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Thumbnail image | Title | Geek Rating | Avg Rating | Num Voters | Shop |
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Cascadia
(2021)
Create the most harmonious ecosystem as you puzzle together habitats and wildlife. |
7.745 | 8.00 | 20904 | |
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Azul
(2017)
Artfully embellish the walls of your palace by drafting the most beautiful tiles. |
7.665 | 7.77 | 75530 | |
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YINSH
(2003)
Move rings over pieces to flip them, creating rows of five in your color. |
7.572 | 7.70 | 8444 | |
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Azul: Summer Pavilion
(2019)
You're an artisan working on creating striking patterns within a king's palace. |
7.532 | 7.69 | 13009 | |
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Patchwork
(2014)
Piece together a quilt and leave no holes to become the button master. |
7.508 | 7.61 | 58805 | |
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War Chest
(2018)
Recruit, bolster and maneuver your way to controlling the hex-grid battlefield. |
7.474 | 7.90 | 7623 | |
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TZAAR
(2007)
Capture all of an opponent's type of pieces or make them unable to capture yours. |
7.442 | 7.66 | 3610 | |
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Calico
(2020)
Sew a quilt, collect buttons, attract cats! |
7.380 | 7.62 | 14000 | |
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Mandala
(2019)
Create and destroy mandalas in this beautifully tense abstract game for two. |
7.360 | 7.57 | 4779 | |
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Sagrada
(2017)
Craft the best stained-glass windows by carefully placing colorful transparent dice. |
7.312 | 7.49 | 35495 | |
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DVONN
(2001)
Avoid being disconnected from the three DVONN pieces on an ever-shrinking board. |
7.294 | 7.45 | 4830 | |
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Project L
(2020)
Players collect pieces, pick cards and fill in various shapes to get the most points! |
7.268 | 7.51 | 5845 | |
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Santorini
(2016)
Use different divine powers to build and climb the towers! |
7.245 | 7.39 | 35300 | |
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Go
(-2200)
Use stones to control space in this ancient game with simple rules. |
7.209 | 7.64 | 16323 | |
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Create beautiful windows with coloured glass more efficiently than anyone else. |
7.167 | 7.34 | 11988 | |
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Azul: Queen's Garden
(2021)
Create the perfect garden patterns for Queen Maria of Aragon. |
7.166 | 7.54 | 2796 | |
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Onitama
(2014)
Assert your martial prowess by harnessing the power of various animal spirits. |
7.147 | 7.37 | 19753 | |
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Hive
(2000)
Use your insects to trap your opponent's Queen Bee in this board-less abstract game. |
7.142 | 7.32 | 34322 | |
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Nova Luna
(2019)
Draft tiles to complete adjacency combos in this beautiful, abstract tableau builder. |
7.142 | 7.34 | 6354 | |
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LYNGK
(2017)
Pick your two colors wisely while moving and capturing multicolored stacks. |
7.091 | 7.59 | 1060 | |
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ZÈRTZ
(1999)
Sacrifice pieces to your opponent in order to win this counterintuitive game. |
7.080 | 7.27 | 4168 | |
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Ohanami
(2019)
Build the most Zen Japanese garden by collecting cards of just the right value. |
7.073 | 7.33 | 3145 | |
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Paris: La Cité de la Lumière
(2019)
Players compete for their moment in the light by placing oddly shaped building tiles. |
7.056 | 7.36 | 3729 | |
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Through the Desert
(1998)
Pretty pastel camels belie the intensity of this tight area-control classic. |
7.052 | 7.09 | 13512 | |
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SHŌBU
(2019)
Use your stones to push all your opponent's stones off any one of four boards to win! |
7.050 | 7.54 | 1524 | |
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Ingenious
(2004)
Place hexagonal tiles to score lines of colors. |
7.037 | 7.11 | 16616 | |
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Tak
(2017)
Be first to build a complete road using tiles that can stack or stand on edge. |
7.035 | 7.59 | 2578 | |
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Miyabi
(2019)
Compete for tiles to collect the most of each element in your garden & build high! |
7.018 | 7.49 | 1363 | |
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The Duke
(2013)
Draw, place, move and flip tiles to capture the enemy Duke. |
7.001 | 7.34 | 4052 | |
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Create the most fruitful micro orchard, but beware of rotten fruit! |
6.995 | 7.41 | 2810 | |
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Agropolis
(2021)
Add farms to the card-laying experience of Sprawlopolis. |
6.989 | 7.45 | 1609 | |
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Torres
(1999)
Build towers and populate them with your knights to make it big in the Middle Ages. |
6.987 | 7.10 | 9382 | |
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Taluva
(2006)
Race to build temples and towers or tribal supremacy on an active volcanic island. |
6.976 | 7.15 | 8398 | |
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Zendo
(2001)
Players build structures to try to figure out the moderator's secret rule! |
6.949 | 7.22 | 3072 | |
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Bridge
(1925)
Bid to communicate and to set trump. Then take tricks to fulfill your bid. |
6.925 | 7.45 | 3016 | |
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Dragon Castle
(2017)
Draft Mahjong-like tiles and place them carefully to create the best castle. |
6.925 | 7.14 | 7137 | |
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GIPF
(1996)
Cycle your own pieces while slowly depleting your opponent's reserve. |
6.921 | 7.09 | 3175 | |
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Reef
(2018)
Grow your reef, and arrange it beautifully on your seafloor to score more points. |
6.912 | 7.04 | 8727 | |
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Medina (Second Edition)
(2014)
Place colorful wooden blocks to build beautiful palaces in a desert city. |
6.901 | 7.21 | 1999 | |
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Medina
(2001)
Collaboratively build a desert city of palaces, but claim the best ones for yourself. |
6.854 | 7.02 | 3142 | |
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Photosynthesis
(2017)
Trees compete for sunlight to grow taller, as the sun moves around the board. |
6.853 | 7.03 | 21264 | |
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Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends
(2013)
Place units in 2D shapes to summon powerful beings and claim a rotating set of goals. |
6.850 | 7.17 | 6796 | |
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Shogi
(1587)
Deploy captured pieces for rapid checkmates in Japan's traditional "general's game." |
6.844 | 7.38 | 1732 | |
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Ingenious: Travel Edition
(2006)
Match double sided hexes and your lowest scored shape is your final score. |
6.838 | 7.10 | 2000 | |
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Café
(2020)
Place cards efficiently to process and deliver coffee in early 20th-century Portugal. |
6.834 | 7.33 | 1920 | |
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Ubongo 3D
(2009)
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6.822 | 7.08 | 1792 | |
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Ricochet Robots
(1999)
Be the first to solve a spatial puzzle using hard-controlled robots to win! |
6.810 | 7.02 | 8703 | |
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Chess
(1475)
Orchestrate your powerful royalty, clergy and military to trap your opponent's king. |
6.806 | 7.18 | 33504 | |
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Metro X
(2018)
Create the most valuable subway network in this snappy transport puzzler. |
6.789 | 7.14 | 1604 | |
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Sagani
(2020)
Cleverly place the element tiles to restore the harmony of nature. |
6.777 | 7.21 | 1374 | |
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Blokus
(2000)
Fit your tiles on a shared board with not enough space for everyone. |
6.772 | 6.86 | 25614 | |
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Cribbage
(1630)
Sum to 15, peg to 121 and score the crib in this classic and unique card game. |
6.765 | 7.08 | 9394 | |
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Pueblo
(2002)
You are a master builder! Cleverly disguise your coloured stones within your village. |
6.764 | 6.95 | 2581 | |
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That Time You Killed Me
(2021)
Prove yourself across all spacetime as the true inventor of the time machine. |
6.759 | 7.64 | 743 | |
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Land vs Sea
(2021)
Here be dragons! Medieval cartographers make a map filled with delightful details. |
6.758 | 7.27 | 1426 | |
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Great Plains
(2021)
Compete for dominance over the Great Plains. |
6.748 | 7.23 | 991 | |
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Iwari
(2020)
Use tents and totems to gain dominance over the different regions of Iwari! |
6.747 | 7.16 | 1771 | |
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Glüx
(2016)
Cleverly place your lights to illuminate the rooms most effectively. |
6.746 | 7.10 | 1378 | |
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Blokus Duo
(2005)
Play geometric shapes from your hand for points -- but don't get blocked in! |
6.727 | 6.83 | 5532 | |
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NMBR 9
(2017)
Cleverly stack number-shaped polyominos higher and higher without leaving any gaps. |
6.725 | 6.88 | 7020 | |
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Noctiluca
(2019)
Noctiluca shine beautifully at night. Become the best diver and collect the most! |
6.710 | 7.14 | 1676 | |
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Mahjong
(1850)
Use the Winds, Dragons and suit tiles you draw to finish with the best hand! |
6.698 | 7.04 | 7140 | |
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Aton
(2005)
Get control of great temples in Egypt to win favour of the gods. |
6.693 | 6.87 | 3479 | |
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Blokus Trigon
(2006)
Fit all your tiles onto the board while blocking your neighbor into a corner. |
6.693 | 6.89 | 3137 | |
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Xiangqi
(762)
Use cannons and more to defeat the enemy General in his Palace across the River. |
6.691 | 7.11 | 2012 | |
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Kamisado
(2008)
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6.690 | 6.93 | 2431 | |
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In this abstract spy game, players only see how their opponent’s pieces can move. |
6.687 | 7.06 | 1370 | |
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Taluva Deluxe
(2015)
Race to build temples and towers or tribal supremacy on an active volcanic island. |
6.666 | 7.72 | 411 | |
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The Rose King
(1992)
Tense positional battle where seeing a few moves ahead is crucial. |
6.665 | 6.81 | 3525 | |
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Blokus 3D
(2003)
Construct 3-D structures with your opponents while also trying out outwit them. |
6.662 | 6.79 | 3972 | |
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Ta Yü
(1999)
Divert water to your two sides of the board and away from the sides of your opponent. |
6.656 | 6.95 | 1521 | |
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Quarto
(1991)
You choose the piece your opponent plays next. 4-in-a-row of the same attribute wins! |
6.653 | 6.88 | 7088 | |
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Dokmus
(2016)
Discover temples & invoke the power of the gods in the fantasy land of Dokmus. |
6.645 | 7.04 | 1171 | |
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Indigo
(2012)
Create tangled paths and move gemstones to your advantage. |
6.641 | 6.85 | 3238 | |
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Seikatsu
(2017)
Outwit your rivals as you design a garden together to ensure you have the best view. |
6.641 | 7.02 | 1713 | |
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Hey, That's My Fish!
(2003)
Quest for the most fish, but don't get stranded as ice disappears beneath your feet. |
6.638 | 6.69 | 20825 | |
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Qwirkle
(2006)
Complete a set of shapes or colors among the criss-crossing tiles for big points! |
6.607 | 6.78 | 18621 | |
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Cóatl
(2020)
Combine pattern cards, create Coatls with astonishing pieces, please the Aztec gods. |
6.606 | 7.01 | 2145 | |
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Mandala Stones
(2021)
Use artists to collect colorful stones in towers, then dismantle them for points. |
6.605 | 6.99 | 1299 | |
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Bosk
(2019)
Navigate the four seasons and lay claim to the land with your trees and their leaves. |
6.603 | 6.92 | 1796 | |
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Aqualin
(2020)
Life in the coral reef is constantly growing and shifting. Make groupings to score. |
6.603 | 7.00 | 1207 | |
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Gunkimono
(2018)
Match tiles colours to score points now or raise your track to gain points later. |
6.597 | 7.02 | 1130 | |
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The Climbers
(2008)
Use the blocks to build your way to the top! |
6.577 | 6.79 | 3101 | |
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Qin
(2012)
Control areas in the grid with your tiles to place your pagodas and win. |
6.573 | 6.78 | 2344 | |
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PÜNCT
(2005)
Use pieces—and cover opponent's pieces—to connect opposing sides of the board. |
6.571 | 6.80 | 1755 | |
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Ubongo
(2003)
Race to fill the target shape using a set of polyominoes before your opponents do. |
6.564 | 6.69 | 8837 | |
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Azul: Master Chocolatier
(2022)
Join the best chocolate makers of the world. |
6.549 | 8.07 | 453 | |
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Ubongo: Duel
(2008)
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6.546 | 6.84 | 1102 | |
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Gorinto
(2021)
Achieve balance, harmony, and understanding by manipulating the elements. |
6.539 | 7.31 | 735 | |
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Fjords
(2005)
Build the game board and place your huts. Claim the land based on placement of huts. |
6.536 | 6.74 | 3110 | |
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Code 777
(1985)
Deduce your three numbers while seeing only your opponents’ racks. |
6.522 | 6.73 | 2053 | |
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Cairn
(2019)
Tactical duel between tribal shamans on an evolving board. |
6.520 | 7.39 | 773 | |
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Call "Riichi" ('Reach') to commit to a winning hand in this intense Mahjong variant. |
6.510 | 8.28 | 439 | |
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Ubongo Extreme
(2007)
Hone your real-time spatial puzzle skills in this challenging sequel to Ubongo. |
6.509 | 6.76 | 1390 | |
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Kingdoms
(1994)
Vie for dominance by tactically placing tiles and castles over 3 epochs. |
6.507 | 6.65 | 4876 | |
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A Gentle Rain
(2021)
A relaxing, easy to learn (but hard-to-master) solo tile-laying game. |
6.499 | 7.62 | 469 | |
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TAMSK
(1998)
A unique abstract where you are running against time. |
6.492 | 6.76 | 1380 | |
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Spirits of the Forest
(2018)
Collect spirits and garner the most points by nourishing the many forces of nature. |
6.489 | 6.87 | 2612 | |
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Billabong
(1992)
Use your opponents' kangaroos to enable big hops and get your own home first. |
6.489 | 6.85 | 869 | |
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Kahuna
(1998)
Place your bridges and destroy your opponent's via card-play to control 12 islands. |
6.487 | 6.62 | 9304 |