The Best Games for the Whole Family

Games are one of the best things you can give your family! Board games are super easy, inexpensive, and an easy bonding activity. My kids love games, we have quite the collection from cooperative games for littles, to strategy games every one loves!

These first three are fun pattern recognition strategy games. Acuity is a quick thinking game where you race to find a a pattern match on the board to the card you've pulled. In Qwirkle each player pulls tiles to create matching columns and rows based on color or pattern. In Qbitz players race to see who can flip their cubes to match the pattern card the quickest, it comes in Jr., regular, and extreme editions. Rummikub is a classic numbers and strategy game that my parents taught me around 6 years old, and it's still a favorite, and I love seeing my oldest play it with my parents.   

Quiddler is an excellent word game in which you try to spell words of varying length for the highest point score. Think a quicker paced scrabble that's way more fun. Phase 10 is another fast paced card game where each round is a different run challenge. Settlers of Catan is another fun strategy game.

For the younger kids Sneaky Snacky Squirrel, Hoot Hoot Owl, Jumping Jack, Digging Doggies are some of our favorites. They all work on fine motor skills, counting, and a bit of strategy. We particularly love the cooperative games for the younger set Hoot Hoot Owl, Race to Treasure, and Dinosaur Escape are excellent.  
   
For Middle grades we love Battleship, Mole Rats in Space, Kingdomino, Labyrinth, and Eye Found It are all super fun. 
      
These are a few of our favorites, in addition to the classics, like Jenga. What are your favorite family games?
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