Make Tonight Game Night!

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I love games, cards, puzzles, you name it.  Spending time with family and friends over a game is my idea of a really good time.  Up until recently, Stella did not have my same enthusiasm for games, but that has all changed and I can’t tell you how excited that makes me.  We each have our favorites and they are not necessarily the same, but we laugh and have fun and that is the whole point!  Our repertoire of games is growing, but these are a few of our favorites.

Yahtzee

Who does not like to shake the dice and yell YAHTZEE!

Quiddler

This is a new game for both of us.  Stella got it in her stocking.  There are 8 rounds, with the first round starting with 3 cards and the last with 10 cards.  You have to build words and then add up the points for each round, high score wins.  We get really absorbed in this game and the time just flies by.  It usually takes us close to an hour to play a full game.  Stella places her cards on the ground so she can lay out words and then asks me if such and such is a word, when I say no, she say “well it should be”. This is a great way to enhance her spelling and knowledge of words.

Backgammon

I love this game and could play it for hours.  Stella is just learning but she is really starting to understand the strategy behind it.

Boggle

Love this game!  I used to play it often with my grandmother, who usually won.  You are suppose to have words with 4 letters or more, but we play that a word can be 3 letters or more.  The more we play the better Stella is getting at figuring out words in all types of directions.  When she is stumped she turns the timer on its side and ask me if this is a word, again with the “well it should be” if is not  – I don’t think she understands that now she has given away a word that I may not have had – I am good and I don’t write it down!

Headbands

The person wearing the headbands asks the other players questions, trying to guess the card on their headband. Very Fun!

Puzzles

We both love puzzles.  We always start with getting all the straight edges pieces and then go from there.  Put on some good music and away we go!

I could list a couple more, like Bananagrams, many card games, Sorry, etc, but I think the list above gives a good idea.  Grab some family members, neighbors and/or friends – make some homemade pizza and make tonight a game night or better yet designate one night a week as game night and take turns on who gets to pick the game.  Laugh, have fun and enjoy!

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