Release Date: 13/03/2020
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Score Board and Tokens
The Crew is a cooperative trick-making card game. You play as a set of astronauts completing missions in a space adventure. Unlike competitive trick-making games like Bridge, Euchre or Hearts, here you work together to ensure specific players get...
Release Date: 01/01/2013
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Board, Figures and Tokens
Klask is an action board game that combines aspects of table football and air hockey. Your aim is to use your under-the-table-magnet-controlled player to push the ball into the opponent's goal. The twist is that you lose points if you inadvertently push...
Release Date: 01/01/2018
Components: Cards
The Mind is a cooperative sequence card game with a telepathic twist. Each card has a single number on it. Your task is to play them in order, the lowest first. However, you are not allowed to communicate physically or verbally to coordinate who plays...
Release Date: 01/09/2014
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Sushi Go! is a sushi-themed card game where you collect combinations of cards to complete sushi dishes and score points. The different dishes require a varying number of cards and related scores based on the complexity of the recipe. But there's a...
Release Date: 01/01/1989, updated in 1992
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Dice
Perudo (Liars Dice) is a dice game of pushing your luck and communication. Each player rolls five dice under a cup but can only see their own before making a bid on how many dice of a certain number there are in total. It's clever because you can't...
Release Date: 01/01/2020, updated in 2021
Components: Board and Cards
MicroMacro: Crime City is a puzzle brain game where you are solving crimes by discovering clues hidden in black and white pictures. You solve a series of cases that relate to different large pictures you lay out on the table between all the players. The...
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Components: Board, Cards, Dice, Figures and Tokens
The Last Defense is a game about saving a city from alien invasion in just twenty minutes. You play by rolling dice and moving to stop the invading monsters, free Scientists from rubble and discover Tools. It's a simple combination of cooperative...
Release Date: 01/01/2014, updated in 2019
Components: Cards, Figures and Tokens
Colt Express is a traversal game where you move a bandit along an express train in the Old West to collect the most loot. Each player pre-selects moves, attacks and pick-ups that then play out together. Unusually, play becomes about planning, predicting...
Release Date: 09/06/2019
Team 3 is a cooperative puzzle game where three players work to build structures from Tetris-style pieces. The target build is on a card that only the Architect player can see, and this player can't speak. The Builder player can touch the pieces but...
Release Date: 01/01/2004
Saboteur is a path-laying strategy game where the cards are your resource in a team effort to get the dwarves to their gold. However, one player is a secret traitor who must try and foil the dwarves without them realising it. It is a game about working...
Release Date: 01/01/2002, updated in 2017
Components: Cards and Tokens
Bang is a card game set in the wild west where you take on different missions with a range of characters. You try and keep your target secret while building your weapon and defence cards. It's a game of bluffing where it's easier to shoot your neighbour...
Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2020
Components: Board, Cards and Figures
Ticket to Ride is a railway-themed strategy board game where players compete to earn the most points by collecting cards, placing trains and completing journeys. It is an easy-to-learn game that can be gently competitive and has become a popular classic.
Release Date: 30/05/2016
Ice Cool, and the follow-up Ice Cool 2, is an action game where you flick plastic Penguins around cardboard school rooms to collect points and avoid the Catcher. Like a cross between Subbuteo and Cluedo, you slide, jump and barrel your penguin through...
Release Date: 01/01/2014
Splendor is a trading-up strategy game where you play a global trader during the European Renaissance. Nobles once content with large castles and fur robes, now seek dark sapphires and glittering diamonds. You must balance accruing currency or investing...
Release Date: 01/01/2003, updated in 2020
Components: Board, Cards and Placeables
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top. This creates a chess-like three-dimensional competitive puzzle that changes as each player adds pieces to the village. It's unusual...
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Wavelength is a communication guessing game where you try and read your teammate's minds. Unlike other guessing games the answers aren't right or wrong but on a sliding scale that changes each round. There's a clever wheel that secretly deals with the...
Release Date: 01/01/2017
Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Ancestree is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to build the strongest family tree. You select and link tiles, building your family person by person, scoring points for marriages, wealth and continuous generations. It is a strategic game...
Components: Dice and Placeables
Deep Sea Adventure is a pocket-sized strategy game where you dive into the sea to bring back treasure. It’s unusual because although you compete with other players for treasure you share the same limited air supply.
Release Date: 01/03/2017
Components: Figures and Placeables
Kingdomino is a kingdom-building game where you place domino tiles to match terrain types and score points. As you play, you build a territory in a grid that requires careful consideration of where dominoes are placed to maximise points. What makes this...
Release Date: 27/06/2007
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Bag, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Carcassonne is a strategy game where you lay tiles to create a medieval landscape of farms, rivers and cities. Each new tile must match the roads, rivers, farms and cities of those around it. As you place it you can claim one of these elements that...
Release Date: 10/03/2011, updated in 2019
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Dobble (also called Spot It!) is a card game where you race other players to claim cards by spotting symbols. Each of the colourful cards has eight symbols, one of which always matches a symbol of another card. You race to spot the match, call it out...
Components: Board, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Speedy Roll (also known as Hedgehog Roll) is an action dexterity game where you roll the hedgehog (a fuzzy tennis ball with eyes) to collect woodland items that stick to it. This determines which path you can take through the forest to get back home...
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Dragomino is a matching and collecting tile game similar to Kingdomino but tuned for really young players. You take turns to pick and add a domino Land card to your growing grid, and earn dragon eggs. It works for youngsters with...
Release Date: 01/01/2014, updated in 2018
Components: Board, Dice, Figures and Tokens
Camel Up is a crazy push-your-luck game where you bet on and influence camel races. Each turn you can move the camels, bet on which will win or place tokens to slow or speed things up. It's clever because it rewards players who make bets early and it's...
Release Date: 01/01/1995, updated in 2013
Components: Bag, Cards, Dice, Figures, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Catan is a strategy game set on an uninhabited island where you accumulate, spend and trade resources to build the biggest kingdom. Players must compete for space, resources and ultimately for ten victory points to be crowned the winner. What starts as...
Release Date: 01/01/2009, updated in 2019
Jaipur is a two-player collecting and trading card game where you compete to become the wealthiest merchant in an Indian market. You collect and swap cards to build combinations so that you can trade them for valuable commodities. It is about trading at...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
The Fuzzies is a dexterity game where you remove and replace small fuzzy balls from a furry tower. Like Jenga, it's a challenge of not only deft movement but also carefully planning which ball to move. The twist here is how the forfeits introduce all...
Components: Bag, Board, Cards and Tokens
Yarrr Har Hunt is a traversal game where you are a band of pirates working together to follow the clues and find buried treasure. You move from clue to clue, but must work together and share movement to be efficient and find the treasure before the...
Release Date: 01/01/2012
Cockroach Poker Royal is a bluffing, push-your-luck card game where you try and avoid ending up with a set of four matching animal cards. You pass cards to other players and tell them what it is, they guess if you are telling the truth and have to keep...
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Components: Cards, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Forbidden Island is a cooperative collecting game where you try to survive on a sinking island long enough to collect four treasures. You play by moving across the Island, stopping Island tiles from sinking, whilst collecting enough cards to rescue the...
Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2018
Rhino Hero is an action game where players use cards to build a vertical tower. The aim is to place all your cards without knocking the tower down. What starts as a fun and tactile challenge quickly turns into a battle of nerves, as you place cards that...
Release Date: 01/01/2011
Skull is a push-your-luck card game where you try and guess how many other players just laid skulls rather than flowers. The clever bit is that you progressively bid on how many cards you think you can guess right. If you win, you then have to flip over...
Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2020
Components: Cards, Dice, Figures and Tokens
Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative traversal game where teams try and escape an ancient temple before it collapses. You repeatedly roll dice to move from room to room, adding new tiles to the catacombs as you go. Play is against the...
Components: Cards, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Herd Mentality is a communication game where players aim to score points by sharing the same ideas as others. One person reads out a question, then everyone secretly writes an answer trying to match the most popular answer. It's unusual because the...
Release Date: 01/01/2006, updated in 2009
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards, Figures and Tokens
Imperial is a strategy war game like Risk. However, you play international investors, rather than political leaders, who control the countries. By choosing how to invest your funds you gain control of the politics of the six imperial nations. The twist...
Release Date: 01/01/2016
Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens
Junk Art is a dexterity game where you create art from little pieces of junk. Each round has different rules for how to build the best tower, but they all combine to become an aesthetic and dexterity challenge. It's a game that takes Jenga-style...
Components: Cards and Figures
Mass Transit is a co-operative card game where you build transit routes to deliver six commuters safely home from work. You place cards around a hub to build routes or discard them to move the commuters forwards. It is a game about unintended...
Release Date: 01/01/2005, updated in 2019
No Thanks! is a tactical card game where you play to avoid points. You work through a deck of cards of different values to avoid getting a point you have to spend a chip. Eventually, someone runs out of chips and has to take the card. It sounds simple...
Release Date: 01/01/2015
Components: Gadget, Placeables and Tokens
Potion Explosion is a collecting game where you study potion making and compete to be crowned the best student in class. You collect Ingredient marbles to complete Potion cards that enable special abilities. It is like a board game version of...
Release Date: 01/01/1983, updated in 2010
Talisman is a classic adventure fantasy board game. Playing as heroes, wizards, villains, thieves and monsters you explore the world to gain equipment, weapons, ancient relics, and companions. It's a Dungeons and Dragons feeling adventure but played...
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