games for 9, 10 year old and me?

yo'ma

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 9:15 am

I play with my 9 and 10 year old games. We play rummy, set, dominoes (also with my 5 year old), and boggle. We, meaning me, are kind of getting tired of them. Does anyone know of any other games that I can get that we can play. For shabbos or not, makes no difference. It can't be a word or reading game because than it would be in spanish Rolling Eyes

. I have mille bornes, but I can't figure out how to play. I also have uno, checkers, chess, and backgammon, which I don't really care for or don't know how to play and don't care to learn.
TIA

Aidelmom

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 9:20 am

abalone, but I don't know if you can get it there. Its for 2 people at a time though. Stratego, battleship , spit (w/ playing cards) , go fish(also w/ cards) Those are a few. I for sure know of more but my mind is going blank.

cookielady

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 9:23 am

othello, blink, guess who? guess where? all easy with no reading necessary.

Pineapple

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 10:50 am

Bannana Gram - its like scarabble but it doesnt need a board it comes in a bannana pouch - you can get it only in a jewish toy store (it was invented by a jew who only sold it to jewish places)

Bzgirl

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 11:33 am

Bingo, or Guess Who? that could be fun! You're so cute for playing with them, I used to loove playing games with my mother, theres something special about it (maybe the attention?! lol)

Bsimcha

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 12:34 pm

In my house my favorites are: othello, mastemind and uno, we play a few games with the cards.
Others have mentioned bingo, monopoly,stratego etc.
I personally don't play any junior games, not with any kid over 8, any that I bought I regreted, when I play with them I'd rather help them learn the "real" game, when they play with friends then I let them.

Clarissa

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 12:36 pm

We play Mastermind, Trivial Pursuit for Kids, Stratego, Quarto, Set and many more.

agh

Mon, Jul 28 2008, 1:48 pm

apple to apple junior
uno
discovery toys make a great game I think called a to z you get a topic and you have to say answers that start with each alphabet letter. there is an alphabet board and chips and a timer etc... my kids love it

yo'ma

Thu, Jul 31 2008, 5:01 pm

Thank you everybody!! I went to a store that carries a lot of games and keeping this list in mind, all I found was othello Crying

. I don't even like othello because I never won. Maybe I'll beat my kids Wink

. I did also get yahtzee. I really wanted mastermind because I love that game, but they don't sell it here Crying

. I never bought it because I always had a little baby in the house and might eat the pieces if they fall, but my son has a ton of leggo and that's worse. The baby doesn't crawl yet, so it's okay for now Wink

Dandelion1

Thu, Jul 31 2008, 7:48 pm

we love Mancala-- simple, relaxing, and sort of addictive!

Also Blokus, but this might be harder to find.

cookielady

Thu, Jul 31 2008, 8:24 pm

jellybean wrote:

we love Mancala-- simple, relaxing, and sort of addictive!

Also Blokus, but this might be harder to find.

our family loves both of those. I cant get the hang of blokus, but my kids are great at it.

greenfire

Thu, Jul 31 2008, 8:33 pm

another vote for mancala ...

there's a game called "rushhour" where you have to set up cars I a certain way and see if you can get the "red" one out from the traffic jam ... comes with a deck of cards for set up and you can purchase more decks with more detailed set up ... we used to have FUN playing !!!

imokay

Fri, Aug 01 2008, 3:52 pm

some have already been mentioned, but here is a list of my favorites:
risk, pictionary, taboo, clue, twister, I know u said no word games but I just had to mention scrabble, monopoly, life, set, war and spit if u play with playing cards, tribond, bolderdash, jenga
I miss playing all these games- guess I need to wait for my kids to grow up so someone will play with me!

Stepmum

Sat, Aug 02 2008, 5:33 pm

Another game that needs no reading is a game called 'Set'. http://www.setgame.com/

You can play snakes and ladders, or ludo. Blokus is fun - but I think you need four players.

When I saw this thread I thought 'great, I know tons of games', but now my mind's gone blank, so... If I remember anymore, I'll post!