As its fast approaching…The Best Games for your Christmas Party!
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It’s that time of the year when, even though we don’t always want to start thinking of it, Christmas is around the corner. One thing we love at Christmas, is getting the family or our friends together and enjoying some games together. Here’s my list of the best games for your Christmas Party.
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Don’t Get Got – Big Potato Board Games
It wouldn’t be a Christmas party without Don’t Get Got. In my opinion, this is the ultimate game for a party as you can play it alongside everything else. It can start when people arrive, continue through present giving and unwrapping, through Christmas dinner and into the evening.
Don’t get got example wallet mid game (left) and game box and wallet (right)
Each player gets a wallet with one mission everyone knows and 5 secret missions with the aim to complete 3 to win. The mission everyone knows is simply a ‘Guess what?’ which you succeed if someone replies with ‘What?’. This can often be the winning mission and can be attempted multiple times to help you succeed..
Then there’s 5 more secret tasks in your wallet to complete. These range from ‘Stick this card in a jam jar and get a player to open it’ to ‘call a player the incorrect name and get them to correct you’. These can only be attempted once, as if you are caught, you fail the task, so choose you have to choose your opportunity wisely!
The first to pass three tasks wins.
There’s also a christmas version! 🎅
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- Age 14+
- 🕑 As long as it takes
- 👤 2 – 8
Azul – Zatu games
Azul is a beautiful tile game where you aim to decorate a palace with tiles. You take turns to collect tiles from the plates and place them on your mosaic. You then score based on where tiles land, and which tiles you collect. A complicated one to explain, a fun one to play.
Azul is available on Amazon.
- Age 8+
- 🕑 30-45 min
- 👤 2 – 4
P for Pizza – Big Potato Games
P for Pizza, is a super simple party game for 2 – 4 players. Being suitable for smaller numbers it’s a good one to get out while the rest of the family do the Christmas clear up. Its fast, easy to get to grips with, and at Christmas, won’t make you hungry like it usually does!
To play, match a category with a corresponding letter and shout out an answer which connects the two before your teammates. Quickest correct answer wins a slice to build their own pizza pyramid. As the pyramid gets taller, the choice of categories lessens, increasing the difficulty to win.
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- Age 8+
- 🕑 15 min
- 👤 2 – 4
The Chameleon
A social deduction game like no other. Everyone knows the answer but the imposter. Each give a word to either convince you know the category, or hide from detection. Its a game everyone wants to play again and again.
- Age 14+
- 🕑 15 min
- 👤 3 – 8
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Catan
Catan is a longer game for later in the evening, where up to four players claim numbered hexagonal tiles and build a free settlement and road. Then as the dice is rolled, claim resources based on the tiles surrounding your settlements to build more settlements, cities and roads. Claim victory points and race to ten to succeed.
- Age 7+
- 🕑 60 min
- 👤 2 – 4
Sushi Go – Gamewright
Sushi Go is a deluxe, 2 – 8 player 20 minute sushi feast game – like you need another more influence to eat at christmas!
A game of Sushi Go last three rounds. In each round, each player is dealt a hand of cards. Simultaneously, each player chooses 1 card to play and places it face down. When all players have chosen the cards are turned and each player passes their hand to the left.
Sushi Go basic game set up
The round ends when all the cards have been placed, and then cards are scored depending on the type of sushi. The player with the highest points wins.
This is a good one for Christmas as it’s family friendly with a simple consept
- Age 8+
- 🕑 20 min
- 👤 2 – 8
Linkee
Linkee is a simple and fun trivia based team game which works best with three of more teams of two or more players. A question master then has four questions to ask one by one, then a clue if it’s still required to the teams. The first team to shout ‘Linkee!’ and guess the link between the answers then wins the card. Each card has a letter on the other side, and the first team to spell ‘Linkee’ wins.
Linkee set up (left) and example card (right)
There’s two extra little rules to use to stop the game going on forever when you get endless ‘E’s. You can ‘buy’ a letter from the bank in exchange for three cards, or delete one from another team at a cost of two cards.
Linkee is a favourite as its simple but highly competitive, with everyone ready to shout ‘Linkee!’
- Age 12+
- 🕑 30 min -1h
- 👤 2 – 30
So that’s my top games for this Christmas.
What’s game has to be at your Christmas party?
Thanks for reading,
Daddy and Munchkin
