Potion Express – Flipping cards and sleeping bats

[Ad – Gifted Products] Potion Express feels like a great card game for families, perfect for the spooky season of Autumn! In this game, everyone chooses a different wand. A bunch of cards are placed out in a grid, some of which have a bat who’s asleep and others which have a bat who is awake and some ingredients for a potion at the bottom.

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Splatterbrain – full of slime!

[Ad – Gifted Products] Every year we throw a big Halloween party, and I can see Splatterbrain working out well as a party game! It’s essentially a giant zombie head, which you fill up with an oozy slime and a bunch of body parts. Then, everyone takes turns (or races!) to try to find specific pieces. There are a few game modes listed on the tag; filling up your zombie head with parts, finding matching parts or racing to find one specific thing are the suggested ways to play.

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Steal a Brainrot Blind Toys – Roblox game IRL

[Ad – Gifted Products] Steal a Brainrot is a Roblox game that seems to have taken over the internet. Full of strange, Italian Brainrot characters, this game is a capture the base style game where you are bringing various brainrot creatures to your base. You can have people steal from your base or steal from other people’s base, so you need to protect them at all costs! Like all good Roblox games, Steal a Brainrot has a new series of blind boxes and bags, for those to collect.

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Battle Flips – Two player word game

[Ad – Gifted Products] We often play games that are at least four player, but from time to time, it’s nice to have a little two player game! One early morning during the summer holidays, Robin had woken up far before everyone else. So, we decided to play Battle Flips. This is a very simple two-player word game that feels extremely well designed.

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Thinkfun Minecraft Cave Adventure – Logic Puzzles in Minecraft

[Ad – Gifted Products] We are quite a big video game household, partially, I feel, because Dann and I both work in games. Minecraft feels like a game literally everyone in the world has played anyway, and it’s a game that we’ve played as a family quite a few times. Kai use to have a Minecraft themed room, we’ve played Minecraft board games and even read Minecraft books. So, when we heard about the Thinkfun Minecraft Cave Adventure toy, we were very interested in seeing how Robin faired with it, as she’s a big toy lover.

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