Kids Game

Any game that is mainly suitable for children. If you think you might be playing a Kids Game, ask yourself the following questions:

• Is the game ruled utterly by chance?
• Is player interaction low to medium?
• Do you find that you never have to make tough decisions?
• Does a/the key strategy revolve around memorization, counting, or color recognition?
• Do you feel a lack of satisfaction when you do well?
• Are the instructions printed on the inside of the box in which the game resides?
• Do you find your attention span underwhelmed?
• Does the game involve a spinner?
• Do you feel that the game is trying to teach you about cooperation, telling the truth, behaving in school, or doing chores when asked?
• Are you playing Monopoly?

If you answered Yes to more than a couple of the above questions, then you are probably playing a Kids Game. Bear in mind that this is not necessarily something of which you should be ashamed.

--Paul_David_Unwin?

Some examples of Kids Games:

• Chutes_and_Ladders?
• Concentration?
• Candyland

Bitin'_Off_Hedz? is an example of something I consider a kid's game from Cheapass Games that is not quite as random, but still pretty random.

I would also mention an interesting game, Apples_to_Apples?, which we found perfectly playable with both adults an school age children simultaneously, and it was loads of fun. This is not a perfectly random game, and there is tons of player interaction. I highly recommend it for kids, and for mixed groups.

--Eric_Yarnell,_ND?

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