Caleb is our “go to” board game player. If you’re ever in the mood to play a board game or a card game, you’ll find an eager player in Caleb. Mention playing a game and he’ll be right there. In fact, if you delay even a bit after mentioning playing a game, chances are good that he’s already got a game out, set up, cards dealt out and ready to play.
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November and December are perhaps the busiest months for board game and card game purchases. When it’s time to buy gifts, so many families turn to board games.
Why? Because they’re a ton of fun to play with family. There’s a lot of bonding that can happen around a game table. And the holidays bring a lot of family together. Good memories and good times.
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The other day I was looking at what the recent top selling board games are – to see what consumers
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What do teenage boys think are the best board games and best card games around?
Well, you’re about to find out because today we’re taking a peak at what Jaden considers to be the best board games, card games, and party games.
Jaden is our 14 (soon to be 15) year old son and with our board game shelves full of over 300 games, he’s played hundreds of games. He’s also at the stage where he’s pretty particular about what he spends his time doing.
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We get asked a simple question a lot this time of year. “What are the best family board games?” and “What board games should we get for our family?”
This year we’re trying something different. We thought it would be a good idea to share the perspective of each member of our family on what games they’d put at the top of such a list. So rather than just getting dad’s summary and having it go on and on with so many great board games and card games. We’re giving you the perspective of everyone else (then maybe dad will sneak something in in the end).
And we’ll start right at the top with Mom.
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Out of the Box publishing attempted to set a World Record last night of the most people playing a word game – Word on the Street.
It was conducted during half-time of the BYU / Idaho football game played in Provo, UT. And we only say “attempted” because we don’t yet know if it set a record or not. But we think it was a great way to try to set a record.
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Earlier this year (2012) AEG did a reset of sorts and released a new iteration of Thunderstone called Thunderstone Advance. With the first set being Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin. (We say “first” because you know immediately they’ll be more to come.)
Don’t let the name fool you though. This isn’t an elevated or more difficult version of the game. Instead what AEG did was take all the fantastic things that they’d learned from the previous versions and made a streamlined game that incorporates many great refinements into one system.
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Timeline is a light card game that’s great for families. Not only is it simple to play, but chances are you’ll learn something along the way as well.
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Our nephew (and cousin) returned last week from his 2 year church mission and we got to spend the extended weekend with their family catching up on many things as well as playing lots of board games!
Knowing that we’d be spending a long weekend at their home, and that Jake loves playing board games, we had the tough choice of which games we should first introduce him to upon his return. We wanted to take games he’d already be familiar with, but we also wanted to play games that we’ve added to our game shelves over the last 2 years that we thought he’d love.
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Shrimp Cocktail is a card game that’s great for kids and helps develop their visual recognition skills as they race to be the first to spot matches among the shrimp on the cards.
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