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We still like the Ladybug game and Sorry (and Sorry Revenge card game). Go Fish. We like Guess Who as well.

I agree with the Old Maid reference. However, my daughter loved this game when she was young. I jokingly called it "Confirmed Bachelor".

Jenga is a great game that gifted students seem to love. And I agree with the dominoes - always good.

I'm glad to hear of someone else playing this game. I think it is so cool!

ds9 just loves monopoly. when he was little he liked Payday alot. We played Payday alot when he was 3-5. Also, anything from Thinkfun. He was really into Rushhour at that age and any of the others (Tipover, etc)

also loves Blokus, Stratego, clue and Risk...LOVES Risk!

Set is good for any age too

This is cool!

We love Chess, UNO (with its math variations), and math dice games (6 6-sided, 2 12-sided and you multiply the 12's to get a number that you have to make up with the 6's by + - / * ^ ) We also have Equate and have made up our own version of Space-opoly that has planets/moons you can buy in the $10,000 range (and build satellites instead of hotels, spaceship malfunction for 'Go to Jail', etc). We often bring a couple of these to the bagel store on Saturdays and spend a few hours playing together (and ordering about a dozen bagels between all of us!) And no one can beat me at Mastermind, but they love to try!

Aurora

Not sure if Bananagrams has been mentioned yet--really fun for both grown-ups and kids. We play the shorter version.

Have you seen this thread?
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/91725/1.html

Great thread - thanks for compiling that list.

Since it appears it can't be edited, I thought I'd mention a couple over here that may not have been posted.

When he was 4, ds enjoyed his dad's old strategy game (it may be out of print, I don't know) called 'Conquest of the Empire'.

And one of the two big hits last month at Christmas was Dungeons & Dragons. Both the 11-year-old and the 9-year-old are reveling in it. (The other hit was a large Zome kit.)

Hiya,

DD 8 and DS 6 love chess, and also the board games found on the link below:

http://www.cogno.com/#/games

Hope this hasn't already been posted, sorry if it has and I overlooked it.

K x