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Best Family Board Games

The best family board games are often simple to play. The purpose of family game night is to have quality fun with your children, so you don’t want to be playing games too complicated for little kids to understand.

Simple games work best most of the time. Classic games like Clue and life can bring a fun atmosphere into the room. But I encourage you to also try some lesser known games like Kill Dr Lucky, which sounds bad but can be pretty fun.

Of course if you have older children you might want to play some games that are a bit harder and more complex. Games like scrabble and Monopoly can be both can extremely educational and help kids form strategies.

In the end every family is different and the best games for family fun may be different for every family. Below I have listed some of the best family board games (at least in my opinion) and their rules.

Battleship Board Game

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Candyland

Catch Phrase Game

Checkers

Chinese Checkers

Clue

Cranium Rules

Dont Wake Daddy

Kill Doctor Lucky

Mancala

Monopoly

Mouse Trap Game

Payday Board Game

Pictionary

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The Game Of Life

Settlers of Catan

Taboo

Trouble Board Game

Twister

War on Terror


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