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6 nimmt!Everyone plays a card at once into four rows. Whoever lays the sixth card in a row takes the lot.

2–10 players
about 30 min
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CodenamesOne word and one number from your spymaster; find your agents among 25 words.

2–8 players
about 15 min
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Codenames: DuetSit across from each other, each seeing one side of the key card, and trade one-word clues to find all 15 agents in nine turns.

2–4 players
about 20 min
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CoupTwo hidden cards and any claim you like. Get challenged without the card and you lose a life.

2–6 players
about 15 min
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DixitSay something about a picture. Too plain or too obscure and you score nothing.

3–8 players
about 30 min
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Farter Knows BestSomeone in the lift keeps farting. The passengers want to catch them; the farters play innocent and frame somebody else.

5–10 players
about 45 min
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GoTownTwo cards that add up to 9 make a floor. First to five floors wins, if nobody steals or wrecks them first.

2–4 players
about 20 min
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Halli GalliFlip cards in turn, and slap the bell the moment exactly five of one fruit are showing.

2–6 players
about 15 min
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Hot StreakFour off-brand mascots race, fall over, turn around and crash. You place your bets, then yell at them.

2–9 players
about 20 min
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Junk ArtStack oddly shaped pieces into a sculpture and take it on a world tour.

2–6 players
about 30 min
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KLASKSteer your striker with a magnet under the board and knock the ball into the other player's hole.

2 players
about 10 min
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Magical AthleteDraft four racers with odd superpowers, then roll and race while their powers bend the rules.

2–6 players
about 30 min
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Meeple CircusStack acrobats, elephants and barrels into a circus act before the music stops.

2–5 players
about 45 min
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Night of the NinjaTwo ninja houses assassinate each other in the dark. You don't know who is on your side, and a round takes five minutes.

4–11 players
about 20 min
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Ready Set BetThe horses are already running. Bet as you watch: early pays more, late finds the good spots gone.

2–9 players
about 45 min
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ScoutYou can't rearrange your hand. Beat the set on the table, or scout a card from it into yours.

2–5 players
about 15 min
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Sushi Go Party!Keep one, pass the rest. Someone may take the sushi you were collecting before it comes back.

2–8 players
about 20 min
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Teeter TowerBuild one tower together out of dice and tiles. If a die falls, everyone loses.

1–4 players
about 20 min
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The Publish or Perish GameRace to publish papers as rival academics and trip each other up on the way. Funniest for anyone who has written one.

3–6 players
about 45 min
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Two Rooms and a BoomTwo rooms, hostages swapped each round. Where the Bomber and the President end up decides it.

6–30 players
about 15 min
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UNOMatch the colour or the number. Don't forget to say UNO on your last card.

2–10 players
about 30 min
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UNO No MercyUNO with the gloves off: draw cards stack, you draw until you can play, and 25 cards in hand knocks you out.

2–6 players
about 30 min
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White Lotus HotelThere has been a death at the hotel and everyone is a suspect. Tell the story together and see who turns out to be the Black Lotus.

3–6 players
about 60 min
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Bomb BustersDefuse a bomb together. Everyone holds a hidden row of numbered wires, and you cut them in matching pairs by guessing your teammates’ wires.

2–5 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

CalicoSew a quilt one patch at a time: match colours for buttons, match patterns and a cat comes to sleep on it.

1–4 players
about 40 min
Easy to pick up

Camel UpBet on a camel race where camels pile on top of each other and the lead changes every roll.

3–8 players
about 40 min
Easy to pick up

CascadiaLay habitat tiles and place wildlife to build your own stretch of the Pacific Northwest.

1–4 players
about 40 min
Easy to pick up

CubitosRoll, then dare to roll again: more, or nothing at all. The runner who gets furthest wins.

2–4 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

Deception: Murder in Hong KongThe murderer is at the table, and the forensic scientist may only hint with scene tiles.

4–12 players
about 20 min
Easy to pick up

DecryptoTwo teams each hide four keywords, pass three-digit codes to teammates with clues, and try to crack the other side’s codes.

3–8 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Dice Throne: Season OneEvery hero has five dice and a deck of their own. Three rolls to make an attack, and the other side's health to zero.

2–6 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Feed the KrakenOne ship, three headings: sailors want port, pirates want their cove, and the cult leader wants the Kraken fed.

5–11 players
about 60 min
Easy to pick up

Fit to PrintLay out a newspaper against the clock: grab stories, then fit them onto the page before the deadline.

1–6 players
about 25 min
Easy to pick up

GuandanTwo decks, four players, partners opposite. Climb from level 2 to Ace, with one wild card to help.

4 players
about 60 min
Easy to pick up

HarmoniesStack coloured tokens into forests, mountains, rivers and fields, then bring in animals that love those landscapes.

1–4 players
about 40 min
Easy to pick up

Heat: Pedal to the MetalRace cars with a hand of cards: shift gears, push through corners, and manage your engine’s heat.

1–6 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

Hibachi: Fired Up!Toss chips onto the grill for ingredients; the first chef to cook three dishes wins.

2–4 players
about 25 min
Easy to pick up

Las Vegas RoyaleStake dice on six casinos; most dice takes the biggest note, but tie and you both get nothing.

2–5 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

LifeboatSurvivors crammed into one lifeboat. Each secretly loves one passenger and hates another, and there isn't enough water.

4–6 players
about 60 min
Easy to pick up

Lying PiratesLiar's dice first; win the bluff and you sail. First captain round the map and home wins.

2–6 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

ParksTwo hikers walk the trail through four seasons, gathering sun, water, forest and mountain to visit national parks.

1–5 players
about 60 min
Easy to pick up

Project LFill puzzles with pieces; each finished puzzle pays you a bigger piece. It snowballs.

1–4 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Sanguosha (Legends of the Three Kingdoms)The lord is known; loyalists, rebels and the traitor are not. Play a Strike and see who has a Dodge.

4–10 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

Secret HitlerLiberals are many but blind; fascists are few and know each other. Elections and policies flush them out.

5–10 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

Skull KingPirate trick-taking: say exactly how many tricks you will win each round, then make it happen.

2–8 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Steam Up: A Feast of Dim SumGather food tokens, spin the turntable, and buy the steamer of dim sum that stops in front of you.

2–5 players
about 50 min
Easy to pick up

Take TimePlan before you look, then not a word. Lay cards face down round the clock so the numbers rise clockwise.

2–4 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

The Great American Mail RaceDrive a mail truck across the United States delivering letters and parcels by mule, train, plane and even rocket.

2–4 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

The Quacks of QuedlinburgPull ingredients from your bag one at a time into the pot. One more could pay off, or blow the whole thing up.

2–4 players
about 45 min
Easy to pick up

The Resistance: AvalonMerlin knows who is evil but daren't say so; lose the quests and evil still has one knife left.

5–10 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Toy BattleA two-player toy war: lay your troops one after another toward the enemy headquarters. A game takes about fifteen minutes.

2 players
about 15 min
Easy to pick up

Wandering TowersThe towers walk. Get your wizards into the keep, and drop towers on everyone else's along the way.

2–6 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Word MahjongEvery tile is one Chinese character. Draw, discard, and go out when your 14 tiles read as a sentence.

2–6 players
about 30 min
Easy to pick up

Age of Comics: The Golden YearsIt's the golden age of American comics and you run a publisher: hire writers and artists, print originals, or rip off someone else's.

1–4 players
about 90 min
Some thinking

Betrayal at House on the HillExplore a haunted house together until one of you turns traitor. Fifty haunts, never the same twice.

3–6 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

Blood on the ClocktowerHidden roles run by a Storyteller. The dead keep talking, and keep one last vote.

5–20 players
about 90 min
Some thinking

Clank! CatacombsBuild a deck as you loot a dungeon. The more noise you make, the likelier the dragon bites you.

2–4 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

Cyberpunk 2077: Gangs of Night CityLead a gang fighting for turf in Night City, with firefights on the street and runs on the Net, racing to 25 Street Cred.

1–4 players
about 90 min
Some thinking

Endeavor: Deep SeaRecruit specialists, send subs into the deep, explore and protect the ocean. After six rounds the team that did most wins.

1–4 players
about 90 min
Some thinking

EverdellWoodland critters build a city under the great tree. Send workers for materials and play buildings and residents, from the end of winter through autumn.

1–4 players
about 80 min
Some thinking

Forest BattleEveryone gets a secret identity and 20 HP. Trade, hunt and evolve to survive the forest.

4–10 players
about 50 min
Some thinking

Intent to KillOne player kills to a secret motive, the other questions the city. After five murders the detective must name the killer and why.

2–4 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

Kelp: Shark vs OctopusHide and seek on the sea floor for two: one of you is an octopus sneaking meals in the kelp, the other is the shark hunting it.

2 players
about 50 min
Some thinking

Let's Go! To JapanPlan a week in Tokyo and Kyoto from a hand of activity cards, then take the trip and see whose holiday was best.

1–4 players
about 50 min
Some thinking

Mansions of MadnessAn app plays the keeper and leads you into a house where something is wrong. Find clues, solve puzzles, fight, and try to stay sane.

1–5 players
about 150 min
Some thinking

Mind MGMTOne player secretly roams the city recruiting psychics. Everyone else works together to track them down.

1–5 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

Pili: Into the Martial WorldA wuxia game from the Pili puppet dramas. Train, befriend heroes and hunt enemies, then duel with what you learned.

2–4 players
about 90 min
Some thinking

Rolling HeightsRoll your worker meeples like dice: standing ones work hardest, flat ones do nothing. Use them to raise a city.

2–4 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

Terraforming MarsRaise the heat, make oxygen, lay oceans. Corporations terraform Mars together, and the one that did most wins.

1–5 players
about 120 min
Some thinking

Terraria: The Board GameChop, dig, build and fight bosses. Finish your objectives with friends inside seven days and nights.

1–4 players
about 120 min
Some thinking

The Castles of BurgundyRoll two dice a turn, one to take a tile and one to lay it, and fill in your estate piece by piece.

2–4 players
about 90 min
Some thinking

The Search for Planet XAn unseen planet hides in the night sky. Survey with the app and reason out where it must be.

1–4 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

The White CastleJust nine turns all game: take a die from a bridge and send your clan into Himeji Castle's gardens, training yards and keep.

1–4 players
about 80 min
Some thinking

Turing MachineQuestion a computer made of punch cards and deduce its three-digit secret code.

1–4 players
about 20 min
Some thinking

WatergateNixon against the newspaper. One wants to see out his term, the other to pin the evidence on him.

2 players
about 45 min
Some thinking

WingspanAttract birds to your reserve. Every bird makes your later turns stronger.

1–5 players
about 60 min
Some thinking

A Feast for OdinHunt, whale, trade, raid and sail. Then fit the goods you earn onto your home board like a puzzle.

1–4 players
about 120 min
Proper brain work

ArcsFight for actions the way you'd fight for tricks, and for whichever ambitions get declared in a crumbling reach of space.

2–4 players
about 90 min
Proper brain work

Arkham Horror: The Card GameEach of you brings an investigator deck to a run of linked scenarios, and what happens in one carries into the next.

1–4 players
about 90 min
Proper brain work

Dead ReckoningA pirate adventure where your 12 crew cards are upgraded by sleeving new abilities into them as you explore, haul cargo and open fire.

1–4 players
about 120 min
Proper brain work

NemesisYou wake from hibernation and something else is aboard. Everyone has an objective they can't share, and it only counts if you live.

1–5 players
about 120 min
Proper brain work

Ark NovaPlan a modern zoo: build enclosures, bring in animals and back conservation projects around the world.

1–4 players
about 120 min
Hardcore

Brass: BirminghamBuild mills and mines, lay canals and railways, and sell goods across industrial-age Birmingham.

2–4 players
about 90 min
Hardcore

RootCats, birds, a woodland alliance and a wandering vagabond fight over a forest, each playing by completely different rules.

2–4 players
about 75 min
Hardcore

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial IntelligenceRun a research institute: launch probes, scan the stars and analyse data to find the first traces of alien life.

1–4 players
about 100 min
Hardcore

Unconscious MindVienna in the early 1900s. You are an analyst in Freud's circle, reading your clients' dreams and treating them layer by layer.

1–4 players
about 120 min
Hardcore

Vinhos: Deluxe EditionRun a wine estate in Portugal. Twelve actions in six years: grow, make, sell, and send your best to the fair.

1–4 players
about 120 min
Hardcore