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* A cereal box had a [[GridPuzzle Sudoku]] puzzle that had 6 squares instead of 9, giving it a rectangular shape.

* A cereal box had a [[GridPuzzle Sudoku]] puzzle that had 6 squares instead of 9, giving it a rectangular shape.

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* A cereal box had a Sudoku puzzle that had 6 squares instead of 9, giving it a rectangular shape.

* ''TabletopGame/SevenWonders'' has a simplified, more family-friendly variant in ''7 Wonders Architects''. Changes include removing the three-age structure in favour of playing a single round, making every building free to take (meaning resources are only spent on Wonder stages), making the non-[[LiteralWildcard wildcard]] resources largely interchangeable[[note]]The costs to build Wonder stages are stuff like "2 resources of the same type" or "3 different resources". In contrast, costs in the original game require specific resources, with different types being favoured by different strategies.[[/note]] and simplifying decisions by only giving you 2-3 simple cards to choose from. Another clear sign that this was made for kids is that the manual tells you to make a horn sound when you take a red card with 1 or 2 horn icons on it and have to flip over that number of conflict tokens.

* ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' released an expansion as a print-and-play that tones down the crass nature of the game with new black and white cards that are more family-friendly.

* ''[[TabletopGame/{{Carcassonne}} My First Carcassonne]]'' has larger tiles and meeples for smaller hands than its grown-up counterpart. Further, tiles have roads in all-directions, meaning they connect to all pre-existibg tiles, and scoring is simplified to "first to complete 8 roads".

* ''[[TabletopGame/{{Carcassonne}} My First Carcassonne]]'' has larger tiles and meeples for smaller hands than its grown-up counterpart. Further, tiles have roads in all-directions, meaning they connect to all pre-existibg tiles, and scoring is simplified to "first to complete 8 roads".

* ''My First TabletopGame/{{Carcassonne}}'' has larger tiles and meeples for smaller hands than its grown-up counterpart.

* ''[[TabletopGame/Carcassonne My First Carcassonne]]'' has larger tiles and meeples for smaller hands than its grown-up counterpart. Further, tiles have roads in all-directions, meaning they connect to all pre-existibg tiles, and scoring is simplified to "first to complete 8 roads".

* ''My First Banagrams'' has a reduced number of tiles due to the combo tiles that have two letters instead of one. This makes it less likely to lose tiles.

* ''My Lil' Everdell'' removes the seasons from its older counterpart, toning down the complexity of the rules and number of components. The theme is also shifted from actual construction to role-play with the kids of Everdell building a make-play town.
* ''Junior Colourbrain'' has questions relating to colour geared more toward kids and a smaller box.

* ''Scattergories Junior'': Shortened and simplified with a 20-sided die to determine a "key" letter and then players have limited time to think of unique words that start with the letter and have to do with the topic but players can also score without using the target letter.
* ''Scotland Yard Junior'': The art is noticeably much brighter and the component count is reduced to reduce the complexity of set-up and packing away. The rules have been changed to accommodate the target demographic as well.

* ''Scruples for Kids'' was a version of the popular "A Question of Scruples" game with more kid-friendly moral dilemmas.

* ''Pictionary Junior'' uses a more colourful board than its grown-up variant.

* ''[[TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill Betrayal at Mystery Manor]]'': A ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' retheme of the original ''Betrayal'' with rewritten rules for the traitor, new haunts and ironically, no Betrayal.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Krosmaster}} Junior'' features a streamlined system, with each player controlling a single character instead of a team, a smaller board and a simplified combat system.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Yahtzee}} Junior'' is a variant that replaces the numbers on the dice with popular characters (or various animals for non-licensed versions), with one in particular counting as the player's choice. The scoring sheet also has five of each character in a row, and color-coded tokens are placed on each tile based on what the player rolled.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Krosmaster}} Junior'' features a streamlined system, with each player controlling a single character instead of a team, a smaller board and a streamlined combat system.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} Junior'' features anthropomorphised versions of the Monopoly playing pieces from whichever year it was released as well as a smaller board meaning fewer properties and a shorter playtime.

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