Family Games Night

Over the years the kids have been brought up on Family Games Night and having a variety of board games, puzzles, family games in the house, often they are learning-based ones, working up to more fun and mess around ones, these have often been bought at Xmas and birthday, or when we have looked for bargains, there also something that the kids tend to look at shops to swat up what they want.

family games night

Going back


Even as far back as when Roo was a Toddler we have Orchard based educational games or there mini ones, this chain has continued through each child, unfortunately, they haven’t survived each child to the next but they have had a different selection each time, to be honest with both Tigger and then Piglet each older child has then helped out on those.


This hasn’t just stopped with the younger more educational ones, the puzzles were fun, the matching games were fine, but then as the older two got older the bigger funnier ones were the draw, though piglet likes seeing them play the Toilet game or the variety of pop up pirates, buckaroo, and pull my finger type ones, the older two like the fun of it them. ( i realise I’m old and have the old name terms on my mind)

Some Family Games Night


Roo though now being much older tends to like to play with her friends or Tigger with older versions, Monopoly, with its variations, Game of Life, Cluedo etc.. are more common for her to play now, at least once a week they will both play together on one of the games, Roo also really loves a game of Bingo, which is great because Boo and I also enjoy the odd game of Bingo with them.


Even with all their technology, Toys, TV etc.. the kids still like to play board games, mini-games etc, which is a great thing to help there development and creativity, plus its one of the few things they still play together. Boo and I came from that era where games were still a major thing, and we still promote those games, they can be fun, they can be competitive, you can have fallings out, you can lose pieces, you can get frustrated, but all of us will have some sort of memory of playing games, whether it is good or bad, puzzles, mini-games, or big games, we have all had fun once.

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Win an Orchard Toys What A Performance Game

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  1. GooderDan
    27 April 2020 / 8:58 am

    Monopoly and Cluedo are always family favourites in our house!

  2. Tracy Nixon
    27 April 2020 / 10:26 am

    We love scrabble, card games, board games and jigsaws.

  3. Eileen Hindley
    27 April 2020 / 12:00 pm

    Scrabble and Monopoly

  4. ashleigh allan
    27 April 2020 / 12:20 pm

    We love Monopoly Hotels!

  5. Jade Brailsford
    27 April 2020 / 12:51 pm

    We love Jenga!

  6. Solange
    27 April 2020 / 1:34 pm

    We love Scrabble, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit.

  7. Peter Watson
    27 April 2020 / 2:15 pm

    Monopoly is our favourite game as a family.

  8. Anthony Harrington
    27 April 2020 / 3:04 pm

    Frustration and Monopoly

  9. 27 April 2020 / 3:08 pm

    Monopoly, uno and snakes and ladders are big games in our house. Even with our 4yr old. Our 4yr old has a selection of orchard toys games, she loves to play them with her sisters. One that encourages sharing which is great. I remember playing alsorts of games when I was a kid, and still do sometimes at family games night at the in laws.

  10. J Matcham
    27 April 2020 / 3:13 pm

    We play a lot of games in our home and have a few favourites We love card games, Scrabble, Monopoly and twister

  11. renae
    27 April 2020 / 3:16 pm

    we love playing family games, at the moment we love exploding kittens and Crystal Maze from the 80’s

  12. 27 April 2020 / 3:34 pm

    I love the Orchard games, Pizza pizza is a firm favourite, despite the kids growing up and in to more involved games.

    We recently spent 5 hours playing uno, the kids absolutely loved it x

  13. 27 April 2020 / 3:44 pm

    What a great chance to win a game! If I had children I would enter

  14. 27 April 2020 / 4:29 pm

    I love Orchard Toys, such a fantastic range! My daughter was a huge fan when she was younger, just sad she has grown up and prefers her phone these days. How times change! Totally recommend the games for younger children! Sim 🙂

  15. DENISE WILDEN
    27 April 2020 / 4:31 pm

    Monopoly although my grandson always manages to win

    • Rebecca King
      28 April 2020 / 6:39 am

      We love playing Frustration ax all ages can join in

    • Kerstin B
      6 May 2020 / 1:15 pm

      We like a game of Labyrinth

  16. ADEINNE TONNER
    27 April 2020 / 4:42 pm

    We are enjoying playing guess who and jenga together

  17. Helen S Wright
    27 April 2020 / 5:56 pm

    Fingers crossed 🙂

  18. Victoria Jardine
    27 April 2020 / 6:47 pm

    Snakes and ladders and Ludo are firm favourites in our house

  19. laura milton
    27 April 2020 / 7:12 pm

    We have many favourites, we love all our orchard games like the piggy matching game, cafe to learn about counting money and spider shapes and numebrs. Other favs our frustration and shark bite

  20. 27 April 2020 / 9:11 pm

    Our kids liked Monopoly when they were little. Our daughter liked more games, like CandyLand, Guess Who, and Operation. These would be fun for our son’s family to play.

  21. Vikki Bowker
    27 April 2020 / 9:24 pm

    We play allsorts o games together! Trivial Pursuit Family Edition, Kingdomino, UNO, Top Trumps, Guess Who, Connect 4

  22. Lyn Burgess
    27 April 2020 / 9:50 pm

    I still love Ludo, and the kids love junior monopoly and catch the cap

  23. 27 April 2020 / 10:31 pm

    We love a family games night in our house! The kids have got quite the collection of board games so we always get to try something new.

  24. Rich Tyler
    27 April 2020 / 11:39 pm

    We love GUESS WHO

  25. michelle o'neill
    28 April 2020 / 4:59 am

    Monopoly and cards

  26. 28 April 2020 / 10:47 am

    I used to have a fishing game when I was little and used to love that, my kids used to love their games when they were little

  27. 28 April 2020 / 11:09 am

    scrabble, is one of the games our family play so we can all join in

  28. Alana Walker
    28 April 2020 / 12:25 pm

    We have a few of the Orchard Toys games in our house. Our favourites are Dotty Dinosaurs, Shopping List and Ladybirds.

  29. Abby
    28 April 2020 / 1:53 pm

    We love playing frustration, that’s currently the only board game we have played as a family. I’ve recently got the my first Game of Life which we’ve yet to play, but definitely need to get more 🙂 My son loves the Orchard Toys Match and Spell game too!

  30. 28 April 2020 / 2:06 pm

    Both my kids have played with Orchard Toys when they were a lot younger as they are such great educational games indeed. But at the moment they love Monopoly, Rubix and Otthelo

  31. Melanie williams
    28 April 2020 / 5:51 pm

    A family games night is actually needed in our house for sure. It is a great way to keep the family entertained xx

  32. 28 April 2020 / 6:08 pm

    Cannot keep up with all the funky games coming out. These look so cool. Family games are the best- those hours spent on monopoly were definitely worth it

  33. Jenny McClinton
    28 April 2020 / 6:16 pm

    Frustration and monopoly are our favorites, as well as snakes and ladders and pairs

  34. Rowena Corderoy
    28 April 2020 / 7:06 pm

    We love board games especially monopoly and scrabble it’s lovely to get all the family together!

  35. Lisa Wilkinson
    28 April 2020 / 8:19 pm

    Our favourite if Game Of Life

    • Sarah
      5 May 2020 / 9:25 am

      We love the shopping list game, and monopoly is always a great game!

  36. Katie B
    29 April 2020 / 12:20 am

    Most recently we have been playing a tooth fairy game!

  37. 29 April 2020 / 3:57 pm

    I’ve always loved board games, and even now my boys are aged 16 and older, we still have family board game nights!

  38. Rhian westbury
    29 April 2020 / 3:58 pm

    We’ve been playing a few board games since the lockdown as it’s nice to do some things which don’t involve tech! x

  39. Fiona jk42
    29 April 2020 / 8:14 pm

    With my husband and adult children we love Balderdash, Monopoly, Charades and Botticelli. With my granddaughter we enjoy Snakes and Ladders, Sorry and several of the Orchard Toys Games, including Giraffes in Scarves and Shopping List.

  40. ellie spider
    2 May 2020 / 12:08 am

    we love scrabble, monopoly and of course snakes and ladders 🙂 My family play a lot of games I learned chess when I was 5, and a lot of different card games, bckgammon and checkers

  41. Margaret Gallagher
    2 May 2020 / 9:22 am

    Monopoly scrabble and hangman for us

  42. katrina walsh
    4 May 2020 / 9:48 am

    We love Hotel Tycoon. Its like Monopoly but with actual buildings that you build up – the little ones love it

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