Battleground, Dragon Strike and Atlas Adventures: We LOVE Games

I should start this with a disclaimer--I'm not being paid to write this nor was I even contacted by the companies. There! Does that give me good credibility?

Because if you're looking for good kid games, these are three that I'd heartily recommend. They've been on my kids' wish lists for a while but I'm hesitant to buy them for them mostly because they have friends who own the games so that when they get together they're always a novelty.

Why buy them again? You have to play with someone so it kind of makes sense that you each have your own unique games. Keeps things interesting that way.

But Battleground is a terrific one. My brother in law found it on sale at Toys R Us for ten dollars on clearance because even HE loves to play it. It's just what you see here: a war game complete with catapults and projectiles where you win by knocking your opponent into the ground. Simple, direct, effective and entertaining. David loves to play this and it even appeals to the boy in my husband.

Dragon Strike is a board game with a large mechanical dragon that knocks your pieces all kaput if you get in the way. My kids had a babysitter who owned it and would bring it over when she watched them and they loved it so much that they begged me to call her when they needed watching.

Of course they also begged me to buy them the game (which I also saw on sale for something like $15) but I wasn't going to do that because then it wouldn't be a thrill when she came. I wasn't that stupid.

And finally I'd recommend Atlas Adventures which is another board game which I like for a couple of reasons. First, it doesn't have batteries (always a huge bonus) but then it's also educational but in a so-fun-they-don't-realize-they're-learning-kind of way.

And the best? It's listed at under $20 right now on Amazon. It just keeps getting better and better.

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