Dream Dollhouse
Buy rooms, decorate them with hearts and trade with each other in a pastel dollhouse. You move your own piece with your finger.
Put the game on the big screen. Everyone joins in on their own phone using a four-letter code.
With GameBase, your TV becomes a quiz host. Open Quiz Lounge in the browser on the TV or a computer, and all the guests type the code into their phones. The questions and scores are shown on the TV; the phone is just an answer button.
There’s nothing to install. If your TV has no browser, you can mirror a computer or tablet to it. Several games can also be shown on the TV while you play from one iPad.
Buy rooms, decorate them with hearts and trade with each other in a pastel dollhouse. You move your own piece with your finger.
Quiz on the TV, answers on your phones. Six categories, a kids’ quiz and points for fast answers. Can also be played on one iPad.
The classic card game: match the suit or the number, use an 8 to change suit, and be the first to get rid of all your cards.
Sneak into the dragon’s cave and draw one card at a time. Wake the dragon without a Lullaby and you’re out. The last one left wins.
Sneak through the cave towards the treasure chamber where a sooty dragon sleeps. Roll, play cards and draw from the cave pile – but don’t let the dragon wake up and blow you back.
Big, slow bubbles float up the screen. Each player has their own colour, you take turns popping, and at the end you count them together.
A little memory game with giant cards for the little ones. Take turns finding two matching animals or fruits – nobody loses, and everyone gets a star.
Build a tower of big, happy blocks together – one block at a time, taking turns. The tower wobbles a little. Can you reach all the way up to the clouds?
The animals are hiding behind bushes and flowers in the garden. See which animal you need to find, and take turns peeking – peekaboo!
An escape room on the iPad. Find four secret numbers, solve the puzzles together and get out before the hot chocolate goes cold.
The TV shows a crazy but true fact with a gap in it. Everyone writes a believable lie on their phone – then you have to find the truth among the lies.
Describe the word so your team guesses it, without saying the forbidden words. The other team has the buzzer ready. Over 300 cards and quick 60-second turns.
The birthday cake has vanished! Move around the house, ask sneaky questions, tick off your secret notebook and find out who took it.
An escape room for adults: the office went into night lockdown just before the Christmas party. Crack Kurt’s codes, find the gift tags and make it down to the buffet.
The secret role-playing game for 5–16 players. The TV tells the story, the phones give you roles, and the village has to find the wolves before it’s too late.
One person draws on the iPad, everyone else guesses out loud. Three difficulty levels, so kids and grown-ups can all join in.
“Which of you …?” Count down together and point at the same time. Card decks for family, friends and parties.
Act out or explain the word before time runs out. Two teams, five categories and plenty of wild gestures.
Would you rather be able to fly or breathe underwater? Everyone chooses at the same time, then you explain yourselves. Four card decks, from kids to party.
Spin the bottle on the iPad and choose between an honest answer or a fun dare. Sweet cards for kids, family and friends – and you can always skip.
How many bones, kilometres or years? Everyone secretly guesses a number, and whoever gets closest to the right answer wins the points.
Ten lightning-fast challenges on the TV, with your phones as buttons. Wait for the green light, count the dots and watch out for false starts.
Write a sentence, draw the next player’s, guess the previous player’s drawing – and at the end, see on the TV how wildly the messages changed along the way.
Hold the phone or iPad up to your forehead and guess the word while the others explain, act it out and make noises. Six word decks, 60 or 90 seconds.
Put events in the right order on a shared timeline. Did the moon landing come before or after the first postage stamp? First to seven cards wins.
One person thinks of a thing, and the others have 20 yes-or-no questions to guess it. The iPad keeps track of questions, answers, turns and points.
Buy planets and moons, build domes and watch out for the black hole. A property game in space with trading between players.
Buy candy factories, open sweet shops and steer clear of the dentist. A sweet property game for the whole family.
Buy cities from Galway to London, build hotels and avoid the traffic jam. A property game on a tour around Europe.
Buy places in the forest, plant toadstools and watch out for the troll. A fairytale property game for the youngest.
The classic dice game where you race to 10,000 points. Roll six dice, set the scoring ones aside and bank your points in time – or lose the lot.
Five hidden dice each. Bid on how many of a kind are on the table, or call liar. The last player with dice left wins.
The classic dice game for two. Roll the dice, race your 15 pieces home, and play matches to 1, 3 or 5 points with a doubling cube.
The Vikings’ very own board game: the king has to escape to a corner while the attackers try to surround him. Hnefatafl on 11 × 11 and Tablut on 9 × 9.
The classic board game with nine pieces each. Place your pieces, move them along the lines and make mills so you can remove your opponent’s pieces.
Move your marbles across the star and into the triangle on the other side. Jump over any marble, and make long chains of jumps – for 2 to 6 players.
The cunning fox against a whole flock of geese on the old cross-shaped board. The fox jumps and eats geese, and the geese have to stick together and trap it.
Drop your discs and get four in a row. A quick duel for two sitting opposite each other.
The good old pen-and-paper game: draw one line at a time, close a box and get another turn. For 2 to 4 players around one iPad.
Make a secret code of four colours and let the others crack it. A duel for two or a race for three or four – on one iPad or with a TV + phones.
Classic tic-tac-toe on three by three – or five in a row on a big board.
Hide five ships at sea and take turns firing at your opponent’s fleet. Play on one iPad or TV + phones, with the TV as the battlefield and the phones as your secret maps.
Build words that cross each other on a big board and hunt down the star squares. Each player’s tiles stay hidden – on the iPad or on their own phone.
Find as many words as you can in a grid of letters before the timer runs out. Words that others found too get crossed out – so think outside the box.
The letters are all jumbled up – who spots the word first? Hit your button on the iPad, or spell away on your phone before the others get there.
A cosy Christmas escape room on the iPad: the gate to the elves’ workshop has slammed shut, and the presents must reach the sleigh before midnight.
A slightly spooky escape room on the iPad: the family is locked inside a natural history museum after closing time. Something is creeping around in the dark.
An escape room on the iPad where the family shrinks and lands on Grandpa’s ship in a bottle. Repair the ship together and sail out through the neck of the bottle.
A slightly spooky escape room on the iPad: after the school party, the class finds a hidden door to the cellar, where the old caretaker hid a treasure.
Climb up the ladders and whizz down the slides. The first to reach square 100 wins. Perfect for the little ones.
Picture lotto for little ones: each player has their own board with cute pictures at their edge of the iPad. Tap the picture when it’s turned over in the middle.
Two pictures, seven differences and one shared iPad. Tap your colour and find the difference first – or help each other against the clock.
Bingo for little ones with colours and shapes instead of numbers. The wheel spins, the bird calls out, and the kids find the shape on their own board.
Freeze dance with its own music from the iPad. Dance like a robot or a flamingo, and stand stock still when the music stops. The last one on the dance floor wins.