Best board games for elementary-age kids?

[Anonymous]

I never see it in regular stores, but you can get Pente (the roll-up version is around $22) on Amazon. It's an outstanding game with simple rules and interesting play.

Another vote for Blokus. We have the version with triangular shapes.

Stratego is also fun.

We also like Bananagrams and You've been sentenced.

Hats Off, a game we loved in the 70s, came back fairly recently.

[Anonymous]

Our family loves:
Monopoly
Life
Risk
Battleship
Stratego
Carcassonne
Forbidden Desert
Ticket to Ride
Clue
Blokus
Quarto
Apples to Apples
Spot It
Slamwich
checkers, chinese and regular

[Anonymous]

We got both Labyrinth and Ticket to Ride for holidays. Both very big hits with 7 year old.

[Anonymous]

Kids love the Totally Gross game and the Diary of s wimpy kid cheese touch board game.

[Anonymous]

Tiki topple
Say anything
Yahtzee

...in addition to those already mentioned

[Anonymous]

And, Pictionary...another classic not mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got both Labyrinth and Ticket to Ride for holidays. Both very big hits with 7 year old.

My almost 7-year-old got Labyrinth, too, and we've had a lot of fun playing it. Sleeping Queens & Rat-a-Tat-Cat are also favorites.

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen Skip-bo mentioned on here. Card game, easy, multi-generational fun!

[Anonymous]

ticket to ride

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are so many great games made by newer companies that are so much better than the board games we grew up with.
Younger elementary card and board games:
Rat a tat cat
Sleeping queens
Hedbanz
Enchanted forest

Older kids
Ticket to ride
Carcassone
Settlers of Catan
Blokus
Swish

Best two board games ever. Can we be friends? For the kids of course, let's get them together to play Carcassonne =P

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are so many great games made by newer companies that are so much better than the board games we grew up with.
Younger elementary card and board games:
Rat a tat cat
Sleeping queens
Hedbanz
Enchanted forest

Older kids
Ticket to ride
Carcassone
Settlers of Catan
Blokus
Swish

Best two board games ever. Can we be friends? For the kids of course, let's get them together to play Carcassonne =P

I love you too! We are thinking of buying Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and 10 Days in the USA and/or 10 Days in Europe. Do you have any of these games?

[Anonymous]

We play a tile game called Snatch that challenges elementary to adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are so many great games made by newer companies that are so much better than the board games we grew up with.
Younger elementary card and board games:
Rat a tat cat
Sleeping queens
Hedbanz
Enchanted forest

Older kids
Ticket to ride
Carcassone
Settlers of Catan
Blokus
Swish

Best two board games ever. Can we be friends? For the kids of course, let's get them together to play Carcassonne =P

I love you too! We are thinking of buying Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and 10 Days in the USA and/or 10 Days in Europe. Do you have any of these games?

NP here-- we own Forbidden Island and Pandemic (but never heard of the 10 days...). As you probably know, those first two are pretty similar to each other but I think Pandemic is probably more popular in our house. There's also a newer game called Forbidden Desert along those lines where I think they tried to improve on Forbidden Island? and if you have an ipad there is a good version of forbidden island for the ipad.

[Anonymous]

sushi to go
bounce off
big boggle

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Ticket to Ride -- my 8 year old loves it and DH and I sometimes play just us.

My 8 year old just got into Clue, which is fun.

She also just got Spy Alley, which she seems to like but I think is boring.

Rat a tat Cat was popular when she was a bit younger.