27 Best Board Games, Puzzles And Cards That Are Sure To Cure Your Boredom This Christmas

It's bingo like you've never played it before. Call out 'one little duck' or 'up to tricks' as your try to compete against your family and friends this Christmas, sprout style. 

Forget providing the correct answer to questions in this game because the aim of this one is to provide several responses and bluffing your way to convince your competitors that at least one is correct. Fake it 'til you make it. 

Take the role of Mr X and weave your way through the streets of London leaving clues so that your teammates - the Scotland Yard detectives - can try to find you. Be warned: if they capture you the game is over so don't go easy on them.

Step back in time to the 1920s in Birmingham and play a gangster. The aim of the game is to improve personal stats like charisma, strength and intellect, beat your enemies and finish your missions. 

Now this is a game we can get on board with. Get it?

This board game involves players moving around the board, collecting different wine varieties to win. 'It's a game of chance, knowledge and twists!' reads the product description.

Bottoms up! 

Hygge (pronounced hoo-guh) is the Danish word for enjoying the good things in life, so what better way to do that than to play a board game together?

The Hygge Game is about coming together with friends and family and encouraging them to share their stories and discuss big and small issues. 

Fancy yourself a bit of an artist?

Well, now you have the chance to draw your favourite Disney and Pixar characters in this family fun game. Whether it's timing yourself to draw a character in a minute, or drawing a mixture of two characters at the same time, remember that the person with the most points at the end of five rounds wins. Game on! 

A detective game like no other, you'll start as the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and travel from 221B through the streets of London picking up clues and trying to solve cases.

You'll need to bring your thinking cap for this one.

A game based entirely on judgement, the product description asks: 'Are more or less than 500,000 meatballs consumed in Ikea stores daily? Are sharks more or less old than trees?'

With over  300 random trivia quiz questions, you'll need to think whether the answer is 'more' or 'less' for each one. 

It's Monopoly but not as you know it. 

It's time to pivot and use your unagi in this Friends-inspired board game. Who wins Rachel and Monica's apartment? You decide. 

This is not for the faint of heart. Play this board game and win or risk being trapped inside it's wild world forever.  

Test your knowledge of celebrities in this fame-themed Articulate! game.

Know your Snapchat from your Specsavers logo? Prove it.