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Board and Card Games Our Family Enjoys
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items These are all games we personally own and actually enjoy on a regular basis. We've really gotten into family game night the last couple of years now that our kids are old enough to participate more.
We love this board game..I would argue it's our favorite. Why? Because it's cooperative, mostly. It's us all together trying to beat the game. It's also a lot of fun trying to work together to defeat the monsters. There are a few different ways to pl...
Castle Panic 2nd Ed | Coop Board Game Ages 8+
If you have played the original, then this is a fun expansion to it. It gives you extra pieces, different bad guys, and the wizard's tower. We've enjoyed the change of pace. Note that you do have to have the main Castle Panic board game to play this.
The Wizard’s Tower Castle Panic Expansion
This one brings in a fun good guy, the cavalier, who you can move around the board to help defeat the monsters, with certain rules. But it also brings in an 8 point Dark Titan monster that is a challenge to defeat. (Note, you do have to have the main...
The Dark Titan - Castle Panic Expansion Game
One of our go to card games. If you like deduction type games, this is perfect, but it's a card game so it's faster than Clue or something. I don't like Clue but I love Deduckto.
Gamewright Deduckto - Quacking Deduction Card Game for Kids 8+
This one is great for kids who can't read well yet. They need to know their numbers and there is some addition involved, but no words. There are knights and dragon cards, magic wand and sleeping potion cards, a court jester card, plus kings and queen...
Sleeping Queens Card Game for Kids 8+
This is one of my son's favorite games for a year now. Our homeschool group enjoys it. Our family and extended family enjoy it at get togethers. It's fast to learn, fast to play, gets you moving, shouting, and laughing.
Exploding Kittens Happy Salmon Card Game
This is one of my personal favorites. It is a little longer, maybe 20-30 minutes per game, but it involves some strategy as well as luck of the draw. I'm not a big fan of strictly luck of the draw, so this one works for me. Plus I love the colors! An...
Rainbow Pirates - Family Rummy Card Game
We bought this for my MIL, because she likes peacocks, but it's one we enjoy playing when we visit her too. It's not a card game where you're swiping cards from others or being "mean". You just take turns building your peacocks and racking up points ...
Calliope Games Enchanted Plumes Card Game
This is one of my all time favorite card games. It's fast paced, requires focus, and keeping up with several things at once, as well as observation skills. But the challenge of that is what brings me back over and over.
Dutch Blitz: Fast Paced Card Game, 160 Cards
For a Tolkien fan, this game is fun but a challenge. You move the Fellowship along on the path to Mount Doom. I will say it's set up to be a challenge though. There are more negative than positive things that happen to you. But it is defeatable.
The Lord of The Rings: Adventure to Mount Doom
My kids and husband like this one a lot. I don't like it as much but they really enjoy it. I don't mind it, but there are others I'd rather play. Probably partially because I have yet to win this one 😆. I don't mind losing but also, not every time I...
Asmodee Ticket to Ride Board Game 2025 Refresh
This is great for younger kids. No reading required. No math required. Just a quick game of collecting all of a color of monster and its matching color home.
Speedy Monsters Kids Card Game Ages 4-12
Such a fun, quick game to learn for us, and I love that it involves math and gives some educational benefits without my kids even noticing!
Gamewright Rat-A-Tat Cat Card Game for Kids 6+
This one you need multiple people in order to win. At least for us. We haven't beat it once yet, but we've only played with 3 people so far. I think it does better with more than that. It's a cooperative game, which is nice and definitely a challenge...
Asmodee Pandemic Board Game - Coop Strategy
This is a fun game, and my kids get a big laugh out of the different foods. Chocolate covered shrimp, moldy bread, I think there's a brain one or eyeball soup or something. I can't remember exactly but they love it. It's easy to learn, and fun to add...
Taco vs Burrito - Family-Friendly Card Game