Best boardgames on Reddit
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#1
Stonemaier Games
4.8
(31)
"Such a great game!! Beautiful art and fun gameplay as well."
"I LOVE this game."
"This is my favourite game!"
"I looove Wingspan."
"Love It!!"
"It's so wonderful!"
"I love wingspan so much."
"It's a gem in my collection."
"I freaking love this game!"
"The Asia one is tougher! So fun."
#2
Ticket to Ride
5.0
(6)
"Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico, all great games."
"Teaches drafting and set collection"
"Ticket to Ride"
"Ticket To Ride"
"Ticket to Ride"
#3
Scrabble
4.8
(5)
"Scrabble"
"Scrabble"
"Is a good one in our house."
"Has been our consistent favorite this year."
"Scrabble. Settlers of Catan. Cards against humanity."
#4
Wingspan
4.8
(5)
"Ten min in I was hooked. Excellent game."
"One of the best boardgames I've played."
"Great game! This was the gateway drug for my wife and I getting into boardgames."
"Wingspan got me into birding."
"There is also Wingspan and a bunch others."
#5
Settlers of Catan
5.0
(4)
"Early Euro that everyone should try as a very simple resource management and world building game"
#6
Patchwork
5.0
(4)
"I can't stop recommending Patchwork enough."
"I can’t recommend Patchwork enough."
"Have you ever played Patchwork before? It's a 2-player polynomial game made by Uwe Rosenberg."
"There’s this small indie game you may have not heard of. It’s a real treasure. It’s called patchwork and I can’t recommend it enough."
#7
Days of Wonder
5.0
(4)
"Ticket to Ride is one of the better map placement games out there."
"Of course Ticket to Ride lately."
"I think anything by Days of Wonder (five tribes, small world) for how well their rulebooks are laid out."
"I think anything by Days of Wonder (five tribes, small world) for how well their rulebooks are laid out."
#8
Carcassonne
4.8
(4)
"Carcassonne"
"Carcassone"
"Carcassone is a good one. I started playing it with my granddaughter when she was about five."
"Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride are great."
#9
Leaving Earth
4.5
(4)
"Leaving Earth is exactly this."
"[Leaving Earth] is basically Kerbal Space Program as a board game."
"**Leaving Earth** is fantastic and weighty and about building a space program"
"Leaving Earth - good luck getting it"
#10
Kingdomino
4.5
(4)
"Kingdomino"
"**Kingdomino**"
"Kingdomino, Blokus, For Sale, Onitama"
"Kingdomino, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival, ...etc"
#11
Outfoxed
5.0
(3)
"Yes! Outfoxed was recommended here when I asked a similar question and my nephews absolutely love it."
"Agree with Outfoxed. And when that gets too easy Ghost Fightin Treasure Hunters."
"I can recommend: Outfoxed, Mummy's Treasure, Race to the Treasure, Hoot Hoot Owl."
#12
Catan
5.0
(3)
"Settlers of Catan teaches about how commodities change and supply/demand."
"Settlers of Catan"
"Settlers of CATAN (I see all the Catan comments. You’ve got good taste)."
#13
Greater Than Games
5.0
(3)
"I have to join the Spirit Island Crowd."
"Spirit island is great and gives a lot of content for the money."
"Spirit island is a great solo game."
#14
Spirit Island
5.0
(3)
"Would also endorse Spirit Island for solo."
"Spirit Island is probably the best bang for the buck solo game."
"My favourite game of all time is Spirit Island. It's a cooperative game so you can help them move the pieces and it's a delight."
#15
King of Tokyo
5.0
(3)
"Teaches resource management (health, energy, VP)"
"King of Tokyo"
"...with the other kids we get King of Tokyo, Labyrinth, and Forbidden Island to the table."
#16
Twilight Imperium
5.0
(2)
"Twilight Imperium (each edition - beautiful windows into evolutionary design)..."
"Twilight Imperium"
#17
Stellar Horizons
5.0
(2)
"You should check out **Stellar Horizons**."
"Oh man. You should check out **Stellar Horizons**."
#18
Sushi Go
5.0
(2)
"Sushi Go"
#19
Splendor
5.0
(2)
"Splendor is my go to for people who don’t speak the same language."
"**Splendour**"
#20
Guess Who?
5.0
(2)
"Also, Guess Who? might be fun for that age..."
"And saving the best for last: **Guess Who?**"
#21
Hungry Hungry Hippos
5.0
(2)
"Hungry Hungry Hippos"
"Hungry Hungry Hippos is a classic..."
#22
Telestrations
5.0
(2)
"Telestrations"
"Telestrations"
#23
Rio Grande Games
5.0
(2)
"Dominion is the Big Daddy of deck building games."
"Dominion is a deck building game, where you buy cards from a fixed set to add to your deck."
#24
Dominion
5.0
(2)
#25
Pandemic
4.5
(2)
"Pandemic."
"Pandemic or other simple co-ops since there isn't as much mental burden"
#26
Terra Mystica
4.5
(2)
"Terra Mystica is full of mechanics that it balances pretty well."
"Terra Mystica is pretty good."
#27
Firefly
4.5
(2)
"The firefly board game is way better than a licensed property ought to be."
"Just gotta mention Firefly and start trek fleet captains!"
#28
Forbidden Island
4.5
(2)
"...with the other kids we get King of Tokyo, Labyrinth, and Forbidden Island to the table."
"Forbidden Island! As long as you can print up multi-language rules in advance you should be good to go."
#29
Rummikub
4.5
(2)
"Rummikub"
#30
Haba
4.5
(2)
"Haba makes a lot of good games for younger kids."
"Stuff, I dunno really."
#31
Brass
4.5
(2)
"Brass Birmingham + Lancashire, Pax Pamir (2nd edition), Great Western Trail (2nd edition)..."
#32
High Frontier 4 All
4.0
(2)
"You are describing High Frontier 4 All exactly."
"High Frontier 4 All sounds exactly what you're looking for."
#33
SETI
4.0
(2)
"SETI somewhat fits the bill?"
"Kind of surprised no one mentioned S.E.T.I yet."
#34
Clue
4.0
(2)
"Is fun too."
#35
Cards Against Humanity
4.0
(2)
"Cards against humanity and super fight"
#36
Tokaido
4.0
(2)
"Tokaido, Istanbul, Manila, Castles of Burgundy, Kingdomino, Splendor, Azul, Century: (any)..."
"I like Tokaido because it's basically all pictures and numbers."
#37
Armello
5.0
(1)
"Armello is a great game."
#38
Agricola
5.0
(1)
"Anything which requires a moderate-to-high degree of strategy: Agricola, Scythe, Root."
#39
Secret Hitler
5.0
(1)
"Settlers of Catan, Secret Hitler, Carquesson."
#40
Button Shy
5.0
(1)
"Button Shy games"
#41
Pax
5.0
(1)
"Brass Birmingham + Lancashire, Pax Pamir (2nd edition), Great Western Trail (2nd edition)..."
#42
Great Western Trail
5.0
(1)
"Brass Birmingham + Lancashire, Pax Pamir (2nd edition), Great Western Trail (2nd edition)..."
#43
Scythe
5.0
(1)
"And Scythe for it's board/art design that helps you remember the rules with it's very layout."
#44
Lost Ruins of Arnak
5.0
(1)
"Lost Ruins of Arnak (tight conversion design that is making competitive waves)..."
#45
Puerto Rico
5.0
(1)
"Puerto Rico has some solid mechanics."
#46
Small World
5.0
(1)
"Small World has some cool use of fairly simple mechanics."
#47
Candy Land
5.0
(1)
"...but I remember Candy Land being recommended as a great 'first board game' for young kids..."
#48
Ghost Fighting Treasure Hunters
5.0
(1)
"My 5 yr old likes Ghost Fighting Treasure Hunters, Dobble, Onitama..."
#49
Labyrinth
5.0
(1)
"...with the other kids we get King of Tokyo, Labyrinth, and Forbidden Island to the table."
#50
Beasty Bar
5.0
(1)
"...my 5 year old loves (and can understand) beasty bar, qwirkle, catan."
#51
Mysterium
5.0
(1)
"Mysterium could work pretty well."
#52
Perudo
5.0
(1)
"**Perudo** ?"
#53
Castles of Burgundy
5.0
(1)
"Castles of Burgundy is a language-independent classic."
#54
Shipwreck Arcana
5.0
(1)
"The shipwreck Arcana is one of the best deduction games I've ever played."
#55
Mint Italy
5.0
(1)
"Both excellent soloable tin sized games with loads of replayability."
#56
Spearmint Valley
5.0
(1)
"Both excellent soloable tin sized games with loads of replayability."
#57
Dream Crush
5.0
(1)
"I love them both."
#58
Innovation
5.0
(1)
"I love them both."
#59
ISS Vanguard
5.0
(1)
"ISS Vanguard for locations, different biomes, discoverable alien things."
#60
No Mercy
5.0
(1)
"No Mercy is a certified banger of a game."
#61
Ito
5.0
(1)
"Fun party game from Japan. Highly recommend if you can get it."
#62
Concordia
5.0
(1)
"Buy Concordia. I own a whole shit ton of games and this one is a masterpiece."
#63
5-Minute Dungeon
5.0
(1)
"**5-Minute Dungeon**"
#64
Dungeon Time
5.0
(1)
"**Dungeon Time**"
#65
Acquire
5.0
(1)
"**Acquire**"
#66
Century: Spice Road
5.0
(1)
"**Century: Spice Road**"
#67
Chinatown
5.0
(1)
"**Chinatown**"
#68
Galaxy Trucker
5.0
(1)
"**Galaxy Trucker**"
#69
Loot
5.0
(1)
"**Loot**"
#70
Arboretum
5.0
(1)
"**Arboretum**"
#71
Biblios
5.0
(1)
"**Biblios**"
#72
Railroad Ink
5.0
(1)
"**Railroad Ink**"
#73
Stone Age
5.0
(1)
"**Stone Age**"
#74
Bridge
5.0
(1)
"**Bridge**"
#75
Tichu
5.0
(1)
"**Tichu**"
#76
Dixit
5.0
(1)
"**Dixit**"
#77
For Sale
5.0
(1)
"**For Sale**"
#78
Avalon
5.0
(1)
"**Avalon**"
#79
Tsuro
5.0
(1)
"Tsuro, definitely. Entirely language independent, and surprisingly engaging for new players."
#80
Magic Maze
5.0
(1)
"**Magic Maze** (and a lot of other real-time games)"
#81
Citadels
4.0
(1)
#82
Cat-opoly
4.0
(1)
"Because buying Maine Coons or Cornish Rexes and collecting litter boxes for them makes us laugh"
#83
Careers
4.0
(1)
#84
221B
4.0
(1)
#85
5 Second Rule
4.0
(1)
#86
Flash Point
4.0
(1)
#87
Boggle
4.0
(1)
"I love Boggle."
#88
Upwords
4.0
(1)
#89
Cash Flow
4.0
(1)
"Cash flow 101 is fun when you have a learning mindset."
#90
Space Ninjas
4.0
(1)
"I bought a boardgame there called Space Ninjas."
#91
Crash Octopus
4.0
(1)
"Crash Octopus is a fun dexterity game."
#92
Masters of the Universe
4.0
(1)
"Masters of the Universe: Fields of Eternia"
#93
Pitchcar
4.0
(1)
"Pitchcar. Sadly, afaik direct orders from the publisher is not available to North America."
#94
Looney Labs
4.0
(1)
"If you like card games take a look at Looney Labs. Their games, like Fluxx are considerably cheaper in the US."
#95
Sagrada
4.0
(1)
"Sagrada, One Night Ultimate Werewolf and similar bluffing/deduction games."
#96
Monopoly
1.5
(2)
"Monopoly"
"The prime example of *What Not To Do*"
#97
Risk
3.0
(1)
"Area control, set collection, Press Your Luck"
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