Can anyone recommend a good fun family board game ala Cranium, Cluedo, Monopoly, etc......?

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Pictionary is fairly good fun - you can get a junior version
Game of Life is OK for all ages

do they still make Great Game of Britain

i used to love it

sorry, cannot give a 21st century answer - dc are 2yo and 4mo

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Articulate? A few years old, but good game

On a recent thread Cluedo came highly recommended so I've gone for that this year. About right for almost 10.
Have I misunderstood op, have you already got this?

we can recomend. whether you find it in the shops is another matter all together

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Game where you go "through life" - graduate from school, get a job, get married, have kids, pay bills (actually a lot more fun than it sounds). Instead of throwing a dice you spin a wheel which LO's like a lot (in me experience).

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My niece has a game called Labyrinth which is good fun, simple and quite addictive. You have to get your piece across a board to a certain piece of treasure, but the board is made of lots of interconnecting tiles and each player moves a tile each turn. Lots of fun frustrating your opponents!

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Not a board game but uno. Fantastic game. My two , 10 and 7 , love it. We often play and it isn't a faff to set up etc

Do they still do Frustration? With the pop-o-matic dice? I used to love that when I was a wee un

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We just have the bog standard, costs 3.99 or whatever, version.

Introduced it to another family last night and they loved it too!

What I like is that you can easily have a quick game before bedtime. Or you can have a point scoring epic that can last a rainy day!

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Ticket to Ride www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/

A 10 year should whup you easily at that...

Carcassone www.boardgamegeek.com/game/822

This one doesn't take too long. And if he likes it, there are lots of variations.

Bucket King www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3141
Again, easy to set up and play, last about 20-30 minutes, even when you're doing really well it can all go hideously wrong and vice versa.

Hey! That's my fish!
www.boardgamegeek.com/game/8203
Light, silly, cut-throat.

Colosseum.
www.gameslore.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
We've just got this one and I love it - it is rather more complex than the others I've listed.

Sorry, I've gone on a bit

Would second uno. My two, 9 and 10, like Othello at the moment. I've got them Upwords for Christmas. Pass the bomb is a good family game, they do two versions.

Another vote for uno. I grew up playing it with my family and we all still love it. It's cheap, portable, easy-to-understand, involves both luck and tactics, and is accessible as soon as they know their colours and numbers and understand about taking turns, so many different ages can play. My DS has played it since he was 6 and really enjoys it. Agree you can just have one quick game or make it into a mega-scoring marathon.