Activities for pre-teens
624 activities found
Pick-up Sticks
Drop a bundle of thin sticks in a pile, then take turns carefully removing one at a time without disturbing the rest — a classic test of steady hands, focus, and patience.
Power Grid
Bid for power plants at auction, buy resources to fuel them, and expand your electrical network across cities — the player powering the most cities when the grid fills wins in this acclaimed economic game.
Puerto Rico
Develop a colonial plantation island — plant crops, build city buildings, and ship goods to Europe using a role-selection mechanism where the chosen role benefits everyone but the chooser most.
Quoridor
Race your pawn to the opposite side of the board while placing wooden fences to slow your opponent — every fence you place can be countered, making this abstract game a brilliant spatial puzzle.
Qwirkle
Build lines of tiles that share a colour or shape — never both — scoring points for every tile in a completed line, with a Qwirkle bonus for completing a full set of six in a row.
Race for the Galaxy
Simultaneously choose phases — explore, develop, settle, produce, consume — and reveal them together, building a galactic civilisation from tableau cards with a steep learning curve but incredibly deep strategy.
Ludo
A classic family race game for two to four players — roll the dice, move your coloured tokens from home to the finish, and send rivals' pieces back to start whenever you land on them.
Mancala
One of the world's oldest strategy games — sow stones around a row of pits, capturing as many as possible in your store, in a deceptively simple yet deeply strategic two-player duel.
Monopoly
Buy properties, build houses and hotels, collect rent from rivals, and bankrupt every opponent to win — the world's best-known board game of capitalism, negotiation, and ruthless real estate.
