Hobbies And Interests
Strategy Games
These games emphasize decision making and resource management. In Settlers of Catan, players seek to colonize an island by building roads and settlements. To succeed, each player will need to trade with rivals and collect resource cards. A type of war game families can enjoy, Risk challenges players to conquer the world by using armies represented by counters. Players must weigh up the pros and cons of attacking enemy positions, while trying to hold on to their own territories.
Classic Family Games
These games are especially well known and relatively easy to play. Property trading game Monopoly finds players aiming to capture real estate as they make their way around a board. Players need to watch that they don't go bankrupt or end up in jail though, and will likely need to haggle with other players to succeed. Clue is a detective game set in a mansion, with players searching for the room, weapon and person involved in a murder. Players move to each room in the house to uncover clues, and then must use their powers of reasoning to deduce the answers.
Kids' Games
These games are highly suitable for kids' parties and group play. Twister is played over a mat dotted with colored spots; one player spins the dial to find out which color a participant must move to. For example, if the dial says "left hand blue," the player whose turn it is has to place her left hand on a blue spot. Play rapidly gets harder as participants try to follow the dial's commands. In Hungry, Hungry Hippos, players each control a plastic hippo, and can move its head by pressing on its tail. Players try to capture as many marbles from a central arena as possible by grabbing them with their hippo's head and placing them in their gutter.
Skill Games
These games require speed or skill to succeed. In Jenga, players take turns lifting a brick from a tower and placing it on top. Players must be careful not to knock the tower though, since the player who causes it to tumble loses. Simulating the act of eating food using chopsticks, the goal of Chopstick Dexterity MegaChallenge 3000 is to collect as many objects as possible from the inside of a plastic bowl by utilizing these utensils. Players are instructed on which objects to try and grab by tokens, which are turned over one by one. The game can be played in groups or by one person alone.