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Fun Games For Family Game Night

Spending time with your family should be on the top of your priority list. It helps to build a strong bond with your family members, cultivating positive behavior, create memories, and relieve stress.

To get all these benefits, you should establish a family tradition such as game nights! The rules are pretty easy. All you need is to gather your loved ones around the table, bring some snacks and board games.

Make sure to turn off all your devices in order to avoid getting distracted by constant notification sounds. A game night is a chance to be with people you love and care about deeply. So, social media and your work can wait a bit. Here you can find a list of the best games of all time:

Scrabble

Scrabble will help you not only have a lot of fun with your family members, but it will also improve your concentration. Moreover, Scrabble can teach your kids spelling and how to develop a strategy that will help to win.

Also, your little ones will have a chance to learn new words and develop patience. According to multiple studies, learning through creative play is quite effective.

The best thing is that you can play this board game with more than five people at the same time. If you feel completely lost and want to cheat a bit, go to Unscramblex.com to solve the anagram.

Charades

If you don’t feel like sitting straight tonight, consider playing charades with your children! All you need is to split into two teams (you might want to invite some guests to play this one with your family).

One person in each team should act like someone from the TV show or a movie, while the rest of the team players should guess the answer. Your team will win in case you have more correct answers.

It’s a classic game that everyone in your family will enjoy playing on a Saturday night. 

Telephone

Sometimes, people also call this game ‘Chinese whispers’. Have you ever played the Telephone game when you were a kid? Well, your children might enjoy playing it as much as you did!

So, feel free to play this game in case you have more than five team members. It is considered a classic ice-breaker. All you need is to pick a sentence or a word and whisper it to the person next to you. You might end up with something truly amusing at the end of the game. To make it even more interesting, pick a unique phrase or a word.

Never Have I Ever

You will have a lot of fun playing Never Have I Ever with your older kids. You might also need to invite more people in order to play this game.

The rules are pretty simple. You should arrange the chairs in the circle (like in the musical chairs) and put someone in the middle. Then this person in the middle should say something that they have never done before (for instance: “Never have I ever had cried during Titanic movie”).

So, everyone who did cry while watching Titanic needs to get up and find a new chair to sit. If you are left without a chair, you have to stay in the middle and tell people what you have never done before.

The best thing about this game is that you can get to know people better while playing!

Would You Rather

If you don’t have any board games with you, consider playing ‘Would You Rather’ with your family. You will have a chance to unleash your creativity and check what your relatives are capable of doing.

To play this game, you need at least two players. Don’t be afraid to ask provocative questions. Keep in mind that another player can’t answer ‘neither’ or ‘both’; they should choose only one option.

If you play with older kids, create a dilemma of two similar scenarios or try offering only bad options.

Exploding Kittens

‘Exploding Kittens’ is a brand new board game that you can play with your family on Friday. It’s for everyone who likes kittens, laser beams, and explosions ( at least, that what it says on the package).

This game is pretty easy to pick up. To play this game, at first you should put all the cards on the desk and then take turns drawing from them. In case someone draws a card with exploding kitten, it means that this person ‘explodes’ (you lost!).

There are a lot of exciting cards with funny illustrations and unusual names (for example a hairy potato cat card).

Family game night is an awesome tradition that can help you to spend more time with your loved ones. So, forget about your daily duties and have fun! Your family will appreciate it.

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