STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

I always liked Trouble.

I was and still am a game freak. We even had a subscription to some magazine called Games when I was a kid.

I liked chinese checkers, checkers,

yatzee,

cards, crazy eights, go -fish, old maid --- these usually come together

uno, dominoes, jacks, trouble, operation, mousetrap.

Connect 4! I that game!

My big guy (8) likes Battleship, Connect Four, sometime Monopoly (there's kid versions), and The Simpsons Operation.  There was an Operation Brain Surgery he used to like.  There's a game called Gooey Louie he's wanted for a couple of years where you have to pick stuff out of the guy's nose.

There's a new one for little kids called Buckaroo that looks cute.  And Chicken Limbo and Silly 6 Pins.  My little ones really like Penguin Pat a lot, but I'd say you'd need to be at least 4 to play it correctly.

mikacat wrote:

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I was and still am a game freak. We even had a subscription to some magazine called Games when I was a kid.

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i LOVED games magazine - my mother got it, and a few years ago i found some old unfinished ones in the basement and had a blast with them.  i wonder if they still make it....

and carries, sorry to hijack, but i think you've gotten a ton of great suggestions!

eta:  it still exists!  http://www.magazine-agent.com/order.cfm?TID=10141&GTSE=GOOG&&CRTV=CLAS&gclid=CI-rocDR_IECFQ-ZGgod4xPs9Q

-- Edited by asf at 12:16, 2005-12-14

These all sounds great- I just want to mention though that you probably should get something that needs batteries. If the family doesn't have much, that's really the last thing they need to be buying!