No Stupid Questions

Everyone who owned Mouse Trap played it properly once, learned that the game itself was fucking lame, and then just proceeded to fuck around with the contraption part.

I've played Operation, but I guess I never played it right because I don't even remember cards being part of it. Or maybe I just played a newer version or something because you removed the parts based on spinning a thing.

Return question: Do you or do you not use the "Free Parking" rule in Monopoly? IE all money paid to the bank goes in the middle of the board or under the Free Parking spot and you can claim it all if you land directly on Free Parking.

Yes and yes. I followed the rules as a kid. I played the games with the full rules multiple times even, in defiance of everyone saying that everyone only does so once.

Looking at YouTube playthroughs for nostalgia, it looks like the game rules today have the trap set up to start? When I played, the rules were that you had to build it up slowly over the course of the game, one piece at a time, and only once it was built could it be activated. Yes, I played that way.

I'm the reverse of you actually, as a child it never occurred to me that you could just build the mouse trap without playing the game. So I exclusively played it properly and now I feel a bit stupid.

There were cards in Operation?

If there were, then they'd long been lost by the time that well used game found its way into my hands.

We did, for both games, although we didn’t play Operation much. It kind of lost its novelty fast, especially with the buzzer the TV commercials conveniently left out.

We played a lot of Mouse Trap, though. Everyone complaining about the trap not working half the time seems to have missed that that was the point. You might land in the trap zone and have one of your siblings get the chance to trap, but it wasn’t a guarantee that you’d be trapped. If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building? At that point it’s just a game with an instant lose square. If the trap worked or failed you needed to reset it for the next attempt, and as part of that reset you could adjust or fix any parts that had failed. Or maybe try to subtly sabotage it again if you’re worried you might be next…

The Mousetrap game was janky and barely worked. I don’t know if our Operation board still had cards by the time it got to me. I was the third, so… Mousetrap was new when I was a kid, so that came to me new in the box.

I played both. And Hungry Hungry Hippo too. And The Game of Life.

All of those I only played max 3x before I switched to just using the props and dispensing with the game though.

Yeah I had Mousetrap, and as others said it barely worked which sucked a lot of the fun out of it. Also don't remember there being cards in Operation, was it just to determine which body part you're supposed to remove or did they do something else?

Yes to both, thought only a couple of times each...

Of course, we played the crap out of those games when they first came out. Back then kids didn't have ALL THE STUFF, games like that were coveted

Yes we played the Mousetrap board game as kids. It was quite fun to be fair, even just playing with the mechanics solo was fun.

Mousetrap was lit, hell yeah

I babysat a brother and sister in the early 90s and we played Mousetrap properly after dinner to kill time until bedtime. Worst babysitter ever.

Then I let them stay up past bedtime while we figured out the most cursed modifications/add-ons. Best babysitter ever.

(In truth, I remember that I had talked with the parents beforehand about "stated bedtime" versus "real bedtime".)

My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.

I didn't know Operation has cards...

Man I'm so fuckin glad you asked. We did! I'm not sure if we played the rules properly but I def remember trying.

I think we were missing pieces to this one and were bummed about it though

Yeah, me and my cousins kept mousetrap working for an entire summer back in the eighties. I liked it a lot, but as others have said, it was beyond janky. It was the idea I liked tbh.

Operation, I had forgotten there were cards at all lol.

Just got my daughter operation for Christmas, played with the cards the very first time out.

So we haven't met, but ive definitely used the cards. Mousetrap I played with a lot, but I think only played by the full rules like maybe 10 times max.

Sadly, I never learned any of those games. I was an only child that had nobody to teach me any of those sort of games as a kid.

I remember my parents bought me Chutes and Ladders when I was 5, apparently nobody realized it's meant as a multiplayer game. Trying to figure it out for myself, I got bored in like 10 minutes.

Monopoly? Go Fish? UNO? Hah, not a chance, nobody bothered to teach me any of those.

Yes and yes.

Mousetrap was the shit until I lost the blue mouse and half the traps

How would you even play operation without the cards? How is it scored, who wins?

Many, many times, yes. We always used the cards for Operation and played Mousetrap quite a bit when I was little.

I've played Operation straight by the rules several times. I don't think I've ever even seen a copy of Mousetrap that had all the pieces.

I've played both but every copy of mouse trap I've ever had either didn't work or worked very shittily. Massive disappointment all the way around

Very related clip -

https://youtu.be/mAjkt282XWo