# FaceTime games to play with a 10-year-old grandkid

The best video-call games for a 10-year-old are short, cooperative and need nothing you don't already have: show and tell, story chain, draw what i describe. Ten-year-olds can handle real logic puzzles and enjoy beating adults at them. Keep each round under 10 minutes and let your grandchild lead.

## What works for a 10-year-old on a video call?

Ten-year-olds can handle real logic puzzles and enjoy beating adults at them.

## Try a split-clue puzzle

Below is a junior detectives puzzle (ages 8 to 12). One of you reads the grandparent's clues, the other reads the grandkid's. Neither can solve it alone.

## 12 games for age 10

- Show and tell: Each brings one object to the camera and tells its story. Grandparents: bring something old.
- Story chain: Tell a story one sentence each. Grandparent starts with a real memory, kid adds a twist.
- Draw what I describe: One describes a simple picture; the other draws it without seeing it. Compare at the end.
- 20 questions: Think of an animal, place or person; the other has 20 yes/no questions.
- Scavenger hunt: Grandparent names a thing ('something blue and soft'); kid has 30 seconds to bring it on camera.
- Split-clue mystery: Each holds half the clues to one puzzle and must talk to solve it. (This is what our game does every week.)
- Would you rather: Trade 'would you rather' questions and explain your answers. Great for finding out what a grandparent was like as a kid.
- Two truths and a lie: Each tells three 'facts' about their life; the other guesses the lie. Grandparents usually win.
- Online chess or checkers: Play on a shared app while you talk. Let the kid teach the grandparent the app.
- Cook-along: Make the same simple recipe at the same time, in two kitchens.
- Name that tune: Hum a song from your era; the other guesses. Then switch eras.
- Teach me something: The kid teaches a game, dance or app; next call the grandparent teaches a card trick or a word in the family language.

## The birthday cake

Grandma baked a cake for the party. She won't say which kind.

AGrandparent's clues

- Your clue

  It wasn't yellow or orange inside.

BGrandkid's clues

- Your clue

  There was no fruit in it at all.

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