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.

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…

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?

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”.)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I didn’t know Operation has cards…

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

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.

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.