Looking for the best family board games? Family game nights are a fantastic way to bond, laugh, and create lasting memories. With so many board games available, it can be tough to choose the right ones. We’ve rounded up our favourite games for kids and adults alike, including classic board games, card games, electronic games and more.
Hues and Cues
- 3-10 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 30 mins +
What hue do you think of when we say “apple”? Hues and Cues is a vibrant game of colourful communication where players are challenged to make connections to colours with words. Using only one and two-word cues, players try to get others to guess a specific hue from the 480 colours on the game board. The closer the guesses are to the target, the more points you earn. Since everyone imagines colours differently this game changes every time you play it.
Cards Against Humanity – Family Edition
- 2+ Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 30 mins +
Family Edition is a new party game that’s just like Cards Against Humanity, except it’s written for kids and adults to play together. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card. The content is PG-rated. “Crap” and “boobies” is as bad as it gets and it’s hilarious!
Bananagrams
- 1-8 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 15 mins +
Use all of your letters to build a word grid in a race to the finish. First player to use all of their tiles is the winner. If you love an educational game that’s easy to play Bananagrams is simple and addictive! Play with friends or on your own we also love that it packs up small making it great to take on holidays.
The Chameleon Boardgame
- 3-8 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 10 mins per round
A spot-the-imposter game about blending in and not getting caught! Using one carefully chosen word based on a secret topic, you each try to smoke out the Chameleon, who doesn’t know what the secret topic is.
Tapple
- 2-10 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 30 minutes +
Tapple is a fast paced word game where players race to beat the clock! Tap letters of the wheel and come up with words for various categories before the ten-second timer runs out! Say a word, beat the timer and win!
5 Second Rule Board Game
- 3-6 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 20 minutes +
The rules are very easy – name three things in 5 seconds flat! “Name 3 things you can paint” or “Name 3 yellow foods” The first player to reach the finish spot through thinking quickly and holding their nerve wins.
Spot it!
- 2-8 Players
- We recommend for: Ages 5+
- Time commitment: One round will only take you a few minutes
If you have kids who love games and you don’t have this game……you need it! 55 cards, 8 symbols and always only one shared symbol between any two cards! Race your friends in this fast paced game, spot the match first and test your reflexes. Cards come in a keep safe Spot It tin making it great to take on holidays.
You’ve Been Framed
- 2-4 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 15 mins +
Flip a card and then race your opponents to match the pattern using the correct size and color frames. Arrange face up or, when a black line appears on the card, be quick to build vertically. Arrange your frames to match the pattern and then be first to slap the card to score it. The pattern cards feature 4 levels of difficulty. When a black line appears on a card, that represents the table. Time to build the pattern vertically! Score 10 cards first and win!
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
- 3-8 Players
- We recommend for: ages 5+
- Time commitment: 15 mins +
An easy to play game of speed and observation. Each player places a card from their hand face up into a community pile while saying taco/cat/goat/cheese/pizza in player sequence. When the card matches the mantra — boom! — everyone slaps their hand on the deck, with the last one to slap picking up the cards. First one to get rid of all of their cards wins.
Getting Lost
- 2+ Players
- We recommend for the whole family
- Time commitment: as long or as short as you like!
Getting Lost will take you on an adventure and will have you exploring your own backyard, neighbourhood or even all over the world!
The concept is simple – appoint a ‘Card Reader’, shuffle the deck and start doing what the ‘Misdirection Cards’ say. You might get instructions like “turn left at the next servo”, “drive to an old workplace”, drive in the direction the wind is blowing” or you could get cards such as “stop for a treat”, “pick some flowers” or “play on the nearest playground”. Who knows where you will end up or what you’ll end up doing?!
There are many decks to choose from including Aussie Edition, Cycling, Walking, Girls Road Trip and heaps more. We had so much fun on our Getting Lost adventures – can’t wait for the next one!
Dumb Questions to Ask Your Friends
- 3-8 Players
- We recommend for: ages 8+
- Time commitment: 20 minutes
A great game for the whole family to play together. You can’t see the question, but you can hear the answers. Rank five dumb question cards from most likely to least likely to be the dumb question your friends just answered!
find it at JB HiFi or online here
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