Winter evenings do something to family screen time: everyone is indoors earlier, the usual stuff palls by mid-January, and something short and sociable fills the gap before bath time better than a film does. A memory match runs ten minutes, involves shouting, and ends with a definitive champion.
It is also the season of the long division between Christmas and New Year, when the decorations are up but the routine has collapsed. A different theme each day — winter, board games, grandma's kitchen — keeps a dribble of novelty going with zero preparation.
Grandparents get a look-in too: the easy board on a tablet, grandchild versus grandparent, is the rare game where the generations genuinely level out.
Choose your difficulty
Every winter game runs at three levels — easy, medium and hard — switched inside the game at any time. Start easy for little ones, or jump to hard if you fancy the challenge.