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Favorite Family Games

Setting aside some time for playing games with your family can create some of the best memories for you and your children. In an age when family time has been replaced with television and video games, why not take the opportunity to have some fun together, talk and play? Incorporate themes for the night your family plays games together and serve snacks to make a night full of laughs.

Uno
- Uno, the game, was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins. It has been a Mattel product since 1992. The object of the game is to match colors, numbers or words. Each player is given 7 cards and the person who has one card left must yell "Uno" before the next player plays his card.
Monopoly
- In 1934, Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, PA, presented the Monopoly game to Parker Brothers. Each player rolls the dice and, according to the number rolled, moves that many spaces on the game board. The last person in the game who doesn't go broke is the winner.
Twister
- Neil Rabens and Charles F. (Chuck) Foley are the official inventors of the game that uses the players as the pieces. Twister is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground. Each player spins the color-coded wheel to determine on which color to place his feet or hands. The players who fall while playing the game are out.
Jenga
- Jenga was created by Oxford Games co-founder, Leslie Scott, in the early 1970s. The game starts with a tower of 54 blocks; each level is composed of three planks, facing opposite of the level below. Each player in turn removes a block from the tower and balances it on top. The player who causes the tower to collapse loses.

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