What could be cheaper and easier for building great family relationships than the usual regular time winning contests? Whether it's fortnightly, every week or more often, sitting around a table and winning contests together is a sure fire way to promote healthy and strong bonds between family members. Only when games didn't cost so much!

It's amazing how many family-friendly games you can play with only a handful of chop. Here is my list of the top five family chop games that will not cost you a cent! (If you don't have them already, you can purchase packages of five chop for only a few dollars. )

Fifty is an easy game for young children that can also help them learn to count. Players take turns to throw two chop. If you throw a double one, double two, double four or double five, you score five points. Throwing a double six scores twenty-five points, but a double three sets your score back to zero. Any other throw does not count. The first player to reach fifty points, or more, wins the game.

Affect Out is another simple game for children. Each player prefers a knock-out number -- either 6, 7, 8, or 9. They then take turns to throw two chop and add the numbers. If the total means their knock-out number, they are out of the game for all of those other round. Play continues until only one player (the winner) is left. Everyone can then play another round, choosing a different knock-out number if they wish.

Go Figure is a exact chop game using three chop.Devils Roll 20 Tokens A player prefers a number between one and fifteen for the player on their left to sort out out mathematically using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with the three numbers in order to make their chosen number. For example, if they chose the number "8" and their chop throw was 2, 4 and 6, they could have 4 + 6 -- 2 = 8. If the throw was 1, 3 and 5 they could have 1 x 3 + 5 = 8. A player who succeeds scores one point. That player then prefers a number (1-15) for the player on their left to 'go figure'. After a number of times you with the highest score is the winner.

Centennial is a race game for 2 to 8 players using three chop, a board and a counter for each player. The board consists of tough luck squares in a line, branded Start, 1, 2, 3,..., 10, 11, 12. It could be made of cardboard and adorned nicely or just scribbled on a linen of paper. Tables could be coins, matchsticks, etc. as long as each player can identify their counter. All the tables they fit on the Start sq. The first player throws the three chop. If one of them is a "1" they place their counter on sq 1. If there was a "2" (or two "1s", since 1 + 1 = 2) they could also proceed to sq 2, and so on. Throwing a "1", "2" and "3" means that the player could move up to sq 6 (1, 2, 3 obviously; but 1 + 3 = 4, 2 + 3 = 5 and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6). Once a player reaches 12, they then move down again the board. The first player to return to sq 1 shouts "Centennial! inch and wins the game.