Skull

Skull is an easy to learn but interestingly complex game of bluffing and deception. The game essentially breaks poker down into pieces, discarding the need to analyze mathematical odds and randomness from drawing, but keeping the absolutely fun and hilarious bluffing aspect of it.

Why you should buy it:

  • Fast
  • Easy to learn

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Love Letter

Love Letter is a game of risk, deduction, and luck, where players are attempting to have the highest ranking card at the end of the round. To make things difficult, cards with lower ranks have powers that can knock players out of the round, and your opponents are sure to come after you with them. This game has amazing depth and replayability packed into a lightweight 16 cards.

Why you should buy it:

  • Easy to learn
  • Very cheap
  • Limited number of players

Incan Gold

Incan Gold is a fast and fun game where players dare each other to go deeper into the temple to find more treasure without the temple collapsing on them. Each round, players must simultaneously decide if they are going to leave the temple with their riches, but potentially miss out on a big payout, or if they will push their luck by continuing deeper, but risk leaving with nothing.

Why you should buy it:

  • Fast
  • Easy to learn
  • Up to 8 players
  • Exciting (feels like gambling)

Hanabi

In this challenging cooperative card game, players work together to launch a spectacular firework display. Each player holds their cards so that only the other players can see them. Players can blindly play cards, but may also give hints to each other to help play the right card at the right time.

Why you should buy it:

  • Quick
  • Cooperative
  • Unique

Dixit

Dixit is a beautiful game where a player picks one of the randomly distributed cards with artwork and gives a clue about the card. Other players then pick cards attempting to deceive the others into thinking that the clue was for their card. The cards are shuffled and each player must figure out which card was played by the player who gave the clue. The player who gave the clue must hope that their clue was enough for someone to pick correctly, but not so obvious that everyone picks it.

Why you should buy it:

  • Easy to learn

Mascarade

You and everyone else you play with will have no idea what is going on in Mascarade, but that is the fun of it! The game consists of roles that give the current player a certain power, but they are secret to everyone, including the current player, until a player spend their turn to figure out what they are. To make things worse, players can cause complete chaos by swapping cards in secret!

Why you should buy it:

  • Depth
  • Memory game

Cards Against Humanity

Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.

Why you should buy it:

  • Massive wow factor
  • Easy to lean
  • Expansions add cost
  • Loses wow factor over time

Tsuro

Tsuro is a game of pathing, where players place a tile on the board in front of their player piece and must move their piece to follow the path on the tile. If the tile happens to also be in front of another player's piece, their piece must move as well. The tiles a player has to choose from is limited, and may cause them to do something they really don't want to do. If a piece runs off the board or into another player, that player loses. The winner is the last one standing. Good planning with spatial awareness is key to this game.

Why you should buy it:

  • Easy to learn
  • Fast
  • Does not click with everyone

For Sale

Going once! Going twice! Sold to the highest bidder! Bid and bluff your way to purchase the most valuable properties for the lowest amount of money, then turn around and sell those properties for cold hard cash. Be the richest real estate mogul at the end of the game to win!

Resistance Avalon

Resistance Avalon is a game where players attempt to deduce one another's identities. A small, secret group of informed players attempt to disrupt a larger uninformed group, while the larger group attempts to identify the spies and eliminate them.

Wits & Wagers

Wits & Wagers is history’s most award-winning party game. Why does everyone love Wits & Wagers? Because you don't need to know the answers to win! The excitement is betting on the best guess. First, everyone writes down a guess to a fun question like "In inches, how tall is the Oscar statuette?" Then players bet on which guess is closest to the right answer.

Why you should buy it:

  • Easy to learn
  • Good even for those who hate trivia

Yardmaster Express

In Yardmaster Express, two to five players compete to have the highest valued train after a set number of rounds. The game starts with the first player drafting a Railcar card from his hand, attaching it to his train, then passing the rest of his hand to the player to his left. This draft continues until all players have added one Railcar to their train for each round of the game.

Why you should buy it:

  • Quick
  • Easy to learn
  • Hard to find