The winners of this week’s Giveaway is comment #12, Liz is the winner of the Melissa & Doug Checkerboard and Comment # 22, Kimery is the winner of the Melissa & Doug Chessboard. Congratulations!!!
How do we chose? The winning comment is chosen using a randomizer software.
Many of the items we offer as Giveaways are available at PennywiseLearning.com. If you would like more info about the Melissa and Doug Chess and Checkerboards, please click here.
Thank you to everyone that posted a comment.
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This week we’re picking two winners. One will receive a Melissa and Doug heirloom quality chessboard and the other a Melissa and Doug heirloom quality checkerboard. Retail Value : $29.99 each.
The Chess Board: One of the most popular games of strategy in the world, this solid-wood game will be popular at your house! The set features a hand-rubbed finished board, hand-carved pieces that conveniently lace onto leather cords for storage, and a detailed instruction booklet. Heirloom quality, solid-wood game is crafted by hand and designed to either hang on a wall or decorate an accent table!
The Checkers Board: King me!” Throughout the ages and around the world, this game of strategy has been a favorite. This solid-wood game set features a hand-rubbed finished board, checkers that conveniently lace onto a leather cord for storage and a detailed instruction booklet. Heirloom quality, solid-wood game is crafted by hand and designed to either hang on a wall or decorate an accent table!
TO ENTER TO WIN IT!!! Remember, Two Chances to Win!
Just click on Leave a Comment (below) and tell us your favorite “heirloom” game that you played as a child.
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RULES!!
- Contest will close at 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010!
- One ENTRY will be randomly chosen.
- Contest open to U.S. residents only.
I played Chess & Checkers..
Checkers was one of my favorite games as a child…….as was “pick up sticks”.
Great giveaway!
My favorite game as a child was “Scrabble.”
I played chess. I am going to introduce it to my son soon.
Cribbage and monopoly and backgammon!
I loved playing PIT!
I loved playing “Candyland”. I went through 5 games as a child and loved playing it with my own children. I still had my original from the 1950s until it finally wore out.
My sister and I liked to play checkers. My brothers never let us play chess with them!
At one grandparent’s home, we played Chinese Checkers with a unique board – the marbles stored inside the metal edge of the game board. At my other grandma’s, we played Scrabble – sometimes using 2 sets so we could have 8 people play the same game.
Checkers as a child, for sure!
My brothers and I played Chinese checkers and “war” with several decks of cards.
I loved to play MasterMind with my father.
Pick up sticks and Jacks were always my favorites
At my house we played backgammon!
I played checkers and Chinese checkers at my Granny’s house but at home I loved Clue! I liked chess… until my younger brother started beating me!
I played Rummy and Monopoly a lot. But I remember learning how to play Chess on a teak specialty wood Chess table with hand carved pieces that my dad bought oversees while in the Vietnam war. My kids are starting to learn to play on the same table with their grandpapa.
Teak is my favorite wood. I’ll bet the table is pretty awesome looking.
My favorite game was checkers, i was the checkers champ among family and friends. No one could beat me. I still like to play it! but i’m not the champ anymore, my son is.
My brother taught me to play chess. Though now, I believe he taught me so that he could have somebody to wipe up on.
We played Chinese Checkers, chess, checkers.
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@pennywiselearn : What an awesome giveaway. I have 10 yo son with little ‘time’ for book learning, but loves chess! less than 5 seconds ago from web in reply to pennywiselearn
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Dad and I always played dominos together, but I loved pick up sticks, mastermind (which we just recently bought for our kids), agravation, and concentration too. Checkers was never my favorite, but my kids love it and my daughter has taught my husband how to play Chess. :0)
My favorite “heirloom” game that I played as a child is checkers. My siblings and I would play round after round gaining better strategies each time we played.
I became a fan on Facebook!
My dad was an amazing checkers and it was always so rich to play with him because he was a great teacher of the game as well. When I would start to make a move that would cause me to loose a checker, he would say, “Are you sure you want to do that?” With a twinkle in his eye, he would coach you into making a better move. Most of the time he won the game anyway, but occasionally he let me win.
My dad finished his life here on earth about 3 months ago and is now with Jesus. I miss his encouragement, his love, and his presence more than words can say. What I wouldn’t give to be able to play a game of checkers with my dad today.
Thanks for this touching post. Our office is very sad today because Barb’s father-in-law passed away last night, suddenly. He was a close friend of PennywiseLearning.com’s as he would stop in and help us out from time to time. He will be greatly missed but praise Jesus we have a blessed hope that we shall see him again.
My favorite games were checkers, candyland, and othelo – that’s played on a checkerboard with pieces painted black on one side and white on the other.
I liked playing with monopoly and checkers!!
I loved playing good ole Go Fish with my grandmother. She always made me feel so special and probably let me win lots. I also played Checkers with my Dad and sister lots. My sister and Dad were quite competitive which made the game so much more fun! Scrabble (which probably helped my spelling lots) and Monopoly were also favorites at our house.
I was an only child with two working parents. I had a TV in my room at a very young age and was always jealous of my friends who had families who played games. We didn’t have any “heirloom” games. I had a few board games that were impossible to play alone. I am changing this with my own children. Games are really important to us.
I became a fb fan.
I made a fb status about your contest!
I am now following you on twitter
I tweeted about you.
and now this contest is on my blog at http://clotheslinemusings.blogspot.com
BTW: I’ve always wanted to learn chess.
My favorites were Monopoly, Life, & UNO
My favorites as a kid were chess, Boggle, Scrabble and Yahtzee.
My sis and I used to love Slap Jack and Yahtzee. (Don’t know if Yahtzee is ‘heirloom’ or not, but we played all the time!)
Loved to play dominoes, chinese checkers and Flinch (card game) with my grandma and chess with my brother.
My favorite childhood memory of my dad is that he taught me to play chess and patiently played many games with me. Dad went to heaven nine years ago so my son never really got to know him. I have since taught my son to play chess and more importantly shared memories of my dad with him while playing chess.
Chess was my favorite, but I liked to play checkers and backgammon with my Dad as well.
When i was a kid MONOPOLY and Clue was my favorite games to play.I still play these games and love to have family game night with my family.
I loved Scrabble, Chess, and Parcheesi.
Checkers Please!!!!