Games your family will love

Every year on Christmas Eve we give the kids new games to play together as a family.  We stay home on Christmas Eve and it can end up being a very long day for kids who are excited for the next day to come.  Several years ago we started letting them open a few games Christmas Eve morning and they spend much of the day playing those.  And continue to play them throughout the year.  Huge win.

Here are a few of our family’s favorite games:

Ruckus -Family Edition

This game is easy enough for my 5 year old to play on his own, but fun enough I don’t want to die a quick and painless death while playing it with little kids.  You know what I mean.  It’s fast-paced and very straight-forward.  Great game for the whole family to play together.

 

Clue The Classic Edition

 

I played this game as a child so I’m a little nostalgic about it.  My kids love it just as much as I did.  Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the wrench.

Pictionary

I dare say this is my MOST favorite game.  I love this game.  Love. It.  I’m terrible at drawing, but for some reason, this game is just fun.  My kids are still a little young to play this, but you’d be surprise how well a 5 year old can do.  We played this once as a family on Thanksgiving (boys against girls) and had to stop.  It got a tiny bit intense.  No one threw the game board across the room (like my brother used to do when we were kids) so I guess it wasn’t that bad.

When we play this game, we do “All Play” every time so every team draws every time and whichever team gets it first gets to roll the dice.  It’s a little more fast-paced this way and far more fun.

Uno

An oldie but a goodie.  This is a good stocking stuffer gift as well.

Guess Who Game

I also played this as a kid.  This is a good one to use for some one-on-one time with kids.  Time like that is precious around a house with 4 kids.  This is also a great game to take in the car when we go on road trips.

Sequence for Kids

This is a great game to introduce kids to the idea of strategy when playing games.

Scattergories

This game is a little slower-paced than some but can be pretty hilarious depending on who you play it with.

HedBanz

Especially hilarious to play with younger kids.  For some reason we laugh a lot when we play this. Must be the way my kids ask questions.

 

This year we’re adding Operation , Pie Face , Bounce-Off , and Battleship for the kids to open on Christmas Eve.

I’ve also heard Ticket To Ride is a must have.  Our youngest kid likes to ruin most attempts we make at playing games together so we’ll wait until he’s a little older to add this one.

Anyone have any games their family loves?

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