Do you have a Family Game Night tradition?
For as long as I can remember my family has always had a Family Game Night. Growing up it was normally held on a Sunday night after we ate dinner. Over the years, as we grew older, our significant others would join in for dinner and some competitive gaming! Hasbro games were a huge part of our family game nights. From Monopoly to The Game of Life, Trouble to Scrabble we played them all, over and over again. As we grew older and moved away from home we still would venture back on Sundays for our traditional family dinner and game night.
Eventually I started a family and started my own traditions of a Family Game Night. Not as often as I would like, life with kids is hectic, but I am working on implementing a Sunday family game night for my girls like I had growing up!
Thanks to Hasbro, implementing Family Game Night in our home will be much easier with the amazing package they sent us to help encourage us to gather and play!
I caught a candid moment the last night when I walked into my living room to see my daughters, Abby and Hailee, playing a game of Trouble. There was no arguing, no bickering, just two sisters having fun – something this mom loves to see! I grabbed my camera to capture the moment and watched them play. It brought back memories of my sister and I playing games for hours on rainy days, a smile grew upon my face!
There is my competitive kid, Hailee, just like her mom! She won the game and gave her best ‘I BEAT YOU’ victory celebration!
The girls then noticed me creeping in the shadows and asked if we could play The Game of Life. Who was I to say no? Little did they know this was MY game, I have been playing this game for a very long time and I was about to show them how competitive their momma was!
The girls set up the game and I came over to read the rules to them and explain how to play. GAME ON! We played, we all chose the college path and graduated landing some pretty sweet paying jobs. Hailee and I both got fired, her for sleeping on the job and I apparently brought Reggie, our cat to work! Thankfully we landed some equally great jobs quickly! Hailee and Abby chose to take the family path, Hailee who happened to already land on twins before reaching there wanted more babies I suppose. I chose to take the life path and forego having a family. Although a few spots on the board with surprise babies, I managed to steer clear of a family other than my husband! Hailee retired first gaining her a bonus 400k, I retired second gaining 300k and Abby last gaining 200k. Over the course of the game we bought homes and I landed on so many Action cards due to constantly spinning low numbers we were competing on table drum solos, ballet moves and more! Thankfully due to those low spins and numerous Action cards that net you 100k per card at the end of the game, I won! Abby came in second and Hailee who had 6 children and needed a second car came in last.
The funniest moment of the game had to be when Hailee landed on triplets after already having 3 children. She needed another car so she put her husband in that car and as she went to put her children in she looked up and said “babies can’t go in the front seat mom”. We all curled over laughing, such a smart kiddo!
HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT SAVINGS
Hasbro wants you to get your Family Game Night on! When you bring in your Monopoly money to Toys R you will receive 20% off the purchase price of Hasbro board games until August 31, 2015. You can also shop online at Toys R Us using code Monopoly80th to receive 20% off your purchase of any Hasbro game excluding clearance!
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HASBRO FAMILY GAME NIGHT PACKAGE GIVEAWAY
Hasbro is offering my readers the chance to win an amazing Family Game Night prize pack valued at over $100! The Family Game Night prize package includes the following:
Monopoly (ARV $19.99)
Twister (ARV $19.99)
The Game of Life (ARV $24.99)
Scrabble (ARV $19.99)
Trouble (ARV $16.99)
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This giveaway is open to Canadian residents only (excluding Quebec, sorry). For complete giveaway rules see the giveaway widget below.
Disclosure: Although this post has been sponsored by Hasbro, the opinions and language are all my own, and in no way do they reflect Hasbro. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, company, provider or party in question.
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Darrah Bailey says
We LOVE the game of LIFE and BOGGLE
Amber McKay says
We love monopoly
Ava Mifflin says
I have to say our family likes Monoply Jr game
Silvia D says
We like monopoly and scrabble
Theresa Jones says
Monopoly is our go-to
Julie F says
The Game of Life is our favourite!
Kaitlin says
I love playing board games, especially the game of life!
Jamie Maracle says
We love to play memory, skip Bo, uno and monopoly
Kerrie Rodrigues says
This is just what my family needs, I have 3 kids 14,9 and 7. We need to re-connect,
Clair P says
We love monopoly JR and connect four
Monika Gutowski says
We love playing Monopoly Jr, Chutes and Ladders, Candy land and Uno.
Irene Eichler says
scrabble and monopoly !
Jenn says
I have 3 kids, 12 8 and 21months. We love playing sorry and would love some new games to add to our collection! A weekly family game night sounds like a great plan!
mary beth says
UNO, and Monopoly are favourite games for our family!!
Meaghan says
We love Scrabble and Trouble!!
Raquel says
I have to say Game Of Life, Clue and Twister are always our family’s favourite games to play!
Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
Cheryl says
We love playing Monopoly junior 🙂
kathy downey says
Monopoly and snakes and ladders are our favorite
Shawn G says
The kids really took to watching Tabletop on Youtube once we discovered it. Our current favourites are Exploding Kittens, Boss Monster 1&2, Catan, and Star Fluxx. Mum keeps a copy of Monster Fluxx in her purse for restaurant trips, and we just started teaching the kids how to play Risk with the Doctor Who variant . Oddly enough, I don’t think we have any of the games mentioned in your post!
Shawn G says
Haha, I fibbed! We have Twister, and a copy of Scrabble missing a few tiles stuffed in the back of a closet.
Jessica Marlatt says
we love ALL board games Catan,scrabble and monopoly are our favourites
Sandy says
Personally, I love it when I see families having “family game nights”. I grew up with a mom who played board and card games with me almost every night. She instilled in me a love of board games. Sadly I can’t convince our little one to take much interest in them. I still try to play a good board game any time I can. You’ve got a few of my faves pictured here!
Loreen says
phase 10 was our favourite growing up
Jennifer P. says
We love to play Monopoly, Scattegories, Candyland (well, the kids love that one!), Snakes and Ladders, and The Game of Life.
Monica L says
Trivial Pursuit
Kim K says
Boggle and Game of Life
Aeryn Lynne says
Absolutely LOVE the idea of a family game night! We didn’t play every week, but there were certainly a ton of laughs to be had when we all did gather around a game board. 🙂
Monopoly was definitely the family favourite back then!
Renee C says
My kids love board games! we alternate with trouble, monopoly, scrabble and currently the favourite is Sequence.
Stephanie LaPlante says
Our favorites are Monopoly, Clue, Sorry and Trouble
Jenna Em says
Fun games, all of them! I fondly remember playing many of these games in my childhood, and my kids now enjoy the Game of Life.
Leila says
Right now we are enjoying monopoly Junior,. My 6 year old absolutely LOVES that game.
Darwin says
We love junior monopoly
Bonnie Way says
Awww, that’s a cute picture! My girls were playing Monopoly Junior together this weekend – by themselves. 🙂 They love board games and so do my husband and I. We need to start a family board game night too, though since my oldest is only 7, it’s still a bit hard… hubby and I get a bit bored with the games they can play. I guess we need to work on teaching them more games!!! 🙂 Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Colleen K says
…We Love– MONOPOLY !!!
Karine says
Uno is really fun 🙂
Doris H says
We love playing Monopoly.
Erin McSweeney says
we love to play cribbage
Carol says
We love playing games. Right now our favourite is Yahtzee and Uno
Judy Cowan says
We love playing Scrabble and UNO as a family.
Jamie Glenn says
My oldest loves Scrabbles, Youngest loves Monopoly and I love Clue.
Karla Sceviour says
We love playing Monopoly,UNO and Battleship.
Tracy Morin says
Monopoly is very popular in our home.
Mona Q says
Classic Monopoly, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Perfection and Twister (it’s a struggle the older you get lol)!
Allie f. says
Boggle or scrabble!
Renuka Sethi says
We like to play Life and laugh over our fate together!
spopow says
We love sorry! I played sorry a lot when I was growing up and now I love to play it with my kids!
nicolthepickle says
My kids like Monopoly junior a lot.
Jenny says
We love playing Life
Jenny Lobinsoff says
We love the game of life (spongebob edition)
Stephanie says
Those games you mentioned all bring back fun memories! My son just received the game ‘Trouble’ and I can’t wait to play it with him!
Carole Dube says
Monopoly, uno, skipbo
Jessica M Walker says
My children all love Monopoly
Kenda says
Game night was a family tradition when I was growing up,especially at the cottage. Not even power outages could dampen our enthusiasm for a 3 hour game of Monopy or a Scrabble tournament played for Skittles. I still look forward to game night with my own family. It’s nice to know that some things never change.
Lindsey says
Our family will pretty much play any board or card game together. We love trouble though!! It’s a lot of fun.
Tara says
We love games!! Started with monopoly, and trouble, while eating supper! Now we are looking for our next supper adventure!!!
Jessica Keleher says
We love game nights!
Mum23 says
We love the Jr versions of Monopoly and Game of Life, can’t wait to start playing the “real” versions
Tasha brawn says
We love monopoly
Mariah K says
My family loves family game night. We get together every week and have a blast everytime, food, family, fun and laughter. We absolutely love monopoly and the game of life!
Kelly Baker says
My family loves playing a fun round of Trouble!
Clare says
We like to play Monopoly.
Jeannette says
Love playing games with my hubby and our two girls :)) we have a stock in the camper for rainy days too :))
Jocelyne Alldrick says
Our family loves playing Monopoly and Pay day
Thanks for the chance!
🙂
Jonnie says
Board games are one of our favorite past times. We love playing Sorry, Life, payday, Yahtzee, and Uno
Nate Fuller says
Our favorite game is Scrabble!
Krista M says
We enjoy playing RACK-O, it’s a vintage card game, along with Scrabble!
Erin says
As a kid, my favourite board game was candy land. Now as an adult, I enjoy card games.
Amy C says
We really like to play UNO because everyone can play.