Family Board Games Bucket List

Hike a trail through the US National Parks, collecting memories and photos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first expansion, and the one that makes long roads worth the risk.

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

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