Who would have thought the world would be where it is right now.
The Coronavirus has taken mankind by surprise and we are being forced to change the way we live, even if temporarily…
For those, like me, who love the outdoors – it’s kind of hard at the moment, however, we can still make it fun.
We can bring that camping feeling home and use this opportunity to spend more time with our families.
One thing that is quite fun to do at camp is to play games – these games can still be played at home, either indoors or in the garden.
Let’s have a look at some of the more popular games below.
Dobble
Dobble is a fantastic little game – it’s a simple pattern recognition game in which players try to find an image shown on two cards.
It requires speed, observation and reflexes.
Each card in Dobble features eight different images, with the images varying in size from one card to the next.
Any two cards have exactly one image in common.
The aim is to race to find the one matching image.
Contains five mini games: Fill the well, the towering inferno, hot potato, catch them all and the poisoned gift.
Video: Dobble
Click here to buy Dobble from Amazon UK or to buy it from Amazon US
Anomia
Anomia is a very simple game, but massively fun.
Our minds contain masses of random information on different topics – types of foods, films, authors.
On the face of it, it would be easy to come up with this information in a split second… but, under pressure, our brains work a little differently…
The deck contains cards with different symbols, representing a certain category (such as Sci-Fi movies).
Players flip cards in turn until the symbols on two players’ cards match.
Matching players must race to give an example of the category on their opponent’s card.
Whoever shouts out a correct answer first wins their opponent’s card, and the game continues.
The game is further complicated in that wild cards allow non-matching symbols to match, thus increasing the number of things to which you must pay attention.
Click here to buy Anomia from Amazon UK or to buy it from Amazon US
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
Each player places a card from their hand face up into a community pile while saying taco/cat/goat/cheese/pizza in player sequence.
When the card being placed matches what that particular player is saying, then everyone slaps their hand on the deck.
The last player to slap their hand down, picks up the cards and places them at the bottom of their pile.
The first player to rid themselves of all their cards wins.
To make it more fun, their are three special action cards – the gorilla, narwhal, and groundhog – if one of these are placed down, then the players have to make certain gestures (for example, beating one’s chest for the gorilla card) before racing to slap the deck.
Click here to buy Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza from Amazon UK or to buy it from Amazon US
Story Cubes
This game is really fun and will greatly increase your imagination.
There are a total of nine cubes and each one has six images.
You roll all nine cubes to generate nine random images and then use these to invent a story that starts with “Once upon a time…” and use all nine images as part of your narrative.
There are also variations on the original theme – including heroes, mystery, astro and more.
Click here to buy Story Cubes from Amazon UK or to buy it from Amazon US
Uno Attack
This is a variation of the popular card game, UNO.
Uno Attack combines the fun of UNO with unpredictable random excitement.
Players receive a random number of cards from the electronic card dispenser, so instead of picking up one more card if they don’t have the cards to play a hand – they could get anything from zero to multiple numbers of cards to add to their hand.
I played UNO Attack at a recent camp and it made the game just that little bit more exciting.
Click here to buy UNO Attack from Amazon UK or to buy it from Amazon US
Conclusion
Life throws different challenges at us all the time – we have a choice of looking at life as a cup half empty or a cup half full…
I like to look at life as one opportunity after another and to grasp those opportunities with both hands – and as one wise man once said ‘opportunities pass by like the passing of clouds, so seize them when they arrive’
Being at home means we get to spend more time with our loved ones and playing games is a sure way to make that time more fun!
And don’t forget, once we’ve passed these challenging times – all these games are great to 
take to camp and won’t take up a lot of space in your backpack.
I hope you’ve found this post useful – if you have any questions or comments, then please leave them below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Mohammad
What fun! All these games sound great. My kids are all adults now but I can see how much great fun and laughter these games can generate. I especially liked the TACO CAT GOAT CHEESE PIZZA game. I can see a family laughing a great deal with that game. Thanks for such a timely article. I’m going to share it on my FB.
Hi there and thanks for your comment.
We’ve been playing a lot more of these games, being stuck at home this last week – and, I have to say, I’d forgotten how much fun they are! Thanks in advance for the share.
The first thing I want to do is to try and share this great article with some of my friends. The website is really nice. and I have learnt something tangible from this well detailed article on some family games to play at home. I am a lover of chess but sometime I give it up to play monopoly since it is better for the family.
Hi and thanks for your comment.
I’m glad you found the article useful – I like chess too, but agree that a game that involves more people is better for family entertainment.
Thanks for sharing the article.
This is really an insightful post and i am sure that this article will be of great help to so many people just as it has really been of great help to me. This is a great article on some really nice family games. You have given me ideas on games we can play during this period of isolation due to Covid-19. Thank you
Hi Benny
Glad you found the post useful – some of these games are so simple and yet so much fun!
During this quarantine period playing family games would definitely be the best way to connect the family together as it’s a lot of fun depending on what game you play…thanks for sharing this awesome article I know it would be of great help to the public as it has been of help to me.
Hi David
Glad you found the post useful – we’ve been playing a few of them this last week and it’s been great fun.
As a family, we haven’t spent this much quality time together for so long!