Splendor: How To Play – Simplified
You're a Renaissance merchant collecting gem tokens, using them to buy gem cards, then better ones on your way to 15 prestige points. Learn Splendor in five minutes.
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Wingspan: How To Play – Simplified
Learn Wingspan in five minutes. Play birds, build an engine across three habitats, gather food and lay eggs, and out-score your rivals over four rounds.
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Catan: How To Play – Simplified
Learn Catan in five minutes. Roll for resources, trade with rivals, build roads and settlements, and race to 10 victory points — the whole base game, simplified.
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Dominion: How To Play – Simplified
Dominion invented the deck-builder: start with a weak deck, buy better cards into it, and build an engine that draws and buys more each turn. A condensed, play-fast guide to the rules.
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Best Board Games for 3 Players (That Actually Work at Three)
Three players is a weird spot — too many for head-to-head, too few for big group games. These are the games that genuinely shine at exactly three.
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Wingspan vs Everdell: Which Game Should You Buy?
Two gorgeous nature-themed engine builders, one shelf. Wingspan vs Everdell broken down so you know exactly which one to buy first.
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Wingspan: Review
You're a bird enthusiast trying to attract birds to your wildlife preserves. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful actions. Simple to learn, genuinely hard to master.
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Raptor: Review
One player controls a mother raptor protecting her five babies. The other commands scientists trying to capture the babies and neutralize the mother. Only…
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Squirmish: Review
Draft ridiculous monster cards into a shared arena, position them strategically, then battle opponents' monsters using dice. First to defeat three enemy…
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The Gallerist: Review
You're an art gallery owner in a competitive market. Discover artists, promote them to fame, acquire and sell works, manage your gallery's influence, and…
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Hive: Review
Two players face off with hexagonal bug tiles. Protect your Queen Bee while surrounding your opponent's — using ants, beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders…
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Coloretto: Review
Match chameleons of the same colour to score points. The more of one colour you collect, the more they're worth — but collecting too many different colours…
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Best Social Deduction Board Games
In social deduction board games, everyone has a role--often kept secret--and players gather information throughout the game to figure out who's who.…
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Dragon's Hoard: Review
You're a dragon collecting treasure — coins, princes, wishing trees, and more. Steal sheep from farmers and spend them to buy treasure for your lair. Race…
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Forbidden Desert: Review
Your helicopter crashes in an ancient desert. Work together to excavate the parts of a legendary flying machine and escape before the storm overtakes you…
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Forbidden Island: Review
Four sacred treasures are hidden on a sinking island. Work together to retrieve all four, get back to Fool's Landing, and escape by helicopter before the…
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Love Letter: Review
The Princess is locked away in her tower. Suitors compete to get their letter to her first — using 16 cards and social deduction. Each turn you hold one…
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Stone Age: Review
Lead a prehistoric tribe through survival and growth. Send your people to collect resources, build huts, grow your family, develop tools, and collect…
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Takenoko: Review
In imperial Japan, the Chinese Emperor has gifted you a panda. You must irrigate land, grow coloured bamboo, tend the gardens, and keep the panda fed — all…
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Sheriff of Nottingham: Review
You're a merchant trying to bring goods into Nottingham — legally or otherwise. Declare what's in your pouch, bluff the Sheriff, bribe them to look away,…
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Best Board Games For 2 Year Olds (With Reviews)
Board games are a fantastic way to start building children's language and development from a young age. They can even do so much more than that (see our…
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Best Board Games For 3 Year Olds (With Reviews)
Board games are a fantastic way to spend quality time with the little ones in your life. We love that games bring people together, and as avid gamers we…
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Splendor: Review
You're a Renaissance merchant collecting gem tokens to buy development cards. Use cards to buy more powerful cards and attract noble visitors. First to 15…
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Everything you Need to Know about Board Games
Board games have come a long way from Monopoly and Life. Today's landscape is vast, innovative, and sometimes overwhelming. "Where do I start? What games…
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Agricola: Review
Your two meeples are settled into their wood house on their plot of land — but harvest is coming and they have no food. Place your meeples to grow crops,…
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Dominion: Review
Build your deck, acquire resources, play action cards, and collect Victory Points to claim dominion before your opponents. The classic deck-building game…
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Pandemic: Review
Four deadly diseases are spreading across the globe. Work together as specialized disease-fighting operatives to contain outbreaks and cure all four before…
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Carcassonne: Review
Carcassonne is a tile-placement game where you build the French countryside one tile at a time. Match roads, castles, and fields with existing tiles to…
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Betrayal at House on the Hill: Review
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a semi-cooperative game set in a haunted house. Three reviewers, three very different takes — one loves it, one hates it, one sold their copy.
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Ticket to Ride Europe: Review
Collect coloured train cards and claim railway routes across Europe to complete your destination tickets. Longer routes score more points — but your rivals…
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Mammut: Review
Back from the mammoth hunt, your tribe must divide the spoils. Take what you need — but not too much, or the next player steals your whole pile. Manage…
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