Sequence -- this is a game that children and adults can play together
Whoonu -- this is a fun game where each card has an item listed on it.
You get your cards and one person is the designated person. Everyone looks at their cards and chooses the card they think the designated person would like most. Then the designated person goes through the cards from everyone else and puts them in order of favorites.
The person who gave the number one favorite gets the most points on down to the least favorite gets 1 point. You keep doing this until everyone is the designated person.
So there is a point system but the best thing about this game is you begin to learn more about each other. What they really like and what they don't like as much. And for our family there is also a lot of laughter because sometimes you are left with cards in your hand that it is a struggle to pick a favorite for the person. For instance, let's say grandpa is the designated person and all you have left in your hand is pink tutus or princess movies. The kids just think it is a riot that you thought grandpa liked princess movies…but you didn't have much to work with.
This isn't really a part of the game, but it usually led to discussions like "oh, I didn't know you liked mini golf so much but going to the pool is not a favorite." -- which in turn helps us to choose more wisely when we go do an activity in real life.
If we had a child who could not read the cards I was usually their partner and would tell them what the card said but let them choose which one they wanted to play.
Note: If you have strong religious beliefs, you might want to go through the cards ahead of time before playing. It is so long ago now but I think there were a few cards that we didn't want the kids playing with so my Mom and I went through all the cards and tossed the few that were not appropriate for our family. Obviously this is a family game and they might have been fine for other families we just didn't want our young ones playing with them.
