Game that 5 year old and 12 year old can play together?
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Anonymous
| Looking for non non screen or tech games. |
Anonymous
| Uno |
Anonymous
| Rivers, Roads, and Rails |
Anonymous
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I’d go for games that are more luck based than skill, so it then depends on how easily bored the 12 year old is. SORRY could work. Is there a reason you want games vs other types of activities that they can share? I’m asking because games have winners and losers, and that will usually put the younger kid at a disadvantage and/or bore the older kid — vs having them each doing craft projects or building things. Jenga or stack Uno could work. So could pickup sticks.
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Anonymous
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Sorry, Trouble, Parchesi, amd Qwirkle.
And, your 12 year old will find them all boring... |
Anonymous
| Otrio but your 5 year old gets to have a parent partner |
Anonymous
| The quick card game version of Monopoly. |
Anonymous
| Connect 4, battleship, strategic, Blokus, Yahtzee |
Anonymous
| War with a duck of cards or as we call it “high low”. |
Anonymous
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Sleeping Queens.
Yahtzee maybe? |
Anonymous
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Jenga
Go Fish Old Maid Rock paper scissors |
Anonymous
| Memory, Battleship, War, maybe also fancier card games like poker and Polish poker. Latter with a few adaptations, maybe keeping track of hands won in poker and setting a knock limit on Polish poker. |
Anonymous
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Sleeping queens is fun, if five year old can do addition.
Guess Who A lot of older classic games: Uno Sorry Chinese checkers Checkers Connect Four Battleship Mousetrap Operation Hungry Hungry Hippos Pickup Sticks Dominoes Bingo Go Fish Chutes and Ladders Pictionary or Charades (just alternate guessing, since only two people) |
Anonymous
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Our kids are 6 & 14 and we play a lot of games - when in doubt the little gets a parent partner.
Scrabble Uno Monopoly War/go fish Gin rummy Connect 4 Jenna Yeti in my spaghetti Yahtzee Sorry Trouble Kids vs parents trivial pursuit, taboo Hangman Pictionary, charades |
Anonymous
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Castle panic
Forbidden Island Anything that is a cooperative game - 12 yo can be more in charge of the strategy but everyone gets to play |