My daughter and her husband often play board or card games in the evenings with their children instead of letting them disappear into their rooms and simply spend time on their phones. The kids enjoy playing various games and love it when they bet their parents. When I visit them, they include me, and generally bet me every time. They play one game called Labyrinth, which I really struggle with as you have to anticipate a few moves ahead and use spatial thinking, which I really struggle with.
As children, we played monopoly quite a bit, I don't like it now and call it monotony. As we got older, we learnt different and harder ones, such as scrabble, 500, and Euchre. We played 500 at school in our lunch times and at one stage, when I was picking asparagus we played Euchre in our breaks.
What games do you play with your families?
My daughter and I often play Rummikub together. She is very good at it too. Last year I found the vintage game called Payday. It is fantastic. The new version makes it too easy for them. The vintage is hard as in you need to budget, calculate interest, make sure you pay all your bills end of the month on pay day etc.
ReplyDeleteUNO is another good one we like too. Canasta is fun. Oh you've got me going now I could go on and on.
Set up a board game on the coffee table and that usually gathers the family together.
Kylie
Canasta, wow the memories. My distant cousins taught another cousin and I to play that one year when I was 15 or 16 and we went to stay with them up at their isolated farm in NZ. Great game and wonderful memories of a very special time. Thanks for reminding me Kylie.
DeleteWe love playing board games too. We like Cluedo, Uno, Pictionary. And I'm with you on the Monopoly. My husband patiently plays it with our 10 year old daughter!
ReplyDeletePictionary is soooo much fun. One year when my daughter was on a school ski trip in NZ and I went along as a parent helper, us parents would charade it in the evenings once we'd got the kids into their beds (not going to say asleep, because that didn't happen for hours). It was a hoot. We also played Pictionary every Xmas holiday when we went camping with a group of families - once again, once all the kids were safely tucked up in their stretches. We'd pit the men against the women - it got very heated and noisy, not sure the other campers always appreciated that, but we sure had fun.
DeleteI was a terrible Monopoly player as s child. I upset to get upset in the middle of the game and quit, crying. My father told me I couldn't play any more if I did that, so I stopped. I liked ping pong, but that's not really a board game. We used to play Yahtzee and Backgammon. I loved those...oh and Parcheesi. That was a fun one.
ReplyDeleteYahtzee, I'd forgotten that one, probably because I'm not that good at it. Parcheesi, I'll have to look that one up, never heard of it. Cheers
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