Best family games for Christmas!

[crunchynutgirl]

We're hosting 9 for Christmas (normally it's just the three of us!) aged from 11 to 87. Two of the older people are quite deaf, so ideally nothing that involves everyone shouting at once. Very few interests/knowledge in common between everyone, so quizzes would be tricky.
Any good recommendations for nice family games, to avoid too much TV time?

Family fortunes?

Herd Mentality is really good for mixed age groups as you just have to try and guess the most popular answer. There's no right or wrong.

We also like Perudo which is a dice game where you have to try and fool other people. Played both with grandparents and grandchildren.

Cranium

We play a card game which is fun. You need two decks of cards. Deal one deck out between all players, you keep the second deck. You have a collection of prizes in the middle- really random rubbish to be honest e.g. miniature of spirit, chocolate bar, corkscrew, scratch card etc. everyone looks at their cards and you call out the first card from the second deck. The person who has it gets to pick a prize and repeat until your prizes are gone. Keep going through the deck one card at a time. Now there are no prizes in the middle you get to steal from someone else prize haul. People become weirdly obsessive over things and it’s a good laugh and the stuff keeps getting passed back and fourth. When you have worked your way through deck 2 whatever everyone has they keep. Everyone who has played says it’s a lot more fun than it sounds which it is.
also reindeer antlers are good. Split into teams and each team has a pair of tan tights and balloons first team to fill both legs with balloons and put on a team members head wins. You can decide how many balloons have to go in each leg.

Clask

Do you know the game Black Magic? It’s perfect for all ages. You just need to have two people who know what is going on.
Person A (Guesser) goes out of the room. Everyone else gets together to choose an item in the room. Guesser is then called back in and Person B (Questioner) then proceeds to ask questions, trying to ask the questions in different ways “Is it that lamp” What about Nana’s brooch? “Do you think it’s the waste bin?” Etc etc. The guesser pretends to consider each item before saying no it’s not that, until finally they ‘guess’ the correct answer. The black magic is that the item immediately before the correct one is black.
It drives people mad trying to figure out how it’s done!
also we’ve played it with groups of people of all ages. Even very young children can help choose the item.

My daughter reading over my shoulder says ‘ Micro Macro’

Thank you! I'll look these up!
Black magic sounds like it would drive everyone mad..maybe in a good way! And the card and reindeer games sound potentially hilarious 😀
Thanks everyone😀

We love playing this in a big group of people! Great for hen parties as it gets really fun when every has had a drink or two! We’ve always used raffle tickets, never thought to use playing cards - what a good idea, will do in future !

@dollygray2this sounds great. By calling out the cards - does that mean you choose a card from your hand that you think could be at the top of the other deck?

Just one
Spyfall

You just work your way through the deck. So the caller isnt actually playing they just call out which card is next. As a full deck is given out every card gets a prize.

We love playing articulate - all ages can play together

Another vote for herd mentality and Linkee is another good group one that we play at Christmas.

I started a thread here - that has some examples of rounds you could use to make a Christmas family quiz.

You should be able to cover all ages with some creative thinking and cover years 2010 to 2025 as well. You could get people to work in teams of 2 and get a few small prozes for the winners.