We seem to have been playing quite a lot of board (and other) games over the past month or so and this afternoon we went to friends' and have two more to add.
So games we've been playing recently (that's in the last week) include Monopoly, The Game of Life Adventures Edition (the girls played yesterday with friends who came round), and Phase 10.
One of them was Catchphrase, which was okay, but we (the Mummies) found that quite frequently the 'phrases' were things that the children had no chance of getting, because they were songs or tv programmes that they wouldn't have heard of, such as Purple Rain or Twin Peaks.
The second one was much better and a real blast from the past for me. I played the French version on numerous occasions when I was an assistante in La Rochelle as part of my degree, with the German assistante and her (also German) boyfriend and a French couple we'd met there. The game is Taboo, where you have a card with a word or phrase at the top that you have to convey to others without using it or any of the five other words (or their derivatives) on the card. It's actually easier than you might think to play in a foreign language if you're reasonably proficient, because you're used to talking round a word that you don't know in that language, although fun and challenging and from my recollection best attempted accompanied by a glass or two of wine! This afternoon we didn't play competitively, but each just picked a card (decided if we'd manage/the children would know the word or phrase) and had a go. It was really good fun, the young ones did better than I'd anticipated (they're much less constrained than us grown ups!) and I'm seriously considering investing in it for us. As with some other games we have we'll just use the cards for fun rather than to play competitively at least for now.
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