Deduction games are some of my favorites! I’m sooo excited that the Dice Tower, my favorite YouTube channel about board games, came out with this fun video (scroll down to see it). The video features three of the DT peeps, Chris, Tom, and Zee, sharing their Top Ten deduction games. If you love this genre take a look and get some new ideas.

So far my favorite deduction games are Things, Codenames, Secret Hitler, Chameleon, Hugger Mugger, Truth Be Told, Werewords, Moods, When I Dream, Half Truth, Wits and Wagers, and Crack the Code (which I just scored for $4 at a thrift store!). So fairly simple ones. Mostly social deduction. Notice Clue is not among the list! I got that game for Christmas when I was 11. While I loved it for years, and saved it to play with my children, which I did and still do, so many better games have eclipsed it. I’ll still play it if someone asks me to, but if it’s my choice I’ll pick something else.

We played Codenames and Secret Hitler last weekend for a game night with my teen son’s friends. So much fun! That’s the best round of Codenames I’ve played in a long time. One of the girls wanted our team to guess three cards featuring these words: “Robin Hood,” “knight,” and “arrow.” So the clue she gave was “fighter-3.” That meant we had to pick three cards that were associated with the word “fighter.” It took a lot of talking back and forth with my teammates for me to persuade them to guess the three aforementioned cards. All the while the squirming clue giver hid her face so as to not give away anything with her body language. She is a cute ginger with a lot of spunk who took her job as clue give seriously.

It was a moment of triumph when she revealed we guessed correctly. I love these moments of mind meld! For this game night we had a group of five homeschooling friends over, and then heard a knock on the door. It was two of my son’s neighborhood friends. We invited them in and they mixed right in! The more the merrier! That’s how I feel about games too! I’m excited to try out all these other deduction games I heard about in the video.

Without further ado, here is the video. Below that I have each of the guy’s Top Ten lists. (All images below are from the Dice Tower YouTube Channel.)

Want to learn how to use games in your homeschooling for gameschooling? Go here. Happy times to you, especially as the holiday season approaches. Cozy up as the weather gets cold, play some games, stimulate your brain, interact with family and friends, and make memories!