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...

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!