Would Bingo by another name smell as sweet?

I've posted before about various bits of nostalgia from my childhood, such as the Brains Benton books and Flash Gordon shows. But I don't think I've ever written about the board games I remember playing as a kid, which is a bit of an oversight when you consider that anybody reading this is almost certain to have made my acquaintance by virtue of our mutual ties to a certain game company (aka The Company). (Upon adding tags to this post, I was astonished to find that I didn't even have a 'games' tag!) Since I no longer have any of these games (chances are, if any of them still exist, my older brother has them), I decided to dig up some vintage images of a few of the games I played.

After concentrating on the search for a bit, I came up with this box image of Milton Bradley's Concentration. From what I can find on BoardGameGeek.com, looks like 1st or 2nd edition, circa 1958, and I'm virtually certain this is the version we had. Nifty plastic case where you inserted the shuffled matching pictures behind the numbers. Very high tech for the time.

Like everyone else, we had a Monopoly game. IIRC, it was handed down from my aunt, and may well have been the 1935 edition pictured here, or something very close to it. Although I simply don't recall the box, the money and the rule sheet look right, and it definitely had wooden playing pieces (not the metal ones) like these, as well as wood houses and hotels.


This is one I had completely forgotten about until I ran across it on BoardGameGeek.com: Careers. This 1958 edition is the one that looks most familiar to me. You could pursue Fame, Happiness, and/or Money in a combination of your choosing (i.e., you set your own victory conditions).

But wait -- there's more!

I was surprised to find that our Rack-o was apparently a first edition (1956). You placed your cards in the rack initially in the order they were dealt, and then you had to get them in numerical order by swapping out a drawn card for one in your rack each turn. Or something like that. I mean, really, it's been about 50 years since I last played Rack-o. It'd be kinda scary if I actually still remembered the exact rules.

On the other hand, with some vintage games it's pretty hard to forget the rules, because they're still around in some form that everyone is familiar with. Case in point: This really vintage (1927) Hokum game, which is really just Bingo by another name. In fact, Parker Brothers actually had another game with a box that looked exactly like this one -- except the name of the game was Jingo. My grandmother had a Hokum game that looked like this, and I played many a game with my grandmother and aunt. The only trouble with the game was that there was a mighty limited number of play boards (I can't imagine there were more than half a dozen), and my grandmother's set was missing one of the caller's tokens (I'm pretty sure it was one of the O numbers, maybe O-18, and the fact that I remember that piece of trivia makes me doubt my own sanity; surely that can't be normal). Since that particular letter/number appeared on only one board, you soon learned that you did not want that board, because that was one spot you could never get.

So, does anyone else out there remember these games?