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DH and I have twin nephews who are five and a half, and I'm told they are pretty smart for their age. We often have trouble buying gifts for them. This year I was thinking of getting them some classic board games - Battleship, Operation, etc. - but nothing that requires too long of an attention span (like Monopoly or Life).

What are some others I should be looking for? Give me some good 'old board game' suggestions.

Moms: is this a gift that seems appropriate? Would it be appreciated? Their parents (DH's brother and his wife) are the opposite of down-to-earth. They're kind of cookie-cutter, McMansion people. Books aren't popular in their house, nor are arts/crafts, or anything that resembles education. That cuts down a lot of our usual 'kid gifts.'


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Connect 4? Chutes and Ladders?

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Oh, candyland!

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hungry hippos is a fun one.

I think board games are great, we love them at our house


old maid is a fun card game

-- Edited by small fry on Sunday 22nd of November 2009 09:43:48 AM

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hi ho cherry oh is great. 

there are a lot of great new games out as well.  i have a list of a few that i got from zrecommends.com:

zingo, hiss, cranium caribou, and snail pace race.

i'd look those up on amazon and see what else you can find.  i also second the candyland recommendation. 

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I loved Monopoly, Life, Mouse Trap, Sorry, Candyland, to name a few smile.gif

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Clue was always a favorite game of mine. It might be a little old for them though.

Sorry and Chutes and Ladders are both good suggestions.

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Candyland's at the top of our list. J-Bug also loves Topple and Uno and Labyrinth

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I loved Chutes & Ladders, Candyland and Sorry when I was growing up. We also played a lot of Junior Scrabble, but that may be too old for them.

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I always loved Operation and Clue.  The boys in my family range from 4 to 16 and they all play Jenga - together - which I find weird but that's a whole other story ;)

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Don't get them mouse trap! requires to build the darn trap everytime!

the other rec's above are great.

Chutes
Connect Four
CandyLand, etc

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I love Sorry and Clue, and Monopoly has a card game version that captures everything good about monopoly, except they've made it so it's a 30 minute game!

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jettie wrote:

Connect 4? Chutes and Ladders?



 Love these - AND candyland



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I saw that Target had a bunch of games for $7 and $10 - so I got Battleship, Twister, Sorry and Operation.

I loved Clue too. Maybe next year - although they have a few different editions now and one said ages 5 and up. I had Mouse Trap when I was a kid! So fun, but never worked quite right.

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Update: Sorry was a hit, and got played immediately, even though neither of them bothered to look at the rules. The other big hit was a pack of UNO cards. That's an addictive game!

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yup. We love Sorry in this household!

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We still play Uno in my house (and we are all in our 30's!) It can get pretty rough too. Our only rule is that there is no crying in Uno!

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