We’ve found that being intentional in teaching kids through the use of board games, allows us to teach them so many important life lessons.
Here are 4 common challenges kids face today and how teaching through board games can help them grow.
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With 111 custom dice, you can expect to do a lot of dice-rolling in Roll For The Galaxy.
However, mountains of dice aren’t all that’s included in the game.
While dice rolling may be the centerpiece of the game, the game wouldn’t be complete without all the 55 double-sided tiles. Because it’s those tiles that you’ll be working with to explore, develop, and settle throughout the game on your way to galactic victory!
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In Dimension, players must build their own pyramid using colored spheres before the timer runs out. It isn’t a race to see who can build their pyramid the fastest.
Instead, the crux of the game is making sure your pyramid complies with the 6 placement rules each round.
It can be a bit tricky. But each round goes by so quickly, it’s easy to play over and over while enjoying one another’s company.
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With the start of a new year, it’s time once again to look back on our last year of family board game playing.
And what a great year it’s been!
Looking back, here are a few highlights from our year in board gaming:
Read moreCodenames is an engaging word party game where 2 teams compete to locate their agents amidst a 5 x 5 grid of words on the table.
Each team has one Spymaster who can give a 1-word clue each round for their teammates to locate their agents. Spymasters need to think creatively and their teammates need to decipher the clues well to find their agents first.
With 200 double-sided cards, the possible mix of words in the grid are endless – creating a game with a ton of replay value. It’s a game that anyone can join in having fun playing.
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With the kids out of school for two weeks and myself having time off from work during the holidays, it’s a fantastic time for playing board games!
To add to the holiday fun, we’ve had a very white Christmas. Aside from shoveling the driveway and walks many times over the last week, we love having thick blankets of snow everywhere.
The deep snow also makes for a great time to cozy up inside near the fireplace and watch movies and play games. We’ve had our Star Wars run (watching episodes 1-6 over the last month in prep for The Force Awakens last week), as well as a handful of Harry Potter movies. And we’ve had some great laughs playing Just Dance, Mario Party 9, and Rayman Raving Rabbids.
We also took advantage of the fresh snow on some good sledding hills nearby. And of course, we’ve played a bunch of board games.
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From our family to yours – we wish you a very Merry Christmas! At this time of year, our minds
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If your family finds new board games under your Christmas tree this week, you’re in for a treat.
You’re also in for some learning time. Because in order to know how to play those shiny new games, you’ll first have to learn how to play them.
Your kids won’t want to wait while you to read all the rules. They’ll just want to play.
You’re in luck because we’ve got some tips for you.
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One of the things we like best about Forgotten King is that it contains two play modes:
Classic Mode, in which someone controls the dungeon and its monsters while everyone else takes the roles of the heroes.
Arcade Mode, which allows for a fully co-operative game for up to five players.
Since it’s sometimes tiring to get beat by my hero boys, I really like the Arcade Mode where we’re all on the same team against the onslaught of monsters.
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It’s time to head into a galaxy far, far away!
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting movie theaters this week, we couldn’t wait any longer to post our review of Star Wars: Imperial Assault.
You may have seen mentions of the game pop up on our site before now. We’ve included it in our 2015 Board Game Gift Guide as well as in Dad’s 20 Favorite Board Games list. And now it’s time to dive into it.
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