Maybe not for young kids but my two favorite games are these:
Wise and Otherwise. This is the best game ever! It has the first half of "old sayings" from many countries on one side of the card, and the rest of the saying on the back. The reader chooses from 5 or 6 choices without looking at the back of the card to see the rest of it. Everybody writes down what they think the rest of the saying is, the reader writes the real one, then everybody hands their cards to the reader. He/she shuffles the answers and reads them, then everybody guesses which one is the real one. You get two points for guessing the right answer and two points everytime somebody chooses your answer as the real one. It is so.much.fun! You can play to win, of course, but sometimes you just have to play a funny answer.
I'll give you an example. One time we were playing, and the stem was "There is an old Chinese saying, 'Keep your broken arm...." My son, who is really good at the game, finished the saying with "hidden from your enemy." Perfect. I thought it was the real thing. One of my son's friends wrote, "give me your broken leg." It was hilarious! (By the way, I don't remember what the real saying was.) Anyway, for a group of adolescents to adults, this game is absolutely fantastic.
Wits and Wagers. This game is a trivia game, but it's also a betting game. The way it works is that the cards are all loaded up with trivia questions that have numerical answers. They are obscure stuff that typically nobody actually knows. Everybody writes down what they think the answer is and puts the numbers down. They are arranged from lowest to highest. Then everybody bets on which answer is closest without going over. Bets near the middle pay a little bit; bets on the extreme ends pay a lot but are more risky. It's fun because although it is a trivia game, the focus is on the betting, and you don't necessarily have to be a trivia buff to win the game. That and the fact that people don't know the answers makes it less likely that your local know-it-all will spoil everybody's fun by lording his/her trivia knowledge over everybody else. Faster moving than Wise and Otherwise.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust