Who hasn’t ever enjoyed a good Board game with their family? If your answer is: «Not me». Then what are you waiting for? Playing as a family is one of the most rewarding and fun moments that can exist, especially if you have children.
Some might even say that sharing as a family is what turns a house into a home, and there are few better things to do than play board games. Perhaps the only thing that could surpass it is to travel to some exotic destination, but little else.
If you are a parent, you should know that the way your children spend their leisure time can be used to improve their abilities. Board games bring many benefits in the correct development of children, some of them are
- They improve cognitive and mental development.
- They strengthen the bonds with parents and siblings.
- helps them strengthen concentration while reinforcing logic, math and reading.
- It teaches them to have patience, to collaborate to solve problems or overcome obstacles and to know how to handle frustration when it is lost.
- It is not necessary to get rid of all the devices such as consoles or tablets, but it is indisputable that spending an afternoon with the family enjoying a board game gives too many benefits to leave it aside.
That’s why we bring you this list of the best family board games, so that you and your loved ones can spend a moment together, the kind that you will remember with nostalgia after all these years.
Here we go!
Board game Times Up!
A simple but very entertaining family board game. In Times Up participants will have to guess famous figures, public or fictitious, in a time limit.
In this family version you have to guess objects, actions, animals, trades among other things. It consists of three rounds, each one more difficult than the previous one, in which two teams or more participate.
In the first round, you have to describe the object you want your teammate to guess without naming it. For example: if it is a chair, you must do your best to describe the chair without naming it.
In the second round, you must rack your brains to describe the object with one word. And in the last round, we will only have the mime on our side to try to make our teammate guess.
Board game Jungle Speed
A long time ago, the members of the Abulu tribe, invented a game where they played the skins of the animals they hunted, using eucalyptus leaves as cards.
This ancestral ritual was passed from generation to generation until Tom and Yako, the last in the line of descent, decided to reveal to the world the well-kept secret.
Jungle Speed is a fun and dynamic card game that consists of getting rid of them as quickly as possible. There are 80 cards that are distributed among all the players in an equal way. In each of the turns, each player will have to put a card face up in front of him.
When two players draw a card with the same symbol, a duel begins! The players with identical cards will have to take the Totem that is in the center, the one who does not get it will have to take all the cards of the opponent plus the pot, if there is one.
The Forbidden Island
This is a cooperative game that is impossible to win if you don’t work together with a team. In fact, without the characteristic skills of the other characters, it becomes very difficult to complete a game.
This family board game can be played by 2 to 4 people, and although they recommend that participants be 10 years old or older, it can be played perfectly by children under that age as long as they understand the rules and dynamics of the game.
The objective of the game is simple, to accumulate as many treasures as possible before the island sinks.
Dixit
Board game recognized in Spain and France as Game of the Year in 2009 and in Germany in 2010. Simple, dynamic and very imaginative, these are the characteristics that Dixit has and that are perfect for children and adults alike to play.
In fact it doesn’t even matter what language you buy the game in, it doesn’t have any words or letters except in the instructions, and these can be downloaded online in the language you prefer.
It can be played by up to 12 people and the games are dynamic and very light, you need practically no preparation to play. Very interesting for young children because of the imaginative part of it.
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