Games with my padawan...

I play more and more with my 7 years old boy.

Our favorite games for the moment are:

MICE & MYSTIC

OKKO

POKEMON

RATTUS

LEGO

Playing and learning

My six years son and I are playing boardgames a lot. Why? First, it's fun. But it's also a very good tool to learn. Following experimentations I made with my students (http://chroniquesdufortbastiani.blogspot.fr/2014/03/fun-learning-games-learning.html), I play with my 6 son to help him learn things (like addition, subtraction, strategy, etc.). Okko is a very simple and fun game to do that.

But we also play King of Tokyo (with no change to the rules), Mice & Mystic (I've simplified the rules), Galaxy Trucker (I've simplified the rules) and Stratego (with no change to the rules).

And next year we'll start BattleLore...

2014 Last Games

We played a few games during Christmas. The idea was to have fun with quick games so we tested Eight-Minutes Empire and Draco Mundis.
Two good choices...

Mice & Mystics

My 5 years old son and I are fan of Mouse Guard.  So Mice and Mystics is, for us, the game to play (before painting and playing with Splintered Light Miniatures minis).

We played the first two chapters of the story book. A very pleasant experience…



The components are impressive.

FIRST ADVENTURE: FLIGHT TO BARKSBURG

SECOND ADVENTURE: SAVING LILY

 

Lily (with the bow) is freed from the mousetrap by Nez.

The party after the second adventure.

Wargame: Hold the Line

Hold the Line deals with the American Revolutionary War. It's a wargame with simple rules but full of decision-making. Quick and fun. All in all, a good tool to initiate somebody to strategic thinking.

Below, the battle of Harlem Heights:

Gaming in 2013 and 2014

The last day of 2013 was a good one on the gaming side: Galaxy Trucker (ranked number one by my friends), Rattus, Timeline and King of Tokyo (the boys - from almost 5 years old to 12 - love this game). 2014 started well too with two games of King of Tokyo.

In December I managed to play one more game of 1775 (still very pleasant) and one game of Expedition Altiplano  (a fun game) with its game designer (a good friend of mine).

With tons of work, 2013 wasn't a big gaming year with friends so I played a lot with my iPad as I wrote it on this post. My 2013 Favorite Digital Game is Lord of Waterdeep with 75 games played!