Games to keep in RV

Trailer Park Wars of course! Hilarious card game.

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Pokeno and scrabble.

We scored a mint condition 1950s scrabble set at a 2nd hand store for around $3 when out on a camping trip.

We discovered pokeno at a CG a couple of years ago. Around 20 people played every night at the clubhouse and it was a ton of fun.

We also play "who can stay off the computer and away from the TV the longest". Never seems to last very long... :R

What games do the particular individuals like to play? You can do a lot with a deck of 52 playing cards. There are hundreds of games that work for various age levels.

Remembering from age about 8 to adult, my cousin kept us busy with Crazy Eights and Gin Rummy, and when we got older my grandmother would have us playing Canasta all night, two or three decks. Before we were old enough for Crazy Eights, we could play War until ready to fall asleep.

From about 10-12, we were ready for Poker, some of us for Pinochle (uses a different deck of cards, but you can put it together with 1 or 2 partial standard decks) or Hearts. With a scoreboard, Cribbage works for two.

Uno (rummy with tiles) and SkipBo (War with a special deck) are commercialized variations of old card games.

Board games? Checkers and Chinese Checkers can start as early as age eight, but it might be a few years too early for Chess or Chinese Chess. Chase games like Sorry and Chutes and Ladders work at an early age, and there are hundreds of commercial variations, each with its own copyright or patent. Scrabble works well for people on a similar educational level, not so well for a wide age range.

I find that trivia games and knowledge games do not work well for a large range of ages, too much disparity in experience generation to generation.

Tile games? Any age can play dominoes, or the more simple Mexican Train, if you can get the group to agree on the rules. MahJong is a bit more difficult to stretch across a range of experience levels. RummiCube turns rummy into a tile game.

Outdoors, horse shoes, ring toss, and bean-bag toss games work for age 8 to adult if you keep size of the course within the throwing range of the weakest players. We used to have a lot of fun with lawn darts, before someone decided they were too dangerous and outlawed the sale.

Ping Pong and Badminton start working around age 8, and keep working past age 80, although people in the middle tend to do better, having developed their skills and not yet lost their agility. Tennis, squash, handball, although learnable while very young and playable into old age, tend to more favor teens to middle age over those one the age fringes.

It depends very much on your collection of players. I've been carrying around Chess and Chinese Checkers for more than 10 years, but our group of older people nobody has ever wanted to play those, nor any board game. It is more of a RummiCube, SkipBo, Mexican Train crowd, adverse to any game played with a deck of 52.

But generally, if you are talking about indoor "quiet time" games, they would be the same games you play at home, when you turn off the TV and the Internet and the family plays games together.

Card decks for Rummy, Scrabble and Phase 10 are our favorites.

APPLES TO APPLES!!! That one is funny as heck, the more players the better it gets too! Then we have the regulars... Uno, go fish, jenga, few packs of cards. Also, they aren't board games but we have some word search and crossword puzzle books.

We have many of the above listed games, but my teenage boys like to play "Settlers of Catan" the most. They tend to have friends come to our trailer and play for hours. For Christmas, we bought them a U.S. history version of the game. For outdoors, we got "RingStix." It's a game where players pass small hoops between sword-type posts.

We haven't played it yet but we got CAMP the boardgame for Xmas.

Cribbage is one of the best two-person card games IMHO. There are plenty of other card games that are good fun for more than two people—hearts and spoons come to mind as a couple that are not too difficult for kids and not too boring for adults. Euchre also is not super hard (though a bit esoteric when you first try to learn it due to the unusual conventions and vocabulary) and a whole lot of fun.

Boggle and Quiddler are both fun word games for wide age ranges.

Dutch Blitz is a sort of frenetic double solitaire game for up to four people.

Othello/Reversi is good.

If you have a big enough crowd, cancellation hearts is a fun variant of hearts. It's hearts with more than one deck of cards, however many make for a reasonable hand size for the number of players, and the additional rule that even numbers of duplicate cards cancel each other out in terms of winning a trick, but not when counting points. If a trick has no on-suit cards left in it after cancellation, the same player leads again and whoever wins the second trick gets all the cards for both tricks. Often a joker (representing a "zero of clubs" is added or all but one two of clubs removed to determine who first leads, assuming you play that the two of clubs is always the first led card.

Battleship for us.

Chess, Checkers, Yahtzee, Farkle and decks of cards