Gallery 16 for Project 52 is Childhood Games and it has been chosen by Linda McGrath one of the participants on the project.
I really like the prompts for Project 52, they are a bit different and offer so much scope.
We used to love playing Scrabble as a family and as kids in the street. As we grew up many a game of it has been played over a few beers.
A word of warning though if you like a game of Scrabble. Don’t play with my brother-in-law. He is a terrible looser and was in the habit of making words up…
…”That’s not a word!!” We would all shout in unison.
…”you can’t have that it’s not joined up!!’
What a lovely post with two very unusual and clever photos! We always loved some of the games from my granmother’s era.
Gorgeous photos! Scrabble and cribbage were some of my favourite childhood games, to. I wonder if it’s a British thing (I was born in England; moved to Canada when I was 5). Do you remember a card game called Lexicon? The cards had letters instead of the usual suits and numbers. It was like rummy, but you spelled words.
I loved to play cribbage with my Grandad. Growing up I always had a pack of cards nearby and played patience a lot – the computer version is not the same as handling the cards
We like card games. I went camping this week and each evening we would play card games in the tent.
This was so creatively done! Loved the photos and the family history. We were OK with Scrabble, but Monopoly always turned ugly.
Whenever I visited him, my father and I played a game of cribbage after breakfast, and again after lunch for years. Thanks for the memory!