As far as I can find, Mattel, which my father worked for when I was a kid, has not been assimilated by Hasbro. I can't even find U-Do; I get too many irrelevant hits.
@@chelseagirl278 How do you get two cars? I don't remember an option to get another one. Didn't you have to buy it at the beginning? It's been a while since I played.
Wal-Mart is gonna buy them both! Dear God I do NOT want that to happen, It was a joke! All three companies already own enough crap(in their respective industries) as it stands! Now I am worried that in a few years one of these companies will actually own the other two!
Disney buy Hasbro, if they get back on their feet after this year. Hasbro's been slowly losing money because kids just don't play with toys or board games much anymore.
“Sorry, not Sorry” 🤣 My favorite line. When I was growing up my great aunt Patsy had Down Syndrome and lived with my grandparents. She loved playing Sorry and Parcheesi with us! ❤️
Totally, never really thought about it, but I wouldn't blink if you said either. Hell, I have probably said both without even realizing I was calling it two things.
I took my Mom to see Clue when it came out, and when Charlie Chan appeared she signed with such a deep pleasure ... by the end of the movie she was totally confused.
@@elultimo102 Yep, they skirt monopoly rules by saying the regional holding companies make them individual entities that are never officially managed by the top. Instead of vertically aligned trusts, it's horizontal holding companies. Look up the closed department stores page on Wikipedia. It's depressing. Soon there will be no regional variations left because every industry has their one owner with all the brands being made by that one owner.
Even more ironically, Monopoly isn’t. Because of The Landlord’s Game, a judge ruled Hasbro doesn’t own the rights to the mechanics of the game, only the parts like the drawings. That’s why there are so many Monopoly knockoffs (Cat-opoly, etc)
@@lawman592 Your playing by house rules. Official rules you can collect rent, pay off mortgages, and buy/sell houses and trade with other players while in jail. which is why it is beneficial to be there late game. Also if you stick to official rules a game will rarely last over 2 hours. The excruciatingly long games people know come from house rules like the free parking pot and not auctioning properties when someone lands on it but doesn't buy for the stated price.
We have Snakes and Ladders here, though it goes by "Serpentes e Escadas", which is the literal translation to Portuguese. I have memories of nearly vicious games in primary school. Chutes, as in slides, would have never been played, as it was the snakes in the box that caught our eyes.
"By British meant London" translates in America as "by from Louisiana means from New Orleans." For edification, northern Louisiana was predominantly settled by people of British heritage.
@@liscolco8076 ah yeah, and Nevada is just Vegas.. at least the example of new york meaning just new york city to people is.. a bit justified, sharing the name and all that.
@@davincent98 They kinda are, they also own Wizards of the Coast (and they own D&D). The primary resistance to Hasbro's Monopoly in all things physical game is Mattel. Since they've got Uno and stuff.
I spent my Junior Year Abroad at University of Hull. I lived in a hall of residence as the only American student among about 19 English students. The whole time I was there (about 9 months), I wanted to try playing the English version of Monopoly, but it seemed like every time anyone started a game, I showed up just late enough to be too late (this might sound like suspicious timing, but I really don't think it was personal). At the end of the year, everyone in our "block" (our section of the hall of residence), got together and bought me my own English Monopoly set and they all signed it with a very nice "goodbye" message. I still have that set to this day.
I went to Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and most of our British exchange students went to University of Hull. (This was about the time Black Adder Goes Forth came out, and there was a funny joke at the expense of University of Hull.)
@@GailGurman It's always interesting to see where they put the 'poor' places. For instance, they put Pilgrims Hospice and Catching Lives (Homeless Charity) in the first 2 spots. 🙈
for a short time my favorite board game was Payday. Don't ask my why. I would ask any and all friends/cousins that came over if they wanted to play. It got to the point I had asked so often that no one wanted to play it with me. I also liked Life and sorry.
And the US would go on to make the movie Clue, easily one of the best cult classics. If you haven't watched it yet Laurence, you should and I would be shocked if you didn't love it.
When it was released in theaters, different theaters got randomly selected different endings, which caused much confusion and a general “wtf” attitude among viewers, but once it was released to video and people could watch all the endings one after the other in a “that’s what might have happened, but what about this?” progression just works so much better than any individually
Growing up Clue was my favorite game. It's one of the only board games still kept at Mum's house. Of course, as a Downton Abbey fan, when I discovered there was a DA version of Cluedo revolving around season one, I had to get that as well. Unfortunately for me, it was no longer available and I wound up paying large amounts of money for what turned out to be the season five rendition which a) has no basis in the show's plot, b) makes no real sense, and c) features my favorite character as the murder victim. As soon as I get a printer up and running I plan on remedying these faults by refacing all of the cards to make my OWN version which will not be absorbed by Hasbro, although if I get the chance it might be forcibly shoved somewhere. If this happens, you can be fairly certain it was me, in the small library, with the rolling pin. Thomas helped.
As a Dutch speaker watching this I was genuinely disappointed that Ludo/Parcheesi just had a word as its name in the UK and the US rather than a warning
I figure it's too cold for snakes in Canuck Land. I'm on the west coast and during hot months we got tons of snakes. My friends in the southwest (Arizona, Texas, Nevada, etc) have TONS of sidewinders, rattlesnakes, etc. They have to be careful and look for them on the ground. But not as bad as the desert at night. WHen the lights go down, I can HEAR the scorpions coming out at night and the ground looks like it's moving....
@@Frankie2012channel Oh no, we have snakes up here. We even have the Massasauga rattlesnake around where I live. The snakes just know their place. A 1500 pound bull mouse on the other hand..
Ooh, something fun about Clue, it's entirely possible that Miss Scarlett was shortened in the American version, to avoid copyright infringement on Gone with the Wind.
@@richardgrace4500 names aren't subject to copyright, but characters are, and having the same name in addition to a similar appearance increases the chances of legal trouble.
@@joeymama4666 comparing live action film to cartoonish drawings can be kinda difficult, but the broad strokes of the two were clearly the same. the name may have been the deciding factor in court, or at least someone in the legal department must have felt that way.
I loved the game Frustration as a child (I believe its called Trouble in the USA). My game had lost one of the red pieces at some point so it has replaced by a bit of a red crayon which done the job. The little metal clicky plate went a bit rusty too and the plastic dome got scratched up (by my brother on purpose as he likes to mess up my things) so it was difficult to read the numbers on the dice.
US born and raised and I remember my older brother having a travel game of “Snakes and Ladders.” I was Today Years Old when I learned that is actually the British name of the game....I always just figured it was supposed to be a funny parody (although, snakes are the farthest thing from “fun” I can imagine).
since parker bros hadn’t trademarked “Snakes n’ Ladders” in the US, many smaller companies were able to release equally good copycats under the original name. The original game is public domain, after all, so the trademarked name was the only thing other companies had to dance around
julian Chutes n’ Ladders was the single most popular US edition, but was also Trademarked, so any other company making the same game (and importantly for the Spongebob thing, any media that didn’t want to negotiate royalties with Parker Bros) called their version “Snakes and Ladders”. And before Hasbro bought them all, including Parker Bros, there were a LOT of other game companies that wanted a piece of that pie and sold their version for cheaper. Sort of like how Sorry, Trouble, and Parcheesi were all different large game companies’ versions of Pachisi/Ludo for the American market, and Parcheesi (as an Americanized rendering of the original Indian name for the game) couldn’t be trademarked, so was treated as the US generic name for any even smaller companies that wanted to sell a version...all of which are now owned by Hasbro.
Quite the opposite. The only problem is that Landlord's game is more a warning against restrictive government. In capitalism new players enter the economy all the time, in the game, once it starts no new player are allowed to join, thus creating Monopolies.
@@bubbaclemson5566 Trump the Game, my dad had it, it was basically a more aggressive take on Monopoly since you had cards for buying properties that could kick other player’s bids out. (And cards that countered that.)
The difficulty with getting the message of the Landlord's Game is that while almost all players should be miserable by the end, there's still one person who is happy.
It's interesting how ancient Indian games have survived so well. My favourite board game is from ancient Mesopotamia, and it was very popular for a few millennia, but people quit playing it about a thousand years ago, apparently because this cool new game came out, called backgammon. Anyway, the Royal Game of Ur is really fun.
Scrabble is the exception to the "Hasbro owns everything" rule. In most of the world, Scrabble is owned by Mattel (Hasbro's biggest competitor). Its only in North America that Hasbro owns the rights.
Correct. There are also local variants and special editions available. Including a Star Wars version. I don't know what the streets are for that. Probably include Tatooine and Aldaraan. I don't think I'd buy the latter of the two.
I had Chutes and Ladders and a game called Candyland, that was basically a dentist’s nightmare... my friend had “Scotland Yard” a game I just rediscovered and now play with friends (I’m a great Mr. X because I know how to get lost in London. I only lost once and that was totally by accident.)
When I worked in a nursing home, I had the honor c to work with the cook that had worked for the Hassenfeld family, the family that owns HASBRO. She left to partial retirement. She had lots of stories of the family, and her food was fabulous. She made a cake for my college graduation, it was amazing. God bless you Ohla
I played the British version of monopoly at my grandparents, I took it home after they died. Didn't realize it was different until this video came out.
Chutes and Ladders was trademarked while Snakes and Ladders was not so any competitors of the company that actually owned the game (Parker Brothers?) would release their own versions with the name Snakes and Ladders.
In my family we have a tradition in Monopoly (started by my younger brother) that when someone bankrupts you and takes everything you own you get to throw your token at them and exclaim, "You might as well take this also!" which causes us all to laugh and gives some satisfaction to the fact that you are out of the game.
@@nekroneko yes, thank you. I shud have used deadpan here, i agree. Having said that, hope ur comment was not sarcastic, going by that emoji type face u added at the end of ur sentence. English is not my 1st language and I speak 3 to 4 languages on a daily basis (including english). So if u are an english speaking person with no knowledge of any other language, maybe u shud think twice before judging "the rest of the world"
I never thought about the snake significance before, but it does make sense. The British Isles do not have the venomous--venomous, mind you, not poisonous, edible they are, though who knows why one would do that--serpents that America has. This point was brought home to me when I discovered a baby rattlesnake in my yard, and another time when I heard a neighbour scream as if her husband were murdering her. It turned out that her shrieks were calling her husband to come quickly because there was a rattlesnake on their patio. As far as I know, no-one has ever experienced a venomous bite from a playground chute.
I live in Salem, Massachusetts around the corner from where the Parker Brothers factory was. The factory was torn down in the mid 90s; apartments there now. And yes, all of the PB products were absorbed by Rhode Island based Hasbro.
One of my favorite board games from some 40 years ago is Scotland Yard. Supposedly it was very popular in Britain and later brought to America by Milton Bradley. It disappeared here within probably five years of it's introduction.
All the property names in Monopoly are taken from streets in Atlantic City NJ (except for Boardwalk, which was namd after the amusement pier). So, many of Atlantic City's streets are named after states.
In Canada we have snakes and ladders, I guess we’re still a commonwealth and didn’t start a war because we didn’t like tea or something I didn’t watch the movie
I like to learn those regional differences because sometimes here in Germany we kept close to the UK version and sometimes we just made something up that's completely unique for whatever reason.
@@mournblade1066 Wiki for Bruce Johnston: On April 9, 1965, Johnston joined the Beach Boys in New Orleans, replacing Glen Campbell, who briefly filled in as a touring member for Brian Wilson, and had declined an offer to officially join the band
(I'm American) I remember I had a copy of Chutes and Ladders that showed art of kids doing different moral and immoral actions for the latters and chutes respectively.
I grew up by Atlantic City and we took pride that the streets were named after AC streets. (Baltic Ave really is the least desirable street) Of course, everything has to be changed & "Vegas-ified" like our Miss America pageant... I must admit that I was tempted to betray AC with the Star Wars edition. Star Trek?
My father-in-law has every board know to man. Out his collection I like playing Masterpiece and Solar Quest. Holidays are spent playing board games their favorite is Acquire.
A shot for every "absorbed by Hasbro" and a sip of tea for every "Uncle Toby." And if you take the wrong action, you receive the absolutely most severe punishment conceivable to a Brit: being embarrassed. In front of other people, nonetheless.
For Christmas one year I bought my teenage children a board game called the Cooking Game. It was a British import, you must collect the cards to make a recipe. Sometimes disaster would ensue, a missing card, or mice in the larder(a British pantry). My kids loved it and played it for several years.
'Reversi' was invented in 1883, usually attributed to Lewis Waterman. I first learned of it from a 'Hoyle' book of game rules from the 1940s. Othello (which is Reversi with a couple of minor changes) was patented in Japan in 1971, with a U.S. edition in 1975 (thanks, Wikipedia). As one writer said at the time, leave it to the Japanese to discover the true Shakespearean significance of the game.
I mostly play games like Settlers of Catan (I own the Star Trek Version and the American Version) and a game called Pandemic, which seems to be playing out in real life recently.
I first encountered Chutes and Ladders as a child, and it made perfect sense: How do you go up? Climb a ladder! How do you go down? Slide down a chute! Then somewhere I ran across Snakes and Ladders, and it baffled me. How do you go down? Slide down a ... snake? WTF?
I live in New Zealand and it was always known as Snakes and Ladders, with good deeds, e.g. diligence, rewarded and bad deeds e.g.disobedience punished.
One of my favorite games that wasn't assimilated yet is backgammon. I suspect that we (ie. Americans) received it from the UK who got it from some middle eastern countries. I think Adam & Eve originally played it when they were bored.
Yup.I have a hundred sided die. End the game with one roll. I also have a six sided blank die. And nobody thinks I'm funny when I use it. But I think I'm hilarious.
@@markpage9397 ...I just went hunting. Senet is the oldest board game, but backgammon is a close second, with a early version from Sumeria having been found, so roughly five thousand years.
@@R.M.MacFru I was going off something I saw on television years ago per what the narrator said about Senet. I am not sure my memory serves my correctly on that. Thanks for looking into that. Now this makes me wonder how old is Chess.
Lost in the Pond (Spanish Version): in Venezuela (where my mom is from) they call game #4 ludo (like in Britain) and in Spain (where my dad is from) they call it "parchís" (similar to America)
The first time I played checkers we played on a piece of cardboard on which my father had drawn out the "board" and our checkers were actually white buttons and dark buttons. Yes, literal buttons because back in those days pretty much every home had a "button jar" that was full of a variety of buttons that moms would harvest from a piece of clothing she was getting ready to cut up and use in one of the quilts that was being made. It was years before we actually had the money to purchase a real set of checkers. But it was just as much fun to play with our buttons on our board made of cardboard. I also loved playing Chinese Checkers and Fox and Geese. F & G was played using the Chinese Checkers board. I loved playing Monopoly but it was hard for me to get anyone to play Monopoly with me because according to my brothers and sisters the game took too long to play. We played a "fast" game of Monopoly where all the property cards were dealt at the beginning of the game and then we had to immediately set out to try to negotiate getting properties from other players that would make a set so we could start adding houses and hotels. We also eventually got Clue and Sorry but they were not nearly as popular with us as Checkers or Monopoly. Talking about these games sure takes me back in my memory to years and years ago. In those days before computers we didn't sit around perhaps in the same room but totally ignoring each other because we were interacting only with the handheld device we each had. We were actually interacting with each other and TALKING to each other. Kids today literally do not know what they are missing. I keep hearing young people say they are "socially awkward" and I always think, "Of course you're socially awkward. You never have a real conversation with anyone because all of your interaction is through text or email and you seldom have any face to face interaction with anyone. How could you be anything other than socially awkward?"
Just one more example of how a man took credit for a woman’s work (the design and creation of Monopoly) and went on to become rich and famous while she died without compensation and in more or less obscurity. Uncovering all those stories is a TH-cam channel by itself. Nice video. Thanks for bringing it to light.
Wow, first. Like most American kids of the '50s, I played a ton of board games (my fave was probably Careers) then in 1966 I was turned onto board wargaming when I discovered a game by Avalon Hill called D-Day; also available was Gettysburg, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad... anyway 54 years later I'm still playing them though today's games make the earlier games look like... well, checkers, Chutes & Ladders, Sorry! Btw, in the late '90s Avalon Hill was absorbed by... who else... Hasbro.
Tell me about it... Got started with Risk... played a little Stratego at school, and that one weird friend who didn't get Risk instead... AND somewhere between High School and the Navy, I fell down an insomnia inducing lust for miniatures and painting called "Warhammer 20K"... and YEEEESH! I'm glad I dropped back to Cyberpunk 2013 and "Friday Night Firefight"... and eventually to D&D again... Then (of course) 2020 happened. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I never got into miniatures and didn't have room for the "monster" games that started coming out in the late '80s- and still coming out today. Thank God for VASSAL in which you can play those huge games on your computer alone or with a live opponent.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I'm a linux advocate, so "Battle for Wesnoth" is our thing in that lineage... I got into miniatures, though, because I already had a "difficulty" dealing with insomnia... When you have an extra 4 - 8 hours and NOTHING to do, you'll end up doing just about anything to fill it... SO I slipped into the Warhammer rabbit hole. I've collected the pewter mini's and painted them and then resold them as entire armies, right out of the prescriptions of the guide books... Warhammer was the perfect market strategy. The more expensive the mini', the more powerful the "in-game" soldier... AND of course lots of people would bring their favorites to me to paint up... Since I had hours at a time and nothing better to do, I could make a LOT of money staying up way late or "pulling an all nighter" to pains-takingly decorate and return miniatures with uniform themes, eyes and faces that looked ABSOLUTELY real under a magnifier, and collect my money... Now, however, while I still have the skill, I no longer greatly pursue the mini's market. I sold my last army for about 3 G's... netted a handsome thousand or so in profit, BUT basically declared myself free of that affair. I still play, but it's either a "proper" TTRPG, or a variant of "Friday Night Firefight"... To play the old-school Friday Night Firefight... First you need a "referee" or Game Master. This is to interpret rules and "make the call"...when the "Rules as Written" (RAW) doesn't cover well enough to satisfy everyone at the table... The rest are Players, and they each roll up the Character Sheets of their "PC's" (Player Characters)... Not unlike other RPG's but these are "short-cut" PC's... It's assumed they'll die quickly, so don't waste any time... JUST get those minimals together... AND a very few skills to be their primary resources, so you let everything else "default" to a primary Attribute score - 4. (Standard for RPG's... Finally, you set up the "map" which is an overview of a city. You'll need to delve into floor plans for any buildings the PC's might use, but you can "jump off that bridge as you get to it"... The objective of the game is for the Players to take over the city like "Gang turf". They do this by killing off each other's PC's... Each other's "Gang"... as they'd rolled up. It's tactical, creative, and can be a lot of fun when you're just not in the mood for D&D again... Wesnoth is a Turn-based strategic RPG with a wistful nod to D&D, but entirely point and click controlled on the PC... AND there are servers for playing Peer to Peer (P2P)... online. It's actually pretty advanced considering nobody really assumes a linux machine to be availed for gaming primarily... BUT I'm still of the mind to do most of my D&D on a physical Table, throwing dice and profanity at each other like we did (in the old days)... hahaha ;o)
My dining room sideboard is filled, not with dishes, but with board games. The drawers are great for extra dice, domino trains, chips, cards, and any lost game item that ends up found in the carpet. Of course, getting a single boxed game OUT of the cabinet is a game in itself...they are carefully fitted in. Deluxe Scrabble goes in front....first because it has the biggest box...but really because it leaves the cabinet the most!
I spilled some coffee this morning. It was absorbed by Hasbro.
Did Hasbro buy out the paper towel companies too?
@@Colorado_Native Yes. Yes they did.
Lmao that was brilliant.
🤭 And now Hasbro rules them all!!
I never knew that Hasbro had taken over the board game planet. ☹️
I noticed a VERY distinct theme in this whole thing.."Absorbed by Hasbro"..take a shot for each time you hear that.
Are you trying to kill us all through alcohol poisoning?
Dam you I was going to say the same joke I guess I can be absorbed by Hasbro now
Fiiiiive 🥴
Take a shhhot...Issht Ok. I cann hhhhhandled itch.
Retch
My take from all this: resistance is futile, all your board games will be assimilated by Hasbro.
Joe R M Hasbro does seem like the Borg of board games, maybe we should start calling them Borg games instead. 🤔
"We are Hasbro. Resistance is futile."
As far as I can find, Mattel, which my father worked for when I was a kid, has not been assimilated by Hasbro. I can't even find U-Do; I get too many irrelevant hits.
"All your games are belong to us"😉
😂😂😂😐😯😒😕😔
And one Hasbro has bought all the board games they will in turn be eaten by Disney
"Anthony Pratt, or A. Pratt, to his enemies..." made me laugh until I coughed for an embarrassingly long time. Ah, age!
I don’t think I heard anything else after “a Pratt”. I’m still giggling.
I believe your good years might have been... absorbed by Hasbro.
As a kid I loved “The Game of Life” as an adult it just got depressing
I am sure though that at one time or another, many a parent on a bad day wishes they could do like at the end of the game - sell off their kids. lol
I always ended up with more than 4 kids so they didn't fit in the car. "Tie 'em to the roof rack!"
Jennifer Pearce I always ended up with two cars!
@@chelseagirl278 How do you get two cars? I don't remember an option to get another one. Didn't you have to buy it at the beginning? It's been a while since I played.
Jennifer Pearce You put them on the roof. I just used another car. Lol
So, is Hasbro going to buy Disney, or will Disney buy Hasbro....
Wal-Mart is gonna buy them both!
Dear God I do NOT want that to happen, It was a joke! All three companies already own enough crap(in their respective industries) as it stands! Now I am worried that in a few years one of these companies will actually own the other two!
@@JacksonOwex Amazon will absorb all of them.
@@ClockworkWyrm And then there will be a Monopoly.
Disney buy Hasbro, if they get back on their feet after this year. Hasbro's been slowly losing money because kids just don't play with toys or board games much anymore.
Google buys both.
Today I learned that games are different over seas and that every company has been absorbed by Hasbro.
Still even in overseas, wherever that may be, it's spelled overseas, not over seas.
You play shuffleboard over seas.
I always got really confused when people called "Cluedo" "Clue".
I always assume that Cluedo was a non-copyright name of Clue
Clue just sounds so wrong.
@@BubbleFizz I can see how it would seem weird if that's not what you're used to lol to me Cluedo sounds so weird
Come over to Germany, where the e in Cluedo isn't silent
For me it's exactly backwards! Im used to hear "clue"!
“Sorry, not Sorry” 🤣 My favorite line.
When I was growing up my great aunt Patsy had Down Syndrome and lived with my grandparents. She loved playing Sorry and Parcheesi with us! ❤️
I've always used chutes and ladders, and snakes and ladders interchangeably and no one has ever raised an eyebrow. State-side btw.
Same in Canada. Depended who crafted the board we were using.
Totally, never really thought about it, but I wouldn't blink if you said either. Hell, I have probably said both without even realizing I was calling it two things.
I think Candy Land is based on the snakes/chutes/ladders game....
the generic versions we have in our house for our kids have “snakes and ladders” as the name - stateside here too :)
I've heard someone say "Snakes and ladders", but I thought they were just trying to be cute... oops. Lol
I was today years old when I learned Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley were bought up by Hasbro.
Absorbed!
The Clue movie is amazing, I hope you've seen it. It's timeless.
There was even a documentary made several years later about it as has such a cult following!
I took my Mom to see Clue when it came out, and when Charlie Chan appeared she signed with such a deep pleasure ... by the end of the movie she was totally confused.
You should start selling a shirt saying "Absorbed by Hasbro"
I wonder if it would sell.... Hmmmm... But wait. If I made money off of it, my small business would be .... you guessed it ...absorbed by Hasbro.
Makes me wish I could retroactively wear it to an MLP convention.
Or even better
Towels and cleaning cloths
Watched this video approximately one hour after it was uploaded and shortly before the entire channel was absorbed by Hasbro.
Hasbro is A Monopoly! Now that’s ironic!
Almost as bad as what Macy's has done to once-iconic local department stores
@@elultimo102 Yep, they skirt monopoly rules by saying the regional holding companies make them individual entities that are never officially managed by the top.
Instead of vertically aligned trusts, it's horizontal holding companies. Look up the closed department stores page on Wikipedia. It's depressing.
Soon there will be no regional variations left because every industry has their one owner with all the brands being made by that one owner.
Bring in the trust busters.
Even more ironically, Monopoly isn’t. Because of The Landlord’s Game, a judge ruled Hasbro doesn’t own the rights to the mechanics of the game, only the parts like the drawings. That’s why there are so many Monopoly knockoffs (Cat-opoly, etc)
asmodee is worse in that aspect though.
Later in the game of Monopoly, it is beneficial to remain in jail.
Why's that? You're not allowed to collect rent while you're in jail.
Bio Kimistry if it’s taking that long, you aren’t following the rules
lawman592 probably because if all the places immediately after jail are owned, it will cost you more than it’s worth
@@lawman592 Your playing by house rules.
Official rules you can collect rent, pay off mortgages, and buy/sell houses and trade with other players while in jail. which is why it is beneficial to be there late game.
Also if you stick to official rules a game will rarely last over 2 hours. The excruciatingly long games people know come from house rules like the free parking pot and not auctioning properties when someone lands on it but doesn't buy for the stated price.
@@lawman592 There's no rules in the game that says you can't collect rent while in jail.
“And ya see that’s what happens when bad deeds are rewarded with a go on the slide” 😂
Slippery slope
“I did a bad thing... WHEEEE! Let’s do that again!”
Someone needs to have a backwards rules version of Chutes and Ladders...
We have Snakes and Ladders here, though it goes by "Serpentes e Escadas", which is the literal translation to Portuguese. I have memories of nearly vicious games in primary school. Chutes, as in slides, would have never been played, as it was the snakes in the box that caught our eyes.
"And by British, they really meant London" Glad to hear Americans aren't the only ones that do this 😂
Wandering ravens hiiiiii!
"By British meant London" translates in America as "by from Louisiana means from New Orleans." For edification, northern Louisiana was predominantly settled by people of British heritage.
@@liscolco8076 ah yeah, and Nevada is just Vegas..
at least the example of new york meaning just new york city to people is.. a bit justified, sharing the name and all that.
@@KairuHakubi And California is just Los Angeles, and a little bit of San Francisco even though San Jose is larger.
Every time Lawrence says "absorbed... by Hasbro," I laughed harder.
It is the Hasbro Borg; you will be assimilated.
It sounds like Hasbro is the board game equivalent of Disney.
Hasbro sounds like The Blob.
@@davincent98 They kinda are, they also own Wizards of the Coast (and they own D&D). The primary resistance to Hasbro's Monopoly in all things physical game is Mattel. Since they've got Uno and stuff.
I spent my Junior Year Abroad at University of Hull. I lived in a hall of residence as the only American student among about 19 English students. The whole time I was there (about 9 months), I wanted to try playing the English version of Monopoly, but it seemed like every time anyone started a game, I showed up just late enough to be too late (this might sound like suspicious timing, but I really don't think it was personal). At the end of the year, everyone in our "block" (our section of the hall of residence), got together and bought me my own English Monopoly set and they all signed it with a very nice "goodbye" message. I still have that set to this day.
I went to Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and most of our British exchange students went to University of Hull. (This was about the time Black Adder Goes Forth came out, and there was a funny joke at the expense of University of Hull.)
Do they sell Monopoly sets of different cities in Anerica. For instance, my city in Kent (England) has it's own Monopoly which only we sell.
@@rsmith6366 I'm pretty sure they do. In fact, there's probably hundreds of different variations of Monopoly out there.
@@rsmith6366 I think some cities and towns may have novelty sets.
@@GailGurman It's always interesting to see where they put the 'poor' places. For instance, they put Pilgrims Hospice and Catching Lives (Homeless Charity) in the first 2 spots. 🙈
Settlers of Catan!
Whenever you bring up board games, someone has to mention Settlers of Catan. It's a law of nature.
YES!!!!!!
He did mention Mayfair in Monopoly. Mayfair held the rights to Catan for many years, until they decided Catan needed to be its own company.
Pandemic is better. (Not joking, just awkward timing.)
I got Settlers of Catan for my birthday. In March.
It hasn't left the box yet.
@@theresat4782 Through covid and all, you never bothered to give it a try? You should.
"Thousands of years ago a game emerged in Mediaeval India," said with a totally straight face.
The Indians seemed to have too much free time.
I think the point is that medieval is not thousands of years ago.
Laurence says everything with a straight face. You have to be attentive to not miss jokes!
@@madmoody100 not for europe it isn't. but india's had a pretty long go of it, their literal 'middle ages' would be millennia back.
for a short time my favorite board game was Payday. Don't ask my why. I would ask any and all friends/cousins that came over if they wanted to play. It got to the point I had asked so often that no one wanted to play it with me. I also liked Life and sorry.
Me too! Everyone else in my family hated it
I loved Payday! I never even knew anyone else who even had it
My sisters and I used to play Payday all the time growing up.
Pamma Sheppard LOVED payday!
Loved Life and Mousetrap!
And the US would go on to make the movie Clue, easily one of the best cult classics. If you haven't watched it yet Laurence, you should and I would be shocked if you didn't love it.
Tim Curry is so great in the movie.
When it was released in theaters, different theaters got randomly selected different endings, which caused much confusion and a general “wtf” attitude among viewers, but once it was released to video and people could watch all the endings one after the other in a “that’s what might have happened, but what about this?” progression just works so much better than any individually
@@IONATVS Also Kellye Nakahara from MASH played the cook in the movie. Sadly, she passed away in Feb 16, 2020
I thought I agreed until I realized I was confusing Clue with Murder By Death, another movie I got a kick out of.
Definitely the absolute best movie ever made based on a board game. 😀
Growing up Clue was my favorite game. It's one of the only board games still kept at Mum's house. Of course, as a Downton Abbey fan, when I discovered there was a DA version of Cluedo revolving around season one, I had to get that as well. Unfortunately for me, it was no longer available and I wound up paying large amounts of money for what turned out to be the season five rendition which a) has no basis in the show's plot, b) makes no real sense, and c) features my favorite character as the murder victim. As soon as I get a printer up and running I plan on remedying these faults by refacing all of the cards to make my OWN version which will not be absorbed by Hasbro, although if I get the chance it might be forcibly shoved somewhere.
If this happens, you can be fairly certain it was me, in the small library, with the rolling pin. Thomas helped.
You learn something new every day. Today I've learned that Hasbro eats (just about) everything
"And then the company was absorbed by HASBRO". Yeah, that pretty much happened. To every game company ever.
me a german speaker playing LUDO with a brit: "Don't be mad man."
Human, don't anger yourself
As a Dutch speaker watching this I was genuinely disappointed that Ludo/Parcheesi just had a word as its name in the UK and the US rather than a warning
@@robinredd7734 In Switzerland we call it "Eile mit Weile"
I feel the need to tell you that here in Canada it is still the proper Snakes and Ladders. We canadians fear no snakes. It's the moose that worry us..
I figure it's too cold for snakes in Canuck Land. I'm on the west coast and during hot months we got tons of snakes. My friends in the southwest (Arizona, Texas, Nevada, etc) have TONS of sidewinders, rattlesnakes, etc. They have to be careful and look for them on the ground. But not as bad as the desert at night. WHen the lights go down, I can HEAR the scorpions coming out at night and the ground looks like it's moving....
@@Frankie2012channel Oh no, we have snakes up here. We even have the Massasauga rattlesnake around where I live. The snakes just know their place. A 1500 pound bull mouse on the other hand..
@@DeadnCold Oh, the moose know their place as well. It's just that a 700kg bull moose's place is "pretty much wherever he wants."
And the beavers
Are you by any chance the writer of the intro for monty python and the holy grail
Ooh, something fun about Clue, it's entirely possible that Miss Scarlett was shortened in the American version, to avoid copyright infringement on Gone with the Wind.
"I will never! Go hungry! Again!"
Tlu can't copyright a persons name or ylu would have lawsuits out the ass
@@richardgrace4500
names aren't subject to copyright, but characters are, and having the same name in addition to a similar appearance increases the chances of legal trouble.
@@sirmoonslosthismind
Did Miss Scarlet ever resemble Scarlett O'Hara?
@@joeymama4666
comparing live action film to cartoonish drawings can be kinda difficult, but the broad strokes of the two were clearly the same. the name may have been the deciding factor in court, or at least someone in the legal department must have felt that way.
I am Locutus of Hasbro, Resistance is futile.
Your unique games will be added to our own. Your games will exist to serve us. All will be assimilated.
OMG 😂
It's the Disney of the gaming world, LOL
Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own
Our name is Hasbro, for we are many.
I loved the game Frustration as a child (I believe its called Trouble in the USA).
My game had lost one of the red pieces at some point so it has replaced by a bit of a red crayon which done the job. The little metal clicky plate went a bit rusty too and the plastic dome got scratched up (by my brother on purpose as he likes to mess up my things) so it was difficult to read the numbers on the dice.
There is also a more grown up version called “Aggravation”. It’s filled many a Friday and Saturday night around my house. No one goes unscathed! LOL.
This episode brought to you by Hasboro.. which has absorbed lost in the pond
US born and raised and I remember my older brother having a travel game of “Snakes and Ladders.” I was Today Years Old when I learned that is actually the British name of the game....I always just figured it was supposed to be a funny parody (although, snakes are the farthest thing from “fun” I can imagine).
since parker bros hadn’t trademarked “Snakes n’ Ladders” in the US, many smaller companies were able to release equally good copycats under the original name. The original game is public domain, after all, so the trademarked name was the only thing other companies had to dance around
Isnt it snake and ladders in spongebob too? I supposed that was the American name
julian Chutes n’ Ladders was the single most popular US edition, but was also Trademarked, so any other company making the same game (and importantly for the Spongebob thing, any media that didn’t want to negotiate royalties with Parker Bros) called their version “Snakes and Ladders”. And before Hasbro bought them all, including Parker Bros, there were a LOT of other game companies that wanted a piece of that pie and sold their version for cheaper. Sort of like how Sorry, Trouble, and Parcheesi were all different large game companies’ versions of Pachisi/Ludo for the American market, and Parcheesi (as an Americanized rendering of the original Indian name for the game) couldn’t be trademarked, so was treated as the US generic name for any even smaller companies that wanted to sell a version...all of which are now owned by Hasbro.
@@IONATVS And Milton Bradley used to have their own knockoff of Monopoly too, called "Easy Money".
I do also.
I’m sure that I read somewhere that the Landlord’s Game was meant to be a warning against uncontrolled capitalism.
Actually had a game called Trump back in the 80's where you bought property... Yes that Trump. LOL 😂
Quite the opposite. The only problem is that Landlord's game is more a warning against restrictive government. In capitalism new players enter the economy all the time, in the game, once it starts no new player are allowed to join, thus creating Monopolies.
@@bubbaclemson5566 Trump the Game, my dad had it, it was basically a more aggressive take on Monopoly since you had cards for buying properties that could kick other player’s bids out. (And cards that countered that.)
TheBaldr thanks for that
The difficulty with getting the message of the Landlord's Game is that while almost all players should be miserable by the end, there's still one person who is happy.
It's interesting how ancient Indian games have survived so well. My favourite board game is from ancient Mesopotamia, and it was very popular for a few millennia, but people quit playing it about a thousand years ago, apparently because this cool new game came out, called backgammon. Anyway, the Royal Game of Ur is really fun.
Im actually surprised England and the US both call it "board games".
Scrabble is the exception to the "Hasbro owns everything" rule. In most of the world, Scrabble is owned by Mattel (Hasbro's biggest competitor). Its only in North America that Hasbro owns the rights.
I remember reading somewhere that the properties in Monopoly are named after locations and streets in Atlantic City, NJ.
I am from that area and it is true. The original Monopoly game is based on street names from Atlantic City, NJ.
Correct. There are also local variants and special editions available. Including a Star Wars version. I don't know what the streets are for that. Probably include Tatooine and Aldaraan. I don't think I'd buy the latter of the two.
He did mention that fact...
I heard the other day that some of the streets in the game have been renamed in real life, which is sad.
“They’ll be setting fire to your rug before you can say Marty McFly” you definitely know your back to the future, such a small part in the movie
Interesting!
Ludo/Parcheesi is known as "Mensch ärger dich nicht" aka literally translated as "Human, don't get angry" in Germany!
Jail is the best place to be when your opponent has hotels on Mayfair.
Laurence, my man.... I love your videos!! You should open a P.O. Box for fans. I’ll send you a hair brush..
OMG i thought the same thing.🤙Me thinks Lawrence is giving a nod to Boris Johnson. 😁🤭
RIP MB and Parker Brothers 😢
Another piece of our childhood gone
looks like laurence just got done with a 24 hour game of monopoly!
Draughts is CHECKERS?!? From context, I’d assumed it was darts. Well. This was funny and educational.
I had Chutes and Ladders and a game called Candyland, that was basically a dentist’s nightmare... my friend had “Scotland Yard” a game I just rediscovered and now play with friends (I’m a great Mr. X because I know how to get lost in London. I only lost once and that was totally by accident.)
@Bio Kimistry I remember the fully built mousetrap worked properly about 1 time and then something would get stuck somewhere.
I have a friend whose ultimate insult is, “dude you’re such a hasbro”
Fascinating. As a ten year old kid I enjoyed playing RISK with my brothers. It was a game of conquering different countries. I think it's still sold.
I love that game I have it on my xbox 360 and my Nintendo switch!
Another excellent video, Larry
I used to play board games but then I got absorbed by Hasbro.
Dude. Modern Designer Euro/Ameritrash Board Games are fuckin awesome.
Check out Betrayal at House on the Hill, Sheriff of Nottingham, etc. etc etc
Well, the Hasbro version still teaches the real morality lesson: that luck is very important for success.
3:50 oh my, I laughed, (actually out loud), when he said "pay-ten-tid"! How very endearing!
When I worked in a nursing home, I had the honor c to work with the cook that had worked for the Hassenfeld family, the family that owns HASBRO. She left to partial retirement. She had lots of stories of the family, and her food was fabulous. She made a cake for my college graduation, it was amazing. God bless you Ohla
I played the British version of monopoly at my grandparents, I took it home after they died. Didn't realize it was different until this video came out.
2:00 We do have Snakes and ladders here in the US and I'm not sure why you havent run across it.
Perhaps it depends on where you live within the US.
I"ve seen both versions
Chutes and Ladders was trademarked while Snakes and Ladders was not so any competitors of the company that actually owned the game (Parker Brothers?) would release their own versions with the name Snakes and Ladders.
TY for sharing your research
Very informative!
In my family we have a tradition in Monopoly (started by my younger brother) that when someone bankrupts you and takes everything you own you get to throw your token at them and exclaim, "You might as well take this also!" which causes us all to laugh and gives some satisfaction to the fact that you are out of the game.
The poker face humour is lovely! "A. Pratt, to his enemies" 🤣🤣
deadpan is the term I think you were looking for ¬_¬
@@nekroneko yes, thank you. I shud have used deadpan here, i agree.
Having said that, hope ur comment was not sarcastic, going by that emoji type face u added at the end of ur sentence. English is not my 1st language and I speak 3 to 4 languages on a daily basis (including english). So if u are an english speaking person with no knowledge of any other language, maybe u shud think twice before judging "the rest of the world"
@@thesocialmisfit I was intending the emoji to look like a deadpan face bruh. Chill
I never thought about the snake significance before, but it does make sense. The British Isles do not have the venomous--venomous, mind you, not poisonous, edible they are, though who knows why one would do that--serpents that America has. This point was brought home to me when I discovered a baby rattlesnake in my yard, and another time when I heard a neighbour scream as if her husband were murdering her. It turned out that her shrieks were calling her husband to come quickly because there was a rattlesnake on their patio. As far as I know, no-one has ever experienced a venomous bite from a playground chute.
I've had a chute or too give me a good bite, venomous or not it hurts like hell!
I live in Salem, Massachusetts around the corner from where the Parker Brothers factory was. The factory was torn down in the mid 90s; apartments there now. And yes, all of the PB products were absorbed by Rhode Island based Hasbro.
Hasbro: taking over the world before Disney decided to.
Thank you! Your videos are so funny I laugh out loud. And you keep it clean so I can watch it with my nine year old too.
In Bikini Bottom , Snakes and Ladders is called Eels and Escalators.
One of my favorite board games from some 40 years ago is Scotland Yard. Supposedly it was very popular in Britain and later brought to America by Milton Bradley. It disappeared here within probably five years of it's introduction.
I was taking a swig of Gatorade when Lawrence said you shouldn't eat the checkers pieces and I nearly did a spit take! 🤣
All the property names in Monopoly are taken from streets in Atlantic City NJ (except for Boardwalk, which was namd after the amusement pier). So, many of Atlantic City's streets are named after states.
LMAO on 1987 I was 18 and playing other kinds of "games"...which also involved morality! 😂😂😂
In Canada we have snakes and ladders, I guess we’re still a commonwealth and didn’t start a war because we didn’t like tea or something I didn’t watch the movie
Hmmm >_>
I like to learn those regional differences because sometimes here in Germany we kept close to the UK version and sometimes we just made something up that's completely unique for whatever reason.
same in australia !!
Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs": written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. Truth!
I. . . I don't recall any of the Beach Boys going by the name of Bruce Johnston. I'm guessing he was one of the post-Brian Wilson Beach Boys.
@@mournblade1066 Wiki for Bruce Johnston: On April 9, 1965, Johnston joined the Beach Boys in New Orleans, replacing Glen Campbell, who briefly filled in as a touring member for Brian Wilson, and had declined an offer to officially join the band
@@cluny Ah, got it. Was he a part of the Wrecking Crew? (I know Glen Campbell was.)
(I'm American) I remember I had a copy of Chutes and Ladders that showed art of kids doing different moral and immoral actions for the latters and chutes respectively.
I never knew the streets were different on American Monopoly, that seems so weird to me that the U.K. London street version isn’t the original
It might not be the original but the UK version is the most famous and generally that version is what was sold to other countries outside the US.
I grew up by Atlantic City and we took pride that the streets were named after AC streets. (Baltic Ave really is the least desirable street) Of course, everything has to be changed & "Vegas-ified" like our Miss America pageant... I must admit that I was tempted to betray AC with the Star Wars edition. Star Trek?
My father-in-law has every board know to man. Out his collection I like playing Masterpiece and Solar Quest. Holidays are spent playing board games their favorite is Acquire.
YES! Someone else mentions Solar Quest aka Monopoly by more of a challenge.
"Success ultimately comes down to pure luck"
Just like real life!
They do sell Snakes & Ladders in the USA. We purchased it for my son a couple years back for Christmas. It is one of his favorite games.
Are we supposed to take shot every time he says absorbed by Hasbro or just “Uncle Toby”
A shot for every "absorbed by Hasbro" and a sip of tea for every "Uncle Toby."
And if you take the wrong action, you receive the absolutely most severe punishment conceivable to a Brit: being embarrassed. In front of other people, nonetheless.
For Christmas one year I bought my teenage children a board game called the Cooking Game. It was a British import, you must collect the cards to make a recipe. Sometimes disaster would ensue, a missing card, or mice in the larder(a British pantry). My kids loved it and played it for several years.
I like the game othello. I don't know the origination of the game.
Used to play Othello... not as often as I'd have liked... Never really got the chance at "Go"... You might look into it. ;o)
'Reversi' was invented in 1883, usually attributed to Lewis Waterman. I first learned of it from a 'Hoyle' book of game rules from the 1940s. Othello (which is Reversi with a couple of minor changes) was patented in Japan in 1971, with a U.S. edition in 1975 (thanks, Wikipedia). As one writer said at the time, leave it to the Japanese to discover the true Shakespearean significance of the game.
Thank you for properly crediting Lizzie!
What is going on with Lawrence's hair? He looks like a 1968 Beatle!
I mostly play games like Settlers of Catan (I own the Star Trek Version and the American Version) and a game called Pandemic, which seems to be playing out in real life recently.
I first encountered Chutes and Ladders as a child, and it made perfect sense: How do you go up? Climb a ladder! How do you go down? Slide down a chute! Then somewhere I ran across Snakes and Ladders, and it baffled me. How do you go down? Slide down a ... snake? WTF?
I live in New Zealand and it was always known as Snakes and Ladders, with good deeds, e.g. diligence, rewarded and bad deeds e.g.disobedience punished.
I always imagined it as being eaten by a snake and coming out... the other end.
One of my favorite games that wasn't assimilated yet is backgammon. I suspect that we (ie. Americans) received it from the UK who got it from some middle eastern countries. I think Adam & Eve originally played it when they were bored.
Yeah, pretty sure like chess and a number of other games nobody has a copyright so everyone and their brother can make it.
Use D&D dice to play Monopoly, you get further in less time.
Yup.I have a hundred sided die. End the game with one roll. I also have a six sided blank die. And nobody thinks I'm funny when I use it. But I think I'm hilarious.
Not if you play with d4s!
@@eddiemuldoon7240 "But I know where the spots formerly were." - Big Jule.
@@sschmidtevalue No you don't. I made the die from myself. So it didn't have spots to begin with.
For the record, DnD used to be published by TSR, but they were bought out.....by Wizards of the Coast.
(Who were later acquired by Hasbro)
Your script is absolutely amazing.
I was so expecting you to say to leave our favorite board games in the comments, and "whether they were bought up by Hasbro."
This was fascinating, thanks so much! My family loves board games (and card games) and we have a game night several times a month.
What about Backgammon?
Isn't it considered the oldest board game?
@@R.M.MacFru I do believe they found an early version of it in King Tut's tomb.
@@markpage9397 ...I just went hunting. Senet is the oldest board game, but backgammon is a close second, with a early version from Sumeria having been found, so roughly five thousand years.
@@R.M.MacFru I was going off something I saw on television years ago per what the narrator said about Senet. I am not sure my memory serves my correctly on that. Thanks for looking into that. Now this makes me wonder how old is Chess.
I like Trivial Pursuit.
*The way Laurence says Hasbro, I don't think that he likes them or possibly dislikes their now virtual "monopoly" of the board game industry.*
Lost in the Pond (Spanish Version): in Venezuela (where my mom is from) they call game #4 ludo (like in Britain) and in Spain (where my dad is from) they call it "parchís" (similar to America)
The first time I played checkers we played on a piece of cardboard on which my father had drawn out the "board" and our checkers were actually white buttons and dark buttons. Yes, literal buttons because back in those days pretty much every home had a "button jar" that was full of a variety of buttons that moms would harvest from a piece of clothing she was getting ready to cut up and use in one of the quilts that was being made. It was years before we actually had the money to purchase a real set of checkers. But it was just as much fun to play with our buttons on our board made of cardboard. I also loved playing Chinese Checkers and Fox and Geese. F & G was played using the Chinese Checkers board. I loved playing Monopoly but it was hard for me to get anyone to play Monopoly with me because according to my brothers and sisters the game took too long to play. We played a "fast" game of Monopoly where all the property cards were dealt at the beginning of the game and then we had to immediately set out to try to negotiate getting properties from other players that would make a set so we could start adding houses and hotels. We also eventually got Clue and Sorry but they were not nearly as popular with us as Checkers or Monopoly.
Talking about these games sure takes me back in my memory to years and years ago. In those days before computers we didn't sit around perhaps in the same room but totally ignoring each other because we were interacting only with the handheld device we each had. We were actually interacting with each other and TALKING to each other. Kids today literally do not know what they are missing. I keep hearing young people say they are "socially awkward" and I always think, "Of course you're socially awkward. You never have a real conversation with anyone because all of your interaction is through text or email and you seldom have any face to face interaction with anyone. How could you be anything other than socially awkward?"
As they say in "Toy Galaxy" -- "Hasbro. Until all are one."
I think we might have a german version of Pachisi which is called " Mensch, ärgere dich nicht"
(Don't get agitated)
Yess same thing in the Netherland 'mens erger je niet' (:
There's a UK game that's similar to Pachisi too that's called Frustration (you can see the similarity)
"don't get mad" in Spanish "no te enojes".
But I've also heard parchís and ludo
Just one more example of how a man took credit for a woman’s work (the design and creation of Monopoly) and went on to become rich and famous while she died without compensation and in more or less obscurity. Uncovering all those stories is a TH-cam channel by itself. Nice video. Thanks for bringing it to light.
Wow, first. Like most American kids of the '50s, I played a ton of board games (my fave was probably Careers) then in 1966 I was turned onto board wargaming when I discovered a game by Avalon Hill called D-Day; also available was Gettysburg, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad... anyway 54 years later I'm still playing them though today's games make the earlier games look like... well, checkers, Chutes & Ladders, Sorry! Btw, in the late '90s Avalon Hill was absorbed by... who else... Hasbro.
Tell that to Nick Sweeny
Tell me about it... Got started with Risk... played a little Stratego at school, and that one weird friend who didn't get Risk instead... AND somewhere between High School and the Navy, I fell down an insomnia inducing lust for miniatures and painting called "Warhammer 20K"... and YEEEESH!
I'm glad I dropped back to Cyberpunk 2013 and "Friday Night Firefight"... and eventually to D&D again... Then (of course) 2020 happened. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I never got into miniatures and didn't have room for the "monster" games that started coming out in the late '80s- and still coming out today. Thank God for VASSAL in which you can play those huge games on your computer alone or with a live opponent.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I'm a linux advocate, so "Battle for Wesnoth" is our thing in that lineage...
I got into miniatures, though, because I already had a "difficulty" dealing with insomnia... When you have an extra 4 - 8 hours and NOTHING to do, you'll end up doing just about anything to fill it... SO I slipped into the Warhammer rabbit hole. I've collected the pewter mini's and painted them and then resold them as entire armies, right out of the prescriptions of the guide books...
Warhammer was the perfect market strategy. The more expensive the mini', the more powerful the "in-game" soldier... AND of course lots of people would bring their favorites to me to paint up... Since I had hours at a time and nothing better to do, I could make a LOT of money staying up way late or "pulling an all nighter" to pains-takingly decorate and return miniatures with uniform themes, eyes and faces that looked ABSOLUTELY real under a magnifier, and collect my money...
Now, however, while I still have the skill, I no longer greatly pursue the mini's market. I sold my last army for about 3 G's... netted a handsome thousand or so in profit, BUT basically declared myself free of that affair. I still play, but it's either a "proper" TTRPG, or a variant of "Friday Night Firefight"...
To play the old-school Friday Night Firefight...
First you need a "referee" or Game Master. This is to interpret rules and "make the call"...when the "Rules as Written" (RAW) doesn't cover well enough to satisfy everyone at the table...
The rest are Players, and they each roll up the Character Sheets of their "PC's" (Player Characters)... Not unlike other RPG's but these are "short-cut" PC's... It's assumed they'll die quickly, so don't waste any time... JUST get those minimals together... AND a very few skills to be their primary resources, so you let everything else "default" to a primary Attribute score - 4. (Standard for RPG's...
Finally, you set up the "map" which is an overview of a city. You'll need to delve into floor plans for any buildings the PC's might use, but you can "jump off that bridge as you get to it"...
The objective of the game is for the Players to take over the city like "Gang turf". They do this by killing off each other's PC's... Each other's "Gang"... as they'd rolled up. It's tactical, creative, and can be a lot of fun when you're just not in the mood for D&D again...
Wesnoth is a Turn-based strategic RPG with a wistful nod to D&D, but entirely point and click controlled on the PC... AND there are servers for playing Peer to Peer (P2P)... online. It's actually pretty advanced considering nobody really assumes a linux machine to be availed for gaming primarily... BUT I'm still of the mind to do most of my D&D on a physical Table, throwing dice and profanity at each other like we did (in the old days)... hahaha ;o)
My dining room sideboard is filled, not with dishes, but with board games. The drawers are great for extra dice, domino trains, chips, cards, and any lost game item that ends up found in the carpet. Of course, getting a single boxed game OUT of the cabinet is a game in itself...they are carefully fitted in. Deluxe Scrabble goes in front....first because it has the biggest box...but really because it leaves the cabinet the most!