Best Holiday Board Games and Card Games | Indie Connect

2021-12-14 11:21:29 By : Ms. Danica Ling

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The holiday is here! If you are looking for board games to add to your collection, or looking for gift ideas and sock fillers, then you have come to the right place. We have compiled a list of the nine best board games and trivia games for you to buy this holiday season. Find our holiday game roundup below, and for more game night suggestions, check out the best movie trivia games for movie fans and movie lovers.

Christmas Rush is a fast-paced elimination game that lasts about 5-10 minutes. The goal of the game is to collect a set of four identical cards and earn game tokens in the Christmas craze. If you fail, you are out.

From "It's a good life" to "How Christmas Geeks Stole Christmas", this is a seasonal trivia card game is a great way to learn interesting facts about the holidays and show your knowledge of Christmas movies. When playing games, each person (or team) answers six types of questions, including movies, TV, songs, history, and so on.

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Merry Dismass: The Family Holiday Party Game is designed for three or more players to help you understand who is on the list of naughty or good people. When you experience hysterical trivia about friends or family, the family party game will test your knowledge and patience (use dry erase boards to answer questions and grill your loved ones playfully). The game includes 250 cards, dry erase board and markers, and instructions.

Celebrate Hanukkah? The Chosen One Game is a card game specially designed for adults, best suited to play with larger groups (4-10 people). The rules are simple: each round one player chooses a "question" card, and other players share their "answer" card, and the best pair wins.

The real criminal activity will not take a break during the holidays. Use this office Christmas sweater party game to host your own face-to-face or virtual Christmas murder mystery game night. Inspired by Christmas staff gatherings and ugly Christmas sweaters, this mystery game kit is perfect for family game nights, dinner parties with friends or team building exercises. You can play with Zoom. The game is recommended for 13 years old and above.

This is a monopoly, but there is a "elf" twist. Follow the journey of Buddy the Elf, buying, selling and trading in your own way on the board. In this "elf" version of the monopoly, the house is called the "apartment", the hotel is called the "skyscraper", and the public welfare fund and opportunity card are renamed Christmas Cheers and Christmas Spirit. The board game includes six custom-carved tokens: Santa’s sleigh, polar bear cub, jack in the box, mailroom coffee cup, maple syrup, and Santa’s bag.

If you are familiar with Clark Griswold's crazy attempts to hang thousands of Christmas lights, then you definitely want to try National Lampoon's Christmas holiday flashing lights game. It is basically a card game where players can place tiles, create Christmas light bulb combinations, etc., until they score all three matching pattern cards. The card game is designed for at least two players.

Travel through an icy winter wonderland in this red-nosed reindeer Rudolph themed board game. The game lets players find lost toys and send them back to Santa’s workshop for delivery on Christmas.

Gather family or friends to play a Christmas treasure hunt from Outset Media. This treasure hunt card game contains hundreds of cards with typical objects that can be found around the house during Christmas. The game includes an indoor and outdoor deck, so players can run around the house (or the entire community). Christmas Scavenger Hunt is designed for at least two players aged 6 and above.

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