12 (Actually Fun) Games to Play With Kids

I love games and have a huge collection of them that I bring with me when I nanny. One no one so far mentioned is Quirkle. It’s easy to learn and kids can get it. Adults really enjoy it too.

A lot of comments so probably someone already mentioned it… but if not than “Dragonwood” is what my 7 and 8 year olds are recently obsessed with. Other games they like recently – Blokus and Mancala,

Sushi Go and Ramen Fury are favorites here. My kids love them, I love them, and it helps in our quest to keep them excited about more “sophisticated” food options. ;)

The Scrambled States of America Is a great homeschool geography lesson which we play over morning tea. I feel like such a great parent when this is happening!

We love guess who and ticket to ride. Our newest one is blokus it’s so much fun! We’ve played it so much lately, my son is 8 and he really likes it.

Every night we have been playing Dutch blitz. It is so fast and fun. Our youngest is 5 and she can play it. We just don’t keep score. Another fund card game is Five Crowns.

My my kids are 11, 8, and 6 and our favorites are Splendor (I’m addicted!!), Labyrinth (Ravensburger), Ticket to Ride, and Dweebies ( a silly card game). We play all of them at least weekly. My six year old plays all but Ticket to Ride, it’s a bit too complex for her.

Games definitely bring out personality traits, particularly competitiveness!

Codenames is the favorite game in our house! We’re 5 adults and 2 teens. It goes quickly and it’s easy to play with 4-7 people.

My kids are 7 and 15, so finding games we all enjoy is a challenge.
Our favorites:
Yeti in my spaghetti
Pass the pigs
Farkle
Uno
Sorry
Trouble
Apples to apples
Bop-it
Blink
Dominos

I love how you and Alex play Guess Who!! I definitely want to try that version with another adult =]

My favorite card game is hearts and I recently introduced it to my 10 year old son. I used to read to him for 30 minutes before bed, but one night when quarantine first started, I had the idea to mix things up. I downloaded a hearts game app on my phone and showed him how to play just by playing, with him watching. I’d explain my choices and he’d take it all in with such enthusiasm! It has quickly become the thing we both look forward to the most of each day. Now he takes the phone and selects the cards, but always waits for me to chime in with advice. He’s teaching his 8 year old brother how to play now and you can just hear the pride and excitement in his voice to feel as if he’s mastered this game. It’s so fun to watch him enjoy it as much as I do!

We always had a lot of fun with the card game “Ruckus”.

My 4.5 year old daughter LOVES games! We have daily tournaments of Outfoxed, Sequence for Kids, Uno, Guess Who, Spot It, Candyland, Animal Upon Animal, Sleeping Queens, Rat-a-tat Cat, etc.. Gamewright & Haba make such fun stuff. I actually got so many ideas & advice on this topic from CoJ, so thank you very much for all the recs (I very much appreciate them, especially now!)

We recently acquired Sleeping Queens – huge win for my 6 and 4 year old! And I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet, but Kingdomino is a really engaging game. It’s the first kid game we have that I beg to play :)

We’ve struggled a bit with this because games designed for our youngest often feel mind-numbing for the rest of us, but we love Jenga! Another game that has worked well for both our 4yo and 8yo is Yahtzee. So much of it is luck that our 4yo has been able to win a number of times and can understand enough of the rules to say, “I’m going for 6s” or whatever.

Hello,
We play many of the games you’ve mentioned above but some our favourites are:
Dobble (normal version and Harry Potter version)
Jungle speed
Head Bands

All lots of fun to play with kids and adults alike.

My 10 yo son loves Tenzi! It’s a fun dice game. I bet Toby would enjoy it too?

I highly recommend Cover Your Assets – equally fun for kids and adults. When they get closer to age 10, teach them how to play Cribbage. It’s a classic!! We also love Skip Bo.

Exploding Kittens is our favourite:) We also like Carcasson, Smallworld, and the Harry Potter version of Clue is surprisingly fun.

My kids are just recently turned one and three, but the older one and I have been playing the game, Orchard, for about two months now. She loves it and I love all board games! Excited to bring others into the mix as the kids get older.

Rummikub has been a quarantine favorite (my boys are 9 and 11). But Yamslam is a great game for playing on your front stoop. It’s like a fast paced Yahtzee hybrid!

By the age of your kids and the games you have listed, you all would love Goblet Gobblers. It turns tic tac toe up a notch and makes for a longer and more fun game for kids and adults.

What happened to your baby?! 9! He looks like his mum :)

My 6 & 8 yr old sons and I are loving Rummicub! Once the kids are in bed, sometimes my husband and I play a few rounds too.

Cards Against Humanity put out a ‘family’ version for older kids and there are a ton of poop/fart type jokes buy my kids, 12 and 10, end up rolling around, laughing like crazy with the questions and responses! They are offering it for free to print off their website right now. Also agree with a bunch of others about Sleeping Queens, Suishi Go, Tenzi, Blink, and puzzles have been keeping us busy!

For about 3rd grade and up the big winner in my classroom was getting to play Clue! I even later managed to find these books of “Five minute mysteries” that incorporated the characters of clue (and man they loved trying to figured out who stole the pet parrot or whatever).

My students also really loved playing Set. A card game where you are finding groups of things that are alike/not alike. It’s a bit weird to explain but every student I had from about 1st grade up loved to play it. ANd you can play it with 1-6 players (more with more decks). Card games in general were fun.