The Best Family Board Games UK. Great ideas for Christmas
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Catastrophe Stacking Cats Game
This game contains all you need to have stacks of fun, with 15 purrfect cats to stack as high as you can. Will you be able to balance them all? Or will the game end in cat-astrophe?
Challenge yourself or take it in turns with friends to stack these kitties.
Stockists: Available from Oliver Bonas and giftrepublic.com
Ginger Fox Karate Cats & Kung Fu Dogs Family Action Card Game
Karate Cats & Kung Fu Dogs is a fast-paced, quick-play card game full of martial arts mayhem and silliness. A fun and interactive game, you’ll need rapid reactions to karate chop your way to victory!
Katamino
Katamino is a puzzle game with both 2D and 3D challenges of progressive difficulty, and also offers a strategic game challenge for two players. It is great for educating children and helps them to understand basic geometry.
Katamino has received multiple awards worldwide. Abstract strategy, arranging and building and made of high quality wooden components.
Stockist: Available from www.amazon.co.uk and all good Hobby Stores
The Wheel Game
This great game is based on the Michael McIntyre quiz game of the same name and features a large 20cm mechanical spinning wheel that works much like a spinning top. The object of the game is to be the first player or team to complete their own Wheel by correctly answering a question from each of the seven chosen categories. There are fourteen categories in total, ranging from Science to Social Media. Success all depends on the spin of The Wheel – landing on a red space leaves players Shutdown and thrown off The Wheel.
A Race in Time Board Game
Race from the Pyramids to the Moon in this beautifully illustrated, fun & educational new board game. You have 120 fascinating facts to answer about some amazing heroes from history as you travel through the Ages, complete optional objectives and race through time as Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Pocahontas, Einstein & other character tokens in a family board game of facts, tactics and fun!
The Very Merry Christmas Game
It seems to be the year for Christmas Board games – and rightly so! The Very Merry Christmas Game is a family board game incorporating everything Christmas – even the sprouts!
Move around the board collecting presents (present cards) to put in your stocking. Presents have a value depending on whether they’re nice… or naff. Presents can also be given to other players – particularly the bad ones! You can take other players’ gifts off them and this is decided on the pull of a cracker. For 2 to 4 Players or Teams, Ages 8 to Adult
Bunch of Butts
The aim of this game is to find matching butts, shout them out and collect the cards. You do need to watch out for the ‘Silent Butt Deadly’ card though! After you collect cards, flip them over so their letters ‘BUN’ ‘CH’ ‘OF’ ‘BU’ ‘TS’ are showing. The first person to collect one of each card to spell ‘Bunch of Butts’ and shout it out is the winner!
Stockist: Available from www.camdengames.com
Pear Shaped
The aim of this card game is to match the pear-shaped objects. Simply get rid of your cards before the pear stops rocking & be the quickest to match with the card in the centre.
The rules? You can match by object, colour or number… but if there’s an exact match, all bets are off and it’s a race against your fellow gamers to grab the rocking pear!
So Wrong, It’s Right!
This is a really simple quiz game with a twist! Each question has 5 possible answers, with action cards dictating how players must answer the question.
‘Got it’ means you answer correctly, ‘Flip it’ means you flip the words around in your answer, ‘Switch it’ means you switch the first letters of your answer, ‘Ditch it’ means you lose the first letter of your answer, and ‘Not it’ means you give a wrong answer. Giving the correct type of answer earns you action cards, and at the end of the game, the player with the most action cards is the winner!
