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Giveaway: Create Your Own Family Game Night

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In today’s economy, a family outing to the movies can put a strain on most budgets! You don’t even want to know what a recent trip to the movie theater cost our family. We dropped over $100 and didn’t even get to watch the entire movie between bathroom breaks and tantrums. From now on, we’re definitely waiting for the DVD!

Luckily Walmart and Hasbro have partnered to help families make memories and enjoy each other at home. This week, stores across the country have Family Game Night aisles dedicated to helping you put together your own Family Game Night for under $40.

Choose a theme like Sweet Tooth Sunday — with Candyland and the sugary sweet movie Pollyanna along with soda and makings for a homemade ice cream sundaes — or Special Mission Night — all about solving puzzles and using your smarts to uncover a mystery and play Pictureka along with secret recipes of creative snacks to enjoy while you watch National Treasure. Or pick from your all-time favorites at affordable prices.

We headed out to Walmart today with $40 in hand to check it out, and the kids were thrilled with both the selection of games and movies. We finally narrowed it down to Trouble and Operation (both faves of mine when I was younger), and the girls picked out High School Musical. We snagged all 3 for just $35, so we have $5 left over to pick up some simple snacks. $40 for a fun and relaxing evening at home compared to $100+ for a disastrous and stressful outing is a huge bargain! Plus the entertainment isn’t limited to a single 2-hour span.

One lucky Deal Seeking Mom winner will receive a $40 Walmart giftcard to put together their own Family Game Night theme!

To enter, tell me what your family’s favorite board game is. Do you have young children who love Candyland, or do you prefer adult games like Apples to Apples?

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. Tell me about your favorite family board game!

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Prize:
(1) $40 Walmart gift card

This giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday 9/23. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email on and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

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Comments

  1. Keyanie Davis

    We love to play Oodles, Taboo, and Monopoly!! We’ve been doing this for years..it’s quality family time and definitely a money saver!! Better than sshhh’ing the kids while watching a movie in an over-priced theater with stale popcorn. lol

  4. KellyH

    Right now, we like playing scrabble when we are all together. We have mom and dad, 18, 16, 8, 6, 4 yo. The 16yo taught the 8yo to play Clue, but the 6 and 4 are still too young. We (me included, as it’s short) also like Monopoly Jr.

    Thanks!
    KellyH

  5. ShaRee Hirschi

    We are a BIG game playing family. Our 5 kids range in age from 11-6. Our current favorite games are:
    Settlers of Catan
    The farming game
    Cash Flow (regular and for kids)
    Pitt
    Pandemic
    Mile Bornes
    9 down
    Because we play games so often, the kids are able to learn and play games that are much more advanced than their ages. Best ever family time!

  7. Tricia

    Our favorite game as a family is Blokus. It’s a board game where you have to fit the your colored pieces together while trying to block the other colors from having a place to lay down. It’s simple enough our youngest can play it but difficult enough that my husband and I often legitimately loose to the kids! The best part is we can play for hours without it feeling like it.

  10. Allie

    We have young children so Candyland is a favorite around here. I think I could play it with my eyes closed by now-lol! :0)

  12. Karen

    I can’t wait until my 2 year old gets a little older to start playing games with him. We will definitely be doing family game nights!

  15. Wendy

    We love any board game. My favorite as a child was LIFE! It was so fun for me to fill that little car up with all those children! Now I have a car full FOR REAL :-)

  16. Karen

    We love to play Cranium but we also like Phase 10 and now we like Phase 10 Twist. :)

    krazy421 (at) yahoo (dot) com

  22. Rebecca

    I get your emails and love them!!! You have helped me taking my saving and shopping to the next level. :)

  23. Heather

    We love to play games!! My daughter just discovered Candy Land and loves it! One of my favorite games is Scattegories – an oldy but a goody!

  26. Sandra

    Our family loves to play Candyland together. My six year old and my three year old both enjoying playing with us and we can play for hours!!

  28. Rebecca

    Growing up my favorite game was Monopoly. My husband and I like clue. It will be fun to see what favorites our toddler developes.