Educational Board Games

We believe play comes first. The best learning happens when we’re present with each other, curious, and having fun. This collection highlights games that nurture connection and growth—without turning play into homework.

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Found 127 games

Our Game Collection

6 nimmt!

A true classic. As simple as it is, it’s equally thinky and math-heavy.

8-99 45 min 2-10 players

Skills: This game enhances strategic thinking, risk assessment, and probability skills, as players must carefully choose where to place their cards to avoid penalties.

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Abszolút képtelen sztorik (Absolutely Impossible Stories)

Tetris? Word formation? Brain burner? Roll and write Scrabble.

9-99 60 min 3-6 players

Skills: Linguistic expression, listening comprehension, text creation, writing, reading.

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Abszolút megvadult betűk (Absolutely Wild Letters)

Tetris? Word formation? Brain burner? Roll and write Scrabble.

9-99 60 min 1-6 players

Skills: The game develops vocabulary, creativity, and strategic planning.

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Animal Upon Animal

A delightful balancing game that calls for players to balance different wooden animals on top of one another.

4-99 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: The game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and strategic thinking, as players carefully stack animals without toppling the tower.

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Apples to Apples

Fun party game matching objects with descriptions

12-99 20-30 min 4-10 players

Skills: Language skills, creativity, social interaction

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Aton

Card-based strategy with an ancient Egyptian theme.

8-99 30 min 2 players

Skills: Aton enhances strategic thinking, planning, and adaptability, as players must allocate cards effectively to control temples and anticipate opponents' moves.

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Azul

Beautiful tile-laying strategy game.

8-99 30-45 min 2-4 players

Skills: Strategic thinking, pattern recognition, planning ahead.

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Bananagrams

Bananagrams is a fast-paced, Scrabble-like word game where players race against each other to build a grid of words using their letter tiles, without the need for a board or a turn-based system.

7-99 15 min 1-8 players

Skills: Bananagrams enhances vocabulary, immediate word formation skills, anagram creation, linguistic creativity.

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Bandido

Age, Playing Time, Players

6-99 10-15 min 1-4 players

Skills: Logical thinking, planning, spatial awareness.

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Batasaurus

A memory-powered dinosaur duel where every number counts and clever strategy wins the battle.

5-99 10 min 2-4 players

Skills: Memory, number comparison and basic math concepts, strategic thinking, focus and attention.

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Bausack

We bid, assess risks, or simply build—all with unique, high-quality, and beautifully crafted wooden pieces.

7-99 15-45 min 2-8 players

Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, balance, spatial awareness, and strategic thinking, as players carefully stack odd-shaped pieces while making tactical decisions.

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Beer & Bread

A beautifully balanced two-player game of card drafting, resource management, and strategic decision-making

10-99 30-45 min 2 players

Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic planning, resource management, and decision-making

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Betrayal at House on the Hill

The game comes with multiple room tiles, character tokens, and cards.

8+ 30 min 2-6 players

Skills: Enhances creative thinking, storytelling, and language skills.

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Blokus

Blokus is an engaging strategy board game that is as vibrant and competitive as it is brain-teasing.

7-99 20 min 2-4 players

Skills: The game enhances spatial reasoning, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and visual planning, as players must carefully place their pieces while blocking opponents.

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Blue Banana

A simple yet surprisingly challenging pattern recognition game.

8-99 10-15 min 1-6 players

Skills: Pattern recognition, visual perception, quick thinking.

Boggle

Dice, letters, words. A great combination.

8-99 10 min 1-8 players

Skills: Spelling, word recognition, vocabulary expansion, quick thinking

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Boggle Junior

Dice, letters, words. A great combination.

3-99 10 min 1-2 players

Skills: Spelling, word recognition, fine motor skills

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Bugs in the Kitchen

A dynamic board game featuring a small, vibrating hexbug that players must guide into their traps by creatively turning cutleries set up in a maze.

6+ 15-20 min 2-4 players

Skills: Problem-solving, strategic thinking, hand-eye coordination, and quick decision-making

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Button Up!

Abstract button-stacking duel with spies, combos, and clever movement.

8-99 15 min 2 players

Skills: It develops logical thinking, spatial reasoning, and planning skills.

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Cascadia

Cascadia is an engaging and accessible board game that invites players to explore and enjoy the diverse habitat of the Pacific Northwest.

10-99 30-45 min 1-4 players

Skills: The game enhances pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, strategic planning, and decision-making, as players must optimize their habitat and wildlife placements for maximum points.

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Castle Panic

Work together to defend the castle from waves of monsters.

8-99 30-60 min 1-6 players

Skills: Teamwork, prioritization, threat assessment.

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Catan

Catan is a thrilling board game where players aim to build and develop holdings by trading and acquiring resources.

10-99 60-120 min 3-4 players

Skills: The game enhances strategic thinking, resource management, negotiation skills, and decision-making, as players must trade, build, and expand while adapting to an ever-changing board.

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Citadels

A clever hidden-role game where you never know whom to trust.

10-99 30-60 min 2-8 players

Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic decision-making based on card text, verbal interaction as players negotiate and bluff

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Claim

Two-phase card game with a twist on trick-taking.

10-99 25 min 2 players

Skills: Claim supports strategic thinking, memory, and planning skills through its two-phase gameplay.

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Closest

The game 'Race to Infinity' is a perfect example

4-8 10-30 min 2-4 players

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Clue

Classic murder mystery board game

8-99 45 min 2-6 players

Skills: Logical reasoning, deduction skills, critical thinking, and memory

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Codenames

The classic Codenames in a picture version, which makes it playable with younger children as well.

14-99 15 min 2-8 players

Skills: The game develops critical thinking, word association, teamwork, deduction, and communication skills.

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Codenames Duet

A classic game with a familiar gameplay, optimized for two players

11-99 15-30 min 2 players

Skills: Word association, inference skills, critical thinking, and verbal communication

Codenames: Duet

A classic game with a familiar gameplay, optimized for two players.

11-99 15-30 min 2 players

Skills: The game enhances word association, inference skills, critical thinking, and verbal communication.

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Codenames: Pictures

The classic Codenames in a picture version, which makes it playable with younger children as well.

10-99 15 min 2-8 players

Skills: Critical thinking, teamwork, association skills as players connect images with clues

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Colt Express

A wild west bank heist powered by programming and chaos.

10-99 40 min 2-6 players

Skills: Planning ahead, sequential memory, spatial reasoning, light arithmetic when calculating loot or card order.

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Concept

It's a game of abstraction and association.

10-99 40 min 4-12 players

Skills: Creativity, abstract thinking, communication skills as players use symbols to convey ideas without words

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Crokinole

A flicking classic. That’s it.

8-99 30 min 2-4 players

Skills: This game enhances hand-eye coordination, precision, fine motor control, and strategic thinking, as players flick discs with controlled force and accuracy.

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Deep Sea Adventure

Modern and good roll-and-move game? Yes, it exists!

8-99 30 min 2-6 players

Skills: Tactical thinking, risk management, decision-making.

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Diamoniak

A magical race to build your castle—just beware of witches, wild spells, and your own daring!

5-99 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: Risk assessment and decision-making, planning and strategy, color and pattern recognition, turn-taking and patience.

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Dixit

Dixit is a card game that invites players to rely on their intuition and imagination to guess which card one player, the storyteller, is describing.

8-99 30 min 3-8 players

Skills: Dixit develops creativity, abstract thinking, and social interaction skills as players interpret and guess the story behind the images.

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Djeco Mysterix

The odd one out is a classic children's game, and when put on cards, it becomes an exciting, fast-paced card game.

4-99 10 min 2-5 players

Skills: Visual perception, attention to detail, quick thinking skills

Dragomino

An enchanting, kid-friendly adaptation of the popular game Kingdomino.

5+ 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: Pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, decision-making, and basic strategic thinking

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Familou

Chatty, placing, collecting cooperation.

5-99 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: Cooperation, logical thinking, memory.

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For Sale

Two types of bidding, a game split into two phases—simple yet brilliantly clever classic.

10-99 30 min 3-6 players

Skills: This game enhances strategic thinking, bidding skills, risk assessment, and financial awareness, as players must evaluate when to spend and when to save.

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Game of Six

Multiplication practice with dice

6-12 15-30 min 2-6 players

Skills: Multiplication, addition

Games

Creative board games can enhance cognitive skills in several ways

4-8 10-30 min 2-4 players

Skills: Strategic thinking

Ganz Schön Clever

Dice rolling strategy game

8-99 20-40 min 1-4 players

Skills: Combinations and permutations, addition, multiplication, strategy and decision making, mathematical logic

Hanabi

A clever cooperative deduction card game with a unique twist.

8+ 25 min 2-5 players

Skills: Enhances logical thinking, memory, communication skills, and teamwork.

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Hanamikoji

Elegant card duel with tense gift-giving decisions.

10-99 15 min 2 players

Skills: It sharpens decision-making, strategic planning, and the ability to anticipate your opponent’s moves.

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Hoot Owl Hoot

A cooperative colour-coded board game where players work together to help the owls fly back to their nest before the sun comes up.

4+ 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: Cooperation, color recognition, strategic thinking, and turn-taking skills

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ICECOOL

Everyone loves flicking games—many of us played spontaneous versions as kids. ICECOOL brilliantly captures and packages that experience into a board game.

6-99 30 min 2-4 players

Skills: This game enhances hand-eye coordination, flicking precision, spatial awareness, and strategic thinking, as players navigate the board by skillfully flicking their penguins.

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Jaipur

Trading and set collection with a market theme.

10-99 30 min 2 players

Skills: Jaipur builds decision-making, tactical planning, and risk-reward assessment.

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Jenga

A game that everyone knows, everyone has played, and yet we still don’t hate it.

6-99 20 min 1-8 players

Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and concentration, as players carefully remove and place blocks without toppling the tower.

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Kapitän Wackelpudding

It's fascinating how simple building blocks can be turned into such a fun and engaging dexterity game.

8-99 30 min 2-5 players

Skills: This game helps improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and balance, as players carefully place cargo on the unsteady ship without tipping it over.

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Kingdomino

Build your perfect kingdom by matching tiles and multiplying crowns.

8-99 15-25 min 2-6 players

Skills: Multiplication in scoring (area × crowns), spatial awareness, tile matching, basic arithmetic.

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Kiwi

A kiwi is rolling on the ground, who knows where it will stop?

6-99 15 min 2-6 players

Skills: Working memory, spatial orientation, learning directions, coding

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Klask

You can’t see what your hand is doing, yet you’re trying to score a goal with it? The concept is unique, and so is the execution. A modern classic of our time.

8-99 10 min 2 players

Skills: This game enhances hand-eye coordination, reaction speed, dexterity, and strategic thinking, as players control their strikers using magnets beneath the board.

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Ligretto

A lightning-speed card game where numbers fly and reflexes rule.

8-99 10 min 2-4 players

Skills: Quick number sequencing, hand-eye coordination, visual memory.

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Limes

Grid-based tile and meeple placement for efficient land use.

8-99 20 min 1-2 players

Skills: It develops spatial awareness, planning, and strategic thinking.

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Little Action

A truly adorable game, perfect for introducing children to the world of board gaming.

2-99 10 min 2-4 players

Skills: Little Action helps improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, balance, and dexterity, while also encouraging turn-taking and following instructions.

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Loopin' Louie

A fast-paced and energetic board game that requires players to protect their chicken chips from Louie's swooping and loop-de-looping airplane.

4+ 10 min 2-4 players

Skills: Hand-eye coordination, reaction speed, fine motor skills, and timing

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Love Letter

Just 16 cards and 9 characters, yet it's clever and exciting.

10-99 20 min 2-4 players

Skills: Reading comprehension, deduction, bluffing, strategic communication, as players must interpret card effects and anticipate opponents' moves

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Magic Maze Kids

This is an engaging cooperative game adapted from the famous Magic Maze game but designed specifically for children.

5+ 15-25 min 2-4 players

Skills: The game enhances cooperation, problem-solving, spatial awareness, and communication, as players must work together silently to guide their heroes through the maze.

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Mahé

Stacking and racing game

6-99 20-40 min 2-6 players

Skills: Counting, multiplication, addition

Mammoth Maths

Simple addition and subtraction game

4-8 10-20 min 2-4 players

Skills: Addition, subtraction

Mandala

Abstract duel of color and pattern with shared tension.

10-99 20 min 2 players

Skills: It supports strategic thinking, color recognition, and pattern-building skills.

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Mastermind

Code-breaking logic game

6-99 10-30 min 2 players

Skills: Logical thinking, combinatorial and permutation skills, pattern recognition

Math Dice

Target number calculation game

8-14 10-20 min 2-8 players

Skills: Calculation, addition and subtraction, number system, logical thinking

Mice and Mystics

Players, transformed into mice, go on a whimsical adventure through a castle full of dangers.

7-99 60-90 min 1-4 players

Skills: Enhances problem-solving, teamwork, and storytelling abilities.

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Mmm!

Roll dice to collect food before the mouse gets caught.

5-99 15-20 min 1-6 players

Skills: Probability assessment, collaboration, risk management.

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Monopoly

Monopoly is a classic board game that combines strategy, chance, and the principles of real-estate trading.

8-99 60-180 min 2-8 players

Skills: The game enhances financial literacy, strategic decision-making, negotiation skills, and risk assessment, as players must manage money, buy properties, and make deals.

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Mysterix

You'd think it's simple and easy to remember — but your memory will only get in the way!

4-99 10 min 2-5 players

Skills: Visual perception, concentration, speed.

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Nine Tiles Panic

Frantically rushing and thinking tactically at the same time? Yes!

7-99 20 min 2-5 players

Skills: Visual perception, quick thinking, spatial awareness.

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No Thanks!

Take it or leave it? That’s all there is to it—yet every decision makes you sweat.

8-99 20 min 3-7 players

Skills: This game enhances strategic thinking, risk assessment, probability calculation, and decision-making skills, as players must weigh when to take cards and when to pass.

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Once Upon A Time

This is a narrative card game where players create their own stories while playing cards from their hands.

8-99 30 min 2-6 players

Skills: Reading and storytelling skills, creative thinking, understanding of language structures

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Outfoxed!

A cooperative deduction board game where players work together to discover which fox stole Mrs Plumpert's prized pot pie.

5+ 20 min 2-4 players

Skills: Logical reasoning, deduction, teamwork, and problem-solving skills

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Pandemic

The game is perfect for high school students as it offers intellectual stimulation, fosters teamwork, and educates players about global health and geography facts.

8-99 45 min 2-4 players

Skills: The game enhances cooperative strategy, critical thinking, teamwork, decision-making, and crisis management, as players must work together to stop the global spread of diseases.

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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

A cooperative board game where players work together to prevent global pandemics.

13+ 90 min 2-4 players

Skills: Encourages vocabulary expansion, spelling accuracy, and strategic thinking.

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Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

Tile placement and city building.

8-99 30 min 2 players

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Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

Tile placement and city building.

8-99 30 min 2 players

Skills: It enhances spatial reasoning, tactical planning, and decision-making.

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Patchwork

Patchwork is a two-player game that merges the calming art of quilting with strategic gameplay, an interesting dichotomy that sets it apart.

8-99 15-30 min 2 players

Skills: The game enhances spatial reasoning, resource management, strategic planning, and decision-making, as players must efficiently fit patches onto their board while managing their button economy.

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Pentomino

Spatial puzzle with geometric shapes

6-99 15-45 min 1-4 players

Skills: Spatial reasoning, geometry, problem-solving

Pictionary

A classic drawing game where players have to guess what their team-mate is trying to draw.

12-99 90 min 3-16 players

Skills: Enhances creative thinking, non-verbal communication, and teamwork.

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Piou Piou

A fast-paced, collection-based game full of playful take-that moments.

5-99 10 min 2-5 players

Skills: Strategic thinking, set collection, basic logic.

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Pipolo

A real oddball—yet you have to bluff with a straight face.

5-99 10 min 2-4 players

Skills: Bluffing, rule recognition, visual discrimination.

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Piratatak

Set sail for adventure in this risky pirate quest where fortune favors the bold—but watch out for enemy attacks!

5-99 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: Strategic decision-making, basic resource management, risk-taking and probability sense, focus and planning.

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Point Salad

A fast-food math puzzle where veggies and strategy meet.

10-99 15-30 min 2-6 players

Skills: Addition, comparison, planning, adapting to changing point conditions.

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Prime Climb

Prime number strategy game

10-99 30-60 min 2-4 players

Skills: Primes and composite numbers, multiplication and divisibility, calculation and basic operations, strategy and logic

Qwirkle

Take it or leave it? That’s all there is to it—yet every decision makes you sweat.

6-99 45 min 2-4 players

Skills: This game enhances pattern recognition, strategic thinking, spatial awareness, and planning skills, as players must carefully place tiles to maximize their points.

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Rhino Hero

If a child loves UNO and enjoys building, this board game is a fantastic way to take things to the next level.

5-99 5-15 min 2-5 players

Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and strategic thinking, as players carefully balance and build a tower without knocking it over.

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Ricochet Robots

Spatial programming puzzle

8-99 15-45 min 1-99 players

Skills: Spatial awareness, logical reasoning, coordination and planning, mathematical thinking, working memory, programming

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Risk

Risk is a board game of diplomacy, conflict, and conquest. It's a classic game of strategy where players' ultimate goal is to occupy every territory on the board and eliminate other players in the process, thereby establishing supremacy in the world.

10-99 120 min 2-6 players

Skills: The game enhances strategic thinking, tactical decision-making, risk assessment, negotiation skills, and resource management, as players must carefully plan attacks and defenses while expanding their empires.

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Rory's Story Cubes

Players roll dice with different images and weave a story based on the results.

6-99 20 min 1-12 players

Skills: It enhances imagination, storytelling, and lateral thinking.

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Rummikub Word

Rummikub is a well-known and beloved game among adults, but fewer people are aware that there is a word-building edition as well.

8-99 30 min 2-4 players

Skills: The game enhances vocabulary, spelling, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and cognitive flexibility, making it a great brain-training activity for players of all ages.

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Schnapp den Sack

Quick counting and grabbing game

4-8 10-20 min 2-6 players

Skills: Addition, strategic thinking, number sorting and comparison, counting and comparison

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Schotten Totten

Card strategy with territory control.

8-99 20 min 2 players

Skills: It enhances logical thinking, memory, and tactical decision-making.

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Scout

Can classic card game mechanics still offer something new? They can!

9-99 20 min 2-5 players

Skills: Strategic thinking, number sequencing, risk management.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a classic word game where players earn points by creating words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15x15 grid.

10-99 90 min 2-4 players

Skills: Scrabble enhances vocabulary, spelling, strategic thinking, and mathematical skills through word formation and scoring.

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Scrabble Junior

A classic children's version. If we love it, we can easily engage the kids with this version.

5-99 30 min 2-4 players

Skills: Spelling, vocabulary, strategic thinking skills

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Set

A fast-paced pattern recognition card game.

6-99 10-20 min 1-20 players

Skills: Pattern recognition, visual perception, logical thinking.

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

The game includes case booklets, newspapers, and a map of Victorian London.

13-99 60-120 min 1-8 players

Skills: Encourages problem-solving, logic, and cooperative play.

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Similo

Many themes, simple, clever, with minimal yet engaging text.

7-99 10-15 min 2-8 players

Skills: Reading comprehension, inference skills, logical reasoning, associative thinking

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Sky Team

Cooperative flight simulation for two players—land the plane together, silently.

12-99 15 min 2 players

Skills: Cooperation, communication, and planning under pressure.

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Smath

Math crossword puzzle game

6-12 20-40 min 2-4 players

Skills: Calculation, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, logical thinking, pattern recognition

Snake Oil

Players invent unique products and sell them to all sorts of quirky customers.

10-99 20-30 min 3-10 players

Skills: Encourages creativity, persuasive speaking, and entrepreneurship.

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Souvenirs from Venice

Shopping peacefully? No way!

8-99 30 min 2-5 players

Skills: Memory, strategic thinking, set collection.

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Speedy Words

A fast-paced word game that challenges players to think quickly, recall vocabulary, and react faster than their opponents—perfect for sharpening language skills in a fun way!

6-99 10-15 min 2-8 players

Skills: The game enhances vocabulary, quick word recall, categorization skills, and reading speed.

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Splendor

Gem trading engine building game

10-99 30-45 min 2-4 players

Skills: Resource management, arithmetic, economic concepts

Spot It!

Spot it! or Dobble, the key is to pay close attention, notice the matches, and be the fastest.

7-99 15 min 2-8 players

Skills: Visual perception and shape-background differentiation

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Story Cubes

A dice game that encourages players to invent stories based on randomly rolled symbols.

6-99 20 min 1-12 players

Skills: Creativity, storytelling, problem-solving skills

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Stuffed Fables

Progress through a narrative by using dice and choosing actions.

7-99 60-90 min 2-4 players

Skills: Imagination, narrative skills, emotional regulation.

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Taboo

A lesson in communication, Taboo forces players to convey ideas without obvious cues, a valuable skill in effective communication.

12-99 20 min 4-10 players

Skills: The game enhances vocabulary, quick thinking, communication skills, and verbal expression, as players must describe words without using restricted terms.

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Targi

A clever two-player worker placement game with tactical positioning, resource management, and intense competition

12-99 60 min 2 players

Skills: Strategic thinking, resource management, tactical positioning

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Terraforming Mars

Educational board game for children

4-8 10-30 min 2-4 players

Skills: Various skills depending on game mechanics

Test Game

A test game

8-99 30-60 min 2-4 players

Skills: Testing

The Deadlies

If you love messing with your opponents, this is the game for you—but only if you're good at finding the right combos.

10-99 30 min 3-6 players

Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic thinking, verbal interaction, as players must carefully interpret card abilities and plan their moves accordingly

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The Fox in the Forest

Fairy tale trick-taking with clever card powers.

10-99 30 min 2 players

Skills: It enhances strategic thinking, memory, and timing.

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The Fox in the Forest Duet

Two-player? Trick-taking? And actually good? Yes!

10-99 30 min 2 players

Skills: Strategic thinking, cooperative decision-making, reading comprehension, and inference skills

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Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride is a true classic and an excellent introductory game, as its rules are not too complex, yet there is plenty to think about.

8-99 30-60 min 2-5 players

Skills: The game enhances strategic planning, decision-making, route optimization, and spatial reasoning, as players must carefully choose and connect railway routes while blocking opponents.

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Tides of Time

Two-player drafting, combo-building, and competition

10-99 2 min 2 players

Skills: Reading comprehension, strategic planning, pattern recognition, and decision-making

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Tokyo Highway

For those who love board games with a truly unique table presence, Tokyo Highway can easily become a favorite.

8-99 30 min 2-4 players

Skills: This game enhances fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and strategic planning, as players carefully construct an intricate highway network without knocking over structures.

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Typo

Simple rules, simple ideas, true Knizia ease.

8-99 20 min 2-4 players

Skills: Vocabulary and quick thinking skills

Unstable Unicorns

Unstable Unicorns is a fantastic game that brings an exciting mix of strategy, interaction and a touch of whimsical fantasy into a high school classroom learning environment.

8-99 30-60 min 2-8 players

Skills: The game enhances strategic thinking, decision-making, adaptability, and hand management, as players must build their unicorn army while sabotaging opponents.

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Vikingdoms

Strategic raiding with shared troops and a race to build or loot first.

12-99 20-30 min 2 players

Skills: It develops tactical planning, spatial reasoning, and resource management.

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Wavelength

Wavelength is an innovative and social guessing game that tests your ability to connect and think in sync with others.

14-99 30-45 min 2-12 players

Skills: The game enhances abstract thinking, communication skills, teamwork, and interpretation of nuances, as players must convey and understand subjective concepts within a given range.

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Werewords

A fast-paced word game where you either win with smart questions or deceive others with clever bluffing—but watch out, the werewolf is watching!

8-99 10 min 4-10 players

Skills: Vocabulary, deductive reasoning, question formation, verbal communication, as players must ask strategic questions to guess the secret word while identifying hidden roles

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Wingspan

Educational board game for children

4-8 10-30 min 2-4 players

Skills: Various skills depending on game mechanics

Word Bits

Simple rules, simple ideas, true Knizia ease.

8-99 20 min 2-4 players

Skills: Vocabulary and quick thinking skills

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Word Rummikub

Rummikub is a well-known and beloved game among adults, but fewer people are aware that there is a word-building edition as well.

8-99 30 min 2-4 players

Skills: Vocabulary, spelling, strategic thinking, problem-solving, cognitive flexibility, making it a great brain-training activity for players of all ages

Zingo!

If we take a step back to focus on developing phonological awareness, "Zingo!" is a great recommendation.

4-99 5 min 2-8 players

Skills: Phonological awareness, vocabulary, matching skills

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Zombie Kidz Evolution

Complete missions and unlock new content while keeping zombies out.

7-99 15 min 2-4 players

Skills: Long-term planning, cooperation, perseverance.

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