27 Best Board Games 2022: For Adults, Kids & The Whole Family
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The year's best board games for all ages
Hasbro Gaming Cluedo the Classic Mystery Board Game
A real traditional board game that your parents will remember playing when they were kids, Cluedo has players enacting a murder mystery by process of elimination to discover who was the killer. It's by no means a cooperative game - it's everyman for himself out in that manor.
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Galison Santa's Village Jigsaw Puzzle, 1000 Pieces
Much like building a brand new Christmas LEGO when one of your little ones receives one from Santa, putting together a jigsaw under the tree is a great festive pass-time and this one is full of all sorts of little characters and illustrations to marvel at. Start with the corners, of course.
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Mattel Games Balderdash Family Game
It's had a makeover since you might have seen it last, but Balderdash - from Mattel Games (previously Absolute Balderdash) - has family members making up ‘Balderdash’ lies to try and sound like a real fact. If your lie is picked by the majority as the real deal, then you can rack up points and, you guessed it, the player with the most points wins!
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Things they don't teach you in school Party Trivia Card Game
As far as we know, it's only been around since 2020, Things They Don't Teach You In School is a game of ‘useless’ knowledge for young adults and adults age 17+ that'll have you querying why doesn't the Mona Lisa have eyebrows? Good, clean, fun and likely one that you won't have played before unless you're a real aficionado of the best games.
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Drumond Park The LOGO Board Game Second Edition
Now with updated brands to bring in those younger family members that won't likely know that Jif changed to Cif in the ‘70s, the LOGO game has roundups of questions that increase in difficulty, with those game players with trivia special abilities going further on the board and closer to the winning square. That said, you might experience a bit of betrayal in this game, with one way to win the game sending players further forward with less correct answers…so there’s certainly a bit of strategy there.
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Do You Really Know Your Family? A Fun Family Game Filled with Conversation Starters and Challenges
A game that'll be just as accessible for 5-year-olds as it will 50-year-olds, Do You Really Know Your Family is a relatively new kid on the block that asks players to answer rogue trivia about their family - what's dad's favourite colour, does mum have a wacky phobia? Plus, the challenge rounds will have the whole family dancing, role-playing and more, all at the mercy of that round's judge.
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Pictionary Game
You know it and love it, Pictionary is the fast-drawing game that has players drawing out certain prompts for their teams to guess as many as possible within a set time. While there are newer expansion and spin-off Pictionary models - some involving apps and an interactive ‘Pictionary Air’ pen - this, the original base game, will always have a place in our hearts.
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Karen Party Game | Game from TV & Radio Personality Matt Edmondson
We are well and truly obsessed. Scrap The Game of Life because Karen's on the scene and she's ready to complain to her heart's content. Based off of real life Trip Advisor reviews, Karen is a quick 30-45 minute playtime game that'll have you all trying to write your own hilarious 1-star reviews, in a bid to win the favour of the group as the review that sounds the most like the real one (planted among the others).
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