34 Best Family Board Games (2025): Catan, Ticket to Ride, Codenames

Other family table games

There are so many board games for families. Here are some others who liked them.

Dorfromantik: the duel for $ 39: Based on video game Dorfromantikwho generated a cooperative board game, this spin-off puts you against another player while drawing cards to build a landscape and try to complete the tasks along the way. With identical sets in red and blue, these are those who build a better environment to satisfy their village inhabitants and mark the largest number of points. The game time is less than an hour. You could play with two teams, but it works better as two players.

Hey Hey Relè for $ 18: This super silly dice game is a race between two teams with challenges that push silly voices and physical actions before they can proceed. It is fast and chaotic to play, but probably better for younger children (producers suggest 6 years upwards). My children didn’t like it very much, but this could be a fun game.

Ship show for $ 32: This cooperative game launches players as titlers and shippers and challenges them to send orders correctly by guessing the correct cards based on the clues provided by the way they have been grouped. The time limit adds pressure and this can be fun for the right group (it is necessary to be on the same wavelength), but we found the wait for the stock exchange owners to be boring for shippers and the score was laborious.

Flip 7 for $ 18: The thrill of pushing luck is the draw for this hybrid card game, while you hit or Blackjack -style attacks, trying to obtain seven different facial cards. Action cards and special modifiers mix things, allowing a little tactical game. Suitable for three or more players aged or over or over 8 years old, it takes only 20 minutes to play.

Tension: the best denomination game for $ 43: The topics cards have 10 articles within a category and the opposing team has 60 seconds to guess as many as possible. The cards are divided into two colors (easy and more difficult), making it easy to play with children or adjust the difficulty on the flight. It works well with any age or size of the team, but prepare to scream and laugh.

Indiana Jones Cryptic for $ 39: A game of escape -room puzzles with Indiana Jones Styling is a license game made in paradise. This game is magnificently illustrated, with three cases to solve that rhythm of the history of the original trilogy, the narration of the Journal of Indy and the prizes of the coin for success. The puzzles are a little affected or missing (sometimes too easy, sometimes too difficult), but once resolved, you will not want to play again, even if you can always spend the game.

You must be Gatticello me! For $ 12: A simple turning point on liar dice that focuses on bluffs and bluff keys; They are two minds on this game. On the one hand, the game is nothing special, but on the other, cute cats! My daughter obsessed with Moggy wanted to immediately play and we did some laughs with outrageous bluffs on the number of glasses, hats and papilli on these felines.

Poetry for Neanderthals for $ 20: Each card has a word and your apparently simple task is to convince your team to guess it correctly within the time limit by speaking only in individual syllables. If you break the rules, the opposition can hit you with the inflatable stick “no”. Suitable for two to eight players from age or over 7 years, it is noisy, silly and usually makes everyone laugh.

Danger danger for $ 12: Fast and frenetic, this simple card game for two teams concerns the attempt to have high score cards at the end of each round. There are no curves, you can cover the other team’s cards and the rounds are timed, but you have to guess when the round will end. Super simple and very fast to play, this game can become chaotic.

This has increased quickly for $ 20: This game is fast, easy and fun for a maximum of eight players. With scenarios like “I invented a new sport, what is it?” Players must provide suggestions from the least dangerous (1) to more dangerous (10) based on their number assigned for each round. The leader of the round must try to make them in the correct order. It works better with the witty players who know each other well.

Kitchen rush for $ 55: A truly unique title that demonstrates too many cooks can ruin the broth; This game can become chaotic quickly. Work together to cook dishes for customers within a rigorous time limit. It is a little too complicated for small children. (I would say 10 years up is better.) If you like it, try the video game Overcooked.

It looks like fish for $ 21: Another fun group game of Big Potato, the challenge in fish sounds is to identify false responses. Each card asks a question, but only one of the answers you get is correct. It is four to 10 players and we found it more fun but harder with more people.

Carts Against Humanity: Family Edition for $ 24: You can play this party game with a maximum of 30 players and will produce a lot of youth and lying down. Like the adult version, there is not much strategy here, but finding the perfect combination to demolish everyone is satisfactory.

Don’t worry

We were not so enthusiastic about these games.

Photography: Simon Hill

Zilence for $ 29: As a group of survivors of the zombie apocalypse on top of a skyscraper, it is necessary to choose the correct flight path to snatch the resources you need, determined by the cards. A narrow time limit makes it difficult to choose the right paths with a tangled mess on the scoreboard and can be assembled differently for the reproduction value. But the background seems incongruous and we all agreed that it was not very fun to play.

Connect for $ 20: Connects different symbols on the card with a dry marker based on a challenge card randomly designed to take a photo of something (such as connecting the points). The first to guess what should be wins the round (some are only vaguely like what they are destined to be). Longevity has a blow, since there is no fun in the reproduction of resolved puzzles.

A game of cat & mouth for $ 27: Incredibly simple, this game of dexterity challenges you to shoot rubber balls through the mouth of a cat with magnetic legs, but they end up everywhere. The games tend to be very unilateral and my children have bored almost immediately. It is also impossible to play with real cats nearby.

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