyfashion 3 years ago
careers is a lot like life-the board game
circusaroundtheworld 3 years ago
look up the game masterpiece its so much fun its like a bidding action for paitings
circusaroundtheworld 3 years ago 2
i love the careers game also. i played it with my aunt, uncle and cousins, they've got an older version at least from the late 70's, but it didn't look like the one from the 70's you've got, it looked more like the 50's board, l've got one from about 2000 or late 90's it's an awesome game
allaonius 3 years ago
ooo, for grandfather's wiskers game if you win you show the others your wiskers
allaonius 3 years ago
You've got the same phone sound as me xD
MooMuffinz 3 years ago
the bird is a tucan
Bexxx19 3 years ago
career is just like the game life..
somethingrandom2011 3 years ago
im in love. giimmmee
i want bored games ):
nikkyraney 3 years ago
Board games are cool. I used to have a lot of board games when I was younger, but I don't have many anymore. I like Monopoly, but Scotland Yard was always my favorite game.
HaleyMary 3 years ago
LOL I fully have that game (careers) but a more recent version... that's random!
jassy66 3 years ago
lol mccaw.. its a tucan and i never heard of master mind dont think they have that in the u.s or i never pay attention to the less atractive games in the board game section
12345bybi 3 years ago
they have mastermind here... but you're right about it not being too attractive, lol.
imisspunkybrewster 3 years ago
isnt career like that game life?
12345bybi 3 years ago
there is a game really similar to careers that is called LIFE ...its really popular here in the USA , you should check it out
lildalys 4 years ago
Hahah, life is awesome
I always seem to end up with the "split level" and 20000$ salary though xD
KayakEhProductions 4 years ago
Do you have frustration?
I used to love that game when I was little just coz I liked to play with the clicky dome in the middle of the board :-D
xxBlackCat14xx 4 years ago
I absolutely love board games. your collection got me thinking of my games and i can't wait to find some more now. my friend has a new version of careers, it's a fun game. Clue used to be one of my favourite games!
maggiezimm 4 years ago
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Careers kind of reminds me of the American (I guess it's american?) game 'Life'. Anyway, lovely vid/collection.
HorrorCosmik 4 years ago
i miss her jewelry videos!
Bexxx19 4 years ago
Toucan
neuronautpat 4 years ago
i collect dice,mostly because my dad gave me my first dice and i liked the design of it so i started collecting them..i was about five when i started.and im 14 now so i dont know how many i have.
MissSoccerGrl 4 years ago
Are you or someone else listening to the Beach Boys in the back?...my cousins and I dressed in skirts and danced to some of their songs back like almost 20 years ago, lol. Memories...
Genn333 4 years ago
You've inspired me to collect board games. I hope to find old board games like yours because I too find the designs very beautiful.
avann88 4 years ago
Very interesting collection!!!
avann88 4 years ago
You are so sweet and such a darling! I like your passion for collecting old things and listening to you talk about them. Hearing the Beach Boys in the background was such a nice touch. Lovely!
bikenik 4 years ago
Kanugo looks like a pac of smokes/ciggarettes...lol
nowxyourxgone 4 years ago
The career game looks like so much fun. I also agree with what you said about the time it was made. Just the idea of "seeing a rare butterfly" would never appear on a game nowadays. The 70's version is much more of what we see now ... "your sacked" and the likes. I would love to journey back through to another era. Ahhh, if only we could all be Doctor Who ... Great Video!
paleskinnylovers 4 years ago
okay amoeba seems just awesome. i have never heard of it but i'm looking it up now lol i want that game
jacknap3 4 years ago
hey Bryony thanks for bringing some good memory for me! mastermind! the cover, those big multi coloured pieces and the smaller white and black ones. the little brown plastic shield thing! amazing! mine one had the indian woman too i think!
rathlone 4 years ago
That is probably one of the most interesting collections I've seen!
I never really noticed the way fonts and colors and designes look on things like games, but it really is nice, isn't it? You have a great appreciation for them; very cool.
MandiLynn18 4 years ago
You have a great collection ! My favourite games are Scoop and Totopoly , although Careers is also good . You should keep them wrapped up in clear plastic sacks to stop the games discolouring over time . I have a great game called DRIVING TEST which is awesome !
nicol1955 4 years ago
I have an old Mad Magazine game which is basically Monopoly in reverse. You start out with a bunch of money and the object is to lose all of it. The first person to go broke wins.
EKS511 4 years ago
wow i love the 70s careers game i love it !!
sahills1 4 years ago
ok get out. i love old toys AND my fav choc is double deckers..
sahills1 4 years ago
Sounds like an addiction.
ShePhoebz 4 years ago
I actually have a verynew verison of Mastermind.like 2001 or something. Damn, I wish it had the scary professor on it. Its quite boring looking.
AddieInWonderland 4 years ago
I miss your jewelry collection videos
Bexxx19 4 years ago
the old happy familes drawing, before they changed it to crap, are so great
:D
amazingmrt 4 years ago
here is a fact: my grandpa was a business partner with the creator of monopoly i am not lying its true
JwDptv 4 years ago
OMIGOSH i have played careers!!! it is the bestest game EVER!!!!!
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emiliehp 4 years ago
haha more beach boys in the background. gotta love it!
vivezidane 5 years ago
Did anyone ever tell you that you have nice hands sweethart?
Orionsaint 5 years ago
dude, orionsaint, that's creepy
Bexxx19 5 years ago
This was like a trip down memory lane for me, but I was never competative enough to care who won, I just played for the laugh.
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itstings24 5 years ago
This is all I could find on Grandfather's Whiskers:
"This is a 3-in-1 card game by Waddington's. Anyone who has played the drawing game where the first person draws a head and turns it under, the second person draws the neck and shoulders without looking at the head and turns it under, the next draws the middle of the body etc. will recognise the first of the games. The other two games aren't so easy to describe so I'll leave it to the "How to Play" cards with the pack."
jigofspite 5 years ago
Do they have The Game of Life over there?
I swear it must have been made by members of academia. You could choose to go to work right away or go to university. The only way to win the game is to go to university. Brainwashing, I tell ya!
Machination1 5 years ago
"There's not enough wings on words these days..." nyaha
thefurrybee 5 years ago
now everyone's going to go out and buy 'careers'
BlackInvisibleWings 5 years ago
I live in the US and I used to play a lot of board games and stuff. Connect 4, Scrabble, Life, Clue Jr., Parcheesi, Othello, and regular card games were my favorites. But it's true most people around here aren't really into board games, like, at all.
jaded0plaid 5 years ago
Cool. Wow that is a LOT of board games though. At what point does a collector become just a bit of a hoarder? :) There's a line somewhere.
DrLemur 5 years ago
cool. I remember about 10 years ago there was a revival of board-gaming - I seem to remember a few places opening up in London that were like cafe-bars specifically for playing board games, but it seems to have died out. It makes me slightly sad to think of families on holiday now, all sitting with their ipods on, playing on their gameboys...I think I learned a lot about life and interacting with people in caravans, playing board games, with the rain hammering down outside....
sindesign 5 years ago
What is the game next to Lexicon? It's to the right. Sitting on the Adidis box. I can't make out the little picutes.
fatadidicembre 5 years ago
;) great video! i think board games are a very british kind of thing. I'd be interested to know how much other youtubers from elsewhere played board games as a child. i assume it is a british thing cos it rains so much here...? my favourites = risk & totopoly. war and gambling... mmmmm... guess what sex i am? :)
adrianIV 5 years ago
i game i rember from being a kid was where you were on a desert island made up of blocks and every turn a piece of the island was taken away and you had to save all your men with a little boat b4 the island sank and avoid the sharks - cant rember what its called tho :)
hardcorescm 5 years ago
Here's a link to someone selling the complete Grandfathers Whiskers card game with game rules... in England... in 3 hours.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/PLAYING-CARD-GAME-GRANDFATHERS-WHISKERS_W0QQitemZ110017584278QQihZ001QQcategoryZ2552QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
ThrivingIvy 5 years ago
Do you have l'attaque? Such a good board game.
Chrispy7 5 years ago
I am now on a quest to find the old Careers game, the one that you think is from the 50's. I prefer that one as it has a bit more warmth to it.
danbdow 5 years ago
"there's not enough wings on words today." -Brilliant
aRByEBS 5 years ago
Paperlilies thanks for the amusing/quirky videos. Here are few links on the careers game including what looks like an 80's edition on ebay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careers_(board_game)
http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2005/08/exciting-game-of-career-girls.htm
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Careers-board-game-by-Parker-100-complete_W0QQitemZ150002855461QQihZ005QQcategoryZ1184QQcmdZViewItem
http://www.clanfork.co.uk/Trev/C/Careers.htm
clevername06 5 years ago
By the way the bird was a toucan, makes me feel like eating fruit loops.
clevername06 5 years ago
If you like Careers, you should definitely check out The Game of Life. Nearly the same concept as Careers, except instead of going through jobs, you go through life. It ranges from education, to taxes, to employment, to love and to children. Pretty fun game to play on a boring night.
instantpolaroid 5 years ago
GREAT video. I had forgotten about playing Mastermind when I was a kid.
hanako 5 years ago
You did not mention that the man on the Master Mind box is considerably older than the woman. Her father? Not likely. Her mentor or perhaps her graduate advisor? That's what I see. Also, apparently, her lover, considering her pose. She's oriental because the artist is playing to two ethnic stereotypes. Oriental women are supposedly smarter than western women and more subservient than western women. She is therefore intelligent, but not threatening to the game's mostly male demographic.
DrGerbils 5 years ago
Great video.
ottomobiehl 5 years ago
The design of the 70s version of "careers" is awesome! The fonts, the layout, the colors, the round edges...
This kind of design is quite popular in the web today. There are many websites out there which use exactly the same design elements. Now I know where they got the idea from. ;-)
I've the very same Super Mastermind right here. The picture on the front cover is so cool. I love this game.
SphericalCube 5 years ago
you brought back some memories for me with some of your games. I had the mastermind game as a child and loved it.
allthingsartist 5 years ago
Good video. 4 happies.
ellarco 5 years ago
Wow... that's a lot of board games!
This might sound like a silly thing to say, but you have a really nice shaped face :)
MentalResidue 5 years ago
search for it online.
Mrseptember15 5 years ago
You had some crazy mad scientist hair going on at 7:29 O.o
T2Darlantan 5 years ago
i ADORE mastermind! i think you have an awesome collection too! i collect dice, playing cards, and journals... so i understand your collection, and i kind of envy you for it, because now i want to collect them! i also like fonts too, and my mom makes fun of me, when i go places and i go "that font's Scriptina!!" or whatever. i'm really a dork.
fairypixie 5 years ago
OK, I totally cracked up at "There's not enough wings on words these days."
enoent 5 years ago
Have you heard of the board game called Aggravation? I still have that one and it's looking for a good home, If your intrested
BellaMH 5 years ago
look the game up online i'm sure you could find the instructions to that "grandpas whiskers" is it?
sparkle2 5 years ago
Great stuff Paperlilies, I heartily endorse your nerdy antique boardgame obsession. I've got a really old copy of Monopoly kicking around somewhere... I should pull it out and find out just how old. By the way that Amoeba game looks pretty cool, very simple but aesthetic design like you say.
Lateralist 5 years ago
http://i5.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/e9/8a/b2_1.JPG
Here you will find the rules for Grandfathers Whiskers... enjoy! It's a little hard to read.. but fairly simple to understand... keep making the vids!
curnew 5 years ago
mastermind is king
krixfye 5 years ago
its been to long since I last played a board game. Awsome glasses they make you look very sophisticated.
njzcool 5 years ago
If you keep wearing those glasses I promise I'll put 5 stars on every video you make.
someguy91 5 years ago
Watched a Paperlilies video, gain 10 happys.
StayLucky 5 years ago
I put some rubbish in my earlier comment. We certainly had "Kan-u-Go" but the game like "Scrabble" we had, was called "Funworder". It was brought back from New Zealand for us by a family friend. (We called her "auntie".) I think it was identical and marketed in NZ under that name. Funny how the name came just came back to me after all this time.
izaneerz 5 years ago
I've always loved games and as a child I played a lot of board games.Monopoly,cluedo,escape from colditz,formula one,stratego and lots more.They look kind of dull and simplistic compared to pc games but I think the need for live human opponents made them more fun and better learning tools.Certainly you learn that most people cheat and find losing difficult.
timmyab 5 years ago
Cool board game collection. Religious pamphlets, very interesting.
JunkmanJim 5 years ago
Oh! Careers... Theres a board game that looks like it in Canada. Or dunno if there's some in USA ou UK but umm... It's called Like and it's pretty fun! Theres card that comes with it and it's really colourful Uh... anyways =P It's not an old board game so... umm!
pinkcolap 5 years ago
I played a lot of Careers at my Grandparents' house growing up. It was a red Parker box but the board wasn't all 70's like that, so maybe it was a 60's version.
Once when I was about 5 I was playing Mastermind with my mom, and when she left the room and came back I miraculously figured out the sequence on my first try. I got a well-deserved lecture about cheating.
bonesofanidol 5 years ago
GRANDFATHERS WHISKERS: for 2 or more platers. deal cards face down. the players must not look at the face side of their cards. the player on the left of the dealer leads and turns his card face up in the center of the table. each player plays a card in turn. each successice card should be quickly plaed so that the body is fitted to the head on the last card played. the title line 'grandertahers whiskers' on the back of each card indicates the half containing the body.
lauradeortiz 5 years ago
That was really fascinating! When I was a kid we played Ludo on a board which was from the early 1950s. I remember "Kan-u-Go". I seem to remember it was something like Scrabble. I wonder if "Careers" was inspired by "Monopoly". The layout looked rather similar. Thanks again!
izaneerz 5 years ago
I was born in Peru...yet I did not go in uranium prospecting, hm, go figure.
limacom 5 years ago
I didn't get what I hoping for in the mail today.
BreesRealDad 5 years ago
I love your glasses. I too have a bit of a board game love. They are remaking old games, like the original Candyland. Clue is my favorite game and I rule at it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/angabel/cluebracelet.jpg It isn't mine; I wish! Those are the original little characters I think.
angabel 5 years ago
Twister makes for some seriously evil drinking games. I was never very fond of bored games or cards, but hey, to each their own. Peace!
Lyserge 5 years ago
Oh, btw.. I collected stamps and coins which made me very bored. Then god created Atari 2600, and Nintendo and Sega, and PC's and I haven't been bored since.
Lyserge 5 years ago
Cool, Thanks for sharing that. Some of those games are crazy. Gotta love a bit of Beach Boys once in a while :) Pleasent change. Looks liek you beat you youtube block.
ShapyFr 5 years ago
xcellent selection of games. I used to play careers all the time. That bird was a toucan by the way. :P You might enjoy http://www.nostalgiagames.net/
arkah01 5 years ago
This is a really fun game by Waddingtons, or rather three games because there are several ways you can use these cards. Anyone who has played the drawing game where the first person draws a head and turns it under, the second person draws the neck and shoulders without looking at the head and turns it under, the next draws the middle of the body etc etc. will recognise the first of the games. There are some very strange beings made in this way.
inspectorjury 5 years ago
"theres not enough wings on words these days" lol
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hadrians 5 years ago
I Grew Up playing mastermind with my Mom.It was wone of her favorite games...along with Gin Rummy..Battleship,Life (which seems to be alot like Careers)...Have a great day...
bsfins 5 years ago
I also liked A lot role playing games...I forgot to mention games like blood royale,Sorry,Trivial Pursuit...Board games seem to bring people together...Hmmm I misss them really...
bsfins 5 years ago
I remember playing a game called Ninnies and Knumbskulls. It was like a strange form of Chess. Googled it, found nothing but a dead link.
I remember playing Stratego, Sorry, and of course Manopoly.
moe29 5 years ago
I think that's because it was really called "Take the Brain"? Here's someone else making the same mistake (only spelling "numbskulls" in a more traditional way):
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/605773
dooglus 5 years ago
This page says it's also called "smess - the ninny's chess" and has a good picture of the board - is that the game you meant?
http://www.exhibit5a.com
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(and there rules about what URLs you can post? I had to split it onto 2 lines before I could post this comment)
dooglus 5 years ago
Very cool, I dont have any old board games. They look pretty interesting though.
RedClincher 5 years ago
Grandfather's Whiskers should have 48 playing cards, each with a head and body on, and 4 instruction cards. The idea is you lay the cards down one on top of the other to create a person with head and body. If you lay down an old man's head on a bed, you then have to call if his whiskers are in or out of the bed.
dooglus 5 years ago
The backs of the cards also comprise six separate jigsaw type puzzles; the cards numbered from 1 to 8 make a simple puzzle, and the remaining groups pf cards become successively more difficult. The last group of cards (41 - 48), in which grandfather and his whiskers are depicted, is the most advanced puzzle of the whole series.
dooglus 5 years ago
maybe not as "technically well done" as some others, PL, but ranks as one of my favorites of all time. You have a very unique gift of making the viewer feel you're talking to just him/her. The video has a very genuine feel to it. Thanks for sharing that with us.
nnevinn 5 years ago
Have you seen the movies Zathura and Jumanji? They are based on fantasy board games with magical powers.
robrobbins 5 years ago
um, i think it was a tocan (i dont think i spelt it right)I really loved this video, im a succer for old stuff - especially from the 70s. (can i ask what music that is in the background - i really like it!)
toetallyradikal 5 years ago
When I use to live next to a Goodwill store it became a tradition of me and my friends to grab a case of beer and then stop by the thrift store and each pick up an interesting looking board game. We use to spend our evenings drinking and playing these games, often having to make up our own crazy nonsensical rules when the original instructions they were not included. Those were great times.
terryfic 5 years ago
Here's a guy with a Grandfather's Whiskers deck WITH the rules. You might ask him for info, or you could buy the deck.
http://www.nostalgiagames.net/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/nostalgia?opendocument&part=3
Urgelt 5 years ago
That was very interesting, the old board games really were very interesting. And the grapics... yes.
Thanks for sharing that.
nakikita 5 years ago
Shutes and ladders is a classic board game.
No D&D!?!
backyardpirate 5 years ago
cluedo.... that game rocks. Bring it on. I bet you're on the edge of your seat now. ;)
theIronVox 5 years ago
....Damn!...that's a lot of boardgames. I do get what you mean about the 'feel' of boardgames... they're their own form of entertainment, and that's just awesome. :)
AGENTD47 5 years ago
haha - Love the Rocketship on Careers! Have you ever played "The Game of Life" - it's a pretty popular boardgame here in the US. Slightly similar to that careers game, but I think the board is a lot cooler. there are plastic houses & mountains that add a "3-D" aspect to the board.
Clue is great too! I never saw Amoeba or Master Mind - they look cool!
jonwedd 5 years ago
I remember that, we had it in the UK too. I think you had to be a journalist to get loads of money!
jl123us 5 years ago
Even though it's just done with a vid-cam, you could submit this to film festivals and win awards in the short documentary category! Every consider it?
MRatna 5 years ago
um, i don't think so! its not very technoligically well done! or planned, or anything. but thanks! :D
Paperlilies 5 years ago
But wait, I really want to know how to play Mastermind!
ladyursula 5 years ago
risiko thats my favourit board game, one of the easiest games to learn and play, but very addictive
danielaebi 5 years ago
Do collect only board games or do you also collect electronic board games...cuz i heard that monopoly became an electronic game only in England. Do you still play those games. You shouldn't play with other people because it might get messed up/dirty. For me, I collect keychains from all sorts of places: museums, amusement parks, states, countries, islands, etc.
ackquarius 5 years ago
lol, the box doesn't even work any more.
igsys 5 years ago
lol, the box doesn't even work any more.
igsys 5 years ago
Yay for me, virgin vid from PL :) no views, comments, favourites, honors or rates!
zippy172 5 years ago