Saturday, January 02, 2021

Online Games for Families and Friends

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We recently had fun playing a virtual escape room with family and friends. We thought it would be fun to play some games online too!

I looked for some websites and found lots of games that can be played online.

1. I like this playingcards.io site that lets you play games with a group of people. It was mentioned by a few of the following sites. It has "built in games" (like checkers, go fish, hearts, crazy-eights, backgammon, cribbage, and it also allows you to play with decks of cards, spinners and such to make your own card game (like golf (which we play by these rules, but the joker is -2 points), Kings in the corner, war,  or any card game)

2. We've played the boardgame called Code Names. It's a "spy" theme, but basically a game of trying to get your team to picks from a bunch of words which are the ones that are similar to a one-word hint you give. It's available online as CodeNames.game.

3. Our family also introduced us to "house party" - it's an app. It has built in games (like finding words, something like pictionary, and the Uno card game too).

4. Adding this one in March 2021: https://kahoot.com/ - has some trivia games you can play. Share the main screen with players over meetup or zoom or some screen sharing capable video meeting, then each person connects with the code and inputs their answers.

5. Adding this one in January 2024

Scategories:

https://swellgarfo.com/scattergories/

Here's some lists of other games I found:

 Have you played any games online with family and friends?  If so, please comment! We'd all like to hear of more games!

  

 

 

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