My school has given me a lot of money to spend on games/activities/materials.

I'm ordering games like Apples to Apples (young kids version), Operation, Jenga...pretty much games I enjoy(ed) that I'll be able to use in a lesson.

Any good ideas for other stuff for me to get? Thanks!

I found UNO at home plus and it has been a hit with all of my classes.  Easy to teach and the kids get really into it.  I'd recommend picking up a copy.

I have Scrabble in my classroom. I rarely play the actual game with students but I've used the tiles for LOTS of different activities. To ensure there are enough tiles to go around, there are 7 Scrabble games. You can buy Scrabble at places like Kyobo Books. I've also seen it at Emart.

Bananagrams, Apples to Apples, Jenga, and UNO are all good. You could also grab Boggle and chess- some of my older students are total chess freaks- and my CT went a bit crazy and bought Settler of Catan, so I guess I'm gonna have to learn how to explain that to elementary school students... 

As someone mentioned before Apples to Apples, Scattergories, and Boggle are are all fine choices for vocabulary games. Depending on what the OP is looking for though (Mentions of Uno and Jenga spring to mind as filler games where students will play them in parallel with vocabulary or sentence reviews) I've tried some other games in class before with great success - Some basic strategy games, some cooperative, and one just plain unfair :D

On that note, lets nerd-of-prey this thread. ^_^

Qwirkle
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This is a competitive tile laying game where you can reinforce colours, shapes, and numeracy. The objective is to place in a single move, as many tiles of the same colour, or shape, but not both in a row to score points. You score one point per tile in sequence. If you complete a row then you get 6 bonus points. :)

Hanabi
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Cooperative strategy game. Your goal is to play the cards in your hand in order from 1-5 across the different colours. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! You can't see your own hand of cards, but you can see the other players' hands. You have 3 actions in a turn.

• Play a card.
• Use a clue token (there is a finite number of them) to say all the cards of the same colour, or of the same number in a player's hand. eg. These two are 2s, OR This is blue.
• Discard a card from your hand to refresh a clue token.

If you play a card incorrectly your team gets a lightning strike. 3 lightning strikes and the game is over.

Quoridor
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A fun puzzle game where you must move your piece across the board. You play by either moving one space forwards, backward, left, or right, OR you can play one of your 2x1 fences to try and block the movement of other players. Really fun strategy game.

Dixit
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This is a game where students have to use {English} words, sentences, or phrases to try and describe a picture card they play from their hand. Other teams then play a card and try to guess which card the original team played. For a good guide on how to play this game I'd recommend watching Wil Wheaton's TableTop on YouTube.

TableTop S01E12 - Dixit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6UlbxeDE0w

Coup
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A quick and fun deduction and bluffing game where you have two cards in front of you and depending on the cards you can do a number of different actions.

• Ambassador - Send your cards back to the deck and take two new cards.
• Duke - Can take 3 money per turn instead of 2.
• Assassin - Pay 3 coins to attack another player.
• Contessa - Immune to attacks from the assassin.
• Captain - Can steal money from another player.

The thing is, the cards in front of you are face-down. And only you know what they are. If you don't think someone is being honest you can accuse them of lying. If you are correct then their action is cancelled, and one of their cards is turned over. When both of a player's cards are turned over they are out of the game.

Unspeakable Words
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A very fun vocabulary game that crosses Arkham Horror with Scrabble. HELLO, CTHULU MYTOS! :D Players have cards with letters on them, and must use these cards to spell words and score points. You earn points based on the number of angles in each letter. After scoring points the students must roll a D20 and get equal to or higher than the point value they just earned, or lose a sanity. Players start with 5 sanity. When they get to 1 sanity the normal rules of spelling no longer apply and any type of spelling can be considered tyarsg. The only special rule is that you must define the word you just created. Worlds of fun.

Some of my favourite words from my students.
MVROOM - How fast Matthew teacher runs.
TYARSG - The feeling of hunger for coconut blood.
PUXYN - The smell of grandmother's shoes.
SNSD - Terrible. (This one had me in stitches)

There are a bunch of others that I'd recommend playing with students, but as of yet I haven't had chance to test them out. The other games I'm planning on testing are:

• Resistance
• Resistance: Avalon (Upgraded difficulty of Resistance)
• Ultimate Werewolf/ Mafia
• Love Letter
• Ticket To Ride - Asia
• Blokus/ GemBlo
• Settlers of Catan - Junior (or regular - both okay)
• Pandemic

Hope this helps. Have fun and enjoy playing! :D[/list]