This game teaches so many great skills, including the basics of cards, sequencing, strategizing, and decision-making. The Spruce / Sarah Vanbuskirk Educational Value: Card-playing primer This tends to catch his opponents off guard, meaning he can easily be underestimated-to our detriment. He’ll often choose spots that don’t make any logical sense (to me). For my fourth-grader, Noah, the game is more straightforward, but unlike the others, he always focuses on the outside of the board, which creates more space and creativity in the play of the game.įor younger kids: Walter, 7, seeks to cluster his tokens, which I do as well. I have to be super careful not to let him catch wind of a sequence in the works or it will quickly be obliterated. At one point, she beat me 11 games in a row.įor tweens: When my hyper-competitive tween, Hank, plays, he’s always on the attack. She often seems to be playing haphazardly, making me sure I’m about to win until she sweeps in with a surprise sequence. My high schooler, Violet, employs all kinds of rituals, such as stacking her spare tokens just so, using a specific one each turn, and intentionally ordering her moves throughout the board. He is a master of the bait and switch and usually sees my sequences before I do. This game offers an alluring combination of luck, variables, stealth, and strategy that had my kids and me hooked.įor teens: With Charlie, my math-focused teen, strategy and defense take center stage. To me, the best is when you scan and rescan the board only to find you have an almost completed sequence secretly lurking, which you can convert for the win. I’m always on the defensive and never play a fourth token until I have the fifth one at the ready. I try to keep to the center of the board, which I think my kids have figured out. After playing with five different kids in short succession, I’ve found that it feels like a unique game each time. It’s simple enough for young ones to understand and still enjoyably challenging for tweens, teens, and adults.įor adults: I loved this game back when I first started playing it. The tag line on the box is exactly right: “It’s fun, it’s exciting, it’s challenging, it’s Sequence!” One reason it is so appealing is that it’s the perfect game for families with multiple kids (mine span eight years). This game offers an alluring combination of luck, variables, stealth, and strategy that had my kids and me hooked. The Spruce / Sarah Vanbuskirk Entertainment Value: We were hooked That player then draws a card to add to his or her hand. During a turn, each person plays a card from his or her hand, placing it in the discard pile and marking one of the corresponding card faces on the board with the color-coded token. The gist is that the player or team who gets two “sequences” of five tokens each down on the board first, wins. I appreciate that the concept of Sequence is simple-all you really need to do is make a match-and can help acclimate kids to playing traditional card games. I personally think Sequence is more fun with a single opponent or two, but I’ve found that team play is a good way to incorporate younger players. This game can accommodate two or three single or team players up to 12 total. Red tokens should only be used when there is a third player, which is why there are fewer. Meanwhile, the playing pieces are color-coded tokens: 50 blue, 50 green, and 35 red. The sequence deck contains 104 cards, including eight Jacks: four with two eyes and four with one eye (more on that later). Read on to see if Sequence is still a royal flush. I was thrilled to rediscover this old favorite with a new crop of kids. (Having three more babies might have something to do with that.) Now that my younger ones are all old enough for cards and other family games, I’m testing out board games to bring into our game night rotation. Unfortunately, after lots of love, our board ripped, cards and pieces were lost, and we forgot all about it. So, when I came across the Jax Sequence game (essentially a board game melded with cards) several years back, I was more than excited to give it a try.īack then, my two older kids and I were big fans and played the game regularly. It’s fair to say that cards are in my blood, and as long as a deck of cards is involved, I’m in. My childhood was defined, more than anything else, by playing cards, often into the wee hours of the night at a table that always had room for one more, with my Grandma Ethel at the helm. Keep reading for our full product review. We purchased the Jax Sequence Game so our reviewer could put it to the test.
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