Board Games

It's a rainy day here, so no jumping on the trampoline. That has certainly been the activity of choice lately! Before the advent of the trampoline in our backyard, board games were definite favorites. I'm sure they'll come back into popularity here, LOL. We have come across a new kind of board games, which I wanted to let everyone know about!

When we were in Ohio, we wanted to buy a birthday present for Amy's son Zachary, who was turning 10. We looked at their Amazon wishlist, which had the game Stratego listed. Bob flipped through the sale circulars and discovered that Target had that very game on sale! We headed over there and bought a game for him and a game for us. Stratego has been a huge hit in both houses! The best part of the game, though, is that it did not come in one of those incredibly flimsy cardboard boxes that collapse so easily and are impossible to store. No, this game came in a sturdy wooden box, and it is supposed to look like a book on a shelf when stored!
There are a whole bunch of different games in this series--we bought Scrabble, Clue, Strageto, Life, Monopoly, and Risk. Our old games were falling apart, and many pieces were missing, especially in games like Monopoly and Risk. Also sold in the series are Yahtzee and Sorry.

Here is the Life game when you first open it up. The game is folded up, and everything else is under it. The book "cover" just slides off the game.

Here it is completely unfolded, and you can see the next layer in the box, which has the spinner and the little plastic buildings to put on the board. Everything you get in the regular Life game, just nicely packaged and compact!

Another thing I really like about these games is that they are the classic versions. This means that, for example, the markers in the Clue game are just little plastic markers, not molded characters that all look a bit shady, like in our big box version of the game.

So if, like at our house, all your board games are starting to fall apart, you might want to consider picking up some of these "Vintage Game Collection" games, which evidently are sold only at Target (that's what the advertising says anyway!). The best part is that storage is a breeze. Just clear off a little bit of bookshelf space (I know, I know--that's the hard part . . .) and set them in there like books! They even look nice!