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kleinbl00  ·  1934 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition

This is relevant to my interests.

The kid digs games. So far she's a big fan of Sleeping Queens and Sushi Go while also being merciless at Uno. this is about the time you discover that the games of your childhood that you stopped playing? Yeah, you stopped playing them because they sucked. Sorry is awful. Parcheesi is awful. Dominos? For some reason Bones is hella cooler and mathematical than you remember and you probably weren't allowed to play it because Ice Cube did.

We've added Survive to the rotation (although it's still under the tree) because I remembered it fondly and am pretty sure the idea for Catan came from basically reversing Survive and removing the sharks and sea monsters (IE making it lame). I'll probably add Photosynthesis before the season is out.

Anybody else got anything to add? She's six but plays like she's older. Managed to get through 20 chess games this quarter, even winning two of them despite being the youngest kid by far.