The best board games to play as a family
The top 3 according to 63 votes from people: Virus! · Codenames · Ticket to Ride. (Updated Sep 28, 2025.)
The games that show up most in 2025 recommendations for playing with kids and grown-ups: rules you can explain in five minutes and short games. Taken from press guides and specialist shops.
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Top 15
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Virus!
By Tranjis Games, for 2 to 6 players and about 20 minutes: be the first to collect four healthy organs.
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Codenames
By Vlaada Chvátil, in teams: spymasters give one-word clues to find their agents. Spiel des Jahres 2016.
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Ticket to Ride
By Alan R. Moon, for 2 to 5 players: claim railway routes with train cards. Spiel des Jahres 2004.
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Dixit
By Libellud, for 3 to 8 players aged 8+: guess which illustrated card the storyteller is describing. Spiel des Jahres 2010.
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Concept
For 4 to 12 players: get others to guess a word by placing markers on universal icons.
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Catan
Klaus Teuber's 1995 classic: trade wood, brick, grain, wool and ore to settle the island.
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Trivial Pursuit
Questions on geography, entertainment, history, art, science and sport to win all six wedges.
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Cheating Moth
For 3 to 5 players: the first to get rid of their cards wins, cheating without being caught by the watchful bug.
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Guatafamily
480 cards of speed and imagination where you have to answer within 8 seconds.
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Skyjo
A card game for 2 to 8 players aged 8+: the goal is to score as few points as possible.
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Carcassonne
For 2 to 5 players aged 7+: lay tiles to build cities, roads and monasteries. Spiel des Jahres 2001.
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12
Rummikub
Numbered tiles combined into runs and groups, for 2 to 4 players; games last 30 to 60 minutes.
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13
Cluedo (Clue)
Hasbro's detective game: work out who, with which weapon and in which room; 2 to 6 players.
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Jenga
A tower of 54 wooden blocks: take one out each turn without knocking it down.
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Hanabi
A co-op game for 2 to 5 players where you see everyone's cards except your own. Spiel des Jahres 2013.
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16
Beat That!
Crazy physical challenges with cups, balls and other props, for 2 to 8 players.
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When I Dream
For 4 to 10 players: one player wears a blindfold and must guess their dream from the others' clues.
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Ubongo
Grzegorz Rejchtman's time trial puzzle game in which each player fits pieces onto their board.
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Kids vs Parents
Over 100 questions and 50 challenges pitting kids against grown-ups; ages 6+.
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Spot It!
A reflex game with 55 round cards: any two cards always share exactly one symbol.
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Taboo
In teams, get your partners to guess a word within a minute without saying the forbidden words on the card.
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Comments (2)
El Virus! en casa lo jugamos cada domingo, los peques (7 y 10) se pican muchísimo jaja
Falta el Ubongo, perfecto para jugar con niños y adultos a la vez.