Games for Kids With Five Players

Back to the Future: The Card Game

• In the Back to the Future game, the players are time travelers. A player must prevent other time travelers from tampering with his past and endangering his existence. He must also keep Doc Brown from inventing time travel, so that he can remain in his current reality. There are five types of cards in the deck: an item, action, power action, time machine and a double back. An item has special powers, power action cards can be played when it isn't a player's turn, time machine cards change history and double back cards allow a player to change history twice.

7 Wonders

• In 7 Wonders, each player has an individual game board that represents a wonder and the resources that it produces. Seven types of cards represent seven structures including raw materials, manufactured goods, civilian structures, scientific structures, commercial structures and military structures. Each structure helps a player to win victory points. When a player draws a card, he can choose to build a structure, build a stage of his wonder or discard the card to gain three points. Each player starts the game with three value "1" coins. The player with the highest number of victory points wins the game.

Dixit 2

• In the Dixit 2 game, one player is the storyteller. He picks a card and then tells a story, sings or does something associated with the picked card. Other players choose a card. The cards are all shuffled together. Players must guess which card belonged to the Storyteller. Players receive points based on the accuracy of their guesses. The player who scores the most points wins the game.

Battlestar Galactica

• Battlestar Galactica is a team game. One team is made up of humans and the other team is made up of Cylons, a cybernetic civilization. Players are secretly assigned to teams and must figure out whom to trust. Human players are trying reach Kobol, a planet in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. Cylon players are trying to annihilate human players. If human players reach Kobol, they win. Cylon players can win the game by preventing humans from reaching Kobol, making a human player run out of resources, killing the Galactica crew or destroying the Galactica.