Card and dice games for kids

Card game

Go Fish

👥 2–6 playersAges 4+⏱ 15 min

Go Fish is a card game where you ask other players for cards to finish sets of four of the same number. The player with the most sets when the cards run out wins.

You need: a deck of 52 cards

Dice game

Yacht

The five-dice game you may know as Yahtzee.

👥 1–8 playersAges 6+⏱ 20 min

Yacht is a dice game where you roll five dice up to three times a turn to make good combinations, then score them in one of twelve boxes. The highest total after twelve rounds wins.

You need: five dice, a score sheet or this phone, a pencil

Pencil and paper

Dots and Boxes

👥 2–4 playersAges 5+⏱ 10 min

Dots and Boxes is a pencil-and-paper game. Players take turns joining two dots with a line. Close the fourth side of a box and it is yours, and you go again. The most boxes wins.

You need: paper, a pencil or pen for each player, ideally in different colors

Talking game

Twenty Questions

👥 2–10 playersAges 5+⏱ 10 min

Twenty Questions is a talking game. One player thinks of something, and everyone else asks yes-or-no questions to figure it out. Guess it within twenty questions to win; if not, the thinker wins.

You need: nothing but your voices, fingers or paper to count the questions