Board Games - what have you ended up throwing/giving away?

[Cagliostro]

As there are always threads about what games are good I thought it'd be interesting to talk about the not-so-good! I am game obsessed and we have a ridiculously huge collection, but I'm finally ready to start weeding out some of the less good games (as someone with ASD and hoarding tendencies this is a MASSIVE deal!)...

I am tempted to chuck some of the Lego games into the general box of bricks - much as the games are lovely to build and look at, I don't think the actual game play is that great with some of them.

Others I'm considering saying goodbye to:
Sort It Out - not much of a fan of trivia games TBH
Destination Hogwarts - love Harry Potter but this game is just meh
Fleeced - again LOVE Wallace and Gromit and the pieces are nice but it's a bit dull
Chalenj
Equate
Scrabble Trickster - we have regular scrabble anyway
Coppit
Scotland Yard - haven't played this for years as I didn't understand it, will give it another go first
Simpsons Game - used to play this loads in my teens but it hasn't had a look in in years
Game of Life - ditto
Dragonology

I know lots of people have big clear outs before Christmas so if you're getting rid of games, what are you ditching and why?

[Badders123]

The chap the la sent to us was lovely. He used to be the head of a special school and he just kept apologising about our experiences.
He was so nice and really put my mind at rest as I was very worried I wasn't doing "enough" for Ds.
Ds made biscuits for him :)

[Badders123]

It's parents evening on tuesday....I have a bad feeling about it....I know some of the other parents have lists of complaints!

[Cagliostro]

Incidentally when we had our home ed 'inspection' the LEA lady actually mentioned our board game collection in her report :o

[Cagliostro]

Oh no :( teachers make all the difference I find, and the fit for the individual - DD was perfectly happy at infants but DS struggled from the start. Glad DS1 is happy at school now. :)

[Badders123]

Oh that's a shame...it was such a source of help and support to me.
Ds1 loved his new school thank goodness.
Sadly Ds2 (8) has a new teacher this year (maternity cover) and no parent or child has a good thing to say about her :(
Just have to try and ride this year out I think...

[Cagliostro]

Wow I can't believe he's that old! I used to lurk on the HE board, was under a different name then anyway but remember seeing your name a lot. I wasn't HEing then but we took the DCs out early last year, they are 9yo and 7yo now. HE board is super quiet now sadly!

[Badders123]

Yes!
Ds1 - for a year. Were you in the home ed topic? Sorry I don't recognise your name. Is ommward still about?
He is now in year 9 of the local college and planning his GCSE options! How did that happen?

[Cagliostro]

I recognise the name Becaroo, did you home ed for a while years ago?

[Cagliostro]

I'm quite glad to hear that, the DCs keep talking about it as we all like watching it now and then - but generally I find games based on quiz shows etc a bit rubbish

[RaeSkywalker]

The Pointless game is flipping awful...

[Badders123]

Notcitrus (it is i, Becaroo!!)
I was thinking about carcassone for ds1 but I'm going with GofT monopoly instead

[Badders123]

Oh, I loved cranium :)
Played trivial pursuit a lot as a teen with my parents and brother
We all played pictinary quite a bit.
Mine two aren't too keen on board games aside from things like risk, snakes and ladders, chess...
as a kid we played a lot of monopoly and guess who and connect 4

[Cagliostro]

I've got rid of over 30 games so far. Surprised myself by ditching Cranium, it's not that I don't like it but we don't really play it and some pieces are missing anyway and the clay had gone weird. Going to sell the booster box (basically a load of extra cards for each category) as it was never used (which again shows how little we played it!)

[NotCitrus]

Ticket to Ride isn't complicated, but the rules aren't well written. Basically choose which places you're going to try to join together, then when it's your go you either pick up two cards, or lay down the right number of cards of a colour to do a route. Or draw more destinations. That's pretty much it.

If you don't want a hugely complex game, don't buy Puerto Rico (needs 3+ gamers who know what they are doing, and about 3 hours).

I also own Diplomacy. Which needs 6 or 7 people to devote a good 5-8 hours to it. I've played a couple games over email with two moves a week, but otherwise never got the board out since I was a student.

The Carcassonne city walls version is horribly complicated but does come in a nice wooden box with wooden pieces of wall and turret. There's never enough to go all round your city though, so it feels a bit flat at the end.

[CakeNinja]

Oh god, they've got another one called Camel Cup or something, another one I won't play with them!!

[CakeNinja]

Oh god, I dislike bored (intentional!) games intensely but suffer them for my children.
Not ticket to ride though.
We unboxed it. I looked through the instruction book, eyed up the board and pieces, re read the lengthy instructions and boxed it all back up again with a sigh. Wtf is that all about?

Others I really hate being asked to play are frustration, twister (for obvious reasons), anything longer than about 15/20 minutes, anything requiring strategies... I have never played cluedo and never will!

[Cagliostro]

Yes I agree generally games are better when they have rules that at their core are really simple, but that leave a lot of room for personal strategies to develop. The old "easy to learn, difficult to master" type thing.

With more complicated games it's good if you can find someone to play with you who already knows it well - that's what we did with TTR.

Some games are definitely too complex though. Trying too hard I think.

[Undersmile]

Oh, I used to love Coppit as a child!

[ChoccyJules]

Took Lost (TV spin-off) game to the charity shop. Almost threw it instead as didnt want to inflict the inaneness on anyone else!
We also gave away a scrabble for two people which had a sandtimer and various rounds. It bored me.
Wrong thread but have to mention we got Agricola yesterday (I used some birthday money). DD8 went to bed at 10pm and is now playing the solo game in the kitchen. Love it!

[crankyagnes]

Our lego games also ended up in the lego bricks box - not entirely sure that was a conscious decision, more an reluctance to fish the right bits out again!

[crankyagnes]

We got rid of Game of Life recently, DM gave it to me since it was mine as a child - didn't even like it then!

Also moved on -
Taboo - also mine as a child
Scrabble Junior - now way too easy for DS1
2 Scooby Doo games - 1 I loathed 1 that wasn't too bad, both charity shop both now grown out of

Wish I could persuade DS1 to let go of Monopoly but fear that will never happen! Not a huge fan of Battleships either.

Makes room for all the new games we've been getting over the year, so well worth the time spent

[Badders123]

PersonAlly I think that's the issue....ridiculously complicated rules so you only take it out of the box once!

[NotCitrus]

The Hobbit game is pretty poor, but the dcs like it because it has shiny jewels and sandwiches. Also if you play on the easy setting you always win against Smaug.

Gloom - looks beautiful, never got into it
Ninja Burger - should be a funny quasi-roleplaying game like Munchkin, but isn't well balanced.
Game of Life - kids just not interested
Various move counter, go back/forward type games - kids like them, on a good day they will play without me

[scaredofthecity]

Omg yes GoT card game. We've really tried several times. That game is rediculously complicated.... grrrrr.

[booellesmum]

I really hate the puppy in my pocket board game - but am not alowed to get rid of it. :(