Family Bucket List

Expansion 9, now sold as Sheep & Shepherds: hill tiles sit on top of a second tile and break ties, and a shepherd grows a flock until the wolf comes out of the stack.

Build postal routes across Bavaria, drawing cities that fit end to end.

Colours and shapes on wooden tiles; Scrabble without the words.

Expansion 10, now sold as Circus & Artists: the big top pulls a crowd across the map and followers stack into human pyramids for points.

Trams and U-Bahn lines across the city, with sightseeing stops that score at the end.

Expansion 3, now sold as Dragon & Fairy: a dragon walks the board eating followers, the fairy protects the one she stands with, and magic gates drop a meeple anywhere.

Move your canoes across a river of moving discs and do not go over the falls.

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

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

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

Fantasy races overrun the map and then go into decline on purpose.

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

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

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

The best of the Azul family, with wild tiles and a gentler penalty for what you cannot place.

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

Rescue polyomino cats from a sinking island before Vesh Darkhand arrives.

Panes instead of tiles, and a glazier who only ever moves clockwise around the factories.

Build a stained-glass window from dice, obeying colour and shade rules.

The one real expansion: double-sided boards and a plastic overlay that lets you choose where the pattern goes.

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

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

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

Broken telephone with sketchbooks; the fun is entirely in the reveal.

A gentle legacy game: twenty-four chapters that stick stickers on your board.

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

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