What games do you play?

That should read 'DGSs'!

For adults and children together we play Tell Me. Plenty of scope for rude words for the DSs!

Lots of suggestions, thank you. I would like to add that we bought the children some games in The Works at Christmas . They were reduced to £2 each and are great fun. One has a 'track' rather than a board and miniature shopping trolleys that you push round while collecting your shopping. The other involves mermaids and jigsaw pictures in hand mirrors. I didn't buy any others because I thought they couldn't be much good at that price. Just shows how wrong you can be. I will be back there in December!

I play scrabble on-line free Sheena. I have to warn you though that it is addictive!

I love playing Scrabble and Rummikub...but no one to play with .. my hubby won't play..he hates board games !

We do play board games with DGS and as a family when we gall get together. However three of our favourite games are are 'Taboo' 'Pass the bomb' and 'Uno' which is a card game.

Scrabble and Rummikub, but I do not understand the scoring in that!

We all play trivial pursuit as a family. We have the 90's and millennium versions. The grandchildren love top trumps which you can get in lots of themed editions, how to train your dragon is the current favourite. I used to love cluedo when I was much younger

I have been playing Rummikub all afternoon with my WI friends. It is fun stimulating and every game is different.

Oh yes, Rummikub! We used to play it regularly but haven't for years and I don't know why. Wonder where it is... (plans expedition to the wild and woolly garage containing no car but 2 storeys of boxes).

Yahtzee and Whot?. Pit when there are enough DC and DGC around.

We like Rummikub

pompa you'll confuse Humbertbear!

A game that was loved by everyone who I knew that played it was "Masterpiece, the Art Auction Game" unfortunately no longer in production but it can be bought on Ebay for a quite frightening amount of money!

Oh sorry, you wanted suggestions Humbertbear

Um ..... not Peppa Pig then!

We are into Peppa Pig matching pairs at the moment
DGD2 age 3 is much quicker and better at it than me.

I like Trivial Pursuit and quizzes but DH doesn't.

Scrabble on-line and snake and ladders in the Kitchen

Cranium and an ancient version of Trivial Pursuit that definitely favours the older generation (35 years old!)
I love Connect 4, no idea what happened to our set, must get DH to check in attic (he's supposed to be sorting out all the stuff he shoved up there 19 years ago, but doesn't appear to be getting--on with it-- very far)

Articulate and Balderdash are good word games and Pictionary for those who are able(or unable) to draw. Taboo, Boggle and Family Fortunes are good too. They are all quite simple to play ie the rules are not difficult.

Our very favourite game, which none of us ever tire of despite various forays into other games, is The Great Game of Britain, where you are trains and have to make it back to London but people keep sending you all over the UK and NI. It's great for your geographical knowledge. It's easy to pick up, which is a great help.

And Logo!

A good board game for adults and older children is Best of British. Very entertaining!

We play all the usual board games with GC and we also play memory with the youngest because she can not read well enough to play grown up games. GD1 likes to play card games so I play with her.

The games I play with the children include various "levels" of dominoes – i.e. some with pictures, some with colours or shapes, some with numbers and pictures and some with the traditional dots, Monopoly (doesn't that go on and on?) and Cluedo. I like to play backgammon, sometimes quite obsessively. I tend to play against the computer but I have taught the children how to play it on a backgammon board and they love it – although we don't use the gambling dice.We also play, as adults and children, the Captain's Mistress which is a forerunner of Connect 4 but in a wooden frame with polished wooden balls instead of plastic discs. I have taught my eldest grandson to play chess, although I am not a very good player myself, and various traditional card games also amuse all of them – sevens, go fish, donkey, clock patience. Somewhere I have a nine men's morris board which I'll dig out when I have moment.

As far as party games are concerned, I have a weakness for "in the manner of the word" when you have to act out – in silence – your chosen adverb, such as lazily, aggressively, or rapidly, when the guessers ask you do something, such as walk across the room or drink a glass of water, "in the manner of the word".

The favourite game last Christmas was Scattergories. It's been around a while but is having a second outing in our house with the youngest DGCs now enjoying it.

It's quite hilarious when you mix the age groups. The younger ones take it seriously but the older boys????

Q. Name a dairy product beginning with R.

A. (from 18 yr old) Runs.

Me - You can't have that. How can that be anything to do with dairy products?

Him - Well.....if you were lactose intolerant....

They have an answer for everything.