letsroll Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Looking for civics / history - board games for our 11 year old son who loves, loves family game time. Also, if anyone has a thread already created for gift ideas for boys this age - can you link to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 (edited) Welcome! I see by your post count you are new. 😄 re: Ticket to Ride: we love the Europe version, and the Asia expansion.Other "educational" (lol) History board games that we have enjoyed: - Discover and Play 5 Famous Ancient Games (Finkle) Book that recreates 5 real-life ancient games, with the pieces. I have this older large-size board book version. - World's Fair Based on the actual 1893 Chicago World's Fair, with cards that include the key people responsible for the Fair, and actual exhibits. You move your "people" around to the different major exhibit areas and attempt to collect the most exhibition points. - 7 Wonders The seven wonders of the ancient world. Plus you're "building a deck of cards" to maximize points in the different areas of a culture: trade; civic buildings; science/tech; military. It looks like there are numerous expansion packs. - Carcassone (Middle Ages agricultural & cities); Catan (Medieval peasant); Agricola (Medieval agriculture) -- long/complicated! Other than the setting, not much actual history in these. - Imhotep (ancient Egypt) Other than the setting, not much actual history in these. - Risk, or the updated version: Risk Legacy Very general world geography and warfare. No specific history or civics.A few more ideas in these lists:"25 History Board Games to Make History Come Alive" -- This Simple Balance blog article; U.S. and World History games"20 History Board Games" -- Homeschool Hideout blog article "Civics Board Game?" -- WTM past thread"8 Political Board Games About Civics and Government" -- The Civics Educator website article Edited December 2, 2020 by Lori D. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsroll Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 Wow, thank you for your precious time Lori D!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 On 11/30/2020 at 11:08 AM, letsroll said: Looking for civics / history - board games for our 11 year old son who loves, loves family game time. Also, if anyone has a thread already created for gift ideas for boys this age - can you link to it? A good history game I have found is Chrononauts. https://smile.amazon.com/Looney-Labs-009LOO-Chrononauts/dp/1929780109/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Chrononauts&qid=1616420615&sr=8-1 The game board consists of 32 cards laid out (Each with an event in the timeline that we live in) and a secret identity for the time your character came from. You are trying to get the time history to match particular touch points in your secret identity's history so you can "travel home" -- but changing events influences other events on the board. There are other ways to win (Gathering up particular artifacts or fixing paradoxes created in the ripples of placing particular time cards). But the entire game is about messing with the time line itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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