Activities for pre-teens
624 activities found
Dixit
Use dreamlike illustrated cards to give abstract clues that match your own secret card — clever enough that some players find it but not all — in this beautifully creative storytelling card game.
El Grande
Compete as Spanish grandes for influence over the regions of medieval Spain — bid power cards to determine turn order, deploy caballeros from the Castillo, and outscore rivals across five scoring rounds.
Exploding Kittens
Draw cards and do whatever it takes to avoid pulling an Exploding Kitten, using Defuse cards and outrageous action cards to skip turns, attack others, and peek at the deck to survive.
Century: Spice Road
Play merchant cards to produce and upgrade spice cubes, then spend the right combinations to claim victory point cards in this fast, elegant tableau-and-hand-management game along the ancient spice trade route.
Checkers
A two-player strategy classic on an eight-by-eight board — move disc-shaped pieces diagonally and capture your opponent's pieces by jumping over them to clear the board.
Chinese Checkers
Race your ten marbles across a six-pointed star-shaped board to occupy the opposite corner, hopping over other players' pieces in a colourful strategy game for two to six players.
Citadels
Draft secret character roles each round — from Assassin to Architect — to gather gold, build district cards, and outmanoeuvre rivals on your way to constructing an eight-district city first.
Cluedo
Investigate a murder in a mansion by moving between rooms, gathering clues, and eliminating suspects, weapons, and locations until you can name the killer, the weapon, and the room.
Codenames
Two rival spymasters give one-word clues to lead their teams to the right words on the grid, avoiding the opponent's agents and the deadly assassin in this tense word-association party game.
