What board or card games do you and your family like to play?

[cozyquilter]

Games are such a nice way to spend time with family and friends....What are your family favorites?

We like to play, and not in any order:

Scrabble
Up Words
Yahtzee
Sequence
Aggravation
Uno
hearts

Is there a history of game playing? I can remember my greatgrandparents playing scrabble..games have always been played at holidays and picnics...

My grandfather play played cribbage....but I never learned to play.
My mom likes to play 500.

My parents also play rook, I never learned that either, but I bought it recently to try sometime.

How about your family?

[~Sherry~]

Spades
Cribbage
Poker
Yahtzee
Scrabble
Uno
Uno Attack
SkipBo

We don't play as much as we used to... we should try to set time aside for it I think.

[yolo]

We play more games in the wintertime it seems. We play;

scrabble
upwords
uno
skip-bo
Phase-10
aggravation
sequence
dominoes
cribbage
monopoly
clue
battleship
boggle
pictionary
guesstures

I know there are more. We have a lot of games. We usually get one new game for Christmas as a family gift.

yolo

[kcjulesus]

Depends on who we're playing games with as too what we play. Of course if we are playing with our 7 yr old, we are playing his games....
Battleship
Jenga
Monopoly Jr.
Clue Jr.
Slap Jack
Operation
Go Fish
Guess Who

But if we are playing with friends we play grown up games of course!
Rummy
Liverpool Rummy
Scattegories
Mad Gab
Phase 10
Uno
Monopoly
Boggle

and many many more. We are like yolo, we usually get atleast 1 game each Christmas.

[sixfreds]

with the young kids, candyland and shoots and latters
with the oldest phase 10, scrabble, monopoly. Yahtzee
, rummy, uno.........

Eileen

[Sara Noel]

sniff sniff
What's Phase 10?
*feeling isolated and sheltered from the world*

Sara

[yolo]

Sara: Phase 10 is a card game - it is like Uno and Skip-Bo. It is played by having to have certain phases for each hand; something like rummy. It is easy to learn. It is a fun game and the card deck is under $5.

yolo

[mommy2three]

doesn't anyone play euchre(sp)???? that is about all we play year round. around the holidays though we play monopoly, yatzee, phase 10, etc.

[Julie]

A few of our family favorites include:

Battleship
Pit
Monopoly
Jenga
Mancala
Boggle
Yahtzee
Uno
Master Mind

Sometimes the adults are more enthusiastic than the children! Gotta love games.

Julie

[homesteadmamma]

With our kids we play:

- Connect 4
- Fish
- War
- Monopoly
- Yahtzee
- Snakes & Ladders
- Battleship

We also play Bomberman with them on the computer, along with a few of the computer games we have (don't have the names off hand).

Dh and I love playing crib. Its one of our favorite card games along with 500 and we often play UNO with friends.

[bamamomto4]

We don't play games nearly as much as we use to,but when we do,we play

Monopoly
Scrabble
Rook
Life
Uno
Crazy 8's
Skip bo
Canasta


And with the younger kiddos

Match
candy land
go fish lol

[QuilterMom]

We have bunches of games - Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, Boggle, Yahtzee, Battleship, Hi Ho Cherry-O, chess, Scrabble Junior, etc.

Our current fave (what ds requests all the time) is Battleship.

[kimmee]

Gosh - we have tons of games but our favorites are all the traditionals - scrabble. Life, Monopoly, Cootie, Clue,  Parchesi, Balderdash, cranium Kadoo, and a new one 1313 Dead End Drive.

[guest2]

When our family gets together at the lake we spend the evening playing games there. Our favorites are:
Scrabble
Cribbage
Sequence
cards
Dominoes
Jenga
Boggle
Monopoly
rumikube

[Ellise]

It been a running tradition in our family since we got married DH gets a new board game for Christmas every year!. We don't like Pictionary we call it the divorce game! Long story on it.

As a child:
Cribbage
Canasta
Hearts
Bridge (never liked it)
Old Maid
Go Fish (was my fav)

Out door we:
Bocce
Croquet
badmitton
Lawn Darts
Yard Polo

Lots of different ones