Left-Right-Center: a dice game that can be played with the chips that come with it or for money. Simple for all ages but still fun. Cheap to buy, easy to store because it is very small. Loaded Question: Player 1 asks question, everyone writes their answer, Player 2 reads answers so that P1 can't match answer to handwriting. We always play by just randomly picking cards & questions, we've never used the board and official rules. Some questions are fun, some seem fun until you realize you have to decide who each answer matches. For instance: if you could change any part of your body what would you change. Fun, until you realize someone wrote nose job. Now YOU have to say I think so&so said nose job. Well so&so might think why would you think I want a nose job? One of the silliest ones was a group of neighbor ladies. The question was what to do you wear to feel sexy. Lots of typical usual answers but someone wrote "white tube socks". Those type of answers is what makes it fun. And those type of questions can be skipped in a mixed age group.

I used to play in Pogo. Bridge was my favorite because I played tournament bridge years ago. Most of the people playing were such headcases that I quit going in the rooms. Then I started playing this game based on 21. Played waaaay too much. Then they dumbed it down and I quit the Pogo site for good. Now my addiction is GW. :) yayagal, I know some Hearts addicts, Spades too.

Lyban, the kids I work with vary a lot in how much frustration tolerance they have and how much complexity they enjoy. Simple games like Candyland and Hi Ho Cherry-O are often popular, but because I cannot control how long they take to end, I don't often use them. My younger clients often enjoy matching/memory games like this one, which I use daily. For kids with short attention spans or low frustration tolerance, I use only half the pairs, to make it easier for them to succeed the first few times we play: I also use Jenga a lot with kids of all ages, if the child can tolerate the crashing sound when the tower falls; some kids cannot and that's what we work on but as a grandparent you're better off just playing for fun! "Spot It" is another of my most popular games, and they have a Junior version for younger kids: The regular game is a big hit with my clients all the way up to college age. Actually, that's true for almost all my games-- even surly teenagers love "little kid games". Hope this helps and sorry for the hijack and also that I don't know how to make smaller photos when I steal them from Amazon.

nini, my older teens introduced us to the game. We've had the Grandmothers playing and they start out very shy and end up using the craziest cards once they get going!