Children's Games

June 4, 2023

When my twins were a little over 2 years old, they started playing some board games by the actual rules! Before that, I had introduced them to board games and they liked playing with the pieces. I blogged about some of those experiences in my Training Games series. But when they started playing games by the rules, I started making overview videos of each game we've played. Here's the playlist on YouTube of all the videos I've made about children's games. The links to each overview video in the playlist are also below, grouped by how old my kids were when they first played the game by the rules.

Additionally, I made a list of some of my (and my kids') favorites to play with 2 year olds and 3 year olds! I'm also planning on making a list video for each year as they grow older.

Episode 151 - That’s Child’s Play!

February 24, 2022

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Fire in the Hole! and Stella: Dixit Universe. We then talk about playing children's games - not with children, but just with adults!

Training Games: Click Clack Lumberjack

June 3, 2021

by Ambie Valdés
This is part of a series called Training Games, where I review children's games when playing (with modified rules) with my twin toddlers. This review was written when my twins were 20 months old.

Click Clack Lumberjack is a dexterity game where you’re trying to tap plastic tree pieces with a plastic axe in order to knock bark pieces off without knocking the cores off. It’s a game that I’ve enjoyed playing mostly with other adults before I had kids. Currently, my kids aren’t old enough to be playing a dexterity game like this (it’s for ages 5 and up), but they love playing with the pieces and it’s one of the first games that my kids pick to play when they go into the game room.

Top 100 Games: Ambie's 60-51

May 30, 2018

For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie goes over her top 60-51 games.


Episode 16 - Party Time

December 8, 2016

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Paris Connection, Istanbul, and Deception: Murder in Hong Kong. We then talk about board games that are great for parties. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "party."

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