Games kids play

So a friend gave my son chutes and ladders for his birthday. And it took me back to the time in my own childhood when I would play ‘snakes and ladders’ as it was then called and other games. Werent they fun? I personally loved the ladders and hated the snakes, but isnt that the point of the game.

Nowadays there are DVDs in cars but I still think they are great for long drives and time with family and friends.

And I was thinking of others I can teach my son  and his friends -

• Antakshari – this is a unique Indian game I think where the next person has to think of a song starting with the letter the first person’s song ends with. And it goes in a chain, and you can decide what kids of songs you like – kids, hindi, bangla, english etc.
• Name, place, animal, thing – One person gets to choose an alphabet and all the rest have to think of a name of a person, a place, an animal and a thing with that alphabet and write it down. After 30 s we compare results
• 20 questions – you think of something in a category (say the name of a film star) and the other person or people have to figure out in 20 yes or no questions what the person is
• Story, story – one person starts a story and others have to continue it. This was one of my favorites and you get pretty wacky stuff
• Tic tac toe – of course
• Think or all words you can with an alphabet, say a, c, c etc
• And of course board games like Clue

What games did you play? What were your favorites?

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