Christmas will be a little different this year, however there are still ways you can keep your household entertained and have lots of fun.
Game and board games have become ever so popular this year, a way of bringing families together to spread a little joy. The latest Sim’s Life giveaway is awesome, especially if you are needing new games for Christmas… read on to find out how you could win a games bundle from Goliath games!
Win A Games Bundle For Christmas
Goliath games have such a fantastic range of games to suit all ages, including Sequence, Wordsearch and Escape Room. Oddly enough, those are the games you could win in the giveaway below! Let’s have a look at the games in more detail…
Word Search Game
A fabulous game for the whole family to get involved with. Aimed at children aged 8 years plus and ideal for 2-4 players, a little help from non-players always helps! Perfect for those who love word searches, with so many educational benefits, proving that learning can be fun! Contains: 1x word search board, 10 double sided playing cards (29 playing fields), 4 x 70 coloured team tokens and the instructions. The game is very easy to set up and get started with as no batteries are required… just the desire to win!
Priced at £19.99 you can purchase Word Search from Smyths.
Sequence Game
Get ready to challenge your family over Christmas with this much loved game that is highly addictive! Very portable for when life gets back to normal, the game is aimed at children aged 7 years upwards and 2 to 12 players, so you can get everyone involved! With 104 sequence playing cards, the game opportunities are limitless! Easy to set up and no batteries are required, so you can start playing straightaway!
All you need is a flat surface to spread the board and counters and a comfy setting. Play cards from your hand and place chips on the matching spaces on the game board. Five chips in a row means you are a Sequence winner! The road to victory isn’t that easy though, watch out for Wild Jacks which can be used to block your way, and you can use them to block your opponents and even remove their chips too! Sequence can be purchased from Amazon for £19.99.
Escape Room The Game 2
Featuring 3 exciting Escape Rooms: Panic on the Titanic, Dawn of the Zombies and Alice in Wonderland, this bumper game also includes an introductory game for you to get the hang of escaping! Aimed at teens aged over 16 years and ideal for 3-5 players, 3 x AA batteries are required to get this game working.
The suspense, the thrill and the pressure… can you escape each room in the alloted 60 minutes given?
Find clues, piece them together and solve each game mystery in order to escape! A thinking game that will have everyone working together in order to escape rooms, all in the comfort of your own home! Escape Room The Game 2 has an RRP of £30 but is currently on offer at Very!
How To Win a Games Bundle from Goliath
For your chance to win the fabulous selection of Goliath games featured above, simply enter using the Gleam form below and do not forget to answer the question by leaving a blog.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Giveaway ends at midnight on Sunday 13th December 2020.
Giveaway open to UK based entrants
One winning entry we drawn at random by Gleam.
The winner will be notified within 72 hours of the giveaway ending.
The winner will receive 1 x Word Search, 1 x Sequence, 1 x Escape Room game.
The prize is non-refundable and no cash alternative will be offered.
Absolute Balderdash as it’s so funny. Love that you have to be a bit creative too.
Monipoly
I like Scrabble because I win and monopoly is good . I like playing pretend games with my grandson
Twister as it’s always good fun after a drink
We love Monopoly because we get so competitive and it always ends up with us all in fits of laughter
We love party games like Pictionary and Articulate at Christmas, they are great fun to play as a group
We play Monopoly because we all think we are the best at buying property and winning! We play Monopoly classic, electronic and world.
Love party games like Pictionary and Bananagrams at Christmas, because we can all play as a mixed age group
We love monopoly in our house
Family games such as monopoly or cluedo and also thinks like charades that lots of us can play!
We love to play Boggle. It makes me think of my grandma and grandpa
Monopoly as every one knows how to play.
Love to play Monopoly because every one enjoys it in our family
Charades is always guaranteed to be fun – Grandad trying to do Teenage Mutant Ninja “Turd”les was a classic!
We love the family version of trivial pursuit, monopoly and cluedo
We love monopoly and pictionary 🙂
We always wnd up playing trivial pursuit with my dad and stepmother…my husband and stepmother are VERY competitive
We play Monopoly as it can be rolled over to Boxing Day if we haven’t finished it
Love scrabble and pass the pigs at christmas
Charades
We love charades as all the family can get involved and it’s always a laugh
whatever games the kids have we play then some good old traditional games like charades, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit
We love Linkee as it’s suitable for all the family and is lots of fun!
Something that makes us laugh! The funniest ever was a simple word game called The Bomb.
we love easy play games like uno, game of life and payday but defo wouldnt say no to a family monopoly battle!
We love Trivial Pursuit Bet You Know It. A bit more fun than the normal Trivial Pursuit
Monopoly, as it’s family friendly and always fun to play.
We love anything like Taboo where you have to describe something with using certain words.
Absolute Baulderdash, best word game ever, everyone loves it in my family and friends circles!
We love a good game of bingo as all ages can coin in x
Trivial pursuit , Cludo and Monopoly as they the nostalgia they intigate is priceless
We love to play Articulate as it’s great fun and a team game
We usually play with whatever new toys or games the kids have got from Santa. Sometimes we get the family Trivial Pursuit out as well.
We always try to have a family game of Trivial Pursuit at Christmas.x
Trivial pursuit its always good fun
Christmas night we always play Scrabble
We love Articulate. It gets quite competitive. Also Trivial Pursuit is such a lot of fun. Who doesn’t love a quiz?
Love connect 4, just because I am a champion
We like playing rapidough because we can all join in and have a laugh.
We love playing Monopoly at Christmas! Gets everyone in the festive and competitive spirit.
As a family we play Aquire after Christmas lunch. It’s a 30+ year old board game
monopoly as ll the family love the game
i love trivial pursuit – classic christmas game
Monopoly, Game of Life and Trivial Persuit!
I love the game articulate. So simple to play yet such great fun. It also brings out your competitive streak
Always monopoly.
Monopoly becuase It reminds me of when I was little.
We love Monopoly to see who cries first and who cheats first
We like to play trivial pursuit, we like quiz games
The family all love a festive game of Monopoly to celebrate Christmas day
Trivial Pursuit, always end up feeling like I’m missing a few brain cells after it mind
monolpoy it brings out the competitive side in us all and its fun
We enjoy Labyrinth as easy for all ages and a different game each time.
We love to do quizzes from quiz books. They usually cause arguements but a lot of laughter too, someone always think they know their answer is right and the book is wrong!
got to be twister because it makes you laugh til your face hurts!
Pictionary and charades, they are a lot of fun for the whole family
Crazy cash monopoly as it just makes my family happy to play together.
we like logo and uno
My favourite game to play at Christmas is Scrabble, great fun for the whole family
I find games spoil the laid back atmosphere of christmas, too much rules and concentration
Boggle
We always get a new game at Christmas but we love anything puzzle like that we can all join in on! Something funny like cranium or articulate! Even better after a drink or 2!
We all play which ever Santa has brought last year was Pictionary Air
We love Monopoly and Articulate
I like playing buckaroo. I refuse to play Monopoly
Monopoly is the fams go to when we want to argue!
Traditional games especially twister and charades ! Love all games
we like playing Cluedo and find out who did it and five second rule as fast paced
We love to play Uno as my 4 year old and 8 year old can both easily play it.
Cranium is always a great group one for Christmas
We like to play any type of quiz or trivia game.
We like playing monopoly, and have various version, it is a lot of fun!
Crazy cash monopoly as it just makes my family happy to play together.
we love to play V and frustration
We like Connect 4 and this year we will play our new favourite called Quirk! too.
We always play Charades and do a quiz
Charades is always fun and Cluedo.
We love a game of articulate at Christmas – always ends in giggles!
Monopoly is a firm favourite but more recently Dobble is also becoming a popular choice too.
We all love 20 questions. A simple oral game for the younger ones and a great board game for the older members of the family
I like playing Monopoly – a classic
We usually play games like Frustration or any other board games that my daughter gets for Christmas. I usually try to get her a new one every year, as she really lo es playing them
Splendor. You can really get your teeth into it
Junior scrabble is our festive family favourite. I prefer it to normal scrabble as I prefer the tactics that the junior game allows. (For those who dont have the junior version, you get to see everyone elses letters and you have to spell predefined words)
Cluedo and monopoly are our favourites!
Scrabble and Articulate.
we love scrabble and og on the bog
Boggle, Scattergories and Taboo are my favs, we have to play different games with the kids tho
We like playing scrabble, charades, pass the pigs, boggle, all the family like to join in
I like Monopoly or The Game of Life. I play with my friends.
Trivial Pursuit and Dingbats are my favourites
Trivial pursuit
Connect 4 because it’s fast and fun, plus Monopoly, scrabble, Battleships, Othello etc all fun.
My sister bought an old Thunderbirds board game that we love playing every Christmas as a family!
We always play card games for pennies, its always such a laugh
We create our own family quizzes & each family hosts a round of 10 questions. We usually have a picture round, sports, tv & film & current affairs. We’ll have to hold it by Zoom this year!
Monopoly. It’s weird, because we always go into it wanting to play, but always get fed up within a couple of hours and deliberately try to lose all our money, so that we can go off and do something else.
We as a family love cluedo we love the mystery to it!
We love a game of bingo with the turning ball selector. We have mini prizes up for grabs or money. Bit of fun.
Bananagrams as it is fast flowing !
These games look good. We love having a game of scramble, because the whole family joins in.
A good game or bingo or card game like snaps, my kids only young so something simple 🙂
We love to play pie face at Christmas my daughter who is 5 loves it but we also have fun playing Monopoly although she obviously needs a lot of help with this.
We love playing charades as everyone can take part and it doesn’t take long to play
Rummikub Word, really gets the old grey matter working.
we love to play Monopoly as its better to play with more plays
I like playing linkee, it’s a really good family game that most people can play, and it’s really fun.
hide and seek…that way I can get some peace and quiet
Monopoly – all day
We used to play trivial pursuit every year, not that I was any good at it but there was loads of us that played it and it was great fun
We love to play family fortunes, it is inclusive all all ages and very funny to play
Cluedo is our all-time favourite, as we all love a mystery and even better we love to solve it!
Pictionary or articulate!!
we have a santa game we like to play its a boardgame I think it is called sants scramble
we start off with Scrabble then after a drink or two we move on to Twister
Ludo because it’s fun to play as a family
Anything that makes us laugh, like The 5 Second Rule
We love playing Dobble and articulate! Such fun 🙂
Monopoly and Cluedo are fun to play.
Has to be the Christmas themed monopoly we have a right good laugh playing it together
We always play Scrabble on Christmas afternoon, it has become a family tradition
Has to be Monopoly a family favourite
trivial pursuit or large jigsaws that bring everyone together
I love general knowledge games like trivial pursuit as they are so exciting and give great topics to talk about
We live to play so many games at Christmas but one of my favourites is Labyrinth
We love exploding kittens, throw throw burrito and munchkin but we always get a new game for Christmas, we haven’t decided which one yet!
My daughter loves the idea of a escape room we haven’t got round to doing one yet together, the board game would be perfect!
we play the game of life and frustration, easy for all ages to play, very noisy great fun
Monopoly. I am 50 now and have a family of my own. Growing up we always played this later in afternoon once Xmas dinner had gone down and I do the same with my family. ⛄
We love monopoly at Christmas. Always gets everyone together.
Our favourite is Linkee. You answer questions and the answers are linked by a shared theme – you have to guess that theme. It’s really good!
We love cluedo and monopoly and I particularly love articulate.
Uno and pictionary are faves in our house
We love Monopoly – it never gets old and my daughter is a whizz!!
We love to play Rapidough. Suitable for all of us and really good fun.
Scrabble!!!
Guess Who with little ones
ANYTHING THAT GETS ALL THE FAMILY INVOLVED. AND HOPEFULLY NOT CAUSING TOO MANY ARGUEMENTS!
We now play the Hare and Tortoise game at Christmas or the not very Christmassy game of Escape from Colditz.
Snakes and ladders with the little ones
monopoly is always a fav my sister sulks when she loses which as grown women with young children it extremely funny
Charades or jenga goes down a storm
since my daughter adopted my grandson, children monopoly, he beats me and I don’t let him win…..
Scrabble, I still look forward to beating my siblings while stuffing our faces with chocolate & nibbles. My children prefer Kerplunk as it is quicker so they don’t get bored.
We love Cluedo as it’s a classic and also the LOGO game is a new quiz favourite for all the family!
Cluedo, its the only game we can all play! ha ha
I love Monopoly, as it’s an old favourite and it teaches life lessons too.
We have to have a game of Monopoly, we but a new set every year – We have Game of Thrones Monopoly this year. My son cheats – ALOT
We love playing cards against humanity
Monopoly & Trivial Petsuit are our firm family favourites
We love all the drawing games like Pictionary
Monopoly – should a good family game.
Trivial Pursuit is a family favourite although I’m rubbish at the general knowledge questions
Monopoly, the classic family game I have loved playing since I was a child.
Our son loves Monopoly and over the Christmas is the perfect time to plat it as a good competitive game can last a long time so an ideal festive choice to keep the whole family amused.
Monopoly
Rapidough is a fun one, we all love it x
Our favourite is frustration as all can play easily
We love to play Articulate!
We love playing trivial pursuit or scrabble it’s fun
We like Frustration, it’s easy and fun x
Buckeroo was always good as it made grandad jump and wake from his afternoon snooze.
Monopoly is our family fave but always ends in an arguement of some kind !!
“Arguments” is my favourite game. Sometimes it lasts all day.
We love playing Monopoly, I played it as a child. It’s a classic that will never date. Everyone loves it
Always monopoly although I’m not sure why haha
We usually team up and play charades as its a lively game all can be involved in. We also like Pictionary as none of us can draw so it usually gets really entertaining.
It’s not Christmas until everyone has fallen out over monopoly!!
Cluedo or Trivial Pursuit
We love playing Uno with the grandparents, it gets very competitive
Risk -because I always win that one
So far ludo and snakes and ladders but we’ll be moving onto other games soon now the kids are older
Not a favourite of mine but a game we always end up playing every Christmas day is chase the ace
We love card games
I love charades cos all the family can play it and it usually produces much hilarity!
Monopoly is the best
Scrabble – it’s a family tradition!
Monopoly and Subbuteo.
Monopoly & it gets very competitive. We even had to set up a video camera once year to stop cheating.
I like Jenga as I’m quite good at risky moves and I also like Monopoly because there’s lots of time at Christmas to have a long game 🙂
I always loved charades. Now with my kids we have a santa board game they love to play. We also like to play kerplunk.
We love playing Scatorgories. We’ve even made up our own version.
Charades and boggle, as all the family can join in x
We like playing Monopoly as it’s a game all the family enjoy
We like pictionary as some of the drawings can be very very bad which makes guessing quite funny
Love playing Monopoly Empire. It’s fun and not too long. Easy to understand.
I am loving monopoly sore looser at the moment
Snakes and ladders
We love monopoly it brings back so many happy memories
We love family charades at Christmas after dinner we’ve played it for years and it never fails to end in lots of belly laughs
Ludo because it’s fun to play as a family
naturally Monopoly but we also love a game of game of life.. it gets very competitive and not everyone ends the game happy!
We always play Payday at Christmas, and sometimes Monopoly… 🙂
We love Cranium, as it has many activities, there is something to suit all ages.
we love playing boggle as a family, also scrabble and ingenious.
We love the logo game and last year we got logo game christmas so I think that will probably come out again!
We absolutely love articulate in my house x
We like to play bowling on the Wii U, it is the only remotely physical activity we can all do
My partner and I love scrabble as it keeps the mind working which is important at our age. My youngest grandson loves Junior scrabble which I find very hard as most of his words are 2, 3 or 4 letters making it very hard to come off of his words.
If we are with a big group of people, we play Obama Llama as it’s hilarious!!
Scrabble or Monopoly because we have played this for years
Bingo and charades – we go old school!
We love games that are suitable for the whole family such as pictionary, monopoly, charades
Pictionary or Monopoly, good for getting people involved.
We like Dobble as easy for everyone to play
We love games like forehead detective where everyone has a post it note stuck to their head and the others act out the word for them to guess.
Monopoly so many Christmas memories, great for all ages to play together and you get to see another side of some competitive family members .
We love Uno and have Uno tornaments at different points of the year so this wll be the Christmas challenge and we play 5 games a night before the chidren go to bed! Its great fun and quite competitive!
My grandchildren love Junior Scrabble, Peppa Pig Monopoly or Operation
Anything competitive! As a family we are extremely competitive and have been known to play into the early hours. Team games are best.
Buckaroo, Jenga and Monopoly
Big Jenga is always good fun at Christmas
I like a game like Jenga so that everyone can play together and have fun
Has to be Christmas themed monopoly as we only play it once a year on Christmas night.
Pictionary because all ages can play and it always has us in hysterics
We love Pictionary, the whole family can join in, including my Grandsons
We enjoy simple games of chance that all the family can play together.. Old fashioned Snakes and Ladders fits the bill nicely.
Has to be Christmas quizzes, Christmas themed monopoly which we only play once a year.
Love the traditional games like charades and also games like cluedo
We love playing Scrabble at Christmas as it is so fun but we are very competitive
I love a game of scrabble or a bit of backgammon.
We love playing games like Labyrinth and Monopoly because we all get super competitive but it’s still a giggle. We’ll also play things like Pictionary and Jabber Jaws – something that provides a laugh no matter how many times you play it!
we love monopoly and cluedo
gotta be monopoly, it’s classic and i like to think i am good at it!!! x
i love Monopoly—-but my family hate all losing to me
I like playing Sequence because it is simple but we get really competitive. We also play Uno at Christmas.
We like playing Payday as its fast moving and funny and keeps the whole family interested
Trivial pursuit, always fun, to share our knowledge of different things
Love a game of Risk. Can’t beat a bit of world domination!!
At Christmas we play the old fashioned family games including pass the parcel and musical chairs as well as charades and have a big treasure hunt.
We’ve been playing Pandemic, which is timely, and also Looney Quest which I can’t recommend enough for fun family time. It’ll be coming out at Christmas!
We love scrabble, and monopoly when there’s more time!
Uno, the game of life and monopoly
Monopoly, nothing like some friendly competition at Christmas
We love Cluedo as it’s fun and not too long x
Scrabble and monopoly are our go to games at christmas.
Cluedo, It does not take to long and is fun for all
We always play Mario karts! The grandparents are very funny and competitive
We are big fans of Upwords it is like scrabble bit you can put tiles on top of each other to change words
We love Cluedo, because we all play well, and just compare notes, not like Monopoly, which always causes arguments and bad feeling!
I love The Game of Life. Can’t wait til mu kids are a little older so we can start playing it with them too.
We love to play pictionary and charades because they are something that everyone can join in with
We love monopoly – calm to chaos in a matter of minutes!
Love to play monopoly! We don’t really play it all year so it’s a special time for some laughs and sometimes board flipping!
Love monopoly as its always so tense
Monopoly as everyone loves it however this year my kids are getting lots of new games to play so we may find some new favourites
Hello, I like playing charades at Christmas as they are fun and get everyone involved.
We love charades and Monopoly!
We always play cranium! There is always so much laughter when we play and it’s an unlimited amount of players.
we always have a games day around the 20th dec, we play the game of life, click and cards.
we play frustration a good game that all the family can play
ticket to ride and uno – they are so competative
Has to be Yahtzee on Christmas Day afternoon
Probably Monopoly because it is a Christmas tradition
Exploding Kittens, great game and totally different
Cards Against Humanity with the adults. Cluedo or charades with the whole family.
We love playing Frustration as it’s fun.
We love charades, Linkee, the Name Game! Anything!
We love Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. They are fun (up to a certain point!) and the whole family can play.
Cards Against Humanity!
Favourite board game is Frustration. It was the one game we all played at our gran’s when we were little, happy memories.
monopoly and kerplunk – suitable for the whole family and we enjoy them.
We love to play classic board games as a family, like scrabble.
Love playing cluedo because it’s the only game I seem to win at.
We love playing Harry Potter Dobble! Even my 4 year old can get involved
Pictionary, with a white board. Usually have 2 teams and its hilarious
The Christmas edition of Monopoly it’s perfect for everyone to play over Christmas
We love Bang Bang Balloon it’s pure family fun
Monopoly because there are loads of different adaptations of it, id love to play the Harry Potter version one day!
We play Dobble and Uno a lot as my younger children can play those so we’re all together!
We like to play Quirkle
We all love monopoly even though I never win. We have a few versions. Friends. Star Wars. Traditional. Euro version. Gateshead and Newcastle.
We always end up playing a daft ‘stocking filler’ game on Christmas Day.
Monopoly because it is an old favourite
Love playing Cluedo, we have 3 variations of the game now, they’reall great fun and the whole family join in.
We love playing monopoly of bug bingo at christmas and during the holiday season!
We love the wink murder game as it has us in hysterics every time
My son loves to play Monopoly as he’s really competitive and wants all the money and hotels!
kerplunk my old 1970s game as I like to get my money worth out of a game.
Any quiz games, we all love answering questions
monopoly and mousetrap for the challange and the fun factor
We love to play the disney trivial persuit as it’s a game all the family can play and everyone has a shot at winning
We like playing card games at Christmas.
monopoly as thats what i used to play most growing up
We love a game of Monopoly because you know it will last for ages!
Charades as it always has us in fits of laughter
We love monopoly and it’s easy for all my girls to understand as we have varied age ranges!
Monopoly. It’s a classic.
we all love to play build a beetle – great fun for all ages
we like to play scrabble. everyone cheats and makes up words but its funny
We love Beetle – all ages can play and its always so competitive!
we play different card games, so all the family can join in, snap for the little ones and rummy or kings for the adults with a little bit of a wager lol
Love the look of these games, especially the escape room 2
love scrabble and pictionary
Monopoly great for family time
Trivial pursuit – our version is so old that it references Russia as USSR but it still good fun!
Us adults always play Mr and Mrs. It becomes a real competition on who knows their hubby/wives the best
Santa scramble
We love playing Cluedo as it keeps everyone entertained foe a couple of hours.
Yahtzee is always fun and everyone enjoys it
Monopoly as everyone knows the rules and how to play
Monopoly and Scrabble because they’re good for the whole family
Probably flaming kittens as it gives us a good laugh 🙂
We love board games – one of our favourites is probably Cluedo!
Articulate is our favourite family board game so far – lots of fun whenever we play!