Board Games For 12 Year Old

Counting_Pennies_2

Cranium is fantastic, I can't remember the age group this goes from, but if you think it is too old they have a younger version, Cadoo.

pavlovs_dog

its nice to see that there are still families out there that will sit down and play games together :j

my personal favourite from childhood (which no one seems to have heard of ) is SEQUENCE , with the UK version looking more like this:




you may also like to consider other logic games - chess, mahjonng, othello, mancala, draughts/checkers etc.

or perhaps invest in a good book of card games and a decent deck? or maybe a texas poker hold 'em set, using the christmas choccies as chips

pictionary is also fun - especially "blind" pictionary - drawing with your eyes closed.

if you prefer word games, i would second upwords as a fun way to break children into scrabble

FiscalFox

Try CASHFLOW.

Its designed by the author of the 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' books to teach adults and grown ups about the basics of money and finance. If their knowledge about money is 'earning it & spending it' this gives players the gist to get them enthusiastically on the right track to make there first £1million in the real world.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002R5IKI/103-1213549-0211825?v=glance

I don't think its cheap though...maybe worth checking for on ebay...

Becles

Rumikub - you get tiles like Scrabble but they have different coloured numbers on. You have to lay initial sequences of tiles, that can be "numerical order but same colour" "set of different coloured 4's" etc. Once you get a few chains on the board, you can add tiles to the end of lines, break lines and add tiles to make new ones. It's really good fun and makes you think.

Escape from Colditz - It's set in a German POW camp. One person is the German team and the others represent different countries prisoners. The prisoners have to collect things like wirecutters and rope then escape from the camp. The Germans have to keep watch and take action like blocking tunnels or issuing search warrents to take the wirecutters/rope etc back. If any prisoners get caught they get sent to solitary confinement, so they have to escape from there before they can take part in the camp escapes as well. That really makes you think too, and my brother and me used to enjoy it as teenagers.

carol_a_3

I agree with Becles about Rumikub, my kids all loved that and my DS who's 16 still plays it with his Dad when he comes round.

ohdear_4

Not read the other replies, but my son has cranium, a bit mad and need 4 players but fun every now and again. I ordered one from toysrus called battle of the sexes, not sure what it is like though yet. My son also loves scrabble and trivial pursuit, connect 4 was our fave as kids and my son also keeps mentioning mousetrap.

jellyhead

there's an updated mousetrap out now, apparently it's easier to assemble. do they still make heroquest? my brothers loved it and my 9 year olds does too, his version came from oxfam though. uno's a good game, boots have a simpsons uno game in a tin, just the cards, you can play it without the card dealing machine.

Alison_B

I have a 13 year old and an 11 year old and they enjoy - Monopoly, Cleudo, Frustration, Payday, Battleships and we have a game called The London Game which is all about the London underground which is a brilliant game.

dora37

For a bit of fun - on special occasions we play Sweet Monopoly. Simply put a sweet (jelly baby,wine gum, etc) on 1 property down each side of the board and 2 in the middle.

If you land on the property you get the sweet. If you land on free parking you get double.

Just replace the sweets as they get used, but vary which one you leave it on!

Adds a bit of fun and interest!

The children think its fab until they realise that if you keep winning them you start to feel a bit sick.......... :rotfl: