8 Fun Indoor Games That Will Make You Love Your Home Quarantine!

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world down to its knees. Even though the virus originated in China, it has unfortunately reached almost everywhere. To avoid it from spreading any further, governments from around the world have issued a lockdown in many areas and restricted movements across the rest.

What does this mean? Staying at home in Quarantine! — An essential step during such testing times!

As it’s quite easy to go bonkers under these circumstances, you may need to do more than just the usual to keep your mind sane and happy. And, what can be better than engaging in fun indoor games with your family? So whip up everyone’s favourite delicacies, get to the living room and let the games begin!

Here’s a list of 8 indoor games, that are just too much fun!

UNO

We all have had our fair share of fights over a card game of UNO. Not the case with you? Well, you might not be playing it right. Based on the original ‘Crazy Eights’, this fun and competitive shedding card game was popularised by Mattel Inc. and has been a part of almost every game night and group trips since then. The key is to discard every card on you the fastest. While the rules are simple, special cards like Skip, Reverse, Draw Two, Wild Player and Draw Four Wild alleviates the competitive quotient by either adding more cards, skipping your chance, or reversing the entire order. With an interesting scheme like this, fun times are guaranteed.

Ludo, Snakes and Ladder

The classic board games like these are always a fun way to kill time. Increase the excitement by bringing in more players, get on with a team-on-team match and raise the stakes with who gets to choose the destination for the next family vacation. People from all age groups are sure to enjoy this one!

Scrabble

It’s time for some brain-storming! Make teams and play a game of scrabble, that involves coming up with words in a crossword fashion on a board, using plastic tiles. The goal is to keep building high-scoring words. Just remember to stick to the standard dictionary or lexicon and keep your eyes fixed to the highest scoring squares on the board grid. If you want to take things onto the next level, versions of these are also available online, where you can play the battle of words with anyone around the world.

Card Games

Remember the card tricks from the Diwali Taash party last year? Add some excitement to the daily tea time with the old-fashioned card games like Rummy, Bluff, Satte pe Satta, Teen Do Paanch and Teen Patti with the fam. You can raise the stakes high with rewards – the winner might get to have their favourite dish and the loser does all the house chores. The entire point is to keep things interesting and battle the quarantine blues.

Monopoly

Now that the plan for that family vacation stands cancelled, why not bring some of that travel fun to the living room and keep everyone entertained? Let the kids bring on the jazz to this party with their Monopoly board game and set things in motion during this quarantine. Originally created as ‘The Landlord’s Game’ by Lizzie Magie in 1903 USA, the game involves rolling two six-sided dices and building different properties at different destinations around the world. Get on with the special ‘Chance’ and ‘Community Chest’ playing cards to add interesting twists and turns. Guess the best part? There is no end to this game, unless you add your own variations to it. On the other hand, you can just let this game go on forever. No sore losers here!

Tambola

If a Taash game wasn’t enough, add Tambola to the mix of fun family games too. This game is suitable for people of all ages. The goal here is to strike all the numbers off your ticket the fastest, as a person calls them out. Set the rules for every line and house-full – different prizes for different lines. The thing that makes it more fun is that you cannot really cheat in this. Definitely a fair game!

Lego and Puzzles

Wondering how to keep the younger ones amused amidst these chaotic times? Get involved in their playtime and build castles and action figures with the colourful Legos. While you fix the multi-coloured pieces, teach them about the basics of foundation, design and good construction. These lessons might come in handy later. If you need more, solve a puzzle with them – a fun way to keep the little ones on their toes!

Video Games

As you deep clean and reorganize your house, bring the old video game cassettes to a good use! Teach the kids about the 90s’ favourite games like Mario and Contra. If you do not have these games on you, there are always the online video games. While FIFA, Sims, Candy Crush, Restaurant Saga and other such games are kid-friendly, the online games like PUBG, Modern Warfare, GTA and Call of Duty can be great options for the adults.

Even though, you might have had to cancel your upcoming vacation, you surely don’t have to cancel on fun. Mix and match different games mentioned-above and come up with your own version as you stay indoors, spending some quality time with your family. Oh! Don’t forget to maintain good personal hygiene and social distancing. Happy Quarantine, Ya’all!