If your family is anything like mine, you love to play games when you all get together. Competiton is fierce and the stakes are high. Below are five brilliant, hilarious games available from your app store to download on your phone or tablet.
Made famous by Ellen Degeneres, Heads Up involves holding your phone against your forehead and trying to determine, as your family and friends mime and shout and wave their arms around, what word is on the screen before the timer runs out. Categories include celebrities, animals, places and silly accents
$1.49 from your app store (well worth it)
Reverse Charades – Whole family
A techie take on the classic. Reverse Charades inverts the traditional game by having one person guess as many words as possible as acted out by the entire group, rather than the other way around. Imagine all your family trying to act out ‘Godzilla’ at the same time and you can see why it guarantees genuine laughs.
Free from your app store
Designed for playing on a tablet, Bloop is a fast and frantic touch game for up to four players who must tap their coloured tiles as fast as possible – all at the same time. Fingers will cross, hands will collide and shoving is inevitable.
$7.49 from your app store
What Would You Choose – Whole family
What Would You Choose poses hundreds of impossible-to-answer questions that will help you get the true measure of your nearest and dearest. What would you choose – Let a tarantula crawl up your arm or let a scorpion crawl on your head?
Free from your app store
Who knows the most useless information in your family or gathering of friends? There are six categories of questions, and players can win bonus cards to level up or infuriatingly scupper their opponents’
Free from your app store
If you have younger family members present be careful when selecting some of the sections as some can be a bit risqué.