'Trouble' was our family game with my poppy (RIP)
My mom normally beats the pants off me playing 'Scrabble' but I got her back recently by using all my letters TWICE during one 500-pt game. Needless to say, I beats the pants of HER that game.
My six-year-old almost always beats me in 'WAR', go figure.
When I get together with my cousins, uncles and aunts, we LOVE card games like 1000's (a wildcard version of 500 Rummy) and King's Korner (a modified version of Solitare but plays up to 4 people). We also play 'UNO' and 'Spades'.
'Spades' was the game back on campus though. If you didn't take it seriously and continually reneged, you would find yourself without a partner for the next few gatherings!