Alright, Smarty Pants, do you have what it takes to win some of the best educational board games? Put your thinking caps on, and get ready to go head-to-head with some of your smartest friends! If you're a great speller, a math whiz, or an expert at strategizing, these educational board games are right up your alley!
The games that are featured on this list include: Bananagrams, Scrabble, Chess, Scattergories, Cranium, Trivial Pursuit, Guinness World Records, ThinkFun Zingo, ThinkFun Roll and Play Board Game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Monopoly, Scrambled States. and Guess Who? If there’s a game listed here that you think is the absolute best, please share your opinion and be sure to vote for your favorite one. Also, please feel free to add any we might have forgotten.
Good Educational Board Games for Kids,
Chess
Use strategic moves and lateral thinking to protect your queen at all costs.
Cranium
Cranium is awesome because you get to explore different mediums of creativity. Sculpt artwork out of play dough, act out a scene from a movie, or sing a song to win!
Guess Who?
Ask questions to find out the identity of your opponent's mystery person!
Scattergories
Time to get creative! Teams come up with answers to the categories listed on their cards.
Trivial Pursuit
Team up to answer fun trivia questions.
Concentration
Use your memory to pair up matching cards. The player with the most card pairings wins!
Operation
Use tweezers to remove the patient's ailing parts. But be careful! If you touch the sides, the buzzer will go off, and you will lose your turn!
Bananagrams
The anagram game that will drive you bananas! Players arrange their tiles to form crossword grids. The person to get rid of all of their tiles first, wins!
Guinness World Records
Based on the best-selling Guinness Book of World Records, this game tests your knowledge with a series of trivia questions.
Simon Says
Simon says, stand on one foot.
Simon says, jump up and down.
Simon says, stop.
Jump up and down!
Did you just jump? I didn't say "Simon says," so, you just lost the game! Simon Says is all about following directions according to exactly what Simon says.