Board games for game night?

bim38106

What are your favorite board games for a Game Night?

Right now all we have is Cranium, Apples to Apples, and Loaded Questions...it's been a while since we've updated our games

msanyang9

Taboo and Jenga

gegebaby504

Guesstures and Pictionary are fun games especially if you do men vs women

HockeyWife2be

Catch Phrase, Mad Gab, Scrabble (although that's a little boring for a "fun" game night)

Milsey32

bim38106:

What are your favorite board games for a Game Night?

Right now all we have is Cranium, Apples to Apples, and Loaded Questions...it's been a while since we've updated our games

Wow.. I am NO help because those are my top 3 favorites for game night, haha

We also like Guesstures, Jenga, and during the summer - Disney Scene It (a group of friends that all work at a summer camp, we like to keep up to date with our Disney knowledge) 

DuskwoodEmpire

Boxers or Briefs (similar in concept to Apples to Apples) and Imaginiff are popular in my circle.  Werewolves of Millers Hollow can be kind of fun with a really large group.

jj_sbride

I Love Mad Gab.

Jellyfish42

Apples to Apples and Cranium are my two favorite games to play, too! I also like Life, Clue (though its a little ho-hum for game night), and Scene-it! Can't go wrong with Scene-it!

 

SuMmErKuTiE

Our favorite games for game night are:

Catch Phrase

Apples to Apples

Dutch Blitz

Scene It

Life

Trivia Pursuit

Taboo

Adjudi-Kate

We couch surfed with a couple in Montreal last summer who were HUGE board game fans.  They actually both worked for board game companies.  Anyways, they open our eyes to a number of new board games that are internationally popular, but for some reason don't get so much attention the USA.  Something to do with marketing probably. There is actually a competition each year for best board game in the world.  The award is called Spiel des Jahres.  http://boardgames.about.com/od/awards/a/sdj_winners.htm

From that list of award-winners, I've played Qwirkle and Dixit and Ticket to Ride. All were great fun and easy to learn.  Just played Qwirkle with my cousins last weekend - it's their favorite!

nd01

My husband and I play a lot of board games (mostly very esoteric German ones but have plenty of party ones too!).  The family favorite that my parents will agree to play is Wits And Wagers (they hate every other game so that's a good sign).  Imaginiff is also very fun and has a similar vibe to Apples to Apples. 

TravelSnob

depending on how big your group is, we love to play the game "things".

 

You can even make it up yourself, just cut up a bunch of small papers and write a bunch of questions that start with things ex: things you would find at the office.

Everyone writes their answer on their small piece of paper and you must guess who wrote what. 

bim38106

Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I've found a few that I think we're going to love. Now to pick just 1 or 2...