Shaky Manor

Each player holds a small box shaped like a haunted house, divided into rooms, with a set of loose pieces rattling around inside: ghosts, eyeballs, snakes, spiders and the like. A challenge card is revealed showing which pieces need to end up in which room, and everyone tilts and shakes their own box at the same time to get exactly those pieces in there and nothing else. The first to manage it takes the card, and the first to five cards wins. It is pure hand-eye coordination, so a six-year-old can beat a parent fairly. We recommend it to families with young children and to anyone who wants a quick, noisy game that needs no reading. Twenty minutes at most, and it works fine with just two.