Blokus Challenge!

Here was the family game night last week: Blokus.  Rules of the night were that the winner could send one person to bed at the end of the game!

The oldest declined to play at first, but I told him he would still be vulnerable to being sent to bed by the winner so he might as well play and increase his odds of winning.  One strategy that came out from the kids was to send a parent to bed if a kid won.  Ideally kids would tie for a win and send both parents to bed.  That way nobody would be able to send the kids to bed and they'd stay up all night.

Cari won the game and after a a tense few moments she made her choice. In those moments of thought each kid was pleading their case to send someone else to bed.  Cari announced that she chose to send our son to bed, which didn't make him very happy, and because it was already passed the bedtime for the girls, all the kids went to bed!


Family game night is awesome.