10 new board games for kids and the whole family

It is dif­fi­cult for mod­ern chil­dren and teenagers to tear them­selves away from the phone or lap­top, they are of lit­tle inter­est in any­thing else. But we want to offer you a great alter­na­tive to how you can cap­ti­vate your child — board games. Mobile, fun, dynam­ic and very inter­est­ing games that are addic­tive and that you want to play again and again.

Espe­cial­ly for you, we have pre­pared and select­ed the top 10 new board games that can be played by chil­dren, teenagers and adults, as well as hav­ing fun and use­ful time with the whole fam­i­ly.

1. Board game: Think­ing Super

Age: 8+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–10.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Who will be the first to say what can be seen beyond the Arc­tic Cir­cle and used at a noisy par­ty? How many songs relat­ed to toys and board games can you remem­ber in a minute? There is no time for long thoughts — guess, or the vic­to­ry points will go to some­one else!

“Rea­son­able Super” is a new ver­sion of the table hit for fam­i­ly gath­er­ings and incen­di­ary par­ties. Each turn, you will draw two cat­e­go­ry cards and com­pete with your oppo­nents to come up with an answer that fits each of them at the same time. Show mir­a­cles of inge­nu­ity and remem­ber — the main thing is not eru­di­tion, but cre­ativ­i­ty!

2. Board game: Croc­o­dile

Age: 7+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–8.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Show off your act­ing skills in the excit­ing Croc­o­dile game! Cheer­ful fun for adults and chil­dren helps to devel­op log­ic, hori­zons and imag­i­na­tion. The game will have a place both in the fam­i­ly and among friends and col­leagues — you are pro­vid­ed with a lot of laugh­ter and pos­i­tive emo­tions. The goal of the game is to score points by show­ing and guess­ing the words and phras­es on the cards. An ana­logue of the games Croc­o­dile, Activ­i­ty.

3. Board game: Tongue break­er

Age: 6+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–8.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Tongue Break­er is a series of sim­ple and fun speed, artic­u­la­tion and mem­o­ry games all packed into one box. Inside you will find cards with fun­ny tongue twisters, unusu­al names and geo­graph­i­cal names.

Spin the top, draw the card, be the fastest!

4. Board game: Jack­al

Age: 6+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–4.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Wel­come to the almost unin­hab­it­ed island where the old pirate Jack­al buried his trea­sures. You have to con­duct recon­nais­sance, and then find and car­ry to your ship every last gold coin — or oth­er fil­i­buster teams will get ahead of you. Ships sail up to the island, from which com­pet­ing teams land. You con­trol three pirates who can move around the island, scout it (by flip­ping hid­den tiles), car­ry trea­sure, fight oth­er pirates, or per­form spe­cial actions such as meet­ing a native, holed up in a fort, or fly­ing in a hot air bal­loon. The win­ner is the one who can not only find trea­sures, but also drag them to his ship — one of the most inter­est­ing strate­gies is pre­cise­ly to inter­cept those who car­ry gold (or arrive at a pile of coins when it is poor­ly guard­ed).

5. Board game: Draw with your nose

Age: 8+
Num­ber of play­ers: from 3.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Can you draw a rose with your nose? Do you think you have a knack for draw­ing? In this fun par­ty game, play­ers use their “snif­fers” to draw objects and then hope their team­mates can cor­rect­ly guess what they’re draw­ing before time runs out! Sim­ply select a card and then, using the spe­cial pen­cil nose glass­es, try to draw an object on the screen using only your nose!

6 Board Game: Croc­o­dile Jun­gle

Age: 7+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–8.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Addic­tive game “Jun­gle Croc­o­dil­i­ty” guar­an­tees you an adren­a­line rush and a storm of emo­tions in a fierce bat­tle for a real bam­boo totem! The basic rules are sim­ple: play­ers take turns reveal­ing cards with very sim­i­lar fig­ures, and if they match, they must be the first to grab the totem stand­ing in the cen­ter of the table. This is a fun and easy game that will require you to be atten­tive and quick. Jun­gle Croc­o­dile game has become a real hit in many coun­tries of the world!

7 Board Game: Cheese Tow­er

Age: 6+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–4.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: A fam­i­ly game where no pair of hands will come in handy. Can you build a cheese arch between two mice togeth­er? The Cheese Tow­er game pro­motes: hand and eye coor­di­na­tion, fine motor skills, atten­tion and team­work skills. The set includes: 2 mouse fig­ures, 20 pieces of cheese for the tow­er, a set of stick­ers.

8. Board Game: Love is…Game

Age: 6+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–8.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Love is Game is an ana­logue of the Uno game, an excit­ing game that is easy to play in any com­pa­ny and any age. The goal of the game is to be the first to get rid of your cards by dis­card­ing cards by col­or, num­ber, or char­ac­ter (action cards). When there is only one card left in your hand, hur­ry up to shout Love…!

9 Board Game: For Fun

Age: 12+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–8.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: Great game for a fun com­pa­ny! Gath­ered in a cir­cle of friends and want to spend time fun and inter­est­ing? Love to show pan­tomime? If you answered yes to all ques­tions, then this set is for you! You have nev­er seen such a game. Here you’ll find 60 lam­i­nat­ed flash­cards that you can fill in with your friends’ names to make the word-expla­na­tion con­test sparkle with new col­ors. Out­ra­geous phras­es! And you cre­ate them your­self. The first par­tic­i­pant draws a card, takes a mark­er and writes the name of one of the play­ers in the upper half of the card. You will need to explain the phrase as if the action indi­cat­ed on the card is per­formed by the par­tic­i­pant cho­sen by the explain­ing play­er. Fun shows! And the way of explain­ing is pan­tomime. Show the result­ing phras­es with the help of facial expres­sions and ges­tures. Show what you are capa­ble of! The one who guess­es takes the card for him­self, and the one who col­lects the most cards wins. By the way, you can write the names of ani­mals on them, the names of celebri­ties — what­ev­er comes to mind!

10. Board game: Who am I?

Age: 4+
Num­ber of play­ers: 2–8.
Par­ty dura­tion: from 10 min­utes.

Descrip­tion: An inter­est­ing, excit­ing game in which you have to guess who you are.
The essence of the game is that each play­er puts a hoop on his head and sets a card with a pat­tern that is known to all play­ers except you. Your task is to guess who you are. You can use lead­ing ques­tions from aux­il­iary ques­tion cards, oppo­nents can only answer yes or no.