Christmas is all about spending time with loved ones, and nothing beats a good game to bring everyone together. Here’s a mix of paid and free games, all perfect for families and friends this festive season.
Charades
A Christmas classic that needs no introduction! All you need is to pre-write a list of prompts (or you can make them up on the spot). Act out festive words or phrases like “wrapping presents” or “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” while others try to guess exactly what it is! It’s simple, fun, and always gets the room laughing and what’s more it’s free!
Who Am I?
For a cheap yet fun idea, “Who Am I?” is perfect. All you need to buy is a bundle of sticky notes to write the names on! You can make this game as festive or silly as you want as you write the name of a famous person, character, or festive figure such as The Grinch or Mariah Carey and stick it to someone’s forehead. Players take turns asking yes/no questions to figure out who they are.
Pass the Parcel
Bring back childhood nostalgia. Wrap a small gift with several layers of wrapping paper, adding little treats or challenges between the layers. You could even play festive music as the parcel is passed around. When the music stops, the person holding the parcel unwraps a layer making this a fun activity for kids and adults alike!
Six Second Scribbles
Offering fun for all ages Six Second Scribbles asks you to doodle out 10 things from a given category in just one minute, leading to silly pictures and lots of laughs. Offering 3 difficulty levels this game, think small, think quick and get scribbling! Perfect for ages 8+ and for 2-8 players.
Oh Deer
This fun stacking game takes on a Christmas twist as it asks you to stack reindeer. You are going to need a steady hand if you don’t want them to fall! Perfect for people of all ages Oh Deer, can be played alone or in groups. From seeing who can stack it highest, to the loser is the one who knocks it down, there are multiple way to play!
Why Games Make Christmas Magical
Whether you’re dusting off old favourites or trying something new, games are a brilliant way to bring fun and laughter to your celebrations. Best of all, many of these ideas require little to no preparation, meaning you can focus on what matters most; spending time together.
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My favourite Game is pictionary as it is always so funny to try and guess what people are trying to draw
I like a game of charades for the whole family to play!
That’s Miffy not Hello Kitty, but still a great prize 🙂
I like playing Trivial Pursuit. It’s a classic!
Trivial pursuit but usually ends in an argument as hubby cheats
charades, we play it every year, its so funny
I like to play charades with the family or any where you don’t have to be brain of Briton and can just have a laugh.
I love Oh Deer! And the competition prize is super cute!
We love game of life, we name our people we pick up along the way. Marriage, kids etc. It’s so much fun
We like to play colour brain Disney version at Christmas
The snowman board game
I like Bingo and Monopoly
i love playing monpoly with the family – its so much fun over christmas!
Monopoly is always fun, takes quite some time too.
W love playing Monopoly, so much fun!
You can’t beat the good old fashioned charades. No planning and suitable for all ages.
We love a good old game of cards, we play queenside
We love playing Star Wars Monopoly
I love Pictionary!
Bingo is a favourite at ours. Merry Christmas
With the kids we love Sorry, an oldie but a goodie. With the adults we love Articulate or Logo
I do like playing Risk with friends together.
It’s not exactly Christmassy but we always play connect 4, for hours on end!
we play christmas monopoly, we bought this years ago
Trivial Pursuit, always a family favourite
Trivial Pursuit is a firm favourite in our house
We usually play a board game like Monopoly or the kiddies like to bake cookies!
We love to play the LOGO board game!
We love playing all kinds of family games. But my favourites are quiz games like Trivial Pursuit
We always end up playing Monopoly at Christmas.
We love playing Monopoly at Christmas, a game takes ages and we have so many breaks, but its always fun.
We like to play board games as a family at Christmas.
Charades
We as a family loved to play Scrabble at Christmas time, always been a family favourite.
It has to be charades!
Probably charades or a multi player game like mario kart
You can’t beat charades! It’s a classic and everyone of all ages can play it together.
We enjoy playing Monopoly
We enjoy family board games, and normally play any news ones we got as presents.
My favourite game to play at Christmas has to be the classic Monopoly. It’s tradition!