We had dinner at a friend's this weekend and played 7 Wonders (Me, DH and DS1). It was fun (and pretty complicated -- glad we played with someone who knows how to play). Any suggestions for fun, strategy games? DS1 likes 7 wonders, 10 days in africa and ticket to ride. I need something that I can read the instructions and understand (eg 7 wonders was too hard for me to teach myself) .
TIA!
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A fun 2 player game is Lost Cities.
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I have not played, but my kids and their cousins played and enjoyed Settlers of Catan Junior. It's for ages 6-10 and is supposed to be pretty true to the original.
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We've been loving Phase 10 lately. It's a fairly easy card game (get x number of cards--like 7 cards of 1 color, or 9 cards in numerical order, etc).
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You might want to check out Small Worlds -- it might be for ages a little higher than your DS -- I can't remember! But DH and I enjoy playing it and it seems like one of the more simple strategy games we play. We also enjoy a 2 player game called Balloon Cup.
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We live ticket to ride. My kids also love playing Rummy with the tiles and the card game May I.
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Carcassonne is good. Mine were able to get it at that age.
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We love Uno here
We sometimes remove the more complicated cards when we play (and the game still plays very nicely), but it's a lot of fun for all. DDs have totally gotten DH before for not saying "uno"!
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we have catan junior. my 6 (7 in december) has been playing that for maybe a year. she really likes it and it's interesting enough for adults as well. she has very specific strategies and she usually wins
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We play Uno and Yam Slam most frequently. When my parents visit, my mom, DD and I play Boggle.
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