Ticket to Ride

Rounding out the year with new games to enjoy! Great present!

THANKS!!

Chugga, chugga,

choo, choo!

Each player has train pieces, and collects cards (ie, orange, purple) to build tracks to different cities around the board.

We love games, so if you read this and live close by, call me and we'll play!

Agricola

My sister and her husband introduced us to the game Agricola. It is a strategy game that has lots of pieces, rules, possibilities, and fun!

We were able to borrow the game for a week from a friend of a friend and played it every chance possible.

Now the game has been added to the game cabinet. Wahoo! In combination with a birthday celebration there has been a lot of farming, herding, building, and game playing.

And cake. That was more for the birthday but was really fun to make because of the pieces that I had to figure out how to form into fences, stables, little cubes for animals, etc.

Game for Games

The whole purpose of this cabinet is to hold games. A lot of them.

Games are a great way to stretch your brain, interact with others, and a fairly inexpensive way to pass the time. I always tell students that if they want to try to work and have fun playing games is a big help. There is so much to be learned and practiced while playing games. Fairness, taking turns, basic math, budgeting, probability, word sets, word families, spelling, geometry, strategy, following rules, idioms, common phrases, figures of speech, and time with other people that are THINKING.

*Soapbox warning* So many activities that families or groups participate in are really no different than if it was done alone. Movies, video games, even some families doing athletic activities can be done silently and with little to no interaction. Games don't let that happen.

Games in the cabinet:

Othello

Chutes and Ladders

Monopoly

Clue

Risk

Uno

Phase 10

Canasta Caliente

Double 12 dominoes

Pictionary

Scrabble

Carcassone (this box was huge so we repackaged it)

Stratego

Racko

Yahtzee

Battleship

Boggle

Guess Who

Connect Four

Waterworks

Twister

Apples to Apples

Taboo

Catch Phrase

Puzzles

Poker Chips

Ute (Korean Game)

Not Pictured...aka won't fit:

Full Set of Poker Chips

Blokus

A few other helpful tools:

draw /discard basket

card shuffler

white boards

set of 5-10 dice

2-4 decks of cards for hundreds of additional games