Play some cooperative games next family game night!
After a long week of soccer practice and piano lessons and school homework, sometimes you just want everyone to come together with no competition and just get everyone on the same page. That’s why there are cooperative family or party games where everyone is working together. You all get to win together. Of course, you also all get to lose together, if things don’t work out.
Darin Adams shared some of the best cooperative games. Your family or friends will love teaming up to make sure everyone comes out a winner.
Cross Clues – Blue Orange Games
This game is great for an ice breaker to get started. You have to complete a grid by giving clues about how two words could be connected. There aren’t even any formalized turns, so there’s less stress. If you want to give a clue, pick up a card and do it. Everyone is working together to complete the 4×4 grid as quickly as possible.
Just One – Repos Productions
This is always a slam dunk favorite, partly because it’s so easy. Everyone writes down and turns in clues that will help one person guess an assigned word. If two people give the same clue, they get cancelled out and the clues can’t be given. You can’t give the most obvious clue or it will get cancelled… unless everyone thinks that way. You all win if the person can guess the word.
Whozit – Gamewright
This game is a go-to, and right now, it’s less than $10 on Amazon. Who would be more likely to give up their seat on a bus: Darth Vader or Papa Smurf? One person gives clues about an assigned character from a pool of options and everyone has to figure out who the correct character is. You have to work together to get to the final square through five rounds.
Outfoxed – Gamewright
This is the best game in the world for younger kids. If you have kids in the 4-9 range, this game is a must have. You have to figure out which fox stole pie by earning the chance to place special tokens in a slider contraption that reveals clues. The sliding mechanism is the best part of the game, and everyone is working together to reveal the clues before time runs out.
So Clover – Repos Production
Each player has four pairs of words placed on their “clover” board. They have to write a word that ties the two words together, but when all the cards with words are mixed up, the rest of the group has to place the cards in the right places on the clover based on the clues written on each side.
Link City – Blue Orange Games
This is a brand new game where the mayor has to allow certain new businesses to build in the city and the rest of the group has to predict where he will allow it. Should a park be built next to a tattoo parlor or a luxury apartment building? You have to predict what the mayor planned as you try to build out your city.
Find more of Darin’s game recommendations, and enter his giveaway, on Instagram, @oneandonlygameking.
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