Games

NEW ARRIVALS (followed by complete list of games by category):

Sky Team – Land a plane safely (winner Spiel des Jahres 2024)
Dune Imperium – Deck building and worker placement on the Spice Plane
Century – Golem edition (Century Spice Road with gems not spices)
Century Eastern Mountains – Golem edition
Century Endless World – Golem edition
Dumb questions to ask your friends – Find the right question based on the answers
Tilt ‘n’ Shout – Carry on with answers until the tilting finds a winner
Ghosts Can’t Draw – Somewhere between a ouija board and Pictionary
Mini-Game Party – a stack of Big Potato games for two teams
Fruit Punch aka Halli Gallie – Count up to 5 and hit a banana
Tug – Team quiz with a … tug of war
Smuggle – sneak random words into otherwise sensible answers
Bang! Out of Order – put answers in order of size from zero to infinity
Ultimatch – co-op card game finding matches of additions, subtractions, and even colour mixes
Out of Order – Quiz where you provide the answer to the previous question
Herd Mentality: Moosic & Moovies – avoid the gold cow, probably called Oscar
Honeycombs – match hex edges, in a race
Ski Run – play cards to take the lifts up, and risk the black run down
Who Knows Where? (United Kingdom) – know your landmarks and UK geography
Mapominoes (Europe) – which country borders which countries?
Mapominoes (United Kingdom) – which county borders which?
Backpacker – collect photos around the world, in a take that card game

You can look at our collection on Board Game Geek. And here too is the list – conveniently divided into categories (please feel free to contradict any labels imposed here):

Popular Modern games
Agricola – chunky farming game, quite a few rules
Azul – place your tiles for the number 1 abstract game on BoardGameGeek
Camel Cup (officially named Camel Up!) – bet on camel racing
Carcassonne – the original tile-laying game
Century: Spice Road – 2-level Splendor
Citadels – be a new character every round
Colt Express – aim for the sheriff but probably punch the air
Five Tribes – more meeples than you can sheik a stick at
Kingdomino – build a 5×5 island … carefully
Power Grid + UK Expansion
Puerto Rico – construct buildings, ship goods, try being governor
Race for the Galaxy – choose a phase then decide if your cards are money or tools
Reef – think of it as 3D Splendor
Sagrada –  making stained glass windows out of dice
San Juan – set collecting & city building
Scythe – mechs and minis in an alternate history
Settlers of Catan (incl 5-6 player expansion or Cities & Knights Expansion)
Small World – where else will you find Fortified Dwarves and Mounted Amazons?
Splendor – choose gems, buy mines, build an engine for more
Star Trek Catan – to boldly trade sci-fi wood for sheep, I mean dilithium for tritanium
Terraforming Mars – if we can’t save this planet, make Mars habitable
Ticket to Ride – there will be one in every home
Ticket to Ride : Marklin – this is the German map (Marklin are model trains)
Ticket to Ride : Nordic Counties – with tunnels, ferries and a 9-carriage route
Ticket to Ride Europe – with tunnels, ferries and stations
Ticket to Ride Europe: 1912 expansion
Ticket to Ride United Kingdom – with locomotives improving technology
Ticket to Ride London – mini board with buses not trains
Wingspan – birds, eggs & a tower
7 Wonders – pick and pass resource management where your neighbours may help

Co-operative / asymmetric games
Betrayal at House on the Hill – explore the haunted house, but one of you may be a traitor
Burgle Bros. – rob all three floors before the security guards get you,
The Captain is DEAD – co-operate to save the starship Enterprise & not die like captain Kirk (other mythologies are available)
Castle Panic – save the castle together from waves of invaders
Cat Rescue – co-operate to rescue cats from the street
Covalence – work together to build secret molecules (no chemistry knowledge necessary)
Elder Sign –
Eldritch Horror
Escape – The Curse of the Temple
Flashpoint Fire Rescue – thematic co-operative game in a burning building
Flatline – real-time co-operative dice-rolling against the clock
Forbidden Desert
Forbidden Island
Galactic Strike Force
The Grizzled – it is the First World War, you are French troops, you’ll probably all die
Hanabi – set collection but you are not allowed to look at your own cards
Last Night on Earth Zombie Game
Magic Maze – you control 4 robbers … but you are not allowed to speak during the heist
Mechs Vs Minions – zillions of minis in this real life extract from League of Legends
Mysterium – asymmetric cross between Cluedo and Dixit with a ghost giving visual clues to psychic investigators
Not Alone – asymmetric spaceship wreck where the survivors try and survive against an alien creature
Nuns on the run – asymmetric chase game as the novice nuns try to evade the prowling abbess
Onirim – collect door cards in your dream, and avoid the nightmares
Pandemic – save the world from disease, about a 40% success rate
Pandemic: Iberia – like pandemic but set in 1848 Spain & Portugal with railways
Ravine – you survivors of a plane crash must co-operate to live through the wilderness
Space Alert – no room for error in space if you want to survive this co-operative disaster
Star Trek – Expeditions – thematic co-operative game by Reiner Knizia with mini Enterprise & crew
Sub Terra – Warning, going caving is dangerous; you won’t all survive (if any)
T.I.M.E. Stories > Asylum – time travel to solve a mystery, with a chance to do it again if you fail miserably
Who Goes There? (a B I G co-operative game based on the book that spawned John Carpenter’s Thing – so co-operative until you are infected)
Zombicide – scary survival where the zombies don’t stop coming and they get faster and faster

Other good modern games
10 days in Europe – Collect a cross-Europe country card collection and mess up everyone else’s plans
Acquire – tiles, trading, mergers, acquisitions and money; Monopoly for grown-ups
Age of Empires III – Age of Discovery
Akrotiri
Alhambra (Winner Spiel des Jahres 2003)
Arena Maximus
Between Two Cities
Block Happy – Playing with your emotions
Blood Rage
Blue Moon City – dragons, crystals and tiles with Reiner Knizia
Buccaneer (2006 Spiel des Jahres nominee)
Calico – Cats & Quilting, tile laying and set collection
Carcassonne Star Wars – includes dice for combat!
Carcassonne – Goldrush
Carcassonne – the Discovery
Carcassonne – Hunters & Gatherers
Carcassonne : Inns and Cathedrals (expansion)
Cartagena (the first Cartagena pirate escape game)
Cartagena 2 (get your pirates out of jail, off the island & to the citadel first)
Castles of Burgundy
Cave Troll – includes 68 little heroes, orcs, trolls and dungeon crawling
Caylus – pay workers & bribe an official to build a chateau and gain Royal favour
Century: Eastern Wonders – the sequel to popular-at-the-Library-Pot Century: Spice Road
Chinatown – negotiation pure and not always so simple
Civilization – The original Francis Tresham game set around the Mediterranean
Cornish Smuggler
Cottage Garden – Uwe Rosenberg’s tetris garden game
Crystal Hall (new release with wizards, crystals and spells)
Cytosis – worker placement in a human cell, fuelled by ATP and everything
Deadwood 1876 – help your team get to the final showdown, then shoot them
Dragons Quest
Drakon – explore the dragon’s cave before she eats you
Elfenland – Spiel des Jahres winner 1998 (Alan Moon before Ticket To Ride)
Evolution: Climate – naturally select your own creatures to survive
Fair Means or Foul aka Hoity Toity
Felinia – cats go trading across the sea
Firefly The Game (inc Pirates & Bounty Hunters)
Flamme Rouge – cycle racing on a velodrome track
Fleet – get your fishing licences, launch the boats and compete for resources, boats & fishies
Freya’s Folly
Galaxy Trucker – build a spacecraft, launch it into the unknown, watch it destroyed, die in the loneliness of space
Game of Thrones: The Board Game (1st edition) (Five houses vie for the throne of Westeros)
Globe Runner –
Happy Pigs – feed, breed & vaccinate your pigs; don’t ask what happens when they go to market…
Hare & Tortoise (First winner of Spiel des Jahres in 1979) – no luck, just carrots
Here Kitty Kitty – Lure cute cat miniatures into your clutches
The Hobbit Board Game – Reiner Knizia’s take on this Tolkein prequel
Holding On : The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr – Very different game where you are the hospital care workers trying to ease Billy through his last days in palliative care
Imperial Settlers
Incan Gold aka Diamante
Isle of Cats – also pronounced I Love Cats
Isle of Sky: From Chieftain to King – tile laying game with a screen to hide your pieces
Ivor the Engine – There he is, look; with so many sheep
Jamaica – A pirate race!
Keltis – Collect cards in the right order to speed through Reiner Knizia’s paths (also have Lost Cities)
Keyflower (Hexes, worker placement bidding, villages & player interaction)
Kill Doctor Lucky – try and kill the unlucky doctor without anyone spotting you
Kingdom Builder – play cards, build kingdoms, aim for special points
Kolejka (Queue) – queuing was a way of life in Communist Poland
Kumo Hogosha – the moving board will upset your best laid plans
Let Then Eat Shrimp – avoid being eaten by sharks in this tile-laying game
London (2nd edition) – rebuild London after the Great Fire
Lost Cities – Card drafting & hand management game from Reiner Knizia (also have Keltis)
Machi Koro (& Harbour Expansion) – dice that work for you or for everyone
Mage master
Maori
Meeple Circus – get your meeples to perform for the public
Mr Jack – stay in the shadows to evade the old bill
Munchkin – Deluxe
Niagara (winner Spiel des Jahres 2005) – with an actual waterfall
Parfum – collect ingredients, make perfumes for well-heeled customers
Pauper’s Ladder – brand new fantasy card game with lots of characters & creatures
Photosynthesis – chase the sun, avoid the shadows and photosynthesise
Pirate’s Cove
Portal (the uncooperative cake acquisition game)
Portobello Market
Quadropolis – city building and tile laying
Queen’s Necklace –
Rats to Riches – Money grabbing rats scrabbling to be top dog
Roadkill (Avalon Hill)
Ruse – Steampunk murder mystery
Scottish Highland Whisky Race
Settlers of Canaan – yes, you read that right; it’s biblical
Settlers of catan: 5-6 player expansion
Shadow Hunters + expansion
Sheriff of Nottingham – bluff your chickens
Shogun
Sid Meier’s Civilization
Simply Cosmic
Ski Run – play cards to take the lifts up, and risk the black run down
Skyline 3000
Sonar – like battleships but with strategy
Spacestation
Spirits of the Forest – light card game with gemstones & decisions
Stone age – the best worker placement to start with
Taj Mahal – Knizia does auctions
Takenoko – grow bamboo for a sacred panda
Tammany Hall
The Thief of Baghdad (aka 12 Thieves)
Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
Thurn und Taxis – plot German routes in this Spiel des Jahres winner 2006
Tikal – explore lost Mayan cities in this 1999 Spiel des Jahres winner
Time and Space
Tinners’ Trail
Tiny Epic Kingdoms – limited options mean a tight fight, but plenty of variations
Toledo
Tokaido – take a thoughtful journey across Japan
Tombouctou (aka Timbuktu)
Tortuga 1667 – pirates plotting and fighting among themselves to scoop all the treasure
The Traders of Genoa
Tragedy Looper
Ulyssess
Valley of the Four Winds
Vikings
Viticulture: the Essential Edition
Welcome To … – everyone makes different choices with the same cards, plays from 2 to 100 people
Waggle Dance – follow those bees
Zambezi / Sambezi – take a photo-op cruise along the mighty Zambezi
Zillionaires on Mars – Bid to place the next Connect 4-type counter for several players
Zooloretto

2-player games (ancient & modern)
Backgammon – Omar Shariff’s favourite game
Backgammon – Travel
Boop – Thinky cats on a bedspread
Chess (The Simpsons) – 3D pieces! Of course, they are 3D
Chess & Draughts
Codenames Duet – 2-player version of the popular word game
Dominoes (Coloured Spots!)
Go (Weiqui / Badrun) – more possible moves than atoms in the universe
Kalaha – mancala family
Royal Game of Ur – over 4,000 years old
Shogi – Japanese chess – more intuitive than western chess
Shogi.to – version of Shogi designed to be more accessible to new players
Viking Game aka Hnefntafl
Xiangqi – Chinese chess – with a river running through it
… and then we held hands
7 Wonders – Duel – 2player version of the empire-building game
Hanamikoji – 2-players compete for Geisha favours
Jaipur – where camel husbandry makes all the difference
Kamisado – draughts with colours and a twist
Naga raja – 2-player dice game by fabulous Bruno Cathala (Kingdomino, Five Tribes, Mr Jack)
Odin’s Ravens – choose your way carefully
Onitama – clever card-driven 2-player strategy game
Pagoda
Patchwork – tetris quilting board game to earn … or lose … buttons
Pente
Raptor – model scientists and dinosaurs in conflict
Rivals for Catan (+ Age of Darkness expansion) – Catan but different
Solitaire for TWO
Tatsu – intriguing 2-player dragon-battling dice game

Family games
Buccaneer. – realistic diamonds, rubies and pearls
Careers – set your own goal: fame, wealth or happiness?
Cat Crimes – Cluedo for cats
Cluedo – Original – deductive logic
Cluedo: SFX
Cranium – lots of different types of questions
Diplomacy – if you have a spare day and don’t mind losing your friends
Frustration (aka Trouble!)
Game of Life – with electronic card moneyh
Go For Broke
Hotel (aka Hotel Tycoon) – Big model hotels
I’m The Boss! (Kohle, Kies & Knete)
The London Board Game – race around the London Underground
London Ludo – ludo with taxis
Monopoly – Game of Thrones
Monopoly – Star Wars (The Clone Wars)
Monopoly Junior
Monopoly City
Monopoly Europe
Monopoly Cheater’s Edition – if you want to cheat but don’t want to break the rules
Partners – the Ludo-like strategy game that is fiercely popular in Denmark
Pass the Pigs – roll the pigs and score depending on how they land
Scoop – with a dial phone and old newspaper articles and adverts
Spy Ring
Survive! Escape from Atlantis!
Totopoly
Chelsea
Crystal Hall
CV
Doctor Who The Time Wars Family Board Game
Golden Balls
The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game
Scotland Yard – asymmetric with a visor
Sin City The Game
Fore – The Golf Game
The News from the BBC
Buy Sell or Hold? – with company reports
VektoRace – race little cars around the table

Card games
100!
15 dîas
6 Nimmt aka 6 Takes!
Ali (aka Open Sesame)
Anathema
Arboretum – tricky path-building game set amongst beautiful trees
Armorica
Ashes- Rise of the phoenix
Attribute
Backpacker – collect photos around the world, in a take that card game
Bad Babiez
Barons
Battle Line – Knizia lines of cards
Bayon
Bears Vs Babies (in the furry box…) – more rules than you would think
Bloody Legacy
Bohnanza
Brews of the World (aka Hip Hops)
Buccanner (card game)
Canal Grande
Canasta – two deck rummy but up a league
Cat Lady – assorted cat, catnip & cat toys collection
Cauldron Master
Cheaty Mages
Chrononauts
Clocktowers
Cloud 9
Coppertwaddle
Corsari
Crunch
Cucumber Sandwich (min age 18 years) (a silly rude card game for age 18+)
Dobble – snap on steroids, most played game at The Library Pot
Dominion – the original deck building game
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Draco Magi
Elixir
Ember
The emoji game
Exploding Kittens – chase the defuse cards, avoid the exploding kittens
Fast Flip
Flag Frenzy – Dobble with flags and contients
Flagship: Coyote Stands
Fluxx & Pirate Fluxx
Fruit Bandits
Genial
Good Face Bad Face – push your lucky face around the table
Grass
Harbour
Hero Realms – deck building with heroes … and villains
Hex Hex
Hex Hex Next
High Bohn Plus
High Society
Hollywood Players
Igels: The Card Game
Iliad
Kitty Cat Aclysm – more cat puns than you can i-meow-gine
Koba Yakawa
Kodama – The Tree Spirits
Lab Wars
Landlord!
Ligretto
Limits
Lone Ranger
Loot
Love Letter – play a card, knock out an opponent or get nearer the Princess
Love Ranger Shuffling the Deck
Management Material: General Office Edition
Mapominoes (Europe) – which country borders which countries?
Mapominoes (United Kingdom) – which county borders which?
Mausoleum
Merchants – Knizia with cards, cubes and coins
Miam
Middle Kingdom
Mined Out
Modern Art: The Card Game aka Master’s Gallery
Monopoly Deal – for some this is the only Monopoly
Mottainai deluxe
Mow
Munchkin-Loot Letter
Nile
No Thanks – push your luck with no thanks buttons
Pairs
Parlay
Pit – mostly shouting
Poopy McPoopFace – play cards in numerical sequence or collect the poop
Port Royal – a whole board game in a deck of pirate cards
Potato Man
Power Rangers’ Action Card Game
Quarx – who knew adding up could be so competitive
R-Eco
Royal Goods aka Oh My Goods!
Saboteur – build tunnels, find the gold, and sabotage the others
Samurai – The Card Game
Sequence – play two decks of cards to make sequences
Shashawa (aka Spoons)
Sherlock Holmes – The Card Game
Shit!
Sitting Ducks Gallery
Skull – bluff, or tell the truth
Speed
Stak Bots
Sticks & Stones
Straw
Strip Poker with Dares
Sushi Go! – pick and pass sushi collection
Tem-purr-a – Cats in a Japanese food eating contest … of course
Terrible Monster
Top Speed
Topas
Uno – colours or numbers
Up & Down
Ultimatch – co-op card game finding matches of additions, subtractions, and even colour mixes
Welcome to the Dungeon
Wench
Who’s The Ass?
Wibbell ++
Yin Yang
Mini poker set
Poker – Mini Poker set (mini cards, mat, chips)

Dice games
Age of War – thinkging man’s Yahtzee
Bang! The Dice Game – I shot the sheriff, but the deputies got me
Dice Forge (make your own diceses, almost)
Dice Hospital (a dice-placement medical emergency with real ambulances – little plastic real ambulances not big motor vehicle paramedic ambulances)
Doodle Dice
Formidable Foes
Fuse!
Kerfuffle! (aka Dicescapades)
King of Tokyo (+ Halloween & Power Up extensions) – roll dice to beat up your opponents
Logo Grab – answer questions but ask not who the bell tolls for
Magic-The gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers
Pass The Pigs – when pigs fly
Perudo – how many dice are the same
Pizza Party
Pot Black Ray Reardon’s Snooker Dice
Tumblin Dice – shuffle board with dice
Yahtzee – Ninja Turtles
Yahtzee – Power Yahtzee
Yahtzee – Travel Yahtzee
Zombie Dice – get brains, avoid being shot
Zombies!!!

Abstract & Logic games
Blockade
Blokus – only corners can touch
Callisto
Carol Vorderman’s Sudoku Board Game
Cirondo
Columns – block your opponent to get your own cap on a column
Da Vinci Coda (deductive logic game to break a code)
Haru Ichiban – plan to be the Big Gardiner or the Little Gardiner
Hey that’s my fish – penguins race across the ice flows in search of fish
Hive – no board, insect tiles which attack the queen bees
Honeycombs – match hex edges, in a race
Ingenious – your worst score is your final score
Ingenious: Travel Edition
Line Links
M
Mancala – used to be played with pebbles and holes in the ground
Master Mind – Original
Octi
Oshi the game of influence
Package!?
Picdoku
Plateau X – build platforms and get higher
Q-bitz – manipulate dice to match patterns
Quixo
Qwirkle – scrabble with colours and shapes instead of letters and words
Qwirkle cubes
Robo-Rally – program your robot and watch your plans go awry
Santorini – build white buildings and put blue tops on them to thwart your opponent
Sedam
Set – fry your brain as it tries to do two opposing things at the same time, in four dimensions
Spy Web
Take it Easy – thinking man’s bingo
Tantrix – connect those lines
Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends
Treehouse
Triolet – Scrabble with numbers (adding up to 15)
Tsuro – don’t fall off the edge of the world
Tsuro of the Seas + Veterans of the Seas expansion
YongJun Yulong 3 layers magic cube
Zaroc – 2 moves per turn to traverse columns

Word games
Bananagrams – extreme scrabble
Boggle – Super Boggle – Boggle Slam
Codenames – come up with the one word that links several cards for your team
Crossword
Enigma – a game of riddles
Express
Haikubes
In a Pickle
Junior Scrabble
LeCardo
Lex-Go! Harry Potter Word Game – Wizard-themed … Bananagrams with a wand?
Pairs in Pears
Paperback
Pass The Bomb
Qwordie
Scattergories
Scrabble
Scrabble Deluxe
Semantic
Telepathy
Three Wise Words – Give 3 clues best for your team & not the others
Upwords
Yes! No!
Zip-It

Party games
Accentuate
Accused! Getting Away with Murder
After Dinner Arguments
Articulate
Balderdash
Bucket of Doom – spin tall tales based on cards you hold to get out of trouble
Captain Sonar – you are the crews of two submarines hunting each other
Cards Against Humanity – for truly horrible people
Cards vs Gravity – balance magnetic cards on a bottle
Cash n Guns – reservoir dogs with real foam pistols
CastQuest – Hurl spells & curses to interfere with your opponent’s descriptions
Charudes
Chicken Charades
Chronicles of skin
Codenames Pictures – the popular word game done with pictures !?!!?
Concept
Dare! – really, I dare you…
Deface Race – scribble on stock images to create answers
Dixit – see how other people think
Fake Artist Goes to New York
Forfeits
Funemployed
Game of Saying “Huh” – say “Huh” in the style shown on the card
Game Off
Game Off Celebrities
Get the Ick – predict which cards will gross out your friends
Ghosts Can’t Draw – Somewhere between a ouija board and Pictionary
Herd Mentality – don’t stand out and be a pink cow!!
Herd Mentality: Moosic & Moovies – avoid the gold cow, probably called Oscar
Host your own Murder Mystery Evening
How Am I Weird? – Cards Against Weirdos but more polite
Illegal
In a Bind
InchoHEARent – guess the gibberish
Jibbergiggle – spouting nonsense for fun
Joking Hazard
Justin Bieber: Always Be Mine – a game of dares, success allows you to kiss sweet Justin
Just One –  provide clues but don’t be too obvious as duplicates get weeded out
Kablamo
Mini-Game Party – a stack of Big Potato games for two teams
Muffin Time – hilarious anarchy in an easy card game
New Phone, Who Dis? – build phone message conversations with caption cards
Obama Llama – spot the rhyming opportunities in “Donald Trump having a dump” or similar
Pictionary – quick draw
The Pretender – subtle deception and misdirection
Randomise – draw, act or describe your way to victory
Rules of Everything – Do what it says on the card, whatever it says
Scruples
Shout! – all sorts of quizzes, word associations and probably guessing
Skribble Head
Smuggle – sneak random words into otherwise sensible answers
Soundiculous – Beep, cheep, grunt, howl & laugh your way to glory
Sushi Go Party! – Sushi Go! for more people and with new cards
Taboo
Telestrations – Chinese whispers with drawing
Tired of London – for miserable Londoners who are fed up of living in bloomin’ Lahndn
Totally Outrageous Drinking Games
True Colors – think you know your friends? guess who will vote as you predict
Twister
Unlock! Escape Adventures
Weird Things Humans Search – really you won’t believe it
What do you meme? – Pair an amusing caption card with an inappropriate image (family version available)
When I Dream
Who am I?
You Can’t Say “Ummm” – describe weird things without, umm, hesitating

Social Deduction games
Avalon – Loyal Servant of Arthur or Minion of Mordred
The Chameleon (try and mix in with the crowd so no-one can tell you haven’t a clue in this word game)
Chameleon Pictures – everyone knows which picture, except you
Coup – I’m the Duke
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
Dracula’s Feast – with Cthulhu & Friends expansion
Mafia de Cuba
Manipulate – backstab your way to power in this negotiation and bluffing game
Mascarade – no-one knows who you are, not even you
Murder Mystery Party
One Night Ultimate Werewolf – There’s an App to do the narration
Orphan Black the Card Game – fight the Factions
The Pact: The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow
Panic Station
Project Airlock
Secret Hitler – when you can accuse friends of being fascists
Spyfall
Spyfall 2
Two Rooms & a Boom – if the Bomber finds the President …
Werewolf

Physical / Dexterity games
Bandu (aka Bausack) – stacking up & stitching up
Booby Trap
Bop it!
Bucket King 3D
Camp Rock Dance Mat
Cat’Astrophe – stack plastic cats
Cat Tower – stack cats to get rid of them
Catch the Moon (Décrocher la Lune) – Build a tower of ladders to reach the moon
Cobra Paw – Violent race with dice and dominoes
Connect 4 – what happened to my plan
Connect 4 (mini 4-in-a-row)
Corks
Crazy Cubes – World Football Stars
Dance Maker 2 – Dance Mat
Don’t Rock The Boat
Downfall
Fruit Punch aka Halli Gallie – Count up to 5 and hit a banana
Fun Farm – red horse, green goat, blue sheep … what could possibly go wrong
Ghost Blitz (grab ghost, book, bottle, mouse or armchair quicker than anyone else)
Humpty Dumpty’s Wall Game
Ice Cool – flickin’ penguins
Jenga – bricking it
Jenga Tetris
Jungle Speed
Junk Art
Ker-plunk
Kittin – grabbing & stacking cat meeples faster than your opponent
Looping Louis – pilot mayhem
Make 7
Manic Martians – whack-a-Martian
Monster Surgery – operate on Frankenstein’s monster
Mousetrap – you build it AS you go round, not before
Noodle Game – use chopsticks to steal noodles without removing an eye
OK Play – like connect 4, but flat on the table
Operation – choose from the original doctor version, or Dalek, Simpsons, Star Wars & R2D2
Pitch Car – build an actual race track
Plop! – drop a number two into a toilet & make it flush
Rainbow Rush (some rainbows are a bit wrong, some are very wrong)
Rhino Hero – build a stack of cards but watch out for the rhino
Rhino Hero Super Battle – taller, stronger, harder, faster
Rugby Conversion
Simon Flash
Skull Island Adventure
Spring Fever
Tetris tower 3D
Tokyo Highway – build a mini elevated motorway system with mini cars
Toru – be fast, be furious, grab a dragon
Visionary
Wallamoppi

Kid’s games
Beetle Drive
Build A Radio AM/FM
Charades for Kids
Guess Who?
Miaou Miaou
Pasta Panic
Scooby-Doo! Hide & Shriek Game
3D Snakes & Ladders
Animatazz
Pirate’s Quest Game
Robot Turtles

Quiz games
5-second rule –   high pressure quiz game with only 5 seconds to answer
About Time – The Greatest Guessing Game since Time Began Anomia – a quiz mixed with visual perception
Bang! Out of Order – put answers in order of size from zero to infinity
Blockbusters the ITV quiz game
Catchphrase the DVD game
Colour Brain – almost an easy quiz, all the answers are colours
Confident? – no need to know the answer, guess a range
Cortex Challenge
Desperate Housewives
Doctor Who DVD Board Game – sing the theme tune while playing
EggHeads
Glee CD Board Game
Globe Runner – race round the world answering questions about the countries you pass through
Gogglebox
Guinness Game of Records
Kid’s Trivia Plus
Linkee
Logo Board Game
Mike Read’s Pop Quiz Card Game
Monty Python’s Really Silly Board Game
Mr lister’s Quiz Shootout
Music Quiz Game hosted by Martin Kemp
Out of Order – Quiz where you provide the answer to the previous question
Picture This
Pointless The Board Game
Pop Music Quiz
Qi the Board Game
Quiz Match
Quizmaster, Magnus Magnusson
Scene it?
Scene it? Friends
Scene it? Harry Potter
Screen Test
Shakespeare the Bard Game
Sing It Back
Smart Ass
Spot the Intro 2
Timeline Historical Events – were the Pyramids before Stonehenge … or after?
Timeline Inventions – was the phone invented before the zipper?
Top Gear The Game
Top Gear Trivia Challenge
Top of the Pops Party Game – basic pop trivia with a Kazoo round
Top of the Pops Quiz game – with a kazoo!?
Trivial Pursuit (2000s) – revised Triv so you only go round the board once
Trivial Pursuit – Entertainment edition
Trivial Pursuit (Genus Edition) – the original cheese chasing quiz
Trivial Pursuit – Genus II edition
Trivial Pursuit – Millennium Edition
Trivial Pursuit – RPM edition
Tug – Team quiz with a … tug of war
Weakest Link
Who Knows Where? (World) – super geography game with extra difficult board side
Who Knows Where? (United Kingdom) – know your landmarks and UK geography
Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Who Wants to be a Millionaire (Pink Edition)
Who Wants to be a Millionaire Junior
Wits & Wagers –  trivia game where knowing your opponent can score more than knowing the answer
Brainbenders
Mind Trap

War & Strategy games
2 de Mayo
Black Fleet
Campaign
Countdown Special Ops
Escape from Colditz – one of you will be the German guards, the rest will try and escape
Francis Drake –
Mag Blast
Risk (Lord of the Rings) limited rounds to get to Mordorrrr
Risk (Star Wars) – based on the middle (original) trilogy
Risk – World Strategy Game
Risk (Walking Dead) – zombies spawn to take over the world
Sekigahara – war for the unification of Japan, with block armies
Stratego – you can see the enemy, but you can’t tell what he is
SunTzu
Twilight Struggle deluxe – change history in the Cold War
War on Terror (with a balaclava marked ‘evil’)

More family games
Anti-Monopoly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Board Game
Cocoa A GoGo
Judge Dredd
Junior Monopoly
Monopoly
Monopoly Game of Thrones – don’t lose your head but there’s an Iron Throne
Monopoly City
Monopoly Fortnite – has the storm rushing round the board
Monopoly David Bowie – my favourite
Monopoly Star Wars / The Clone Wars
Monopoly Las Vegas
Monopoly Australia
Monopoly Germany
Monopoly Portugal
Monopoly South Africa
Monopoly Richmond Upon Thames
Monopoly Lyon
Monopoly Cheater’s Edition
Monopoly Here & Now
Outrage – Steal the Crown Jewels
Pac man
221b Baker Street – Chase clues around London

Mahjong & similar games
Mahjong – American version
Mahjong – Chinese
Mahjong – Japanese Riichi (this is the one we teach at The Library Pot)
Rummikub
Tien Zi Que