Some of our fondest childhood memories surround playing games with our friends and family, so the website Smosh wanted to help you take a trip down memory lane with an image list of your favorite games and toys - but they might be different than you remember.
Who doesn't remember classics like "The Game Of Yelling And Bookkeeping" or "Homicide For Ages 8 And Up"? With their new title make-overs, you might not be able to look at these games the same ever again. Scroll down below to see all the classic games from your youth with their new, hilariously accurate, names. And don't forget to upvote your favorites!
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Family Fight Night
Original name: Monopoly
We once had a game called "Hotels" that was a variant on Monopoly, and when my sister and I got it out, there was a guaranteed sibling fight every time.
Honestly, my family never fought while playing Monopoly, but I don't think we ever completely a game, so it was basically everyone agreeing that "Okay, it's time to stop. This is now boring".
Protip: don't change houses for hotels. If you tie up the housing supply then no one can build.
most of the time we got into argument is when the "bank" is giving money to other player for no good reason
How To Find Out That Everybody Went To A Better School Than You
Original name: Scrabble
I like that one better, "Or they have simply not read more books...yet" Don't forget to add the power of Yet. like schools I work at say when someone says" I don't know how to do this..."yet"
Load More Replies...I’ve been with my husband for 16 years. I’ve had my scrabble board over 20 years. He has never played against me, he refuses to even try.
I wanna play scrabbles with my husband too, I'm a linguistics major and I find such games so fun. But he... Same as yours. He doesn't wanna play it, especially not with me. ♥
Load More Replies...Or, The Game That was Guaranteed to be Played at Every Mensa Gathering before Cards Against Humanity Came Along
In our family we always called it Scrapple, it always ended in a fight, lol
In A Month You'll Only Have Three Marbles
Original name: Hungry Hippos
And you will find all the missing ones only at about 3 am and under your bare feet.
In my house, we were able to keep most of the marbles, but eventually the hippos acted wildly different after having their plastic mechanisms smashed around. The pink one was totally useless as it would just stick it's head out without opening it's mouth.
You Think This Game Will End In Sex But It Won't
Original name: Twister
addition: strip twister - if you fall, you take off an article of clothing :)
But you could always wear like, 5 socks on each foot.
Load More Replies...We used to play drunk Twister back in our 20's. Every time you spun the arrow you took a shot. Not recommended for anyone under 21 (US drinking age) or older than 22 (since you will injure yourself!).
A Fun -Filled Afternoon Of Raising Kids And Buying Insurance
Original name: Life
LOL my husband and I bought this game years ago, played it for about 20 minutes and we looked at eachother and said "this is bull s**t, this isn't fun, it's basically real life, all we're doing is driving, paying bills and having more kids wtf"
I liked cashing in the kids for dough at the end .. at least I remember something along those lines decades ago! smile
It's A Coil. Enjoy That
Original name: Slinky
How about "Enjoy it until it inevitably gets tangled and can never be fixed."
Or it falls apart and now you have TWO slinkies to play with!
Load More Replies...A coil that ends up completely useless if you fold it up wrong ONCE.
You dont "fold them up" - thats where you went wrong Lol
Load More Replies...I got one of those stuck in a tree once. Me and my friend were trying to see how far down it could go and for some reason we decided the tree would be the best place. He decided I should go up (bad idea) and I managed to make the slinky tangle so bad I'm pretty sure it's still up there and I'm terrified of heights, so I flipped out coming down and almost broke a few branches because I was trying to get down super fast.
Mine was too scared to go down my stairs (had rooms in my parents attic with a very steep staircase)
The regular size worked fine. The smaller "Slinky Jr.", not so much.
Load More Replies...This Game Could Be Played With Two Sheets Of Paper And A Pen
Original name: Battleship
guys are having a blast and girls are doing the dishes, what a game :D
What I find most hilarious about this one is that father/son get to enjoy a rousing game of Battleship. Mother/daughter get to enjoy a rousing game of "Do the Dishes!"
My cousin and I used to play that game by shooting wet paper balls for each hit
I remember playing this In the late 50s early 60s with two sheets of graph paper and a book as a partition. Many really cool battleships were drawn in the second grade! I was surprised to see it as a board game years later.
At a summer camp we used to play battleship with waterbaloons. Set up two grids and a tarp in between, lay kids on the ground, and have other kids throw water baloons at the kids on the other side!
Straight Line Straight Line Straight Line Square
Original name: Etch a Sketch
Oh god, this is true. I have no Idea how those pros make those nutty designs
You'll Say "Sorry" But What You'll Really Mean Is "#%@$ You!"
Original name: Sorry!
Depends on the country. I know this one as (translated from Croatian) "don't get angry, man"
Load More Replies...The Game Of Hiding Out In Australia Until The Very End
Original name: Risk
This Will Never Work
Original name: Mouse Trap Game
For me it was more like "By the time you set the whole thing up, you won't want to play the game."
I always wanted it and had a friend who had it and it was just sitting there not done. We never played it because he was like naaah to much setting up. I loved setting up things so I would love it.
We have the new, simpler version... anyone know where I can find an original?
Homicide For Ages 8 And Up
Original name: Cluedo
When I was younger we had a children's version where you had to find out who ate the chocolate cake. It was always more interesting
Wait a minute... Cluedo? Isn't this called Clue? Idk if I'm just uncultured swine and this is the old version of clue, but I'm pretty sure there is a game just like this called Clue.
Yep, this is the most accurate one in my opinion. Maybe its just because I was a violent and morbid child growing up, and when my siblings and I played we would always detect someone and then violently totally fake-act-out the death, from cracking someones head open with a wrench to strangling someone with a noose.
Hilarious if played with 6 women over 50 who have never played before, don't listen to the rules, have forgotten their reading glasses and are well on the way to being very drunk
This Game Of Yelling And Bookkeeping
Original name: Yahtzee
I went on a cruise and in the game room they had like 6 copies of Yahtzee, we played that a lot.
Tbh yahtzee is just tryna find as many patterns as possible in some dice
If It Comes In A Bag Then It's Not The Real Thing
Original name: Mega Bloks
The only plastic blocks that you can see before you step on them, but will probably still step or trip over.
But it's bigger for small kids to play with without the choking risk, no?
If only they stayed in the bag I wouldn't have found so many with my feet hidden in the shag-carpeted hallway
It Has Robots! It Has Punching! If that's not enough then frankly we don't know what to say
Original name: Rock'em Sock'em Robots
wrong movie, you mean Real Steel. Pac Rim is more Lovecraftian.
Load More Replies...Hand - Cranked Frozen Margarita Machine
Original name: Te Original Snoopy. Sno-cone Machine
What definition are you going by if you think this is a board game?
Barbie's Severed Head For Would - Be Serial Killers
Original name: Barbie
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I had that version...and I loved it, not only did I spend hours playing with it, but I learned how to french braid on it, as well as other hairstyles. Then on top of that while doing some random history assignment for HighSchool on Egypt I used mine to represent Cleopatra and talked about how they used makeup etc and got an A , it is the toy that just kept on giving ♥
Claim The Corners Or Lose
Original name: Othello
I have, on occasion, won without claiming the corners but it is rare.
Not to beleaguer the point... Red-Wins-5...2dc32b.jpg
This is a super fun game with simple rules but endless learning of strategy. Highly recommend. I learned to play when I was ten and have had immense fun since.
Load More Replies...No Idea Actually, This Game Kinda Scares Us
Original name: Candy Land
This game has changes art styles way too often. I feel every generation grew up with a different style of the map and characters.
Definitely, recently I was trying to find the same one I had as a kid because I always loved that game, and there were so many different styles of it.
Load More Replies...The inner 4-year-old is screaming that CandyLand should definitely involve ACTUAL CANDY!!!
Spaz!
Original name: Jenga!
alternatively: "getting screwed over by the people who went before you"
how about, annoying tower that always falls no matter how careful you are
But that's the point of the game. Not to take off the block as carefully as you can, but to make the tower as f****d up as you can without it falling so that the next player will definitely make it fall.
Load More Replies...Another one that's fun to play drunk. You write things on about 70% if the blocks, like "take a shot" or "what's the naughtiest thing you've ever done" and get to playing. I sometimes still give these as gifts.
Omg, my cousins puppy (whose nickname is Spazz) knocked our jenga game over once...
I Wasn't Cheating!
well I mean you don't really want to start as a murderer in anything
Should play Salem... I want to be the werewolf very often in that game.
Load More Replies...They forgot, "I Cost Waaay Too Much to Actually Play With". Original name: American Girl Dolls
Some of these are not technically board games - in fact, quite a few aren't even games at all. The title should have been "20 Popular TOYS If They Had Honest Titles."
They forgot the best game for a list like this Diplomacy or what should be its name "stab your friends in the back." Another good one would be Bloodbowl or "Aneurysm in a box."
They forgot, "I Cost Waaay Too Much to Actually Play With". Original name: American Girl Dolls
Some of these are not technically board games - in fact, quite a few aren't even games at all. The title should have been "20 Popular TOYS If They Had Honest Titles."
They forgot the best game for a list like this Diplomacy or what should be its name "stab your friends in the back." Another good one would be Bloodbowl or "Aneurysm in a box."
