Gift Guide: Stocking Filler Games and Under-the-Tree Extras!
More gift ideas for busy families: six quick-but-quality games for Christmas!
These are games that can be slipped into a stocking, or secreted under the tree as one of those Christmas Day extras.
All have simple rules, and none require hours of complicated set-up – perfect to keep young and old entertained with a quick burst of family play!
Some of them retail for under a tenner – shop around for the best deals.
We'll start with...
>> Christmas Specials of two of the UK's Biggest Board Games
The Logo Board Game and Articulate! are UK institutions - award-winning family favourites that are rarely out of the top-ten lists. But did you know that both boast their very own festive-themed versions?
Their question cards feature solely Yuletide-related topics and questions, be they films, songs, food or Christmas traditions. And each introduces a particularly Christmassy scoring system... be it a tree to build, or a festive jigsaw to complete!
Great for a snowy December afternoon - or don your Christmas hat and use them as the basis for your office Zoom party quiz!
- Perfect for: Christmas geeks everywhere!
Try Articulate Christmas or LOGO - Best of Christmas, both on Amazon!
>> Dig In
Dig In’s a quickfire rummaging-around game, simple for five-year-olds; addictive for adults! It’s the sort of game that appeals to kids who love lots of laughs; who like getting stuck in; who basically don’t like boring-sitting-still-type games.
Forget ‘letting them win’ – if it’s adults versus children, the younger ones invariably come out on top! And that’s always a good recipe for a harmonious family Christmas…
- Perfect for: Energetic kids, who like 'doing'!
Dig In's at Argos: follow this link!
>> Logo Bingo
It's Bingo! But with logos!
One of Britain's favourite national pastimes is now available in a cheerfully colourful format. No legs elevens or clickety-clicks to be seen here... you'll enjoy making up your own Bingo Lingo as you pull each logo token from the caller box whilst each player searches for lines or full houses.
This completely different bingo challenge is one where you won't struggle to explain the rules - get a game underway whilst you peel the carrots!
- Perfect for: Grandparents playing with the kids!
>> Flip Football
Flip Football is a take-anywhere, play-anywhere card game especially for pairs of footy-mad kids!
Opponents switch between the roles of the 'attacking' or 'defending' teams, laying cards in turn, in order to build up an forward passing movement - or to get in a crucial block or save. It's more action-focused than the usual stats-heavy football card games (not quite as boisterous as 'snap', but with more immediate excitement than 'trumps'), and the nature of it means that every game is different.
A great-value stocking-filler, Flip Football's become a winner with young fans in the UK - and across Europe as well.
- Perfect for: Visiting cousins!
Score Flip Football at Amazon, here.
>> Mini-Game Stocking Fillers
Some of Britain's best-known and best-loved board games, scaled down into mini stocking-filler versions!
Catering for a wide range of ages and interests, these are perfect for a quick burst of fun alongside tea and a mince pie - or for a long Boxing Day car journey!
Each has got dozens of questions or topics, and a scoring system that means a board isn't required. Other than that, the concepts and gameplay are exactly the same as the hugely-popular originals.
Perfect for: The trip to visit family!
Browse the mini-games at Amazon.
Merry Christmas - thanks for supporting British board games!!!
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