What are some of the kids board games that top the list for 2018? There’s a few on our list that’s for sure! A new take on connect four, themed monopoly, and even a board game inspired by The Floor is Lava. Get the full list below.

25 Awesome Kids Board Games

Get a Grip 

First, players wrap their thumbs in the included hand bands so that they can’t use them. Then a player picks a card that will tell them to Draw it, Sculpt it, or Do it all without the use of these important body parts. Earn cards by completing challenges. The first person to collect 3 cards wins the game!
8-12yrs
$29.99
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Chow Crown 

Put on the crown then load the dangling forks with various food. (Food Not Included, additional purchase required.) Ready? The crown will spin and play music — and the challenge begins! In the Chow Crown game, players try to bite off the food without using their hands and aim to eat them all before the music stops. Want more of a challenge? Switch from the long game mode to the shorter game mode. The player who eats the most food wins.
8-11yrs
$18
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Don’t Step In It 

Put on a blindfold, spin the spinner and then take that many steps across the game mat. But watch out, little piles of the compound, molded in the shape of poop have been strategically placed on the mat. Sometimes players will have to add a poop, remove a poop, or even re-arrange the poops along the mat. Who can avoid the number twos to be number one to win.
5-11 yrs
$18
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Speech Breaker 

Can you overcome the voice-jamming challenge? You’re reporting live from the scene! Put on the game headset, talk into the microphone, and get your teammates to guess who/what/where without saying any of the words on the cards. Whats the catch? The microphone jams your speech with a built-in delay. As you talk, you’ll hear your delayed voice through the game headset, making it harder to speak clearly.
14+
$18
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Crazy Toaster

Get your pan ready and catch all the “toasted” bread – You never know how many will pop up! Then, match it to your placemat, but just don’t catch the stinky fish or you must give up a slice! The player with the most food on their plate WINS!
4+
$43
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Monopoly: Fortnite Edition

In this thrilling Fortnite edition of the Monopoly game, players claim locations, battle opponents, and avoid the Storm to survive. The gameplay, design, and components of the board game include elements inspired by the video game including Fortnite locations and loot chest cards. Instead of Monopoly money, players earn Health Points.
13+
$18
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5 Second Rule Jr. Game

5 Second Rule Jr. Game. It seems like it would be easy to name three flavors of ice cream – but can you do it under the pressure of 5 seconds twisting down, and with the other players staring at you? You have to be quick, so just say whatever comes to mind and risk silly answers slipping out.
6-8 yrs
$10
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Hearing Things 

The Hearing things game, Hasbro’s twist on the online viral ” Whisper Challenge” sensation has you guessing what you think your teammate is saying by reading their lips. One player puts on the speech-canceling electronic headphones and the other player says the random phrase shown on the card such as, ” Pigeons like to cuddle” or “You’re the champ of the camp “. The game headphones limit the player’s ability to hear what their teammate is saying out loud, and the player has to figure it out to earn the card.
12+
$12
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Connect 4 Shots

The Connect 4 Shots game is fast-paced, rapid-fire fun in a race to get 4 shots in a row! Countdown to start: 1-2-3bounce! Two players bounce the lightweight, colorful balls into the grid at the same time. Remember, the balls must hit the table before going in. Keep bouncing balls until a player gets 4 in a row of their color for the win.
8-14 yrs
$18
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Pimple Pete

Turn the spinner and the arrow will land on his forehead, left cheek, right cheek or chin. Choose a squishy pimple from that area and ever so carefully twist and wiggle the pimple out. Earn 1, 2 or 3 points for every pimple you extract depending on the level of difficulty. Don’t Yank too hard or you might set off the mega-zita filled with water on his nose.
5+
$20
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Exploding Kittens

In this highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette, players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game — unless that player has a defuse card, which can defuse the Kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the Exploding Kittens.
7+
$20
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Escape Room in a Box

Work together to solve puzzles and find hidden clues to escape before time runs out! The Chrono Decoder counts down from 60 minutes and creates a real escape room atmosphere. Play 1 of 4 different escape room adventures with varying levels of difficulty: Prison Break, Virus, Nuclear Countdown, and Temple of the Aztec.
16+
$50
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Handimonium 

This hilarious game lets you challenge your friends to simple tasks that become outrageously difficult when players have to perform them wearing a pair of tiny hands! There’s more than one way to play Handimonium. First, teams compete to be the first to complete 5 tasks before the other team can complete the same tasks.
13+
$30
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Operation Escape Room

This interactive game tests your spy skills by challenging a team to work together to complete 3 exciting tasks in order to set the captured player free from the master belt before time runs out.
6-12 yrs
$40
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Sequence for Kids 

Play a card from your hand and place your chip on a corresponding character on the board. When you have four in a row, it’s a Sequence and you win. Use a Unicorn card to place your chip anywhere. Remove your opponent’s chip with a Dragon card.
3-6 yrs
$20
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Hot Potato Electronic Passing Game

Just squeeze the Hot Potato to start the music and let the fun begin. Pass the spud to the player next to you or even across the room. Toss the tater back and forth, up high, down low, around and around, but don’t get caught holding the spud when the music stops! If you do, you have to take a potato chip card. Get 3 chip cards and you”re out.
4-8 yrs
$15
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What’s That Smell

What’s That Smell? is the hilariously fragrant guessing game that will throw your sense of smell into overdrive. Guess the scents correctly to outrank your family and friends or suffer the stinky consequences of the Whiff of Shame!
$24.99
14+
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The Floor is Lava

The Floor is Lava! is a family board game that promotes physical activity, an active imagination, and engaging excitement for kids and adults. Quick Duels and Family Play – Complete with 25 colored foam “safety stones”, 27 challenge cards, game spinner, and instructions, each board game allows 2-6 players. this also promotes physical activity.
5-12 yrs
$25
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Unstable Unicorns 

Unstable Unicorns is a strategic card game about everyone’s two favorite things: destruction and unicorns.
14+
$20
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Googly Eyes

Get your teammates to guess the right answer by drawing clues before time runs out. Sounds simple enough, right? Not if you”re wearing zany vision-altering glasses!
$24.99
8-12 yrs
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Soggy Doggy

Move your players around the board and take turns bathing this pup. But be careful! He loves to shake himself dry. If Soggy Doggy shakes all over you, wipe yourself off and head back to the start. The first one around the board wins!
4-9 yrs
$21
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Dunk Hat

In the Dunk Hat game players get 3 throws and 2 targets, but all it takes is 1 shot to tip the tank and win! Players brace themselves, and the suspense grows as 1 player places the hat filled with water on his or her head. The other player throws a foam ball at one of the targets. If they hit it, the water releases and soaks the person wearing the hat.
5+
$23
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Tic Tac Tongue

Put on the mask and get ready to face the Tic Tc Tongue: a game of skill, speed, and agility where to win you have to be the first to knock down the target that matches the card turned over. Become a chameleon, too, and have fun eating the insects by shooting your tongue out over and over again!!
3-11 yrs
$20
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