Bringing stories ideas and adventure to life through board gaming –

Why is playing board games so good for you and your family? We find out with Hachette Boardgames UK.

At Hachette Boardgames UK, our mission is to share our passion for playing games and help bring it to homes, schools and families across the country. We want players of all ages to enjoy the experience of discovering new worlds and ideas, and promoting active imagination.

Working closely within our global group, we continually seek to find the best-designed games that are not just fun to play and exciting to share, but also have an educational value at their core that can enhance learning in both the classroom and at home. We work with a dedicated team of educational specialists who help to ensure that the games we create and share have pedagogical benefits for parents and teachers who help promote play with children.

We believe that it is important to allow little minds to remain curious and active through experienced play with logic-based puzzles such as Katamino Family. This game is a favourite in our schools-based games groups, with the ever-evolving wooden puzzle pieces and board encourage spatial awareness, pattern recognition and builds upon good dexterity skills.

Affordable and portable

We also strive to make sure that great games are not just affordable at every cost price, but also transportable. Our range of small pocket-sized educational games such as Specific (a gorgeous wildlife-themed roll & play game) allow for games to be brought anywhere from the classroom, playground or even to social gatherings. That is why titles such as Difference Junior and Imagidice are firm favourites. Regular play of these titles, designed in association with our in-house educational specialists, can help boost memory recall and supercharge learning – and are proven to enhance communication confidence.

Our mission is to promote the games as a socially interactive pastime and while we know the positive educational benefits that technology can play for learning, there is nothing better than the fun and laughter that comes from the shared experience of playing a small compact game together with little ones!

Indoor family fun

This winter, we can think of nothing better than families gathering and sharing their time with one another, enjoying games that are not just incredibly fun, but also beneficial to the younger players. Spending time as a family is about creating memories and sharing stories, and Imagidice is an incredibly powerful tool for helping storytelling as a group. You can roll the dice and create fantastic tales using the icons that land face up or even, as we do in classrooms, hand one dice to each player and that then becomes their very own storytelling tool to help create laughs aplenty. The sillier the better – just let your imaginations run wild!

For more information on Hachette Board Games UK, visit:

hachetteboardgames.co.uk