I have an 8 year old, and I have enjoyed more cooperative games like Forbidden Island to be a good board game to get started.

In terms of other stuff, I have found a lot depends on how good at reading your kids are. I have also played Settlers of Catan, Dominion, and Machi Koro with them too.

Unstable Unicorns and Here to Slay might be a good start.

Dungeon Mayhem is a fun little battler. All very comic-booky art.

Forbidden Desert and Forbidden Island are both good fun coop games.

Santorini might be a fit.

Sleeping Queens is super fun for all ages

This may not be what you’re looking for, but there’s a lot of great specialty card games - rat a tat cat is decent for 4yos, and sleeping queens is great.

Uno is pretty easy, since it's mostly matching colors or numbers

Cards Against Humanity now makes a family-friendly version! It's great!

Go fish or old maid

Egyptian ratscrew.

Stuffed Fables is pretty fun for the adults and kids, not a cheap game though.

We played a game at the library today called Silly Street. It's basically a card game where successful completion of the prompts moves you across the board. With an almost 3 year old it was pretty fun.

Crokinole. It's like tabletop curling.

Spooky Stairs.

It’s a quick one, but Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is a really fun game. A variation on snap, but with added silliness.

My First Carcassonne is a good intro to euro style games.

Cluedo Junior is a very close simplified version of the big game (with less murder!)

Also, if you like Roleplaying games or storytelling, check out Amazing Tales. We play that as a family with a 3 and 9 year old.

I’m going to say Ravine.

And i wouldn’t recommend Love Letter or Unstable Unicorns, personally.

When Savage (A Game of Survival) comes out, it may quickly jump to your #1 spot, not gonna lie. (And no, I didn’t make it; I’m just the editor for the rule book.) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360259/savage-game-survival

Try Rock Paper Scissor Card Game.

Everyone loves to play RPS.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1137108071/rock-paper-scissors-multiplayer-card

Family Feud is simply the best suggestion IMO. Every member will be involved and will enjoy playing it. With $20, you can get the digital version from GameStar+

Try Happy Little Dinosaurs. It's super fun and hilarious!

Www.letsgobrandoncardgame.com is really fun and funny.

You might enjoy Ticket to Ride, which is a railroad game. You have to try to build routes across the continent, connecting cities. You get more points for longer routes.

While Cards Against Humanity is a fun game, it works best with people who are dirty-minded. If you want a family-friendly game like it, try Apples To Apples. One person has a card which is an adjective, like "Loyal," with its definition. Others turn in noun cards. The first person picks the noun card they think is closest to loyal. It is up to them if they pick "Knight in Shining Armor" or "Family Dog."

Cards Against Humanity

Monopoly. In no time you'll be arguing like you've known each other for years.

Strip poker. Everyone will know each other by the end of the night.

I assume we're talking about a family that doesn't have much history of playing board games, right? Here's what I would recommend:

• Camel Up - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153938/camel
• Abandon Ship - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41636/abandon-ship
• Mascarade - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/139030/mascarade
• Wits and Wagers - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20100/wits-wagers
• Tanz der Hornochsen - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13005/tanz-der-hornochsen
• Heimlich & Co - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/382/heimlich-co
• Linko - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153065/linko

These are all low complexity, relatively short (<45 minutes), and all of them will accomodate 6+ players.

EDIT: I'd also recommend Codenames, Spyfall, and Cross Talk

EDIT #2: 'What Should I Play' / 'What Should I Buy' questions get asked all the time on /r/boardgames. You might want to cross post this there too.

Catan is a fun game. My youngest (now 7) can play it without an adult helping him. He loves offering unhinged deals to get cards. Even if they make no sense

One of the best games we have for that age is called Wee Little Piggies. Not sure if any new games are being made of it so you may have to get it from ebay. It's based on the 3 little pigs nursery rhyme and is amazing for helping memory and also taking turns. It's also interactive and my kids loved it and still do. You can watch videos online if the game play. It's easily the best game we've played for that age range.

Other games my youngest two like (aged 4 and 6):

Trash Stash - a garbage truck game where you have to be the first to put all of your garbage in the truck.

Hungry Hippos - noisy, but always popular

Pop the Pig or Pop up Pirate - always good fun.

Zingo - a bingo game with pictures. Good for memory and picture matching

Surprise Slides game (we have PJ Masks and Lightning McQueen version) - good for turn taking and learning how to follow rules.

Once they get older our favourite game to play with my oldest (age 11) is Ticket to Ride.

not a board game, But “Taco, Cat , Goat, Cheese Pizza” is one of my kids fav ( ages 5+6)

At that age, we liked animal upon animal, rhino hero, sneaky snacky squirrel, uno, and the eye spot it games.

Outfoxed, the littlest orchard and the little orchard, sequence, racko

We started playing Quest Kids with our LO when he turned 4. He’s now 4.5 and we play it constantly with an e pension. It’s a dungeon crawler and does a great job introducing different aspects of tabletop gaming. We’ve also really been into a game called Kobuto Sumo.

Ok, so we love playing games on our house and our almost four year old has loved some of the ones below:

First Orchard (greatest kids game ever?) 2+ … introduces children to dice rolling, co-operative play and simple choices

My First Rhino Hero 2+ … build a tower with dexterity skills and teaches memory or numbers

My First Animal Upon Animal 2+ … balancing game, so dexterity skills again

Ghost Blitz Junior 3+ … quick-thinking logic game (which our son seems more adept at than we are)

Monza 4+ … racing game using colours and simple tactics

Stomp the Plank 4+ … pirate theme of walking the plank, teaching probability with a little dexterity thrown in

Loopin’ Louie 4+ … concentration needed to keep the loopin’ plane in the air

My First Carcassone 4+ … jigsaw puzzle kind of game which requires a little junior-sized logic to be the winner

Hoot Owl Hoot 4+ … co-operative colour based logic game

Outfoxed! 4+ … co-operative kids detective game which is better than Cluedo

Perfection 4+ … a classic but our kid is at the right age to really enjoy putting the shapes in the right slots

great activity - how old are your kids so I understand the recommended games starting age?

in that spirit, we got Dixit for Xmas and are able to include our 6 year old which is great

The creators of Exploding Kittens made a game called Chicken Butt designed specifically to be played with young kids. My 5yo and 3yo boys absolutely love it. Quick rounds, encourages using their imagination, and it gets them up and moving around. Highly recommend.

kids against maturity is on amazon right now for like 15 dollars.

Dragomino is quick snd easy, while still decrnt for adults.

Since you seem to like dungeon crawlers I heartily suggest Chronicles of Avel, it hits all the highs that make people love the genre in a very accessible package:

• great presentation
• lots of dice to roll
• very significant power curve
• a timer that feels tight but isn't that much really
• a tense ending
• light strategy and cooperation that can be directed if necessary
• relatively fast play time
• relatively fast setup if you bag tokens sensibly

My main problem with it has been getting my kids (similar age) to play anything else.

My kids love zombie kids and machi koro 2

Kids love King of Tokyo!

At 6, my kid could play a modified version of Stone Age, loved Kingdomino, the base version of Carcassonne and Machi Koro 2. Patchwork, Shifting Stones, and Karuba also got a good run about then.

Cards against humanity and uno

Try exploding kittens, really fun game 👍

Gusto ko laruin yang monopoly at uno card kaso wala naman akong kalaro haha

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