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Family Game Night: The Root Beer Float Challenge

Family Game Night: The Root Beer Float Challenge

Every month we like to get together as a family and host a family game night. We will sometimes hold them at my house or at my parent’s home. We serve finger foods, beverages, and then get down to business. Our only requirements are that 

Fun and Educational Card Games for Kids from HOYLE

Fun and Educational Card Games for Kids from HOYLE

During the holidays I like to “stuff” a large gift bag with goodies for each of my grandchildren instead of using a holiday stocking. The reason I use a gift bag is because their parents do the Christmas stocking, so I wanted to do something 

Thinkfun Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building Game

Thinkfun Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building Game

Thinkfun Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building GameHow many of you regularly hold a family game night or play dates with the kids? Here at our home we hold family game night twice a month where we get together for pizza and games. It first started when our daughter was a little girl and has continued now that we’re grandparents. We look forward to these family play dates every month!

* Complimentary Game Received for Review.

We recently received the Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building Game from ThinkFun to try out for all of you. This game is for ages 6 and up, and has more than 100,000 unique building possibilities with 40 easy to super hard challenges.

Thinkfun Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building Game

Your Goal:  Create a roller coaster track that will carry your car from start to finish. You get 40 challenges with four levels of play: easy, medium, hard and super hard.

Game Includes: Game grid, coaster car, 39 track pieces, 36 post pieces, 2 tunnels, 40 challenges with solutions and instructions.

How to Play: Select a challenge card and set up the posts and tracks as shown. Determine where to add the indicated pieces to the grid. When your car successfully rides the track from start to finish, you win!

Thinkfun Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building Game

One of the things I like about this game is that it’s a single player game. There are times when the family gets together and wants to play an adult game which leaves our 8 year old granddaughter – out! Now when we get together and are playing a game she can’t play or doesn’t want to play, she can get out her new Roller Coaster Challenge Game and play that.

The first time that she played it my husband sat down on the floor with her and showed her how to play it. From that time on…she’s been able to play it herself and will often sit and play it for a few hours at a time. It really helps her to focus on what she’s doing and to problem-solve along the way. In my opinion, it’s educational and fun!

Thinkfun Roller Coaster Challenge Thrill Ride Building Game

This game just made Amazon’s Top 25 Holiday Toys List for this year and it has been featured in Good Housekeeping Magazine, USA Today’s All the Moms, Fatherly and more. And is a National Parenting Products Award winner. In other words, it’s one of the MUST-HAVE Toys this holiday season!!!

Head on over to ThinkFun and check out all of the wonderful toys and games that they have to offer. I think you’re going to love what you see. You can connect with the company on Facebook too.

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Utter Nonsense Family Edition for Game Night Laughs

Utter Nonsense Family Edition for Game Night Laughs

If you have game nights with family or friends and you enjoy playing outside of the run-of-the-mill board game box, Utter Nonsense might be right up your alley. This game is all about acting silly and trying to outdo your fellow players, using assigned accents 

Camera Roll – The Hot NEW Party Game!

Camera Roll – The Hot NEW Party Game!

How many of you like to get together with your friends and have a fun game night? What about getting together with adult family members? If you answered yes to either of these questions, I’ve got a HOT new game to tell you about today! 

Family Game Night: Name 5 by Endless Games

Family Game Night: Name 5 by Endless Games

Family Game Night: Name 5 by Endless GamesIf you’ve been following this blog for the past 6 years you’ll already know that my family regularly gets together for family game nights. We’ve been hosting regular game nights for the past 25 years and LOVE to get together for an afternoon or evening of fun!

Recently we were introduced to 2 new games from Endless Games for our game nights and today, I’m going to introduce all of you to one of them. In a few weeks, I’ll highlight the second game that we received.

We received the Name 5 Game and it’s FAMILY rated for ages 12 and over. You’ll need at least 2+ players or 2 teams/groups to play the game.

Name 5 Board Game by Endless Games

Contents Included:

144 Name 5 Cards
1 Game Board
1 Die
4 Pawns (Playing Pieces)
30 Second Timer
Instructions

Game Synopsis: Can you name 5 things that could make a person sneeze? How about 5 TV dads? 5 video games? Fruits or vegetables beging with “a”? Name 5 is the outrageous party game that asks the easy questions you know the answers to. Sure, you know 1 movie starring America’s sweetheart or a certain Hollywood heartthrob, maybe even 2…but can you Name 5??? The object of the game is to be the first person or the first team to reach the Name 5 space to win the game.

Name 5 Board Game by Endless Games

Our Thoughts: This game is really easy-to-play and a whole lot of fun! Teams or persons will take turns playing by rolling the die, moving your piece on the board and then reading the card that corresponds to the color of the space that you landed on. Once the card has been read, the timer begins. You’ll have 30 seconds to answer the challenge. If your successful in naming all 5, you’ll roll the die again and take another turn. If your unsuccessful, it’s the next person or teams turn. There are other basic instructions, but this is the gist of the game.

My family has sat down to play this game 3 times since we’ve received it. Even my 7 year old grand daughter can play if she’s given some of the easier question cards to answer and does really well at her age if she’s on a team with adult players. So, in my opinion, younger kids can play as long as adults are on the team too.

Name 5 Board Game by Endless Games

The game gets really fun when you land on some of the special spaces on the game board: All Play, Flip Flop, Wild and Double Down. With these spaces, just when you think you’re winning the game…you could actually lose! These special spaces really add fun & excitement to the game.

Overall, we LOVE this board game and think it’s a lot of fun to play. It’s great for Family Game Night and/or any fun parties that you may be hosting. We rate it an 8 1/2 out of 10 on our entertainment rating scale.

Want to try out the game yourself? You can visit the Apple App Store for the Name 5 App which is now available! You can learn more about the Name 5 board game and other games offered by Endless Games by visiting the company’s website online.

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Table Manners Card Game from Golly Gee-pers

Table Manners Card Game from Golly Gee-pers

About Golly Gee-pers – Golly Gee-pers is a Green company devoted to making your job as a parent, teacher or caregiver easier and more fun. Staff research, test and develop new products that help teach children important social skills and inspire them to become good 

Online Bingo The Ideal Game for Busy Moms

Ever since bingo first gained momentum as a community game back in the 1930’s, it’s always been one that is popular with women from all walks of life. But now that the majority of people who play bingo do so online, there are even more