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Doing it in bits in pieces - this month games, next month jump ropes, month after more games, most likely... maybe get a few over the summer, give them in one fell swoop when September comes around.
On a whim, when we were at B&N picking up Yet Another copy of Sleeping Queens (the school is thus getting a new set and our castoff deck as well. We're now on our THIRD deck, I believe) I decided to also get a copy of Duck, Duck, Bruce.
There are ten types of duck, and each type can come in 1, 2, 3, or 4 ducks. Your goal is to collect the highest possible duck from each category. (At the end of the game, you only get points from the highest ducks you own, the rest are tossed in the discard pile.) So you flip, and flip, and flip the cards. If you get doubles, or the dog, some of your cards that you've flipped have to be discarded. And there's a way to steal from other people as well, BUT they might end up stealing from you instead.
It's actually a lot less complicated than I just made it sound, LOL.
I thought I'd just test-drive this game before passing it off to the school. BIG MISTAKE - the kids love it, so now I'll have to buy *another* set to pass off!
Evangeline loves it because she keeps winning. This isn't because she's any good at the game (she's not sure of what she's going for yet, though we're working on it) but because she's disgustingly lucky.
Ana thinks she understands how to play, so she's very cautious. Consequently, she's usually the last loser, because she's *too* cautious.
Today we played and Evangeline, for a change, got a very low score. I got a pretty low score (we ended the game early because 'dul came home), and Ana was two points below me.
You know, you shouldn't let kids win. It's bad for them. But she'd lost so often, and been such a (reasonably) good sport about it that... I confess, when she asked my score I just lied. "Oh, I was two points below you. You win, Ana!"
I may go to heck for that, but the grin on her face makes it all worth it. Surely it's okay to let her win sometimes if she doesn't find out and we don't make a habit of it... right? Right?
On a whim, when we were at B&N picking up Yet Another copy of Sleeping Queens (the school is thus getting a new set and our castoff deck as well. We're now on our THIRD deck, I believe) I decided to also get a copy of Duck, Duck, Bruce.
There are ten types of duck, and each type can come in 1, 2, 3, or 4 ducks. Your goal is to collect the highest possible duck from each category. (At the end of the game, you only get points from the highest ducks you own, the rest are tossed in the discard pile.) So you flip, and flip, and flip the cards. If you get doubles, or the dog, some of your cards that you've flipped have to be discarded. And there's a way to steal from other people as well, BUT they might end up stealing from you instead.
It's actually a lot less complicated than I just made it sound, LOL.
I thought I'd just test-drive this game before passing it off to the school. BIG MISTAKE - the kids love it, so now I'll have to buy *another* set to pass off!
Evangeline loves it because she keeps winning. This isn't because she's any good at the game (she's not sure of what she's going for yet, though we're working on it) but because she's disgustingly lucky.
Ana thinks she understands how to play, so she's very cautious. Consequently, she's usually the last loser, because she's *too* cautious.
Today we played and Evangeline, for a change, got a very low score. I got a pretty low score (we ended the game early because 'dul came home), and Ana was two points below me.
You know, you shouldn't let kids win. It's bad for them. But she'd lost so often, and been such a (reasonably) good sport about it that... I confess, when she asked my score I just lied. "Oh, I was two points below you. You win, Ana!"
I may go to heck for that, but the grin on her face makes it all worth it. Surely it's okay to let her win sometimes if she doesn't find out and we don't make a habit of it... right? Right?
