Get Festive With These Holiday Board Games
If you have lots of holiday parties and get-togethers to attend this year, add a little merriment with these holiday board games!
It’s that time of the holiday season when you may have a ton of social obligations coming up. Between work holiday parties, family holiday parties, and the attempt to make time for friends, we’ve all got a lot going on. But these events don’t have to be boring with the right game.
Merry Madness
This one would work any time between early September and late December. Merry Madness is a Nightmare Before Christmas game of spreading spooky cheer. All of the terrifying Christmas presents have gotten loose, and you have to help Jack gather them all back into Sandy Claws’ horrible Christmas bag. Games are fast, fast-paced, and easy to learn and play.
Santa’s Workshop
If your group wants something a little more wholesome, or at least a little less spooky, Santa’s Workshop is a worker-placement game where you manage your own team of elves in Santa’s famous workshop. Players compete to gather materials, tend to the reindeer, build classic toys, and rack up as many points as they can before the big night arrives.
Wicked Christmas
The holiday season is stressful, and Wicked Christmas asks, what if the Christmas stress managed to just break Santa one year? Christmas is canceled, dump all of the toys. This is a card-drawing and matching game where you want to get rid of as many cards (and presents) as you can while avoiding taking the pile. Gamesa are fast, lighthearted, addictive, and just a touch cathartic if your holiday season is always a little bit stressful.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
We’re going on an infamous Griswold family vacation and adding some chaos to our celebration. Watch out for Cousin Eddie, try to snag the Jelly of the Month Club membership, and generally live through whatever the holidays have in store for you. If you make it, you may just score enough points to win the entire holiday season.
The Meanie of Chaunkah
Match pieces, light your candles, and learn the story of the Meanie of Chanukah. And maybe Grandpa Boris and Shlomo will even reconcile as friends. This is a really simple, really silly little game that’s jam-packed so full of nostalgia. It’s a perfect game to play with kid,s especially if you’re talking about the meanings behind holidays or watching any Rugrats episodes that cover that topic.
Happy Holidays!
If your interests include Christmas, music, and Christmas music, this is a game that you’ll love. Hopefully, you have friends who are similarly into holiday tunes. Players race around the board, completing tasks and answering trivia questions that relate back to carols. You may heed to sing the next line, pick out keywords, or answer carol trivia. But with 300 questions, this could become an annual tradition for years to come and you’d keep getting new cards and questions.
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