Quarantine family game night suggestions

[azhuth09]

The past few weekends we’ve been playing a lot of games on zoom with family members we can’t go see. We’ve been doing a lot of the Jackbox party pack games but they’re starting to get a little stale because they’re basically all the same concept.

Anybody have any suggestions for new games? Bonus points for being easy to set up (not having to have everyone download or set up accounts).

 

[JM4CY]

This isn’t gonna help you but our house recently got monopoly cheated edition. My kids thoroughly enjoy it. Warning though: that game can be family feud inducing.

Daughter has been playing battle ship and Yahtzee with her friends via FaceTime but I don’t think that’s the kind of game your thinking of.

 

[jdcyclone19]

We've been playing a lot of cribbage, phase 10, uno, settlers and the wii.

 

[CycloneSarah]

If you like Settlers of Catan, we played this online version with friends last weekend and it was super easy to set up.
https://colonist.io/

 

[3GenClone]

I’ve got younger kids, so we’ve been playing games like Twister, Pop the Pig and Count Your Chickens.

We played Ticket to Ride First Journey and that was a lot of fun, but my wife and I had to supervise/help the kids most of the game.

 

[JM4CY]

I’ve got younger kids, so we’ve been playing games like Twister, Pop the Pig and Count Your Chickens.

We played Ticket to Ride First Journey and that was a lot of fun, but my wife and I had to supervise/help the kids most of the game.

OHH I forgot about ticket to ride. We got into that this winter. We have like 3 different versions of it: the one you mentioned, the main version, and some sort of speed version of it with taxis in NYC (don't remember the name).

 

[MeowingCows]

There's an online Cards Against Humanity clone.

Skribbl.io is a fun pictionary-style game.

Tabletop Simulator is absolutely incredible, but requires each person to buy a copy for the best experience by far. Some games could be done with 1 copy streamed, though. Admittedly, it's not super user-friendly at first.

Town of Salem has an online site. Mafia-style game.

PlayOK has a variety of classic card and dice games.

 

[Farnsworth]

We should have a CF game night.

 

[MeowingCows]

We should have a CF game night.

@Cy$ has been trying to arrange one in the Discord channel for a while now.

 

[isufbcurt]

Ticket to Ride is awesome. We have the Greats Lakes and World version.

 

[PSYclone22]

Ticket to Ride is awesome. We have the Greats Lakes and World version.

There's a Great Lakes version?! This Michigander is thrilled.

 

[EnhancedFujita]

I've been looking into ways to do a virtual board game night with friends this weekend. Here are two sites we're gonna try to use.

https://boardgamearena.com/

https://tabletopia.com/

 

[isufbcurt]

There's a Great Lakes version?! This Michigander is thrilled.

Yup. I like it because it incorporates ships and trains. So it's an extra layer to the strategy.

 

[Shawker]

Have you seen the movie Ready or Not? I'd recommend something like that.

 

[Cy$]

@Cy$ has been trying to arrange one in the Discord channel for a while now.

the struggle is real

 

[jrastrel]

I've been looking into ways to do a virtual board game night with friends this weekend. Here are two sites we're gonna try to use.

https://boardgamearena.com/

https://tabletopia.com/

I've used board game arena with some friends to play 7 wonders, Carcassonne, elfenland and some others. It works pretty well although the interface works much better on some games than others.

Dominion has an online version that is very simple to play. Its actually a lot better than playing with the cards imo. You can play with the basic set for free and then they have a different expansion every day that you can play with for free.
https://dominion.games/

 

[1100011CS]

Pandemic (board game)

 

[AuH2O]

There's a Great Lakes version?! This Michigander is thrilled.

We have the US and an Asia add-on. The Asia one is two sided and has two different versions, and one is targeted for teams. We've had those for 2-3 years - kids are 12 and 14 now.

Also Catan is great, but I think a longer game typically. We have an island/ocean add-on to that too, and that can be fairly complicated and long. For simpler/quicker games, highly recommend Blokus.

We have quite a few games, but seem to mostly just play those.

 

[CyGuy5]

Exploding kittens is fun. Not sure how you could do it on zoom however

 

[keepngoal]

Monopoly on the apple app store ($3.99) allows up to six family members (sharing accounts) to play on that account ... allows for remote adds if you have kids at school or wherever .... decent app.