Our Favorite Game Night Choices!

This is a sponsored post. All ideas and opinions are 100% mine.

Do you love game night like we do? Evidently we’re not the only ones, since board game sales are doing so well.

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Before we had kids, we would often have friends over for couples game night. We still like to enjoy game night sometimes after the kids go to bed. It’s a cheap date! Here are our some of our favorite games:

Games Night without the Kids

Scrabble is perfect for just the two of us, though lately I don’t have enough brain cells to expend on a word game.

Risk: We love, love love this game at our house. But don’t be surprised if “the game of global domination” doesn’t bring you closer together as a couple. Someone might make a promise not to invade Alaska through Komchatka, but then later he might go back on that promise, saying the peace treaty only existed for one round of play. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Monopoly is a classic and it never gets old. My sister actually collects Monopoly games. Anytime a new one is released, she has to get it.

Group Games

We love having friends over for game night. We host at our house and everyone brings their favorite finger foods or a fun dessert.

Catchphrase is quick, fun, and doesn’t require a lot of set-up. They used to have cards that you had to insert, but now the questions are computer generated in the hand-held game.

Apples to Apples is fun because the person in charge of the round determines the right answer. You get to play to the judge.

Taboo requires fast thinking and it’s one that always gets people laughing.

Trivial Pursuit is perfect for the thinkers in your group. I loved this one a lot more back when I actually paid attention to pop culture. Now I’m getting pretty rusty, but I can do great in the 90s edition.

Cranium offers something for everyone, with trivia questions, drawing options, charades, and riddles.

Family Games

Life is one that the kids will enjoy. It’s always neat for them to think about what their own lives will be like one day. I remember playing this a lot when my younger brothers would visit us during the summers (I was married and they were in elementary school).

Mastermind is designed to be played with only two people, but it’s a quick game so you can rotate players frequently. It’s a logic game.

Monopoly belongs on this list too–it’s just that great of a classic.

It would also be worthwhile to look into the junior versions of our favorites, like Cadoo, the kids version of Cranium, or Monopoly, Jr.

I even hear that the latest version of Monopoly is a lot faster that the old Monopoly. We might have to add this one to our collection! They also have a new kitty playing piece. I’m not sure if I’m going to love it or if I’ll go in mourning for the iron, but either way, it would be a fun game to try out!

What are some of your favorite board games?

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