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August 25, 2017

A Big List of Games for More Family Time!!!!!

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We love games so much in our family. Out of the 6 of us, 3 are extreme Introverts, 1 is an extreme Extrovert, and the other 2 of us are somewhere in-between. For us, games are a way to spend time together with a common goal (of all playing the same game). Conversations come naturally about playing the game and it is really good quality time together that both the Introverts and Extroverts really enjoy. {Introverts love the game playing, Extroverts love the time surrounded by people.}

Playing games brings people together and teach children in the ways other things can’t. We also try to have dinner together every night that it is possible, and that certainly helps keep family unity, but games do other things:

  • Games help children learn how to lose and not lose their cool.
  • Games help children learn how to win gracefully.
  • Games teach children timing and how to follow a sequence of directions/rules.
  • Games teach children logistics and train them to see the big picture.
  • Games help children start making plans and strategies, and be able to think through several steps ahead.
  • Games give children an opportunity to feel successful.
  • Games give children an opportunity to learn how to pick themselves back up and try again if they are NOT successful.
  • Games give non-athletic children a chance to learn team dynamics.
  • Games give families the excuse to spend quality and quantity time together.

My family goes in waves. Sometimes we are playing a game after dinner every night of the week (like the time I was addicted to Bananagrams and made everyone play with me all the time). And sometimes we play only 1-2 games a week. I thought I’d share some of our favorites in our game cabinet right now (in no particular order, because every person in my family would rank these differently):

  1. Apples to Apples
  2. Bananagrams
  3. Battleship
  4. Blink
  5. Blokus
  6. Canasta
  7. Chess
  8. Clue
  9. Connect 4
  10. Dominos
  11. Farkle
  12. Five Crowns
  13. The Game of Things
  14. Go Fish
  15. Guess who?
  16. Guillotine
  17. Help Your Neighbor
  18. Monopoly & Monopoly Jr 
  19. Life
  20. Phase 10
  21. Q-bitz
  22. Qwirkle
  23. Qwixx
  24. Rook
  25. Rummikub
  26. Scrabble
  27. SET
  28. Settlers of Catan & Catan Junior
  29. Sequence & Sequence for kids
  30. Skip-Bo
  31. Sleeping Queens
  32. Splendor
  33. Spot it!
  34. Tri-Ominos
  35. Uno
  36. Wig Out
  37. Yhatzee

* One of MY favorites. My kids and husband would have totally different answers!!! We play a mixture of what makes everyone happy.

(There are plenty of games in the cabinet that I didn’t share, because we rarely choose those or they are more puzzles than games. They’ll probably get decluttered soon, lol.)

Of course, we love Help Your Neighbor so much, I wrote a whole post about it with a free printable to play!

I hope this list helps you find some new ones to enjoy. If you’re like us, sometimes a fun new game gets us all excited about games again and then we start playing every night.

Don’t forget, games make excellent gifts for any birthday or holiday, like Christmas stockings or Easter baskets!

From my home to yours,
Mary

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  1. Kathleen Mc says

    August 25, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    Scattergories and Articulate are a couple of my favourites.
    I also love Mah-jonng, but it might be a bit complicated for kids.

    Reply
    • Mary says

      August 27, 2017 at 2:56 pm

      I had Scattergories as a kid. Loved that!

      Reply
      • Cheryl says

        August 30, 2017 at 6:56 am

        I was also going to mention Scattergories. Our kids love it now and loved it when they were little. My son, in his 30s, has made our family special versions of the game with unique card lists! Hilarious!

        Reply
        • Mary says

          August 30, 2017 at 1:38 pm

          Scattergories really is such a good one … I may add that to our stock at Christmas. 🙂

          Reply

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