Summary: As we mentioned last week, we’ve been camping! We talk about several camping-themed games from Education Outdoors.<br> <br> We discuss how we set parameters for personal screen time for our oldest on trips: she can only use it in appropriate circumstances, without recharging. Now that she has had the same rules a few times, she’s figured out how to stretch out her screen time and make it last, rather than playing it non-stop for the first day. Almost like that’s what we have suggested in the past!<br> What we’ve been playing:<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2hAcujZ">Exploding Kittens</a> (friends got it out from the library!)<br> War (Wikipedia has the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(card_game)">rules</a>)<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2fkmeya">Cribbage</a> – a great example of adults and kids playing together!<br> Poker, mostly played among children who don’t know all the rules<br> What’s Up & Strawberry Ninja – which we also <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/whats-up-strawberry-ninja/">reviewed</a> recently. Great use for our <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-55-chris-nichols-interview/">Card Caddy</a>! We love What’s Up.<br> Please check out our recent written reviews, including <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/potion-explosion/">Potion Explosion.</a><br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2vcMU7G">Chicken Cha Cha Cha</a><br> Video games: Andrew finally beat the first set of the Master Sword trials in the Zelda: Breath of the Wild bonus content.<br> Horizon Zero Dawn<br> The kids have picked up Portal 2 and are slowly each making their way through the solo campaign. They tried the co-operative mode, but it is so hard.<br> They have also started playing Type:Rider. It seems to be helping Asher with persistence.<br> Announcements:<br> The Family Gamers will definitely <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/pax-unplugged-going-huge/">be at PAX Unplugged</a>!<br> At the end of the show, we announce the winners of our most recent <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/giveaway-2-dice-games/">giveaway</a>.<br> Camping Games:<br> <br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2vcZML9">S’mores</a> – see Anitra’s <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/smores/">review</a>. We didn’t really enjoy playing it with more than 3 players, because there weren’t enough s’mores to go around.<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2uhlOzm">Toasted or Roasted</a> – we interviewed the creator, <a href="http://www.thefamilygamers.com/episode-43-jeff-johnston-interview/">Jeff Johnston</a>, back in April. We briefly compare to Cootie – Toasted or Roasted has mechanics to try to keep things moving if someone gets stuck.<br> <a href="http://amzn.to/2hALEbr">CAMP</a> – a great multi-age trivia roll & move game. All the questions are nature-based, and there are 4 difficulty levels built in. See Andrew’s <a href="/camp-the-family-pastime/">review</a>.<br> Honorable mention to <a href="http://amzn.to/2vvBWNn">Qwingo</a>, which we are looking forward to playing many more times.<br> <br> Don’t forget to check out our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/familygamersaa/">Facebook community</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-family-gamers-podcast/id1031290391">leave us a review</a> on iTunes!<br> <br> Do you have any games you love to play when camping?<br>
