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In a message dated 1/5/2005 1:50:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
mfhickman@... writes:

>One of my favorite methods of strewing stuff is to clean out a spot.<

I just took out all the "stuff" from the hall closet. It has all our board
games and puzzles.
Just leaving it all out for awhile led to many discoveries. Forgotten games
as well as miscellaneous things like magnets, balsa wood and mystery cards.

We usually pick out one or two really old ones that we never play any more
to give away to younger kids and to make room for our newest games. Lego
Island and a game called Secret Door made way for some of our newest games from
Christmas...Set, Imaginiff and Cranium Conga. Imaginiff is a great group
game...it says 12 and up but I think maybe 9 and up with a little help.

One example I remember is "If ______ were a type of soup what would she
be." I was in the blank and from the 6 choices my 2 kids and ex-husband said
Chicken Noodle. I said Split Pea! Then they all told me why they chose what
they did. The idea is to choose the answer most of the other people will
choose but it's still very revealing and can make some fun connections. The
people playing the game take turns being in the "fill-in-the blank" spot but
you can also put in other people like Sponge Bob or Chandler from Friends or
your kids favorite grandparent..... Definitely my favorite new game!

Any other new (or old) games you all would recommend?

Gail




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anneboat1

--- In [email protected], gailbrocop@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/5/2005 1:50:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> mfhickman@c... writes:
>
> >One of my favorite methods of strewing stuff is to clean out a
spot.<
>
> I just took out all the "stuff" from the hall closet. It has all
our board
> games and puzzles.
> Just leaving it all out for awhile led to many discoveries.
Forgotten games
> as well as miscellaneous things like magnets, balsa wood and
mystery cards.
>
> We usually pick out one or two really old ones that we never play
any more
> to give away to younger kids and to make room for our newest
games. Lego
> Island and a game called Secret Door made way for some of our
newest games from
> Christmas...Set, Imaginiff and Cranium Conga. Imaginiff is a
great group
> game...it says 12 and up but I think maybe 9 and up with a little
help.
>
> One example I remember is "If ______ were a type of soup what
would she
> be." I was in the blank and from the 6 choices my 2 kids and ex-
husband said
> Chicken Noodle. I said Split Pea! Then they all told me why
they chose what
> they did. The idea is to choose the answer most of the other
people will
> choose but it's still very revealing and can make some fun
connections. The
> people playing the game take turns being in the "fill-in-the
blank" spot but
> you can also put in other people like Sponge Bob or Chandler from
Friends or
> your kids favorite grandparent..... Definitely my favorite new
game!
>
> Any other new (or old) games you all would recommend?
>
> Gail
>
> Some of my favorites are Triominos, Blokus, Upwords, Sequence. We
got a few new ones at Christmas but haven't cut into all of them
yet. Also, my kids get a big bang out of making up their own games.
For instance, I called out a word and one of them is to write it on
an index card, and I keep repeating this with the theme of them
being able to create compound words when they are all done writing
out the cards. My youngest caught on to this before we even started
to put them together. Another thing that came up was again my
youngest was on the computer typing in giant numbers and printing
them off. He was proud of this achievement, so I had him mount them
on index cards. Now we can make up different number games like what
are the odd or evens, add this and that to get what, type of
questions.
Ann
>
>
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In a message dated 1/5/2005 1:39:06 PM Mountain Standard Time,
annstoll@... writes:
Any other new (or old) games you all would recommend?
-------------------

Encore.
We have the old one, but there's a new one as of a year and some ago.

I wrote some about it here:

http://sandradodd.com/music


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Angela S

We got two new Binary Arts/Think Fun games for Christmas.
http://www.wonderbrains.com/page/wb/CTGY/games-all

We already had Rush Hour Traffic Jam, which we love, and now we have Shape
By Shape and Brick By Brick. They are logic games that you play
individually, but we take pleasure in competing against each other some
times.



We also got Horseopoly for Christmas. We already had Whoville-opoly, but we
like Monopoly games. The horse one is a fun version with the cheaper
properties being ponies and on up, until you get to the expensive
properties, which are draft horses.



We also got a new game called Horse Race. The amount you pay (bet) is times
1, time 2, times 3 or times 4, depending on what number you roll. Gives us
all a chance to practice multiplying and it's fun to win a load of play
money. (you can play with real money too, if you like.)



Five Kings is still on my want list.



We planned on going to my sister's house on New Year's Eve to play Texas
Hold Em. The kids were worried about feeling left out because they didn't
know how to play, so I gave them a crash course on Poker the day before we
went. Both girls played and did very well. There were 11 people who played
at $2 a person. My 8 yo came home with $20 in winnings. (home school math,
LOL!) She put the money towards another riding lesson. :-)



Angela

game-enthusiast@...



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In a message dated 1/5/2005 4:13:42 PM Mountain Standard Time,
game-enthusiast@... writes:
Five Kings is still on my want list.
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Five Crowns, I"m guessing.

Or is there one I don't know about?

Holly and I have played MANY times on Mastermind for Kids. Got it at Toys
R'Us.


Sandra


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Cyndi

Hi,

My kids are really into a new game (?) called Flip and Find
(although not necessarily a board game). It's a scavenger hunt game
and you use magazines to find pictures of the items on the cards.
For instance, items on the cards might be as generic as "find a belt
buckle" to teenybop questions, like "find a cute guy wearing
jeans". It's a fast flip game and first that hits the buzzer wins
the card. Well, this is how I understand the game anyway...my kids
have only let me play once for a short time because "I stink" at it
and I slow them down! But they have a blast playing together.

I was just thinking you could probably make this game yourself using
index cards, a bell and a good stack of magazines.

Cyndi

Angela S

Five Kings is still on my want list.



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Five Crowns, I"m guessing. Holly and I have played MANY times on Mastermind
for Kids. Got it at Toys
R'Us.




* Yeah, I meant Five Crowns. :-) We have regular Mastermind and
Mastermind for kids and we like them both. We also really like Mancala,
Payday, Risk, and Take Off, among others. :-)
*
* Angela

Game-enthusiast@...



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My 12yo daughter Sarah and I had a lot of fun playing Blokus with two other
moms at our most recent game day. Strategy, visualization, and it's pretty to
boot. The box insert to hold the pieces is frustratingly flimsy, good thing the
board is plenty sturdy.

Gobblet has been a favorite since Pat talked me into buying it from the
Manhattan Children's Museum gift shop two years ago. It's deceptively simple,
like tic tac toe. I'm really good at strategy games, not so strong apparently on
some kinds of visualization. Sarah beats me at this game most of the time.

Quarto we found at a thrift store a while back and it's become a regular.
Players choose the piece their opponent must place on the board - a real strategy
twister.

Sarah has taken Mad Dash to every Fun Club day the last few months, she's
having a competition of sorts with an older teen boy there, they play at least a
few rounds every week. Deck of 50 cards each with a state name, the object is
to make the longest trail you can from state to state in three minutes. Alaska
and Hawaii are wild cards you can use in place of a missing state in your
half of the deck. Extra points for going coast to coast. States score points
based on how many neighbors they have - Maine is a high value because you can only
go from there to one other state, Kentucky has many ways in and out so low
value.

We collect games, they're everywhere in the house right now. My sister comes
for Christmas and spends at least half her time here playing games with my
kids. :)

Deborah in IL


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In a message dated 1/5/05 11:21:06 PM, DACunefare@... writes:

<< Sarah has taken Mad Dash to every Fun Club day the last few months >>

Fun Club...
That's a good name for a group.

"Goof Group" was ours years ago, but Fun Club sounds more uplifting.
Less goofy.

Sandra

pam sorooshian

Mastermind, Pente, Othello, Abalone - these are among my favorites - I
like strategy games.

Risk is a favorite among the teenagers.

We've been playing Boggle a lot, lately.

Played Five Crowns the past couple of days because it was mentioned
here so I pulled it out into sight and Rosie picked it up and wanted to
play.

Mostly we play cards a lot.

-pam

On Jan 5, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Angela S wrote:

> Five Crowns, I"m guessing. Holly and I have played MANY times on
> Mastermind
> for Kids. Got it at Toys
> R'Us.

mamaaj2000

Would that be hard to make with index cards? I guess you'd need the
state name and would have to figure out which states have high vs low
points. Anything else?

--aj

--- In [email protected], DACunefare@a... wrote:
>> Sarah has taken Mad Dash to every Fun Club day the last few
months, she's
> having a competition of sorts with an older teen boy there, they
play at least a
> few rounds every week. Deck of 50 cards each with a state name, the
object is
> to make the longest trail you can from state to state in three
minutes. Alaska
> and Hawaii are wild cards you can use in place of a missing state
in your
> half of the deck. Extra points for going coast to coast. States
score points
> based on how many neighbors they have - Maine is a high value
because you can only
> go from there to one other state, Kentucky has many ways in and out
so low
> value.