Favorite Board Games Ages 6-9 years old?

[Maluhia]

We are thinking of instituting game-night and no-TV on weeknights in November when we move into our new flat and am wondering if any of you wise MDC Mamas have great suggestions for board games that work with 3 people, two adults and a 6-9 year old child (she'll be that age while we live in this new place, and I like to plan ahead).

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

[Maluhia]

Another thread on this

[Owen'nZoe]

My kids are ages 3 and 6, so the oldest is on the lower end of the age range you gave. Our favorite games here currently are:

- Cariboo by Cranium
- Baloon Lagoon by Cranium
- Monopoly Junior (very fun, and takes less time to play than regular Monopoly)
- Mouse Trap (this one drives me bonkers, trying to keep track of all the pieces, but the kids love it!)
- Yatzee (6 year old only - it is much too hard for the 3 year old)
- Pigmania/Pass the Pigs - basically a dice game, but with two pigs that you roll instead of dice. PigMania was a favorite of my siblings and I when we were kids. Pass the Pigs is the new name for it, and my kids love it, too.

[mum4vr]

my dd (9 yo) loves loves loves Pente (but good luck finding it-- I finally made my own board out of green velveteen leftover from her brother's Robin Hood / Peter Pan costume and bought glass beads, LOL)

In the past 3 years... she/ they have enjoyed:

checkers and chess (old standbys for a reason I guess)
cranium (and all it's variations)
pictionary
guesstures (it's just fancy charades)
outburst
backgammon
othello/ reversi
life (oy)
monopoly jr and farm-opoly
euchre (it's like Swiss poker, and they like many other card games)

HTH

blessings

[Thalia the Muse]

Clue
Pictionary (the kid is better at this one than we are!)
Rummikub
Mancala
Balloon Lagoon
Connet 4

[Daffodil]

We all like Set. (Well, DD and I like it, and DP doesn't mind playing it, but I think he'd like it better if he didn't usually lose.)

Labyrinth is entertaining enough for adults to play it without getting bored, and easy enough for a kid as young as 4 to play. (It says it's for 8 and up, but it's fine for younger kids, too - they just won't come up with the cleverest strategy.)

[LuckyMommaToo]

--Creationary is an awesome new Lego game (like Pictionary with Legos).
--Blokus
--Card games: Scrambled States, Sleeping Queens
--Sorry
--The Game of Life
--Enchanted Forest
--Qwirkle

Have fun!
-e