Comments on: Listmania! Ten Best Family Games

By: Joan H.

Joan H. — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:51:45 +0000

I’ll second Sorry, my family loves it. Card games are great, too.

For trapped-in-the-car, we play a simpler version of 20 Questions, called “Thinking of an Animal”, which children old enough speak can play. Unlimited questions, “yes” or “no” answers only. As the kids get older you can branch out to extinct species and mythological creatures.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:16:02 +0000

Cribbage.

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By: JaneC

JaneC — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:04:40 +0000

There have been different versions of “Clue Junior” around for a while–the one I had, called “Clue Jr.: The Case of the Missing Pet” came out in 1989. It was great because you had a special red magnifying glass to look at the solution when the time came. There is also “The Case of the Hidden Toys”–1995.

I enjoyed Memory games, and various kinds of Bingo. We had one called Wildlife Bingo that had pictures of endangered species of North America. I also played Dominoes with my dad.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:01:54 +0000

It was Yahtzee that taught me that my sister is the absolutely most lucky person in the world and that there are some things that smarts just can’t help. It also taught me that I hate random games of chance where there is no strategy involved.

By: Chicagolo

Chicagolo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:02:32 +0000

Blokus, totally fun.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:37:14 +0000

Uno literally used to turn violent in my house growing up. I tipped over the coffee table more than one time due to the double crossing (CHEATING) from my brother.

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:08:56 +0000

I always liked Trouble (gotta love the popping dice bubble) and pick-up sticks.

By: gamma

gamma — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:26:25 +0000

Scrabble is the family game of choice, with dictionary privileges for the disenvocabularied. We play in teams if the group is larger than four. Winner has to put it away. And Deluxe Scrabble is the only way to go; the turntable base and the ridges to hold the tiles in place are essential.

Guess Who? was the game that saved my sanity. It was the ideal game when Youngest reached that difficult age at which she couldn’t compete with the older siblings, but couldn’t bear to be left out.

By: VeddyVeddyBadAng

VeddyVeddyBadAng — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:14:25 +0000

We all played Sorry when we were kids in the 70′s and 80′s. Then one day my mom got out HER old Sorry game board from the 50′s with its wood pieces. That was pretty fun to play with as well.