Gifted 4 years old +

• Articulate
• Bananagrams
• Beat the parents
• Blokus,
• Battleships
• Boss Monster
• Catan (Junior version – The kids enjoy it and it has the flexibility for fewer players – however it really is nothing on the full version. ),
• Carcasonne
• Chess.
• Chess – No stress Chess (is a great way to introduce it and it has the standard board on the flip side when ready to progress.)
• Chess – Tic Tac Chec (If you think the full game is too tricky – you can get a game called ‘tic tac chec’ that is a more basic game designed to teach chess as a first step for younger kids.  https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3540/tic-tac-chec )
• Cluedo
• Cranuim
• Dragon Wood
• Dixit
• Forbidden Island – Both rated for much older children, but the first is definitely fine for a 5-year-old with a long enough attention span.
• Fandooble
• Goblet.
• Granny Wars
• Harry Potter Clue,
• Hoard (Released 2017)
• King of Tokyo
• Monopoly,
• Mastermind
• Mancala
• Munchkin
• Patchwork
• Pictionary
• Pandemic
• Rumikub
• Shut the Box –  a 4 player maths game, where you roll 2 dice and can add, subtract, multiply or divide to pull down each of your counters (numbered 1-10).
• Scrabble Junior
• Shushi Go
• Ticket to Ride
• Ti-chu
• Trivial Pursuit  – Junior  (Trivial pursuit is hands down the family favourite. You can get family edition with a set of cards for kids as well as adult cards, plus you can buy extension packs on specialist things (like Dr Who 🙂 )
• Yatzee

Card games

• Aquarius,
• Dragonwood,
• Gubs,
• Kodama,
• Tsuro (2004) the game of the path, Tsuro of the seas, Tsuro: Phoenix rising.
• Quartermaster
• Monopoly Deal
• Ninty Noe or Bust
• Thinkfun,
• 500 (preschool teachers didn’t bat an eyelid and kindly accommodated them, we just had to provide fresh packs of cards and they enjoyed the challenge lol)
• Gin Rummy
• Go Fish
• Patience
• Uno,
• Set

Dice Games  –

• Dino Dice, Go Nuts
• Yatzee.
• Black Jack
• Monopoly Empire (faster).
• Yahtzee

Home made Games

We also play homemade Headbands with inventors, philosophers, musicians, elements etc. It’s pretty much a mashup between Headbandz and Animal/Mineral/Vegetable.

Gifted 8+ Games

• Thunderbirds collaborative board game, ( It’s really challenging. It’s fantastic! Great for a VS boy because it has plastic 3d Thunderbird ships and crew making it easier to follow the game)
• Risk
• Catan  – the full version. There are a number of editions eg Settlers of Catan, Barbarians and Traders of Catan
• Scrabble
• Dungeons and Dragons (possibly 9 and up)
• Forbidden Desert
• Windspan
• Terraforming mars