Sharpen Your Mind With These Fun Board Games

Ticket to Ride players use strategic thinking and memory skills to collect cards with different point values and build routes to travel from one city or state to another. There are multiple ways to connect routes, and the player with the highest score wins. Two to five people can play the game.

Rummikub

Rummikub puts an exciting, fast-paced, tiled spin on the classic “Rummy” card game and has been “bringing people together for over 70 years.” Players group tiles in “rummy” formations like “3, 4, 5” sequences, three and four-of-a-kind, etc., and place them down on the “board” on the table. All players build off existing combinations to use their tiles. The first player to use every tile on their rack wins.

Rummikub reinforces sequencing, memory, pattern sequencing, and basic math skills. The game is rated for ages eight and up, for two to four players.

Qwirkle

MindWare created its award-winning mix-and-match tile game Qwirkle in 2006. Each player draws six random tiles out of a drawstring bag. You score points by creating rows or columns of colored shapes that all match in color or shape without containing a duplicate. After laying a sequence, draw more tiles from the bag to build your rack back up to six tiles.