Games or Toys?

My four-year old daughter has always been tremendously curious about my games, so when she was old enough to start playing some of them I was obviously delighted to indulge her. Some of her favourites include Carcassonne, which we play without the Farmers rule, Castle Ravenloft, although I have to draw all the monster and event cards as they’re “too scary” and Pitchcar, a game at which she can quite legitimately beat me most of the time. However I’m sure you’ll be amazed to learn that her absolute top rated game is the 3-4 hour, 24-pages of rules epic War of the Ring from Fantasy Flight Games. She prefers it with the expansion mixed in of course, even though it adds complexity to the game. And what’s more it’s been a favourite since she was two years old.