Family Fun Game Night

We had a lot of fun spending some quality family time together enjoying a game night on our back patio.  For our most recent Family Fun Game Night we played BOOM BLAST STIX, CROZZIT and JENGA GIANT.  It was the first time my kids had played all of these games and they had a great time playing all of them.  Absolutely keep these three games in mind the next time your family is looking for something fun to do together.

My kids had a blast with Moose Toys' BOOM BLAST STIX so I'm glad to recommend it as a nice addition to a family's game night activities. Each player is provided an equal number of stix which each must be locked into the form of a triangle. One at a time players add one of their stixs to the pile. Round and round the turns go as the stix begin to stack up on the playing surface which also doubles as the game's storage container.  Be careful as you place your stix on the stack because a wrong move could make the whole pile go BOOM!  There was a lot of taunting going on about who was going to cause the stack to explode which really contributed to the fun of playing the game.  When someone causes all the stix to fly up in the air there is a wow factor that really gets people enthused about wanting to play.

CROZZIT at first glance seems to be very simplistic and its rules are very easy to grasp; but once you start playing it can result in some very competitive and challenging matches.  Can you create a path all the way across the game board without being blocked by your opponent?  Easier said then done in CROZZIT but that is what makes this game so much fun.

This is a game that will delight young and old alike.  Great for multi-generational bonding time!  Affordable and easy to set up I highly recommend CROZZIT for a family game night.  It became one of my family's favorite games the first night we played it.

JENGA GIANT is great for playing outdoors because of the game's large scale.   It is the largest authentic hardwood JENGA game you can get.  JENGA GIANT really stands out from the classic table top variety of the game with its tower starting off at over 2 feet high and players are able to stack it to over 5 feet high.  Each of the hardwood blocks in JENGA GIANT is over 14 times the volume of those in the classic edition of the game.  And when a JENGA GIANT tower comes crumbling down it is quite a crash!

My kids were in awe of this game. They really had a great time playing together to get the tower built up as high as they could.  A game that gets my often bickering twins to work together as a team while having a good time absolutely earns A Geek Daddy nod of approval.

What I really liked about all three of these games was they were great to take outside and play.  Turn off the television and video games for a fun time outdoors instead playing BOOM BLAST STIX, CROZZIT or JENGA GIANT.  They're perfect for enjoying in your backyard or taking along to a picnic at the park or a barbeque at a relative's house.  We really enjoyed playing them during our Family Fun Game Night and I'm sure you will too.

CROZZIT

At first glance CROZZIT from Identity Games may seem simplistic for a board game because it isn't complicated to play but be assured it will provide hours of challenging and competitive fun.  Beware though that playing CROZZIT can become highly addictive.  Once my kids started playing CROZZIT they didn't want to stop!

In CROZZIT there are 3 rules, 2 players and 1 winner.  Recommended for ages 8 to 88, players must block and cross each other with game pieces as they try to make a connected path across the middle of the game board to their assigned sidelines.  CROZZIT can be played fairly quickly for board game standards ranging from 5 to 20 minutes and its layout can quickly be reset so it is easy to keep playing over and over again.  Games can become very competitive as players attempt to outmaneuver each other for the win.  Some of the best moments of our family game night playing CROZZIT was catching an opponent off guard and surprising them with a move.

Each of the players is assigned a color.  One is blue and the other is yellow.  The game board has four sidelines with each player having two edges identified with their color.  Each player gets 32 game pieces in their color (30 small, 1 large, and 1 XL tiles) to use in creating their connected patch across the board.  Each player takes turns placing tiles on the board and the first person to create seamless path connecting his or her two sidelines wins.

There are only three rules to the game which is nice because it allows people to focus on strategizing against their opponent instead of trying to remember a variety of instructions.  Here are the 3 Rules:

1)  You can place your tiles anywhere on the board except no part of a player's tile can rest on a part of an opponent's game piece.  Hint: you can build a bridge to cross it!

2)  A tile can't be placed with any part of it resting on the sideline edge of the board.

3)  Tiles must touch at least one side of another tile to be connected.

There you have it!  Try and connect your tiles while blocking your opponent. The first player that has a path connecting his or her two sides of the board wins the game.  This isn't as simple as it sounds though when you have two players who really want to win.  My kids had some really great battles with neither wanting to let the other one have a chance to win.

CROZZIT gets A GEEK DADDY nod of approval for being an affordable and enjoyable strategic board game that my family had a considerable amount of fun playing.  With its easy to setup and play design, CROZZIT is a great inclusion for any family game night.  For more information, please visit identitygames.com