More family board games

Photo: Simon Hill

There are so many family board games. Here are some more we liked.

Flip 7 for $ 13: The excitement of pushing your happiness is the draw for this hybrid card game, while beating or pasting blackjack style, trying to get seven different face-on-cards. Special action cards and editors mix things up, making a little tactical game possible. It is suitable for three or more players 8 years and older, it only takes 20 minutes to play.

Tension: The Top 10 Name Game for $ 43: Subject cards have 10 items within a category, and the opposing team has 60 seconds to guess as much as possible. Cards are divided into two colors (easy and harder), making it easy to play with children or adjust the difficulty. It works well with any age or team size, but be prepared for a lot of screaming and laughing.

Indiana Jones Cryptic for $ 31: A puzzle game with Indiana Jones Styling is a licensing match in heaven. This game is beautifully illustrated, with three cases to solve the story of the original trilogy, narrative of Indy’s Journal and Coin Rewards for Success. The puzzles are a little hit or miss (sometimes too easy, sometimes too hard), but once you have been resolved, you don’t want to play again, although you can always pass the game.

You have to be my kitten! For $ 11: A simple twist on Liar’s dice focusing on bluff and bluff; I am of two thoughts on this game. On the one hand, the game is nothing special, but on the other hand cute cats! My daughter who wanted to be obsessed by the moggy wanted to play immediately, and we laughed a few with outrageous bluff on the number of glasses, hats and bow ties on these criminals.

Poetry for Neanderthal people for $ 20: Each card has a word, and your seemingly simple task is to get your team to correctly guess it within the time limit by speaking only in single -letter grips. If you violate the rules, the opposition can hit you with the inflatable “no” stick. It is suitable for two to eight players from 7 years and older, it is hard, stupid and usually makes everyone laugh.

Danger to $ 15: Fast and frenetic, this simple card game for two teams is about having a high standings at the end of each round. There are no turns, you can cover the cards of the other team, and rounds are timely, but you have to guess when the round ends. Super simple and very quick to play, this game can become chaotic.

It rose quickly for $ 20: This game is fast, easy and nice for up to eight players. With scenarios like “I invented a new sport, what is it?” Players must give suggestions of the least dangerous (1) to the most dangerous (10) based on their assigned number for each round. The leader of the round should try to get them in the right order. It works best with witty players who know each other well.

Kitchen Rush for $ 53: A truly unique title that proves too many cooks can spoil the sauce; This game can get chaotic quickly. You work together to cook dishes for customers within a strict time limit. It is a little too complicated for young children. (I would say ten years and older are the best.) Try the video game if you like this To cook.

Sounds fish for $ 20: Another fun group game of Big Potato, the challenge in Sounds Fishy is to see false answers. Each card asks a question, but only one of the answers you get is correct. It is for four to 10 players, and we find it nicer but harder with more people.

Zillionaires Road Trip USA for $ 13: Each of the 49 squares on the game board is a peculiar attraction along the way, from Bubblegum Alley to the National Mustard Museum, and players are bidding to buy it with the aim of securing four in a row. My kids loved it, the adults didn’t so much.

Cards against Humanity: Family Edition for $ 29: You can play this party game with up to 30 players, and it will giggle and crawl a fairly youthful. Like the adult version, there is not much strategy here, but finding the perfect combination to flip everyone up is satisfactory.

Don’t bother

We were not so eager at these games.

Photo: Simon Hill

Connecto for $ 20: Connect different symbols on your plate with a dry-livestock marker based on a random challenge card to make a picture of something (as connects the dots). The first one to guess what it is supposed to win the round (some are just vaguely like they are meant). Long life takes a hit, because there is no pleasure to play solved puzzles.

A game of cat and mouth for $ 13: Incredibly simple, this skills game challenges you to fire rubber balls through a cat’s mouth with magnetic legs, but they end up everywhere. Games tend to be very one -sided, and my children got bored almost immediately. It is also impossible to play with real cats in the area.