Hey everyone, I work at a daycare (Kids from late elementary school to late middle school) My manager recommended bringing in board games to help pass the time. The Kids really enjoy Risk and I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations for games that would be easy for kids to pick up but fun strategy involved for adults as well. Picture unrelated
>>46498231
Dominoes
Four in a Row
Simple card games (thinking mainly of Rummy and Whist)
>>46498231
Something like King of New York might be fun. It's a cartoony board game where the players are each giant cartoon monsters (T-rex sheriff, evil fish in a robot suit etc) and they have to trash new york.
>>46498231
Catan.
Carcassone.
>>46498231
Maybe Bang! would be good for kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang!_%28card_game%29
Gotta second Carcasonne
And there's another good cardgame, But the damn name won't come to mind right now. I'll come back if I remember it.
>>46498231
7 Wonders is fun for all ages (8+ imo). Really straightforward race to the finish (build a city) with countless dimensions and intervening variables. It has a high complexity but is explained with great icons on each card, kids pick it up instantly. And grown ups remain challenged. Been playing it for years and will keep doing so.
Carcassonne is a well deserved evergreen. Lay random tiles to make a map and place markers strategically to score points from features like roads or cities when they are completed.
Kids really dominate at things like Set or 6 Nimmt! I get more mileage out of Jenga than anything else.
My fav strategy game atm is Game of Thrones. But it is complex even for adults, is charged with an unforgiving strategic constellation, and requires one evening of playing for the first time before you can seriously compete.
Last round I almost won in round 6 without realizing it, then our strategist won with the last move of round 10, the last round of the game, after which he would have won by points.
And if you want to torture an adult round of veteran gamers with a really good game that is just painful to comprehend, then play Dune.
>>46498231
F.A.T.A.L
>>46498316
>Catan
Teach kids bad games - great plan, frustrate them early!
>>46498347
>Bang! would be good for kids.
This better not be a pun.
>>46498417
>This better not be a pun.
Welp, didn't intend it to be. Didn't even think about it being possibly a pun.
Dirty, dirty anon
>>46498231
Small World!
It's like Risk (world in zones, easily-stackable armies) but more colorful and far more straightforward. My friends and I love it1
>>46498231
I was at a convention two years ago, and they played a new RPG that was aimed at children and played with some complex themes in a way that made them easily understandable and light-hearted enough for children to grasp. Apparently it earned a lot of praise and even older people had fun playing the system, as well as the 8-14 year olds that also played it at the convention.
I can't remember the name, though, so there you go.
>>46498231
Might want to look at Roll through the ages (a little pricey due to a lot of wood bits), where you roll dice to assign resources. I haven't tried it with younger kids but I think middle school kids could pick up on it.
Also recently got Kodama: The Tree spirits, which would be a good pick. Takes up to 5 players, you build a tree by layering braches on top of each other. Every four turns everybody picks a Kodama (tree spirit) from their hand and it scores them points. There's also three sets of baby spirits called 'Sprouts' which are simplified focused sets intended to be used by young players who might not get how to play the regular sprits, but still gives them a specific strategy.
>>46498231
Risk? For children? The way kids are today, you'll have to wear a bullet proof vest to school from now on.
You may as well bring in Monopoly and get it over with.
>>46498731
In all seriousness, how the hell did Monopoly ever get so popular? I can't remember the last time I saw anyone finish a game of it, but it's still everywhere.
>>46498900
Communists promoted it the way they promote everything so that our kids start to hate capitalism and claim that Jesus was a socialist so that when they invade we're too busy pulling out of each others buttholes to do anything.
>>46498231
You want simple things for a daycare Anyway, I recomend risk legacy and a non standard version of loveletter, like the batman one
Pick up a deck of cards, too. Just don't teach them to play anything you'd find in a casino or the higher-ups might get salty. Old maid, go fish, that sort of thing.
>>46498231
My absolutely favorite board game is Terra Mystica, and if they have the patience to deal with risk, it might be perfect.
How about Agricola?
>>46498444
Smallworld is great.
>>46498231
Condottiere, also known as "that game they ripped off to make Gwent in Witcher 3".
>>46498231
What, no Pokémans all day erryday?
>>46498923
Except that it was only played among intellectual circles and academics before some asshole stole the game, finalized the ever-evolving open source rules, and used one of its several monikers as Monopoly to make a game about becoming a successful capitalist.
The original game was not intended for children.
>>46499321
So if we were going to make a game about Communism, how would it be done?
I imagine it would be to make a point. As hilarious as it may be the first time, could you make it playable to the point someone would want to play it again?
>>46499510
Corruption brought down the USSR, corruption will bring down the Petrodollar. Look at Hillary's favorability.
There is a thing we teach children about communism, it's called sharing. No need to arbitrarily derive it with rules, life presents opportunity for it every day. Used to be taught in churches too, before fundamentalism took over.
Teach the kids Go, or the machines have already won.
>>46499626
Plymouth Rock: The Sharing.
Now that we have the setting, what are the rules?
>>46499626
>There is a thing we teach children about communism, it's called sharing with a gun at your head.
ftfy
>>46498374
>>46498444
>>46499071
>>46498510
>>46498939
kids that age generally don't have the patience or mental capacity for any of these games. Maybe Love Letter and Small World but it's a stretch. Risk Legacy is probably the most boneheaded suggestion I've ever seen
>>46498316
>>46498313
These are the best suggestions you got. Also check out this channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OgU8yMlXK8&nohtml5=False
>>46499889
>kids that age generally don't have the patience or mental capacity for any of these games.
Play Set against a 6 year old and say that again.
>>46499923
>play board games with 6 year olds
I don't do that for the same reason I don't play hockey with quadriplegics.
>>46499923
Set wasn't one of the games I quoted
>>46499972
>>46499889
>46498374
>Kids really dominate at things like Set or 6 Nimmt! I get more mileage out of Jenga than anything else.
Not a board game, but try Smash Up. A friend of mine is an elementary teacher and his kids love Smash Up.
Draughts or Scrabble
>>46498231
Dancing Eggs would be a good bet.
>>46498231
Stratego's probably the best "you can find this anywhere" boardgame, and it's dead simple.
>>46498231
Diplomacy
>>46498231
>look at thread
>first reply better be "Settlers of Catan"
>click on thread
>first reply is NOT Settlers of Catan
>in fact the first THREE replies are not settlers of Catan
/tg/ I am disappointed in you.
I did some grade 1 to 6 after school camp for a few seasons. Here's what I found for board games:
Apples to Apples is really good BC it's not lolrandumb that is Cards Against Humanity. The connection are way more witty and cheeky things come out naturaly. Some cards may need to be removed like World War 2 stuff/Hitler depending.
If you have playing cards, theres a simple game called President alot of kids play. Big Two is another name of the same game.
Both games don't take long to play a set.
Yugioh and magic and Pokémon is possible but I wouldn't advise. When I did it at my camp theres issues with possible theft of expensive cards.
Not sure how much money you'd like to spend but a few other children friendly games include: Ghost Biltz, Hey that's my fish, and Ticket to Ride.
Best of luck OP! Tip: Don't play a game to death else a kids will get bored. End the session before boredom or switch games now and then.
>>46502208
>Apples to Apples is really good BC it's not lolrandumb that is Cards Against Humanity. The connection are way more witty and cheeky things come out naturaly. Some cards may need to be removed like World War 2 stuff/Hitler depending.
Unless there's a kids version, I feel like A2A has far too many references that are 20+ years old and would be utter nonsense to most small children.
Like, what is a 7 year old gonna do with the card that says Frank Sinatra? Drew Carrey? Johnny Cash?
>>46502423
>Like, what is a 7 year old gonna do with the card that says Frank Sinatra? Drew Carrey? Johnny Cash?
Ask who or what they are and learn something?I did the same thing playing cards against humanity.
>>46499965
You don't play for the challenge, but for the feeling of watching the growth and shaping of a human mind.
>>46502590
>thats sound boring old man, stop jamming old people music down our throat. They are perhaps great people, yes, but they are [past] great people
Im saying this more because it would sorta kills the joke/fun or whatever is currently rolling in the table when you got to interact or make something with someone you dont know. Speaking from experience here.
>>46502208
as someone who played Apples to Apples in Middle School once, I can tell you that it only works when most of the players have a good sense of humor.
