Game Center with multi-player games/ turn based

Hi All
I seem to have a problem with the concept of the Game Center and exactly what it's supposed to do. If I am being a thicky, please tell me!!
My Wife has an Ipad, my daughter an Ipad mini, son has an Iphone 4S and I have just bought a macbook pro. I have just started to work away and thought it would be a great family thing to play games against each other but this games center doesn't seem to be for this! I have added all 3 of them as friends on the center and thats about all I can do!
When I goto the 'my games' on my pro, it says I dont have any games and I can download them from the app store, when I click the link, I get a blank screen come up with no games.
When I goto ITunes and try to download a multiplayer turn based game it downloads but I cant do anything with it (I did this with scrabble, a hang man game and Uno).
Are all these different hardware types incompatable to each other with game center?
How do I get games on there?
Are there any real time turn based games that will fullfill what I want? I have a go, then one of my family members does the same, even though we may have to wait a few hours to do the next turn. It doesnt have to be all 4 of us, maybe run 3 games at once with myself against each of my family.
Thankyou in advance
Andy

Your family can play each other by purchasing the app on their own devices – but you'll be left out. There is a difference between buying apps from the iTunes Store and using the App Store on your Macbook Pro (known as the Mac App Store).

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