Silver

I find Silver to be a very fun family-weight game. One of my sons is a VERY tough critic on games and even he enjoys this one. There are several games that offer this formula, but I have found this one to be the most appealing and easily the best packaged. I like that there are several expansions for it, but at the same time you will be perfectly happy without them too.

We love this game! It can be pretty mean though so be nice when playing with kids. Our 9 year old can play this just fine. Will be purchasing the other Silver games as well.

This is an easy-to-learn game where each card has a unique ability. The goal of the game is to reduce your score (each card has a value on it) by trading high cards for low ones, and exchanging matching cards to reduce the number of cards you have. Each time you draw a card, you can either keep it or use its special ability. Those abilities allow you to do things like view hidden cards, exchange cards to get better ones, or turn certain cards face up (low value cards give you always-on abilities). After four rounds, the player with the lowest score wins. Silver comes in a box with a great sorting Plastic GameTrayz insert to keep cards organized. This can be combined with Silver Bullet, coming at the end of October.

This is an easy-to-learn game where each card has a unique ability. The goal of the game is to reduce your score (each card has a value on it) by trading high cards for low ones, and exchanging matching cards to reduce the number of cards you have. Each time you draw a card, you can either keep it or use its special ability. Those abilities allow you to do things like view hidden cards, exchange cards to get better ones, or turn certain cards face up (low value cards give you always-on abilities). After four rounds, the player with the lowest score wins. Silver comes in a box with a great sorting Plastic GameTrayz insert to keep cards organized. This can be combined with Silver Bullet, coming at the end of October.