Would your child(ren) rather play video games than do chores? Getting them to do 15 minutes of chores is somehow an excessive amount of effort to ask of them, but they'll invest hours per day into a game that seems to have no discernable goal, short of draining your bank account and turning them into zombies (filled with useless information and statistics)?

Do I have the thing for you!

Chore Wars!

Yes, now your child or children can earn valuable "Experience Points" for doing even the most mundane of daily chores!

Instead of telling them that chores "build character" (like our parents did), let them play a "game" in which they "build a character", similar to Dungeons & Dragons or World of Warcraft. (If you don't understand either of these references, then most likely you don't have kids that are still living at home.)

"Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting a few people in your house or workplace to sign up, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up."

In other words, your kids get to "play" the game by doing real world chores.

"Characters gain a level for every 200XP they earn. When a character levels up, their strength, dexterity and other statistics are adjusted to reflect the chores that the character has performed - if you've gotten most of your XP from high-constitution vacuuming and gardening, then your character will muscle up and develop a higher constitution value; if you've not done any intellectually-challenging chores, your intelligence will go down, and so on."

You can choose to reward your children by determining "prizes" for each level. Perhaps it is pizza for dinner. Perhaps it is a new video game. Perhaps it is a trip to the miniture golf course. You get to design the "game" for your family.

To quote the source by which I first learned about this:
"After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed... rich. ... When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to f@*king sparkle."

Give it a look. (Its free!) Try it out. If at least one person's life is made easier by this, I will consider it a success.