Ho Ho Ho, wanting to try some new and exciting Christmas themed board games for adults? We’ve selected the most exciting, fun-filled Christmas themed board games for adults that create wonderful Christmas holiday memories or traditions.
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Yep, you guessed it, a board game and a drinking game in one. Hence, this is one of the best drinking and Christmas themed board games for parties. This party game challenges your friends and helps you get to know them a little better, or depending on how much you get into them, maybe hangovers.
So, of course, now, I feel a social responsibility now to say: Please drink responsibility and look after your friends and family. Check out the blog How to Host a Fun Games Night for tips.
How to Play Tipsy Land
Move around the board by rolling the dice and completing the tasks. In addition, there are two community spaces, with cards which are ; “Never Have I” and “Pick Someone Who“… Pick someone who would decorate their house with 10,000 lights, or never have I—put my Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving or tried to sit on Santa’s lap. While the general board game tiles have tasks like “Pick someone to take 3 sips” or “Everyone drinks,” see where this game is going? Fun-filled, potentially drunken laughter, which makes it one of the most fabulous Christmas themed board games.
With over 2.5 million copies sold worldwide and 1800 trivia questions, this game continues to grow in popularity and is one of those Trivia Christmas themed board games that comes out each Christmas creating family memories. You’ll learn wonderful holiday fun facts about Elf, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, Nightmare Before Christmas, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th St., The Grinch, and more. The cards are centred around all things Christmas: movie trivia, TV trivia, song trivia, world trivia, Christmas carol trivia, Christmas traditions around the world, and many more.
Letters to Santa
Originally introduced in 2012 as Love Letters by AEG-Z-Man Games, it won many awards for best family game, highly recommended, best party board game, and more. Since then, Love Letters or Letters to Santa have continued to have many versions and constantly gets better and better.
Objective of this Christmas Themed Board Game
The primary aim of the “Letters to Santa” board game is for players to collect and deliver letters and gifts to Santa at the North Pole. Players navigate the game board by drawing letter cards, completing challenges, and gathering items needed to fulfil the wishes of children. The first player to reach the North Pole with their collected letters and gifts wins the game.
How to play Letters to Santa
Shuffle the cards and remove a certain amount depending on the number of competitors. Everyone is dealt one card only, and draw a second card on your turn. Place 1 card face down and complete the action. There is a reference card outlining the actions. For example, when you discard the Elf, you trade the card in your hand with the card held by another player of your choice. There are 8 action cards; see the full set here.
Great small game for travel, as it will fit into any holiday suitcase.
Off Topic is another great Christmas themed board game for adults, as it has simple rules; there is no right or wrong answer, and its a great conversation starter if you have new people in your group.
Objective
The goal is to be the first to collect a set number of story cards or points by creatively responding to prompts.
How to Play
Shuffle the cards and place them in a stack. Players take turns drawing a prompt card and filling in the blanks with an erasable pen. These cards are put into a bowl. Each player takes a card and guesses who wrote that answer to the prompt. The person who guesses the most right wins. The game continues until a player reaches the predetermined number of points or story cards, or after a set number of rounds.
It is known for its humor and simply rules and is inclusive with a lighthearted fun but slight competitive edge. This holiday party board game adds a festive approach to the traditional game of Sorry! Not Sorry!.
Objective
Trick your family and friends into saying ‘forbidden’ words. This isn’t your typical card game played around the table. Instead, it’s played in the background within a time frame that suits you.
The game includes 54 cards, 2 rule cards, 8 comical identity cards, and 44 forbidden word cards with over 220 forbidden words, so it always new. Once you have chosen your target, get them to say the forbidden words on that card. E.g. the identity card is “your target is the Foodie” and the forbidden words are “steamy,” “reindeer,” “pie,” etc.
This isn’t a Christmas themed board game per se, but I’ve included this because I think it’s a great game to be played at Xmas time, as it creates a lot of laughs together and is great for larger groups. My teenagers even got involved with this game.
Objective
Basically, make the funniest answer to the prompt card, using only the handful of magnetic words in front of them.
How to Play Ransom Notes
Grab your friends and the more the merrier to really get the laughs rolling.
First off, each player is given a metal tray and three “pinches” of magnetic words. Don’t stress; a pinch is what anyone thinks.
Next, someone flips a prompt card over and reads its aloud, and everyone then has to put a sentence (in broken English) together in response to the prompt question.
Once everyone has completed their sentence, each person reads their answer aloud.
Spin the box and the player with the box end reading, “you’re the judge,” gets to pick the best answer (winner).
Players then put their used words back into the box and pinch out another set of words. This winner keeps the prompt card, and the first person to receive 5 prompt cards wins.
Conclusion
That’s it, our best picks for Christmas themed board games for adults. Have you got a favourite Christmas themed game you recommend? Contact us; I would love to hear about it.
If you’re looking for other party games, check out these recommendations for more party fun or other adult only games here.
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