15 Kids’ Games That Are Actually Fun for the Whole Family

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CocoMelon-land). Everyone loves a family game night ideas in theory, but unless we find ourselves in a quaint woodland Airbnb with spotty internet, it’s just too easy to opt out.

Also, let’s be honest: Many kids’ games are actually not that much fun for the whole family. is super cute until your third trip through the peppermint forest.

is more engaging, since it involves actual strategy, but it can also be deeply unsatisfying, as it often involves a slow descent into debt and is frequently abandoned long before there’s a winner. (Fun fact: Among the million Monopoly reboots, there’s a version designed to .

People are masochists.) Scrabble, on the other hand, can be a great game and so deeply satisfying, but only when your players possess roughly similar spelling/vocab abilities and you have the that keeps the letter tiles neatly in place and you don’t have a hypercompetitive mom who smugly tallies triple-letter score after triple-word score and laughs at your underutilized Q.