Girly Board/Tabletop games and card games

[Fialovy]

We have a girly video game thread, but what about those games you don't typically play on a screen? I remember there being a lot of board games aimed at girls in my youth as well as some attempts by ttrpg companies to get girls into their games (many really bad). There were also a few TCGs I remember like the Neopets TCG which I had some of the cards even though I never played the game or was really big into collecting and I vaguely remember this one TCG I saw called Bella Sarah about horses.

The ones off the top of my head I can think of that I remember the most fondly that I had are Mystery Date and Pretty Pretty Princess.

With Pretty Pretty Princess, it was like a dress up game where you had to move your pieces across the board to get jewelry and a crown and avoid getting cursed with the black ring because if you have it you can't win the game. I remember my brother always wanting to join in it as a joke and always winning.

Then there was Mystery Date, I had the 2000s version which had an electronic phone where you call different guys to get clues about who your date was. I do know that the original had cards instead. The new version was okay, but what I hate is that when you called them, they would whisper the clues to you, but the clues were always too quiet and I could never understand what they were saying. It wasn't really a game I played much.

What are some girly board games you remember that you liked?

 

[Ear]

I feel like this telenovela-themed ttrpg belongs in this thread:

Pasión de las pasiones

Now with 100% more evil twins.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I feel like this telenovela-themed ttrpg belongs in this thread:

Pasión de las pasiones

Now with 100% more evil twins.

How that shit is real? lmao.

 

[Red Hood]

Dream Phone and Mall Madness spring to mind.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I feel like this telenovela-themed ttrpg belongs in this thread:

Pasión de las pasiones

Now with 100% more evil twins.

Is that like one of those gay cowboy romance novels except ladies sit in a circle an imagine the novel?

 

[LolRaccoon]

There's a game called "Marrying Mr. Darcy" that's based on Pride and Prejudice.

Alternatively, there is a My Little Pony tabletop RPG called Tails of Equestria, and it's a neat game that helps to flesh out the show's source material. It actually has very little combat and has alternative methods of solving conflicts.

 

[Fialovy]

Dream Phone and Mall Madness spring to mind.

I haven't played Mall Madness myself, but I had a friend that owned the game, but I never had the courage to ask her to play it.

Also, I am sure someone will mention this but that one sexist Career Girl game in the 60s where you can be a teacher, a nurse, a flight attendant, a model, and actress, or a ballerina because there is no way as a woman you can handle anything else.




Well, in the late 70s and early 80s they made a second version with new choices of careers. Stuff like surgeon, lawyer, news reporter, movie director, astronaut, etc. It's amazing how two decades of second wave feminism changed the career outlook of women...

 

[Red Hood]

I haven't played Mall Madness myself, but I had a friend that owned the game, but I never had the courage to ask her to play it.

I only remember it for its commercials that aired amid similarly memorable Crossfire and Weapons and Warriors commercials.

 

[Fialovy]

I only remember it for its commercials that aired amid similarly memorable Crossfire and Weapons and Warriors commercials.

Oh yes, same here. I also remember this one commercial for a girly party game called Fib Finder that always aired, even as a kid, I was kind of skeptical it detect lies. Not sure if anyone actually owned it and played it or not.

 

[Red Hood]

Oh yes, same here. I also remember this one commercial for a girly party game called Fib Finder that always aired, even as a kid, I was kind of skeptical it detect lies. Not sure if anyone actually owned it and played it or not.

We had one at Guantanamo. But it's not as fun as waterboarding.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Despite ostensibly being for girls, the Sailor Moon CCG had an ugly card layout that would've looked more appropriate in an earnings report.

 

[Fialovy]

I just remember another game of my childhood that sprang to my memory. Do you guys know about Tales of the Crystals from back in the 90s? It is an attempt to make a tabletop rpg type game of sorts for girls. It didn't have a GM though persay, instead, it had a cassette tape. Apparently I recently learned it has quite a cult following on the internet and a complete game set is really rare and expensive. There have been a bunch of homebrew expansions for it as well and I think you can find homemade parts and the rulebook and stuff online.



I also remember me and some other girls in elementary school played some collaborative medieval fantasy storytelling game that our school had when there was a multi-day blizzard with below freezing temperatures that was bad, but not bad enough for school to be cancelled which prevented us from having recess outside. We couldn't find the rules, but it had these little hexagon tiles and how we played it is that you'd draw from and place down onto a mat and then say what you want to add in the story. It is probably more sophisticated but we sort of bullshitted everything. I wonder if me or one of the people that played still has the story we created.

Can't remember what it is called

 

[Megatardingo]

Despite ostensibly being for girls, the Sailor Moon CCG had ugly card layout that would've looked more appropriate in an earnings report.

Real nega hours

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Real talk, if you loved decorating Barbie houses or playing with Polly Pocket as a kid, you'll love Hero Quest. It's the same "put the miniature furniture in the tiny room with the tiny figures and make it look cute" kind of joy as decorating a Barbie dream house. Except usually Barbie and friends aren't murdered by Orcs. Playtime got pretty weird sometimes.

 

[Character from a movie]

(I'm sorry, I can't load the images because I'm writing on the phone. As soon as I get my laptop back I'll add the photos!)

I hope my memory isn't playing games (lol) with me, but I'm pretty sure they used to sell the game "Mystery Date" here, because I remember watching the tv commercial. It came with a toy phone with recorded messages and other stuff.

But the board game I did have as a kid, and I do remember, was the imitation, called "Llamada Misteriosa" (Mystery/Mysterious Call). The "pawns" are small cellphones which you move around the board, and there are cards and all that stuff. It is probably an imitation of the game from the 90s, and the best part is they still sell it!

 

[Fialovy]

I just thought of another girly game I had played as a kid that I can't seem to find any info about online. I remember it was sold in this catalogue called Hearthsong back in the early 2000s and it was called something like "The Rainbow Game" and it was a non-competitive co-op game where you were these fairies who were trying to make a rainbow together and you had to collect rainbow drops and put them in these bucket game pieces and there was this one rule where if the sun came out, you couldn't collect rainbow drops and had to work together to summon the rain again.

Please tell me I am not crazy.

 

[дядя Боря]

конфета Красный Богатырь

 

[Black Simp Bellamy]

Please tell me I am not crazy.

You're not crazy, just batshit insane.

 

[Fialovy]

I found this game looking on DrivethruRPG called the Housekeepers Yarn. It is supposed to be a solo RPG where you crochet a blanket with while writing a story in a journal about you are a housekeeper for a mansion and you are supposed to draw cards relating to the story. The only thing is that the crochet part feels a bit tacked on, like, in theory, you don't have to crochet and you can just write the story. Like, you could have maybe rolled a dice to see what stitch you are supposed to do and try to make it relate to the story. Concerned you are going to alienate beginners? Do a beginner, intermediate, and advanced table. Also, relating the stitches to the story is optional apparently.

Here are some excerpts. I would have really liked something that you could do as a group like something more collaborative and again, makes the crocheting feel less tacked on.

 

[frap]

There's a game called "Marrying Mr. Darcy" that's based on Pride and Prejudice.

This is great with the Pride & Prejudice (2005) soundtrack playing for background, plus the zombie expansion pack. Not much strategy though. I may yet get the Emma expansion.

Elevenses is good for 2-4 players. Really nice artwork too.