25 Family Game Night Ideas: Our Family’s Favorite Games!

Our family really loves to have fun together – I imagine that’s much like your family, right? One of our favorite family fun activities is to play games together. This includes board games, video games, card games, and even fun made-up games! We choose our game depending on the mood – sometimes we want to run around the house and get our heart rate going, while other times we prefer to sit down for a quieter board game night. No matter which game we decide on playing together as a family, the important thing is that we’re having fun and making memories as we laugh. In case you need a few family game night ideas or want to take advantage of holiday sales to add to your collection of fun family games, here are some of our family’s favorite games!

25 Family Game Night Ideas: Our Family’s Favorite Games to Play Together!

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Family Board Games

• Clue
• Hedbanz
• Jenga
• Monopoly
• Scrabble
• Kerplunk!
• UNO
• Bubble Talk
• Wits & Wagers Family Edition
• Pictionary Frame Game

Family Video Games

• Rayman Legends
• Dance Central games
• Just Dance games
• Little Big Planet – All are good, but we own Litle Big Planet 3.
• Disney Infinity 3.0 and the Marvel Battlegrounds Play Set

More Family Game Night Ideas

• Indoor or Outdoor games
  • Hide & Seek
  • Tag
  • Bowling – We have a similar set and it works great in an open area indoors too!
  • Treasure Hunts – Have fun making up your own inside the house or in the backyard!
  • Bean Bag Toss – We have this exact set!
• Card games
  • Go Fish
  • Old Maid
  • Crazy Eights
  • Memory
  • War

These are some of our go-to family game night ideas and our usual favorite family games. We do mix things up and play a variety of other family board games or video games, but these are the ones that are most often played. The kids love playing as a family and even though our youngest is 5 years old, he is able to keep up with most of these games. If not, then he teams up with either myself or my husband to play along and join the family fun!

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