Expanding Your Game Cabinet
We’ve scrounged around the internet, gone diving in friends’ game cupboards, and immersed ourselves in boardgame TikTok to pull together a list of some new games you may not have heard of before.
*This list is ordered by age range and number of players.
Let’s Get Talking
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Age range: 8+
Players: 3+
Difficulty:1/5
Play time: As long as you like or until the deck runs out
How to Play: A conversational game, take turns asking and answering questions from three different categories: Light, Big, and Bigger. Whether you’re judging who has the most interesting answer or just need an icebreaker in a big group, pull questions like “Have you ever been confused as a celebrity?” to “If you could steal one thing and get away with it, what would it be?” and get the party started!
Moose Master
Age range: 8+
Players: 3+
Difficulty: 1/5
Play time: 30 min
How to Play: It’s like Simon Says, but with more opportunities to mess with your opponents. Choose 2 rules to start with and then go through a series of different challenge cards – you forget to follow a rule, or mess up the challenge – you get a Penalty card, and if you get 7 you’re out! Last one standing wins.
Chicken vs. Hot Dog
Age range: 10+
Players: 2-10
Difficulty: 1/5 (to 5/5 depending on your coordination)
Play time: 15-60 min
How to Play: Split into two teams and partake in a flip battle to determine the ultimate flipping master. Turn over challenge cards and then place secret bids if you think you can succeed, or make a low bid to try and avoid it. If the bids match, you head into a Flipperama, where the winner gets to attempt the challenge! Succeed in your challenge to flip over a card to complete either your chicken or hot dog, first to six completing their image wins!
Herd Mentality
Age range: 10+
Players: 7-8
Difficulty: 1/5
Play time: 20 min
How to Play: The aim of the game is to be like everyone else. A question will be posed, for example: “A brand beginning with the letter A.” Everyone secretly writes down their own answer, hoping you’ll have the same answer as everyone else. Those who wrote down the most common answer (in our example let’s say ‘Apple’) receives a point (majority ties get no points!) BUT if one player has an answer that doesn’t match anyone else at all, they receive the Pink Cow punishment, if you have it you can’t win no matter how many points you have. First to 8 wins (as long as the Pink Cow isn’t part of their herd)!
Pick Your Poison (SFW and NSFW versions)
Age range: 12+ (SFW) and 17+ (NSFW)
Players: 3-16
Difficulty: 1/5
Play time: 30-60 min
How to Play: What are you willing to live with? Each round a judge is chosen and picks one ‘poison’ from their hand, other players then submit a second scenario from their hand. After the judge chooses from the submitted cards and then you may question the judge – the judge’s goal is to make the scenario as difficult as possible. Players submit their vote, those who voted in the majority get the point for that round! Optionally, you get to double down and get more points if you’re right. So, would you rather never have s’mores again or always forget to dump your tanks?
The Chameleon
Age range: 14+
Players: 3-8
Difficulty: 2/5
Play time: 15 min per round
How to Play: Lie to your friends and family for fun and profit! (If profit is the smug knowledge you’ve tricked everyone) In your group you’ll have a secret word or phrase that everyone must then respond to with a word of their own in relation. The trick? One of you is the Chameleon, who doesn’t actually know the word but must try and blend in and not be discovered so choose your word carefully, you don’t want to give the Chameleon any hints. If you blend, you win a point, if you don’t everyone else does!
Business Walrus
Age range: 17+
Players: 4-20
Difficulty: 1/5
Play time: 30min
How to Play: Compete to invent products and win millions from the world’s greatest investor: the Business Walrus. Move away from the ‘fill in the blank’ format of similar card games and pull cards with ‘Asks’ and ‘Must Haves’ with the Walrus throwing in surprise twists. Have your pitch judged by the Walrus who switches each round, the player with the most winning pitches by the end of the game wins!
