If there is anything kids love more than building things, it is watching them fall down. It is an absorbing challenge, but what really stands out about Wingspan is its gorgeous illustrations, like something from a birdwatcher’s guidebook, as well as the painstaking research that has gone into ensuring that each species in the game feels and acts like its real-world inspiration. To do that, you will need to build habitats that attract different birds, catering to their desires for food and nesting locations. WingspanĪs avid birdwatchers, you and your rivals aim to spot the broadest possible variety of avian species. The only downside is that it really requires four players. It means space quickly evaporates and you will hunt for spots to hold your awkwardly shaped bits while blocking off your opponents. Each block you place must touch corner to corner with another of your pieces, but you can never place them edge to edge. But beneath its laid-back veneer there is a savagely competitive game where players try to snatch as much territory as possible on its square-grid board. On first inspection, Blokus looks like a tranquil kaleidoscope built from coloured plastic tiles. This means you will need to find less obvious ways to guide people towards the answer. The tricky bit is that if any players choose the same word, the guesser will not get to see it, depriving them of vital information. For instance, to nudge someone towards the word circus, you might write clown, lion or tent. To help them out, you will write down a one-word clue. Just OneĪn ingenious party game, each round of Just One sees one player trying to guess a word printed on a card visible to everyone around the table except themselves. It is quick and undeniably addictive, but if you are looking for some more modern lexicological fun, also check out the brilliant Wordsy and Letterpress. In each round, players shake the box to jumble them up, then try to spot connected words in the resulting mix of vowels and consonants. This fast-paced word game comes with a collection of dice showing different letters on each side.
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Boggleīoggle … undeniably quick and addictive. Fitting them together is an evolving spatial puzzle the game also uses a clever system where bigger or more complex pieces take longer to stitch, meaning you can sometimes sneak a win using smaller, apparently less useful patches. You will each start with a blank board, adding new scraps of fabric to your design as you play. Quilt sewing might not seem like the most ruthlessly competitive of activities, but this two-player game throws you and an opponent into a battle for crafting supremacy. Could you describe bacon without saying pig, egg, breakfast or sausage? With a strict time limit adding to the pressure, it is much harder than it sounds.
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Taboo sees competitors try to help their companions guess a series of words printed on cards, but each comes with a list of phrases that you are not allowed to use in your description. Team-based games hold a special place in many players’ hearts, providing a chance to bond with your teammates or spectacularly fall out with one another. But with your opponents all hunting for the best tiles, it takes some careful planning, packing a lot of fun into a very small box. To win, you will need to join matching areas together in point-scoring configurations. KingdominoĪ game of rival rulers competing to build prosperous domains, Kingdomino revolves around a shuffled stack of tiles showing different types of terrain – seas, forests, grasslands, plains and caverns. Annoyingly, they usually turn out to be much better at it than grownups. It is quick to set up and explain, and simple enough to play with young kids. As you play you will reveal cards and hunt for the matching pairs, aiming to shout them out before your rivals. Each shows a collection of different images – lightning bolts, trees, candles, clocks and others – distributed so that any two cards share only a single picture. Essentially a souped-up version of snap, Dobble consists of a deck of circular cards.
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