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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jamesu
Explorer
Jan 21, 2014
Upwords, Scrabble, Cribbage
robsouth
Explorer II
Jan 21, 2014
LCR is a ton of fun for 3 or more. Any age can play as long as they know Left, Center, and Right.
sowego
Explorer
Jan 18, 2014
We love Skipbo, Uno, Hand & Foot, Euchre, Rummikub, & Dominos.
Dar_H
Explorer
Jan 15, 2014
I was recently introduced to a game called "Spot It"'. It's a fast paced game and very entertaining. From 2 to 8 players can play and it is very compact. A lot of fun.
RVcrazy
Explorer
Jan 10, 2014
One we enjoy is Farkle. All you need is dice and a piece of paper. We also play Crazy 8's & Cribbage as well as dominos.
loggenrock
Explorer
Jan 10, 2014
Scrabble and Rummikub are our "usuals", we also carry Backgammon, a deck of cards, domino's, and Yahtzee. ST
Jim_Shoe
Explorer
Jan 09, 2014
I'm a single traveler, so I stick with books of crossword puzzles.
JimM68
Explorer
Jan 09, 2014
Mexican train is a good one enjoyed by all ages.
Apples to apples is fun.
rolling_rhoda
Explorer
Jan 04, 2014
We are card players - Hand and Foot, Shanghai, Pitch, Queen of Spades. The kids have been playing, too, since about age 7. For other games we like Pass the Pigs, Yahtzee, Sequence, TriOminoes.
atreis
Explorer
Jan 04, 2014
For the drive, my wife makes a list of things to spot (big list - includes things like: glass-carrying truck, crane truck, RV towing a pickup with a golf cart in the back, etc...).

For in the campsite we have Uno, Scrabble, and a couple others like that. (We have a small trailer and weight limitations, so all of our games are of the compact and lightweight variety.)

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