With everyone social distancing and taking self-quarantine measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a number of friends have asked me for game suggestions. Here are some of the games we’re playing and enjoying in our house:
**I will try to update this post with more details over the next few days. But for now, I’m off to play a game with my kids.**… Continue reading
Skip-Bo is a fun card game the whole family can enjoy. The rules are fairly simple, and you can learn them quickly. And it’s an easy enough game that almost anyone who is able to recognize and sequence their numbers can play.
We’ve played with anywhere from 2 to 6 people, and had fun with each different grouping. If you added a second deck of cards, you could easily have more people join in the game.… Continue reading
Our family loves to play games together. And as my 5-year-old’s strategy skills build, we’re able to play more and more complex games as a family. Our family’s current favorite board game is Parcheesi.
In this game, your goal is to move four pawns from your start position into your home. On the way, you can capture your opponents pawns for a significant bonus, or you might be captured and back sent back to the start yourself.… Continue reading
Last week my 4-year-old discovered he could put together puzzles. Not the wooden puzzles we had around while he was a toddler, but more complex puzzles aimed at older kids.
His growth and development have made many big leaps recently, but this is one that he’s latched onto himself as being proud of. (His better sleeping skills are the one my sweetie and I are most delighted with.) … Continue reading
My 8-year-old received a Ticket to Ride board game over the holidays. He loves it so much, we’ve played it almost daily since he received it. Some days we’ve even played it more than once.
The game looks complicated at first. It gives you several different things to think about and manage as you play. But once you’ve played through a game and see how it all comes together, it’s fairly straightforward.… Continue reading
It’s no secret that my family loves playing games together. While for a while Uno was the card game of choice (see HERE), and we still enjoy cooperative games like Mole Rats in Space (see HERE), the reigning game of choice in our house is Sleeping Queens.
Sleeping Queens is a fun card game that involves a little bit simple strategy, some basic addition skills, a small amount of remembering, and good dose of chance. … Continue reading
We like to play games in our family. Board games, card games, outdoor games; we’ll play them all. And now that my four-year-old is ready to join in the fun, it’s enabled us to take our games a step beyond Slips and Ladders and Candy Land.
Cooperative games have been a big hit in our house because, instead of competing with each other, we all work together to win or lose the game. … Continue reading
I love to play games. Board games. Card games. Strategy games. Word games. Puzzle-solving games. Any of them. And my boys seem to have inherited that same love.
Over the years my 8-year-old has been a fan of a huge number of games, each for their own period of time. My 4-year-old is just beginning to enjoy game playing with games that aren’t cooperative, meaning everyone works together (Cauldron Quest and Wildcraft are two cooperative games that we enjoy; I’ll review them another time.).… Continue reading
This afternoon my 6-year-old wanted to play hopscotch. So we all headed outside and proceeded to draw a hopscotch course on our patio. Once it was complete, my two boys and I all took turns hopping back and forth up and down the course. We did the course with one foot, with two feet, with all left foot jumps, with all right foot jumps, and even tried jumping through it backwards (though it was hard to avoid the lines that way).… Continue reading