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

If you're talking about regular playing cards, at that age we were all wild for Crazy Eights, and did a variation of Crazy Ones (aces wild, start with one card in your hand), Twos, etc., working our way up to eights. We started with eight cards each, though the rules in the link say five. Which you use depends on how many players you have (eight is better with two players, but five is probably better with four) and how long you want the game to last. We never counted points. Just shuffled and dealt again. Most of the kids I know have never heard of it, so it might be a good one for something old that's "new". Gin Rummy and Cribbage (you can draw or print out a board and use buttons or Monopoly men if you don't have a board) are also a lot of fun at that age. There was an open ended Rummy game that was big at camp, because it was quicker and easier than Gin, but it doesn't require as much high level thinking because you don't have to manage exactly ten cards.

I love games....I picked up a game once on clearance at Marshalls. It was called Times To Remember. It's a trivia game with questions ranging from the 1950s to mid-90s. I thought it was very clever and have never seen another trivia game quite like it. (my description below) So if you're over 40, you'll love this game. You can play with two people or two teams. I forget the actual rules...but we play like this: You both have a big round disc with years marked. Then you have these big paperclips with 'year spans'. Questions are asked to BOTH teams at the same time and you must guess the year (with year span clips 1 thru 7). Be sure to whisper and point...you don't want your opponents to hear you. If you know a question 100%, then use your ONE YEAR clip. If you have no clue, use your 7 YEAR CLIP. First team to get rid of all their clips wins. It's currently on Ebay...if you're a game queen like me....get it. Just about everyone that plays it, thinks it's fun. Younger people tend to have a tougher time with it. But what makes it fun...is you don't have to be a genius! You might just 'kinda know' or have an 'inkling' or you remember what grade you were in when it happened....so it's a lot of fun. The questions range from super easy...to 'how in the heck would I know'!

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