Banish Winter Break Boredom with These Popular Family Board Games Starting at $9
12/18/2024 07:30 AM
They also make great gifts
There's nothing like a rousing family board game to bring everyone together during the holiday season. Board games are a great way to keep kids occupied over winter break or to spark some friendly competition during festive gatherings.
Choose from timeless favorites such as Clue and Sorry!, or try your hand at fun twists on the classics, like Monopoly: Wicked Edition or Clue: Wizarding World Harry Potter Edition. Amazon is filled with popular board games for different ages and group sizes, from two players to 20. And if you're shopping last-minute, these all make excellent gifts — and they'll be on your doorstep in time to put under the tree.
Best Family Board Games at Amazon
- Under $10:Candy Land Kingdom of Sweet Adventures Board Game, $9 (orig. $12)
- Stocking Stuffer:Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, $10
- Monopoly: Wicked Edition Board Game, $24 (orig. $30)
- Clue: Wizarding World Harry Potter Edition Board Game, $39
- Risk Board Game, $34
- Sorry!: Disney Villains Edition Board Game, $25
- The Game of Life Board Game, $22 (orig. $26)
- Scrabble Board Game, $21 (orig. $22)
- Exploding Kittens Original Edition, $17 (orig. $20)
- What Do You Meme? Family Edition, $14 (orig. $20)
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Candy Land Kingdom of Sweet Adventures Board Game
$12
$9
Candy Land is the perfect introduction to board games for kids as young as three. Instructions are simple to follow: Simply race your gingerbread man to the castle while encountering delicious surprises along the way — no reading required.
One Amazon reviewer said it is "very good for a first board game." They added that "it is fun and colorful and helps to teach them how to be patient and take turns as well as how to have fun, even if you don't finish first."
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
$10
Need a last-minute stocking stuffer idea? Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is it. This simple yet fast-paced card game can accommodate up to eight people. Players will race against each other to slap a match between a spoken word and a card, but three action cards will pop up and surprise you along the way. "Kids love this game," one shopper said. "I feel like I need protective handwear to play because my kids take it so seriously."
Monopoly: Wicked Edition Board Game
$30
$24
For the Wicked-obsessed, there's now an Oz-themed version of the classic Monopoly game — and this game is gorgeous. Move gold tokens around the board to purchase properties from the land of Oz using munchkin homes and emerald castles, collecting Ozian coins along the way.
Clue: Wizarding World Harry Potter Edition Board Game
$39
The classic game of Clue has been given a Wizarding World twist. Move around the board to solve the head-scratching whodunit as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and other iconic characters, while revealing secret passages, changing staircases, and more along the way. This one may be a bit complicated for younger players, so grab this for older Harry Potter fans.
Keep scrolling for more popular family board games at Amazon you can snag before Christmas.
Sorry!: Disney Villains Edition Board Game
$25
Risk Board Game
$34
The Game of Life Board Game
$26
$22
Scrabble Board Game
$22
$21
Exploding Kittens Original Edition
$20
$17
What Do You Meme? Family Edition
$20
$14
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