Islebound

This was a kickstarter from Red Raven Games.  It is one of our new favorite games.  It is worker placement and works great two player.  We love the different set ups and the cool choices with the islands.  These games are also just so gorgeous.  There are tons of great choices here so if you like worker placement, you should like this one. 

Game Days

We have a great game group going.  The main thing we been working on is keeping an assortment of games that can play large enough groups.  We usually want to start and end together so that's been a challenge.  7 Wonders has gotten a lot of play recently!  The main thing is to have a good selection and good people!

Other Kids' Games

This is Bugs in the Kitchen - this is quite cute and was a friend's thrifting find.  It is pretty random but teaches trying to get the hexbug to move the way you want with the right patterns.  

Minecraft card game - pretty quick and easy. It really is just resource collection with card sets. 

Old oldest ADORES the Star Wars Risk game and is quite good at it.

Pokemon

Well it happened....the Pokémon CCG entered our lives.  Andrew ADORES it. Like obsessively.  I told Ray that he got his mini gamer in Adam, and it seems he got his eventual Magic player in Andrew.  The hit of Christmas morning  - the Pokémon pack in his stocking. Seriously. 

 

As to the game - it isn't bad.  The deck building is set at 60 and is pretty standard.  The game also is just played to 6 KOs so that's much easier than the life points in Magic.  It really is Magic lite. 

They seller "trainer" decks and it worked really well for teaching the boys the game.

My First Journey (Ticket to Ride Junior)

I was suitably impressed with this one.  So Ticket to Ride isn't hard - my kids COULD do it. But it is too long. They don't have the attention span for a game that takes that long and some of the long routes are just too much for them to concentrate on (especially the 6 year old).  This came keeps all routes simple (less cities on the board) and speeds up the game.  It works really great. 

Andrew - no prompting - decided to do his own Dice Tower reviews!

We brought it on Christmas Eve and got Grandma and Great to play!

X-Wing

Adam is also getting into X-wing. The shorter games are good for kids.

War Gaming

Adam love the war gaming.  He's played a number of games now with Dad.  Andrew still really isn't as into it, but he likes to hang out with the others.