The Syndicate

My kids have repeatedly kicked my butt in Monopoly Junior.

Over the holiday weekend I’ve been teaching my almost-7-year-old to play Mastermind. I used to play it a lot when I went camping with my great-grandparents when I was a kid. In retrospect, my childhood love for that game had to have helped shape my analytical mind. I hope it does the same for Chloe. She broke my code in three attempts the very first time we played it. It was a fair amount of luck that she picked all four correct colors the first round but she sorted it out from there.

I played Pandemic for the first time with a couple guys at a retreat a few weeks back. It was neat. It's like a collaborative twist on Risk. We scored a major victory in preventing an outbreak that would have ended the game and then triggered a game-ending outbreak on the very next turn anyway. Such is life.

Here is a picture of our game cabinet. Not sure why the pic is loading sideways. I saved the file rotated properly. Oh well. We've got more games for our four-year-old upstairs.




Or go to this link to see the full picture. The forum cuts off the top shelf for some reason.