Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
- Claude Monet
Dad Suggests was created to share with others the many different things that we have loved sharing with our own children.
Our hope is that - by reading or visiting our children’s bookstore - you will find something special to enjoy with your own family.
- Ryan
All tagged cooperative games
Mysterium Kids is a cooperative family board game where you must use a haunted tambourine to make noises and help everyone else find out where the treaure is hidden. This ghostly game is quickly beloved and an easy choice for Game of the Month.
Stardew Valley the Board Game captures the magic of the video game in the most perfect way. This cooperative game features farming, mining, fishing, making friends - everything you love about Stardew Valley. Fans will undoubtedly fall in love with it.
Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape from HABA is our Game of the Month for November. It’s a great memory test for the whole family with creative design any many ways to play both cooperatively and competitively.
Our Game of the Month for September is HABA’s newest addition to their My Very First Games series - Animal Upon Animal Junior. It’s a spectacular stacking game for toddlers with both competitive and cooperative ways to play.
Our Game of the Month for July is Outfoxed! from Gamewright. Outfoxed! is a cooperative whodunit board game for ages 5 and up, and it’s one of our favorite logic games for kids ever made.
Our game of the month for May is the amazing Rhino Hero Junior from HABA. This junior version of the immensely popular Rhino Hero is a dexterity game designed for toddlers, and is the latest entry in HABA’s My Very First Game Series.
Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle is a remarkable cooperative deck-building game for the whole family. The game grows and evolves as you beat each level, and the years line up perfectly with the books. And we’ve spent more time on it together than any other game in our house.
Our Game of the Month is Ravensburger’s Horrified - a spectacular love letter to classic Universal movie monsters. If you’re looking for a spooky game to celebrate October and the Halloween season, you can’t go wrong with this one. This spooky cooperative board game is a new family favorite.
These are the very best board games for 3-year-olds. Discover the best games to play with your toddler during family game night from top publishers like HABA and Peaceable Kingdom. Learn new skills, work together, and have fun.
SOS Dino by LOKI is the perfect family board game for young dinosaur lovers. Dodge falling meteorites and rivers of molten lava to save all the eggs and escape before it’s too late. This is a beautiful and very engaging cooperative board game for the whole family.
Sharing quality time with the entire family is the ultimate goal of family game night. And that means you have to get your toddler on board as soon as possible too. The social and cognitive benefits of board games are too numerous to put it off any longer than you have to. Discover how to successfully involve your toddler in your next family game night.
Whoowasit? from Ravensburger is the perfect family board game for adding a little magic to family game night. This family game has a certain trick up its sleeve that makes it one of the most imaginative and engaging games in our collection.
These are the best cooperative board games for 3-year-olds. Our 3-year-old is very opinionated about the games she loves and grabs from the shelf to play with us. Not only is it an immense pleasure to see her excited about choosing the games we play, but the rest of us legitimately have fun with them too.
Peaceable Kingdom is the king of cooperative family board games. And not only are they promoting cooperation, but they’re cultivating kindness through board games as well. Is it any wonder they’re one of our very favorites?
My First Castle Panic has turned out to be a perfect family board game for us. Having a 3-year-old and a 3 year age gap between our kids always makes it a truly remarkable experience when we find a game that legitimately works for all of us in the spirit of a true family game night.
Our son’s imagination is very strong, and he’s prone to get super excited when he gets his hands on something like Zombie Kidz Evolution and its tracking system. And the more he heard about this board game, the more excited he got.
The newest addition to our collection of family games is Gnomes at Night - a cooperative maze game. But this time when I say cooperative, I really mean it. Cooperation is not a choice in Gnomes at Night, and that’s what makes it special.
You’ve likely noticed us mention Peaceable Kingdom more than once. They specialize in publishing cooperative games for young kids, and we absolutely love them. So, to spread the love, this month we are giving away 2 copies of our favorite Peaceable Kingdom game - Race to the Treasure!.
