Connor and I like to play Yu-Gi-Oh the card game. It’s suitably complex for Connor, and still fun compared to Magic: The Gathering which takes a lot of concentration. We bought ourselves the Yugi and Kaiba starter decks, so we’d have an equally matched set and would have to survive on our wits alone – a criticism of all collector card games is that eventually the kid with the most money will have the best deck and win all the time. It’s also cool cos those two decks are based on the decks in the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga, which we have (in English!) One of Connor’s best birthday reactions was when we bought him the duel disk, the big arm mounted card holding thing like in the comic and cartoon.
Nerdfest aside, we enjoy playing it for the above reasons, and are reasonably matched. Ash plays occasionally and wins a few, maybe loses more cos she doesn’t get as much practice. Mon didn’t really get into it for a few years – it’s takes a bit to get into it, she hadn’t really seen the cartoon, and it was a little nerdy for her, but a year or so ago, she decided maybe she’d like to learn. So we taught her. Big mistake.
She has lost one game. Ever.





