Educational Board Games
Carefully curated games that combine fun with learning. Each game in our collection has been selected for its educational value, quality gameplay, and ability to bring families together.
Why Board Games Matter
In our digital age, board games offer something unique: genuine human connection combined with meaningful learning experiences. Unlike screen-based entertainment, board games encourage face-to-face interaction, develop critical thinking skills, and create lasting memories.
Research shows that playing board games can improve cognitive function, enhance problem-solving abilities, and strengthen social bonds. For children, they're particularly valuable for developing patience, strategic thinking, and emotional regulation.
What Makes a Great Educational Game?
We believe the best educational games don't feel like learning at all. They should be engaging, age-appropriate, and offer multiple layers of complexity that grow with the players. Each game in our collection meets these criteria:
- Clear learning objectives - Every game develops specific skills
- Engaging gameplay - Fun comes first, learning follows naturally
- Quality components - Durable materials that last for years
- Inclusive design - Games that work for different ages and abilities
- Replayability - Games that remain interesting over time
Our Game Collection
Familou
Chatty, placing, collecting cooperation.
Skills: Cooperation, logical thinking, memory.
Azul
Beautiful tile-laying strategy game.
Skills: Strategic thinking, pattern recognition, planning ahead.
Ticket to Ride
Ticket to Ride is a true classic and an excellent introductory game, as its rules are not too complex, yet there is plenty to think about.
Skills: The game enhances strategic planning, decision-making, route optimization, and spatial reasoning, as players must carefully choose and connect railway routes while blocking opponents.
Piou Piou
A fast-paced, collection-based game full of playful take-that moments.
Skills: Strategic thinking, set collection, basic logic.
Pipolo
A real oddball—yet you have to bluff with a straight face.
Skills: Bluffing, rule recognition, visual discrimination.
Mysterix
You'd think it's simple and easy to remember — but your memory will only get in the way!
Skills: Visual perception, concentration, speed.
Betrayal at House on the Hill
The game comes with multiple room tiles, character tokens, and cards.
Skills: Enhances creative thinking, storytelling, and language skills.
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
A cooperative board game where players work together to prevent global pandemics.
Skills: Encourages vocabulary expansion, spelling accuracy, and strategic thinking.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
The game includes case booklets, newspapers, and a map of Victorian London.
Skills: Encourages problem-solving, logic, and cooperative play.
Concept
It's a game of abstraction and association.
Skills: Creativity, abstract thinking, communication skills as players use symbols to convey ideas without words
Dixit
Dixit is a card game that invites players to rely on their intuition and imagination to guess which card one player, the storyteller, is describing.
Skills: Dixit develops creativity, abstract thinking, and social interaction skills as players interpret and guess the story behind the images.
Mice and Mystics
Players, transformed into mice, go on a whimsical adventure through a castle full of dangers.
Skills: Enhances problem-solving, teamwork, and storytelling abilities.
Once Upon A Time
This is a narrative card game where players create their own stories while playing cards from their hands.
Skills: Reading and storytelling skills, creative thinking, understanding of language structures
Pictionary
A classic drawing game where players have to guess what their team-mate is trying to draw.
Skills: Enhances creative thinking, non-verbal communication, and teamwork.
Rory's Story Cubes
Players roll dice with different images and weave a story based on the results.
Skills: It enhances imagination, storytelling, and lateral thinking.
Snake Oil
Players invent unique products and sell them to all sorts of quirky customers.
Skills: Encourages creativity, persuasive speaking, and entrepreneurship.
Scrabble
Scrabble is a classic word game where players earn points by creating words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15x15 grid.
Skills: Scrabble enhances vocabulary, spelling, strategic thinking, and mathematical skills through word formation and scoring.
Blue Banana
A simple yet surprisingly challenging pattern recognition game.
Skills: Pattern recognition, visual perception, quick thinking.
Set
A fast-paced pattern recognition card game.
Skills: Pattern recognition, visual perception, logical thinking.
Pandemic
The game is perfect for high school students as it offers intellectual stimulation, fosters teamwork, and educates players about global health and geography facts.
Skills: The game enhances cooperative strategy, critical thinking, teamwork, decision-making, and crisis management, as players must work together to stop the global spread of diseases.
Hanabi
A clever cooperative deduction card game with a unique twist.
Skills: Enhances logical thinking, memory, communication skills, and teamwork.
Catan
Catan is a thrilling board game where players aim to build and develop holdings by trading and acquiring resources.
Skills: The game enhances strategic thinking, resource management, negotiation skills, and decision-making, as players must trade, build, and expand while adapting to an ever-changing board.
Magic Maze Kids
This is an engaging cooperative game adapted from the famous Magic Maze game but designed specifically for children.
Skills: The game enhances cooperation, problem-solving, spatial awareness, and communication, as players must work together silently to guide their heroes through the maze.
Animal Upon Animal
A delightful balancing game that calls for players to balance different wooden animals on top of one another.
Skills: The game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and strategic thinking, as players carefully stack animals without toppling the tower.
Bugs in the Kitchen
A dynamic board game featuring a small, vibrating hexbug that players must guide into their traps by creatively turning cutleries set up in a maze.
Skills: Problem-solving, strategic thinking, hand-eye coordination, and quick decision-making
Mastermind
Code-breaking logic game
Skills: Logical thinking, combinatorial and permutation skills, pattern recognition
Hoot Owl Hoot
A cooperative colour-coded board game where players work together to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up.
Skills: Cooperation, color recognition, strategic thinking, and turn-taking skills
Outfoxed!
A cooperative deduction board game where players work together to discover which fox stole Mrs Plumpert's prized pot pie.
Skills: Logical reasoning, deduction, teamwork, and problem-solving skills
Dragomino
An enchanting, kid-friendly adaptation of the popular game Kingdomino.
Skills: Pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, decision-making, and basic strategic thinking
Loopin' Louie
A fast-paced and energetic board game that requires players to protect their chicken chips from Louie's swooping and loop-de-looping airplane.
Skills: Hand-eye coordination, reaction speed, fine motor skills, and timing
Wingspan
Educational board game for children
Skills: Various skills depending on game mechanics
Games
Creative board games can enhance cognitive skills in several ways
Skills: Strategic thinking
Terraforming Mars
Educational board game for children
Skills: Various skills depending on game mechanics
Closest
The game 'Race to Infinity' is a perfect example
Skills:
Clue
Classic murder mystery board game
Skills: Logical reasoning, deduction skills, critical thinking, and memory
Risk
Risk is a board game of diplomacy, conflict, and conquest. It's a classic game of strategy where players' ultimate goal is to occupy every territory on the board and eliminate other players in the process, thereby establishing supremacy in the world.
Skills: The game enhances strategic thinking, tactical decision-making, risk assessment, negotiation skills, and resource management, as players must carefully plan attacks and defenses while expanding their empires.
Game of Six
Multiplication practice with dice
Skills: Multiplication, addition
Math Dice
Target number calculation game
Skills: Calculation, addition and subtraction, number system, logical thinking
Pentomino
Spatial puzzle with geometric shapes
Skills: Spatial reasoning, geometry, problem-solving
Smath
Math crossword puzzle game
Skills: Calculation, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, logical thinking, pattern recognition
Mammoth Maths
Simple addition and subtraction game
Skills: Addition, subtraction
Prime Climb
Prime number strategy game
Skills: Primes and composite numbers, multiplication and divisibility, calculation and basic operations, strategy and logic
Ganz Schön Clever
Dice rolling strategy game
Skills: Combinations and permutations, addition, multiplication, strategy and decision making, mathematical logic
Ricochet Robots
Spatial programming puzzle
Skills: Spatial awareness, logical reasoning, coordination and planning, mathematical thinking, working memory, programming
Mahé
Stacking and racing game
Skills: Counting, multiplication, addition
Schnapp den Sack
Quick counting and grabbing game
Skills: Addition, strategic thinking, number sorting and comparison, counting and comparison
Patchwork
Patchwork is a two-player game that merges the calming art of quilting with strategic gameplay, an interesting dichotomy that sets it apart.
Skills: The game enhances spatial reasoning, resource management, strategic planning, and decision-making, as players must efficiently fit patches onto their board while managing their button economy.
Qwirkle
Take it or leave it? That’s all there is to it—yet every decision makes you sweat.
Skills: This game enhances pattern recognition, strategic thinking, spatial awareness, and planning skills, as players must carefully place tiles to maximize their points.
Splendor
Gem trading engine building game
Skills: Resource management, arithmetic, economic concepts
Apples to Apples
Fun party game matching objects with descriptions
Skills: Language skills, creativity, social interaction
Mandala
Abstract duel of color and pattern with shared tension.
Skills: It supports strategic thinking, color recognition, and pattern-building skills.
Bananagrams
Bananagrams is a fast-paced, Scrabble-like word game where players race against each other to build a grid of words using their letter tiles, without the need for a board or a turn-based system.
Skills: Bananagrams enhances vocabulary, immediate word formation skills, anagram creation, linguistic creativity.
Story Cubes
A dice game that encourages players to invent stories based on randomly rolled symbols.
Skills: Creativity, storytelling, problem-solving skills
Beer & Bread
A beautifully balanced two-player game of card drafting, resource management, and strategic decision-making
Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic planning, resource management, and decision-making
Codenames Duet
A classic game with a familiar gameplay, optimized for two players
Skills: Word association, inference skills, critical thinking, and verbal communication
Targi
A clever two-player worker placement game with tactical positioning, resource management, and intense competition
Skills: Strategic thinking, resource management, tactical positioning
The Fox in the Forest Duet
Two-player? Trick-taking? And actually good? Yes!
Skills: Strategic thinking, cooperative decision-making, reading comprehension, and inference skills
Tides of Time
Two-player drafting, combo-building, and competition
Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic planning, pattern recognition, and decision-making
Kiwi
A kiwi is rolling on the ground, who knows where it will stop?
Skills: Working memory, spatial orientation, learning directions, coding
Djeco Mysterix
The odd one out is a classic children's game, and when put on cards, it becomes an exciting, fast-paced card game.
Skills: Visual perception, attention to detail, quick thinking skills
Spot It!
Spot it! or Dobble, the key is to pay close attention, notice the matches, and be the fastest.
Skills: Visual perception and shape-background differentiation
Boggle Junior
Dice, letters, words. A great combination.
Skills: Spelling, word recognition, fine motor skills
Scrabble Junior
A classic children's version. If we love it, we can easily engage the kids with this version.
Skills: Spelling, vocabulary, strategic thinking skills
Zingo!
If we take a step back to focus on developing phonological awareness, "Zingo!" is a great recommendation.
Skills: Phonological awareness, vocabulary, matching skills
Typo
Simple rules, simple ideas, true Knizia ease.
Skills: Vocabulary and quick thinking skills
Word Bits
Simple rules, simple ideas, true Knizia ease.
Skills: Vocabulary and quick thinking skills
Codenames: Pictures
The classic Codenames in a picture version, which makes it playable with younger children as well.
Skills: Critical thinking, teamwork, association skills as players connect images with clues
Citadels
A clever hidden-role game where you never know whom to trust.
Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic decision-making based on card text, verbal interaction as players negotiate and bluff
Love Letter
Just 16 cards and 9 characters, yet it's clever and exciting.
Skills: Reading comprehension, deduction, bluffing, strategic communication, as players must interpret card effects and anticipate opponents' moves
The Deadlies
If you love messing with your opponents, this is the game for you—but only if you're good at finding the right combos.
Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic thinking, verbal interaction, as players must carefully interpret card abilities and plan their moves accordingly
Werewords
A fast-paced word game where you either win with smart questions or deceive others with clever bluffing—but watch out, the werewolf is watching!
Skills: Vocabulary, deductive reasoning, question formation, verbal communication, as players must ask strategic questions to guess the secret word while identifying hidden roles
Word Rummikub
Rummikub is a well-known and beloved game among adults, but fewer people are aware that there is a word-building edition as well.
Skills: Vocabulary, spelling, strategic thinking, problem-solving, cognitive flexibility, making it a great brain-training activity for players of all ages
Codenames
The classic Codenames in a picture version, which makes it playable with younger children as well.
Skills: The game develops critical thinking, word association, teamwork, deduction, and communication skills.
Similo
Many themes, simple, clever, with minimal yet engaging text.
Skills: Reading comprehension, inference skills, logical reasoning, associative thinking
Boggle
Dice, letters, words. A great combination.
Skills: Spelling, word recognition, vocabulary expansion, quick thinking
Cascadia
Cascadia is an engaging and accessible board game that invites players to explore and enjoy the diverse habitat of the Pacific Northwest.
Skills: The game enhances pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, strategic planning, and decision-making, as players must optimize their habitat and wildlife placements for maximum points.
Bausack
We bid, assess risks, or simply build—all with unique, high-quality, and beautifully crafted wooden pieces.
Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, balance, spatial awareness, and strategic thinking, as players carefully stack odd-shaped pieces while making tactical decisions.
Wavelength
Wavelength is an innovative and social guessing game that tests your ability to connect and think in sync with others.
Skills: The game enhances abstract thinking, communication skills, teamwork, and interpretation of nuances, as players must convey and understand subjective concepts within a given range.
Blokus
Blokus is an engaging strategy board game that is as vibrant and competitive as it is brain-teasing.
Skills: The game enhances spatial reasoning, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and visual planning, as players must carefully place their pieces while blocking opponents.
Monopoly
Monopoly is a classic board game that combines strategy, chance, and the principles of real-estate trading.
Skills: The game enhances financial literacy, strategic decision-making, negotiation skills, and risk assessment, as players must manage money, buy properties, and make deals.
Test Game
A test game
Skills: Testing
Little Action
A truly adorable game, perfect for introducing children to the world of board gaming.
Skills: Little Action helps improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, balance, and dexterity, while also encouraging turn-taking and following instructions.
Rhino Hero
If a child loves UNO and enjoys building, this board game is a fantastic way to take things to the next level.
Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and strategic thinking, as players carefully balance and build a tower without knocking it over.
ICECOOL
Everyone loves flicking games—many of us played spontaneous versions as kids. ICECOOL brilliantly captures and packages that experience into a board game.
Skills: This game enhances hand-eye coordination, flicking precision, spatial awareness, and strategic thinking, as players navigate the board by skillfully flicking their penguins.
Kapitän Wackelpudding
It's fascinating how simple building blocks can be turned into such a fun and engaging dexterity game.
Skills: This game helps improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and balance, as players carefully place cargo on the unsteady ship without tipping it over.
Tokyo Highway
For those who love board games with a truly unique table presence, Tokyo Highway can easily become a favorite.
Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and strategic planning, as players carefully construct an intricate highway network without knocking over structures.
Crokinole
A flicking classic. That’s it.
Skills: This game enhances hand-eye coordination, precision, fine motor control, and strategic thinking, as players flick discs with controlled force and accuracy.
Jenga
A game that everyone knows, everyone has played, and yet we still don’t hate it.
Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and concentration, as players carefully remove and place blocks without toppling the tower.
Klask
You can’t see what your hand is doing, yet you’re trying to score a goal with it? The concept is unique, and so is the execution. A modern classic of our time.
Skills: This game enhances hand-eye coordination, reaction speed, dexterity, and strategic thinking, as players control their strikers using magnets beneath the board.
6 nimmt!
A true classic. As simple as it is, it’s equally thinky and math-heavy.
Skills: This game enhances strategic thinking, risk assessment, and probability skills, as players must carefully choose where to place their cards to avoid penalties.
For Sale
Two types of bidding, a game split into two phases—simple yet brilliantly clever classic.
Skills: This game enhances strategic thinking, bidding skills, risk assessment, and financial awareness, as players must evaluate when to spend and when to save.
No Thanks!
Take it or leave it? That’s all there is to it—yet every decision makes you sweat.
Skills: This game enhances strategic thinking, risk assessment, probability calculation, and decision-making skills, as players must weigh when to take cards and when to pass.
Taboo
A lesson in communication, Taboo forces players to convey ideas without obvious cues, a valuable skill in effective communication.
Skills: The game enhances vocabulary, quick thinking, communication skills, and verbal expression, as players must describe words without using restricted terms.
Unstable Unicorns
Unstable Unicorns is a fantastic game that brings an exciting mix of strategy, interaction and a touch of whimsical fantasy into a high school classroom learning environment.
Skills: The game enhances strategic thinking, decision-making, adaptability, and hand management, as players must build their unicorn army while sabotaging opponents.
Deep Sea Adventure
Modern and good roll-and-move game? Yes, it exists!
Skills: Tactical thinking, risk management, decision-making.
Nine Tiles Panic
Frantically rushing and thinking tactically at the same time? Yes!
Skills: Visual perception, quick thinking, spatial awareness.
Scout
Can classic card game mechanics still offer something new? They can!
Skills: Strategic thinking, number sequencing, risk management.
Souvenirs from Venice
Shopping peacefully? No way!
Skills: Memory, strategic thinking, set collection.
Bandido
Age, Playing Time, Players
Skills: Logical thinking, planning, spatial awareness.
Castle Panic
Work together to defend the castle from waves of monsters.
Skills: Teamwork, prioritization, threat assessment.
Mmm!
Roll dice to collect food before the mouse gets caught.
Skills: Probability assessment, collaboration, risk management.
Stuffed Fables
Progress through a narrative by using dice and choosing actions.
Skills: Imagination, narrative skills, emotional regulation.
Zombie Kidz Evolution
Complete missions and unlock new content while keeping zombies out.
Skills: Long-term planning, cooperation, perseverance.
Batasaurus
A memory-powered dinosaur duel where every number counts and clever strategy wins the battle.
Skills: Memory, number comparison and basic math concepts, strategic thinking, focus and attention.
Diamoniak
A magical race to build your castleâjust beware of witches, wild spells, and your own daring!
Skills: Risk assessment and decision-making, planning and strategy, color and pattern recognition, turn-taking and patience.
Piratatak
Set sail for adventure in this risky pirate quest where fortune favors the boldâbut watch out for enemy attacks!
Skills: Strategic decision-making, basic resource management, risk-taking and probability sense, focus and planning.
Claim
Two-phase card game with a twist on trick-taking.
Skills: Claim supports strategic thinking, memory, and planning skills through its two-phase gameplay.
Jaipur
Trading and set collection with a market theme.
Skills: Jaipur builds decision-making, tactical planning, and risk-reward assessment.
The Fox in the Forest
Fairy tale trick-taking with clever card powers.
Skills: It enhances strategic thinking, memory, and timing.
Hanamikoji
Elegant card duel with tense gift-giving decisions.
Skills: It sharpens decision-making, strategic planning, and the ability to anticipate your opponent’s moves.
Schotten Totten
Card strategy with territory control.
Skills: It enhances logical thinking, memory, and tactical decision-making.
Paris: La Cité de la Lumière
Tile placement and city building.
Skills:
Button Up!
Abstract button-stacking duel with spies, combos, and clever movement.
Skills: It develops logical thinking, spatial reasoning, and planning skills.
Limes
Grid-based tile and meeple placement for efficient land use.
Skills: It develops spatial awareness, planning, and strategic thinking.
Vikingdoms
Strategic raiding with shared troops and a race to build or loot first.
Skills: It develops tactical planning, spatial reasoning, and resource management.
Aton
Card-based strategy with an ancient Egyptian theme.
Skills: Aton enhances strategic thinking, planning, and adaptability, as players must allocate cards effectively to control temples and anticipate opponents' moves.
Sky Team
Cooperative flight simulation for two playersâland the plane together, silently.
Skills: Cooperation, communication, and planning under pressure.
Colt Express
A wild west bank heist powered by programming and chaos.
Skills: Planning ahead, sequential memory, spatial reasoning, light arithmetic when calculating loot or card order.
Ligretto
A lightning-speed card game where numbers fly and reflexes rule.
Skills: Quick number sequencing, hand-eye coordination, visual memory.
Kingdomino
Build your perfect kingdom by matching tiles and multiplying crowns.
Skills: Multiplication in scoring (area × crowns), spatial awareness, tile matching, basic arithmetic.
Point Salad
A fast-food math puzzle where veggies and strategy meet.
Skills: Addition, comparison, planning, adapting to changing point conditions.
Rummikub Word
Rummikub is a well-known and beloved game among adults, but fewer people are aware that there is a word-building edition as well.
Skills: The game enhances vocabulary, spelling, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and cognitive flexibility, making it a great brain-training activity for players of all ages.
Speedy Words
A fast-paced word game that challenges players to think quickly, recall vocabulary, and react faster than their opponentsâperfect for sharpening language skills in a fun way!
Skills: The game enhances vocabulary, quick word recall, categorization skills, and reading speed.
Codenames: Duet
A classic game with a familiar gameplay, optimized for two players.
Skills: The game enhances word association, inference skills, critical thinking, and verbal communication.
Paris: La Cité de la Lumière
Tile placement and city building.
Skills: It enhances spatial reasoning, tactical planning, and decision-making.
Abszolút megvadult betűk (Absolutely Wild Letters)
Tetris? Word formation? Brain burner? Roll and write Scrabble.
Skills: The game develops vocabulary, creativity, and strategic planning.
Abszolút képtelen sztorik (Absolutely Impossible Stories)
Tetris? Word formation? Brain burner? Roll and write Scrabble.
Skills: Linguistic expression, listening comprehension, text creation, writing, reading.
Getting Started with Board Games
For Families New to Board Gaming
If you're just starting your board game journey, we recommend beginning with cooperative games like Familou. These games eliminate the competitive pressure and allow everyone to work together toward a common goal, making them perfect for mixed-age groups.
Building Your Collection
A well-rounded game collection should include variety: quick games for busy evenings, longer strategy games for weekend afternoons, and cooperative games for when you want to work together rather than compete.
Consider the ages and interests of your players, but don't be afraid to try games that seem slightly challenging. Children often surprise us with their ability to grasp complex concepts when they're having fun.
Making Game Night Special
The magic of board games isn't just in the games themselves, but in the experience you create around them. Set aside dedicated time, put away devices, and focus on being present with each other. Some of our best family memories happen around a game table.
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