Fun Board Games?

Parent Cafe
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<p>Apples to Apples is very easy. You can learn it in one round of play.</p>

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<p>Apples to Apples has no significant learning curve.</p>

<p>Settlers not bad at all. We figured it out without anyone teaching us - - I did look at the internet gaming sites to clarify a couple of q’s that were not clear from the instructions</p>

<p>My six year old brother can play both, but he is kinda smart.</p>

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<p>Our favorite “rainy day” game is Pit…loud but fun.</p>

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<p>There’s a card game called Fluxx where the rules continually change depending on what you draw and play - my son’s 19 and has loved it for years. You’d probably want at least three players.</p>

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<p>Fluxx is better with three, but it works with two. I played endless games with my youngest one vacation where we spent a lot of time on planes and trains. It’s a weird game, I never cared about winning - it was just fun to play.</p>

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<p>Our family loves Sequence which is a ‘card and board’ game. Not flashy…but extremely addictive. And you can never go wrong with Yahtzee, an oldy but a goody.</p>

<p>(Now in OUR family, we are big poker and blackjack players. My grandparents, the card sharks, started my siblings and cousins young, betting buttons … and we graduated to nickel/dime games by the time we were teenagers. They insisted it was all a fun math lesson…lol…but I swear they were playing to relieve us of our allowance money! Not sure if many here would appreciate the ‘betting’ aspect of this for their own kids. But what can I say…it was the '60s and we had that whole Rat Pack/Ocean’s 11 thing going on…)</p>

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<p>What about the “old” favorites?
Sorry, Battleship, Uno, Yahtzee? Maybe Monopoly takes too long?</p>

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<p>Ninja Burger (and anything else from Steve Jackson, although a bunch of other games from him have more complicated rules) is great. I second Fluxx and Set, and for a fairly short card game, Guillotine is easy and fun.</p>

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<p>[I&lt;/a&gt; was taught Fluxx last winter during a power outage-](<a href=“http://www.looneylabs.com/OurStores/product.html?ProductID=146&List=Looney+Labs]I”>http://www.looneylabs.com/OurStores/product.html?ProductID=146&List=Looney+Labs)</p>

<p>the amazon site gives a better idea of what it is like
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Looney-Labs-Fluxx-Version-3-1/dp/192978001X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6974079-4297744?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1183707417&sr=8-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Looney-Labs-Fluxx-Version-3-1/dp/192978001X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6974079-4297744?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1183707417&sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You also could find some new things on this extensive site
<a href=“http://www.ludism.org/scwiki/FrontPage[/url]”>http://www.ludism.org/scwiki/FrontPage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Anyone played Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot? I’ve got a 15 year old with a birthday coming up…</p>

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<p>Sequence is fun, both “singles” and “doubles”. Use a timer or it can become Scrabble-like…</p>

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<p>Richochet Robot is another interesting game. My mind apparently doesn’t work that way at all, and I couldn’t play it, but I wanted to! Here’s a review: <a href=“http://boardgames.about.com/library/games/blri01r1.htm[/url]”>http://boardgames.about.com/library/games/blri01r1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Another Apples to Apples fan here. College D plays regularly at school and swears by it.</p>

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<p>I hate Risk but the boys love it. We play a lot of cards, mostly Hearts and Spades, but also Tripoley which is a combination of Michigan Rummy, Hearts, and Poker. Lots of fun. You need a board, which ranges from a cheap roll-up plastic coated cloth (what we have) to a very nice actual board.</p>

<p>I love Upwords, but no one will play with me anymore. My youngest likes Apples to Apples and Star Wars Monopoly. And we all enjoy Go.</p>

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<p>We have a blast w/Canasta, teens, 20 somethings, their friends, BFs, grandparents, etc., every one likes it and there is lots of laughter, probably because we are brutal to each other! My 20 somethings do not think it is lame to be home on a weekend night playing cards w/the family, because it is fun.</p>

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<p>My family likes the card game Phase 10. Set is good and Apples to Apples. Gin and Cribbage are great card games. We’ll sometimes do a Gin tournament with a big group. Winners advance through the bracket and losers play losers.</p>

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<p>we love Mille Borne (french card game) and Pass the Pigs (not a board game, but really funny.</p>

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<p>Mexican Train Game, Blokus, Risk is really fun and very competetive.</p>

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<p>We like to play “solitaire” with multiple players. Last weekend we played with 6 of us. It was wild. Pit is fun too.</p>

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<p>Xactica (from the makers of Set), Blokus, Word Thief, Word Spot, and Boggle are some of the shorter/different games I’ve enjoyed. We have the 2-person ‘travel’ edition of Blokus, which goes very quickly but is still a lot of fun.</p>