Ladies, my boys are 11 and 9. We need a FUN game, not a skills, brainiac game but just fun and engaging for them. Please give me your top 2 pics. Thanks so much!
My kids love "don't make me laugh" we have the jr. edition, but I bet they have an "adult" version. It is so funny!
I also like 'apples to apples' I don't consider it a skills or brainy game, just one that you get to know other people with:)
We love a game called Blokus.
Also, not really a game, but a really fun thing to do with 4 to 5 people, is have everyone sit with a piece of paper and a pen. Everyone writes on the top of their paper some sentence...anything. It could be "the devil is in the details" or "twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" or "roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and I love you" Whatever. Everyone writes something different (hopefully) and doesn't say out loud what they're writing. Then, everyone passes the paper to the person on their right. Then, when you receive your neighbor's sentence, you draw a picture illustrating that sentence. Any way you can. But hopefully using no words in your drawing (you an be very picky or not so picky about this rule...). Then you fold the paper over so that ONLY the picture is seen, not the original sentence, and pass the paper again to the right. The next person to get the paper sees only the picture, and they have to write a sentence describing the picture. Then they fold the paper so ONLY their most recent sentence is seen, and pass the paper again to the right. The next person draws a picture that illustrates the sentence they see, and so on. When all the papers make it around the table and back to the first person, you will laugh yourselves silly seeing how the sentence changed COMPLETELY!! It's like the game "telephone," but so much funnier!
My boys love Risk. They could play that for hours. Apples to Apples is a close second.
if you have the wii, the carnival games or the just dance are really fun. apples to apples is fun. too. my daughter loves Gestures.
We love Pass the Pigs, where you throw these 2 rubber like pigs on the table and get points for wahtever position they land in (on their feet, on their snout, etc). No brains needed - only the flick of the wrist :)
This isn't a game but we like to make card houses. I buy packs of playing cards whenever I'm at garage sales or if they are on sale at the store, so it wasn't hard to collect them to make a big house. My kid likes to knock them down and at the end of the night, we pick them up and then have ice cream (to motivate him to help pickup). Its sort of a tradition in our family.
have fun whatever you do!
Outburst Jr. & Whoonu. We've played both a lot with family and they were hits with all ages, especially the Whoonu. The Whoonu also gives you a chance to learn more about each other and is really fun. Here is a link to it on Amazon where you can also read the details of the game and read reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Cranium-16512-Whoonu-Tin-Edition/dp...
That would be a good age for pictionary. My family always loved Balderdash, but you don't even need the game to play. You can just pick random bizarre sounding words from the dictionary.
Apples to Apples and Scattegories.
"Name that Band" that can be payed w/ a smart phone, iPad -just go to Pandora radio, click on categories and start playing a song. First person to guess the band name gets 5 points.
Sequence is awesome and easy .
Spite and Malaice is a card game fun for two people. (not sure of the spelling)
Phase 10 and Risk if you have allot of time (although you can start and stop), Uno is STILL one of my kids' favs, as well as, Sorry, Trouble, Parcheesse and Yatzee. Now that they're 17 and 20, we play triominoes and Rummicube and quite a few card games.
We like Clue, Apples to Apples, and Banananagrams it is always in the car with us for just in case,
at that age my kids loved 13 dead end drive and pictionary
Apples to Apples (pick out the nouns and adjectives that your kids will know)
Pictionary or Cranium (they're kind of similar)
Uno and Mexican train are still favorites for everyone! The entire family loves it grandparents too grand children. Have fun.
Parchessi and Uno are our two faves.
:)
