to wonder what your favourite family games to play with teens are?

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Hi ... summer holidays looming .... a great time to hang out with 15 yo DD while away... We love games like Articulate, Racing Demon, Bananagrams, Forbidden Island, Charades... even Settlers of Katan.... and quite enjoy Sussed...

AIBU to ask for some great recommendations for having a good time with a teen during the summer hols? What are your favourite games and why?

Town trails get everyone out and about and you find out about the area.
Not a board game but great fun.

Small World, the board game, is always popular with teenagers. Think it's because it's quite silly and doesn't require massive strategising.

Las Vegas. My teens will play that for hours.

Mine are mad about scattergorries at the moment.

Splendour?

Ticket to Ride and Pandemic are current favourites. We still play Settlers a lot, too.

Scattergories is brilliant!

UNO is a great card game - you can stitch each other up with the swapping hands rules which can be hilarious.
Rummikub is also good fun as you have to think quickly and games can be very fast paced.

Another vote for UNO, my 16 & 13 year old play it together a lot and with their friends.

Jack box! It's brilliant

Carcassonne and Citadel are both very popular with my 3 teens. They also enjoy Taboo and the card version of Monopoly (is it Monopoly deal?) DD loves Set but that is because no one can beat her!

Exploding kittens!

Munchkin with all the expansions and played to the Epic levels
Carcasonne
Settlers of Catan (plus expansions)
Exploding kittens 🐱 🔥
Magic: The Gathering

We take them all on holiday with us too, they pack up fairly small so no luggage issues.

Scrabble! (yawn!! No seriously) and UNO which I quite like!

'Come and watch me play' any game on Xbox is one to be avoided!

Rounders. Everybody enjoys rounders.

We like Carcasonne and Pandemic, we have Exploding Kittens fresh from Amazon but not played yet.
Bananagrams is a long term fave from pre-teen days.
Recently bought Skull which is very attractive but not sure how much fun it is.
They also like old fashioned Cluedo.

Haven't got a teen but younger sibling just out of the teen years, we play Speak Out, Cluedo and Articulate when we're together as a family.

Settlers plus expansions.

Currently we are all liking Bridge although generally completely flummoxed at the bidding !

Have you tried Forbidden Desert if you like Forbidden Island? It's harder to win.

We really like another collaborative game called Pandemic.

Ooh also One Night Ultimate Werewolf! They love that!

Trivial pursuit family edition is great for all ages as is scrabble. Also charades. There's a phone app called deck heads, that's ok for a giggle. Drawing caricatures of famous people and the other person or team have to guess who it is.

Thought of two more:

Who Am I? - You write a name of someone on a post it note and pop it on the person next you's head. Everyone takes turns asking closed questions (yes or no answers only) in order to work out who they are first. The people some of us think of gives everyone a good giggle. I sometimes play it with DH in the car on long journeys without the post it notes. There's the board game 'Guess Who' with the flip characters too which is the same premise but I bought the newest version and it's not the same as I had in my childhood.

Pass the bomb - you all have to answer with a word that fits the retirement (for example, like ends in 'ier' or starts with 'q'), within the time of the ticking plastic "bomb" and throwing it to the next player. Whoever gets the bomb to off on them has to take the card, the person with the least cards at the end of the game wins.

Cards Against Humanity (very rude but very funny when played with different generations)
Exploding Kittens
Mr Lister (or anything from Big Potato)
Traditional card games like rummy, poker, cheat/bullshit etc are always fun and can be played anywhere with just a pack of cards

Exploding kittens (we also now have the extension pack!)
Dobble

Settlers. Risk. Pass the Bomb. Upwords (like scrabble, but you can build ON words).
Does anyone else play the Hat game? When we get together ,we always play it. It's like an extension of charades.