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What are your favourite family Christmas board games?

16 replies

WhoeverYouWantMeToBe · 18/11/2014 12:53

What are your favourites to please everyone? I have a family between the ages of 10 and 84 and we need something fun, simple but easily to explain and follow to play.
Any ideas?

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iseenodust · 18/11/2014 14:30

Not exactly a board game but Bingo is easy fun for everyone (luck not skill!) and you can get a cheap set with a big hamster wheel cage to tumble the numbers.

BrassMonkey84 · 18/11/2014 14:58

Favourites in our family include;
Articulate (put into teams, given words and you have to describe the word for the rest of the team to guess without saying the word iyswim)
Hum Bug (hum various tunes and team mates guess. Vvv funny and we always end up in fits of giggles)
Scacagories (play individually although younger ones could team up. Dice is rolled to give a letter and there is a list of things e.g.. girls name, team sport, country etc and you have to name one beginning with that letter)
Qwirckle (difficult to explain but you have to make rows with shapes and colours)

costababe · 18/11/2014 15:00

Not a board game either but we always do charades, with special pile for the kids and sometimes the older ones!! And we put together quizzes , music, trivia, logos that sort of stuff!!

curiousgeorgie · 18/11/2014 15:10

Articulate for us too... We love it and play in teams.

(I'm unbeaten Wink)

Lilymaid · 18/11/2014 15:31

Not a board game but a card game, Pit has been the family and friends favourite for decades. Only suitable for those prepared to shout their heads off and swop cards at speed, but enormous fun.

WreckTheHalls · 18/11/2014 17:13

Beat the parents.

9 yr old and 6 yr old LOVE it. Kids team up against parents. One of the kids has to be able to read, though!

Itscoldouthere · 18/11/2014 17:18

Not a board game but Pucket is an "elasticated table game" good fun for all it's a wooden game so quite expensive but I bought one of their seconds which has a few marks on the wood but was half price. Worth every penny and is especially good fun for adults after a few glasses of wine :)

Teapot74 · 18/11/2014 18:34

Perudo, Cluedo and Risk.

wfrances · 18/11/2014 19:46

the logo game

GoodKingQuintless · 18/11/2014 19:48

We play Uno, Monopoly, Chess, Bendomino, and Rummy.

Misty9 · 18/11/2014 21:11

We loved articulate

Dancergirl · 18/11/2014 23:42

I was thinking of getting articulate. But not sure whether to get the normal version or the kids. Dc are 13, 11 and 7

bakingtins · 19/11/2014 07:47

Another vote for Qwirkle.

ThrowAChickenInTheAir · 19/11/2014 07:54

We like Banangrams and always take it on holiday. Dh and dc like card games but I'm a bit rubbish at them and have to be helped all the time Blush

I keep meaning to get Qwirkle to try.

As a family it's better that we step away from Monopoly. Too many arguments and Dh behaving like the Governor of the Bank of England Hmm

Wilf83 · 19/11/2014 08:07

Labyrinth, bingo, scrabble, game of life, game of knowledge, monopoly. Bag puss game,

poolomoomon · 19/11/2014 09:37

Charades is brilliant. I'm really looking forward to DC being of an age where they can play that.

Favourites in our house are monopoly, cluedo and cranium.

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