The tricky part: Just when you think you’re about to block off the thief for good, someone invariably has to play a card that branches the tunnel off into one or more different directions!īest for: Players ages 4 and up who enjoy mazes and other puzzles. On your turn, you add a piece to the maze-trying your best to close off all escape routes-and then draw another card. In Bandido, a prisoner is trying to make a break for it…don’t let him get away! Each player has a hand of three cards, each of which depicts part of a tunnel: a straightaway, bend, branch or dead end. Here are seven cooperative board games that work for both kids and their parents (because we know all too well the pain of trying to remain awake during an endless game of Candy Land).
Yes, you can still lose at a cooperative board game, but you lose as a group and you lose to the game-which is a lot better than losing to your little sister. Players might be trying to transport relics out of a haunted house before it’s overrun with ghosts racing to get mole rats to an escape pod before they’re bitten by snakes or working to close off a thief’s escape routes.įor kids who hate to lose, cooperative board games are a better option than the types of games that feature player elimination-like, say, Monopoly, where the eliminated players have to just sit and watch everyone else have fun. But there’s a solution to this problem that you may not have ever heard of: cooperative board games.Ĭooperative board games are those where, instead of players trying to beat one another, they work together to beat the game or to reach a common goal. If your kid freaks out when you or a sibling beats him at a board game, it might be enough for you to want to pack the games away for good. But when you have one (or more) ultra-competitive kids in your clan, what should be a fun, educational bonding experience quickly turns into meltdown central.
You’ve tried your best to institute a family game night, you really have.
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