Board Games Card Game Bucket List

Master the skills of probability and bluffing

Build an ancient civilization through card drafting

A Spanish card game for two to six: assemble four healthy organs in front of you while infecting everyone else with viruses, in about twenty minutes.

Every two cards share exactly one symbol; find it before anyone else.

The card game every family argues about the house rules for.

The two-player rebuild of 7 Wonders, tighter than the original.

Play your cards in ascending order without speaking. Somehow it works.

A tiny, tense game of deduction (2012).

Collect gems and build your jewelry empire

Six beer mats and the purest bluffing game ever designed.

Two hundred years of pegging fifteen-twos on a wooden board.

Expedition card runs where starting one you cannot finish is the whole game.

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

Fill in the blank as offensively as the deck allows.

Ten ages of technology in cards, with combos that rewrite the rules mid-game.

Avoid the tricks, or take them all: the classic shedding game.

Trick-taking where you must predict exactly how many tricks you will win.

Two cards, constant lying, and a table that can call your bluff at any time.

A co-operative card game where each hero deck plays completely differently.

The roguelike deck-builder, faithfully translated to cardboard.

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

A two-player market duel of camels, commodities and bonus tokens.

The two-player co-operative version of the word-association hit.

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

A twelve-card engine duel: mages, artifacts and essence, in thirty minutes.

The great partnership card game: bidding, declarer play and a lifetime of study.

A partnership climbing game from Taiwan with bombs and a bet on going out first.

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

The first collectible card game, and still the deepest.

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