Start them young: these are the six best new games for kids!
You know what they say: what you learn as a youngster, you’ll do when you’re older. That goes for a lot of things in life, and also for playing board games! That’s why there are all kinds of fun children’s games on the market for the little ones. After all, the fun of playing can’t start early enough! We’ve listed the best and newest games for children for you here.
Dixit: Kids
A fan of the super-popular picture interpretation game Dixit? Good news: with the new edition Dixit: Kids, you can now play with the whole family. This simple, cooperative game is perfect for young players and offers fun and teamwork with every round. This is the famous game as you know it, but adapted for children!
The story of Dixit goes like this: Chef Post Rabbit’s birthday is on Sunday, but no one has received an invitation yet! Trainee Post Rabbits spring into action. In this cooperative adventure, you help Chef Post Rabbit send out invitations for his birthday. Players learn to interpret cards and match them with the guests’ moods, stimulating creativity, imagination, and observation skills in a playful way.
EXIT Kids – Raadselplezier in de Weide
The popular home escape room game Exit also has an edition for the little ones. Several variations of EXIT Kids featuring stories for children have already been released, such as Raadselplezier in de Jungle and Raadselplezier Monsters.
The newest addition to this series is EXIT Kids – Raadselplezier in de Weide. In this story, you help little bee Bert find his beehive. Bert got lost while flying, and you have to show him the way back. EXIT Kids – Raadselplezier in de Weide consists of six riddles, all of which yield Bert tasty flower pollen to strengthen him for the return journey.
Extra fun: unlike many other escape room games, this edition is replayable. The changing combination of riddle cards ensures that the game can be played multiple times. Because the riddles contain no text, all children can easily join in, meaning fun for everyone!
Swapybara
Games with an animal theme are always popular with children, and a fun, cheerful, fast-paced card game is always a hit too. That is why the new Swapybara is the perfect game to pull out of the cupboard when you want to play a game with the whole family.
The rules of Swapybara are simple: each turn, swap your card with an opponent’s to end up with the best card. Each card has a unique rule that that player must follow, but no one is obliged to swap with you. Can you keep your cool as a capybara and score the most points in this funny card game? Be warned: you can only win this accessible and fast-paced card game with a straight face!
Paleolino
Interactive, original, and featuring a real big mountain you can roll things down: what’s not to like?! In Paleolino, all these points come together. In this cool children’s game, you work together to build inventions.
The story of Paleolino goes like this: Lino the mammoth wants to build a nice village and rolls all kinds of materials in the shape of tokens down the mountain! He has found all sorts of materials and rolls them down the mountain towards you. Do you remember where everything landed?
Besides the fact that rolling things down the mountain is of course great fun, Paleolino is a fun, playful way to train young children’s memory. Furthermore, you work together towards the same goal, teaching kids to play together from an early age!
MicroMacro Kids
Mark your calendars, because MicroMacro Kids will be hitting the shelves soon! As the name suggests, this is the edition for the youngest detectives of the award-winning detective game with hidden pictures. While in MicroMacro you track down cunning crimes and other mischief, the Kids edition takes a slightly lighter approach. But it’s just as much fun!
In this edition, children step into the shoes of detectives to solve all kinds of cases: who can stop the rogue robot before it destroys the entire city? How did the dinosaur bone disappear, and how did the diamond thief escape the police? These and many other cases are waiting to be solved by working together as a team, following clues, solving puzzles, and tracking down suspects.
In this lighthearted, exciting, and cooperative version of MicroMacro, children search for hidden details and thrilling stories within large, colorful illustrations. By looking closely and working together, you solve mysterious puzzles and discover funny and surprising scenes. Develop concentration, observation skills, and storytelling skills as you explore the world of MicroMacro.
Lost! in the Woods
Here is another fun search-and-find game for the whole family: Lost! in the Woods is a family game featuring a large map on which one player is ‘lost’. The other players must find that player by listening to their description of the area on the map where they are lost. Will the other players manage to find their lost teammate?
This game is all about survival and navigation. Players are lost in a forest full of surprises and dangers. The goal is to lay a path to the outside, but the forest doesn’t always cooperate. The game combines laying routes with clever hand management, requiring you to constantly weigh whether to accelerate your own progress or hinder others to prevent them from escaping first. Have you seen that big map? That alone makes Lost! In the Woods worth a try!