It’s the long summer school holiday again. No doubt, many of you will be making journeys – both long and short – spending time with family away from home. A collection of easily portable travel games will while away hours en route as well as at your holiday destination.
We’ve chosen three that we’ve never heard of or even played before and that are suitable for all the family. We’ve included a real customer review for each game.
- P for Pizza – The easy cheesy letter game: £6.50, House of Fraser
http://go.to.hisforhomeblog.com?id=29801X875054&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.houseoffraser.co.uk%2Fbrand%2Fbig-potato-games%2Fp-for-pizza—the-easy-cheesy-letter-game-791434Stack up your Pizza Cards and get ready to reach for a slice! Each round, players must think of a word that connects the letter to the category, then shout it out before anyone else. The speediest player wins the slice!
Customer review: This is probably my favorite, quickplay party / icebreaker / family game of all time. It’s really appropriate for all kinds of groups and settings. It’s super fast to learn, finishes in 15 – 25 mins (depending on group size), and there are loads of ways to house rule a catch-up mechanic to help out stragglers (young children, etc.). Also it has great table presence!
The box is also super cute and is small enough to take on trips, tucked into luggage.
- Rummikub travel game: £15.99, John Lewis
http://go.to.hisforhomeblog.com?id=29801X875054&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johnlewis.com%2Fjohn-adams-rummikub-travel-game%2Fp2621281Each game is as different as the combinations of moves you choose to play.
The object of the game is to be the first player to go ‘Rummikub’ by using all of your tiles in ‘runs’ or ‘groups’ and by accumulating the highest score. Outwit your opponents with cool strategy and sharp moves. Use the Joker with caution… he can fire up the game, but if he is smiling on your board at the end of the round, you lose 30 points!
Customer review: This Game is brilliant, imagine two sets of cards it’s like rummy, really gets you thinking, adding up and makes you want to win.
Very light to take in a case on trips and counters small enough for fitting on a pub table.
We were delayed for a day on a ship, played it all day, addicted.
Our friends who played it with us went out and bought the full size and the travel size they enjoyed that much.
Fantastic value game. - Hive Pocket – Award-winning strategy game: £16.95, Amazon
https://amzn.to/3QYMCKeHive pocket is our wonderful award-winning game hive but much smaller and compact. Now you never need to go anywhere without hive again. It includes a nice draw string bag and also includes two expansions ‘the mosquito’ and ‘the ladybug’, both are wonderful additions that add extra strategy to the game. What is hive: hive is a Board game with a difference. There is no board The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture the opposing Queen Bee. The soldier ants battle to keep control of the outside of the hive, whilst the beetles climb up To dominate The top. Spiders moving into holding positions as the grass hoppers jump in for the kill. Keeping one eye on the hive and the other on your opponents reserves, The tension builds as one wrong move will see your Queen Bee quickly engulfed; game over.
Customer review: My 11 year old now beats both mum and dad at chess and Japanese chess. Looking for new games is a challenge but this was a great find.
A similar level of challenge as chess but with the added interest that it is something new and different and it’s great that it takes a lot less time to play so we can have one quick game or several if we have longer.Glad I got the pocket size, wouldn’t want it any bigger than this. The pieces are made beautifully, reminds me of an old mahjong game we had when I was young.
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