Forbidden Island would probably work pretty well, actually. It scales in difficulty - and is simplistic enough he would be able to get it, I think? Plus it's co-operative so even if he doesn't 100% get it straight away he will quickly.
Survive: Escape from Atlantis and Takenoko are both fairly simple and fun games - but I'm not sure if they'd be beyond a 7 year old. There's probably playthroughs on youtube if you wanted to check them out.
Zooleretto is also faaairly simple and has people collecting animals and such.
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In post 1698, shaft.ed wrote:Sorry if this has been talked about previously in thread
I want to get some cool board games embedded in my nephew while he's young and he has Christmas and birthday coming up. Turning 7. I was thinking about Junior Catan, but wasn't sure if anyone could recommend other games that might be fun for kid/adult play. I think my brother would appreciate it if the games weren't too terrible. Note that he is fairly advanced logically and seems to love analyzing rule systems, so maybe things a year or two ahead of him would be ok
TIA
King of Tokyo
comes to mind - visually appealing, with dice-rolling and silly fun. If he can handle brief player elimination, this is likely my first recommendation.
Ghost Blitz
is a great "twitchy" game if he appreciates fast-reaction games. (So is
Jungle Speed
, for that matter.)
On the route-building side,
Ticket to Ride
is also worth considering. I've had success with as young as our 8 year-old niece with this game.
On the Tetris-y side,
FITS
may be worth a look.
"When playing a game, the goal is to win, but it is the goal that is important, not the winning." -
You might be able to get away with regular Catan. Obi seems to be able to handle it, and he's around that age.
One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.
My nephew (5) will lose interest in a game if he starts losing. I don't know how to deal with that so I've mostly stopped trying in the hopes he grows out of it.
is fun for that age. My daughter's too old for it I think so I haven't tried it first hand but a coworker has it.
Speaking of my daughter, we played
Seasons
last night and while I was setting it up my daughter asked to play. I thought it would be too difficult for her (she is only 8 and, despite my best efforts, isn't that interested in board games). She not only played, she did a pretty good job! She finished second (I won, my husband was last). So that was pretty cool and gives me hope that I can mold her!
In post 1705, chamber wrote:My nephew (5) will lose interest in a game if he starts losing. I don't know how to deal with that so I've mostly stopped trying in the hopes he grows out of it.
hah, my wife does that so it might not be grow outable
thanks for the recommendations guys, i will look into them all
I just played the Hunters variant from the new expanded edition of
The Resistance
and I liked it a lot! As someone who has played a crap-ton of
Avalon
, it was a real breath of fresh air without removing all of the information that flies around in Avalon. I had been sceptical of whether or not the new Resistance would be worth investment for someone who already owns Avalon but the Hunters stuff was an enjoyable alternative and there's still more things that I haven't tried. At the very least, it looks like being the definitive set for someone who doesn't already own Resistance in some form.
One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.
: Takes a long time to figure out the first time that you play it but still enjoyed it quite a lot (even in losing) and imagine that it could get actually quite breezy when you've all played it once through. Worth a look (a slapdash description of it would be a kind of worker-placement version of Cluedo).
I've been looking for a good 'Whodunnit?' type game. I guess similar to Battlestar Galactica, but with more Cluedo elements of gathering evidence and putting together the puzzle, but I'm not sure anything like that exists.
In post 1720, xRECKONERx wrote:I've been looking for a good 'Whodunnit?' type game. I guess similar to Battlestar Galactica, but with more Cluedo elements of gathering evidence and putting together the puzzle, but I'm not sure anything like that exists.
One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.
In post 1720, xRECKONERx wrote:I've been looking for a good 'Whodunnit?' type game. I guess similar to Battlestar Galactica, but with more Cluedo elements of gathering evidence and putting together the puzzle, but I'm not sure anything like that exists.
I'm not really sure what you mean, exactly but Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective? It's an actual like investigation. Shut up and sit down did a review.
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