Below you will find lists of our favorite games. Some of these games have specific educational goals, like practicing multiplication or spelling. Others we use for critical thinking, sequential planning and such. And still others are just for fun and are great for brain breaks. It will be an ever evolving list as we add to our game libraries.
Sarah and Star Kitty’s Family Game Library:
- Prime Climb – prime number concepts, division, multiplication & factorization
- Tri-Facta – multiplication & division
- The Focus Game – Learn all about Mindfulness and your brain while having fun!
- Outnumbered
- Zoom – addition, multiplication, probability
- Scrabble
- Scrabble Harry Potter
- Rummikub – Reinforces STEM skills like sequencing, pattern recognition and planning
- Jr Detective
- Rubiks Race
- Acuity – Reinforces visual-spatial skills, pattern recognition, quick mental processing
- Proof – Great brain game training to improve creative mental math skills. Practice multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and square roots.
- Ticket to Ride
- Chess – I found a great magnetic travel version that is wonderful for car or plane rides.
- StoryTime Chess – This is a great way to teach kids (and adults) how to play chess. Storytime Chess helps you learn what kind of move each chess piece can make by attaching a story to each piece.
- Qwirkle
- Checkers
- Monopoly
- Monopoly Squishmallows
- Candy Land
- Take 4 Squishmallows
- Othello – Strategy and planning
- Slapzi
- Sequence
- Sequence for Kids
- Tuttle Tales
- Dominoes
- Mexican Train Dominoes
- Catan
- Memory
- Bilingual Memory Mate – Basic sight words in English & Spanish. Memory skills
- Logic Links – spatial learning and deductive reasoning
- Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza – Great for brain breaks as it can be played in 10-15 minutes.
- Cover Your Assets
- Scattegories
- Connect 4
- Stratego – Strategy and planning
- Set Card Game – Builds cognitive, logical and spatial reasoning skills as well as visual perception skills
- Uno
- Skip-Bo
Cassandra and Leopard Girl’s Family Game Library:
- Digimon
- Sequence
- Qwirkle
- National geographic global pursuit
- Math Bingo
- Headbanz
- Pictionary
- Boggle
- Charades
- Uno
- Scrabble
- Made for Trade
- Checkers
- Aggravation
- Clue
- Jenga
- Math Bingo
- Apples to Apples
Other Game and Gameschooling Resources:
Learning Rx has created a great pdf that lists several different games and categorizes them by what skills they can teach. You can download it here. LearningRX-GameMatrix
Waldock Way provides a lot of resources for gameschooling. She has multiple lists of games they use in their homeschool.
My Little Poppies has a course on gameschooling that you can check out.
The Mulberry Journal has created The Ultimate Guide to Gameschooling and it is very in depth.
**We do have affiliate links on this page through Amazon as well as Tuttle Twins. Proceeds from affiliate links help us run our own homeschools as well as continue to offer great events like the Indiana Homeschool Science Fair and Kids Book Fest.
