Tag: Board Games
Mystery Games
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Game-and-Puzzle-Week.mp3 Author Cathlena Martin and Laurie Taylor Air Date 11/23/2004 Mystery Games Transcript If you and your family are into mysteries, especially on chilly late fall or winter evenings, you might want to look at some old and new games to add some quality family time to those evenings. While […]
Spy Alley
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spy-Alley.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 8/7/2003 Spy Alley Transcript By this point in the summer, the children in your household are probably ready for some intrigue, deception, and suspense — the kind provided by daring, fictional spies and crackers of mysteries like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and the […]
Thanksgiving Games
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-Games-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 11/22/2001 Thanksgiving Games Transcript As a child, Thanksgiving was the one day in the year when my entire family would play games together. On other holidays, we were together, but with a family as large as mine, – eight children two parents – and […]
Monopoly Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Monopoly-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/22/2005 Monopoly Day Transcript Tomorrow is Monopoly Day, celebrating the world ‘s best-selling board game. Since its development during the height of the American Depression in 1934 by Pennsylvanian Charles B. Darrow, more than 200 million copies of the game have been sold in […]