Strategy Bucket List

Expansion 2 adds wine, cloth and wheat to collect off finished cities, the builder who buys you a second tile, and the pig who fattens a field.

Buy tiles in four currencies and build a palace with the exact change.

Paddle steamers race downriver, picking up passengers and running out of coal.

The German map, with passengers who ride your finished routes to collect the goods sitting in each city.

Expansion 7, and the only one with dexterity in it: a fair tile starts a round where everyone flicks tokens off a small wooden catapult to knock out or steal meeples.

Expansion 8 lets a road bridge a field, turns a two-tile city into a castle that cashes in on the next thing scored nearby, and auctions tiles at bazaars.

Bid, steal and exhibit antiques; simultaneous card selection with a lot of bluffing.

Price your own tiles and hope nobody buys them; a Scottish tile-laying auction.

Expansion 4, now sold as Towers & Thieves: stack tower segments to take any meeple within reach hostage, then trade the prisoners back.

Denmark to the Arctic for two or three players, with tunnels, ferries and a very long way north.

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

Five detectives hunt Mister X across a London map; he surfaces every five turns.

A river, cannons that jump to capture, and generals who may never meet.

Move your merchant and his assistants around a bazaar, collecting rubies.

Manhattan in taxis, fifteen minutes and a board the size of a place mat.

Expansion 11 puts historic wonders on the map, each one with a rule of its own.

Spend carrots to move; the first Spiel des Jahres, and still a clean race game.

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.

Stack blocks into skyscrapers and take over the ones already built.

Draw your own track on the map with a crayon, then race the trains you built.

Place settlements on the terrain your card allows and chase the scoring goals.

The whole galactic civil war, with the Empire hunting a hidden rebel base.

Say what you will do out loud, then decide whether to be brave or cowardly about it.

Fill your zoo with animals from tile trucks without overcrowding a pen.

Pull ingredients from a bag and stop before your cauldron explodes.

The version for six-year-olds: shorter routes, six tickets to win, and no points to count.

Plan a route through a fantasy map using transport cards others also need.

Great Old Ones fight over the ruins of Earth in an asymmetric area-control brawl.

Haul freight across Europe by lorry, bidding for the contracts nobody else wants.

Japanese chess, where captured pieces change sides and come back.