Board Games Worth the Hype 
Board Games that are fun, and worth the time and money! I host frequent board game nights and these are some of my go tos.
Easy instructions, simple game play, while being fun and quick to play with a group (under the influence or not!)
Jenga & Uno hade a baby and made this! It's a classic jenga tower (3 by 3 stacks of rectangular blocks you pull out carefully, stack back on top, and avoid making the tower fall) however, the faces & colors are now uno cards! So, same thing a...
A casual easy to play game of "telephone" that involves drawing and interpretations of those drawings! Please don't stay away from this game if you "can't draw." Honestly this game gets more fun the worse the art is! Tbh, I've never followed the rule...
If you play this with the right people, you will be in stitches! 8/10
If you play this with the right people, you will be in stitches! 8/10
A childish (but in a good way) battle game where you are a monkey in a zoo trying to eliminate all other monkies by flinging your poop at them. It sounds dumb, and it is, in a good way! There are always so many silly poop puns when you're playing as ...
You duke it out with poo cards (damage), cleaning cards, power ups, mishap cards, defense cards, and random events! This game is criminally underrated, quick to play, and a great icebreaker. Just make sure you bring an item to be “poo” chip counters....
You duke it out with poo cards (damage), cleaning cards, power ups, mishap cards, defense cards, and random events! This game is criminally underrated, quick to play, and a great icebreaker. Just make sure you bring an item to be “poo” chip counters....
A simple luck of the draw strategy game that is quick, easy to play, and easy to learn for almost all ages. You draw cards, play matches, and build your stack of matches (assets) to acquire more wealth but to also protect your stacks from being stole...
Perfect balance of luck, strategy, and silliness. you are trying to reach seven unicorns in your stable. You can have magic cards that affect how other people can play, upgrades for your stable and downgrades for others! Plus the art is adorable.
Mind bending games that work the brain centered around words/ letters/ clues
Challenging slower paced word game to get your team to find your hidden secret agents without getting killed by the assassin! There are 2 teams each with 1 designated code/ clue giver. For the board there is a randomized 5 by 5 grid of words that cha... For example, I am the red team code giver. I see on the board ambulance, doctor, scalpel on the word board all in my color (red). I would say outloud, “Medical” followed by the number “3.” This ques to my team I want them to pick 3 words associated w...
This game requires quite a lot of concentration and can be quite tricky! Or depending on who you're playing with, simple, quick, and easy.
10/10 Wonderful game! And affordable!
This game requires quite a lot of concentration and can be quite tricky! Or depending on who you're playing with, simple, quick, and easy.
10/10 Wonderful game! And affordable!
A quick high energy word game for fast thinkers! It's like a combination between Taboo & Hot potato. You play on teams, you select a category, and hit start. There is a randomized timer. You are trying to describe the words on the screen to your ...
A quick thinking word game of elimation! Goal of the game is to be the last one standing & collect 5 category cards. The game is a ring of letters from the alphabet and a 10 second timer in the middle. A person picks a category off a category car... Things get harder as letters disappear. The game has eliminated “difficult” letters to make the game more all age friendly (no v,q,u,x,y,z) which I believe to be a wise decision. Plus, the game gets even more fun when all the letters disappear but th...
Extremely fast paced word game that will keep you on your toes! Players flip cards until the symbols on two players cards match. Matching players race to give an example of the category on their opponents card. Who ever successfully names a word matc...
Games that involve thought, planning, puzzles, and finding ways to get ahead!
One of my fav games! A medium length strategy game where you gain & sell resources to earn money to build towns and railroads. The game features adorable artwork of 1800s looking animals in dapper clothing! The goal of the game is to get the most...
You do 1 action per turn either gathering resources, buying a town, buying a building, or starting a bidding auction for one of the adorable railroad cards.
This game has its own built in stock market that fluctuates with supply and demand for the price of resources. What makes this game one of my favorites is how balanced it is! You do not get ruined by bad luck or one bad play. 10/10!
You do 1 action per turn either gathering resources, buying a town, buying a building, or starting a bidding auction for one of the adorable railroad cards.
This game has its own built in stock market that fluctuates with supply and demand for the price of resources. What makes this game one of my favorites is how balanced it is! You do not get ruined by bad luck or one bad play. 10/10!
A strategy competitive puzzle game for up to 4 players! You take turns placing a block of your color. The trick is, you have to place your own pieces at a diagonal (touching a corner of your color). The goal is to block off other players to eliminate...
A relaxing 2 player board game you can play in under an hour. It is kind of like Tetris where you select pieces of different sizes and shapes and try to arrange them to fill a specific space.
In this game you take turns moving your marker, collecting buttons (the currency), spending buttons to buy patchwork shapes to place on your “quilt” play space in the most optimal way. This game is lovely for a date or a casual game night with a love...
In this game you take turns moving your marker, collecting buttons (the currency), spending buttons to buy patchwork shapes to place on your “quilt” play space in the most optimal way. This game is lovely for a date or a casual game night with a love...
A peaceful forest animal themed strategy game where you are trying to build your city (3 x 5 cards) with the highest point value cards that offer the most bonuses. You spend the 4 rounds of the game collecting resources from your animal workers place...
A fun strategy game where you are viruses that take over the human body and duke it out with enemy viruses for dominance! The art in this game is just adorable and the viruses always “come with a voice” when you play them. Meaning, I've never played ...
Games where all (or most) players work together to solve a problem or get to a common goal
Co-op tower defense game where you work together to defend the castle from random events and a hoard of encroaching monsters. Simple to play, but hard to win!
The goal of the game is to have at least 1 tower of your castle still standing when ALL of the monster tokens have been drawn, played, and defeated. You take turns drawing cards, playing cards to attack monsters & fortify your castle, then draw m...
I give this a 7/10. GREAT game but I have won it so few times that it is a bit frustrating.
The goal of the game is to have at least 1 tower of your castle still standing when ALL of the monster tokens have been drawn, played, and defeated. You take turns drawing cards, playing cards to attack monsters & fortify your castle, then draw m...
I give this a 7/10. GREAT game but I have won it so few times that it is a bit frustrating.
A strategy game where you build bird cards in their habitats to create the best bird engine for getting bonus points and eggs. If you love learning about birds, then this is your game! And even if you don't, this is an incredible game that ended up b...
You play 4 rounds (each with different bonus goals) with a dwindling number of turns per round. You can play a bird, draw cards, get eggs, or get food on your turn. There are 3 habitat zones (water, grassland, trees) that you place the birds in. You ...
10/10 highly recommend this game. Plus, the game comes with a lot of fun tactile items and a tree house dice roller!
You play 4 rounds (each with different bonus goals) with a dwindling number of turns per round. You can play a bird, draw cards, get eggs, or get food on your turn. There are 3 habitat zones (water, grassland, trees) that you place the birds in. You ...
10/10 highly recommend this game. Plus, the game comes with a lot of fun tactile items and a tree house dice roller!
Games where the board/city/ town constructed before your eyes during game play
A simple tile-laying game where you are constructing the world map with a medieval theme. You draw a tile from a sack, place it in the world map in a legal location, chose to claim a castle/ farmland/ monastery/ or roads with a meeple, then pass the sack to the next player. You take turns building the world, claiming structures, completin...
Games that rely heavily on random chance, dice, etc
Simple cute game of luck where you rummage, stash, steal and do all things Raccoony! This is a dice rolling game that relies heavily on luck. The artwork of this game is adorable. I recommend this game as an ice breaker or a quick “in between games” ...
A luck of the draw game with a witch's theme for potion brewing! Each turn you will all take turns pulling tokens (ingredients) out of a cloth bag and adding them to your board (potion). The goal each round is to progress as far forward in your potio...
7/10 The only downfall for this game is it is 10% strategy and 90% luck and I personally have the worse luck of the draws. So, I usually am always in last for this game. BUT it's a super fun game! It's really unique in it's game play as everyone take...
7/10 The only downfall for this game is it is 10% strategy and 90% luck and I personally have the worse luck of the draws. So, I usually am always in last for this game. BUT it's a super fun game! It's really unique in it's game play as everyone take...
Games where you don't know who's on your team/ the killer/ the enemy etc
A social deduction strategy game with a wild west theme that is AWESOME! 4-8 player. You are assigned a “job” at random that is kept secret: Sheriff, deputy sheriff, outlaw, and renegade. You are trying to figure out who is on your team while simulta...