My Top 20 Favorite Board Games for the Family! (Your Gift-Giving Guide for Any Occasion!)

One quick point of clarification: I really should be saying my top 20 most *recommended* board games for the family… or maybe my favorite board games to recommend to families? (These are also all great “gateway” games, too… games that help to bring non-gamers into our hobby!) The ones at the top of the list are some of the most popular family games out there and the ones that I think most families would enjoy. But don’t worry about the ranking too much either; even that was a little arbitrary at times! Every family is different and prefers different kinds of games, naturally!

If you are curious at all, my personal top 5 ranking for these games in order of how much I’d want to play them right now would be: Stone Age, Azul: Summer Pavilion, The Quacks of Quedlinburg, Downforce or Camel Up, then Splendor (with the expansion)!

Let me know if I missed any games in my list or ask me any questions you have about any of the games I mentioned in the comments below!

In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:16 20.) Codenames: Pictures
00:37 19.) The Mind
01:06 18.) King of Tokyo
01:46 17.) Onitama
02:24 16.) Machi Koro
02:49 15.) Kingdomino
03:16 14.) Cacassonne (and Land vs Sea)
03:51 13.) Century: Golem Edition
04:19 11.) Downforce
04:46 11.) Camel Up
04:59 10.) Patchwork
05:27 9.) The Quacks of Quedlinburg
06:25 7.) Sushi Go and 7 Wonders
07:05 6.) Sagrada
07:49 5.) Incan Gold
08:24 4.) Azul, Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra, Azul: Summer Pavilion
08:57 3.) Ticket to Ride
09:36 2.) Splendor
10:14 1.) Stone Age
11:17 Outro

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