Board games today are not only cubes, fields and chips. Everything is much more varied, more unusual and interesting. There are a huge number of board games now. Therefore, the selection of a game as a gift or for your family is not an easy task. How not to get lost in a variety of different boxes with games and choose the one you need? You can start with the most famous games for primary school children and their parents.
10. "Uno" / "Swintus"
If there is a game that rivals the ubiquitous Monopoly in fame, it is Uno.
Simplicity is always appreciated, and even more so when it comes to board games. Do you want to quickly play a game, involve both children and grandparents in the game? Uno is a great option. The most simple and understandable rules, fun and unobtrusive process, compact size - all this makes "Uno" an irreplaceable game for traveling and visiting. Even at home before going to bed, sitting on the couch or bed, you can get together with the children and have fun.
Domestic copy of the game - "Svintus" - pleases us with funny illustrations and a sea of different versions. Do you want to not just fold cards, but also sing songs? Please, there is such a thing. Or do you like to quickly slap the deck? You can find a rule for this too. Zombies, snakes, parrots, dogs! What is there not among the versions of the game "Pig"! Naturally, there is also a variation for the little ones with very cute and funny pigs.
9. "Jenga"
You don't always want to take up cards and read the rules. Sometimes you just need to get distracted from everything, focus on small blocks of wood and practice neatness, dexterity, and finding balance. In the company of relatives and friends, with small and large, serious and cheerful, you can open the box with the Jenga game.
Its simplicity is amazing. There are only 54 wooden blocks complete with rules, and the entertainment will captivate you for the whole evening and many subsequent ones, because you can endlessly improve in this game! The game is very pleasant to the touch, you want to shift it back and forth, and children are often just addicted to the construction of various structures, instead of trying to win. This is good, because Jenga is really a creative game that not only develops fine motor skills and spatial thinking, but also gives children and adults the opportunity to relax, have fun all together and create something unusual!
8. "The Gobbit"
For gambling and brave, dexterous and fast hunters (both small and large) there is a wonderful board game "Gobbit". A box with colorful square cards will open up a whole world of wild jungle for you!
The game has a simple food chain: snakes eat chameleons, chameleons, in turn, eat flies. True, they are very picky and feed exclusively on creatures of their color. What else do you need to know about Gobbit? You will clap. Slap a lot and quickly on your cards, your opponent's cards, and even a discard deck!
Only the most attentive will be able to hold out until the end of the game, because you need not only to quickly lay out the cards and make sure that other people's snakes do not eat your chameleon, but also have time to attack. The most interesting thing is that if you are tired of the usual rules, and they seem too simple to you or are already bored, there is a completely official way to complicate the game. The point is that the shirts on the cards are different. Each new card in the discard makes a change in the rules that you need to instantly understand and use. Therefore, "Gobbit" will delight you and your children for a long time.
7. Series "It's a Fact!"
It is known that completely different entertainment is suitable for everyone (after all, board games are primarily entertainment, right?). Someone likes fast, gambling games, while others prefer to sit and reflect. Naturally, there are games for such a case. So which country is larger in area: Canada or the United States? And where is the largest population: in India or in China? Questions that will be of interest to those who love geography and want to learn a lot about our planet. And it is exactly them that you will ask each other in the board game “It's a fact! Countries". There are four main criteria for comparison on fifty maps with countries. You just need to take the cards in hand and think about what one country can be "the most". Then compare your countries with those of the enemy and find out who was right! Naturally, the cards contain all the information you need to check each other.
There is a small series of games of this kind. It's called "This is a fact." The first game about the countries of the world, another about the regions of Russia and the version "Zoo", dedicated to the amazing animals of the Leningrad Zoo. Each of them will allow you to seriously think about and train your memory.
6. "The little drum"
This is a game about a kind, cute ghost who loves to photograph everything, but he does not always do it right. Of course, it is not Barabashka himself who is to blame for this, but his enchanted camera. The task of all players is to help the cast understand the confusion in the pictures.
It would seem that in a small box there is only a deck of cards and five multi-colored objects. What can be difficult? But the game will make you think and, most likely, children will begin to play up to adults very quickly. After all, only the most attentive and quick can immediately notice mistakes in Barabashka's photographs. And there are a lot of them! In this game, the shape and color of the objects lying in front of us are important: a gray mouse, a blue book, a white ghost, a green bottle and a red armchair. Have you looked carefully? Great, you just need to open the first card and immediately see that a green mouse is imposingly located on it in a blue chair. What to do with such a mistake in the photo? It is urgent to look for the object that did not hit her, and this is clearly a white ghost (after all, we have no white or a ghost in the picture). The one who first understood the correct answer grabs the required figure and receives the well-deserved victory points. And if, turning over the next card, we see a red ghost with a blue book? Then we will grab the only true object and get one step closer to victory!
It is also nice that the game takes up very little space and is great for traveling by train and flying in an airplane.
5. "Cucaracha"
If there are people who love cockroaches, then even they will be against the fact that a small fast creature settles in their own kitchen. And if you are a chef in a restaurant, you would even more like to save your establishment from such guests! So, there is a fun training for quickly catching cunning insects in traps - the game "Cucaracha". Given: a field in the form of a cafe floor, a labyrinth wall (forks, spoons and knives are the arsenal of a real chef), a cube and, of course, a cockroach. Fortunately, it's just mechanical. The rules of the game are ridiculously simple: you need to roll a dice, look at the cutlery on its edge, and create a maze for the cockroach. The main task is to bring the insect to its trap faster than the enemy. Of course, you cannot touch the cockroach with your hands at the same time (and I didn't really want to, it's still not the cleanest insect).
Laughing, catching cockroaches and collecting victory points! We train attentiveness and learn to quickly assess the situation. The cockroach will not wait until you decide which spoon is better to turn right now?
Cucaracha is a game for those who like fast, simple and fun games with unusual components. Even catching cockroaches can be a joy if you do it in the game!
4. "Little Red Riding Hood"
Of course, most of the popular games for children develop speed, alertness and reaction. Fast, funny, addictive for several games in a row. But sometimes you want to think. For such a case, the game "Little Red Riding Hood" is perfect.
What's going on in it? Everything is like a fairy tale! A little girl goes through a dense forest to her grandmother. On the way, she stops to collect flowers, and then moves on. Naturally, there is also a wolf in the game. He hurries to his grandmother in the same way, only along a different path. To get around it, players will have to work hard, because it is much easier for a wolf to run through the forest, in addition, he knows a shortcut. So, the game offers two modes: a completely team mode, where the players all go on the road together with Little Red Riding Hood, and the game itself leads the Gray Wolf, and one against everyone, which becomes much more difficult, because now the wolf is another player.
"Little Red Riding Hood" is a game for those who like to think calmly and want to teach this to their children. She fosters team spirit, trains logical thinking and ingenuity. In addition, one of its greatest virtues is beauty. A wonderful gift box, bright components and a fairy tale that can be read even by the smallest.
3. "Doble"
If you start looking for a list of the most popular games for children, then, on all resources, you will definitely come across "Doble". What's so great about this game? A small, handy metal box holds round cards with bright pictures and a couple of pages of rules, and nothing else is needed, because this is a game for speed, attentiveness and reaction.
So, in front of each participant in the game is a card with various patterns, and in the center of the table is a deck. What do we have to do? Search for matches! Only one and only one drawing on the card in front of the player and the card in the deck always matches. But finding it is not easy, because all the pictures are of different sizes and rotated in different ways, and they are also too colorful, which is also very distracting. So, the task is to concentrate and search, search, search for the same pictures. Since there is no turn order in the game and the one who first grabbed a card from the deck and receives victory points for it, the process becomes very reckless. And if you suddenly get bored with one type of rules, you can play on the second, third and further. They are all similar, but add a pleasant variety to the process.
This is a really wonderful game, both as a gift and for yourself, which will unite and captivate both children and adults for a long time.
2. "Sticky Chameleons"
When the game teaches something, it is, of course, wonderful. But sometimes you just want to laugh heartily. For fans of noisy, gambling, non-standard games, Sticky Chameleons are perfect. All that is required of the players is to pick up a language (not your own, of course, but just a special game language), throw dice and urgently catch an insect that has fallen on them. One cube shows yellow and the other a caterpillar? Excellent! All players attack the cardboard insect at the same time. But you need not only to be the most attentive, but also the most careful, because on the table, among the usual food of chameleons, there are also cardboard wasps, which, clinging to the tongue, can deprive you of victory in this round!
The languages are quite tenacious, two minutes in cold water and all the dust that could cling to during the game immediately flies off them. So feel free to open the box, catch insects, collect victory points and have fun!
1. "Cat's Paw"
Everyone loves cats, but not everyone can have them at home. But such wonderful kittens in a box can be accommodated by anyone. Cat's Paw or Kitty Paw is a cute game for training memory, attention and spatial thinking. What's in the pink box? A huge amount of hexagonal pieces with colorful kittens!
The rules of the game are very simple. You just need to pull out the task cards (one per player) and start collecting a high-speed puzzle of cats. Tasks are tricky, kittens can sleep on them, or they can stay awake, they can turn one side, or maybe the other, in some places and completely hide in a box! All this must not be missed and, after looking closely, place the pieces of the puzzle in front of you in the only correct way. It is also nice that there are several levels of difficulty, if desired, parents can perform the third (most difficult), and children the first or second. Then you will play quite on an equal footing.
Among other advantages, "Cat's Paw" is very beautifully designed. Such a box is a wonderful and unusual gift for everyone, young and old.
