Best family game this holiday.

We have played Family trivial pursuit and scattergories both of which the 10 and 5 year old enjoyed.

My grandchildren’s modern version of Yahtzee has broken. I lent my older version, but their brains had to work harder and make choices, so it was less popular.
I played a game at my son’s house which took 30 minutes to understand. Even then, we hadn’t learnt all the refinements. It was based on journeys across the USA. I forget its name.
I prefer games involving words.
Can anyone tell me how I play Scrabble online? Is an opponent provided or do I need to find one?

Rummikub

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Clever Words is a free app that is not called Scrabble, but is Scrabble! You play against the 'computer' and set the level of difficulty that you enjoy best. I recommend it. There are a few of us on here that play it.

I have an ancient set of Sorry, it must be at least 50 years old. Always very popular as it combines the right amount of skill and luck. My dgd, aged 10, is also getting good at Monopoly.

Hang on to your old Sorry teabag. We bought a new one and it has all changed - not for the better.

GC 22, 19 and 18 still love the board game Buccaneer and there is serious competition over who will inherit it.

Thanks Kittylester. I’ll make sure it’s cared for.

Some new games for me to investigate, thanks you! We love our board games when the AC come here at Christmas, but it has to be one where you can chat as you play. Rummikub is a favourite for that reason. There certainly is a rise in popularity for board games, our AC have games evenings with friends which I find (quietly) rather sweet.

My lot have always loved a very noisy game called Pit, where you trade commodities and the first one to get a full set of one commodity rings a bell (the bell is very popular it’s younger players!). We also play a lot of Uno which can get a bit cutthroat!

My GCs all seem to like Contraband or Smuggle, basically the same game.

It teaches them to make it difficult to tell if they are lying or not, which I gather is useful when playing poker.

When my very large grandson was staying with me recently I asked him to go into the top of my wardrobe looking for a photo album. There are games stored up there and he found Build a Beetle - his favourite game as a pre teen. We found the photo album, and after tea, played Build a Beetle. I won! Better with more than two but fun all the same.

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We discovered No Thanks! over the holidays and it went down really well with everyone. Super simple rules, but way more tense than it looks, especially once people start getting a bit too competitive

My DS bought Forbidden Islands. He is very into cooperative games and once we stopped fighting each other and hiding our cards the game worked well. 🤣. The object of the game is to collect 4 treasures before the islands (small cardboard cards) flood. Deceptively simple at first but has the potential to become more involved the more times you play.

He also bought the younger DGC another cooperative game called Outfoxed. They, and we, enjoyed playing it although the older DGD took every opportunity to try and make it competitive 🤭

That’s Not a Hat is brilliant!

Oh My Pigeons is much fun!