Skippity is a fun checkers-meets-peg game. You start off with the entire board, except the four middle squares. covered in different colored checkers. Each player jumps pieces and takes the ones they jumped. We have been able to jump up to four at a time. When no more jumps can be made the game ends. Scoring is based on how many complete sets of each color you got.
Race to the Treasure is a cooperative game, which is definitely for younger kids, (but I did not know that when I got it). The youngest player rolls the dice to see where the keys and Ogre Snacks go on the grid; ex D1. Then players take turns drawing cards and deciding how to turn the path tiles beginning at the start and continuing the path. The goal is to collect 3 keys before you draw all 10 Ogre tiles.
The Ogre has only won once or twice, but as I said the game is for younger kids. So maybe he has more of a chance with them. I got the game used last year, but it was missing the dice. I contacted the company and they sent me replacement dice free even though they knew it was used!
Gimme Gimme Guinea Pigs is a cute card game. It does require a table or space to lay out the cards. Players keep 7 cards in their hands at all times. The rest of the cards are face down on the table. Players take turns flipping a cards and discarding a card. If you get a PAWS card everyone has to pass three cards to the left. The goal is to get 7 of the same animals.
Herding Cats is another fun simple card game. Player keep three cards at all times. If you can play a card you must even if it helps another player. You start by laying down a cowdog, but if you do not have one you discard a card and draw one from the draw pile. Once someone plays a cowdog you can play the same color cat on him or the WILD Catlady. The player who plays the third card on a cowdog gets the stack. The Stampede Card allows you to go through the discard pile and play all cats that can be played on the cowdogs that are on the table. The person who played the stampede card card keeps any sets they complete. Play continues until you run out of cards.
Outfoxed is one of Sabrina's favorite games. It is a cooperative game where players work together to figure out who the thief is. On each turn players declare whether they are looking for clues or suspects before rolling the three dice. They have 3 tries to get all dice matching the symbol they are looking for. If they do they either get to turn over two suspects or move the number of paws. If the dice don't all match what they are looking for the fox moves 3 spaces. If the player lands on a clue space they insert a clue into the cluefinder to see if the thief has the item on the clue. Players win if they can figure out who the thief is before the fox reaches the end of the board.
This is another game that seems like it would be for younger kids, however, all of Sabrina's friends love it when she brings it to game days. The fox does win about 30% of the time.
Googly Eyes is Pictionary with messed up vision. It is fun if the glasses do not give you a headache. Sabrina and I can play it fine, though the blue glasses do start to give me a headache if I leave them on past the 45 seconds I'm drawing. Frank and Alex cannot play because they get headaches from the glasses.
Me Want Cookies! is a speed game. Players roll a dice to see what dessert to start with. Then they follow the crazy twisting trail to see which other dessert it is connected to. The first player to grab the correct dessert wins the cards. Some cards are simple and others are harder.
Flashlights & Fireflies is a game that Sabrina got last Christmas that got buried on the game shelf. I'm not sure if we played it correctly, so I will wait to give it a review. We did enjoy it, but I will have Frank read the directions or watch an online review because I found the instructions confusing.
Marie-Anne
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