Games that don’t need fluent English?

[NeedingCoffee]

We’ll have our Ukrainian guests with us for Christmas this year and I’d be so grateful for any ideas for games we could play en-mass that don’t need English language. Usually as an extended family we’d play things like Pictionary, Articulate and goat lord, but all those need good English. There will be 9 of us, so ideas which could be played in teams would also be good. Thanks!

Wink murder
chinese whispers

Taskmaster- style challenges?

Dobble- it's a picture matching game.

Rummy
Jenga

Pie face
Connect 4
Operation
Chess
Card games
Picture bingo
More action games

Ludo
Monopoly
Uno

Rummikub
Backgammon
Chess

We look after a refugee child and Jenga ( we have a garden version) goes down very well. He also likes labyrinth, Operation and hungry hippos.

Ticket to ride

Uno

Any card game

Chinese checkers (up to 6 players)

Quirkle. Not only does it require no language knowledge, it's ageless; can be played in mixed groups of adults and children and all enjoy a different level of strategy.

It's won lots of awards,

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25669/qwirkle

Guillotine
Uno
Ticket to Ride
Incan gold
Frustration
Niagra

Definitely card games and uno. I still remember playing uno with ordinary playing cards on a school exchange trip to Germany in 1980. The Germans taught us it. It was very popular with everyone as limited language in common was needed.

Poker

the rizla game if they can speak some English

Perudo

Definitely Dobble also Beat That and sock game would work.

Ooh this is great - our neighbour has 2 Ukrainian guests & would like to get them over. Thought board games would be good. Blokus is good fun if there's 4 players.

I think I recently bought qwirkle too

Qwirkle is fab.

Not dobble unless you’re prepared to accept ukrainian answers. I hate playing dobble in my second language - English always comes out first.

Dominoes
Jenga
Snap
Snakes and ladders
Connect Four
Buckaroo

Loads of brilliant suggestions everyone, thank you. Even things like Monopoly don’t really work though unless you want to use Google translate, due to the Community Chest and Chance cards. And anything remotely complex is challenging to explain the rules. But loads of good suggestions which are easy on all fronts 😃

@buckeejit , you could also get your neighbour’s guests to teach you “fool”; it’s a very well known Ukrainian card game and they’re likely to love it… it’s quite Machiavellian though, I do warn you 🤣