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Easy to Pick up and Play
Competitive Board Games
Collaborative Board Games
Easy to Pick up and Play
These games only take a few minutes to explain and onboard new players. Fun party games!
Fun, easy, goes pretty quick. It's an excellent party game of low stakes gambling and peer pressure
Flip 7™ - 2nd Edition
Flux is fun and ever changing! Star Fluxx is my favorite version, but they have a theme for all tastes!
Star Fluxx
Quick game of risk, deduction and luck trying to deliver a love letter to the princess!
Love Letter
Similar to Mafia except that it's a single round consisting of the “night phase” where folks with particular roles learn information and enact shenanigans, and the “day phase” where everyone has 10 minutes to figure out what happened during the night...
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Decode your partner's secret language as you look at a list of words and try to figure out which ones belong to your team--before the other team figures theirs out first.
Codenames Online
Read your friend's minds to win!
Medium Team Party Game - 2 to 8 Players
Competitive Board Games
These require a more significant time investment both to learn and play, and you compete with your friends to win!
Dungeon Delving and Dragons and also screwing over your friends, what's not to love?
Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure (2016)
Simple to learn tile laying strategy game!
Asmodee Carcassonne Board Game - Classic Tile-Laying
A social deduction party game. Everyone is divided up and tries (or appears to try) to stop a fascist takeover. No one knows who's safe and everyone is suspicious!
Secret Hitler : Toys & Games
Very pretty deck building bird game!
Wingspan – Stonemaier Games
An expansion for the base Wingspan game!
Wingspan: Oceania Expansion
Wingspan but with dragons!!
Wyrmspan – Stonemaier Games
Expansion to Wyrmspan! More Dragons = More Fun!
Wyrmspan: Dragon Academy
Collaborative Board Games
Also can require a time investment to learn and play, but often it's the group trying to achieve a common goal to win. Teaching new players can be easier because the collaborative aspect lends itself well to learning as you play.
One person plays a ghost, remaining silent the whole game, and everyone else is a psychic medium and must try to figure out how they died. Everyone wins if you solve the murder, but your clues are cards with beautiful but very abstract, dreamlike art...
Mysterium | Board Game
Some of the best fun. Technically one of the group becomes a traitor and everyone competes to fulfil their win conditions, but until then, you explore a mysterious haunted house with your fellow players. The base game comes with 50 different potentia...
