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Feelinks is a family friendly party game from the designer of Dixit. Gameplay is as simple as picking how you feel about a given situation and guessing how someone else feels about that same situation. It also helps to connect with emotions, and even helps teach empathy.
I pulled this out after dinner and my teenagers actually put their phones down to guess how everyone felt about each situation card. The scoring is simple enough that my 9-year-old can play without help, but the guessing part still trips up the adults.
We’ve played this three weekends in a row with cousins aged 9 to 60, and nobody zones out. The mechanic of guessing someone else’s emotion is so simple that even the shyest kid jumps in, and it always ends with us arguing about why someone picked “guilty” over “embarrassed.”
The situations spark hilarious debates, and guessing how your partner or kid feels reveals way more than you'd expect. We've played it three nights in a row with friends aged 9 to 70, and the rounds fly by because everyone's genuinely curious.