Today’s fun family game is a quick and easy one called Sushi Go! It’s a “pick and pass” card came where you start out with a bunch of cards in your hand and choose the one you want most and then pass them on to the player to your left (and receive the cards the player to your right passes to you). Rinse and repeat till all the cards have been chosen, then add up the points. Do this 2 more times and baddabing, you’re all done! The cards you’re choosing from are types of sushi (plus a few additional items like chopsticks and pudding) that give you different points. Some cards only give points if you have multiples of the same item, others give you a bonus if you combine them with wasabi, etc. making for a good amount of strategy in which card you take each time, while leaving enough to chance that younger players who can’t strategize as well still have a chance! The cards make it clear enough what they do that after being helped one time through, Boo was able to play on her own despite not being able to read.
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I pull this one out a lot to have some quick fun with just Artist and Boo, but we’ve played it as a family, too. I think we’re usually done in about twenty minutes, so it’s a great option when we don’t have a huge chunk of time to play. There’s apparently also a Sushi Go Party! that lets up to eight people play (as opposed to five with the original) and apparently adds additional variety to the game play. What looks to be the most awesome feature of the party version is a game board to keep track of your score on instead of having to write it all down each round – I kind of wish I’d known about it when we ordered the original game because I think I would have gotten it instead!
With whimsical artwork, instructions that are easy to learn, and quick game play, we always have a blast with this game!
Be sure to check out the other games I’ve shared!
I plan to share another game we love next Family Fun Friday – which will probably be in 2 weeks, right now I’m alternating with my “Mom Hacks” posts. Sign up to subscribe to my posts via e-mail (there’s a spot on the right sidebar, or below the post if you’re on a mobile device) or follow me on Facebook if you want to be sure not to miss it. 🙂
We’ve used the basic Kwik Stix a ton, so I was ecstatic to be given the opportunity to try out the Metalix and Neon sets and they most definitely did not disappoint!
Middlebury Interactive Languages offers online courses in Spanish, French, Chinese and German for grades K-12.
Artist has been doing two to three lessons a day, and at that pace she’s completed almost half the course in about 6 weeks. If she followed the calendar that lists one lesson a day, five days a week, she would finish in just over 4 months, so if she’d started in mid-August it would have her finishing just in time for Christmas break. Some of the units she’s worked through so far have introduced her to French greetings, numbers, names of different family members, colors, and days of the week (and more). She’s finishing up the final lesson in the first half of the course now and then she’ll work through what looks to be a nice, thorough review! In the second half of the course, some of the units she’ll study will introduce her to French words for some common foods, weather, clothes and more. Then she’ll finish up the course with another good review.
Artist also says she hopes she can work through the next level of French from Middlebury Interactive Languages when she’s done with this course!
For those items (and almost everything else I reviewed this year) I didn’t even know that they existed before I had the chance to try them out, so if I hadn’t been on the crew this past year our homechool experience would have been comparatively quite lackluster. Not to mention the fact that we never could have afforded to try so many things on our own dime. 😉
MyFreezEasy Freezer Cooking Meal Plans are downloadable meal plans complete with recipes, a ready-to-go shopping list, and freezer assembly instructions, (plus actual cooking instructions, of course). Following these instructions, we’ve been able to actually prepare 10 meals in one hour!!! Most of these meals have very little additional work to do on the day I serve them!