Dice, card and board games reviews, rules and how-to's for the whole family
Solve the crime in the quickest time 3 to 4 players ages 8 and up If you’ve been around Family Game Shelf for any time, you’ve probably noticed that we love deduction games. Clue has been a long standing favorite of ours for years. We […]
This post may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. Tennis can be a fun, engaging and exhausting game. In Tennis Dice Game we bring all the fun and none of […]
Beggar My Neighbor is an easy card game that has similarities to Snap, Slapjack and War but with a much faster pace. Kids will be asking to play again and again. As many card games, Beggar my Neighbor also goes by the name Draw the […]
Exit The game is for 1 to 4 players aged 10 and up (depending the game) and will take 1 to 2 hours. Are you a puzzle master? We like to think that we are, well at least that we’re decent at solving puzzles. We […]
Who doesn’t love a good game of Mini Golf? We sure do, but if it’s rainy, or snowy (as it is here a lot of the year) then the fun comes to an end. But we have created a fun dice game that keeps the […]
This post may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. The popular fidget toy pop it has been turned into a game! It is sometimes called Pop It Chess. This is […]
When we reviewed the Simon Swipe card game, I thought it might be fun to make a variation of that game with regular playing cards. And the card game Hay Stacks was born. Over the years, I’ve created a lot of games, mostly dice games […]
If you’ve been around Family Game Shelf for a while, then you know how much we LOVE the game Scattergories. You can read the full review here and you can see all of free lists we have for holidays in our Fun Library. So when […]
Creating stories is a great way to improve vocabulary, language skills, boost creativity and a fabulous way to entertain kids. The problem is that it can be hard to come up with things to put in a story—writer’s block anyone? So today I’ll show you […]
Let your imagination roll wild One or more players ages 8 and up One of our favorite activities with groups is to make up stories one sentence at a time. So we were dying to try Rory’s Story Cubes. And you know that we love […]