Games for awkward teen cousins

[SwattyPie]

Anyone got any good games/tips for awkward teens (2 brothers, 2 sisters) who only see each other about once a year but will be sharing a table at Christmas? Previous meals have ended up with the girls talking non stop and showing off and the boys not uttering a word for the whole meal. Could do with some ice breakers to level the playing field. We do mix the seating up so it's not a kids/adults end, but it's really hard to get the boys involved in any conversation! Any tips gratefully received!

As in card/board games? Or ice breaker type conversational games? If it's the latter you're being very naive, I suspect that they'd hate it!

Cards against humanity, family edition if they are younger teens.

Get the boys' parents to work on their social skills a bit before Christmas so that they make a bit more of an effort to be sociable? The girls won't dominate the conversation as much if the boys are contributing more, it will naturally balance out.

I imagine that "icebreakers" would be pretty cringeworthy for all of them, tbh, and particularly for the boys who obviously aren't that confident about being in social situations. Don't put them through that!

The adults should also be able to draw the quieter ones into the conversation by asking appropriate questions in a fairly natural way.

We had a similar situation at half term, and bizarrely, this chair stacking game broke the ice.

I've bought a Christmas bingo game from Amazon for similar reasons

Happy Salmon. Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza. Genius Square. Dobble. These are all popular with the teens I work with and work with pairs/groups that don't know each other well.

I bought these crackers from M&S in the hope the quiz style games etc will get teens and old folk all joining in ( I found them in my local Simply Food which doesn't show it's stock on line)

Interested on what you split them up? We stick the Terns all at one end. I wouldn't want to inflict the Oldies at the other end of the table in them.

totally misses point of thread

Maybe don’t worry about it. They might not want to talk much!
Traitors works well in our family.
Taskmaster Is good.
Muffin Time

Confident is a great game. The questions are broad and you are given the type of answer so you just have to guess the number answer. You score more points if you pick a narrow range and get it right but that is risky as you get zero if you are wrong. Best played in pairs or small teams so you can discuss the risk of each.