If you think that all ideas for a family evening at home are limited to sitting around the table and watching a movie, then you are mistaken. An evening of board games with your family will help you break away from the bustle of everyday life and social networks. Wday and Cosmodrome Games have collected 7 of the best games that will be interesting for both children and adults.
Indians
This is a fun and addictive game where each of you has to become the leader of the tribe and take responsibility for the prosperity of your domain. You can attract strong and authoritative Indians of various professions to your tribe, collect food supplies, defend against enemy raids and, of course, conduct rituals in honor of the spirits of nature.
During your turn, you must choose a new ally among the Indians with a useful specialty, and pick up cards of natural resources that your newly minted colleague is able to mine. Each move involves only one action, which makes the game process more dynamic and interesting. The rules are quite simple and understandable for players of all ages, so that several generations of Indians will be able to compete for domination over the prairies at once.
One batch of the game lasts about half an hour, but immersion in the realities of the life of the Redskins can captivate you for the whole evening!
Imadzinarium
This is a simple and addicting game that not only develops creativity, but also helps players get to know each other better. In the Imaginarium, you need to come up with associations to pictures created by famous artists and designers. Each of them contains many images and plots, so each game party is unique. The winner will be the one who not only displays a rich imagination, but also can guess the associations of others.
Each player receives a set of cards. The first player chooses one of the cards, comes up with an association for it and puts it face down on the table. Other players choose among their cards the most suitable for the sounded association and also put it on the table. The cards are shuffled and turned over. And here the most interesting thing begins – you need to guess which of the cards belongs to the first player. For correct answers, players receive points and move forward along the playing field.
For those who are already familiar with this game, the creators have released additional sets of cards with new bright images.
Cotem City
You are a resident of the feline metropolis of Cotham City, where mayoral elections are held. Your goal is to get this prestigious post at any cost.
Each player receives 6-8 cards with city communities or factions, another 7 are laid out on the table. In one move, you can perform one of the actions: take cards from the table or play your own. Each faction has rules for drawing and scoring. To win a cat-election, you need to get the support of urban communities at all costs, even if you have to leak dirt on competitors to journalists or bribe officials. Become the most influential politician and take the honorary place of Mayor of Cotham City!
An alchemist from Glastonbury
In the city of Glastonbury, you can find everything: the legs of bats, and tincture of blue cactus needles, and ground dragon scales. However, brewing a quality potion is a difficult task, even for experienced magicians. You never know which potion will be stronger!
You have to collect all the secret ingredients. To do this, keep all your purchases in mind, calculate your moves and keep an eye on other players – the competition is very high. Remember that every self-respecting wizard always has a couple of family recipes in stock that bring additional bonuses. You can use them only when you comprehend all the secrets of potion making and are ready to complicate your task. These are optional secret tasks that future wizards receive before starting the game.
There are two variants of the rules in the game, simple (the game will take ≈ 25 minutes) and more difficult (≈ 40 minutes), so you can always calculate your time and energy, because magic is not easy.
Restoration of monsters
To do this, you need to take turns getting cards with monster personnel from the deck. There should be enough monsters for the restaurant to work well. If there are not enough of them, you will not have time to serve all clients, and if there are many, there will simply not be enough space for clients. Therefore, the goal of the game is to collect the optimal number of cards with the highest sum of points. Always be on the alert, because monsters can do harm. Send harmful monsters to your competitors’ restaurants and recruit useful ones to your monster team!
Nyashek’s races
In this exciting game you will help Nyashki in the competition for speed and agility. To do this, each player will have a spy kit and … donuts! Nyashki just adore them! During the competition, you can teleport or speed up Nyashek, create obstacles for them, or, conversely, simplify the track. The main thing is to remember that spy devices must be used carefully, otherwise they will only harm. The winner will be the one whose donuts are eaten the most along the way by the fastest Nyashka. Even if someone fails to win, the gameplay will definitely give everyone a good mood and awaken the appetite before a hearty family dinner.
For fish feed
You are the worst sailors that the waters of the Caribbean have ever seen. The captain of your fast ship is tired of the endless tomfoolery of the crew and invites all the sailors to walk on the board and go to feed the inhabitants of the deep sea. But … Karamba! He took pity and decided to leave two of you on the ship – those who, by cunning, would push the recent comrades off the board. The fallen ones go to feed the fish, and the two remaining pirates win the game. Use your wits to throw your comrades into the water and not fall by yourself!
Each will have three pirates and 10 cards with possible actions. Each turn, the players choose the three actions they want to take and place the corresponding cards face down on the table. The first player flips his first card and takes an action. Then the second player turns over his first card. All remaining cards are opened in the same way.
The game takes no more than half an hour, but leaves a lot of positive emotions. The set also includes a pirate chest for long voyages, in which you can take the game on the road.