Card Games

We have quite a few versions of Top Trumps. It's a fun, easy to learn game where you'll learn some cool facts as you play.

2-6 players

Suitable for ages 6+

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A version of Uno with nasty rules.  Not for sore losers.

2-6 players.

Age suitability: 7 years plus

A fast paced 15 minute game that is good fun for all ages.

Place the category cards in a stack in the middle of the table. Surround it with three of the letter cards. Players race to shout a word that connects a letter to an adjacent category e.g. something made of metal starting with T? (Answer: Tin). 

The quickest player wins the card and uses it to build their own pizza pyramid. The first player to complete their pizza (nine cards total) wins the game.

A speedy, Sh..head-like game, card game where you must lose your cards as quick as you can.  If you are last, you get to wear the delightful scratch and sniff sticker.

2-4 players.

Age suitability: 6 years plus.

Travel sized edition of the popular game, packaged in a nice, robust tin.  

The Chameleon is a social deduction game where the whole table knows a secret word or topic except one, 'The Chameleon'. Players take turns saying words associated with the topic, but who is trying to blend in? Point at your suspect at the end of the round. Keep your words vague enough that the chameleon can't catch on, but not too vague that you end up being suspected as the chameleon!

Dobble is a modern-day classic game of observation. Each card in the tin is unique and has 8 symbols on it.  However one of these, but only one, symbols is shared with each of other cards.  You have to be the first to spot that shared symbol .  It should be easy but it's not.

Suitable for 6 years+  (younger children might stuggle with some of the symbols so try Kids Dobble which has fewer but more recognisable symbols)

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A team based guessing game. Players take turns to describe two words to their team within the 45 second limit, but without hesitating or saying 'umm, err' etc. Extra rules are added along the way to make for a hilariously chaotic game. Most eloquent team wins.

4-10 players. Games last around 15 minutes. 

Suitable for ages 10+

This is a great travel game, packaged in a nice robust tin. 

Deal out the fish, one player will get the blue and the rest will have red. Read aloud the trivia question, the players with red fish will give fake answers and the one blue player will give the real answer. Each round, one player has to catch the fake answers, separating the truthful blue fish from the red herrings.

4-8 players. Games last about 15 minutes.

Suitable for ages 10+

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Sleeping Queens is a card game in which the first player to wake up four of the 12 queens is the winner.  So you lay out the 12 queens face down (sleeping) on the table and deal five cards to each player. The stack of remaining cards is placed (face down) in the centre of the table.  When it's your turn, you must play one of your cards.

Playing a king means that you get to wake up a queen; a knight enables you to steal one of your opponents' queens unless they hold a dragon card which counteracts a knight; a sleeping potion card is used to send an opponent's queen back to sleep unless they can negate that with a magic wand card; jokers allow you to pick up another card from the pile number cards can be discarded singly or in multiples. At the end of your turn you pick up fresh cards so that you always have five cards in your card and of course you hope to pick the useful cards that will enable you to win more queens.  Sounds complicated but it's not really.  Each game takes about 20 minutes.

2 - 5 players

Age suitability: 8+  (although the game was invented by a six year old and many children below 8 will be able to enjoy the game)

 

 

 

Ever heard of a 'bellyfish'? Half bee, half jellyfish this is the rarest of the muddles waiting to be created in this fun game.

Players collect two real animals and combine them to create a brand new muddle. The rarer the muddle, the more points. You'll need to combine luck, skill and perhaps some cunning to make the most valuable muddles and win the game. 

2-4 players. Games last around 20 minutes.

Suitable for ages 6+

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Outrun The Chaser and your opponents in this race to win the most ‘cash’.
Push your luck or play it safe, just don’t get caught!
Contents: 52 question cards, 6 perforated cards, fold-out board, tokens, spinner, rule cards.

3 plus players with a recommended age of 14 plus.

The game takes 20-30 minutes.