All The Best Board Games For Girls By Age In 2023

Our Picks: Best Board Games for Girls

Wondering what the best board games for girls are to keep them entertained throughout the year, or thinking of a perfect gift for a loved one? With so many options for board games for girls out there, we have organized our favorite board games for girls of all ages below.  

Any game that teaches strategy and decision making is excellent for girls. Games benefit girls’ brains, upgrades their social development and teaches them life lessons like overcoming challenges (source). But, girls just want to have fun too. So, this top board games for girls list will be a mix of games that teach us things as well as games that don’t teach us anything but are good-old wholesome family fun. 

I will admit that once girls get a little older (8+), the options become a lot wider (girls 8+ can play almost any board game except adult party games, but note there is a kids version of Cards Against Humanity). But there are still is a bit of choice for board games for girls age around 4-8 as I will discuss below. In that regard, I will be listing the best board games for girls age 3+, then 4+, 5+, 6+, 7+, 8+ and teens.

I have girls, and my wife was a girl not so long ago, so we are a pretty good authority on this kind of stuff! You can trust us.

Although there are really no games just for girls (even the boys can play princess theme games), and girls can play any games that boys can, in our experience with our daughters, these below games are the most replayed in our household: 

Best Board Games For Girls Age 3+

1. Candy Land 

This is one of our family’s favourites! Played by every generation, but ideally suited for ages 3+, Candy Land is a perfect beginner board game in which players race to the castle. It is a perfect board game for the little ones as there no reading required; you just play using the wonderfully colourful graphics that girls love! 

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2. Zingo

Zingo is a bingo-like matching game that teaches pre-readers to match pictures and words to their challenge cards, which helps in encouraging and teaching young girls to read. 

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3. Count Your Chickens

Count Your Chicken is a fun cooperative counting game. It’s easy to play: players work together to help Mother Hen collect her chicks. Girls learn counting and social development skills. There is no reading required, so perfect for little ones. Not to mention, it’s a cooperative game. If all the chicks are brought back to the coup, everyone wins! This game is made by Peaceable Kingdom, which makes a lot of stealth learning games for kids.

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4.  The Ladybug Game

A great first board game for girls, The Ladybug Game helps develop counting. You daughter will have to lead their ladybug home to the Rose Garden while avoiding the Praying Mantis. Girls tend to love the cute pictures in this board game. 

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Best Board Games for Girls Age 4+

1. Hungry Hungry Hippos

In this board game players work to gobble up as many marbles as quickly as possible with their hippos. An excellent board game for girls ages 4+ and for groups because its best played with four players. There’s not much social skills or learning developed with this game, but it sure is fun, and my girls love it. 

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2. The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game

This is a great game for girls because it teaches strategic thinking and motor skills. It’s not so simple that it gets boring. To play this game, you spin the spinner, get an option to strategically “pick an acorn,” “steal an acorn,” or “lose an acorn,” and then squeeze the matching colored acorn with your Squirrel Squeezers to place it into your log. Be the first to fill your log with delicious acorns, and you win!

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3. Hoot Owl Hoot! Cooperative Board Game

In this board game, girls get to work together and make decisions to help the owls fly back to their nest. Your girls will learn problem-solving and strategic thinking. Unlike basic roll a dice and move your character games (i.e. Chutes and Ladders), your daughter gets to make strategic decisions like which owl to move and which colour to move to. When my daughter was 4, this was the first real board game she played for real. She said she liked the strategy, which, to the best of my belief, was the first time she ever understood that concept in a board game.

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4. Cupcake Party

It’s a cupcake party with all the Disney Princesses! To play this board game, collect the ingredients on the recipe cards, and make as many before the clock runs out. Over 2000 reviewers gave this game five stars! 

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Best Board Games for Girls Age 5+

1. Blokus

This simple and fun strategy game is a perfect board game for girls (and for the whole family! – adults like it too). In Blokus players take turns building out their territories by placing pieces on the board. Designed for ages 5+ and 2-4 players.

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2. Top Bright 

In this game, players take turns to roll a dice or pick the cards, then remove a block of the corresponding color and put it on the top of the tower. If the tower falls over, you lose. This is the perfect all-season game as it can be enjoyed indoors and outdoors. Girls will love the pretty colors. My daughter says it is more exciting and harder than Jenga. 

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3. The Floor is Lava!

The Floor is Lava! is a game where players use imagination to visualize that the floor is lava while spinning the color wheel to jump to the right foam pieces to reach safety. Little ballerinas will love that you get to jumping and leap instead of playing at a table like a typical board game.

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4. Kerplunk

My daughter wants to play this game all the time. It’s fun ​to take turns removing sticks while trying to prevent the marbles from dropping through the tube. This is another one of those old-school games parents will remembering playing as a kid too. 

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5. Pretty Princess Board Game

A board game targeted at girls; in Pretty Princess, players spin the spinner to advance all the while collecting jewellery. The game ends when one player has a complete set of jewellery in their color. It’s a super simple game, but the jewellery is cute, and your girls will love it. 

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6. Mermaid Island

Girls love mermaids, and this is a game about mermaids that teaches teamwork, so it’s a win-win. Our whole family was rooting for each other! It’s a good game too because it’s so simple to learn. Players work together to escape to Mermaid Island before the witch gets there, using different “wands” on the way there, which teaches decision-making skills.

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Best Board Games for Girls Age 6+

1. Guess Who

In this classic game, players try to guess each other’s mystery character. The game is designed for two players, ages 6+, but turns can easily be swapped out so that the whole family or groups of friends can enjoy. This particular game provides hours of fun which is why it is at the top of the list for board games for girls! For whatever reason, my girls seem to love this one more than the boys. 

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2. Operation Electronic Board Game 

Operation is the same fantastic game you remember from your childhood! Players play the role of doctor and help to make Cavity Sam, the patient, feel better by strategically removing pieces. It’s pretty easy to play and win, so this is a perfect board game for younger girls just looking for a few minutes of fun.  

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3. Connect 4 

Designed for ages 6+, Connect 4 is a crowd-pleaser for children of all ages, it is designed for two players but can easily be played as a team or with various players taking turns. Loads of fun for the whole family, which is why it is at the top of the list for best board games for boys!

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4. Mousetrap Game

This classic family board game challenges players to move their mouse across the board without getting trapped. My girls love all the cool items and objects on the board. 

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Best Board Games for Girls Age 7+

1. Labyrinth

A classically famous board game for girls, and their parents, Labyrinth challenges players to find the shortest distance through the labyrinth to win! Designed for ages 7+, this game teaches cause and effect and is sure to bring lots of laughs and hours of fun! My wife says this was her favourite game as a girl for many years. 

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2. Gravity Maze

Gravity Maze is great because it gets girls into STEM as it’s an engineering and building game. Over 60 challenges are included from beginner to expert. Select a challenge, and build the tower to match the challenge grid, then test your tower with a marble. If the marble clears the goal, you win. 

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3. Googly Eyes

This is a super silly game to play with the girls. Put on the vision-altering googley eyeglasses and draw while your team tries to guess what you’re drawing. My daughter loved it, continually laughing at the ridiculous drawings. 

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4. Hedbanz

Hedbanz is an easy family game that parents find fun too. Ask “yes” or “no” questions before time runs out to figure out if the cartoon card on your headband is an animal, food or object. It’s an excellent game for girls because they will develop their logic with this game’s question and answer skill-testing method. There is a Disney version too.

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Best Board Games for Girls Age 8+

1. Ticket to Ride

Best suited for children 8+, Ticket to Ride, is an ideal board game for girls in teaching business, STEM and geography as players collect and build a variety of railway routes to connect various North American cities! Designed for 2- 5 players, this game is perfect for the whole family!

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2. Scrabble 

Scrabble, a family favorite for over 50 years, is a perfect board game as it teaches spelling and strategy! In this classic game, players take turns to build words across the matrix and can include up to 6 players!

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3. Monopoly Bundle Package 

This Monopoly bundle is a perfect gift for any girls because it teaches business concepts. This package is an excellent value as it includes the original Monopoly, Monopoly Deal and Yahtzee! It is sure to provide hours of entertainment and is best suited for ages 8+.

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4. The Game of Life 

The classic game from your childhood is back! The Game of Life includes a variety of cards offering exciting options as players move through the ups and downs of life. A perfect board game for girls ages 8+ and 2-4 players.

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5. Mastermind 

This phenomenal strategy game is one of the best sellers of all times. It is a great board game for girls for ages 8+ and is timeless with over 2000 different ways the game can be played.

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6. Catan 

This award-winning game has players working to build and grow their civilization. It requires 3-4 players over the age of 10, but for older children out there it is one of the best games of its kid.

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7. Backgammon 

One of the oldest games on record, this classic Backgammon Set is a perfect board game for boys. Backgammon is played by two players and is best suited for players ages 10+! This particular backgammon set it quite nice-looking too.

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8. Clue 

Who committed the crime? Eliminate the suspects to discover who did it! This classic mystery game is perfect for ages 8+ and provides hours of fun for the whole family. 

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9. Cat Crimes

Girls tend to like cats a lot, and this game is all about cats. It is a cat-themed logic game that comes with 60 challenges of increasing difficulty. You have to use the logic cards, to deduct which cat committed the crimes.

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Best Board Games for Teen Girls

1. Pandemic

What better game in this time than Pandemic, where it’s up to the team of specialists in various fields to find cures for the disease before it’s too late. Players work together, so it teaches teamwork. Plus, it’s kind of neat, the main characters are all girls. This supports an interest in STEM. 

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2. Codenames

An excellent game for teen girls, Codenames is a social game where teams compete to see who can make contact with their secret-agents first. Players give out one-word clues to try to determine the identities of 8-9 agents in the field of 25. The hard part is using only one word for the clues. It also makes it pretty funny. 

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3. Unstable Unicorns

This board game for teens is one of Kickstarter’s top 50 most backed projects of all time! Using cute cards, build a unicorn Army, upgrade your army and use the magic combos at your disposable to wipe out the other players. The quality of the cards are high-end, and the card illustrations are just excellent. It is a complicate game, but that’s what makes it so fun for teen girls to challenge themselves. 

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