Our Top 3 Family Games (October 2015)
In our journey to reclaim relationships, we play a lot of board games as a family. As I look back on our most played games over the last couple of months, I thought I’d share our top 3 with you.
King Of Tokyo
King of Tokyo is similar to Yahtzee, except you get to attack each other, upgrade your monster and crush a city. I think we started playing this with our daughter when she was 5 or 6 years old. You can play with up to 6 people and it only takes 20-40 minutes depending on the number of players. There is a newer version out called King Of New York. I haven’t played it, but hear its even better. On your turn you roll 6 chunky dice. Each die has 6 symbols on it and you may roll your dice up to 3 times. You can spend your dice to score points, attack the other monsters, heal your damage or gain energy cubes to upgrade your monster. The first person to KO all the other monsters or score 20 points wins the game. Check it out.
Forbidden Desert
Forbidden Desert is a great cooperative game where you are stranded in a desert looking for pieces to an ancient flying machine to get you out of the sandstorm. You and your teammates each have a special ability and their own water supply. You really need to work together or you will lose. If a teammate runs out of water, you lose. If the storm gets too out of control, you lose. If you run out of sand tiles, you lose. Needless to say, there are a lot of ways to lose and only one way to win. Uncover the pieces of your flying machine and get out of there. Forbidden Desert is really inexpensive and provides a great cooperative experience. Our 7 year old picked it up pretty quick. Check it out.
Takenoko
Takenoko is a beautiful and simple strategy games with a panda! Our daughter loves this game. In Takenoko you roll a weather die, which provides you with an extra ability for that turn. Then you have 2 actions to spend on eating bamboo with the panda, growing bamboo with the gardener, watering the land, exploring the land or gaining another objective card. Each player has hidden objective cards that you are trying to score. After someone has scored a certain number of cards, the game ends. Add up your points and the player with the most points is the winner. This is a well-designed game that looks awesome. Check it out.
What is your family playing? Share what you’re playing on our Facebook Page or in the comments below. It’s time to reclaim relationships around the table. Play more games!
