Board Games For Families

MONOPOLY: Junior Edition

Join Rich Uncle Pennybags for a day at the Boardwalk amusements. Set up ticket booths, then add, subtract and even multiply as you collect fees when other players land on your booths.

Chance cards send you around the colorful carnival board: maybe you'll go to the fireworks - or pay $3 to take the tramway to the restroom!

Sooner or later, somebody will run out of money and the game ends. Count up your cash: if you've got the most, you win this junior game that's big fun!

For 2 to 4 players.

Game includes: game board, deck of 24 chance cards, 48 ticket booths, play money, die and four car movers. Packaging art may vary.

Monopoly - Family Guy Edition

Giggity-giggity! Here's an outstanding Collector's Edition of Monopoly ideal for fans of the hit animated TV series Family Guy! Take a stroll down Spooner Street, or maybe pop into the Drunken Clam for a refresher.

Featuring the sights and characters of this uproarious show,

MONOPOLY: Family Guy Collector's Edition offers a fun opportunity to invite the Griffins into your home.

Features six collectable pewter game tokens-Peter, Lois, Brian, Chris, Meg, and Stewie. For 2 to 6 Players.

Since I mentioned the Perquackey Game in my introduction of this lens, I thought I'd tell you about the game. My Mom, Sister and I would play this game for hours.

What it is:
It is a spelling game.

What is included:
10 Cubes with letters in black
3 Cubes with letters in Red
Shaker cup for the cubes,
3 minute timer
Instruction book with the scoring details posted on the page with how bonuses are scored.
An absolute necessity is a dictionary. Preferably a newer version with current words listed. There are about a million words in the English language. We also used my computer dictionary and in the event of a dispute also used the computer for the most up to date usages and spellings.

The object of the game is to get to 5000 points before your opponent(s). This is done by completing 5 three letter words, four letter words, five letter words, six letter words and so on. Completing 2 sets of 5 in a row gives you a point bonus and for each additional 5 words in a section you will get another bonus, you can also get individual scores for one to four words in a row.

Sometimes you get a throw of letters so bad you cannot complete even your first row of three letter words. We added our own rule to the games rules, on initial throw of the cubes, if you got 6 vowels in any throw you would get to throw again. This is not in the rules, but made it better for us and applied to everyone.

The more you play the better you get. It also improves your vocabulary when playing with other people who know different words than you do.

Try it out, it's a lot of fun and a game can be done in about 30 minutes.

We used a battery operated timer that beeped when times was up. We'd get caught up in the game and realize the time had run out and the person was still making words. Bummer if it wasn't you getting the extra time.

Blokus is an award winning board game designed for players aged 7 years and up. It is a game of strategies and planning for 2-4 people to play.

The game pieces are translucent colored tiles in red, yellow, blue and green. The pieces are groups of up to 5 tiles connected together in different configurations. Each player will receive 100 tiles joined in various designs and will use these in play.

How to Play

To begin play each person will place one of their pieces in the corner of the board closest to them. Each piece they play in turn after the corner tile will have to be placed touching only the corner of their last piece. The object of the game is to play all of your pieces before your opponent does or until you can no longer play a game piece.

You will all be trying to block your opponent from placing all their tiles before you do.

Score: Tiles left in your possession at the end of play count as one point for each square, not each piece. The person with the lowest number of tiles at the end is the winner.

See the video below to see an example of play.

Scrabble Crossword Game has been around for a long time. It appeals to people in a broad age group. We like to pit ourselves against others in a challenge of our skill against theirs for the hoped for excitement of winning the game.

This is a games that requires a good word knowledge, it is also a puzzle where you have to find what letters will fit in a certain position and some math to tally the highest word score from the tiles you are going to put down in order to best your opponents.

Lots of fun and can be educational too.

A game that gets a recommendation and award from Mensa is something. I thought you'd have to have lots of smarts to play this game. Not so.

This is a game of word association.
Players are dealt 7 red cards with nouns printed on them, then the judge selects a green card and turns it up for the player to see.

Each play will then select the noun they feel most matches the adjective.

The judge will shuffle or mix up the selection of cards and pick the best match from one of the players.

This is how points are earned, the player who wins gets to keep the green adjective card to collect their point.

Each player is dealt an additional red card to make the total in their hand 7 again.

The position of judge rotates after each hand. This gives everyone a chance to make their pick of best match.

The fun comes in when the choices from each hand are played against the adjective. They will not make any sense at all in some cases or a player might pick a noun to be funny with the adjective or someone may not pick a noun anyone else would associate with the word at all.

Apples to Apples Party Box is a game for 4-10 players and is recommend for players aged 12 and up.

Scrabble Flash is a more modern and compact version of the original Scabble game. This game can be played by people of all spelling and word skill levels. What I like about Scrabble is the word building effect while you play. Trying to think of a word and puzzle out where to play your tiles on the board for the most points is both educational and entertaining.

This game is designed for players 8 years and up. There is no board with this game. You get 5 battery operated and lighted cubes with letters you will shuffle around to make as many words as possible in 75 seconds. The tiles will keep track of your score and when pressed together help you make words.

The tiles can then be passed to the next player who tries to make words. If a player does not make any words they are elimenated from further play.

Younger players can do the same thing, only using 4 tiles instead of 5.

Scrabble Flash Cubes are a new way to have fun in a group or on your own.

Batteries are included with the game to get you started, along with the cubes and instruction booklet.

Bananagrams
is a fun and portable game for all ages. No pencil and paper needed to score this easy game. Only about 5 minutes is needed to complete a game.

Pairs in Pears, Appleletters, Scrabble Apple, are additional word games availabe to play.

This is a game of strategy played with tiles with differing shapes on each tile. Each player gets a different color set of tiles to use with the object being to use all your tiles before your opponent.

This award winning game can be played by children 6 years and up. Easy instructions to start playing immediately. Adults can enjoy this game too. Qwirkle is listed in the top 100 for board games in toys from Amazon.

Qwirkle Board Game is fun for family and friends to play and only takes about 30-45 minutes.