BOREDOM BUSTING BOARD GAMES
NEED help entertaining the kids for the rest of the school holidays?
We’ve got you covered with the top 10 holiday boredombusting board games from the team at Mind Games in Geelong.
Old favourite Monopoly doesn’t make the cut, but it’s still the talk of the town with Geelong set to get its own version of the popular board game.
The game’s makers are still taking suggestions on which local spots should feature on the board.
Frontrunners are the Geelong Performing Arts Centre, the You Yangs and Geelong botanic gardens.
Shops in Geelong are already taking pre-orders for the local Monopoly, and Mind Games’ Michele Bent is expecting it grow in popularity.
“I expect once it hits the shelves the demand will grow. We’re expecting a very positive response to the game,” she said.
“I think this game is something unique and Geelong should embrace it and be proud of it.”
Anyone can nominate locations they wish to see featured on the board via the Geelong Monopoly Facebook page.
Once you’ve nominated a local landmark to be included on the board, get the kids onto one of these other brilliant board games and the rest of the school holidays will fly by. Top 10 boredom-busting board games for these school holidays, according to Mind Games’ Ashley Young: TICKET TO RIDE Travel across countries and compete to win tickets and control railways, Ticket to Ride’s simple gameplay can be l learned in just 15 minutes! CATAN An “advancement on Monopoly”, Catan is the classic strategy game based around collecting resources and building civilisations. RAT-A-TAT CAT A fun kids memory game, the aim of Rat-a-tat Cat is to pick all the cats … but not the rats! Lowest score wins. HIVE Hive is a “chess-like game … with bugs”! Hive requires no set up and can be played on any flat surface. HAPPY SALMON A “great little game” for younger kids, Happy Salmon involves flipping cards and doing actions — whatever pops up on the card. AZUL Craft a patterned mosaic and earn points with this awardwinning, tile-based game. DIXIT A clue-giving game, with “beautiful artwork”, Dixit won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Award in 2010. CARCASSONNE You can create a vista of French countryside with this iconic tile-laying game. LUXOR Join a group of adventurers on their quest to reach a hidden tomb. Luxor is a maze-based game, where h players collect treasures. PANDEMIC A co-operative game, everyone works together to contain the outbreak of four different plagues. A noncompetitive game, Pandemic is great particularly if “you don’t want the kids yelling at each other”.