What are your favourite family Christmas board games?

[WhoeverYouWantMeToBe]

What are your favourites to please everyone? I have a family between the ages of 10 and 84 and we need something fun, simple but easily to explain and follow to play.
Any ideas?

[iseenodust]

Not exactly a board game but Bingo is easy fun for everyone (luck not skill!) and you can get a cheap set with a big hamster wheel cage to tumble the numbers.

[BrassMonkey84]

Favourites in our family include;
Articulate (put into teams, given words and you have to describe the word for the rest of the team to guess without saying the word iyswim)
Hum Bug (hum various tunes and team mates guess. Vvv funny and we always end up in fits of giggles)
Scacagories (play individually although younger ones could team up. Dice is rolled to give a letter and there is a list of things e.g.. girls name, team sport, country etc and you have to name one beginning with that letter)
Qwirckle (difficult to explain but you have to make rows with shapes and colours)

[costababe]

Not a board game either but we always do charades, with special pile for the kids and sometimes the older ones!! And we put together quizzes , music, trivia, logos that sort of stuff!!

[curiousgeorgie]

Articulate for us too... We love it and play in teams.

(I'm unbeaten )

[Lilymaid]

Not a board game but a card game, Pit has been the family and friends favourite for decades. Only suitable for those prepared to shout their heads off and swop cards at speed, but enormous fun.

[WreckTheHalls]

Beat the parents.

9 yr old and 6 yr old LOVE it. Kids team up against parents. One of the kids has to be able to read, though!

[Itscoldouthere]

Not a board game but Pucket is an "elasticated table game" good fun for all it's a wooden game so quite expensive but I bought one of their seconds which has a few marks on the wood but was half price. Worth every penny and is especially good fun for adults after a few glasses of wine :)

[Teapot74]

Perudo, Cluedo and Risk.

[wfrances]

the logo game

[GoodKingQuintless]

We play Uno, Monopoly, Chess, Bendomino, and Rummy.

[Misty9]

We loved articulate

[Dancergirl]

I was thinking of getting articulate. But not sure whether to get the normal version or the kids. Dc are 13, 11 and 7

[bakingtins]

Another vote for Qwirkle.

[ThrowAChickenInTheAir]

We like Banangrams and always take it on holiday. Dh and dc like card games but I'm a bit rubbish at them and have to be helped all the time

I keep meaning to get Qwirkle to try.

As a family it's better that we step away from Monopoly. Too many arguments and Dh behaving like the Governor of the Bank of England

[Wilf83]

Labyrinth, bingo, scrabble, game of life, game of knowledge, monopoly. Bag puss game,

[poolomoomon]

Charades is brilliant. I'm really looking forward to DC being of an age where they can play that.

Favourites in our house are monopoly, cluedo and cranium.