Our Top 10 Educational Board Games for Kids

When we here the word "games" we think about fun and play but not necessarily learning however there are a lot of games that are educational and that will challenge the child's mind and be fun and exciting.

Below is a list of 10 Educational Board Games that you can introduce to your kids and play with them.

1. Monopoly - an American-originated board game originally published by Parker Brothers. Subtitled "The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game", the game is named after the economic concept of monopoly—the domination of a market by a single entity. It is produced by the United States game and toy company Hasbro. Players move around the gameboard buying or trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them into bankruptcy.
2. Scrabble Junior - What a great way for kids to play America’s favorite word game! Kid-sized words and colorful pictures make it fun to match letter tiles to words on the grid. Players collect scoring chips for completing words. When all of the tiles have been placed on the board, the player with the most chips wins! It’s letter-matching fun for your little one! Flip over the gameboard for an advanced game where players create their own words—the game grows with the kids! Includes 2-sided gameboard, 101 cardboard letter tiles, 44 scoring chips and beginner and advanced rules. 
3. Operation - Operation is a battery-operated game of physical skill that tests players' hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. 
4. Memory - Learn while you play in the endlessly popular Memory game! Classic Memory game challenges you to find matches.
5. Shape by Shape - Shape By Shape is an advanced Tangram-style game, made more difficult because you also fill in the frame around each shape you make. With 60 challenges, Shape By Shape is a great exercise in conceptual thinking and spatial relationships.
6. Pictureka! - Play four great card games that’ll get your creative juices flowing! First, can you find a picture of something beginning with the letter “A”? Point out that Apple before the other players spot it! In the second game, race to get rid of your cards by finding “mission” pics. Third, test your matching skills and pick out pairs before your peers do! And finally, get creative and combine cards to complete missions. All four ways provide PICTUREKA fun in a play-anywhere card game!
7. Boggle - is a word game distributed by Parker Brothers. The game is played using a plastic grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters.
8. Guess Who - is a two-player guessing game in which each player starts the game with a board that includes cartoon images of 24 people and their first names with all the images standing up. The game starts with each player selecting a card of their choice from a separate pile of cards containing the same 24 images. The object of the game is to be the first to determine which card one's opponent has selected. Players alternate asking various yes or no questions to eliminate candidates, such as "Does this person wear glasses?" The player will then eliminate candidates by flipping those images down until all but one is left. Well-crafted questions allow players to eliminate one or more possible cards.
9. Connect Four - Connect Four is a two-player connection game in which the players first choose a color and then take turns dropping colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the next available space within the column. The object of the game is to connect four of one's own discs of the same color next to each other vertically, horizontally, or diagonally before your opponent. 
10. Rush Hour - Set up the traffic challenge and battle the gridlock as you slide the blocking vehicles out of your way to find a path for your red car to exit! This game features four levels of difficulty, allowing players to progress at their own pace. With 40 all-new challenges, it’s even more bumper-to-bumper fun for all ages!