To ask for your favourite family games

We hate it 🤣 it’s so violent. Everyone ends up injured and crying here!

Love happy salmon and exploding kittens though

Taco Goat Cheese Pizza
Spot It
Othello - It's a game for 2, but good strategy for 12 year old
Blokus
Five Crowns - little one may need a buddy
Quirkle
Rummikub
5 Second Rule
Spoons

I echo a lot of the recommendations on here (Double; Rummikub; Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza; Sushi Go; Sequence; Labyrinth; Exploring Kittens; Ticket to Ride; Herd Mentality). A few more that my lot have enjoyed across age gaps: Simon's Cat; Five Second Rule; Early Bird; Baffled; SlideQuest; Aquarius; Rhino Hero; Bugs in the Kitchen.

Cooperative games also go down well here with different age groups, as they all win or lose together, e.g. Forbidden Island/Desert/Sky; SOS Dino; Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters; Outfoxed (bit young for the 12.5yr old though); Concept (kids version); Bank Attack; Zombie Kidz Evolution.

DS has always liked the "draw it" game where there are cards with categories, and you have to draw whatever the card you pick/category you land on says. Other players guess, against the timer. He's 14 now and still chooses it.
Other favourites have been Sore Losers Monopoly, Game of Life, Any form of the light up pattern, memory games,where you pass them round, and we currently play table tennis tournaments on the dining table, with one of those portable nets (£12 ish).
UNO, 21, and Go Fishing, with deck if cards.
For some reason DS also liked the round word one, where you press the letters down, against the clock, according to card picked eg "things you take on holiday" "capital cities" etc.

Seconding Labyrinth.

There is a kids version of Ticket to Ride which DH and I play alone sometimes if we just want a quick game (2 adults can finish in like 20mins but still have a good game).

Carcassone. Maybe not so much for the 5yo but could maybe play with an adult as a team for their turn until they understand it. It's really easy to play and there's expansion versions available.

Throw throw burrito!
dobble is good with younger kids. CAH do a family version for kids but I’ve not tried it

We love Labyrinth as it can be played by all ages either working together or against each other! This is our most played game that rarely gets put away.

https://www.ravensburger.co.uk/en-GB/products/games/strategy-games/labyrinth-smart-choice-22990

Mine like Dobble too but it gets rather raucous, although I think that's probably me being too competitive. 😂

Yahtzee, trivial pursuit (family edition until they get a bit older), Who knows where, card games- Black jack, pontoon, 10 carded rummy, Newmarket; Frustration, Cluedo, Risk, Dungeons & Dragons, Scrabble, no board game needed-Cats and Dogs-we like board games :)

Edited to add pictionary and charades, we also do the music clip quizzes on Sporcle-they are great!

Taco hat cake gift pizza (or one of the many versions)

rummikub

rapid rumble

i saw it first

Othello was a longstanding favourite here its only 2 players but all the kids loved it. Also frustration/ludo did and still does as adults amuse them.
Monopoly takes ages and always ends in tears. No idea why it's so popular

I’m glad taco, cat, goat, cheese, pizza is getting so much love - it’s in the gift cupboard as a stocking filler. We also have sushi go and happy salmon waiting for Xmas; both bought on recommendations.

we already have exploding kittens

We recently got Whirly Derby. It's a lot of fun, really easy to learn, and very suitable for all ages. We played yesterday with an age range of 9 - 77. And everyone loved it.

Has anyone played uzzle popped up on my fband claims to be multi age

I second Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza. It's fabulous for the whole family

Pictureuka. Very simple, quick so you are not tied in for ages but can carry on as long as you want. Mine used to really enjoy it.

Exploding Kittens

Poetry for Neanderthals

Labyrinth

Also, sequence is fun and good for a range of ages. You have to make rows of counters by matching playing cards to the board, and some cards let you play anywhere or remove coins. It’s a game that’s quite easy to pick up and which was always popular in our house for us as children, our parents and grandma.

You can get a family version of cards against humanity @Anonononybut yes, don’t buy the normal one!!

Quirkle - very visual and pattern based works well for all ages

rummikub

loads of card games like chase the ace / Black Maria / etc

Herd Mentality is a game that suits a lot of ages. It’s easy to pick up but a lot of fun and I can imagine with the youngest they might throw a few funny curveballs!

I’m not sure if they still sell it but I used to really like cranium - it has lots of different types of question/ challenge, from trivia to singing/ humming, sculpting with clay, drawing etc so there’s something everyone can do and you play on teams.

Uno?

happy puzzle has a good games section

My 6 and 13 year old played Splendor with me on Friday… it’s quite quick and the younger one has been playing since 5, but has only recently caught onto rhe strategy element. She beat me!

ticket to ride is good for rhe eldest but I think requires too much concentration span for 5.

Sleeping queens is a hit, as is a game called Cabo but you can only buy fake versions of that now. But I would recommend!

Azul is another one I’ve played with both ages before (though I prefer Splendor).

if you have a Waterstones, they have decent game collections now.

findit picturica sdragomino mapomonos.
sleeping queen
snug as a bug in a rug

quooridoor
out foxed

We have kid’s CAH and I wouldn’t get it for a 12 year old.
How about Rapidough? UNO, Monopoly deal or Dobble are all good.