TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Day 3-5
On day 3 all four of us played the game Blokus. Blokus is a game that requires spatial reason with a variety of shapes. The playing pieces are “tetris” shapes that must be placed so that it touches at least one other piece of the same color, but only touching the corner. The game is really simple, but the amount of possible plays quickly diminish making strategy important.
My son struggled to find correct plays, but he stuck with it and I think it is a good mental activity for him. I just happened to win. I’m really enjoying my victory in a mental reasoning game over a 6 and 7 year old.
There is also now a Blokus Trigon with triangle based playing pieces and a hexagonal game board.
On day 4, I played Popomatic Trouble with the kids. Trouble is another simple game with the goal to get your 4 game pieces around the board before your opponents. The fun of Trouble is that if you land on an opponent’s piece they have to go back to the beginning. The game has been around since 1965. We always enjoy playing this game and my daughter had a come from behind victory to win, which she enjoyed!
On day 5 the game of choice was Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games on the Wii. This Wii game involves a variety of Olympic sports that you compete in using the Mario and Sonic characters. The events that we played were the 100m dash, 100m swimming, hammer throw and table tennis. Some of the events give you quite a workout.
