Best Board Game

YoungBaker

Looking to buy a board game for my parents this year for us to play.

Open to any suggestions, so what board games do you love playing with your family on xmas?

We had thought about getting Pointless but not sure, plus its 20quid

UsernameAlreadyExists

Cranium is a good laff ... I just looked on amazon for links to it, I am sure it's probably available cheaper elsewhere.

socks_uk

I love Cluedo and bought my husband the Simpsons version a few years ago but never played it yet because you can't play with just 2 players!

YoungBaker

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

Cranium is a good laff ... I just looked on amazon for links to it, I am sure it's probably available cheaper elsewhere.

That looks pretty good actually! Wonder if I could get it cheaper..

MrsDrink

Posted this on the Moneysaving Dads forum:

(The OP on there wanted games to play with his children, but these are games I've bought for MrD and I to play with his parents when we go round).

Rapidough, pictionary, cranium, pictureka.

There's also a new 'create things made out of lego and guess what it is' game out but I haven't played it so don't know how good it is. It's called Creationary

YoungBaker

MrsDrink wrote: »

Posted this on the Moneysaving Dads forum:

(The OP on there wanted games to play with his children, but these are games I've bought for MrD and I to play with his parents when we go round).

Rapidough, pictionary, cranium, pictureka.

There's also a new 'create things made out of lego and guess what it is' game out but I haven't played it so don't know how good it is. It's called Creationary

Cheers Mrs D for the suggestions. We have had all the above except Cranium so this may be a shout again...

kiss_me_now9

Played Pointless last year and to be honest, it's not the best game - the rules are quite complicated and hard to understand.

Rapidough is good.

YoungBaker

kiss_me_now9 wrote: »

Played Pointless last year and to be honest, it's not the best game - the rules are quite complicated and hard to understand.

Rapidough is good.

This is my worry. It isnt even something we actually watch on tv or anything either tbh I only caught it last week on the tv and watched 10 mins of it haha.

Any other vouches for Cranium?

MrsDrink

The problem I have with Cranium is if you have all the others then it's just a mash up of those. Although I enjoyed it I can't help but feel like if I wanted to have a 'playdough' round I'd have just got the Rapidough out... I guess it's good if you can't decide what to play.

I also quite like Articulate.

Santa always brings us a board game. It is really hard to find ones that MrD and I can play on our own!!

annieme

Our family & all we introduce it to love 'Ticket to Ride'. We've played most games but this is one of the best. My son bought it after lots of research & we've gradually added different expansion kits. It's brilliant!

YoungBaker

Yeh MrsD there isnt many two players out there (although I did see the advert for cluedo today and it apparently is suitable for 2 players!? I did wonder myself though...).

And yeh I know what you mean, we want a good game that will give us a laugh and keep us all amused for an hour or two but at the same time its hard to pick a game at random could end up with something crap! lol