squeakybiscuit

Do any of you have Settlers of Catan? My son is a big Risk fan, and I
was looking for something new he would like. It's kind of pricey
though (41.99 at Toys R Us!) so I didn't want to buy until I was
pretty sure he'd like it.

Is it a difficult game to learn? Is it fun? Would it be fun for a kid
who LOVES the Strategy in Games like Risk and Stratego?



Also..my daughter LOVES trivia games. Trivial Pursuit junior is a
little too easy to be fun..Regular Trivial Pursuit is a little hard
because a lot of it is music she's never heard of and tv shows/movies
that were popular before she was even born! She does hold her own,
but it would be great to find one that was a better fit!


Do you have any other suggestions for games your family loves?

canadiangranola

How old is your son? I think a kid who is 10 and up might be able to play it. We have played it
a lot as adults and love it.
Could you find someone who has it and borrow it for a few run throughs?

ANno

Debra Rossing

Does he like Star Wars? The Star Wars versions (one relates to episodes
1-3 and the other to 4-6) are Risk with a twist. You *can* play them
like the standard Risk but there's also a set of alternate rules that
make it really fun and uses some different strategies. My DS is almost
10 and we got the two Risk versions over the last couple of years (so he
was 8 and 9 when we got them) and he had no problem playing either of
them - in fact, he often wins (and DH and I *do not* pull punches;
sometimes DH wins - I rarely ever win at Risk).

Deb


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Mara

My older boys liked those games and also Blokus, (strategy with different shaped color pieces that look cool taking over the board - most fun for 3 or 4 players) when they were around 12 and 16, now my younger one likes to play it too.
Mara


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From: squeakybiscuit <squeakybiscuit@...>
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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:41:33 AM
Subject: [unschoolingbasics] Board Games?


Do any of you have Settlers of Catan? My son is a big Risk fan, and I
was looking for something new he would like. It's kind of pricey
though (41.99 at Toys R Us!) so I didn't want to buy until I was
pretty sure he'd like it.

Is it a difficult game to learn? Is it fun? Would it be fun for a kid
who LOVES the Strategy in Games like Risk and Stratego?

Also..my daughter LOVES trivia games. Trivial Pursuit junior is a
little too easy to be fun..Regular Trivial Pursuit is a little hard
because a lot of it is music she's never heard of and tv shows/movies
that were popular before she was even born! She does hold her own,
but it would be great to find one that was a better fit!

Do you have any other suggestions for games your family loves?




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Faith Void

you can get a variety of decks with different themes for trivial
pursuit. we have a bunch from yard sales. my 11 y/o likes to play with
us so we alter the rules for her to level the playing field.
Faith

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:41 AM, squeakybiscuit
<squeakybiscuit@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Do any of you have Settlers of Catan? My son is a big Risk fan, and I
> was looking for something new he would like. It's kind of pricey
> though (41.99 at Toys R Us!) so I didn't want to buy until I was
> pretty sure he'd like it.
>
> Is it a difficult game to learn? Is it fun? Would it be fun for a kid
> who LOVES the Strategy in Games like Risk and Stratego?
>
> Also..my daughter LOVES trivia games. Trivial Pursuit junior is a
> little too easy to be fun..Regular Trivial Pursuit is a little hard
> because a lot of it is music she's never heard of and tv shows/movies
> that were popular before she was even born! She does hold her own,
> but it would be great to find one that was a better fit!
>
> Do you have any other suggestions for games your family loves?
>
>

Debra Rossing

Blokus is a favorite here too as well as mexican train dominoes

Deb


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Debra Rossing

Oh, also, if you've got a PS2, there's a Trivial Pursuit game for it
that we like. It has 3 'variations' on the basic game. But, being a
videogame that can't hear you saying the answer, it's all multiple
choice, which made it a little more even for DS to play even though he
was maybe 6 or 7 when we got the game. He could flat out guess and have
a shot at the answer (they give 4 possible answers).

--Deb



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kel9769

We like Blockus too. Set is also a good one. We have Nickolodeon
Trivial Pursuit that is fun. We also just got a new game called
either Dicetopia or Dicemania something like that. We got it at
Barnes & Noble bookstore. It has over a hundred different dice and
three different sets of cards- action cards, thinking cards and trivia
cards. It's sort of like Cadoo... which is another great game! Can
you tell my girl is a big game player? By far her all time favorite
is Monopoly. We have about five different sets and she has at least
three more on her wish list.
Kelly

lkowalsk

We love Whoonu (by Cranium), Scrambled States of America (goes with the book by the
same name - which is fabulous!), Gobblet, and The Secret Door (a non-cooperative game
by Family Pastimes). My girls are 5 and 8, to give you an approximate age reference.

Leslie (in NJ)

--- In [email protected], "squeakybiscuit" <squeakybiscuit@...>
wrote:
>
> Do any of you have Settlers of Catan? My son is a big Risk fan, and I
> was looking for something new he would like. It's kind of pricey
> though (41.99 at Toys R Us!) so I didn't want to buy until I was
> pretty sure he'd like it.
>
> Is it a difficult game to learn? Is it fun? Would it be fun for a kid
> who LOVES the Strategy in Games like Risk and Stratego?
>
>
>
> Also..my daughter LOVES trivia games. Trivial Pursuit junior is a
> little too easy to be fun..Regular Trivial Pursuit is a little hard
> because a lot of it is music she's never heard of and tv shows/movies
> that were popular before she was even born! She does hold her own,
> but it would be great to find one that was a better fit!
>
>
> Do you have any other suggestions for games your family loves?
>

Barbara Perez

Hey! THose are some of our favorites, too! Except for the Secret Door, which
I'm not familiar with - by the way did you mean
cooperative/non-competitive?! If so, I'll be looking into that game :)

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:43 AM, lkowalsk <lrkowalski@...> wrote:

> We love Whoonu (by Cranium), Scrambled States of America (goes with the
> book by the
> same name - which is fabulous!), Gobblet, and The Secret Door (a
> non-cooperative game
> by Family Pastimes). My girls are 5 and 8, to give you an approximate age
> reference.
>
> Leslie (in NJ)
>
> --- In [email protected]<unschoolingbasics%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "squeakybiscuit" <squeakybiscuit@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Do any of you have Settlers of Catan? My son is a big Risk fan, and I
> > was looking for something new he would like. It's kind of pricey
> > though (41.99 at Toys R Us!) so I didn't want to buy until I was
> > pretty sure he'd like it.
> >
> > Is it a difficult game to learn? Is it fun? Would it be fun for a kid
> > who LOVES the Strategy in Games like Risk and Stratego?
> >
> >
> >
> > Also..my daughter LOVES trivia games. Trivial Pursuit junior is a
> > little too easy to be fun..Regular Trivial Pursuit is a little hard
> > because a lot of it is music she's never heard of and tv shows/movies
> > that were popular before she was even born! She does hold her own,
> > but it would be great to find one that was a better fit!
> >
> >
> > Do you have any other suggestions for games your family loves?
> >
>
>
>


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Adrean Clark

I really really like board and card games but don't have anyone I can
play with(out "pulling punches") yet.

Boardspace.net is a great site for those "out there" abstract games
like Hive, Zertz, and Gobblet.

If you all could pick one board game and one card game to take to Live
and Learn, what would it be?

I'd take Bananagrams and Nacho Loco :D

Adrean

On 4/29/08, lkowalsk <lrkowalski@...> wrote:
> We love Whoonu (by Cranium), Scrambled States of America (goes with the book
> by the
> same name - which is fabulous!), Gobblet, and The Secret Door (a
> non-cooperative game
> by Family Pastimes). My girls are 5 and 8, to give you an approximate age
> reference.
>
> Leslie (in NJ)
>
> --- In [email protected], "squeakybiscuit"
> <squeakybiscuit@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Do any of you have Settlers of Catan? My son is a big Risk fan, and I
> > was looking for something new he would like. It's kind of pricey
> > though (41.99 at Toys R Us!) so I didn't want to buy until I was
> > pretty sure he'd like it.
> >
> > Is it a difficult game to learn? Is it fun? Would it be fun for a kid
> > who LOVES the Strategy in Games like Risk and Stratego?
> >
> >
> >
> > Also..my daughter LOVES trivia games. Trivial Pursuit junior is a
> > little too easy to be fun..Regular Trivial Pursuit is a little hard
> > because a lot of it is music she's never heard of and tv shows/movies
> > that were popular before she was even born! She does hold her own,
> > but it would be great to find one that was a better fit!
> >
> >
> > Do you have any other suggestions for games your family loves?
> >
>
>
>
>

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Leslie Kowalski

Hi Barbara,

Family Pastimes games are all designed with an obstacle in mind, that
the players work together on, rather than against each other. They
have a large number of games, for all different ages. In the Secret
Door, which is a matching game, there are "thieves" that have stolen
3 treasures from a house, and everyone together figures out which
ones. Over the time that we have been playing the game, we have
woven a story about the family that lives in the house, and have come
up with some funny themes!

Leslie (in NJ)

---------------

Hey! THose are some of our favorites, too! Except for the Secret
Door, which
I'm not familiar with - by the way did you mean
cooperative/non-competitive?! If so, I'll be looking into that game :)

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:43 AM, lkowalsk <lrkowalski@...>
wrote:

> We love Whoonu (by Cranium), Scrambled States of America (goes
with the
> book by the
> same name - which is fabulous!), Gobblet, and The Secret Door (a
> non-cooperative game
> by Family Pastimes). My girls are 5 and 8, to give you an
approximate age
> reference.
>
> Leslie (in NJ)
>

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Debra Rossing

If we could just pick one, presuming it'd just be for us to play (not
something we'd necessarily be sharing - that'd be a whole different set
of parameters) then it'd likely be Cribbage - all 3 of us like it (DS
has been learning and getting better at it for the last 6 months or so)
or chess - it's fairly easy to pack games. *However* if we had lots of
space to pack with, we might opt for one of the Star Wars Risk versions
or perhaps MegaMonopoly (bigger boxes, lots of little pieces, etc). And,
if we were planning to have it in a public space to play with others we
might pick our Pokemon card decks or a cool Bionicle board game we
picked up cheap at a tag sale a couple of years ago. I think we brought
that to the last conference we went to - it was a bit bumpy explaining
all the rules of the game to random folks but it seemed to work out
(probably would have worked better in a less-busy environment than the
game room we were in - it takes a lot of space and we were kind of
getting walked around on the floor, lots of distractions to the
players).

Deb


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Barbara Perez

Thanks! Sounds like I should look them up :)

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Leslie Kowalski <lrkowalski@...>
wrote:

> Hi Barbara,
>
> Family Pastimes games are all designed with an obstacle in mind, that
> the players work together on, rather than against each other. They
> have a large number of games, for all different ages. In the Secret
> Door, which is a matching game, there are "thieves" that have stolen
> 3 treasures from a house, and everyone together figures out which
> ones. Over the time that we have been playing the game, we have
> woven a story about the family that lives in the house, and have come
> up with some funny themes!
>
> Leslie (in NJ)
>
> ---------------
>
>
> Hey! THose are some of our favorites, too! Except for the Secret
> Door, which
> I'm not familiar with - by the way did you mean
> cooperative/non-competitive?! If so, I'll be looking into that game :)
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:43 AM, lkowalsk <lrkowalski@...<lrkowalski%40verizon.net>>
>
> wrote:
>
> > We love Whoonu (by Cranium), Scrambled States of America (goes
> with the
> > book by the
> > same name - which is fabulous!), Gobblet, and The Secret Door (a
> > non-cooperative game
> > by Family Pastimes). My girls are 5 and 8, to give you an
> approximate age
> > reference.
> >
> > Leslie (in NJ)
> >
>
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>
>
>


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