Our testers quickly got engaged with the game and enjoyed the competitive element as they played to see who got the most tiles first. Hogwarts Battle works as a family board game because it’s incredibly accessible in regards to teaching deckbuilding mechanics and it provides some excellent fan service for all the Harry Potter lovers out there. Slide your hero to victory, even as you navigate around your allies Slide Quest demands cooperation, communication and collaboration between your family. As that large pool grows smaller, though, things start to get really frenetic and silly as people are trying to steal tiles from each other. The ancient rune-like ninja symbols on the dice and tiles are different enough in colour and style to aid in quick recognition.

Affiliate links do not influence editorial coverage and will only be used when covering relevant products. Easily the oldest family board game on this list, Perudo, also known as Liar’s Dice, is a South American dice game that dates all the back to the 1800s and has seen many iterations released in the years since - including inspiring the creation of bluffing party board games such as Skull.Each turn players get to select a tile of their choosing from a shared pool with every tile having two sides, just like a normal domino, that can show a variety of terrain, such as water, grass, forests and houses - not like a normal domino. Having about as much to do with cats as Bananagrams has to do with plantains, Cobra Paw is a blazingly quick reaction game about grabbing dominos.

Perudo has incredibly simple rules that nevertheless have the potential to produce some seriously gripping gameplay moments. The person that captures it becomes the next dice roller and things continue in this fashion until one player has collected a certain number of tiles. The first player to snatch up 6 tiles wins the game and bestows great honour to the Grand Shidoshi, Master Meow! The first player to snatch up 6 tiles wins the game and bestows great honor to the Grand Shidoshi, Master Meow! It's amazing how easy it is not to think about these things, but Colourbrain tests you on what you know, and it's the great leveller between friends and family of all ages.Potions you make could be submitted for the test, but you could always use their effects to try and give you an edge to make something even better. Each tile has a divot and in an argument whoever has their finger closest to this dimple wins the tile. Don't worry though, this isn't anywhere near as complex as his magnum opus, and certainly not as expensive. Once all the dice are safely hidden underneath each player’s cup, everyone has a peek at what they have rolled and take it in turns to bet how many of a certain number they think everyone (including themselves) has rolled in total amongst the group.

Nothing eats up a Sunday afternoon as effectively and enjoyably as Colourbrain, even if it makes you question the hue of everything you ever saw. I drape the ribbon across the box when placing the lid on, which enables me to pull each end of the ribbon and the lid just lifts off a treat. Simply turn the box upside down and dump everything onto the table (making sure the tiles are face up and none are stacked atop another), select a start player, and you’re ready to go!Eventually, the board game becomes a tense Mexican stand-off as players desperately try to place all their coloured blocks in the tower before anyone else does.