Board Games

A game for everyone, anywhere.  So simple to learn, such fun to play.

One up on Connect 4, this time you have to connect five.

Take turns to lay your tiles on the table.  The first to get five in a row, up, across or diagonally, wins.

Children seem particulary good at this, annoyingly.

2- 4 players

Age suitability: 6 years plus.

Traditional board game with wooden board and pieces.

Race to get your pieces from one point of the star to the opposite point, either by moving one step at a time or by hopping over one or more other pieces.

The board measures about 28 cm across.

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

Choose which path to take in your life and see who retires the richest.

Go to college and aim for a higher paid job or start earning straightaway instead, buy a house, take out a loan - what will pay in the end?

2-4 players.

Age suitability: 8 years plus.

The fast-dealing property trading games that has probably caused more family rows than any other game.  This is the classic British version set in London, from Old Kent Road to Mayfair.

Move round the board buying and selling properties, building houses and hotels whilst trying to avoid bankruptcy.  Sometimes it's cheaper just to go to Jail.

2-6 players

Age suitability: 8+

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Scrabble is one of those games that has been around for ages.  You either love it or you don't.

We sell it in this, the bonanza version  where you get Classic Scrabble on one side of the board and Scrabble Together on the other.  Every one knows the classic version but Scrabble Together is a cooperative game in which you work together to solve word challenges.  If you can't do it, you use a help card.  You lose when you have used up all the help cards.  You win when you complete twenty challenges.

2 - 4 players

Age suitability: 10 - Adult

Help the rabbits race up the hill towards the juicy carrot but watch out for the naughty mole and the holes that open up in the path.

2 - 4 players.

Age suitability: 4+ years.

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Go round the board and pick up cheese pieces without getting caught in the trap. First mouse to get six cheeses wins.

Board requires adult assembly.

2 - 4 players

Age suitability: 6+

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Outfoxed is an excellent cooperative deduction game.  Someone has stolen Mrs Plumpert's prize pie and you and the other players have to work out which fox is the guilty one. At each roll of dice, you get a chance of finding a clue or revealing a suspect.  If you are unlucky or you make a mistake, the fox moves three steps closer to getting away.

Children like this game because it's fun.  Parents like it because it also encourages the children's logic and memory skills.

Each game takes about twenty minutes.

Age suitability: 5 +

2-4 players

Here is an excellent review on Youtube from Tom Vasel of the Dice Tower:

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This game was 'Game of the Year' in 2017. Superficially it is quite simple.  Everybody starts with a castle, around which you build your kingdom.  Then you choose your dominoes. On these are pictured the type of lands you will have in your kingdom.  So you might have a domino with a square of forest at one end and water at the other, or another with meadow at both ends. After you have chosen each domino, you lay it around the castle and, like in dominoes, you can only put a farmland domino next to another farmland and so on. At each step your kingdom gets bigger.  The aim though is to build as big an area of each type of land as you can within your kingdom. So you score more points if you have a block of five squares of farmland together than you would if those five squares were split. Once you have all placed your dominoes, that's the end of the game and you have to total the points.

Each round takes about 15 minutes.

2 - 4 players

Age suitability: 8 +

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Traditional backgammon game with wooden board, counters and dice.

The board measures about 28 cm across.

Made from FSC™-certified wood.