Comments on: Do you kids like cooperative board games? http://stephanieoppenheim.com/2008/08/do-you-kids-like-cooperative-board-games/ Thoughts on Toys from the Co-Founder of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tara http://stephanieoppenheim.com/2008/08/do-you-kids-like-cooperative-board-games/comment-page-1/#comment-435 Tara Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:02:53 +0000 http://toyportfolio.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-435 i hated them as a child, as did all of my cousins.

]]> By: Brandon T. http://stephanieoppenheim.com/2008/08/do-you-kids-like-cooperative-board-games/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Brandon T. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:47:18 +0000 http://toyportfolio.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-436 The key for a purely cooperative game would be to have a goal that players “get.” If the game doesn’t have a goal that everyone buys into working towards, then it’s hard for players to get motivated and they are just going through the motions. As adults, we want our kids to be more interested in cooperative games (at least I do), but my kids are drawn to games where there’s a winner…it builds excitement as they hope they’ll be the winner.

In your “Possibly related posts” there’s a link to an article on Flibbix, which could be an interesting alternative. While final game play doesn’t sound cooperative (you compete to get to the finish first), making a game board and making up rules for the game could be really cooperative. Maybe that’s a good compromise? It gets kids cooperating, but also lets them have fun while playing the game. And if you want to, you can tweak the rules to help ensure the 4 year old’s victory :-)

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