17 Fun Indoor Games to Play With Family

Indoor Games To Play With Family

Family time means fun time. For most of the week, we all will likely be busy with the household chores, office, work and school. But since the pandemic has hit the world, most of us are getting time to spend with our families, so is relaxation and family bonding. Not only during a pandemic, even when you get together with your family and friends, for dinner or lunch, but you can also have fun in many ways. Always we get bored of speaking the same stuff and children get bored easily. Instead of always going out for a movie or to malls, you can choose different games to play with family.

DUMB CHARADES

This is the best game to play if you have enough time. You can involve all your family members or just two people as well. All the players get divided equally into two or three teams. One person from each team has to enact the name of a movie for their respective team. If the team can guess the name, they get a point. If the team fails to guess, the team can be punished or lose a point.

MUSICAL CHAIRS

This game requires physical movement and it is one of the most fun games. The more the people, the more fun. You have to place chairs adjacent to each other to form a circle. The number of chairs should be one less than the number of people playing the game. The moderator has to play music and the players have to move around the chairs. As soon as the music stops, you have to sit on the chair closest to you. The person, who doesn’t get a chair, is out of the game. This is a great games to play with family

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS

This game based on hand gestures was played to kill time during boring classes. This game can be played anywhere. This game doesn’t require any prerequisites. The basic rules are, paper is stronger than rock, rock is stronger than scissors and scissors is stronger than paper. The winner is decided based on the hand gesture.

ANTAKSHARI

Well, who doesn’t know this? One of the compulsory games in any family vacation or get-together. One person begins singing and the syllable with which the song ends, the other person has to start singing a new song from there. If the person fails to sing a song, the person loses the game.

IN-EAR WHISPER

Remember, only to whisper in the years. The first player has to whisper a sentence to the person standing next to him. The second person has to whisper the same sentence or what they made of it to the next person. The last person should say the sentence loudly. This is one of the most entertaining games to play with your family.

TREASURE HUNT

A treasure hunt is a game in which the organizers prepare a list describing particular items, which the members seek to find all items on the list. The clue is given to find every item. Usually, members work in small teams, although the rules may allow individuals to participate. Tricky indoor game but finding the clue at your home is also fun at times.

TRUTH AND DARE

Truth or dare? is a mostly verbal party game requiring two or more players. Players are given the choice between answering a question truthfully or performing a “double dare”, both of which are played by both players.

HIDE AND SEEK

Hide-and-seek, old and popular children’s game in which one player closes his or her eyes for a brief period often counting the numbers, while the other players hide. The seeker then opens his eyes and tries to find the hiders; the first one is found in the next seeker, and the last is the winner of the round.

These games do not require any board. There are a few interesting games, which require board and are very entertaining to play. Below are some of the family board games.

JENGA

Jenga has recently been popular amongst youngsters and kids too. Jenga is an indoor game for the family and can be played by 4 people at a time. You need to use only one hand while removing the block, the first 3 blocks are not to be touched, you need to be very careful while removing the blocks as you might lose the game.

CARROM

Carrom is yet another fantastic game to play when at home. It is played between 2 to 4 members. You can play this game with kids, family, or friends. You don’t need to make an effort in it you have to get the red pan and its cover.

BUSINESS

Business Board Game which is a very time taking game but worth playing with family. It is a board game where members roll the dice to move around the game board, and then buy and trade properties, and explain them with houses and hotels. If you don’t play the game correctly, you may end up being bankrupt.

CHESS

Chess is a board game played between two players. Today, chess is one of the world’s most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide.

LUDO

Ludo is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games. Who reaches all four tokens first to the center of the board becomes the winner.

SNAKE AND LADDER

Snakes and ladders is an ancient Indian board game for two or more players regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played on a game board with numbered, gridded squares. Several ladders and snakes are pictured on the board each connecting two specific board squares.

PICTIONARY

The Pictionary is fun to play with a group of three and more people. The Pictionary involves a game board, four playing pieces and kind cards, a one-minute sand timer, and a die.

PUZZLES

Jigsaw puzzles are the most popular among education games because they demand identifying the parts that trigger false development and setting the right pieces together with careful consideration and practice. You all well know that logical thinking is required to try to give the whole out of the different shapes and features of the parts.

Well, these are some of the games to be played with your family. Play any of these games with your family at a family get-together or on weekends. Let me know in the comment section which game you play with your family.

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