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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Suzanne Lemon

The best family board games for 2024 – played and rated

Fun for all the family! Suzanne and Garry playing A Monkey Eating a Lemon with their younger children, Ben and Lily.
Fun for all the family! Suzanne and Garry playing A Monkey Eating a Lemon with their younger children, Ben and Lily. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

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.

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