Did anyone here ever actually play the Mousetrap board game or use the cards in Operation?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who did and I’ve brought this up at parties before.

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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- deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Free parking rule is complete ass and makes the game take ages.
  
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Alternate Free Parking rule for faster gameplay: Landing on Free Parking immediately bankrupts the player.
    
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- db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I prefer Antimonopoly.
  
  It’s a real game, look it up.
  
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  - Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I love how Wikipedia says the idea for anti-monopoly goes back to The Landlord’s Game, which is what became Monopoly in the first place. 🤣
    
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I remember we had that when I was a kid with all the other family board games, but I don’t remember anyone ever playing it.
    
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  We always did free parking, but I pretty much only ever played Monopoly with my best friend who lived around the corner, so if the game took a week, it wasn’t a big deal.
  
  It did not help that neither of us were willing to be vicious to the other. It was a very friendly monopoly game with occasional jabs.
  
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Not even once in my case.
  
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Iunnrais@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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anothermember@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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- TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I had no idea there were cards. It was a "Can you get them all out in one go? if not, put them back and give to the other person if there even IS another person
  
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jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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…

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  If it was going to work every time what was the need to even do all the building?
  
  To see the little man get flipped into the pool. Duh.
  
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I played both.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Well I’ve finally met someone!
  
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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msfroh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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”.)

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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yes to both, thought only a couple of times each…

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ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Mousetrap was lit, hell yeah

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edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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?

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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

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over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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- MrBobDobalina@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oof, they bought you chutes and ladders (snakes and ladders where I grew up, I guess chutes makes a lot more sense) and never even played it with you…? Damn. I’m sorry
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah, that is harsh. My grandmother played that and Candyland with me all the time. And as a parent now, I know what hell that was. Especially the latter.
    
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Letme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I don’t know what back then means. I grew up in the 80s and we just never did either. Mousetrap was awesome because it was this complicated machine, but triggering it was the fun part, so that’s all we ever did. And Operation, you just went for the one you thought you could get.
  
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  - Letme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well, you were poorly a disciplined child 😂
    
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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.

I didn’t know Operation has cards…

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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

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Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Mousetrap was the shit until I lost the blue mouse and half the traps

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oh I loved it, but I don’t know anyone who did anything but put it together and trigger it. And they went to the trouble of making a whole game around it that I’ve never met anyone who has ever played.
  
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Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Very related clip -

youtu.be/mAjkt282XWo

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