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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Teaching Dominion to young children?
« on: November 07, 2017, 03:52:47 am »
The age recommendation on the box is 8+ and even that seems low to me. While the basic concepts aren't that difficult, the strategy is deeper than in most of the games that are listed 10+.
I taught my oldest son Dominion when he was 9 (on a foreign language version, but at that age they can remember 10 different actions based on pictures) and he played a decent Big Money strategy at the time, but when he tried anything else it was way too inefficient. So either I would have to play suboptimally to make the game close, or I would win easily most of the time and he would get frustrated. Either way, one of us was not going to enjoy it. We just play different boardgames instead.
Teaching it to younger children... I don't know, it seems to be too much to ask for most children. There are other boardgames where they can be genuinely competitive and I think that would be way more fun for both parent and child.
I taught my oldest son Dominion when he was 9 (on a foreign language version, but at that age they can remember 10 different actions based on pictures) and he played a decent Big Money strategy at the time, but when he tried anything else it was way too inefficient. So either I would have to play suboptimally to make the game close, or I would win easily most of the time and he would get frustrated. Either way, one of us was not going to enjoy it. We just play different boardgames instead.
Teaching it to younger children... I don't know, it seems to be too much to ask for most children. There are other boardgames where they can be genuinely competitive and I think that would be way more fun for both parent and child.