The whole family gets together at Christmas. But what do you do when you’re not eating? How about one of these board games for iOS? They guarantee a fun afternoon or evening for the whole family.
Board games for iOS
You no longer need a physical board game to play games if you have an iPad or iPhone. Below are the 7 best party games for iOS, so you can have a nice Christmas.
In Half A Minute, a team is given half a minute to guess words from a fellow player. One person describes the words, the rest guesses. The team that is fastest and can guess the most number of words wins.
Ready to have a dance after a few drinks? This is possible with the Dutch app Bounden. Two people hold one phone, which guides them in motion. In this way a dance is created. The choreography comes from the Dutch National Ballet, but don’t be put off: anyone can do it.
Charades (better known here as Hints) is an ideal game for your family. At least if they speak English, because the game is completely in that language. It’s a kind of Who Am I, where one player has to guess the name on their phone. That can be an actor, but also a movie title or something else. The player who has to guess has the phone in front of him, so that he doesn’t see anything himself, but everyone else does. The others can do anything to give hints: from singing and talking to dancing and sketching.
Bam Fu is also a fun party game from the makers of Bounden. You play it all on one device and the idea is simple: make sure that all the balls are your color. Because everyone is tapping on the device, you quickly get entangled in hands and fingers. It is precisely the chaos that arises that makes Bam Fu a fun game for the family.
Ticket To Ride is based on the board game of the same name and the aim is to collect as many train routes as possible. You do this by collecting cards and placing them on the game board. Users are only allowed to claim a small piece of rails at a time, so you have to play it tactically. The longer your route, the more points you get. The game can be played with several people around one iPad.
Do you have a TV with Chromecast on hand? Then the Big Web Quiz is a fun game. All participants have to install the app on their phone and then they can play a kind of trivial with the app, which is made by Google. For questions, Google’s Knowledge Graph is used, where the questions are automatically generated. With this you potentially have endless gaming fun. You have to estimate how far a place is from somewhere and answer questions with multiple choice.
In King of Opera you fight against other tenors on a stage and whoever stays on it the longest wins. The figures are continuously spinning around and you can control when they walk forward. In this way up to four tenors walk in a circle trying to knock each other out. Simple, but fun.