Posts from ‘December, 2009’

Cranium Family Edition

Cranium Family Edition is similar to the regular edition of Cranium, except it’s fun for kids of all ages! Instead of trivia or other challenging tasks, teams move around the board by doing physical tasks, playing games and doing wacky stunts. It really is fun for the whole family! Cranium Family Edition

Table Topics

Table Topics is a fun game that requires almost no setup. It’s just a set of cards with thought provoking questions, such as “If you got a tattoo, what kind would you get and where would you put it?” and “Is intelligence or common sense more important?” Okay, I doubt the tattoo question is in [...]

Scattergories Game

Scattergories is an immensely popular family game, so much so that I had to mention it here. That being said, I’m not a huge fan. It always causes arguments in my family. We try to make all-encompassing rules, but they get bent, then people get bent, then no one has any fun. If you’ve got [...]

Apples to Apples Game

Apples to Apples game isn’t the perfect family game – it’s one of those games where the more people you have playing, the better. I’ve played in groups as small as 6, and that’s almost too small. If you’re having a small get-together, and you have a group of ten including to youngish kids, this [...]

Blurt Board Game

We just got Blurt over the Thanksgiving holidays, and it was a pretty decent game. Here’s how it works. You roll a die, and based on the roll one person reads out a clue (the clue is basically the definition of an unknown word). People then blurt out answers, with the first person being correct [...]