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Favorite board games

April 12, 2019 /

I grew up playing board games with my brothers. I remember playing Monopoly and if I didn’t get Board Walk I would give up! We played Scrabble, Mille Bornes, the Game of Life and a few more games. Once of my favorite games that I wish I could find was a game that had you touring France following different routes: I am hoping to find the game for sale somewhere on my trip but as of right now I don’t see it anywhere for sale.

Since I try to limit screen time for my children, when they are not playing outside or reading, I encourage them to play board games. Most of the time, they ask me to play with them. I usually do as long as it is not a long board game: I do not have much patience for that. I hope that by playing with my boys, we are making memories!

Favorite card games

The boys like to play Uno, Monopoly Deal, spoons and BS. These are all games that are also practical for traveling.

Favorite games for the younger crowd

My son N. is 5 years old.  He is pretty smart for his age, and picks up on a lot of games fairly quickly, but he does prefer playing certain games where he has more fun. His favorites games are probably Pop the Pig and Zingo. Both of these games require some math skills and counting. You roll the die for Pop the Pig and press on his head and his belly increases in size until his shirts “pops”. Zingo is a bingo game with numbers. He either has to count the number of object/picture on each square or read the number word.

We also like to play Candyland and Chutes and Ladders of course! Those garmes do drive me crazy if we are sent back to the beginning repeatedly!

Favorite games for 7 years olds and older

My two oldest enjoy Monopoly and Risk but if we are all playing together, we like to play Clue, Yatzee, Racko and Carcassonne

Needless to say, we have a lot of board games. We do go through phases when we do not play games for a week or 2 and then will play games every evening before bedtime. Hope some of these spark your interest for either your family, or as gifts for family members or friends. And of course, there are many games out there for the adults too. I really wish I had a game night with my girlfriends but we all live far from each other and with children and schedules, it is very difficult to organize!

A bientôt!

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