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TOPIC: Chutes & Ladders Tool of the Devil?

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sean

Chutes & Ladders Tool of the Devil?
1 Year, 11 Months ago

Disclosure to Make Myself Feel Better.

I generally pride myself in playing along with every game my 3-yo daughter can imagine. I often pretend to be a horse, I bark like a dog, pet her head as if she is a cat, etc... You get the idea. I say all of this, because I want to establish up-front that I am a Good Dad.

But...

I don't think I can take Chutes & Ladders anymore.

I always thought that this game would be "fun" to play with my child. Finally, she's ready for board games! No more playing horse and breaking my knees! Woot!

Wrong.

This diabolical game puts you and your 3-year-old on an exactly level playing field. Her bedtime is now dependent on the landing position of some P.O.S. plastic arrow sloppily punched through a thin piece of cardboard.

I need cheat codes for efficiently and quickly ending Chutes & Ladders games when it becomes too intolerable. Ideas?

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Daddy Troy

Re:Chutes & Ladders Tool of the Devil?
1 Year, 11 Months ago

Some really smart mathematician came up with Chutes and Ladders because it can truly go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I have to say it is one of those games that as my son looked the other way spin or dice went to the exact number needed to end the game. All in the interest of bedtime, of course.

I have to say now that I have a seven year old I am really enjoying bigger kid games like Clue, although it takes a while. A fun short game that might be a little too excitable for bedtime is pictureka. Finally I have been really enjoying Apples to Apples, and does not go on and on.

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ben

Re:Chutes & Ladders Tool of the Devil?
1 Year, 11 Months ago

I remember my friends having their son play a solo game of Hi Ho! Cherry-O! before bed. If he was being good, he could play twice. There's no way to stretch that game out. At least not by much.

We have quite the assortment for later on. Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, and all of our Cheap Ass Games will have to wait until they understand bargaining and that Daddy won't let them win every time. It's quite possible that they'll Kill Doctor Lucky before they solve his murder in Clue.

I think about that because to keep us all up on a guy trip last weekend, some of the guys pulled out Settlers and a new game to me, Bang! It wreaked of a preschooler trying to delay bedtime. I gave in once, for Bang!, but only because it would be more fun with five, than four.

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