My last blog post of 2020 was about games for a 7 year old. Little did we know how much board games were about to become a lifeline for us.
For a long time I didn't think I could do modern board games. The first time I saw someone playing Ticket to Ride I was overwhelmed. In my head board games were Monopoly or Chutes and Ladders (neither of which I care for) or way too complex games.
Thankfully in late 2019/early 2020 I had picked up a couple of board games that were past the preschool age group to play with Jilli... and we fell in love with them! Then the pandemic hit and we, the people who were rarely home, were home 24/7 so we started playing board games more to fill our time. As time has continued to go on and we have continued to be home our board game collection has grown and our top games have changed as well. So I figured I would do an updated list of some of our top games. These are not all of the games that we own, but some of our favorites, so if you are looking for games these are our key ones and maybe you will like some of them too.
I am going to group this by what people in our house play a group of game. Jilli is 9 and Lydi is 5. Jilli loves board games... Lydi is ok with board games so that effects who likes what here.
Brent, Amanda, Jilli and Lydi:
-Slide Blast
-My First Castle Panic
-Check the Fridge/Oven
-Clumsy Thief/Jr
-Sleeping Queens
-Go Nuts for Doughnuts
Brent, Amanda, Jilli:
-Planet
-Via Nebula
-Welcome To
-Ticket to Ride
-Patchwork
-Shifting Stones
-Bloom
-Battle Sheep
-Jurassic Parts
-Kingdomino
-Where to Go
-Genius Square
-Love Letter
-Llama Drama
-Queendomino
-Carcassonne
-Keys to the Castle
-Isle of Cats
-New York 1901
-Trellis
-Abandon All Artichokes
Brent and Jilli:
-Wizard Lizard
-Pokemon
-Trash Panda
-Villainous
Amanda and Jilli: (Jilli and I are playing the campaign story of this game together)
-Kim Joy Magic Bake Off
Jilli and Lydi:(Brent and I will join in these games but these are games the kids prefer)
-Stack Up
-Sold Out
-Raccoon Rumpus
-Scoop Up
-Pancake Pile Up
Jilli:(Brent or I will play theses with her but she likes them a lot more then we do)
-Carmon Sandiego
-Icons
Lydia:(We join here in these, but these are games we play because she likes them)
-Funky Chicken
-Blues Clues
-Bear in the Big Blue House
-Disney Princess Cupcake Party
-Match
Games we haven't played yet that we own that are top of our play next list:
-The Mind/Game
-Forbiden Island
-Summer Camp
Catan Jr
Games We have played and really disliked:
-Set
-L.L.A.M.A
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