The Best Family Games to Play This Christmas – A Guide

The Best Family Games to Play This Christmas – A Guide

The festive season and the Christmas holidays are the perfect time to focus on spending quality time with your family. Put the screens away and have some good old screen-free fun playing games together this Christmas. In this guide, I have put together the best family games to play this Christmas. Read on to find out more.

Fun Christmas Quiz Games

Let’s start with a couple of great quiz games to test your family’s trivia knowledge! Quiz games are great because they are quick to set up and get started with. They’re also great for mixed age groups as you can play in teams to make it fair.

First up, Ultimate Top Trivia by Cheatwell (available from Amazon.co.uk here). This really is the ultimate trivia game with 5000 questions! It’s a collection of four sets of popular Top Trivia card sets from Cheatwell, all conveniently in one box. Plus an additional 1000 entertaining questions that are unique to this pack. This fun quiz game has a great selection of topics including General Knowledge, Music, Sport, TV & Film, and Food & Drink.

If you love a pub quiz then the next game is perfect for you – Host Your own Pub Quiz by Cheatwell (available from Amazon.co.uk here). This game has everything you need to recreate the fun of a pub quiz in the comfort of your own home. Perfect for making a pub quiz a more family-friendly event for players of different ages.

This game is ideal for larger groups of players as you play in two teams. It’s recommended from 14 years+ but younger players can join teams with older players and answer when they can.

The format of the game is based around ten themed rounds of play. There are 2000 questions in total on the following subjects: Food & Drink, History, Places, Music, TV & Films, Sports & Pastimes, Science & Nature, and Arts & Literature. The game comes with answer pads, pencils and special flip-chart scorers to recreate that pub quiz feeling at home.

A Cooperative Family Game

Next up, we have Bangarang by Ginger Fox (available from Amazon.co.uk here). This is an exciting family game that combines strategy and luck. Laughter, teamwork and creativity are also huge parts of this game. When playing Bangarang, players join forces to help the guesser unravel a mystery word from a card using a variety of entertaining clues.

There are five different ways for players to communicate the secret word: through a single word, a mime, a single sound, a drawing, or by crafting the letters with their bodies. This keeps everyone on their toes and also ensures that the game is varied. Bangarang has been designed with families in mind and is suitable for a wide range of ages. Because the game features a wide range of words and many ways to convey them, two games will never be the same which means you can enjoy replaying Bangarang for many years to come.

A Brilliant Strategy Board Game

Next up, an absolutely brilliant and unique strategy game. Zensu by Cheatwell Games (available from Amazon.co.uk here, from Board-Game.co.uk, and Robert Dyas) is ideal for grown-ups and children who love a mind-challenging game.

When playing this 2-player game, players need to think ahead and make strategic moves – all whilst keeping track of their opponent’s moves and pieces. The aim is to cross your opponent’s border before they reach yours which is easier said than done.

The pieces can move in four directions and have set amount of moves for each direction as indicated on the top of the wooden tiles. Whilst moving your pieces you need to think about how you can take your opponent’s pieces to stop them from reaching your side.

We love this game in our family – it’s perfect for anyone who loves logic-based games. The game’s slogan is “easy to learn, hard to master” which is so true. It’s simple to get started and then you’ll soon get obsessed with mastering your strategy…

Humour, Strategy & Detective Skills

Now onto Top Secret Briefs by Ginger Fox (available from Amazon.co.uk here and from Ginger Fox). This is a travel friendly card game filled with hidden missions and secret assignments. Players must complete these without getting caught…

The game’s espionage theme is fun and exciting and this game is also sure to make you laugh as you guess your opponents’ hidden underwear styles and patterns! Top Secret Briefs is suitable for 3-6 players, aged 8 years and above.

A Fun Game for Younger Players

Finally, a game suitable for younger players – Stink Bug by Wicked Uncle (available from Wicked Uncle here). If your are looking for Christmas games for kids aged around 4-6 years, then this learning game might be perfect for you.

This game is all about finding leafy pairs and avoiding getting stuck with the smelly Stink Bug card. The game is easy to learn and has simple rules suitable for younger players. It can still be played with older players as part of a family game night of course. To play, you flip the large tiles to discover shapes and colours, then keep the pairs you find – but look out for the sneaky insects! Some can be useful but not all of them! Stink Bug is lots of fun for little ones!

There we have it, my selection of the best family games to play this Christmas! If you have any game recommendations, please share them in the comments below – we love discovering new games to enjoy as a family.

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