🎲 10 Best Family Board Games on Sale for Prime Day (That Won’t Make You Cry)
Jul 8
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Delana Green
🎒My Favorite Amazon Prime Board Game Finds
From one music-loving, mom-teaching, piano-playing family to another.
P.S- There is a TLDR version at the end if you don't actually care about my personal reasons that each of these are good finds. Cool with me, I get it. I do it on the food blogs.
Scroll to the bottom-otherwise, enjoy my crazy antics and read on.
1. Baby Dinosaur Rescue
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We start strong with a game for your tiniest players—aka the ones who still pronounce "pterodactyl" with great confidence but no “P.” Baby Dinosaur Escape is a cooperative memory game where kids help dinos get to safety before a volcano erupts. (It’s educational, thrilling, and no one cries because no one actually loses.) For ages 3+ and dino-obsessed toddlers everywhere. My kids have loved this game every time we have played. It's super simple and it's fun to watch them work together and strategize.
2. Mermaid Island
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Listen, if you have a kid who insists on wearing fairy wings to the grocery store, this game is for them. Mermaid Island is another cooperative winner where kids work together to help mermaids beat the Sea Witch to the island. It’s full of sparkles, strategy, and teamwork. Ages 5+ and a hit with every glitter-loving soul in your home.
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3. Monopoly Deal
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Okay, hear me out. Regular Monopoly should only be played if you have three hours, the patience of a monk, and no emotional attachment to your family. I'm pretty sure we have at least 4 versions of the base game in our house... but my husband has friends that keep buying it for him as a joke.. Because of his distaste for total familial distruction we avoid the classic game. But Monopoly Deal? It’s the cool cousin. Fast-paced, easy to learn, and blessedly under 20 minutes per game. Great for ages 8+ and ideal for traveling or playing 6 rounds while dinner "cooks."
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4. Mantis
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This one’s a colorful, chaotic card game of stealing and matching from the creators of Exploding Kittens. The artwork is bright and weird in the best way, and the gameplay is oddly strategic while still being silly and simple enough for the whole family. It takes less than 10 minutes to learn and even teens get into it. Best for ages 6+ (and weird adults like me).
5. Poetry for Neanderthals
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Welcome to the game where you speak like a caveman or get bonked with a giant inflatable club. This one is hilarious for kids and adults kind of like Taboo, but you can only use single-syllable words. It's part language game, part full-body workout from laughing so hard. It's hard but gets harder when "You laugh so hard, you need to pee."
Ages 7+ and definitely a party game staple now.
6. Smallworld
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This one’s a strategy-heavy game for your fantasy-loving middle schoolers and beyond. You choose hilarious race/power combos (Flying Trolls? Wealthy Skeletons?) and conquer territories while your empire inevitably... shrinks. Think Risk, but way less emotionally scarring. It takes a bit to learn, but once you do—it’s addictive. Best for 10+ and families who like a little epic conquest over dinner.
7. Sheriff of Nottingham
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Ah yes, a game where lying is encouraged and apples are contraband. In Sheriff of Nottingham, you take turns trying to smuggle goods past the sheriff (who is hopefully not your most grudge-holding family member). It’s bluffing, bribing, and lots of shouting “I SWEAR it’s just apples!” Works best with ages 13+, or 8+ if your kid is an aspiring con artist. Delightful chaos every time.
8. Catan (aka the game that ruins friendships)
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The ultimate game of trade, betrayal, and shouting, “I JUST NEED ONE BRICK.” Catan is a rite of passage. You’ll make alliances, break them for a sheep, and feel strangely powerful when you dominate with a knight! (Sorry kid, but I'm not taking it easy on you.) It’s one of the best family games for older kids (12+) and adults who don’t mind a little competitive tension between rounds of snacks.
10. Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
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Say this one five times fast and try not to laugh. This game is fast-paced, slap-happy chaos where players say words in a sequence while slapping cards. If the image matches the word, you slap! It's like a sugar rush in card game form and leads to so much laughter (and accidental hand slapping). For ages 7+ and wildly fun for adults too.
Prime Day is basically Black Friday with fewer crowds and more impulse buys from your couch. So while you’re filling your cart with glue sticks and Goldfish, throw in a few of these board games that might just become your new family faves. Every single one of these games have been played in my home and by me. So these are real experiences.
They’re funny, strategic, fast-paced, or downright magical and they just might buy you a whole evening without someone asking for the iPad.
Affiliate Disclosure: I am an Amazon Associate and earn from qualifying purchases—at no extra cost to you. That means you can shop guilt-free knowing you’re supporting a small biz, helping keep music alive in schools, and probably contributing to my next caffeine-fueled board game night.
Now go fill that cart like the sneaky Sheriff of Nottingham you are.
-Delana
🦖 Dinosaur Escape (Ages 4+)
Cooperative dino-saving for your preschool paleontologists.
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🧜♀️ Mermaid Island (Ages 5+)
Work together to get sparkly sea queens to safety—no tears, just teamwork.
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Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza (Ages 5+)
Slap jack with a few extra hilarious tricks!
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💳 Monopoly Deal (Ages 8+)
The version of Monopoly that won’t last longer than your toddler’s attention span.
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🦐 Mantis (Ages 7+)
Colorful card chaos and sneaky strategy with serious kid-appeal.
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🐵 Poetry for Neanderthals (Ages 10+)
Speak like cavemen. Get bonked with a foam club. Enough said.
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🌍 Smallworld (Ages 10+)
Fantasy lands, funny powers, and the thrill of conquest—perfect for strategy lovers.
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🧅 Sheriff of Nottingham (Ages 13+)
Bluff, bribe, and sneak your “bread” past the sheriff—if you dare.
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🏝️ Catan (Ages 12+)
Classic trading and building with a side of light betrayal and wood-for-sheep negotiations.
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Delana Green is a born and raised Alaskan, filled with a creative brain that regularly explodes with colorful ideas. She loves her husband, Three beautiful girls and "The Boys" which are their two sweet dogs. Her goal is for there to be access to music education for every child in the world. You can see the piano courses available
here, or check out her
Youtube Channel with free educational videos.
