Anyone seen any crackers with good games?

[Yello24]

Don’t want to buy crackers with the pointless gifts in them. We’ve had some fun ones over the years with the racing clockwork figures, a musical whistle set with printed tunes.
Looking for a silly activity for the table, ideally not just a printed quiz.

(For the recyclers and plastic haters please note I did save and reuse the clockwork sprouts and whistles and we had them on the table for weeks. Then passed them on to sister to put in her homemade crackers).

Have looked in a few shops and online but not seen anything new. I guess if I don’t find anything I’ll just get the £2.99 ones and we’ll have paper clips and those waving fish!

Yes, good crackers would be great. But you will prob get criticised for letting DSis reuse whistles perhaps you should have mentioned that you steam sterisilised them first - I had crackers with little whistles and music for jinglebells but DCs were so naughty be end of meal it never got tested but I still have them in a drawer

My kids have got into playing Cluedo this year so I’ve got Cluedo crackers.

I’m thinking about task master or traitors next year when they’re a little bit older.

Yes, last year I found some with gazu’s and music for everyone to play carols which was fun!

This year I have bought ones with ballon modelling in them

Lakeland are always good for this stuff. My kids still use the racing gonks! I’m sure I saw an escape room type set somewhere.

We are making our own this year so I’ve got metal puzzles to put in them and then there will be chocolate probably .

Our favourite crackers were the ones with magic snakes (Rubik's type ones) and the next favourite were the ones with the modelling balloons.

Kickoo crackers are a good brand to look at.

I bought reusable crackers a few years ago. Sometimes I love them, sometimes not so much as it can be a challenge to find something to fit in them, especially if I want to buy locally. So far this year I've bought a cute novelty pen I know one child will love. Adults usually get a sweet treat, miniature bottle or a bookmark.

We had some with bells in. You could work together to play a tune whilst guessing the song and they were really fun. They still come out every year.

Where do you get the ones with the snakes in please? They sound ideal

I've got some from Lakeland this year. There's 8 in the box and they all have a section of xylophone in them. You pull all the crackers and build the xylophone and then play Christmas tunes on it!

I can't find the ones I bought, but here are some magic snakes you can use to fill your own crackers.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ECHOCUBE-Blocks-Fillers-Puzzle-Favours/dp/B0DSVMXQ9J/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_1/259-6610473-9091947?pd_rd_w=2GhZ2&content-id=amzn1.sym.bb13d3fc-af40-4fff-a822-e0e4c415da96&pf_rd_p=bb13d3fc-af40-4fff-a822-e0e4c415da96&pf_rd_r=5SPS6G3CY85X849V84NH&pd_rd_wg=ZVc3p&pd_rd_r=cfa34085-f8c4-4030-801f-7c2a8a1f22f1&pd_rd_i=B0DSVMXQ9J&th=1

Taskmaster crackers were good

Thanks all. Will take a look at Lakeland. Always enjoy a reason for a mooch in that shop!

We’ve had various including racing reindeer and the individual xylophone bars. All popular. The best ones were Lakeland’s Table Curling last year. The game was really well made and everyone loved it. We’ll be bringing it out again this year.

I might go for the Lakeland Cornhole game ones this year. The only thing that is putting me off slightly is that the crackers themselves are very dull.

The thing I’m struggling with is that we are 10 this year and if you get 2 x boxes of 6 (for example) I don’t think eg the musical things or Traitors etc will work?? Does anyone have any experience of making multiple packs of game type crackers work well for larger groups?

Thanks - I've bought Lakeland ones including the mini charade ones which will go on the tree.

Ooh love this thread!
We had ones with whistles in a few years back when I had family here for Christmas and it was hilarious!
Can’t remember where I bought them though 😬

Glad you've gone for the Lakeland ones. The curling game is the best (and will be coming out again this year)! I'm now torn between the Xylophone ones or the cornhole game. Maybe the latter because I don't want to hear my BIL sing Christmas songs.

The best crackers we ever got were ones with magic tricks in. They kept everyone busy from DC to grandparents! I got them on Amazon.

This year I have crackers with wire puzzles to solve.

We did the taskmaster one one year and I thought they were great but it was too complicated for gps to follow and it ended up rather ruining the game.