Banish Winter Break Boredom with These Popular Family Board Games Starting at $9

Mar. 15, 2025

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There’s nothing like a rousing family board game to bring everyone together during the holiday season. Board games are a great way tokeep kids occupiedover winter break or to spark some friendly competition during festive gatherings.

Choose from timeless favorites such as Clue and Sorry!, or try your hand at fun twists on the classics, like Monopoly:WickedEdition or Clue: Wizarding WorldHarry PotterEdition.Amazon is filled with popular board gamesfor different ages and group sizes, from two players to 20. And if you’re shopping last-minute, these all makeexcellent gifts— and they’ll be on your doorstep in time to put under the tree.

Candy Land Kingdom of Sweet Adventures Board Game

Amazon

$12$9 at Amazon

Candy Land is the perfect introduction to board games for kids as young as three. Instructions are simple to follow: Simply race your gingerbread man to the castle while encountering delicious surprises along the way — no reading required.

One Amazon reviewer saidit is “very good for a first board game.” They added that “it is fun and colorful and helps to teach them how to be patient and take turns as well as how to have fun, even if you don’t finish first.”

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

$10 at Amazon

Need a last-minutestocking stufferidea? Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is it. This simple yet fast-paced card game can accommodate up to eight people. Players will race against each other to slap a match between a spoken word and a card, but three action cards will pop up and surprise you along the way. “Kids love this game,”one shopper said. “I feel like I need protective handwear to play because my kids take it so seriously.”

Monopoly:WickedEdition Board Game

$30$24 at Amazon

Clue: Wizarding WorldHarry PotterEdition Board Game

$39 at Amazon

Keep scrolling for more popularfamily board games at Amazonyou can snag before Christmas.

Sorry!: Disney Villains Edition Board Game

$25 at Amazon

Risk Board Game

$34 at Amazon

The Game of Life Board Game

$26$22 at Amazon

Scrabble Board Game

$22$21 at Amazon

Exploding Kittens Original Edition

$20$17 at Amazon

What Do You Meme? Family Edition

$20$14 at Amazon

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