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]

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

[Badders123]

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

[RaeSkywalker]

The Pointless game is flipping awful...

[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

[Cagliostro]

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

[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]

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]

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]

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. :)

[Cagliostro]

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

[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!

[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 :)