CATAN
Trade resources, build across the island and race for ten victory points in the defining modern gateway game.
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Board games
Find your next table favourite.
Quick team games and thoughtful strategy both belong at a great first night—and give the group a reason to schedule the next one.
SitomoPlay picks
Fifteen games we would happily put on the table.
The list begins with the games people know and play most widely. Every pick still balances approachability, replay value and a satisfying result to record.
Ticket to Ride
A welcoming route-building classic that gives new players meaningful choices from the first turn.
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Codenames
Fast team deduction with a tiny rules overhead and endless room for inspired—or disastrous—clues.
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Carcassonne
Build a shared landscape one tile at a time, then commit your limited meeples where they can score best.
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Wingspan
A rich engine-builder for groups ready to settle in, experiment and watch a strategy take flight.
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Splendor
Collect gems, reserve developments and build an efficient engine in a polished strategy game with very little downtime.
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Pandemic
Coordinate specialist roles, contain outbreaks and race together to discover four cures before time runs out.
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7 Wonders
Simultaneous card drafting keeps a larger group moving while different strategies emerge every game.
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Azul
Tactile, elegant and quietly competitive—a strong choice when the table wants strategy without a long teach.
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Terraforming Mars
Develop a corporation, reshape three global parameters and build a long strategy across a shared Mars.
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Dominion
Build a deck as you play, turning a modest starting hand into an efficient kingdom of actions, treasure and points.
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Dixit
Give imaginative clues to dreamlike illustrations and score when your meaning is neither too obvious nor too obscure.
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King of Tokyo
Roll, reroll and press your luck as giant monsters compete for twenty points—or simply outlast everyone else.
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Love Letter
A tiny, quick deduction game where one card in hand can reveal a rival, protect a plan or win the round.
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Just One
A generous cooperative word game that works as an opener, a closer or the whole reason to gather.
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Make it a season
Change the game. Keep the rivalry.
Play something different every month and award season points by finish. The rules can change while the standings—and the friendly bragging rights—keep building.
Create your season- 1Gather your group
Invite the people who belong at this table.
- 2Choose a scoring rhythm
Record wins, placements, points or team results.
- 3Let the rivalry grow
Turn each game into part of a story worth returning to.