Board game recommendations

[3wheels]

Hi, can you please recommend some good board games for 2 adults and an 8 and 10 year old. We're self isolating this half term so it'll give us something else to do if I order some up. Thanks

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Cluedo

Thanks. We have and love cluedo.
Games we've got and play a lot are; 5 minute marvel, sleeping queens, Zeus on the lose, 5 second rule, labyrinth and monopoly. We love games and will give anything a go. X

The monopoly card game? Much faster than the board game and more fun!

Tickets to ride - it’s American, but there are various versions. It can be quite long, but it’s good and strategic once you get the hang of it!

Catan! We’ve had hours of fun with that

labyrinth? My kids loved at that age
Uno
Game of life

Ticket to ride is the favourite here(also have 10&8 year olds).

Ticket to Ride
Carcassonne
Azul

The London Game

I second Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne.

If they like dinosaurs there's a great collaborative Jurassic Park board game. It's a bit complicated so needs one adult to take charge and learn all the rules well, but it's a lot of fun. One person is the dinosaurs, (it works well if this is the adult who is overseeing but doesn't have to be), and tries to stop all the people from escaping the island.

King of Tokyo is fun and quite silly.

Rummikub- easy to get the hang of and very addictive.

Azul
Harry Potter Cluedo is a good variation
Cards Against Humanity Family Version is great and child-appropriate
Hive (a bit like Chess but with bugs - it’s addictive)
Exploding Kittens

Those are faves in our house.

Carcasonne, Risk, Ticket to Ride, Rummikub - all favourites of ours

Sequence is fun.

Bank attack

Ticket to ride and Carcassone. Cannot wait till our DC are old enough to play 🙌

Rummikub
Gubs
Monopoly Deal
Ludo

Horrible Histories board game is great

My kids are the same age and I love board games. Here's a few that have worked for us (and not bored the adults stiff)

-Tiny Towns (can't recommend this enough)
-The Quacks of Quedlinburg
-Wizard Always Wins
-Mystic Market
-Campy Creatures
-Survive! Lost City of Atlantis
-Dixit
-Horrified
-Jamaica
-Splendor

We've been playing a game series called "Unmatched" with our 10 yr old - if your 8 yr old is a confident reader than you could try it all 4 of you...the kids love the theme - actually in general once your kids can confidently read cards that opens up a whole world of other games.....Disney's Villainous, Smash Up etc.

I agree with the person above who said the Harry Potter Clue was a good version - it's quite nice if you kids love that theme

We really enjoyed don't get got. Hours of fun.

We love many of the games mentioned here & will give others a go, so just trying to mention ones not already mentioned:

Forbidden Island (co-operative game)
Shcotten Totten (2-player but couldn't leave off the list)
Mr Jack (2-player)
"Exit" home escape games (can only played once but if you look after them can be passed on to friends)

Tichu

Tichu is one of my favourites & we thought the kids during lockdown. Perfect 4-player game, you can even make your own version from normal cards, lots of rounds so everyone gets to win.