Phase 10

Apples to apples
Clue
Beat the parents
Bingo
Mancala

Those are the big ones now, 1st and 4th graders. Also all kinds of card games-spot it and fluxx are 2 in heavy rotation.

Life.

One of my favorites as a kid.

We gave it to our 9-year old this Xmas and has wanted to play non-stop!

Rack-o is a fun old game. We played it a ton at my parents house this past week. And I second the recommendation to check out Capitol Hill's Labyrinth. The store owner always has lots of great suggestions.

Uno

Mastermind

Operation
Battleship
Playing card

Operation
Trivial Pursuit Family Edition (two set of questions, and the adult ones are pretty easy too)

Not board games..,but...,

Quirkle
Apples To Apples Jr.
Blockus

Thanks - keep them coming. I love the idea of newer board games and have a few from Haba which are great. We also have Headbanz - forgot about that one.

Perfection
Chinese Checkers
Simon
Parcheese
Payday
Scrabble
Boggle
Blokus

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

no idea but I heard a great program on Kojo with the owner of Labyrinth Games on Cap. Hill who had great suggestions if you are heading out on a shopping trip.

Me again - I forgot to add Connect Four!

I am purging the toys today after the huge Christmas haul. But I'd like to keep/buy some good board games for this age group. I know the classics - Monopoly, Life, Trouble, Sorry. We have chess, dominoes, checkers too. What else am I missing???