Category: games

  • Travel Games

    Travel Games

    We LOVE road trips. We travel quite a bit, and that means I have kids who are bored in the car. In the 13 years, this is Future Ticia of 2019, not the 2013 Ticia saying this, of parenting my kids haven’t had electronics in the car. Instead, they’ve read books, listened to audiobooks, and…

  • History Games for School

    History Games for School

    Regular readers of my blog will tell you we are BIG fans of history lessons here as well as gameschooling.  I love finding new and unique ways to teach history lessons, and games often fills this challenge.  Though many history games are not intended for young kids. Why play history games: Similar to my math…

  • Dice Games

    Dice Games

    I have a true love-hate with dice games. I love rolling lots of dice, but at the same time I have the absolute worst luck with dice games. I could have all the dice I need and have lots of rerolls and I will still not get the roll I need for this dice game.…

  • Labyrinth, a game to play with the whole family

    Labyrinth, a game to play with the whole family

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    For years I heard people rave about Labyrinth. I’d even given a copy to a friend for Christmas one year, and I had a copy sitting on my shelves, but for whatever reason we didn’t really pull our copy out all that often. Then I went on a “clear out our game shelves” kick, and…

  • Why play card games?

    Why play card games?

    I was looking through my games I wanted to write about, and was thinking about card games, and why you should play them. It then turned into a card games for gameschooling, and a bit of a collection of all my card games, both the ones I’ve written about, and the ones I haven’t written…