Lure your kids away from the television with the best family board games designed to fill the evening with laughter and fun!
1. Qwirkle: Quirky, Colorful and an Abundance of Fun
If you want a challenging yet family-friendly board game that you can play repeatedly, then Qwirkle is for you. There’s a good reason that Qwirkle received the 2007 “Mensa Best Mind Game” and the “Major Fun” award! The simple rules are easy to learn by kids as young as six years, yet fun for parents too.
The idea is to create rows and columns using the included colorful and multi-shaped blocks to earn points. Once all the blocks are used, the player with the most points wins the game.
You’ll create different patterns and strategies to keep you reaching for Qwirkle, while your little ones start their training for Mensa.
2. Settlers of Catan: Victory Can Be Yours
If you’ve always wanted to build a settlement in a far away land, the best-selling Settlers of Catan board game was designed just for you.
The game has 19 terrain hexes surrounded by the ocean that makes up the magical world of Catan. As you play, you get the opportunity to collect, trade, and even rob other players of much needed resources (such as brick and lumber) to further your own settlements, build roads and even turn your settlement into a city! This ensures plenty of back-and-forth interaction among players for a lively board game experience that ends when a player earns 10 victory points.
Your family will enjoy Settlers of Catan over and over because you’ll rarely create the same settlement twice.
3. Sorry! Sliders: 4 Fun Ways to Make Your Opponents “Sorry”
This updated version of the classic Sorry! board game now comes with a two-sided board to increase the family fun. You’ll still enjoy the bright red, yellow, blue and green pawns that you can slide home, or slide other players’ pawns into the Sorry! spaces for the win. Sorry!Sliders is perfect for young children learning to count and add small sums, but will entertain older kids and adults alike. One fact is definitive: you won’t be sorry you bought this game!
