Are you looking for ways to keep the festive fun flowing after Christmas Day? Making Boxing Day a relaxed day of family fun and togetherness, without too much fuss, still requires some planning. Organising some Boxing Day games is the perfect way to have fun together, and guaranteed to keep everyone entertained.
Here at Wicked Uncle, our games are not just for kids. We have a huge choice of games that are perfect for the entire family to play together. So, stocking up on the best family games will ensure that you are equipped for fun this Christmas. If you are wondering which games to buy, we can help! We test every product to ensure maximum fun, from a quiz game featuring a water-squirting robot to a puzzling picture game. We have your Boxing Day entertainment wrapped up.
Take a look at our top picks of family games that are sure to bring some competitive fun to your home this festive season and beyond.
Our Favourite Boxing Day Games for Families
- Instant Air Hockey – With Floating Puck
- I Spy Eagle Eye
- Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!
- Biggest Loser – General Knowledge
- Die Laughing – Tongue Twisters
- Upside Down Challenge
- The Escape Room Game – Deluxe Edition
- Footie Quiz – Home or Away, 200 Questions
- Trick Shot – Wacky Game of Skill
- Sporty Charades – A Question of Sport
1 Instant Air Hockey – With Floating Puck , £16.99 £16.99
Play air hockey everywhere!
Play Air Hockey at home with this totally awesome set. Simply place the suction-cup goal nets, turn on the battery operated puck and you’re ready to start. The lightweight puck has strong fans in the bottom which keep it hovering as you play. Compact enough to take on the go, you can bring the thrill of the arcade just about anywhere.
2 I Spy Eagle Eye – Find it fastest! , £16.99 £16.99
Spot the objects & race to ring the bell!
In this exciting search and find game, players use their eagle eyes to spot an item on their card that’s also on the game board. Then race to be the first to ring the bell! With eight images to search and 30 double-sided finding cards, there’s certainly lots to see. Speedy and competitive – eye-eye!
3 Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire! – Game of Bluff , £14.99 £14.99
Can you spot the liar?
This wacky card game is filled with random statements, but not all of them are true. Can you spot the lie from the truths? Enjoy fast-paced fun as you pick a card and read out one of three statements. Two of the statements are true and one is a lie — your job is to convince your opponents that you are telling the truth. Can you keep a straight face and will your opponents spot the fact from the fiction?
4 Biggest Loser – General Knowledge , £14.99 £14.99
Brain-busting fun!
Can you name a type of flightless bird? How about a famous wizard, or a popular nineties girl group? In this fast-paced game, the aim is to write down the most obvious answer in 30 seconds and lose points if you’re in the top three common answers. Race down to zero as you answer questions on popular culture, geography, movies and more.
5 Die Laughing – Tongue Twisters , £18.99 £18.99
Recite macabre mouthfuls the fastest to win – a fatally funny game!
How dependable is your diction? In this funny game, players race to recite tongue-twisting epitaphs, whilst their teammates search for the matching coffin card. “Twyla tried twice to train the tarantula”… “Ronny ran the wrong way down a one-way runway”… “Eddie ate 88 crates of crepes”… Get to grips with 60 tricky cards!
6 The Upside Down Challenge – Very Funny! , £21.99 £21.99
Hilarious challenges wearing goggles that turn everything upside down.
You’ll be amazed how difficult even the simplest tasks become when you put on these special goggles, with an adjustable strap. With your vision flipped upside down, compete to do the 100 ‘easy’ drawing and activity challenges, like putting a top on a pen, giving a high five or even just writing your name!
7 The Escape Room Game – Deluxe Edition , £16.99 £16.99
Will you make it out?
A real mental workout, this fun game can be played solo or with friends. Place your counter on the map, start a timer and choose a wordsearch… Once it’s completed, move onto the next room and the next category! To escape, you each have to solve a logic puzzle, cryptogram, rebus pictogram and conundrum too. Words, numbers, sequences and lateral thinking… Test your grey matter and race to escape!
8 Footie Quiz – Home or Away, 200 Questions , £14.99 £14.99
Test your football knowledge with 200 questions on the beautiful game
This fun quiz covers everything from mascots and related footballers to club nicknames, red cards and more. With two possible answers to each question, try Home for UK football or the trickier Away for World football – you’ll definitely learn some odd facts! Why are Everton called the Toffees? Who’s held the FA Cup the longest? Which team withdrew from the World Cup because they couldn’t play barefoot?!
9 Trick Shot – Wacky Game of Skill , £16.99 £16.99
Perform cool tricks with bonkers objects!
Complete cool challenges in this fun game for 2+ players. Can you bounce a ping pong ball into a cup from a meter away? How about throwing a sticky dart at a rolling frisbee? With 60 tasks in five difficulty levels, you’ll have to bring your A-game to become a Trick Shot master. Just don’t pull a Wild Card or else you might end up doing tricks with your eyes shut!
10 Sporty Charades – A Question of Sport , £14.99 £14.99
Act out more than 250 sporting terms
Based on the popular TV show, this entertaining and frantic game is packed with terms from the sporting world. Act out or describe the phrase on the card as best you can, but look out – some are trickier than others! Could you act out the Hammer Throw? What about Leotard, Free Kick or Fosbury Flop? Test your sporting knowledge – and your acting chops too – with more than 250 fun charades. Game, set, match!
