Board Games Bucket List

A civilisation game in cards, from bronze tools to space flight, without the six-hour map.

A card game where you can see everyone's hand but your own.

A deck-builder where every noisy card wakes the dragon a little more.

Renaissance patronage, dice-driven and unforgiving of a bad round.

Nineteenth-century Scotland: cheese, whisky and a market that moves as you sell.

A two-player quilt of Tetris pieces and a time track instead of turns.

Fill in the blank as offensively as the deck allows.

Social deduction where the dead keep playing and the storyteller bends the rules.

Quilt-building for cats: a spatial puzzle that punishes one wrong tile.

The first big expansion to the island-defence game, adding events and beasts.

A gardener and a hungry panda argue over a bamboo plot.

An app-driven co-operative campaign through Tolkien's world.

The Cold War duel in cards, one card able to lose you the game.

Run a Viennese cafe and hotel, serving guests dice can never quite supply.

Germany's national card game; three players, complex bidding, deep strategy.

A dial between two extremes and a clue that has to land exactly right.

Write a one-word clue, then delete every clue two players duplicated.

Simultaneous role selection and an icon language you learn in one game.

Survival on a hostile island where the weather is out to kill you.

Drive cattle to Kansas City, building your deck and your route on the way.

A lost steamship sails an open world of storybook encounters across an atlas.

Co-operative trick-taking through deep space (2019).

Bid and build to electrify the most cities (2004).

Design and run a modern scientific zoo (2021).

Tile-laying puzzle of Pacific Northwest wildlife (2021).

Build up a medieval farm and feed your family (2007).

Two-player Cold War tug-of-war (2005).

Deck-building exploration of a lost island (2020).

Pick up Tressette, the subtle, signal-driven Italian trick game of cunning and partnership

Master Briscola, the bluff-and-trump card game that fuels Italian bar rivalries