Great Games for Kids
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Board games provide an excellent form of entertainment for children of all ages. Many are also educational and can be used for family game nights. There are many classic games that have been around for years and even decades, which are enjoyed just as much now as by the generation before. Your children may enjoy the following fun board games.
Chutes and Ladders
Chutes and Ladders is a fun game for very young children. This colorful board includes a series of ladders that advance the players and chutes that make them go back. Children pick cards to find out how far they can advance. If they reach a chute or ladder than they follow it to the destination. The first person to the end wins.
Monopoly
Monopoly is an excellent board game for all children, young and old alike. Each child picks a game piece such as a thimble or a rider on a horse. You roll a dice to go around a board. On many of the spaces are properties from Atlantic City. You can buy them if they are not owned and from then on everyone else who steps on them will have to pay you “œrent.” You can make them more valuable by improving them with houses and hotels. There is a banker and you will earn and use money as you go around the board. There are other spots that can earn you money through “œchance” cards or cost you money through fines. At the end the player with the most money wins. The game can take quite a while but teaches children about money and investing.
Scrabble
Kids who enjoy word games will love to play Scrabble. There is a large 225 tile board and tiles with letters on them (plus two blank). Each letter has a point value assigned to it; the harder the number is to place, the higher the number will be. When one places a word, he or she gets the point value from all of the letters. If he or she lands on a bonus spot such as a spot that says to double the value of the word, then he or she will get those extra points. The points are tallied when all of the tiles have been used, and the person with the highest score is the winner.
Clue
Clue is a fun who-done-it game. At the beginning, players pick a random person who did it, the room and the weapon. The players then have to go through the board and ask others what cards they have to eliminate who didnâ™t do it. The person who figures out the culprit, weapon and location wins.
There are many fun classic games for children of all ages. The above games are favorites from yesterday and today.