I listen to Scott Hanselman's podcast, Hanselminutes.  A few weeks ago he did a show on Board Gaming for Programmers.  He had Chris Brooks on the show with him and mentioned playing games with his kids.  Julie and I love playing board games with our kids.  Until we bought Ticket To Ride our favorite was a classic board game, Hotels, my wife has had since she was kid.

One negative to classic board games is that someone normally exits the game early on and has to wait around for everyone to finish.  Ticket To Ride is fun for everyone until the very end.  The kids love it and we love it too.  I'm sure we'll be looking into other games like this in the future.

My wife beat me to the punch and has a better write up on it.