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Top 20 Classic Family Board Games You Must Play With Your Kids

May 4, 2020 by Susan

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Classic board games are one of the best ways to spend quality family time. These days we’re all spending far more time than normal on our screens, so it’s an awesome idea to take breaks and play family board games.

Top 20 classic board games

When Janice I were growing up, we spent countless hours at our family cabin in the wilderness with no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing and no nearby neighbors with kids. We were born in 1973, so we grew up in the best years to be a kid… the 80’s.

(I’ve been thinking a lot lately about those childhood days… it’s hard to imagine my kids lasting 3 weeks without a phone, TV or screen of any sort.)

at-cabin-around-fireSome of my strongest childhood memories are waking up to pancakes cooked on a wood burning stove and playing Monopoly all evening with my sister and our parents as we sat by the fire to stay warm.

I loved playing board games. While I didn’t appreciate everything about our off-the-grid vacations, I adored having my parents’ undivided attention and devotion to playing games as a family.

At home, my parents were so busy with work and the typical demands of life, we rarely sat down as a family to play games. But we went to our wilderness cabin several times a year and sometimes we’d stay there for two or three weeks at a time.

So we played lots of games.

We logged the most hours playing Monopoly of course. I rarely won — Janice seemed to do far better than I did at stocking up on hotels and properties — but I loved that game so much!

I fondly remember playing Clue, Risk, The Game of Life, Connect 4, Operation and more. We also played Scrabble and Yahtzee… especially with my Nana, whom we would stop by and visit on our drive to the cabin. She was an expert at both Scrabble and Yahtzee. One of my favorite games — not a board game, but I must include it — was Uno.

I have a few of those exact same game boards still to this day. It is so fun to share these classic board games with my own girls.

Our 40 year old UNO deck is missing a few cards, but it’s incredible to think how many games we played with those same cards 40 years ago!

I couldn’t believe it when I pulled out our original Perfection game, added some new batteries, and discovered it still works 40 years later. (Thanks to my mom, we never even lost a single piece.)

Over the last several years, our family has loved played these classic board games.

Our Top 20 Classic Board Games

Which games do you remember playing as a kid? We had all the popular board games and played each of them for hours and hours and hours.

20 classic board games

These are our favorite classic family board games that we played most when we were kids…

  1. Monopoly
  2. Clue
  3. Uno
  4. Battleship
  5. Connect 4
  6. Sorry
  7. Perfection
  8. Boggle
  9. Hungry Hippos
  10. Operation
  11. Trouble
  12. Mastermind
  13. Snakes and Ladders
  14. The Game of Life
  15. Othello
  16. Backgammon
  17. Checkers
  18. Trivial Pursuit
  19. Yahtzee
  20. Scrabble

We were born in 1973, and so “games” were never electronic in our childhood. These classic board games provided quality family fun night after night. I’m truly thankful for all the time we spent as a family around these games.

You may think kids these days are happiest with a smartphone or laptop, but the truth is nothing can beat a good old fashioned game of Monopoly with the ones you love.

If you haven’t played a board game with your kids recently, make tonight “family game night”.

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Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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6 Comments

  1. Sarah says

    November 5, 2020 at 1:21 am

    nice

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  3. Laura Jayne says

    January 13, 2017 at 3:03 am

    To this day, Monopoly still causes arguments in my family! My partner had a nack for knowing which properties/groups produce the highest yield and then wipes the floor with us all. Scrabble is an absolute favourite, I can easily see away two or three hours with a single game.

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    • Susan says

      February 5, 2017 at 3:57 pm

      Yes, Monopoly can cause some heated competition!!!

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