Why play board games as a family?
What’s the real reason behind playing board games and card games with your family?
Is it to teach them important life lessons or simply to have fun?
Kid Games
Wits and Wagers Family – award winning family fun
Have you heard about Wits and Wagers before? Well, if not you should know that it’s been an award winning party game since its release in 2005.
But the really great news is that North Star Games just created a new version tailored specifically for families – Wits and Wagers Family. So the big question now is: “Is it any fun?”
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Triplica – 3 ways to play 3 in a row
It’s nice when a deck of cards allows for many ways to use them in a game.
Just think of how many ways you can use a standard deck of playing cards for various family games. Of course the most played card game with a standard deck of playing cards in our family is still War. But I digress.
When we saw that the family card game Triplica had multiple ways to play, we knew there should be something to strike our fancy.
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Fast-paced card playing fun from Out of the Box
Brooke and Caleb tell what they think of 5 Out of the Box card games:
7 Ate 9, Super Circles, Run Wild, My Word, and Rock
Backseat Drawing – budding art directors abound
Let your inner artist out. Actually, it’s more like – force your brother’s inner artist out of him.
Since you can’t worry about driving when you’re young, you need to get down to more important things – like drawing.
So bring on Backseat Drawing and Backseat Drawing Jr.
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Repeat Pete – “Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence…”
I’m sure you’ve heard that joke before – because with 4 kids, I think I’ve heard it at least 100 times in our house. For those that haven’t, let me enlighten you.
Child #1 “Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who’s left?”
Child #2 “Repeat.”
Child #1 “Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who’s left?”
Laughter ensues from both Child #1 and Child #2.
S’Quarrels – Hoard your acorns now!
Winter is coming on fast and those acorns are just calling your name.
Of course, the other pesky squirrels around think those acorns should be theirs.
Too bad for them.
Worm Up! – On your mark, get set, slow
When you were a kid and it rained, did you ever go out to race boats in the gutter?
We did a bunch. We’d pick up some twigs and race each other while walking along on the sidewalk seeing who gets stuck and who sails to victory. And while we’d walk along we’d have to watch out for all the worms on the sidewalk. We sure didn’t want to step on any.
But not once did we ever think about racing the worms…until now.
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Cloud 9 – Stay in or bail out?
Isn’t Cloud 9 supposed to be the pinnacle of joy?
That dreamlike place where we’d all be happy if we could just find it?
So does it sail to high heights or fizzle?
See what the kids think.
Amazing number of board and card games
Can you believe that there are over 45,000 games to choose from out there?
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