My brother and I
had wars involving our toy soldiers all laid out in battalions etc all over our playroom floor, that went on for months. We had cannons that fired matchsticks (in happier, paranoia-about-child-injury-free times) and would use them to wipe out each other's troops. Much of our leisure time was spent making Airfix kits.

My uncles also had a Thunderball board game that we'd play at Christmas, that was ace. As was 'Touring Scotland', a nice middle-class board game with little metal cars.

We also liked 'Tell Me Quiz' by Spears Games, this is played every Christmas to this day. Still play Scrabble too - and croquet.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:17, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

My brother had loads of toy soldiers and we also had grand battles.
My brother-in-law went through a stage a while back when he was convinced that he was going to come up a great children's book or game and was sending ideas off all of the time. One of his game ideas was in essence a beefed up version of Tell Me. The company wrote to him and said that it was good, but a bit like Tell Me.
I still play a variation when out walking with my daughter.
(Cave Duck, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 16:36, Reply)