Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for December 22, 2016

a cruddy, but brilliant compromise

I think the real compromise would be modern kids playing board games! Kids today, even tiny ones are lost in their phones.

I can’t remember seeing kids playing a ‘board game’ on their own. It’s all electronics !

Except for online interactives, modern games aren’t designed for more than two players, usually. – while the old board games could accommodate 4, 6 or even 8 players.

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Don’t know what game “Blocky Blockers” is patterned after, but “Warship Battalion” sounds like a spoof of Hasbro’s “Battleship”.

My grandkids like board games and card games. They only play electronic games when everyone else is busy.

JPuzzleWhiz

Most commercial board games are folk board games with insignificant modifications. This has been going on for over a century. Chinese Checkers is the most modified; the Swedish game, Halma, on a hexagram instead of the corners of a square. Pente is Japanese, go ban with the addition of those dumb circle intrusions. Othello is Chinese, Fan Mein which came to Europe as an Italian game Reversi. And so on. Only the German board game movement has departed from this plagiarism with truly original games.

If Yatzy can be considered a board game then I guess my family do play boards games ( on occasion ! )

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I brought a Yatzy game back from the States and taught my wife and her family how to play.

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Three of the four grandchildren are old enough to play and enjoy it ( although the oldest boy,, 11 yrs, old, prefers electronic games ).

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The whole family have become Yatzy fanatics.