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Light Games
Quick, approachable board games, under an hour, easy to teach, great for mixed groups.
| # | Game | Players | Time | Weight | Price | |
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| 01 | Arboretum | 2-4 | 30 min | Light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 02 | Azul | 2-4 | 30-45 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 03 | Bomb Busters | 2-5 | 30 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 04 | Camel Up | 3-8 | 30 min | Light | $35 | Amazon → |
| 05 | Cascadia | 1-4 | 30-45 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 06 | Century: Spice Road | 2-5 | 30-45 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 07 | Codenames | 2-8+ | 15 min | Light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 08 | Codenames: Duet | 2 | 15 min | Light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 09 | Coup | 2-6 | 15 min | Light | $15 | Amazon → |
| 10 | Cozy Stickerville | 1-6 | 30 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 11 | Cóatl | 1-4 | 30-60 min | light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 12 | Decrypto | 3-8 | 30 min | Light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 13 | Dixit | 3-6 | 30 min | Light | $35 | Amazon → |
| 14 | Faraway | 2-6 | 20 min | Light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 15 | Flip 7 | 3-18 | 20 min | Light | $15 | Amazon → |
| 16 | Forbidden Island | 2-4 | 30 min | Light | $17 | Amazon → |
| 17 | Gingerbread House | 2-4 | 30-45 min | light | $35 | Amazon → |
| 18 | Hanabi | 2-5 | 25 min | Light | $11 | Amazon → |
| 19 | Harmonies | 1-4 | 30 min | Light | $35 | Amazon → |
| 20 | Hive Pocket | 2 | 20 min | Light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 21 | Horrified: Universal Monsters | 1-5 | 60 min | Light | $35 | Amazon → |
| 22 | Hot Streak | 2-9 | 20 min | Light | $50 | Amazon → |
| 23 | Jaipur | 2 | 30 min | Light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 24 | Just One | 3-7 | 20 min | Light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 25 | King of Tokyo | 2-6 | 30 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 26 | Kingdomino | 2-4 | 15-20 min | Light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 27 | Klask | 2 | 10-15 min | Light | $80 | Amazon → |
| 28 | Lost Cities | 2 | 30 min | Light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 29 | Lost Cities: Roll & Write | 2-5 | 30 min | Light | $18 | Amazon → |
| 30 | Love Letter | 2-6 | 20 min | Light | $12 | Amazon → |
| 31 | MicroMacro: Crime City | 1-4 | 15-45 min | light | $30 | Amazon → |
| 32 | Monikers | 4-20 | 30-60 min | Light | $30 | Amazon → |
| 33 | Mysterium | 2-7 | 45 min | Light | $50 | Amazon → |
| 34 | One Night Ultimate Werewolf | 3-10 | 10 min | Light | $30 | Amazon → |
| 35 | Patchwork | 2 | 30 min | Light | $30 | Amazon → |
| 36 | Point Salad | 2-6 | 30 min | Light | $15 | Amazon → |
| 37 | Qwirkle | 2-4 | 30-45 min | light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 38 | Sagrada | 1-4 | 30-45 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
| 39 | Santorini | 2-4 | 20 min | Light | $30 | Amazon → |
| 40 | Sea Salt & Paper | 2-4 | 20 min | Light | $15 | Amazon → |
| 41 | Skull | 3-6 | 30 min | Light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 42 | Sky Team | 2 | 20 min | Light | $30 | Amazon → |
| 43 | Splendor | 2-4 | 30 min | Light | $35 | Amazon → |
| 44 | Splendor Duel | 2 | 30 min | light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 45 | Sprawlopolis | 1-4 | 15-20 min | Light | $12 | Amazon → |
| 46 | Star Wars: Battle of Hoth | 2-4 | 30 min | Light | $60 | Amazon → |
| 47 | Super Skill Pinball: 4-Cade | 1-4 | 30-45 min | light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 48 | Sushi Go Party! | 2-8 | 20 min | light | $25 | Amazon → |
| 49 | Telestrations | 4-8 | 30 min | Light | $32 | Amazon → |
| 50 | The Blood of an Englishman | 2 | 20 min | light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 51 | The Crew: Mission Deep Sea | 2-5 | 20 min/mission | Light | $15 | Amazon → |
| 52 | The Resistance: Avalon | 5-10 | 30 min | Light | $20 | Amazon → |
| 53 | Ticket to Ride | 2-5 | 45 min | Light | $50 | Amazon → |
| 54 | Ticket to Ride: Europe | 2-5 | 30-60 min | Light | $55 | Amazon → |
| 55 | Wavelength | 2-12 | 30-45 min | Light | $40 | Amazon → |
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Arboretum
Arrange tree-card paths. Tense hand-management for two, lighter at four.
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Azul
Pattern-laying tile game. Looks beautiful on the table. Teaches in five minutes.
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Bomb Busters
Cut the right wire or the team goes boom. The Spiel des Jahres winner that makes deduction feel like an action movie.
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Camel Up
Bet on racing camels. Riotous, light, plays loud. The party-night pick.
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Cascadia
A calm, puzzly tile layer about wildlife and watersheds that plays as well solo as it does with family.
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Century: Spice Road
The friendliest engine builder you can teach in three minutes. Trade spices, upgrade them, buy point cards.
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Codenames
Word-association party game. Plays with grandparents, college kids, anyone in between.
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Codenames: Duet
Codenames for exactly two, fully cooperative, with a campaign map. The best two-player word game.
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Coup
Fifteen cards, fifteen minutes, and every claim might be a lie. Bluffing distilled to its meanest core.
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Cozy Stickerville
A cooperative sticker village built across ten cozy years. Legacy gaming with nothing torn up and no one stressed.
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Cóatl
Assemble vibrant snake-like creatures to fulfill prophecies and score points.
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Decrypto
Give clues your own team can decode but eavesdroppers cannot crack. A word game that feels like spycraft.
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Dixit
Surreal-art storytelling game. Cross-generational. Hits in mixed groups.
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Faraway
Play eight cards in a row, then score them backwards. A twenty-minute puzzle that rewards planning in reverse.
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Flip 7
Pure push-your-luck: flip cards, dodge duplicates, chase the seven-card jackpot. Seats 3 to 18.
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Forbidden Island
The cooperative gateway. Cheaper, simpler Pandemic. Plays with 8-year-olds.
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Gingerbread House
Build gingerbread houses and attract fairy tale characters to score.
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Hanabi
You see everyone's cards but yours. Pure cooperative reasoning. Tiny box.
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Harmonies
Draft three tokens, grow a tiny landscape, lure animals home. Thirty minutes of calm with more bite than it lets on.
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Hive Pocket
Chess with bugs and no board. Sets up on an airplane tray and punishes lazy moves in 20 minutes.
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Horrified: Universal Monsters
Cooperative monster-hunting. Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy. Plays family-friendly.
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Hot Streak
Bet on off-brand mascots, then scream as the race implodes. Twenty minutes of pure noise for almost any crowd.
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Jaipur
The best two-player trading game. Sell goods, grab camels, and time your sets. Thirty minutes, endless replay.
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Just One
Cooperative party game. Give one-word clues. Sets up in 30 seconds.
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King of Tokyo
Giant monsters roll dice and punch each other for a city. Loud, quick, and perfect for kids and parties.
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Kingdomino
Dominoes as a tiny kingdom-building puzzle. Fifteen minutes, any age, and it won a Spiel des Jahres for a reason.
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Klask
Magnetic two-player tabletop game. Reflex-based, no rules to read, addictive.
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Lost Cities
Two-player card game by the designer of Catan. Travels well. Plays clean.
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Lost Cities: Roll & Write
Solo-and-coop dice version. Pencil-and-paper, no shuffle, fits a backpack.
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Love Letter
A pocket deduction classic: draw one, play one, bluff everyone. Five-minute rounds, instant rematches.
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MicroMacro: Crime City
Solve intricate mysteries by examining a giant city map full of clues.
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Monikers
Charades with a memory: the same absurd names get funnier across three escalating rounds.
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Mysterium
A ghost sends dream cards, mediums guess the murder. Cooperative Dixit with a haunted mansion.
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One Night Ultimate Werewolf
One chaotic night, one vote, ten minutes. Hidden role deduction with no moderator and no downtime.
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Patchwork
Two-player tetris-quilt. Tense, quick, looks great on a coffee table.
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Point Salad
Drafting card game with vegetables. Plays in 30, teaches in 3. Surprisingly deep.
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Qwirkle
Match colors and shapes to create rows and columns in a tile game.
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Sagrada
Draft translucent dice to build a stained glass window. Beautiful, quiet, and sneakily hard.
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Santorini
A two-player abstract with god powers and a tiny Greek island. Teaches in a minute, rewards a hundred plays.
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Sea Salt & Paper
A tiny card game of pairs, sets, and knowing when to stop. Origami art, huge replay, pocket price.
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Skull
Four discs, one skull each, pure nerve. The cheapest way to find out who at your table lies best.
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Sky Team
Two-player cooperative airplane-landing dice game. Tense, beautiful, 20 minutes.
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Splendor
Gem-trading engine builder. Plays in 30 minutes, scales clean from 2 to 4.
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Splendor Duel
Face off to collect gems and claim prestige in a dual showdown.
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Sprawlopolis
Eighteen cards build a whole city, and the scoring rules change every game. Fits in a shirt pocket.
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Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
Memoir '44's engine on Hoth: command cards, custom dice, 74 minis, and a full battle in about thirty minutes.
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Super Skill Pinball: 4-Cade
Roll the dice and flip the ball in this pinball-inspired roll-and-write game.
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Sushi Go Party!
Create the best combination of sushi dishes in this card drafting game.
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Telestrations
Telephone with dry erase sketchbooks. The worse your group draws, the harder everyone laughs.
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The Blood of an Englishman
Match wits as Jack or Giant in this strategic two-player puzzle.
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The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
Cooperative trick-taking. 96 missions of escalating difficulty. Plays anywhere.
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The Resistance: Avalon
The definitive traitor game: missions, accusations, and a hidden Merlin who must help without being seen.
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Ticket to Ride
Train routes across America. Five minutes to learn, plays for years.
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Ticket to Ride: Europe
The Europe map adds tunnels, ferries, and stations to the family classic. Most fans think it's the better version.
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Wavelength
Team-based concept-guessing. Lights up mixed-age tables. Endlessly replayable.