What games do you take with you to help pass the dark evenings & rainy times? Looking for new ideas for 2. Also, games for a family including children for visits? Thanks!

We take Pegs and Jokers, Mexican Train Dominoes and Sequence. Our grandchildren love all three and we old folks enjoy evenings playing too.

My wife likes to write down all the different plates she sees while traveling

We like playing Uno with the kids. Also, Trouble and Sorry are good with all ages.

Backgammon, cribbage, dominoes and scrabble

We played a game called Qwirkle all season, sitting outside. Camping neighbors would come over and ask what the heck we were doing having so much fun. We found a travel size version for the winter, when we want to play inside. We used it this weekend and it was great, too! There are three sets of each of the six colors and six shapes that you have to play along the way so that you create rows of the same shape that are all different colors.A great thing to do with kids to is challenge them to HACK board games and change the rules up OR to create their own games using common game pieces. Give them a set of dominoes, a pair of red dice and a pair of white dice and tell them they have 30 minutes to create a fun game and you are going to come back then so they can teach you the game. Then, play their game and laugh with them. They may want to be able to do it again to refine their rules or they may challenge you to do it.Or, put out a game everyone around the table knows how to play or has at least seen played before, start a timer for 20 minutes and start with the oldest kid. The oldest kid starts the game by making up the rule about how the game starts. You can make the rule that no rules from the "store version" of the game can be used. The next person adds a rule about how the game continues to another player, the next person adds a rule about something else, and this continues for 3 or 4 rounds - passes are allowed. Play continues with the rules that have been established. When the timer goes off, once it gets back around to the oldest kid everyone gets to make one more rule that will lead to the game ending.Or, put out a game everyone around the table knows how to play. Each person gets to declare one of the rules they would like to change and how they would like to change it. Then, play the new game.We do things like flip a coin at the end of a Putt-Putt match to see if the high score or the low score wins as well...things to get kids to think strategy and to also put the emphasis on having fun and not just winning...winning and losing is based on a set of rules someone devised. Who says you can't change the rules? It's important for kids to know appropriate ways to challenge rules and what their rights are to move for change. If your teenagers are in to The Hunger Games series, that's a great launch point for a deep conversation about the role of government in making and enforcing rules as well.

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bigred1cav
Explorer
Sep 15, 2020
gin rummy
cowolter
Explorer
Sep 14, 2020
Turn the Tide is an older card game where you're usually trying not to take points which affect your life points. You also rotate hands between each players at the end of each round and it is actually easy to teach. You do need some piles but it's not a tableau game.
gatorcq
Explorer
Feb 16, 2014
Catch Phrase
peajay
Explorer
Feb 14, 2014
Scat if more than the 2 of us, otherwise we play Mandala.
HappyCampers227
Explorer
Feb 11, 2014
We just purchased a new card game called Skippo... can't stop playing it! We also play Mexican dominoes, uno, and various card games. No watching TV outside; just music, games or putting together a puzzle. Currently learning frisbee golf too.
fireman93514
Explorer
Feb 10, 2014
when we have the grandkids with us they like to play clue. Other than that we keep sorry, scrabble, yahtzee and a few card games inside. We have ladder golf for out doors. We discovered rummikub last year on a group camp with friends but we have not bought it yet.
Spappy
Explorer
Feb 09, 2014
My daughter (5) and I play a lot of board games and card games. Simple and easy to set up ones are the best for us. We have chutes and ladders, candy land, etc. My wife and I play "mad libs" mostly. We also share puzzle books, word search, etc. I am a big fan of sudoku. I love the fact that when we camp, we are unplugged. No cell games, no electronics, just old school games that are fun.

Thanks,
Spap
AuntSmurf
Explorer
Feb 08, 2014
When the grands are around we play a lot of "Garbage". Fairly quick card game that can be played by fairly young kids, yet is still enjoyable to adults. Easy to play, but directions are lengthy so pm me if you want them :B
mountainsam
Explorer
Feb 07, 2014
The way I get my grandkids off the electronics is to get out the Texas Hold'm cards. They will sit there all evening playing. They are 11 and 13. While travelling they will pretty much go along with what ever the adults want to do but at night they want to play any card game. During the day while driving they love word games or trivia.
Veebyes
Explorer II
Jan 25, 2014
Our favourite road game is coming up behind somebody driving erratically, speeding up, driving slow, weaving, sitting still at green lights etc. & guessing if they are yapping on the phone, eating or doing something else that is severely distracting them from paying attention to their driving.

More often than not they are yapping on the phone.

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