Nephews

[watervole]

I had a great day out yesterday with Toby and Alex, my nephews.  It seems almost impossible that they are now six and eight respectively.

I'm working on getting them hooked on board games.  I introduced them to simplified versions of Rapidoh and Galaxy Trucker and they greatly enjoyed them.  They both did better at Galaxy Trucker than I expected, picking up the rules on how to connect up the ships remarkably well.  (Sure, I had to help them rearrange loads of pieces, but they were getting a lot correct on their own.)

For some strange reason, a game about building spaceships and flying them through space appealed to two little boys.  Can't imagine why...

Galaxy Trucker is great fun - Henry gave it to Richard and myself as a joint birthday present and we got lots of games in at Silvercon last weekend.

BTW, Silvercon went really well.  We played loads of really good games, the atmosphere relaxed and friendly and we had a great bunch of people.

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

This is so nice to read! Ah, you can´t know, maybe the boys will become constructers or engineers:-) and why not around the spaceships (being a sci-fi fan, I couldn´t resist):-)
Thank you for sharing the happy moments!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the designer of Galaxy Trucker is a Czech?

His name is Vlaada (Vladimír) Chvátil and he's designed one of the other games we own as well. His games have a good sense of humour to them.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Why, I didn´t! :-)
I do not know the games,you know, I simply have no chance to play:-)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Well, if you ever get the chance to play Galaxy Trucker, then I highly recommend it. I'm looking forward to seeing what he designs in the future.

[rockwell-666.livejournal.com]

Maybe with a bit of time and teaching the nephews will be able to give Henry a run for his money :-)

PS Thanks for Silvercon, it was great fun!