How often do you play?

We play almost every day! Whether we're traveling or staying here at the park, we always have some sort of game available to keep us occupied.

And when do we play?

During dinner!

Yep. Almost every single day we play Yahtzee during dinner. Been like that for years. We've even got an annual running score total going so that we can see who's in the lead. Ruth won last year, but so far, I'm in the lead this year. We're only just over half way through the year though, so anything can change.

Yahtzee is a simple game that hardly takes up any space so it's great for travel. You only need five dice, a pen, and a piece of paper. And, you can buy the whole game for around $7.00.

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The other game we love is Backgammon. But backgammon is a little more bulky because while it also uses dice, you need the board surface. Our backgammon game is too big for travel so we left it in the motorhome. But when we're in the motorhome, we play almost every day. Again, we have an annual running total scoresheet of wins and losses. We like backgammon because it's a combination of strategy and luck.

We looked around for a backgammon game when we were in Swift Current. But they want around $40 for a new one, and we're not paying that much. I just looked on Amazon and they have the one we want for half price! Sometimes I sure wish we lived in the States because Americans get much better pricing on this sort of thing than Canadians do. 

Here's the one we would buy right now...

This 11" backgammon game is half price!

And the third game that we play, although not as often, is cribbage. Again, a great travel game that doesn't take up much space.

Ruth and our son Alex, playing cribbage on top of our backgammon board in Huatulco, Mexico!

We have a fold up travel version of cribbage, and it's well designed to hold the deck of card and the pegs inside the board itself. I don't see a similar one on Amazon, however they do have a travel one that folds up. 

Cribbage Travel Game Pack

I know that Scrabble is popular, but other than card games, what games do you play?

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