Fun Board & Card Games for 2+
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Funkyart
7 months agoI can't exactly recommend this game as I haven't played it... but it has high ratings and I know some of you here will love it!
I just got a promo for Stet! from the NYT Book Review but it is also on the Big A for a little less.
The Nightmare Before Christmas game of Clue is beautiful and creepy and perfect for this time of year into Christmas... but 8 yo nephew had a hard time choosing between this one and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid version.
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Comments (150)Hi all, kind of new to this forum. I might have posted last year, but I don't recall. Anyway, we have app. 2/3 acre here behind deer fence, with all the rest (woods, fields, pond) not. As you've probably assumed, the fenced-in area is for my good stuff -- my daylily collection, hostas, and new-to-me veg garden. (Never have had one before.) At one end of the fenced area is a smallish barn -- with a nice little burrow letting out into my garden. One of the windows in my home office looks out onto the garden, and all this summer, I watched the resident woodchuck waddle out and start eating. He started with my broccoli before I knew he was there. I won't kill an animal, and I didn't have a Hav-a-Heart trap, so he (she? it?) and I immediately came to an understanding. He/she/it can eat all the grass, clover, and chickweed he/she/it wants. The daylilies, hostas, and veg are mine. And it's worked very well, probably because there is so much grass here. If he/she/it starts waddling too closely to the veg bed, I make a big to-do on the patio, jumping up and down & yelling. He/she/it immediately makes for the burrow. Yes I know, someone here's going to tell me it's just a matter of time before the thing destroys my garden, and I take to extreme measures. Nope, I'm with the Marsha who leaves unmowed grass and a natural buffet buffer for critters. If necessary, I'll buy a Hav-a-Heart trap, catch the thing, and release it in the state park down at the end of our lane. Anyway, maybe there's a lot of joking on this thread, but I am not reading through the whole thing to find out. :))) So my comments are actually pretty serious ones. Anyway again, I can't worry about one fat woodchuck -- not when I have mice behind the walls here and in the pantry and two cats who are sleeping on the job!...See MoreSequence - the card/board game
Comments (9)McT, It is a great game. Basically, the board has the cards listed and on your turn you place a chip on the board representing the card you played. You try and get a sequence of 5 chips in a row (sequence) and you need two sequences to win. It is played with a double deck of cards and each card is on the board twice, except for the jacks, they are wild (two-eyed jack can place a chip anywhere on the board; one-eyed jack can remove an opponents chip). There are some more rules but that is the gist of it. It is real easy to learn the game. Ages eight and up can easily play. Strategy is used but luck may be more important. I like it best with two teams of two or three players per team. Eight players can be too slow for my taste. Here is a link to Amazon that has reviews and description: Amazon link to Sequence description. Check it out, I think you may like it. Sequence has been a favorite of mine since 1997, Cowboy...See MoreFun and games... with Scrabble
Comments (9)OA, I have to admit that not much thot went into this. It just kinda quickly evolved in a few minutes from what was close at hand. A warning about the transferware - once you find a few pieces you will likely want more! I started with a few plates to use on the wall and now I want sets of the stuff. I even find myself buying chipped and crazed pieces altho don't usually buy other damaged things. The right hand setting is where I sit so do hope that's the winner! Jeanne, sorry you have bad memories of this game, I can understand. We're late to discovering this game altho my parents always played and DH and I have played many card games. He's much better at cards than I am and I can't take card games very seriously unlike Scrabble. Luvs, my DH is a pretty laid back guy and could care less what I buy. His only concern is "where will you store it" as it sometimes means moving the furniture or getting more. LOL Karen, the turntable we use for Scrabble is one of the few things there that's not a YS find. I used to use it on the table for condiments but it's even more useful for the Scrabble board. Lynn, I didn't know the new boards come on a lazy susan. Mine is one I've had for years and the Scrabble game is from a yard sale. Funny thing is long before DH and I started playing Scrabble I only had my parents old well-used set. I wanted to do crafts with the tiles but wanted to keep their set 'for posterity' so watched for them at yard sales. Never saw even one for a couple of years then all at once found about 4 sets for $2 or less each. So I've used one for a craft, then we started to play and now keep one in the RV and one in the house. Thanks Kathleen! Frou, most of my 'play' settings are practical as are my company settings. I've spent my lifetime being practical and likely will never change! I do enjoy looking at the really fancy ones but doubt I could do one....See MoreNeed a fun game for Christmas Eve
Comments (11)At an annual family gathering with my wife's family we often play a game that they call "Celebrity", which goes as follows: Divide into two teams, each person gets four (or five or six) small pieces of paper on which they write a name or object or short phrase. All of the pieces of paper are folded and placed in a basket. Each person takes a timed, one-minute-long turn with that person selecting papers from the basket and the rest of their team guessing. In the first round, the rules are similar to catch phrase, the clue giver cannot say any part of the answer. So if the answer was "Abraham Lincoln" the clue giver might say "He's a President, He freed the slaves, He's on the Five Dollar Bill" When someone on his team guesses correctly the clue giver draws another and continues until the minute runs out, and the number of clues correctly guessed is tallied. Then the next player from the other team goes, and give clues for a minute, alternating like this until all of the clues are gone. If a answer hasn't been guessed when the time runs out, it is returned to the basket. Then ALL of the answers are re-folded and returned to the basket for the second round, which starts with the player after the one who ended the first round. The second round is charades, with all the usual rules of charades, but since the clues are one that you've just heard in the previous round it tends to go faster than normal charades, and even if you cannot think of what to do for a given answer, there's at least a chance one of your teammates will remember a particularly tough answer from the first round and shout it out (perhaps they even wrote it) Again each clue giver gets one minute, and the total number that are correctly guessed are added to the tally. Round two continues until all of the answers have been guessed, and again the slips of paper are re-folded and returned to the basket. In the third round, play proceeds as in the first two rounds, but the clue giver is only allowed to say a single word. They can say the word slow or fast or say it multiple times, but they can only say one word. Again given that the players have all heard the answers in the first two rounds, the play in the third round can proceed surprisingly quickly. In the end the team that guessed the most answers correctly wins. You have to establish house rules about whether a clue giver is allowed to pass if they don't know the answer they drew, and some sort of guidelines for what are "acceptable answers" and how close the guess has to be to the written answer to be correct....See MoreFunkyart
7 months agoLOL Mtn! I shop for both my mom and myself-- and my work team. I haven't counted how many but I am sure it is approaching 30. That takes time -- esp because a precedent was set long ago that the kids get multiple gifts. I am tired just thinking of it.
I have a huge pile of pretty caspari cards-- and some others. Funny thing is, I don't play cards-- or haven't in a million years. My favorites are the Great Wave -- I will pack them to take! Great idea-- thanks!
I am also a fan of the Gipf Project abstract strategy games. They can be hard to find but the Big A has the best of them. They are very simple on the surface-- but they become more complex if you are a strategy nerd (we are)
I picked up Zertz
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mtnrdredux_gw
7 months agoIn re the *other* topic. I was in a cute shop the other day and saw Emma Shipley candles. I know candles are sooooo overdone, but these were in wonderful ceramic jars. I am def getting some for the girls.
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7 months agoFunkyart
7 months agoMany good ideas-- thank you all. I think we are covered for my trip but also still looking for gifts so please feel free to keep sharing. Hopefully others get ideas from this thread also.
Mtn, the candle is beautiful-- the whole site is! I think I need a lamp shade lol!
Annie, a number of my family members enjoy the coloring books and jigsaw puzzles-- but I am not in that camp. I need to find some fun whimsy puzzles for mom-- the ones where the puzzle shapes reflect or are related to the image.
I will get a Sherlock Files and an Exit (escape room) game for niece and her DH. They love them! Not sure about what I will pick up for others. I did get a Harry Pottery scrabble game for the Hogwarts obsessed 8 yo. I think it is a good age for him to start playing and his parents are scrabble players. What I loved about this game is that it has a card twist-- I thought it looked fun, a few examples ... I hope you can read them.
Thank you all! So many great ideas here for 2 and for groups of all ages!
maddielee
6 months agoA great game, that has been around for years, that can be used by kids or adults (because you can make it a drinking game) is Shut the Box. Our kids, grandkids and visiting children learned basic math without realizing they were doing math. The adults make their own rules when used as a drinking game. Our game was purchased at a craft show, maybe 40 years ago? We have the single player game, there are fancier ones.
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