From charades with a twist to supercharged Monopoly, our competitive family puts five exhilarating games to the test
Board games are a fantastic Christmas gift, but how do you know they’re any good if you’ve not actually played them? You don’t, so we’ve done just that for you. We’re a game-mad family, and we put five new ones to the test to rate them.
I, along with my husband Garry and our children, James, 14, Ben, 12, and Lily, eight, played all the games several times over a fortnight. And each of us was assigned the task of explaining the rules of one game to the rest of the family.