A history of bringing families together – Tactic

A history of bringing families together

Tactic Games explains how board games give us a brilliant reason to pause chaotic lives and sit down as a family and play.

Tactic Games has been in the business of creating happy moments of togetherness and shared family joy since 1967. Over the last couple of years, as we all learned to live through the Covid lockdowns, this ethos has been more relevant than ever. Board games bring people together, make us laugh and help us learn new things about the world.

Alias

One of Tactic’s most famous board games is the classic word explanation game Alias. For more than 30 years, Alias has been part of family life in Tactic’s home country of Finland and the game is also incredibly popular around the world. Alias is a game that travels from generation to generation. Adults play it with their friends, as well as with their children, children and teenagers play it together and grandparents happily play it with their grandchildren. There is a Junior version for children aged five and above and then Original Alias is designed for 10-year-olds and over, so all members of the family can join in the guessing challenge and be entertained at the same time.

Learning the Finnish way

Board games such as Alias are also a great way to fuel children’s natural curiosity and expand their vocabulary. Introducing games into family life as early as possible will help grow a child’s confidence and develop their social and cognitive skills. Identifying the need for more preschool learning games, Tactic launched a new series of educational games called Let’s Learn in 2021. Finland is famous for top-class education and the Let’s Learn collection has been developed in partnership with Finnish teachers. It invites children as young as three to learn about shapes, colours, numbers, letters and nature. The Children of the World board game has also been praised by parents for teaching children about different cultures. Players collect stamps for their passport as they move around the board and it opens their eyes to a world that is waiting to be explored now that foreign travel is once again allowed.

Wonders Of The World

Even before the pandemic hit, board games were experiencing a renaissance. During the lockdowns, they became a lifeline that kept both children and adults together and engaged. Playing games helped keep a sense of socialising alive and certainly made a difference to those families struggling with the pressures of home schooling. With so many trivia games in the collection, Tactic offers a wide variety of topics to learn about through the popular Of The World games. Players take a trip around the world to learn about flags, cultures, architecture, animals or heroes and these games are as educational and eye-opening as they are fun and competitive. How well do you know your continents and which flag belongs to which country? Do you know when the Hoover Dam was built, how long the Great Wall of China is or how high the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in feet? Tactic strives to inspire everyone in the family to learn about the wonders of the world and absorb hundreds of fascinating facts along the way.

More games, less screens

In a world full of technology and devices, it is important to balance screen time. Tactic encourages families to make the effort of putting a dedicated date on the calendar for board game night each month, to prepare the popcorn and bring everyone around the table to have fun away from screens. Parents will then take pleasure in watching their children learn valuable skills, unleash their competitive nature and work either independently or as part of a team. Board games are a great way to get children active and interacting with the real world. Siblings who argue with one another can suddenly find a common ground as a winning team. Once they have that winning feeling they will want to play again and again and games night will never be dull.

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