My family loves simple games that are adaptable for a number of different situations. SET is an easy-to-learn card game that can be played together as a family, or individually as a brain teaser. You can play it as long as you want or play it for just a few minutes as a quick boredom…
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Game of the Month
Playing games is one of our favorite family activities. Each month we feature a different game, including the skills it practices, basic instructions and tips for playing with the whole family, including children of varying ages, even if they are considered "too young to play."
Game of the Month: Pente – A Classic 5 in a Row Strategy Game
September’s game of the month is dedicated to the glory of thrift store finds. That’s right. I purchased this Pente game for fifty cents! And it has brought me hundreds of dollars of fun. I’d never even heard of Pente before and now I had been seriously missing out. Pente is the perfect board game…
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Game of the Month: Cat Crimes
I bet you love it when your children can sit down and play a quiet brainteaser or thinking game. You know that they are building their brains and keeping out of mischief at the same time! ThinkFun is one of my favorite go-to game resources because they have a huge repertoire of single player brainteasers…
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Game of the Month: Frog Juice
Let me tell you about a spellbinding card game! In the instruction booklet to their game, Gamewright confesses that Frog Juice is their favorite game, “It’s the perfect mix between a fairy tale and a strategy game!” And our family agrees, which is why this card game is our game of the month! We love playing…
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Game of the Month: Mancala
Can a classic board game solve all your problems? Of course not. But let me tell you a little story about mancala. I never played mancala when I was a kid. Never even heard of it. You know what a game nerd I am so that might surprise you. Or you may be asking, “What’s mancala?”…
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Game of the Month: Yoga Spinner
There are few indoor games which gets bodies moving as well as brains thinking so you can bet that when I find an active indoor game that my kids enjoy we play it as much as possible. ThinkFun’s Yoga Spinner has been fitting the bill lately and I have been pleasantly surprised at how much my…
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Game of the Month: Mille Bornes (Vroom! Vroom!)
We uncovered this classic gem card game when my in-laws unloaded a bunch of games on our family. Mille Bornes is a French card game (so you can feel très internationale while you are playing) from 1963. “Mille Bornes” translates to “one thousand milestones,” but it might as well translate to “one thousand kinds of…
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Game of the Month: Boochie
Now that our family has an amazing, awesome backyard, I thought I should make our game of the month an amazing, awesome backyard game. We have been playing Boochie almost every day since we bought it. It has three spectacular characteristics. Every time you play, the game changes. It requires everyone to move their whole body. It…
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Game of the Month: Animalogic
We’ve owned AnimaLogic for years now, and this solitary logic game from Fat Brain Toys is one that has served us well. It brilliantly exercises the kids’ thinking skills. Note: This post contains affiliate links. A number of our recent selections for the game of the month feature have been strategy and logic games, and…
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Game of the Month: Dr. Eureka Speed Logic Game
My kids and I love logic games and puzzles, as you well know. Recently, Blue Orange Games sent us one of their new games, Dr. Eureka Speed Logic Game, to try out. We love many of Blue Orange Games and I have featured several of them as games of the month, such as the preschool…
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