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My favourite board games are ones that we can play as a family and that we can teach the kids how to play and get into board games too. We have had so many laughs and fun with these games and they always get repeat plays!
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Flamecraft is a cute, cosy game where you get to choose shops that you want your dragon to visit with the goal of earning the most reputation at the end of the game. The artwork for the whole game is gorgeous and each game can be so different to the last.
Bananagrams is a great starter game on Game Nights to get everyone thinking and have some laughs! It's like scrabble but without the points or board. Fast paced and slightly chaotic, it's a great team building game too - you really get to know how people think! It's one of our staples for camping because of it's compact banana bag and all you really need is a semi flat surface to play it.
A classic board game where you compete to build train routes across the map, balancing long-term plans with the constant risk of one of your problematic brothers blocking your route. It’s easy to learn, but a lot less stressful when Alastair doesn’t play with us.
Unstable Unicorns is a chaotic, take-that card game all about building your unicorn army while ruthlessly sabotaging everyone else. Stealing people’s unicorns is fun…until the Neigh card appears.
Dixit Kids is great for family game night with the kids, the goal is to invite all the bunnies in their homes to the tea party in 7 rounds. We play it without the timeframe because our nephew just wants to play for longer but the ideas and storytelling that he comes up with is amazing so we're happy to keep playing! The game itself is nice and compact too, the bunny portion is played within the box so all you need is the space for laying out the cards.
Powerful heroes band together to slay monsters for their abilities. 2-6 Players | 30-60 Mins | Ages 10+ Features: Action Points, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Interrupts, Role Playing Theme: Animals, Card Game, Dice, Fantasy, Fighting Description: Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that's all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns. In this game, you’ll assemble a full party of heroes to slay dangerous monsters while working to avoid the sabotage of your foes. The game also includes items you can equip to your heroes, 1V1 challenge cards, and roll modifiers to tip the odds in your favor.
Tsuro is a simple tile-laying game where you place paths and try to keep your stone on the board while quietly sending other members of your family to their doom. Simple, great to play if you’ve had a few wines, quick to finish - and yet another game where messing with my brothers is very much part of the fun.
What makes this edition deluxe? It's got a big gameboard to keep your cards in place, and six coloured pawns that you move on the gameboard as you level up! Plus a card to go with each pawn, to make it easy to remember who is what colour and whose sex has changed! Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run. Admit it. You love it. Munchkin is the mega-hit card game about dungeon adventure with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You and your friends compete to kill monsters and grab magic items. And what magic items! Don the Horny Helmet and the Boots of Butt-Kicking. Wield the Staff of Napalm... or maybe the...
