The UK’s favourite Christmas board game has been revealed

And it isn't Scrabble

Board games

by Anna Sky Hulton |
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Christmas is one of the times of the year when family gather and spend time together, so it's inevitable that board games will be on the agenda, with a massive 84% of us sitting down to play over the Christmas period.

Thanks to the latest research we can now reveal that of those who like to play board games at Christmas, a huge 31% of them chose Monopoly as their favourite game! Other classics such as Scrabble, Pictionary, Cluedo and Chess were also included in the top 10, with the newest game in the chart being Cards Against Humanity, which appears at number 7. This game was also the only card game to be included in the list.

UK’s top 10 favourite after dinner games

  1. Monopoly
  1. Trivial Pursuit
  1. Scrabble
  1. Pictionary
  1. Cluedo
  1. Draughts / Checkers
  1. Cards Against Humanity
  1. Chess
  1. Battleship
  1. Yahtzee
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Unusually it seems that the tech-savvy, younger generation are more inclined to play games, with more 18-24-year-olds playing than the older generations. Although the popularity of the games do change according to age, there is a clear favourite with young adults - Cards Against Humanity. Whilst this was much less popular with the older age groups.

Speaking about the research the PR Manager at Coral Casino, who provided the data, said, “Our research shows that, however popular high tech gifts have become at Christmas, the long standing tradition of sitting down with friends and family to a good board game after their Festive feast is alive and well."

Will you be playing any of the games this year?

Now that Christmas is almost upon us and no doubt you'll be putting up your decorations, if you haven't already. Take a look at how some celebrities have been getting ready for the festive season in our gallery below.

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Celebrities getting in the festive spirit

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Ferne McCann and baby Sunday

Ferne and baby Sunday look too cute all snuggled up in the snow.

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Megan McKenna

Megan and a v sparkly Christmas tree.

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Gemma Collins

Gemma's been sharing a whole load of photos as fans make her their Christmas angel.

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Ed Sheeran

Either Ed is actually really, really tiny, or that's a very large Christmas tree.

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Mariah Carey

It's not a festive gallery without at least one snap from the Queen of Christmas, herself. And her tree does not disappoint this year.

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Mario Falcone

Mario's been out shopping for Christmas decorations.

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Kylie Jenner

Kylie's opted for a very pink Christmas tree this year. Is she trying to tell us something...?

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Charlotte Crosby

It's not Christmas until you've downed about 425352 mulled wines and a giant Bratwurst at Winter Wonderland, is it, Char?

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Britney Spears

We're pretty sure Britney's won the giant Christmas tree competition this year.

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Gary Beadle

Gaz, not so much...

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Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton shared a super cute festive throwback with her sister Nicky.

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Giovanna Fletcher

Looks like Giovanna had a fab time making new friends in the snow.

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Tom Fletcher

Meanwhile, Tom's been decorating the house with some personalised stockings for all the family.

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Zoella

Another year, another perfectly symmetrical and towering Christmas tree from Zoella.

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Zoella's dog Nala

HOW CUTE IS NALA IN HER LITTLE XMAS OUTFIT?

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Tanya Burr

Tanya's tree is the Christmas Instagram aesthetic we can only dream of.

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Rochelle Humes

The snowman's looking at Rochelle like she just told a really bad Christmas cracker joke. Awks.

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Amber Davies

Amber's looking sassy AF in the snow following her split from Kem Cetinay.

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Nicole Scherzinger

Nicole's been flirting up a storm with Father Christmas.

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Cara de la Hoyde and Nathan Massey

Cara and Nathan welcome their first child just before Christmas.

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Louise Thompson and Ryan Libbey

Louise Thompson and Ryan Libbey pose for a festive selfie.

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Binky Felstead

Binky, JP and baby India will be celebrating their first Christmas together as a family.

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Samantha Faiers

Sam Faiers took her newborn to meet Santa for the first time.

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Katie Price

Katie's tree is brimming with glam AF baubles.

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Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner

Kourtney and Kendall enjoyed a festive ice-skating trip. The lack of coats, hats, scarves suggest LA is much nicer place to take to the ice than Arctic England, tbh.

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Kimberley Walsh

Kimberley's getting us very excited for the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.

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Kimberley Walsh

And her gold-themed tree is goals, too!

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Emma and Matt Willis

Emma and Matt paid a visit to a certain Mr. Claus.

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Gabby Allen and Marcel Somerville

Gabby and Marcel look adorbs in their matching Christmas jumpers.

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Stacey Solomon

Stacey's been in the Christmas spirit for a while now, having put up her Christmas tree in November.

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Holly Willoughby

Holly shared the adorable Christmas decoration her son Chester made.

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Olivia Buckland

Olivia and Reggie have been loving the snow. We're BIG fans of Olivia's sassy Christmas jumper, too.

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Danielle Armstrong

Danielle's giving us some major Christmas outfit goals.

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Coleen Rooney

Coleen shared a snap from her visit to Lapland UK with the kids.

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Chloe Ferry

We think Chloe makes a lovely Mrs. Claus

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Georgia Kousoulou

Can we just all appreciate how bloody cute Georgia Kousoulou and Tommy Mallett's little pooch is dressed up as snowman. We can't deal!!!

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