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Board Games are fun, but they can also be educational. Here are some games to keep your family entertained, and their brains ticking over, during lockdown:

Scrabble Education value 100%

Using a standard dictionary and a crossword puzzle format, lettered tiles are used to form words in this simple but classic board game.

Monopoly Education value 80%

Players roll two six-sided dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties, and developing them with houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents, with the goal of driving them into bankruptcy.

Qwirkle Educational value 100%

For logic lovers and the strategically minded, Qwirkle is a new game with a time-honoured and instantly classic feel, plus it’s won coveted awards for its educational merits.

Risk Education value 90%

A simple goal of acquiring and defending territory launches into a strategic military gem with Risk. Appealing to players of all ages, Hasbro’s dice-rolling war game hits themes of diplomacy and conquest.

Humbly starting as a pencil and paper game during World War I, Battleships keeps opponents guessing which grid coordinate will successfully target and eventually sink their enemy’s five ships.

Yahtzee Educational value 90%

The excitement of creating combinations of dice has never wavered, keeping Yahtzee a fixture on game shelves around the world. Shake and roll your way to a Full House, Straight or the elusive Yahtzee to generate the highest score and win!

Connect 4 Education value 80%

Four matching pieces, set in a row. Using red and yellow checker disc-like pieces on its iconic vertical standing blue board, Connect Four employs simple logic, deduction, and abstract strategy.

Cluedo Education value 80%

Who did it? Cluedo creates detectives of us all, with players gathering information to successfully deduce ‘who’ ‘where’ and ‘how’ a crime was committed.

Trivial Pursuit Education value 80%

Trivia buffs are created around the Trivial Pursuit board. Allowing single player or team play with six challenging categories, spanning Geography to Sports and Leisure, the pursuit of knowledge has never been more engaging.

Blokus Education value 90%

Award-winning Blokus challenges 2-4 players to arrange each of their 89 shapes on a grid-like board. Negotiating space and strategically defending territories make this game puzzling and thrilling.