Christmas Board-games

[Emettman]

It's coming up Christmas: board-game time, even if it's a dreaded tradition in some families.

What games do you have from up to 40 years ago (to keep in in the 70's) that still get outings?

My most popular ones tend to be from the "first wave" of German games in the early 80's
Hare and hedgehog, (german version)
The Master Labyrinth (or the original version for young children)
Metropolis (a property game far more cooperative and faster than Monopoly)
Tutankhamun.
The preference is for games with little die-rolling...
But dice can be incorporated in a good game, such as the very aesthetic "Balloon Race"



Any good Christmas stories of board-game hits?
Or of rows, tears and fights?

[Tortie]

Re: Christmas Board-games

My favourites ever were Coppit, where you had to capture your opponents' cones and get them back to your home base without being "copped" yourself. You could end up with a failry high tower of copped cones, depending on the throw of the dice.
I also loved Beetles, where you built up plastic beetles on the throw of a dice (a 1 for the body, 2 for the head, 3 for an eye etc.), and the Magic Roundabout game, where the "counters" were little plastic Dougals; a "snakes & ladders-type game, where if you landed on Brian the Snail, you got transported back to somewhere near the start.
Always enjoyed these