Steven P
United States
SF Bay area
California
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My family went to Round Table Pizza for the lunch buffet today. On a table in the front room, they had a handful of family games -- Memory, Guess Who, Connect Four, and something else. After we ate (and while my two-year-old was getting cleaned up), my four-year-old wanted to play a game. We have Memory at home, and I wondered how she'd handle the other games. Regardless of what I thought, she chose Connect Four. (I think it was actually the "Revised Edition", which has a separate entry, but we just played with the traditional rules, so I'm posting this under the original.)
The first game went about how I thought it would end -- daddy wins in four turns. But we kept going, and I ended up with at least four or five "connect"s by the time it was over, and I didn't let her have a single one. (I like the suggested handicap of requiring the adult to connect Five (or have 3-4 "connects") -- too bad I didn't see it until this evening, when I looked up the game on bgg (this is one game I thought I'd never look up).
The second game went a little better with some coaching by mommy (and with daddy going much easier on her), and nobody ever did connect four, so nobody won, right? Wrong.
Most of my daughter's moves went something like this: she would play on top of the piece that I just played (unless coached to play elsewhere), proudly say "I blocked you!", and then laugh hysterically. I think she laughed her head off every single turn. She was laughing so hard, she needed her asthma medicine, and I was exaggerating how thoughtful I needed to be on my turn just to slow her down. She was having a fantastic time, and the rest of us thought it was hilarious, so everybody won!
I highly recommend the following house rule: after playing each piece, you must giggle like a loon. It's a blast. (And it's probably a good game to start teaching a little strategy with, too...).
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Matt 'Red Hat' Posey
United States
Houston
Texas
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gossamerica wrote: I highly recommend the following house rule: after playing each piece, you must giggle like a loon.
 for using "loon". I need to work it more into my everyday vocabulary.
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