Have Fun with Your Kids! A Roundup of Board Games Recommended for Parents and Children

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Corridor Kids

Quoridor is a game where the winner is the first to advance their piece to the opposite side of the board.

It sounds simple, but the key feature is that you can place fences to block your opponent’s path along the way.

If you don’t place fences skillfully, you might end up blocking your own path, so caution is needed.

There’s also a children’s version called Quoridor Kid, which is the one featured in the video.

The kids’ version has a colorful board with fewer squares, and the pieces are cute little mice.

It’s a game that trains the brain while you play.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Zombie Kidz: Evolution Sealed

Introduction to the board game “Zombie Kidz: Evolution” + the new release “Zombie Teenz”

Perhaps reflecting the times, games are shifting from ones where you win alone to ones where everyone cooperates.

This game is one of those cooperative types.

Following the roll of the dice, zombies appear at the school you attend.

You win by locking the four gates on the campus while defeating zombies that show up in classrooms.

If three zombies appear in a single classroom, you won’t be able to defeat them.

Also, as you play the game repeatedly, you’ll unlock “evolution” envelopes, and opening them makes the gameplay more advanced, so you never get bored.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Dragomino

[Dragomino] Kingdomino Returns in a Simpler Form / TGG Board Game

In this game, each card shows different types of terrain on its two halves, and when you connect matching terrains, you can obtain a dragon egg from that terrain.

Some dragon eggs are winners and some are duds; if you draw a winning egg, you get one baby dragon.

The player who has the most baby dragons at the end of the game wins.

This game is a simplified, child-friendly adaptation of the German board game Kingdomino.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Nine Tiles

Nine Tiles: The rules take just 10 seconds to explain! Educational for kids, brain training for adults! The box is small and easy to carry, so you can play anywhere!

This is a game where you line up nine cards that have different pictures on the front and back to recreate the same pattern as the challenge card.

The person who arranges their cards to match the challenge the fastest wins and takes the challenge card.

The first player to collect four challenge cards wins the game.

A key to winning is to quickly check both sides of the cards you’re dealt and grasp where each symbol is.

If you start by placing the symbols that appear only once, you can efficiently get closer to the target pattern.

Use both your eyes and hands skillfully to arrange the cards.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Blox

[Board Game] A strategic territory-claiming game where you connect your color: Blokus

It’s a board game that the whole family can enjoy from age 7.

First, each player receives 21 color-coded pieces.

When the game begins, place one of your pieces on a corner of the board.

On your turn, place your next piece so that it touches one of your own pieces at the corners.

If you can’t place any of your pieces, you must pass.

When no one can place any more pieces, the game ends, and you score points for the pieces you managed to place on the board.

To arrange your pieces well, you also need to pay attention to other players’ moves.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Marrakesh

Gigamic Gigamic Marrakech Marrakesh

Here’s a territory-claiming game where you lay carpets across the Marrakech square on the board.

The carpets are made of fabric, and their texture adds to the fun.

You move your pawn the number of spaces shown on the die; if you land on someone else’s carpet, you must pay that player.

If you land on your own carpet or on an empty space, there’s no payment.

After moving, you place one of your carpets next to your pawn, and it’s allowed to overlap someone else’s carpet by half.

Do your best to fill the square with your own carpets!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Nanjamonja

[Latest] We tried the newly released Nam Nam Monster Deluxe and ended up laughing our heads off lol

Nanjamonja is a card game born in Russia.

You flip a card, give the mysterious creature on it a name, and if the same card appears again from the deck, whoever shouts that name first gets the card.

It’s a game that tests both memory and quick reflexes.

Because the characters are so strange and mysterious, each person’s naming sense really shows—but if you give a name that’s too long, you’ll end up forgetting it and holding your head in frustration later.

Then again, that’s exactly what makes the game so fun.