Quirky Board Games & Card Games for a Hilarious Family Game Night

Looking for fun family board games or card games this holiday? Here are our faves – the kids will thank you!

With advent of video games, mobile apps and all things digital, ‘game night’ may not be a common theme in most homes these days! But with the rise of cool new board games, we say it’s time to bring that tradition back.

These aren’t your classics like UNO, Monopoly or Scrabble, mama… Some of these games require you to get gassy, step in ‘doodoo’ or even start licking whipped cream off your own face!

Check out our top picks of quirky board games and card games to try with the kids!

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How to play:
1. Pick a judge from the group.
2. The judge will deal 7 red apple cards to each player.
3. The judge will flip the card at the top of the green apple deck and call out the adjective and each player will have to choose a red apple card from their own deck to best match the green apple card. Place it face down.
4. The judge will then mix all the chosen red apple cards together and decide which one is the best or the funniest.
5. The owner of the chosen card will have to identify themselves and will then be the judge for the next round.
6. First person to get 10 green cards wins!

Best for older kids, Apples to Apples is a game that promises hours of fun! You can even try getting your kids to play opposites by matching red apple cards that are the opposite of the adjective described in the green apple card. This game is totally hilarious and forces you to get creative and think on your feet. It’s super fun whether played with kids or with adults (think of it as a cleaner version of Cards Against Humanity)!

Find it: Available on My First Games

How to play:

Classic Cranium encourages you to “use your whole brain” via four different categories: Creative Cat (drawing and sculpting), Data Head (trivia), Star Performer (charades and name that tune), and Word Worm (word puzzles, spelling and definitions). Played in teams, the object is to successfully complete various activities before time runs out. The game is SO much fun and brings out everyone’s inner performer in a hilarious way. If your kiddos are on the younger side, there’s also Family Cranium (ages 8+) and Cranium Cadoo (6+), which incorporates some of the same categories with a tic-tac-toe setup.

Find it: Available on Lazada

How to play:
1. Little piles of compound (provided), moulded in the shape of poop have been strategically placed on the mat.
2. One player puts on a blindfold. Another player spins the spinner, and the blindfolded player has to take as many steps across the game mat as the number the spinner lands on.
3. Whoever avoids the poop till the end wins!

This game will be a hit with younger kids – as long as they’ve started walking, they can start playing! Great for parties. Make it even more interesting by playing in teams and allowing the other team members to direct the person playing so they don’t accidentally step on the poop.

Find it: Spotted at Metro department stores. More info available here!

How to play:
1. Each player gets 3 cards. You can choose to play a number card, or Reverse or Skip your turn.
2. Press Guster the Gas Cloud as many times as the number shown on your card. Once your turn ends, take a card from the deck.
3. If Guster farts, you’re out! Last man standing wins the game!

This really simple game goes by quickly so it’s great for playing in big groups. Kids and adults alike will be doubling over playing Gas Out, as the suspense is enough to make people nervous over whether Guster will fart during their turn! The sound he makes is hilarious so be sure you’re playing this in a space that won’t mind the noise – a mixture of farts and uncontrollable laughter!

Find it: Spotted at Metro department stores and Toys ‘R’ Us. There’s also a Lightning McQueen version for Cars fans!

How to play:
1. Roll the die and move. Where you land tells you which colour lenses to use (green for easy, yellow for medium, or blue for hard).
2. Pick a card, set the timer, and start drawing! If your team guesses correctly, you get to roll and move again; if not, then you stay where you are on the board. The first team to reach Finish wins!

Like Pictionary, but with vision-altering glasses! Googly Eyes is great for families and suitable for young ones who love to draw.

Image by Knocked Up Fabulous

Read more: Top 10 Favourite Family Board Games

How to play:
1. Load the arm with whipped cream or the included sponge.
2. Spin the wheel and turn the handles as many times as the number you get on the spinner.
3. If you get pie-faced, you’re out!

This game may be a little messy, but it’s so worth seeing your kids’ faces light up when they come home with this on the table! It’s a popular game that has taken YouTube by storm, so chances are your kids have already seen it on a popular toy channel video already. Although the game play is really easy, it’s best played with some adult supervision (unless you don’t mind whipped cream all over your dining table, carpet or floor!).

You can go for the original Pie Face game, or crank it up a notch with Pie Face Showdown (pictured above). This one has two chin rests for two players, with a pedal on each side. When the game starts, both players will have to push their pedal as many times as possible to make sure the pie arm hits the other player instead!

Find it: Spotted at Metro department stores and Toys ‘R’ Us. More info available here!

How to play:
Players take turns being the host and asking the question on each card. Other players will place a ‘bet’ with their wager coins, based on how well they know the images on the card shown to them. Sometimes you’ll have to answer questions all on your own, and other times you’ll work as a team to answer correctly! Answer questions correctly to advance your mover and get to the castle space first to win!

Do you know your Disney? You might be surprised by how much your kiddos know if they’re in love with movies like Finding Nemo and Frozen!

Find it: Available on Amazon

How to play:
Sushi Go! takes place over three rounds. To start a round, all players simultaneously choose any one card from their hands that they would like to keep and place it face-down in front of them. When each player has done this, everyone reveals their chosen cards. After revealing cards, pass your remaining hand face-down to the player beside you. Everyone picks up their new hands and the next turn begins. Face-up cards remain with you until the end of the round, when they are scored. The one with the highest score wins!

Incorporating maki, nigiri, wasabi, chopsticks and more, Sushi Go! is a fun drafting game that older kids and adults will love. Take it with you on a flight or long road trip for on-the-go entertainment!

Find it: Available on RedMart

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How to play:
Take turns having each player on each team be the one to hold the buzzer and keep track of “taboo” word use from the other team. When you hear the clue giver say one of the taboo words, you buzz them. Put the card into a discard pile for that round. Put skipped cards into the same discard pile.

Taboo is an all-time favourite party game that gets us super hyped! It’s a top pick at our Sassy Mama team gatherings and we once almost got ourselves kicked out for making too much noise for playing this – guilty! Families with older kids will have lots of fun playing Taboo. See how creative your kids get when describing words without using the taboo terms on the card!

There are 4 ‘sides’ to each card which means there are plenty of words to go through so you won’t get the same word twice even after playing a few rounds. There’s also a Singapore version with plenty of Singlish terms, monuments and local celebrities!

Find it: Available at most department stores. More info available here!

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How to play:
Time to find the culprit behind the missing cake! Players will go on a mission to discover who took a piece of cake, when they took it, and what they drank with it. Players roll the die to see if they can move characters, look under those characters, or look under furniture for clues. As they find clues, they’ll eliminate choices and eventually discover what happened. The game features classic Clue characters such as Miss Scarlett, Mrs. Peacock, Col. Mustard, Mr. Green, and Prof. Plum, and also Dr. Orchid, a genius biologist with a sweet tooth.
– Online Toys Australia

Got a budding detective on your hands, mama? Kids who love a little mystery will enjoy Clue Junior! Reviewers have mentioned that even kids as young as 4 years old can enjoy this board game!

Find it: Available at most department stores. More info available here!

How to play:
1. Each player will be given a list to write on, with categories on the left.
2. Roll the letter die. Whichever letter comes up will have to be the first letter of the word you write for each category. Words like ‘A’, ‘An’ and ‘The’ are all not counted, so the first letter of the next word will be looked at.
3. Once the round is over, read out your answers to each other. Cross out any answers that matches another player’s. Each player scores one point for each answer not crossed out. The one with the most points wins!

Scattergories is a witty game that will occupy the whole family for hours of fun! Get creative with your answers to make the game more interesting, because matching answers to other players will mean losing points!

Find it: Available at My Toy Shop

Image sourced via IGA Berry