"They want their special Monopoly racing car token. "People become very attached to their board games," said the spokesman, Mark Morris. A Hasbro Games spokesman said he had not heard of this glitch before but would look into it. When I scrolled down lists, the items were invisible, a problem I did not have when using a PC. My only quibble was that the site was not compatible with my Macintosh. Hasbro, which owns Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers, sells replacement parts for hundreds of games it currently makes.Ī full set of Clue mini-weapons, including the rope, the candlestick, the revolver and dice, costs $3.50.Ī set of 11 Monopoly tokens, including the ship, the winged shoe and the top hat, costs $2. At, for instance, all you have to do to buy a full set of Scrabble tiles ($6.50, including shipping and handling) is to click on Customer Service. But on the Internet it's possible to buy replacement parts for nearly any board game imaginable. ![]() This could have been a disaster in the old days. Once she threatened to ground me for wasting an S on a word worth less than 20 points.Įleven dark-colored letter tiles were missing.įourteen natural-color tiles were missing from the other set. To keep things interesting during Scrabble marathons, my mother imposed arcane rules that included restricting the placement of letters worth 5 points or more to triple-score boxes. ![]() When other first graders were learning to spell "cat" and "dog," my brothers and I knew that ai was a three-toed sloth and kat was a shrub that flourished in Africa. This was because Scrabble was our mother's favorite. ![]() Although we were equally comfortable with Monopoly (where we routinely wheedled Boardwalk away from unsuspecting opponents) and Battleship (where we homed in like bird dogs to sink other players' fleets), Scrabble was our specialty. I AM tempted to say I grew up in a family that enjoyed board games and leave it at that.īut a statement like that might conjure up a misleading impression of a wholesome, 1960's family gathered around the kitchen table.
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