25 Fun and Educational Card Games for Family Game Night

Bicycle Standard Face Playing Cards, 2 Piece

Standard playing cards

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Golf card game

Brybelly Nertz Card Game 12 Decks of Standard 3.5 x 2.5″ Wide Poker Cards – Playing Cards 12 Pack for Dutch Blitz Card Game with 12 Unique Colors

Nerts card game

Two-player matching game where you race to get rid of your cards before your opponent by matching the shape, color, or count of your cards to the discard piles.

Even young non-readers can play this one!

A visual perception game in which everyone plays at once, attempting to spot sets of three cards that have specific matching characteristics OR no matching characteristics. The cards all contains pictures of various colors, shapes, numbers, and shading that you use to create sets.

It sounds so easy! Just spot the same picture on two different cards. And yet, somehow the slight size differences and placements make it a challenge to be the first to call out the match. Even very young kids can play this one.

Great for 3-4 players and you don’t need to know anything about sushi to play. Players pick a card and then pass to the left. The game is won by having the most points after three rounds, and points are accumulated by collecting the best combinations of sushi dishes as cards are passed around.

You can find updated versions with slightly new rules of play, but the classic Uno is still a favorite for kids.

Your kids will want to practice mental math when they do it by playing a card game! This game offers practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that you can tailor according to the level of your child.

This game combines memory, matching, and math in one fun card game.

Race to find hidden equations among nine number cards. When you find an equation, be the first shout out the number answer. You’ll have to share your proof with everyone, and then the cards are yours. The winner is the player who has collected the most cards once the deck runs out.

Your kids will be expanding their vocabulary without even knowing it while they play this card game. Players take turns playing a descriptive word card, and the other players each offer a card they feel most matches the description (or gets the most laughs). Older kids may enjoy the original edition, but kids as young as 8 will be able to play the junior edition.

This is great for a large group. Occasionally my kids will play with just two of them, but it really is fun when there are enough people to have a couple of boisterous teams. Each card has two or more words to say out loud. Your teammates attempt to interpret the sounds to make a meaningful phrase. It’s hard to explain, so here’s an example. DEW WINO HUE. If you say those words quickly, eventually you’ll hear, “do I know you?” That’s the game.

Give your kids the chance to make their own “dad jokes” with this card game. One player draws two prompt cards and the remaining players have 90 seconds to come up with a pun combining the two prompts. The original card drawer decides on a winner, who draws the next set of prompt cards. The winner is the first player to collect 10 pairs of cards.

Players take turns laying cards in a central pile while saying the words taco, cat, goat, cheese, and pizza in that order as play progresses around the group. If the word spoken matching the card played, slap your hand on the pile. The last one to slap takes the whole pile, and winning the game means being the first to get rid of all your cards.

This card game is unique in that all players are working together cooperatively to win the game. Players match either color or number cards to play on four piles in the center, with the twist of trying to complete specific goals within the time limit, without being allowed to talk to the other players about what the goal is. Great for encouraging cooperation and strategic thinking skills.

This is the classic Clue board game in card form. It’s slightly modified to work in a card game format, but still requires logical thinking and deduction skills to work out the mystery.

Come up with the right questions to figure out the answer in these fun card games. There are several options to choose from, including States of America, Countries of the World, Animal Planet, and World of Sports. Your kids will practice problem solving and creative thinking while playing this game.

The goal is to be the first to get rid of your cards. But the twist is that three of your cards aren’t revealed until the end.

The printed instructions for this game can be confusing. You might want to watch the video instructions instead.

TIP: This is basically the same game as Palace, played with a standard deck. If you’d like to learn how to play Palace instead of buying a separate game, watch this helpful video describing how to play Palace.

Many hours I spent playing Dutch Blitz with my siblings. It’s very similar to Nerts in that you are working to reduce your piles of cards by playing them in a center arena. Fast-paced, and the colorful cards make it easy for kids to identify their own.

I remember many a family holiday with adults yelling themselves hoarse while playing Pit. If your ears can take it, this is a fun family game of fast-paced trading and dealing in an attempt to corner the market.

Player work to make streaks of cards from their own piles, the draw pile, and snatching from other players.

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