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?

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

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

The Pointless game is flipping awful...

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

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

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?

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!

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...

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. :)

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

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

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 :)