Heroes of Barcadia(2023)
Rollacrit
Design: Madison O'Neil·Art: Madison O'Neil
Heroes of Barcadia is a tile-based, dungeon-crawling tabletop party game for 2-6 players, designed for ages 21+. Players explore a dungeon to reclaim a stolen Drink Hoard, with a unique liquid twist: your character's health is measured by the drink in your glass. The game combines fantasy roleplaying elements with a humorous, alcohol-themed approach, focusing on leveling up, fighting monsters, and outmaneuvering opponents.
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Apples to Apples(1999)
Out of the Box Publishing Inc., Mattel
Design: Mark Alan Osterhaus, Matthew Kirby·Art: John Kovalic, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney
Apples to Apples is a classic party game where players make hilarious comparisons. Players use red 'thing' cards from their hand to match a green 'description' card played by a rotating judge, who then picks their favorite comparison. It's known for its simple rules and social, often humorous, gameplay.
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Everything Ever(2023)
Floodgate Games
Design: Nathan Thornton·Art: Danielle Deley
Everything Ever is a party game where players take turns listing items that fit into two distinct categories, such as 'Every Dinosaur Movie' or 'Every Brand of Soap', before time runs out. Described as a welcoming trivia game, it is designed to be accessible to a diverse range of players regardless of their knowledge background or age.
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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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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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Pictures(2019)
Rio Grande Games
Design: Daniela Stöhr, Christian Stöhr
"Pictures" is a creative party game where players use one of five different sets of components—such as shoelaces, colored cubes, or building blocks—to recreate a secret image for others to guess. Players score points by successfully guessing others' pictures and by having their own creations correctly identified. The game, released in 2019, notably won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award in 2020.
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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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(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(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(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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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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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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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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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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