With families cooped up at home, they are looking for the best board games for kids that they can enjoy playing too! Thankfully, there are so many fun board games that lead to hours of family entertainment. The games are perfect for family game night, game night with friends, and gatherings of all kinds Need more family activities? Check out 30 fun indoor activities for families.
Best Board Games for Kids
Check out these fun board games for families. They are listed in order of age with preschoolers first and teenagers at the end of the list. Happy Gaming!
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Best Board Games for Kids
Discover the best board games for kids of all ages. This board game list includes games for preschoolers, kids, preteens, and teenagers. These family games make great gifts for Christmas and birthdays! This gift guide includes classic board games to new and clever board games your kids will love.
Ages 3 and up
Flora and fauna from around the world show the richness of Life on Earth. 24 pairs of tiles include everything from iguanas to cardinals, oak leaves and acorns to underwater coral.
Ages 3-4
The jumbo game board is rich with whimsical artwork and favorite Disney characters, making this game a family favorite. Join Mickey Mouse and friends on an exciting race through 12 exquisitely illustrated Disney realms, from Radiator Springs and Alice’s Wonderland to Peter Pan’s Never Land and Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. Throughout the race, everyone searches for iconic Disney objects and gets a chance to say, “I found it!”
Ages 3 and up
My son's favorite game right now! Tap out ice blocks one by one, but Don't Break the Ice! The object of this classic game is to keep Phillip the Penguin on top of the ice, but as the game goes on, the ice blocks start falling. One wrong block, and he'll go ker-plop! The player who can keep Phillip from falling, wins! Play 1-on-1 or as a team of 2!
Ages 3 and up
Can you hop like a frog while clucking like a chicken? Have a blast trying with this delightfully silly game for ages 3+. Players try to match hidden head tiles to the correct body tiles. If the head and body don’t match, the real fun begins! Players walk and talk like the mismatched tiles—with hilarious results!
Ages 4 and up
Zingo is one of ThinkFun's most popular and bestselling games and is the winner of an Oppenheim Gold Award and Parents’ Choice Gold Award, among others. It's a fun pre-reading game for ages 4 and up, and is a great holiday or birthday present for kids.
Ages 4 and up
This hungry Dino has an eggstraordinary appetite! Roll the die to choose which stolen egg to rescue. Carefully reach in and take out the egg, but watch out - you never know when this T-Rex will roar and leap out at you for a mighty CRUNCH!
Choose your fun adventure with The Game of Life – junior style! This fun and fast-paced game is just like the adult version, but with much cooler rides! Pick the Blue Wheeler, the Pink Cruiser, the Yellow Speedster or the Green Rider, and start enjoying life’s twists and turns! Have tons of fun with amazing adventures on the beach or at the zoo – it’s your choice! Keep collecting stars and see how the Action cards and Attractions like the Museum or the Chocolate Factory affect your fate. If you get to 10 stars first, you win! You’ll have a fun game and an awesome day whenever you play The Game of Life Junior game.
- Go head to head with your cross-cosmos rival to see who can abduct three Cosmic Cows first! This game is perfect for kids ages 6 and up!
Ages 5 and up
Introducing kids' first Scrabble game. This Scrabble Junior game is easy for kids to play, and lots of fun. One side of the board has you match letters to form words. The other side has you building your own words.
Ages 5 and up
The Floor is Lava! is a game where players must imagine the floor is molten hot lava while spinning the color wheel to jump to the right foam pieces to reach safety.
Ages 5 and up
The Pie Face game is now a hilarious head-to-head race! Players load the arm with whipped cream (whipped cream not included) or the included sponge, then place their chin on one of the chin rests. On the count of three, players hit the big red button closest to them to try to move the pie-throwing arm towards their opponent. When the arm gets too close, it’ll spring up, and someone will get a face full of whipped cream! The other player wins.
Ages 6 and up
Gnomes at Night is a cooperative search-and-find maze game where players work as a team to maneuver the magnetic gnome movers around the maze. Work together in this quick-thinking communication game where every second counts!
Ages 6 and up
Do you remember playing the Mouse Trap game when you were a child. Introduce your kids to classic Mouse Trap gameplay
Ages 6 and up
Challenge a friend to rule the grid in Connect 4 Classic Grid, the game where strategy drives the competition! Line ‘em up and go for the win! Choose the gold discs or the red discs and drop them into the grid. When you get 4 discs in a row, you win. It’s simple, fast, and fun.
Ages 6 and up
Roller Coaster Challenge is one of ThinkFun's most popular stem toys for boys and girls, and was a Toy of the Year Award Finalist in 2018. It's a logic game and roller coaster building set that comes with 60 challenges of increasing difficulty, from beginner to expert, and makes a great birthday or holiday present for kids who like smart games and challenging activities.
Ages 7 and up
Exploding kittens is the perfect card game for adults, teens and kids who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats. A highly strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian roulette, basically, if you draw an exploding kitten, you lose and you are full of loser sad-sauce
Ages 7 and up
A twist on the classic battleship game: This Amazon exclusive battleship game features airplanes in addition to Ships for awesome strategic gameplay and epic battles. Sink Ships and crash Planes: with this Amazon exclusive edition, fans of the battleship game can crash enemy Planes in addition to sinking Ships to win
Ages 7 and up
From the creators of Exploding Kittens, Throw Throw Burrito is the world's first dodgeball card game!
Try to collect matching sets of cards faster than your opponents while simultaneously ducking, dodging, and throwing squishy airborne burritos. The cards you collect earn points, but getting hit by flying burritos loses them.
Ages 8 and up
Compete with your friends and family to create the funniest memes. Do this by using one of your dealt caption cards to caption (get it?) the photo card in each round.
Ages 8 and up
It's time to play like the pros — Rummikub pros, that is! This set features the same racks and tiles used in the official World Rummikub Championship. Players take turns placing numbered tiles in runs (consecutive numbers of the same color) and groups (three or more of the same number in different colors), rummy style. Be the first player to play every tile on your rack to win!
Ages 10 and up
Disney Villainous is a popular board game in the Villainous line, which also includes the expansions Wicked to the Core, Evil Comes Prepared and Perfectly Wretched. Disney fans and game board lovers of all kinds will love the asymmetric gameplay and chance to play as a villain from one of Disney's classic films. Villainous was the Game of the Year Winner at the TOTY Awards in 2020, and makes the perfect present for any Disney or board game lover at birthday or holiday time.
OH WEM SHE (OMG), our best-selling game where you compete to guess the gibberish, Incohearent, is now available for families! Incohearent™ Family Edition is the perfect addition for any family game night that will make you all ELLOW WELL (LOL)! The judge for each round flips the timer and holds a card up so that only they can see the answer, but everyone else sees the Incohearent phrase. Everyone else is reads the front of the card aloud. Whoever decodes the phrase first wins the card. When the card has been decoded or the translators have elected to pass, the judge pulls the next card. Once the timer runs out or 3 cards have been decoded, the round is over, and the next person becomes the judge.
Ages 14 and up!
Remember the time when your uncle managed to set the table on fire while blowing out his birthday candles? Or the time your mom came across a too friendly dolphin? Or your cousin's wedding where the whole party fell in the lake during pictures? Everyone doubted you, but you have the pictures to prove it! In Relative Insanity: See What I mean?! you roll a die to see if you caption the picture with a PUNCHLINE, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT or WHAT WOULD GRANNY SAY. Then the judge determines who has the best response to the pictures to be Mom's Favorite, and the second funniest (the Middle Child) and if there is a Black Sheep of the family. It's a different hilarious game each time you play! Features the humor of Jeff Foxworthy. For 4 to 12 players
Ages 15 and up
BE A COLD CASE DETECTIVE - Unsolved Case Files puts you in the shoes of a cold case detective tasked with solving a murder that happened decades ago with only the original investigator's case file. Think you can find out who really killed Harmony Ashcroft on May 8, 1998? Unsolved Case Files will let you find out once and for all whether you’re as good as the detectives on TV.
Best toys for kids
Searching for more fun toys and games for kids of all ages? Whether you are buying a gift for your own kids just because or for a holiday or birthday, we have some great toy recommendations!
- Best Gifts for Babies and Toddlers
- Best Gifts for Preschoolers
- Best Gifts for Girls
- Best Gifts for Boys
- Best Gifts for Tween Girls
- Best Gifts for Tween Boys
- Best Nintendo Switch Games for Kids
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