Name Risk Players 2-6 Type Strategy Style History Complexity Simple RNG to Strategy Ratio 50%/50% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Hasbro Links Board Game Geek Possibly the most popular, mass market war game. The goal is conquest of the world. Each player’s…
Name Clue Players 2-6 Type Logic Style Mystery Complexity Average RNG to Strategy Ratio 20%/80% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Hasbro Links Board Game Geek The classic detective game! A game for those who enjoy reasoning and thinking things out. In Clue,…
Name Catan Players 2-4 Type Logistics Style Fantasy Complexity Average RNG to Strategy Ratio 70%/30% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Catan Links Board Game Geek In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island…
Name Guess Who? Players 2 Type Matching, Logic Style NA Complexity Simple RNG to Strategy Ratio 20%/80% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Catan Links Board Game Geek The mystery face game where you flip over a collection of faces with different color…
Name Codenames Players 2-8 Type Word Style Action Complexity Average RNG to Strategy Ratio 30%/70% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Catan Links Board Game Geek Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by…
Name Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Players Any Type Roleplay Style Fantasy Complexity Wizardly RNG to Strategy Ratio Varies Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules DndBeyond Links DndBeyondMy Campaign (Ask for access) Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy…
Name Mancala Players 2 Type Strategy Style NA Complexity Simple RNG to Strategy Ratio 10%/90% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Wikipedia Links Board Game Geek The most common rule set in games sold commercially as Mancala is for this game of Kalah.…
Name Mahjong Players 1-4 Type Strategy Style History Complexity Complex RNG to Strategy Ratio 40%/60% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Wikipedia Links Board Game Geek Mah-Jongg (Chinese 麻將/麻将 Májiàng [game of the] sparrow) is a traditional Chinese game using illustrated tiles, with…
Name Sudoku Players 1 Type Logic Style NA Complexity Average RNG to Strategy Ratio 0%/100% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules Wikipedia Links Wikipedia Sudoku ( 数独), is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9…
Name Jigsaw Puzzles Players 1 Type Puzzle Style Various Complexity Simple RNG to Strategy Ratio 50%/50% Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rules NA Links Wikipedia A jigsaw puzzle (with context, sometimes just jigsaw or just puzzle) is a tiling puzzle that requires the…
