Board games for a 5 year old

[autumnkate]

Hi everyone!

Has anyone got any recommendations for a board game for a bright 5 year old? He can add and read simple sentences.

Thanks!

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Mine still likes some of the Orchard Toys games. He’s also a fan of Junior Monopoly and Labyrinth. We all like cooperative games with Forbidden Island our favourite.

What a Performance by Orchard

Orchard Toys Tummy Ache! is one of the best children's games ever, every child seems to love it

Junior monopoly. DD2 is 6 and has been enjoying it for a couple of years. I like it too. She also likes Junior Game of Life.

Snakes and ladders

Ludo
Enchanted forest
Don’t wake dad
Risk junior
Monopoly junior

Our 5 year old loves Monza by Haba. Don’t be output off that the box is in German. There are English instructions. You don’t need to be able to read but it’s good for strategising what to do with the dice you get.

Rhino Hero by Haba is also good fun.

We all like Qwirkle. It’s a bit like scrabble but with shapes and colours.

King domino, Sleeping queens, Quacks of quedlingburg, sagrada, dobble, loot, colour smash, Zeus on the loose. You will have to assist with some of them (for example using the tools in sagrada if they cannot place a dice, I often select the tools rather than pick randomly) but my 5 year olds love all of the above.

My 5 year olds loves:
Snacks and ladders
Frustration
Ludo
Times tables from orchard
Match and spell from orchard
Hungry hippos
Kerplunk
And mousetrap
(Not all strictly board games)

We have enjoyed Qwirkle (I got the travel one as it suits little fingers and doesn't need such a big table top), Dobble, Labyrinth (good for all ages), Scrabble Junior

Dragomino is lovely, you have to match tiles and turn over/ hatch different coloured eggs to find baby dragons/ empty shells. My 3 (8, 6, 4) love it.

Thanks everyone- lots to look at x

Connect Four is perfect for that age - they can play without being strategic and then the strategy elements come later

Frustration

Card games might be better than board games - you can get younger/first versions of uno and dobble

We like

Carcassonne
Rhino hero
Race to the treasure
Bugs in the kitchen
Qwirkle

Plus uno, double and the monopoly card game.

Sneaky Snacky Squirrel is our favourite

Snakes and ladders was about the biggest hit round that age.

Labyrinth, blokus, sorry!, pop to the shops

Also ticket to ride but it's a loooong game with a 5 year old playing

Sum swamp is great

DS loves games. We go to our local board game cafe a lot 😍
dobble (more of a card game!),
chess,
Disney Eye Found It game,
junior monopoly,
guess who
Normal cluedo (? There are lots of versions! I’m used to Super Sleuth from my childhood but the one DS plays is the normal one I think)
Frustration/Race to Base
Forbidden Island
Floundering
Mastermind
Humour Dumpty Wall Game (bit babyish by now but fun!)

*Humpty

Oh and all the Orchard classics of course, shopping list etc!

Collaborative ones are brill - forbidden island, Disney eye found it - but I do think it’s good to play against people and lose too!

Ooh if he’s keen on maths too Mammoth Maths (Orchard) is nice.

Also not a board game but he’d probably like some story cubes.

We play
Cluedo
Chess
Monopoly junior
Scrabble junior
Trivial pursuit
Horrible science germ game
Ludo
Snakes and ladders
Articulate