Board Games Bucket List

Yahtzee monsters smash each other for control of the city.

Fifty co-operative trick-taking missions, played almost entirely in silence.

The same drafting moved into a chocolate shop, scoring boxes filled by colour and by shape.

Roll dice, trigger buildings, race to finish four landmarks.

A twelve-month campaign that tears up, writes on and permanently changes the board.

A two-player space deck-builder that fits in a jacket pocket.

The aquarium expansion to the modern zoo-building heavyweight.

Give your team a clue their opponents cannot decode; over three rounds.

Bet on stacked camels racing round a pyramid; pure, delighted chaos.

Six beer mats and the purest bluffing game ever designed.

Card play and city building beneath the sea, with a tight three-colour economy.

A one-shot escape room in a box that you cut up and write on.

Worker dice grow as they move, building a pyramid one tier at a time.

Trees cast shadows over each other as the sun rotates around the board.

Three rounds of the same names: describe, one word, then mime.

Squad-level Second World War combat with hidden movement.

Dwarves farm, mine and furnish a mountain home; Agricola without the starvation.

The roll-and-write take on the tile-and-wildlife hit.

Harbour economics: buildings, ships and a food clock that never stops.

A brutal fast-food economy where the first player to hire a manager usually wins.

The expansion that gives Catan a real mid-game and a barbarian clock.

Command cards and blocks over the Normandy hedgerows, in under an hour.

Two players decorating the vaults of the palace, one by day and one by night.

The gateway co-op: grab four treasures before the island sinks.

Card drafting so light you can teach it in ninety seconds.

Tunnels, ferries and stations on the best-loved map of the series.

The area-majority classic: caballeros, a castillo and one hidden placement.

Workers ride giant rotating gears; the longer they stay, the more they earn.

The roguelike deck-builder, faithfully translated to cardboard.

A ten-hour space opera of diplomacy, war and treachery; the biggest game most groups ever attempt.