From Norman’s shelf

Best Board Games for 1–2 players

Board games that work for one or two players: solo puzzles, head-to-head duels and games that shine as a couple.

Norman owns 449 games that play with 1–2 players. His highest rated: Foundations of Rome (Maximus Edition), Go and Too Many Bones: Undertow. Most played at his table: Space Base (77 plays), Pondscape (20 plays) and Symbiosis (17 plays).

Ranked by Norman's rating, what BoardGameGeek voters say is the best player count, and how often each one has hit his table with this many players.

  1. Go
    1. Go 9/10
    2 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 30–180 min, heavy
  2. Pondscape
    2. Pondscape 7.5/10
    1–4 players
    A pond’s harmony is not in the number of frogs, but in the delicate balance between what leaps freely and what patiently waits beneath the surface.
  3. Too Many Bones: Undertow
    3. Too Many Bones: Undertow 8.6/10
    1–2 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 60–180 min, heavy
  4. Chess
    4. Chess 8.5/10
    2 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · heavy
  5. Crokinole
    5. Crokinole 8.5/10
    2–4 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 30 min, light
  6. GIPF
    6. GIPF 8.5/10
    2 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 30–60 min, medium weight
  7. The Castles of Burgundy
    7. The Castles of Burgundy 8.5/10
    2–4 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 70–120 min, medium weight
  8. The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
    8. The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth 8.4/10
    2 players
    Power and fellowship both demand sacrifice, yet only one path leads to the destruction of the Ring rather than its mastery.
  9. Kōhaku
    9. Kōhaku 8.3/10
    1–4 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 30–45 min, light
  10. Tomorrow
    10. Tomorrow 8.3/10
    2 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · 20–30 min, light
  11. Wingspan Asia
    11. Wingspan Asia 8/10
    1–2 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · played 1 time at this count · 40–70 min, medium weight
  12. Wingspan Pocket
    12. Wingspan Pocket 7.9/10
    1–5 players
    BGG voters say it's best with 2 · played 1 time at this count · 25–35 min, light
Everything else on his shelf that fits (437 more)
  • Foundations of Rome (Maximus Edition) — 2–5 players, 9/10
  • Poker — 2–9 players, 8.5/10
  • Space Base — 2–5 players, 8.4/10 · review
  • Terra Mystica — 2–5 players, 8.3/10
  • Great Western Trail — 2–4 players, 8.1/10
  • Mage Knight Board Game — 1–4 players, 8.1/10
  • Sleeping Gods — 1–4 players, 8.1/10
  • Carcassonne: 20th Anniversary Edition — 2–5 players, 8/10
  • Dice Forge — 2–4 players, 8/10
  • Gloomhaven — 1–4 players, 8/10
  • Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon — 1–4 players, 8/10
  • TAMSK — 2 players, 8/10
  • Three Sisters: Harvest Edition — 1–4 players, 8/10 · review
  • Agricola — 1–5 players, 7.9/10
  • Formaggio — 1–4 players, 7.9/10
  • Maracaibo — 1–4 players, 7.9/10
  • Night at the Zoo — 1–4 players, 7.9/10 · review
  • Root — 2–4 players, 7.9/10
  • Shallow Sea — 1–4 players, 7.9/10
  • The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth — 1–5 players, 7.9/10
  • Unconscious Mind — 1–4 players, 7.9/10
  • Ants — 2–4 players, 7.8/10
  • Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure — 2–4 players, 7.8/10
  • Dominant Species — 2–6 players, 7.8/10
  • Endeavor: Age of Sail — 2–5 players, 7.8/10
  • Hansa Teutonica — 2–5 players, 7.8/10
  • Hutan: Life in the Rainforest — 1–4 players, 7.8/10 · review
  • Istanbul — 2–5 players, 7.8/10
  • Teotihuacan: City of Gods — 1–4 players, 7.8/10
  • The Voyages of Marco Polo — 2–4 players, 7.8/10
  • Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar — 2–4 players, 7.8/10
  • Caylus — 2–5 players, 7.7/10
  • Finspan — 1–5 players, 7.7/10
  • Fromage — 1–4 players, 7.7/10
  • Greylune — 2–4 players, 7.7/10
  • Iliad — 2 players, 7.7/10
  • Rajas of the Ganges — 2–4 players, 7.7/10
  • Star Wars: Outer Rim — 1–4 players, 7.7/10
  • The Search for Lost Species — 1–4 players, 7.7/10
  • Trajan — 2–4 players, 7.7/10
  • TZAAR — 2 players, 7.7/10
  • Arcadia Quest — 2–4 players, 7.6/10
  • Azul: Summer Pavilion — 2–4 players, 7.6/10
  • Black Forest — 1–4 players, 7.6/10
  • Blood Bowl (Third Edition) — 2 players, 7.6/10
  • Destinies — 1–3 players, 7.6/10
  • Feudum — 2–5 players, 7.6/10
  • Hive — 2 players, 7.6/10
  • Horrified — 1–5 players, 7.6/10
  • It's a Wonderful World — 1–5 players, 7.6/10
  • Mage Wars Arena — 2 players, 7.6/10
  • Near and Far — 2–4 players, 7.6/10
  • Rococo — 2–5 players, 7.6/10
  • Sagrada — 1–4 players, 7.6/10
  • The Taverns of Tiefenthal — 2–4 players, 7.6/10
  • Wild Gardens — 1–4 players, 7.6/10
  • Ark Nova — 1–4 players, 7.5/10
  • Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition — 2–6 players, 7.5/10
  • Captain Sonar — 2–8 players, 7.5/10
  • Faiyum — 1–5 players, 7.5/10
  • First Rat — 1–5 players, 7.5/10
  • Kemet — 2–5 players, 7.5/10
  • Notre Dame: 10th Anniversary — 2–5 players, 7.5/10
  • Pillars of Heracles — 2–4 players, 7.5/10
  • Reef — 2–4 players, 7.5/10
  • Sea Salt & Paper — 2–4 players, 7.5/10
  • Terraforming Mars — 1–5 players, 7.5/10
  • The Princes of Florence — 2–5 players, 7.5/10
  • Tokaido — 2–5 players, 7.5/10
  • Too Many Bones — 1–4 players, 7.5/10
  • Urbania — 2–5 players, 7.5/10
  • Western Legends — 2–6 players, 7.5/10 · review
  • Wingspan — 1–5 players, 7.5/10
  • ZÈRTZ — 2 players, 7.5/10
  • Azul: Queen's Garden — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Catacombs (Third Edition) — 2–5 players, 7.4/10
  • Direwild — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Dungeon Fighter (Second Edition) — 1–6 players, 7.4/10
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game — 1–5 players, 7.4/10
  • DVONN — 2 players, 7.4/10
  • Flamecraft — 1–5 players, 7.4/10
  • Galaxy Trucker (Second Edition) — 1–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Gizmos — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North — 1–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King — 2–5 players, 7.4/10
  • Kingdomino Origins — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest — 1–6 players, 7.4/10
  • Miyabi — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Roll Player — 1–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Soda Jerk — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Splendor — 2–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Tapestry — 1–5 players, 7.4/10
  • This Guilty Land — 2 players, 7.4/10
  • Tiny Epic Dinosaurs: Deluxe Edition — 1–4 players, 7.4/10
  • Andromeda's Edge — 2–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Antiquity — 2–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Apiary — 1–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra — 2–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Beer & Bread — 2 players, 7.3/10
  • Deep Regrets — 1–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Descent: Journeys in the Dark — 2–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Encyclopedia — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala — 2–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Imperial Settlers — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • In the Footsteps of Darwin — 2–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Junk Art — 2–6 players, 7.3/10
  • Lockup: A Roll Player Tale — 1–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Merchants of the Dark Road — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Misfit Heroes — 2–4 players, 7.3/10 · review
  • Mycelia — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Plague Inc.: The Board Game — 2–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Praetor — 2–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Suburbia — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Survive: Escape from Atlantis! — 2–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Tang Garden — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • The Manhattan Project — 2–5 players, 7.3/10
  • The Others — 2–5 players, 7.3/10
  • Windmill Valley — 1–4 players, 7.3/10
  • Dungeon Saga: Dwarf King's Quest — 2–5 players, 7.2/10
  • Forage — 1–6 players, 7.2/10 · review
  • Four Forests — 2–4 players, 7.2/10 · review
  • Harmonies — 1–4 players, 7.2/10 · review
  • Living Forest — 1–4 players, 7.2/10
  • Men at Work — 2–5 players, 7.2/10
  • Mice and Mystics — 1–4 players, 7.2/10
  • Mind Space — 1–5 players, 7.2/10
  • Mystic Vale — 2–4 players, 7.2/10
  • Philosophy — 2 players, 7.2/10
  • Rallyman — 1–4 players, 7.2/10
  • Small World Underground — 2–5 players, 7.2/10
  • The Red Dragon Inn 3 — 2–4 players, 7.2/10
  • The Vote: Suffrage and Suppression in America — 2–4 players, 7.2/10
  • The Wolves — 2–5 players, 7.2/10
  • Through the Desert — 2–5 players, 7.2/10
  • Tiny Towns — 1–6 players, 7.2/10
  • Wavelength — 2–12 players, 7.2/10
  • Ancient Knowledge — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Ecos: First Continent — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Eurorails — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Exodus: Proxima Centauri — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Gloomies — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Ingenious: Travel Edition — 2 players, 7.1/10
  • Inkwell — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Islebound — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Oceanos — 2–5 players, 7.1/10
  • Point City — 1–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Potion Explosion — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Rise of Tribes — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Savernake Forest — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Scoville — 2–6 players, 7.1/10
  • Taluva — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Terrors of London — 2 players, 7.1/10
  • Thurn and Taxis — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Tiger & Dragon — 2–5 players, 7.1/10
  • Torres — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Trains — 2–4 players, 7.1/10
  • Twinkle Twinkle — 1–4 players, 7.1/10
  • 7 Wonders Duel — 2 players, 7/10
  • A Gentle Rain — 1 player, 7/10
  • Above and Below — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Ankh: Gods of Egypt — 2–5 players, 7/10
  • Arcs — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Attika — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Brew — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Camel Up — 2–8 players, 7/10
  • Cartographers — 1–100 players, 7/10
  • Cascadia — 1–4 players, 7/10
  • Castle Combo — 2–5 players, 7/10
  • Century: Eastern Wonders — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Creature Comforts — 1–5 players, 7/10
  • Cyclades — 2–5 players, 7/10
  • Desperate Oasis — , 7/10
  • Ethnos — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Everdell — 1–4 players, 7/10
  • Evolution — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Fabled Fruit — 2–5 players, 7/10
  • Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Jump Drive — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Kingdomino — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • L'oaf — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Last Light — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Lizard Wizard — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Magic: The Gathering — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Market Fresh — 1–4 players, 7/10 · review
  • Mesos — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Qwixx: Das Duell — 2 players, 7/10
  • Ricochet Robots — 1–99 players, 7/10
  • RoboRally — 2–8 players, 7/10
  • Scythe — 1–5 players, 7/10
  • Shake That City — 1–4 players, 7/10
  • Small World — 2–5 players, 7/10
  • Spirits of the Wild: Awakening — 2 players, 7/10
  • Spring Meadow — 1–4 players, 7/10
  • Symbiosis — 2–4 players, 7/10 · review
  • Tales of the Arabian Nights — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • The Ancient World — 2–4 players, 7/10
  • Too Many Bones: Unbreakable — 1–2 players, 7/10
  • Trinket Trove — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Tumblin-Dice Medium — 2–6 players, 7/10
  • Valeria: Card Kingdoms — 1–5 players, 7/10
  • Wild: Serengeti — 1–4 players, 7/10
  • YINSH — 2 players, 7/10
  • Boggle — 1–8 players, 6.9/10
  • Deep Sea Adventure — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Dice Settlers — 1–4 players, 6.9/10
  • Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Dungeon Draft — 2–5 players, 6.9/10
  • Gnome Hollow — 1–4 players, 6.9/10
  • King's Forge — 2–4 players, 6.9/10
  • La Boca — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Memoarrr! — 2–4 players, 6.9/10
  • Mint Works — 1–4 players, 6.9/10
  • Nations: The Dice Game — 1–4 players, 6.9/10
  • Riff Raff — 2–4 players, 6.9/10
  • Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island — 1–4 players, 6.9/10
  • Star Trek Panic — 1–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Surfosaurus MAX — 2–6 players, 6.9/10
  • Tranquility — 1–5 players, 6.9/10
  • Akropolis — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Babel — 2–7 players, 6.8/10
  • Blokus 3D — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Century: Spice Road — 2–5 players, 6.8/10
  • Dandelions — 2–3 players, 6.8/10
  • El Gaucho — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Favor of the Pharaoh — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Flick 'em Up! — 2–10 players, 6.8/10
  • In the Footsteps of Marie Curie — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Magical Athlete — 2–6 players, 6.8/10 · review
  • NMBR 9 — 1–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Parks — 1–5 players, 6.8/10
  • Sierra West — 1–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Smiths of Winterforge — 2–5 players, 6.8/10
  • Starship Catan — 2 players, 6.8/10
  • The Club — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • The Great Heartland Hauling Co. — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Tuki — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Unearth — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Valley of the Kings: Afterlife — 1–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Venetia — 2–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Zapotec — 1–4 players, 6.8/10
  • Beez — 2–4 players, 6.7/10
  • Castle Panic — 1–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Dice City — 1–4 players, 6.7/10
  • Duck & Cover — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Four Humours — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Hey, That's My Fish! — 2–4 players, 6.7/10
  • Kodama: The Tree Spirits — 2–5 players, 6.7/10
  • Krosmaster: Arena — 2–4 players, 6.7/10
  • Mariposas — 2–5 players, 6.7/10
  • Marrakech — 2–4 players, 6.7/10
  • Medieval Merchant — 2–4 players, 6.7/10
  • Nestlings — 1–4 players, 6.7/10
  • New York Slice — 2–8 players, 6.7/10
  • The Mind — 2–4 players, 6.7/10
  • TransAmerica — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Treasure Hunter — 2–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Winterhaven Woods — 1–6 players, 6.7/10
  • Disc Duelers — 2–6 players, 6.6/10
  • Domaine — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Dungeon Lords — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Ex Libris — 1–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Formula Dé — 2–10 players, 6.6/10
  • Gads Hill 1874 — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Milestones — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Mistfall — 1–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Nevermore — 2–6 players, 6.6/10
  • Odin's Ravens — 2 players, 6.6/10
  • Okiya — 2 players, 6.6/10
  • Professor Evil and The Citadel of Time — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Puzzle Strike — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Samurai Spirit — 1–7 players, 6.6/10
  • Sea of Clouds — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Simurgh — 2–5 players, 6.6/10
  • Sunrise City — 2–4 players, 6.6/10
  • Tranquility: The Ascent — 1–5 players, 6.6/10
  • Attila — 2–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Bohnanza — 2–7 players, 6.5/10
  • BOOoop. — 2 players, 6.5/10 · review
  • Cartagena — 2–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Confusing Lands — 1–2 players, 6.5/10
  • Cosmoctopus — 1–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Dragonscroll — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Dreamwell — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Elfenroads — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Fruitoplay — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Grog Island — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Guillotine — 2–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Heimlich & Co. — 2–7 players, 6.5/10
  • Honeypot — 1–6 players, 6.5/10 · review
  • Livingstone — 2–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Marvel: Remix — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Nightmare Forest: Dead Run — 1–6 players, 6.5/10
  • Octopus' Garden — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Pizarro & Co. — 2–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Progress: Evolution of Technology — 1–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Quantum — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Run for Your Life, Candyman! — 2–6 players, 6.5/10
  • ScrumBrawl — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Sheepland — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Skyward — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Sushi Go! — 2–5 players, 6.5/10
  • Tikal — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Torres Family — 2–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Tsuro of the Seas — 2–8 players, 6.5/10
  • Woodcraft — 1–4 players, 6.5/10
  • Damage Report — 2–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Giza: The Great Pyramid — 2–4 players, 6.4/10
  • Imhotep — 2–4 players, 6.4/10
  • Manhattan — 2–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Medici — 2–6 players, 6.4/10
  • Portobello Market — 2–4 players, 6.4/10
  • Antarctica — 2–4 players, 6.3/10
  • Azul — 2–4 players, 6.3/10
  • Cockroach Poker — 2–6 players, 6.3/10
  • Dead Drop — 2–4 players, 6.3/10
  • dnup — 2–5 players, 6.3/10 · review
  • Dominion — 2–4 players, 6.3/10
  • Dread Curse — 2–6 players, 6.3/10
  • Entropy: Worlds Collide — 2–4 players, 6.3/10
  • First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet — 1–4 players, 6.3/10
  • Gloom — 2–5 players, 6.3/10
  • God Dice — 2–4 players, 6.3/10
  • Mahé — 2–7 players, 6.3/10
  • Monopoly Deal Card Game — 2–5 players, 6.3/10
  • Pantone: The Game — 2–20 players, 6.3/10
  • Pendulum — 2 players, 6.3/10
  • Shear Panic — 2–4 players, 6.3/10 · review
  • Subdivision — 1–4 players, 6.3/10
  • The Bucket King — 2–6 players, 6.3/10
  • Triplock — 1–2 players, 6.3/10
  • Wild Realms — 1–4 players, 6.3/10
  • Anno 1503 — 2–4 players, 6.2/10
  • BIOTIX — 2–5 players, 6.2/10
  • Compounded — 2–5 players, 6.2/10
  • Dungeon Rush — 2–5 players, 6.2/10
  • Hellas — 2 players, 6.2/10
  • King's Breakfast — 2–4 players, 6.2/10
  • Lemming Mafia — 2–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Pocket Imperium — 2–4 players, 6.2/10
  • Truffle Shuffle — 2–99 players, 6.2/10
  • Unspeakable Words — 2–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Why First? — 2–6 players, 6.2/10
  • Dice Town — 2–5 players, 6.1/10
  • Dungeon Roll — 1–4 players, 6.1/10
  • Family Business — 2–6 players, 6.1/10
  • JAB: Realtime Boxing — 2 players, 6.1/10
  • Kings of Artifice — 2–5 players, 6.1/10
  • Mammoth Hunters — 2–4 players, 6.1/10
  • Quest for the Antidote — 2–6 players, 6.1/10
  • Raise Your Goblets — 2–12 players, 6.1/10
  • Succulent — 2–4 players, 6.1/10
  • Titan Race — 2–6 players, 6.1/10
  • Acquire — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Africa — 2–5 players, 6/10
  • Airships — 2–5 players, 6/10
  • Balloon Cup — 2 players, 6/10
  • Bring Out Yer Dead — 2–5 players, 6/10
  • Castle — 2 players, 6/10
  • Catch the Moon — 1–6 players, 6/10
  • Chaosmos — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • Codenames — 2–8 players, 6/10
  • Element — 2 players, 6/10
  • Elfenland — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Emerald — 2–5 players, 6/10
  • Foodies — 2–5 players, 6/10
  • Giganten — 2–5 players, 6/10
  • King of Tokyo — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Long Shot: The Dice Game — 1–8 players, 6/10
  • New Dawn — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • Open Ocean — 1–5 players, 6/10
  • Pick Picknic — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Provincia Romana — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • Revive — 1–4 players, 6/10
  • Rum & Bones — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Sorry! Sliders — 1–4 players, 6/10
  • Spirit Island — 1–4 players, 6/10
  • Wacky Wacky West — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • Wasabi! — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • WildLife — 2–6 players, 6/10
  • Wyatt Earp — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • Zen Garden — 2–4 players, 6/10
  • Clash of the Gladiators — 2–4 players, 5.9/10
  • CV — 2–4 players, 5.9/10
  • CVlizations — 2–5 players, 5.9/10
  • Java — 2–4 players, 5.9/10
  • Killer Bunnies and the Conquest of the Magic Carrot — 2–8 players, 5.9/10
  • Realm of Sand — 1–4 players, 5.9/10
  • Cross Hares: Testing Ground — 2–4 players, 5.8/10
  • Montgolfière — 2–6 players, 5.8/10
  • Mythe — 2–5 players, 5.8/10
  • The Phantom Society — 2–4 players, 5.8/10
  • This Belongs in a Museum — 2–4 players, 5.8/10
  • Whale to Look — 2–5 players, 5.8/10
  • Yardmaster Express — 2–5 players, 5.8/10
  • Gear & Piston — 2–6 players, 5.7/10
  • Geek Out! — 2–99 players, 5.7/10
  • Mars Needs Mechanics — 2–4 players, 5.7/10
  • Paradise Fallen: The Card Game — 2–4 players, 5.7/10
  • Evergreen — 2–6 players, 5.6/10
  • Killer Bunnies and the Journey to Jupiter — 2–6 players, 5.6/10
  • Tiki Mountain! — 2–6 players, 5.6/10
  • ...and then, we held hands — 2 players, 5.5/10 · review
  • Bosk — 2–4 players, 5.5/10
  • Expancity — 2–4 players, 5.5/10
  • Geek Out! Pop Culture Party — 2–99 players, 5.5/10
  • Kenny G: Keepin' It Saxy Game — 2–5 players, 5.5/10
  • Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot — 2–8 players, 5.5/10
  • Killer Bunnies: Heroes vs. Villains – Blue Starter Deck — 2–4 players, 5.5/10
  • Landmarks — 2–10 players, 5.5/10
  • Maginor — 2–4 players, 5.5/10
  • Nimalia — 2–4 players, 5.5/10
  • Redneck Life — 2–6 players, 5.5/10
  • Deep Dive — 1–6 players, 5.4/10
  • Epic Death! — 2–5 players, 5.4/10
  • Illusion — 2–5 players, 5.4/10
  • Coal Country — 2–4 players, 5.3/10
  • Shark Island — 2–5 players, 5.3/10
  • Mad QUAO — 2–6 players, 5.2/10
  • Corgi Pileup — 2–7 players, 5/10
  • Dimension — 1–4 players, 5/10
  • Limbo — 2 players, 5/10
  • Mysterium — 2–7 players, 5/10
  • Ninja — 2 players, 5/10
  • Paranoia — 2–4 players, 5/10
  • Paris Paris — 2–4 players, 5/10
  • Zombies!!! — 2–6 players, 5/10
  • HOP! — 2–4 players, 4.9/10
  • The Hobbit: The Defeat of Smaug — 2–6 players, 4.9/10
  • Penguin — 2–6 players, 4.8/10
  • Fairy Tale Assassin League: Red Riding Hood Rampage — 2–8 players, 4.6/10
  • Clans — 2–4 players, 4.4/10
  • AssassinCon — 2–6 players, 4/10
  • Bookmaker — 2–6 players, 4/10
  • ESSEN — 2–4 players, 4/10
  • The Princess Bride: Prepare to Die — 2–10 players, 3.6/10
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Hi, I'm Norman — this is my personal board game collection tracker: every game I own, every session I've logged, and honest reviews as I write them. I built it to keep an accurate record for myself, and to give other hobbyists something real to compare notes against.

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