Board Games

What are your favorites?

Looking for:

1) Games that are fun even if only 2 or 3 people are playing (adults)

2) Games that you like to play with kids (my DS is 3 1/2)

[v-girl]

Quelf
Scrabble
Monopoly
Apples to Apples (need 3 or more players)

Quelf is one of those games that you will spit your drink out laughing.

[MissCrabette]

I'm not all that into board games, but I like Pandemic a lot.

[Sheherezade]

Settlers of Catan and Dominion have gotten a lot of play in this house. They're not "kid" games - but my 12 year old does just fine. I want Pandemic!!

[L.Jane]

I know you specifically said small groups, but if you have a bigger group, two Awesome adult games are The game if Things and tellestrations. So much fun.

[oceanchild]

My family is in love with Ticket to Ride. It is not a toddler game, and I think it's better with 3-5 people, but you can play it with 2.

And Settlers of Catan has a 2-player version called Rivals for Catan. It's supposed to be an update of their card game, which DH and I have and like.

[Tenacious_D]

Taboo (4+ is generally a good number of people...you can alter the rules for younger kids.). We like guess who and zingo for the kids.

[corn poffi]

Love love love quelf!!!

[diggitydot]

We love Creationary (it's like Pictionary, but with Legos), Apples to Apples, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit.

[Phoebe]

I Spy Bingo, Zingo, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Guess Who, Memory games are big with kids at 3 1/2. Now they love Hedbanz, dominoes, Trouble, Yahtzee, and card games. We don't really play any games as adults.

I second Taboo! And I love Clue but you need 3 or more people for that.

We LOVE Cranium, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Boggle, Bananagrams ... we're board game nerds. We just got Dicecapades on the advice of a friend, and it was fun. I also bought Split Decision from www.mentalfloss.com, but we haven't played it yet. We did go through some sample cards that came w/another order I'd placed awhile back, and it was fun.

[HeyMeganZ]

Apples to Apples & Risk. For more kid-friendly...connect four, candy land, let's eat, chutes and ladders.

Settlers of Catan and Dominion have gotten a lot of play in this house. They're not "kid" games - but my 12 year old does just fine. I want Pandemic!!

Those were the two I was thinking were our favorites. Pandemic is fun and can be played with 2 players, so even better. We also like "Ticket to Ride" as well.

[Auspicious]

For 3 1/2,
The Ladybug Game
Brown Bear Panda Bear What Do You See Game
Go Away Monster
Monkeying Around