Help!!!!!

[Mey]

Hello you bunch of big kids, i kinda need a favour, a really big one!

Does anyone know of any traditional games [board games etc.. / puzzles] (pref. made out of wood or some other old looking material) that would keep 10-14 year olds entertained and isn't stupidly long/hard to play?

Got to start collecting tat for my next fest (larping) and i'm at a bit of a loss..

Cheers in advance.

(and yes the toys are for me..)

Mey the biggest kid of them all

 

[Raven]

chess!

 

[Mey]

You see i got a chess set already, and tbh if marbles got boring Chess is definatly out the window

 

[Mikah75]

checkers!
oo oo domino's

 

[Yshynsin]

Jenga is always fun, take out the blocks one by one untill tower falls down, not recommended for people with parkinsons though. Easy to play, can get in indoor small ones for a coffee table etc or the fo big ones for the garden.

 

[Himse]

Cluedo? I always found that pretty amusing XD Who shot ze lord of ze house mates!

You could always show them D&D

 

[Thorwyn]

Try Go

 

[Basic_X]

Backgammon! even tho i never understood the rules so it ended with me using the bricks to build towers with

 

[Tilda]

Someone should make a l33t version of cludo.

Sys-op in the server room with the mouse cable!!!

 

[evzy]

Kerplunk.... great for kids cos it takes ages for them to set up. Shit for adults who buy it for a party night and everyone is too pissed to be bothered to set it up.

Twister. Great for kids to keep them moving around n burning up energy. Shit for adults if like my mate you slip,kick the fireplace the mat was next to, and break your toe.

 

[DocWolfe]

LOL games made out of WOOD! I dont know about you lot but I certainly havent heard of a cluedo or twister set made out of wood

 

[Killswitch]

games made out of wood? could try cricket or lawn bowls...you need a big room for the board though...

on a more serious note, I always used to like Scrabble...easy to understand the rules, but you might need to specify whether you'll allow txtspk or l3375p34kloln00broflcopter in advance. If you have a proper Oxford English Dictionary (hardback) then that can be used to administer sufficient justice to anyone trying to put something like "meights" or "rofl" on a triple-word tile.

 

[Ormorof]

go for broke! (paper/cardboard is almost wood right? )

 

[Killswitch]

hehe...how about Magic: The Gathering?

Or do they make the cards out of plastic? I've never actually sunk so low as to play. I'm presuming it's like Top Trumps, but takes longer to play?

 

[evzy]

Do they have to be made of wood or just good games to keep kids entertained?

 

[Outlander]

i know a wooden one

tis that one with skittles that are laid out on a board with a pole in the middle with a ball attached to it, and you spin the ball and try n knock the skittles

table top skittles.

 

[Ezteq]

snakes and ladders, tiddley winks, guess who! (kk its plastic not wood but i think you mean board games yes?) connect 5, battle ships, mah jong.

Ezteq board game a holic.

p.s some fun ones are also: buckaroo, operation, mouse trap/ screw ball scramble

 

[Amildin]

Use your wood to entertain them

 

[Mikah75]

i know a wooden one

tis that one with skittles that are laid out on a board with a pole in the middle with a ball attached to it, and you spin the ball and try n knock the skittles

table top skittles.

ooo! that looks fun

my friend had a cluedo made specially for their family, was a bit odd, had their faces carved on the models and cards bit freaky especially as her sister looks like a manitee:touch:

 

[Mey]

Its for a Live action role play event, so sadly magic / d&d are out (We are almost playing them as it is ). Thats why i said wooden/old ish games.

table top skittles is winning atm

 

[Mey]

Having seen the price of those table top skittle thingies, i think the connect four made out of wood i saw is the winner ... unless anyone can find a cheap table top skittles set that looks decent.. max say 20-30 quid..

 

[Spis]

buy a computer for them all, and let them play daoc

 

[Amildin]

buy a computer for them all, and let them play daoc

WOOOD

 

[Outlander]

cant think of much else really.

this is where I saw stuffs.

http://www.farscapegames.co.uk/ishop/1003/shopscr1377.html

 

[Outlander]

http://www.langleystoys.com/acatalog/Traditional_Wooden_Games2.html

smaller bar skittles set for under £30.

 

[Ormorof]

WOOOD

 

[Mey]

Ye kids don't seem to understand, the toys are for me and a mate (we play 14-15 year old kids) and it gets boring siting about watching everyone save the world so i thought i'd buy some games to play whilst we waited and got pissed on booze stolen from the bar..

 

[georgie]

Always used to love Malefiz as a youngster, was a german board game that me mate owned. Think the english version is called Barricade or summit.

 

[Glacier]

Try Go

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