Comments on: 6 Teen Board Games for Family Game Night

By: Finishing Strong: Homeschooling Middle and High School

Finishing Strong: Homeschooling Middle and High School — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:01:55 +0000

[…] post with the most clicks last week was Megan’s 6 Board Games for Teens shared at Education Possible. As a family that loves board games, I was delighted to see new […]

By: Jen|Practical by default

Jen|Practical by default — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:02:40 +0000

Megan great list! I just shared 15 Board games we love for learning fun. I am glad to see I am not alone in using games to teach and have a great family night. Pinning this one 🙂

By: Mother of 3

Mother of 3 — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:10:55 +0000

I am a huge board game fan and try to use games in our homeschool as much as possible. I now have quite a few to add to my wish list!! Thank you.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:55:50 +0000

Hi,
We are not big on board games but we have had Risk forever, I was looking at the new one in the photo thinking of how bright the colors should be. 😉
Our favorite to go game is Even Steven Odd at the moment, however some of these I have never heard of so will need to look into them.
Thank you for sharing!

By: Megan Zechman

Megan Zechman — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:33:01 +0000

In reply to Sarah.

You’ve given me some new ones to check out Sarah! I’ve heard a lot about Ticket to Ride. I think I’ve had it on my Amazon shopping list for a while now, but just haven’t bought it. Mine are just getting into Scrabble. My 11-year-old finds it a bit hard to come up with words on the spot, so I don’t push it too much yet. Yeah, with 2 girls, we don’t play a lot of the world domination games here either. But who knows, maybe as they get older they’ll have a desire to play.

Thanks for the resources! We play a lot of games at our house and I’m always looking for new things to try.

Your Thanksgiving tradition sounds like a ton of fun! I definitely need to schedule another game night here.

Thanks so much for sharing!!
Megan

By: Megan Zechman

Megan Zechman — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:28:28 +0000

In reply to Buffy. We love that one too Buffy! We actually own the original and the Disney version. We're right there with you - we laugh like crazy when we play!

By: Megan Zechman

Megan Zechman — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:27:19 +0000

In reply to Heather Woodie. I've never heard of Axis & Allies Heather. We try to have regular family game nights, but still there are times that someone wants to play something and they can't find a partner, so I definitely feel your pain!

By: Heather Woodie

Heather Woodie — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:32:36 +0000

Sumoko is a favorite for our 13yo! Along with RISK. But, he also loves Axis & Allies. If he could only find people willing to play!

By: Buffy

Buffy — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:30:16 +0000

We LOVE Headbands! My husband, myself, my 14 year old son, and my 11 year old twin boys all have too much fun playing this game. We laugh until we cry whenever this game becomes part of game night

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:15:43 +0000

We are a big game-playing family, but some of these we haven’t played before, so I will have to check them out. I like the looks of Sumoku, which reminds me we have a game called Krypto that we haven’t played in awhile. Scrabble and Qwirkle (listed below) are good ones for cross-generational play (think grandparents).

Here are some of the games we enjoy:
Ticket to Ride (a big favorite)
Blokus
Qwirkle
Ringgz
Set (I can’t play against my kids any more – they are too good!)
Scattegories
Mad Dash and World Dash – good for geography
Settlers of Catan

My boys (and husband, thankfully) are into games that don’t really appeal to me, but that they can play for hours on end.
7 Wonders (If I were to try one of these it would probably be this one).
Dominion
Civilization
Lords of Waterdeep
Games made by Columbia Games like Euro Front, (East and West Front, too), Hammer of the Scots, Gettysburg, etc.

My husband and oldest son also went to a game convention where they tried some new games. I think that may be where we ended up finding out about:
Suburbia
Pandemic
Betrayal at House on the Hill

If you are interested, here are a couple of resources for checking out games. Videos made by Wil Wheaton (of Star Trek). If you search for his name and Tabletop, you will see him and some friends playing different games so you can get a sense of whether they are for you or not. Another set of videos and reviews can be found at Dice Tower (I think these guys are from Florida). And of course, there is the website BoardGameGeek that gives you tons of information on every game you can imagine. If you use their advanced search, you can search for pretty much any category you can think of.

Sorry, this is so long. If you talk about books or games, I can’t seem to stop myself! We’ll be visiting family over Thanksgiving and it ends up being 4 solid days of eating and game-playing. I hope you enjoy your holiday!

Sarah