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Board game sales are booming as people seek off-screen connections
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My first Castle panic was fun.
How's their attention span? Stuffed fables is an awesome game, as is cora quest.
Concept kids is a blast, makes everyone think
Zombie kids is a legacy co-op game that was fun
Piggy back brigade is easy fun
Big groups enjoy green team wins
It really depends on the kid though, age ranges are sometimes really hit or miss
Our kid is train centric, so if you want a list of train games, ask and I'll spend a bit sorting through what we have.
Edit: Magical Athlete is amazing.
Train centric? So ticket to ride is in their future, yeah?
We have almost all of the ticket to ride, including legends of the West (legacy)
Before that: engine engine number nine, rail wreck, rail pass
And Lego trains, ho and o scale trains...
Eventually they'll want to play empyreal, but it's a lot.
On Kickstarter recently: spirit train
I'm sure I'm missing some, but that feels close to complete.
(Not trains, but they've played some spirit Island recently and it's gone well, so harder train games are likely in my future)
Edit: also railroad ink (all), railroad tiles (all)
Shout out to the little plastic train company for extra minis. https://littleplastictrain.com/