It's simple, but endlessly fun, even in a mixed crowd. Just One is an open-structured game, in which everyone tries to help a single person guess a word or phrase by writing their own unique clues on personal whiteboards. If you're looking for something a little more cutthroat for a family game night, Codenames is a great alternative to Just One. It's been around for years, and for a good reason: essentially, partners try to give single-word clues to get each other to guess random-but-related words, in a race to see which team can win first.
This is a super simple game to pick up and play, and just as easy to drop when food arrives or people want to move on. Essentially, a card with two categories is revealed say, "easy to sit on" or "hard to sit on" , and one player is shown a meter with a point somewhere between the two ends. They then must come up with a word that will get everyone else to guess where that point falls for instance, if the point was close to "hard to sit on," I might say "cactus".
It's a simple game, but quickly gets a group talking and laughing about the weird disagreements that never would have surfaced without Wavelength like, "How hard is it really to sit on a cactus? In Magic Maze, four wizards are trying to shoplift from a mall and escape before the time runs out. There are two problems: players can only communicate by passing a nondescript game piece back and forth that means no talking or pointing , and each player is responsible for a movement rather than a character.
Yes, that means one player is responsible for making every wizard turn left, use an escalator or just walk forward. What results is a near-silent, yet chaotic experience that will stretch your family's nonverbal communication to its limit.
If that's the sort of thing you're into, winning the game together is about as satisfying as board games get. Plenty of bluffing games are on the market, but The Resistance is one of the best for large groups.
It's a simple game of deception in which some players attempt to mount a resistance against an oppressive regime through covert operations, and the rest of the players try to stop them. Problem is, no one knows who's who. If you're looking for something that is a little more of a strategy game with more depth and maybe a little less character assassination to get your parents to believe you more than your siblings , Sheriff of Nottingham balances a fun market-building mechanic with the intrigue of sneaking goods past or just bribing whichever player is filling the sheriff's shoes at the moment.
Decrypto is a great game for fans of code-breaking. Teams split up on opposite sides of a table try to send codes back and forth to their teammates, and their opponents attempt to intercept those communiques. If you love puzzle-solving, Decrypto is a competitive and cooperative game that'll satisfy that craving. If letter and word games are more your bag, Letter Jam might be a better fit for you.
Players each get a letter that they cannot see, then take turns spelling words with other people's letters to try to signal who has which letters. For word lovers, this is a great game with endless replayability. Cranium is an oldie but a goodie: It's perfect for bringing together kids as young as 5 or 6 with the rest of the family. This classic game includes everything from sculpting clay to Pictionary-like challenges and pop culture trivia.
If the kids you have in mind are a little older, an alternative might be Ticket to Ride , a fun train-themed building game with simple enough mechanics for an elementary-age kid to enjoy, but enough complex strategy to keep everyone else interested. Magic Maze may be cooperative, but the lack of verbal communication makes it feel less cooperative than other games of the same type. So I'm giving best cooperative game to Forbidden Desert.
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For order, account issues, or specific item inquiries, please contact us. Trending in Board Games. See price in cart Classic Sorry! Board Game. See price in cart Trouble Board Game. See price in cart Clue Board Game. Related categories. Related searches. Board Games Indoor gaming is a great way to unwind and have some quality time with friends and family. We love this game because it gets the whole family humming, sketching, solving, and thinking. Each color along the game path indicates which of the four card categories you have to pull from to proceed.
If you successfully complete the challenge presented on the card you get to roll a die and continue that number of spaces. As an added bonus for time-crunched families, the game board offers three different rates of play.
Dominoes is great fun for players of all ages, so grab Grandma and a set of dominoes and start play! While there are a variety of games you can play with dominoes, one of our favorites is Mexican Train. The first player to complete his or her train wins. The Chutes and Ladders game board contains squares and depicts a series of ladders and slides.
Each ladder represents a good deed and its reward, but every slide represents the consequences of bad behavior. Every player starts in the first square and a spinner dictates how many spaces a player can advance from there. The first player to the square wins. Watch fields, roads, and cities rapidly expand in the Medieval-themed game Carcassonne. Players take turns placing one of the game tiles in an attempt to build up their land. The role and subsequent point value of a follower varies depending on what piece of property you put them on.
For instance, a follower placed on a monastery tile is a monk who earns different points than a follower placed on a road tile as a thief. Calculate your moves carefully, because once all the tiles have been played, the player with the most points wins. In this single-player game, try to free the red escape car by maneuvering the cars and trucks out of the way.
This will likely take lots of little moves, as the blocking vehicles can only move forward or backward in the direction they are facing. Traffic Jam comes with 40 different challenges with varying levels of difficulty. Depending on the puzzle, up to 15 cars and tracks can be in the way but, slowly and carefully, you can shift them to free the red car.
Buy It: Rush Hour Jr. In Trouble, the goal is to be the first player to get all four of your pieces around the board and back home again. The premise is simple, but there are challenges along the way. For a piece to leave home base, you first have to roll a six. After that, pieces can advance normally based on the die roll. If another player lands on a spot occupied by one of your pieces, your piece is sent back to home base and has to start the process again.
All aboard! The stakes are high in this game to see who can visit the most cities in North America in just seven days. In Ticket to Ride, players lay claim to railroads across the United States and Canada and compete to connect the most cities with their trains. Draw cards to see what kind of train car you can play or what your next destination might be. Earn points for placing trains and for successfully connecting two destination cities.
The game ends when a player has less than two trains remaining, and bonus points are then awarded to the player who created the longest continuous route. The player with the most points wins. You have a ticket to ride, so where will your journey take you? Move your four pawns around the board and safely navigate them home again in the game of Sorry.
Sorry is a competition, and there are two ways to set back your opponents. Win by being the first to get all four of your pawns home. A scoring system exists if you wish to play multiple rounds of this game. Buy It: Sorry! Each round, players receive three opportunities to roll up to five dice. After each roll, you can evaluate the dice and choose which, if any, you want to roll again. You are looking for a pattern that will work for one of the 13 possible Yahtzee categories.
At the end of your turn, choose which category you will use for that round and tally the score accordingly. You can only use a category once per game, so choose carefully. At 50 points, a Yahtzee is the highest possible score you can roll. Play up to 13 rounds and then tally your scores; the player with the highest score wins. Nothing gets the fun going like an invigorating game that prompts players to shout, act, and strategize on the fly.
Pictionary is a party game suitable for players of all ages. Teams take turns drawing and guessing as many words or phrases as possible in a timed round. You might think a game of drawing sounds easy, but this game can be more difficult than it seems.
The path on the Pictionary game board is comprised of different colored squares, each denoting a different level of difficulty for a word on the corresponding game card. Play using the board and be the first team to make it all the way to the finish line, or ditch the board altogether and play just for the laughs. We dare you to try and keep a straight face during a game of Apples to Apples. This clever party game will have everyone laughing out loud. Each box contains a set of green apple cards, which have adjectives on them, and a set of red apple cards, which have nouns on them.
Each round, a new player gets to be the judge and presents a green apple card to the group. The rest of the players select one of the red apple cards from their hands to play. Sometimes the nouns match the adjectives perfectly, sometimes they make no sense at all, and sometimes they are downright hysterical.
Once everyone has contributed a red card, the judge chooses a favorite. Depending on your group you could play just for fun, or designate a set number of rounds and see who can play the most winning cards in that time.
Scattergories is a fun list-making game that requires thinking fast. The idea of the game is to come up with creative answers to 12 different categories—things like TV shows, U. At the start of each round, you roll a sided letter die which decides the letter that every answer must begin with. Then you set the sand timer and get going!
When the time is up, players compare their answers with one another. If the same answer appears on more than one list it gets crossed off, but a player receives one point for each unique word. The winner is the player who has the most points after three rounds. In this fast-paced game, players try to get their teammates to say the word on an electronic disc without actually saying that word or any variations of it.
The disc has some 10, words stored in it. Get your teammates to say a word and then quickly pass the disc to the opposite team. This process continues, passing the disc from team to team until the round ends.
A timer embedded in the disc gradually beeps faster and faster until it abruptly sounds a loud buzz, signaling the end of a round. Move fast! Taboo is the game of forbidden words. Try and get through as many cards as possible in the given time. Your team will get one point for each card correctly guessed, but you will lose one point every time you say one of the taboo words. A one-minute hourglass and a buzzer button will be in the possession of the opposing team during your round. Buy It: Taboo Kids vs.
This game is a riot to play at parties. In Speak Out, players read a phrase from one of the game cards while wearing a special mouthpiece that makes it hard to enunciate. Have your group form teams and take turns trying to guess the phrase on a game card. Try to get through as many cards as possible in the given time. Each game comes with 10 dishwasher-safe mouthpieces, but you can buy additional packs of mouthpieces if you have a big crowd. A friendly suggestion: Keep some napkins or paper towels handy to wipe up your drool.
In Password, one player on each team knows the secret word and gives a one-word clue to his or her teammate. This continues until the secret word is finally guessed or until 10 clues have been given, whichever comes first.
Every password starts with a point value of 10 but decreases by one point with each clue given. Play 10 secret words for a total of five rounds, and in the end, the team with the highest score wins.
Think you can guess the password? The goofy game of Mad Gab is like the reverse of that. If you repeat a strange series of words enough times, they actually sound like a common word or phrase. Enjoy playing this game where everyone sounds silly. These multi-player games combine strategy, wit, and humor. Play them at a party or bring them to a brewery to enjoy in a lively setting. Baby zebras are born without stripes.
True or false? Put your knowledge to the test with the classic game of Trivial Pursuit.
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