To ask for decent family board games suggestions

[Raveon2000]

Children (age 7+) and adults, fun and not too complicated, what are your favourites?

Carcassonne
Takenoko
King of tokyo

Recently played Beat It at a friends and have ordered it for Xmas. Great fun for all ages.

Beat That!

The London Game

Ticket to ride

Not a board game but the family edition of cards against humanity is hilarious.

Dixit. Really simple, but engaging. I think it's one of the most underrated board games out there!

Ticket to Ride Europe - best game ever. When we first got it I think we played it every day for about a month!

Oh and sequence also excellent

It’s a card game rather than a board game, but Exploding Kittens is brilliant.

Interesting you say Takenoko - I feel I’m missing something about that game. I got it from a specialist board game shop on their advice but it just seems really complicated and really boring. We’ve. Never got through a game to the end.

Am I doing it wrong?!!

The Mind (card game)
Love Letter (card game)
Rummikub
Settlers of Catan
Codenames

Takenoko? Not get to the end? How? I should only last half hour to 45 mins!!! Everyone loves the growing bamboo!! My guess is something isn't playing right. From memory its not the best instruction manual. If you want to invest the time I'd have a little watch of someone else playing it on you tube like

Personally I would consider 7 too young for either ticket to ride or catan.

Yy to the London game or the European version

Also labyrinth and canvas

Love letter needs decent working memory (ie if you hate matching pairs you will probably hate love letter)

Spy game called Scotland Yard , I don’t understand exploding kittens but I think that’s due to my 11 year olds explanation designed so I lose

Stupid Deaths

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is fabulous fun! A twist on snap and very easy to learn.

Thank you - I will watch it and have another go! Yes - the instruction manual is terrible!

We've played the Horrible Histories board game recently - it really worked because DS could show off his HH knowledge, and it's quite short too.

Sequence and Rummikub are big hits on my family

Cluedo, Labyrinth, Game of Life, Skipbo, UNO

Monopoly of course. Risk, Junior Trivial Pursuit, Scattergories, Family Fortunes, Pictionary, Cluedo.

Cobra Paw.

Uno (my dd managed this at 7).

We love monopoly deal in our house, a card game version of monopoly which is far quicker and simpler! We also play Tenzi a lot, Labyrinth and Honeycombs (kids are 7 and 10). Kids, parents and grandparents all love these games in our house!

Cobra paw, really fun and quick game