The board game that is rather than the country ! Every Saturday night in January we try and do something fun for entertainment and tonight it's going to be a rematch with this new game that we were given for Christmas.
Everybody in the family is now over 15 years old so finding a board game that all want to play, that lasts a reasonable length of time and keeps us all interested is quite a challenge, but this one fits the bill. The great thing about it is that no-one knows who is going to win until right at the very end which keeps the interest level high. You do need to know something about the geography of Europe to play but even primary school children could answer some of the questions and you can play in teams too. The object is to gain a line of 5 countries all connected to one another and you can acquire countries using a mixture of skill and luck.
After we had played this game the first time we went back to playing some others for the rest of the evening and very much enjoyed "Ticket to Ride' as well. We decided that we are not that keen on "Settlers of Catan" so having tried over a number of years to play that and like it better we are going to give it away ! The all-time favourite however remains,"Monopoly", which I'm still not sure about as it can lead to arguments ! Fingers crossed that tonight remains peaceful !
We thoroughly recommend a board game tournament as a change from screen-based entertainment so why not look out a few favourites and give it a go ?
We have a family night once a week as well and in the winter we usually play games. I have not heard of the one you mentioned. It sounds like it could be fun - though more challenging for us as we aren't as familiar with European countries. We do enjoy geography though so it would probably go okay. Most of us do really enjoy Ticket to Ride at our house. Ken and I really like the Settlers of Catan but we played it so much at one point that the kids only want to play it every once in a while. Our oldest son loves Monopoly but many of the rest of us groan when he chooses it. We got a new card game called "Things" this Christmas and we have really enjoyed it. Over all we like variety as to much of any game will make us tired of it.
ReplyDelete'Things' sounds like a good suggestion, we really like 'Apples to Apples' as well !
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