My son’s 5th birthday is coming up and I would like to gift him a board game. Usually only the two of us play and he likes for example Carcassonne Junior, Brandon the Nrave or Karuba Junior. Any good suggestions for a new game, maybe also something collaborative?
My son (same age) really enjoys “My first castle panic” and “HABA Rhino Hero A Heroic Stacking Card Game”. He has a ton of boardgames but likes those two the most.
Kids version of Ticket to Ride is loved by my 6 year old.
TtR first journey is great because it’s easy to transition to the “full” game after they outgrow it. Catan junior is similar in this. That’s also my main complaint about Stone Age kids, it’s not really the same game.
Dragonomino is a kid version of King Domino. I just bought it for my kid based on a review. I haven’t played it yet but it seems like it’s a win
We got this for our five year old at Christmas, and she loved it!
She had us, her little sister, her grandparents, her aunts and uncles, her friends, the neighbors, the nurses when we visited the hospital, and everyone else playing Dragomino with ther every day for months. By now, she routinely beats me at it.
To chime in here, we bought Dragomino for similar reasons, found it really boring and went with king domino, which is playable for a 5 year old that has some experience with Board games. Since all info is public the parents can give advice when the child gets stuck or tries to place a tile wrong. Our son did pick it up really fast (ymmv).
I picked up Outfoxed! a few weeks ago to play with a relative, it comes highly recommend as a cooperative who-dun-it.
I haven’t gotten a chance to play it yet so I can’t speak to the actual gameplay.
I’ve tried compiling all the suggestions from this thread, with BGG links.
I have a 4 and 6¾-year-old, but our game collection doesn’t quite fit the audience, and we usually end up playing Star Of Africa with heavily dumbed-down house rules (and it’s already a pretty dumb game to begin with) to keep it interesting for the little one.
This thread is gold! 😍
- [My First Stone Age] (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191004/my-first-stone-age)
- Outfoxed
- Rhino Hero
- [Race To The Treasure] (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/121806/race-treasure)
- Robot Turtles
… Sorry I’ll finish this up later on desktop, this is too fiddly on mobile 😅
