Sunday, July 23, 2017

King of Tokyo for Tots!

When you've got a toddler, and you're a gamer, sometimes your preferred board games aren't very kid friendly.  It's been well established that King of Tokyo is a fun game for the whole family, but what if the whole family includes a 3 year old?  It's got an awful lot of reading involved... OR DOES IT!?



I made up a quick house rule that the energy cubes can be spent to continue re-rolling indefinitely (1 cube = 1 re-rolled die).  I'll also be adding a "spend 5 cubes, get 1 victory point" house rule as soon as it comes up (because my 3 year old likes to hoard the cubes, so it might as well be a victory condition).  Anyhow, with that very minor modification, King of Tokyo is an all ages board game.  It's a lot more entertaining for me than the Sneaky Snacky Squirrel Game (which I wholly endorse as a good one for teaching kids to take turns, and deal with adversity, but does get old).

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  1. I'll have to let you borrow Cube Quest sometime... it's a dexterity game... and if he can handle King of Tokyo Lite he can probably handle Cube Quest.

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    1. Sounds cool. We play a lot of board games with him, some of them are over his head, but he has fun anyways. We played Carcassonne with him last week just by leaving out fields.

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