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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulJohn" data-source="post: 3632200" data-attributes="member: 53376">Just a quick update (keep ideas coming, but based on comments I'm going to add a few comments):1)  Checkers:  He already plays some checkers with his grandmother, though I guess I should sit down and play a couple games with him just to see how he's doing.  2)  Chess:  Surprisingly, while we were out shopping yesterday, he saw a chess set and said he wanted it.   I didn't buy it because it was an expensive set, and we already have a set someplace (we're going to be building a home later this year and are currently in a smaller home with much of our stuff in an assortment of storage places).  I might have to either buy a cheap set, or dig up a set from storage (I think I have the 'learner' set with the moves pictured on the base of the piece).  3)  Video games:  We have a couple of Nintendo DS systems.  His favorite games seem to be side scroller games along the line of the various Mario Brothers games.  And at Grandmas house there is a Playstation 2, so he gets to play a little on that (the Star Wars Lego game, the Sly Cooper Series, and Harvest Moon are his favorites).  4) Uno:  Picked up a Batman themed Uno card set yesterday, and though it was just the two of us (I got rid of the reverse cards) he had a great time playing.  Just need to teach him to keep his cards hidden, and to conserve his wild cards a bit more, he was occasionally playing them when he had a reqular card he could use.   He managed to win about 3 games in a row.    5) Yahtzee:  Found some Yahtzee score sheets online, now just have to find some 6 sided dice...shouldn't be a problem (as a classic RPG dice whore), except I believe that my beer mug full o' dice is in storage.   May be an excuse to buy some more dice! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  6) Attacktix:  I may check this out, I've been seeing it in Wal Mart for years, and if I'm not mistaken, Jeff Grubb was involved in the initial game design.  It sounds like fun, though the wife may not appreciate me picking him up a game that launches missiles around the table.   He likes both Star Wars and comics, so if I can pick some of those up, it'll be even easier to get his attention. 7) Car Wars:  Could be fun, but do I don't remember how intense the rules are either.  We've got a house full of hot wheels, so if I could create something of a 'model based' version that would keep his attention even better.  8) Pokemon:  I tried to take a look at the Pokemon site, but don't know what was going on, either my PC, or just bad flash, but couldn't really find much in the way of 'information', so I may do some more research there.  In looking around online saw a game called Labrynth Junior.  He loves doing mazes, so it might be something that he'd find interesting.  And saw another game at B&N yesterday that seemed like it would be fun, multiple triangular shapes that you lay down on a grid.  Forget what the goal is, but it seemed fairly straight-forward.  Again, thanks for the input, but more is welcome, and forgive me if I missed responding to a point you made, I had a lot of games I wanted to get mentioned, and I may simply have overlooked something.  I'll try and post as we try more games.  Safe travels,Paul</blockquote>

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