A nice classic collection of board games!

My condolences on the loss of your father. Any chance you ever got to play any of these games with him? And any ideas into how/why he had such a diverse collection? I would be interested in hearing more about that. I am not familiar with his writings. Not much of a fiction reader. My wife makes up for me in reading fiction.

I remember the "Well World" stories has a kind of game-playing feeling to them - learning to cope with new rules.

Condolences and thank you for sharing this list.

Thank you all for your kind words. His choice of games definitely influenced his writing especially considering the Well World is on a hex map. (One of the other good finds from the garage is what I believe to be his original hand drawn map of the Well World.)

The only one of these games that I knew he played was Diplomacy, which he ran a very long running PBM game of. The games we played together when I was younger were more traditional parlor games like Chess and Cribbage whereas I played less abstract stuff like Monopoly and Careers with my mother.

At his funeral, one of his friends told me a good story about the competetive nature that runs in my family: he used to play Bridge with my dad, my grandfather, and my grandmother. If my dad or grandfather would say anything, my grandmother would yell at them to cut out the tabletalk. Meanwhile, she was kicking her partner under the table to signal a good hand.

Dave,

My condolences. Your father was a wonderful storyteller.