Two-player logic games are FANTASTIC to have in a homeschool family’s game closet. Sometimes two is just the right number and can help siblings practice math-brain reasoning skills during a part of the school day when they need to be more self-directed. That’s one of the ways we use them, anyway! They’ve also been making […]
Strategy Games
Embrace your inner farmer, gather up your extra produce, and head to the market to see if you can have a profitable day! Two to four players can try their hand at this farmer’s market business and see how it turns out in My Farm Shop, a 30-45 minute game for 8+ where the luckiest […]
Roll and climb your way to the Himalayan summit in this pencil and paper competition of strategy and good fortune! Trek12, an exciting roll & write adventure, is a 15-30 minute experience for any number of players ages 8+, which makes it an excellent educational family or party game! Players can choose from two different […]
You don’t have to wait until Saturday to go to the Farmers Market anymore! Just crack open this family board game to fulfill all your market desires and build some practical thinking and math skills along the way! Downtown Farmers Market is a tile placement game with a twist. Players blindly select 8 tiles to […]
YOU are the captain of an intergalactic crew of space hunters. Your prey? The legendary, elusive, and dangerous SPACE DRAGONS! Players begin by building their “crew”. Each player is dealt a hand of 9 cards, out of which one is selected and placed face down to keep as a crew member. Players pass their remaining […]
The quirky city is under construction again, but the architects and engineers have changed things up with this newest stand-alone game variation! Machi Koro 2 is a dice rolling, city-building game for 2-5 clever and quick-thinking players, ages 10+. To begin the game, sort the cards into the three types of cards. Place 5 unique […]
If you thought Africa was all desert, grassland, and safari animals, think again! The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is one of the most diverse on the planet with over 15,000 square miles of land that is home to grassland, woodland, wetland, and dryland species of plants and animals, and many of them need a combination of these […]
What’s your preferred environment? Do you feel most at one with nature when surrounded by EARTH, FOREST, STONE, or WATERFALL? It’s up to you to build the organically accoutered city of your dreams in NEOVILLE, a city building logic game for 2-4 players, ages 10+, in about 45 minutes! Each player begins the game with three […]
Happy children are what I LOVE to see, and playing lots of games means I get to see these smiling faces all the time and especially lately with this magnetic sudoku game from Learning Resources. It checks all the boxes for young gamers – the pieces are magnetic so they don’t slide around. This is […]
Our family loves strategy games, and when we want something light and quick with lots of chance, interaction, and excellent design/visual elements, we choose Bellum Magica! It’s the perfect family strategy game for 2-5 players ages 10+ and it plays in about 30 minutes. Less if dinner’s on the table and everyone is hungry but […]
