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Best party board games

Our definitive ranking of the Best party board games, based on aggregated critic scores from multiple trusted review sources.

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Camel Up
79

Camel Up(2014)

Pegasus Spiele, eggertspiele

Design: Steffen Bogen·Art: Dennis Lohausen

Camel Up is a zany, family-friendly camel racing game where players bet on five racing camels. The camels move unpredictably as dice are released one at a time from a unique pyramid dice shaker. Players aim to predict which camels will place first and second in the race, earning coins and navigating the chaos of stacked camels on the track.

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Herd Mentality
79

Herd Mentality(2020)

Big Potato Games

Design: Dan Penn, Rich Coombes·Art: Robin Sowden García

Herd Mentality is a party game where players try to think like the crowd and write down the same answers as the majority of their friends. Players score points for matching the most common answer, with the first to 8 points winning. It's a fun and easy-to-learn social icebreaker game suitable for large groups.

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Fun Facts
80

Fun Facts(2022)

Repos Production

Design: Kasper Lapp

Fun Facts is a cooperative party board game where players secretly answer quantitative questions about themselves. The group then works together to arrange everyone's answers in the correct numerical order without revealing their specific responses. It's a welcoming game designed to foster interaction and help players get to know each other better.

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Hues and Cues
80

Hues and Cues(2020)

Usaopoly, The Op Games

Design: Scott Brady

Hues and Cues is a vibrant deduction party board game where players are challenged to make connections to colors with words. One player gives one-word clues to guide others to guess a specific color on a large grid of 480 colored squares, scoring points based on how close their markers are placed. It's an easy-to-learn game of colorful communication, designed for large, casual groups.

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Smug Owls
81

Smug Owls(2023)

Runaway Parade Games LLC

Design: Mike Belsole, Grace Kendall·Art: Kevin Ruelle

Smug Owls is a party game where players race to craft funny, punny, clever, or profound answers to randomly-generated riddles created by a magic deck. Designed for 3-15 players, it emphasizes social interaction and creative thinking as players compete to provide the best solutions.

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Flip 7
82

Flip 7(2024)

The Op Games, Catch Up Games, Randolph

Design: Eric Olsen·Art: O'Neil Mabile

A press-your-luck card game where players flip cards one by one without flipping the same number twice, trying to be the first to reach 200 points. Players can score their current cards or risk taking another card, potentially losing everything they hold.

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Blob Party
83

Blob Party(2022)

WizKids

Design: Pam Walls·Art: Daniel Solis

Blob Party is a cooperative party game where players start as individuals, each with a blob of dough and a googly eye. The goal is to merge into one large 'Mega Blob' by collectively giving the same answers to category and word prompts, fostering group consensus. It's a quick, light-hearted game perfect for social gatherings.

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Things in Rings
84

Things in Rings(2024)

Allplay

Design: Peter C. Hayward·Art: Snow Conrad

Things in Rings is a clever party game and competitive Venn diagram experience where players try to figure out the secret 'rules' of overlapping rings by playing object cards. Guessers place cards in the diagram to uncover the subjects of each ring, racing to be the first to empty their hand.

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Dixit
86

Dixit(2008)

Libellud, Asmodee, ADC Blackfire Entertainment

Design: Jean-Louis Roubira·Art: Marie Cardouat

Dixit is a creative storytelling party game where one player acts as storyteller, giving a clue about one of their beautiful, surreal artwork cards, while other players try to guess which card matches the clue. Players score points by finding the storyteller's card and having others guess their own submitted cards, creating a balance between being too obvious or too obscure.

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Ready Set Bet
86

Ready Set Bet(2022)

Alderac Entertainment Group

Design: John D. Clair·Art: Athena Cagle, Kirk W. Buckendorf

A real-time horse racing betting game where players frantically place bets on horse races as they unfold, either through an app or live dice rolling. The game captures the excitement and chaos of a day at the races with simultaneous betting action across four rounds.

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Skull
86

Skull(2011)

Lui-même, Space Cowboys, Asmodee

Design: Hervé Marly·Art: Thomas Vuarchex, Rose Kipik

Skull is a captivating bluffing and risk-taking game where players secretly place discs, some showing roses and one a skull. Players then bid on how many discs they can reveal without uncovering a skull. It is a game of psychological strategy and poker face, where misjudgment can lead to losing a disc or even player elimination.

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So Clover!
86

So Clover!(2021)

Repos Production

Design: François Romain

So Clover! is a cooperative word-association board game where players work together to decipher clues. One player writes a single-word clue to connect two pairs of words on their clover-shaped card, and other players then try to reconstruct the original pairings. It's designed to be a social and engaging party game.

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The Mind
86

The Mind(2018)

Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag, Pandasaurus Games, Coiledspring Games

Design: Wolfgang Warsch·Art: Oliver Freudenreich

The Mind is a unique cooperative card game where players must play numbered cards from 1 to 100 in ascending order without any verbal communication or signaling. Teams must rely entirely on timing, intuition, and synchronizing their minds to progress through increasingly difficult levels.

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The Resistance: Avalon
86

The Resistance: Avalon(2012)

Indie Boards & Cards

Design: Don Eskridge

The Resistance: Avalon is a standalone social deduction game set in King Arthur's legendary realm where players take on roles as loyal servants of Arthur or evil minions of Mordred. Players must work together to complete quests while the evil players try to sabotage missions, with the added twist that Merlin knows who the evil players are but must guide the good team without revealing their identity.

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Werewords
86

Werewords(2017)

Bézier Games

Design: Ted Alspach·Art: Ted Alspach, Jason Boles, Roland MacDonald

Werewords is an engaging and fast-paced party game combining 20 Questions with social deduction. Players try to guess a secret word by asking yes/no questions to the Mayor within a short time limit, while a hidden werewolf works against them and a seer attempts to help.

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Blood on the Clocktower
88

Blood on the Clocktower(2022)

The Pandemonium Institute

Design: Steven Medway·Art: Aidan Roberts, John VanFleet, Grace VanFleet, Micaela Dawn

Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game where players are divided into good (townsfolk) and evil (demon/minions) teams. The townsfolk must deduce the hidden identity of the demon through logic, bluffing, and unique player abilities, while the evil team sows confusion. A key twist is that dead players remain engaged in the game, preventing early elimination and fostering continuous intense social interaction and storytelling.

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Mysterium
88

Mysterium(2015)

Libellud, Asmodee

Design: Oleksandr Nevskiy, Oleg Sidorenko·Art: Igor Burlakov, Xavier Collette

Mysterium is a cooperative board game where one player takes on the role of a ghost, and the other players act as psychics. The ghost, unable to speak, uses abstract vision cards to provide clues to the psychics, who must interpret them to deduce the true suspect, location, and murder weapon. Players work together to solve the ghost's untimely demise before their seven hours run out.

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Wandering Towers
88

Wandering Towers(2022)

ABACUSSPIELE, Capstone Games, Rebel Sp. z o.o.

Design: Michael Kiesling, Wolfgang Kramer·Art: Michael Menzel

Wandering Towers is a light strategy and party game where players use card play and magic to strategically move their wizards and the very towers they stand on. The goal is to be the first to get all their wizards to the Dark Castle, Ravenskeep. The game incorporates a clever memory mechanic as wizards can become hidden beneath other wandering towers, adding an element of chaotic fun.

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Wavelength
88

Wavelength(2019)

CMYK, Palm Court

Design: Alex Hague, Justin Vickers, Wolfgang Warsch·Art: Sofie Hannibal, Nan Na Hvass

Wavelength is a social guessing game in which two teams compete to read each other's minds. Teams take turns rotating a dial to where they think a hidden target lies on a spectrum between two opposing concepts, like HOT-COLD. The psychic gives a clue, and the closer the team's guess is to the center of the bullseye, the more points they score.

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Codenames
90

Codenames(2015)

Czech Games Edition

Design: Vlaada Chvátil·Art: Stéphane Gantiez, Tomáš Kučerovský, Filip Murmak, Dávid Jablonovský, František Sedláček

Codenames is a social word game where two rival spymasters give one-word clues to help their teammates identify their agents among 25 codename cards. Teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first while avoiding the opposing team's agents and the assassin card.

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Decrypto
90

Decrypto(2018)

Le Scorpion Masqué, Scorpion Masqué

Design: Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance·Art: NILS, Fabien Fulchiron, Manuel Sanchez

Decrypto is an espionage-themed party game where two teams compete to decode three-digit codes using clues about secret numbered words while trying to determine the opposing team's keywords. Players take turns as Encryptors, giving clues that help their team guess codes without allowing the opposing team to intercept them.

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Hot Streak
90

Hot Streak(2025)

CMYK, Choo Choo Games, Korea Boardgames, Strohmann Games, TLAMA games

Design: Jon Perry·Art: Cécile Gariépy

Hot Streak is a chaotic mascot racing and betting game where players secretly add cards to influence races while betting on which mascot will win. Players draft betting tickets, contribute cards to the race deck, then watch and scream as four mascot figures race along a ridiculously long pull-out racetrack.

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Telestrations
90

Telestrations(2009)

The Op, Usaopoly

Design: N/A (Uncredited)·Art: N/A (Uncredited)

Telestrations is a party game that combines elements of the classic 'telephone' game with drawing and guessing. Players write a word, draw it, then pass it along for the next player to guess the drawing, leading to often hilarious and unexpected distortions of the original word.

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Just One
91

Just One(2018)

Repos Production

Design: Ludovic Roudy, Bruno Sautter

Just One is a cooperative party game where players work together to guess mystery words. One active player tries to guess a word based on unique one-word clues given by the other players. The challenge lies in providing clever clues that are unique, as identical clues are removed.

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Magical Athlete
91

Magical Athlete(2025)

CMYK

Design: Richard Garfield, Takashi Ishida·Art: Angela Kirkwood

Magical Athlete is a chaotic racing game where players draft racers with wacky, game-breaking abilities and compete in roll-and-move races. Originally published in 2003, this 2025 edition features updated rules by Richard Garfield while maintaining the pure chaos and excitement of athletes with special powers competing in foot races.

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