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Cribbage

Cribbage is a card game traditionally attributed to the English courtier and poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th ce...

Card Classic 2 Player Counting

8.3 Great

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Mancala

Mancala is a broad family of two-player strategy games rather than a single standardized game. Players distribute counte...

Strategy Classic Board Folk

8.3 Great

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Rummikub

Rummikub is a tile-based number game created by Ephraim Hertzano and first developed in the mid-20th century. Players ar...

Strategy Family Sequence Tile

8.2 Great

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Dominoes

Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular pieces divided into two ends, each marked with a number...

Classic Folk Tile Counting

8.1 Great

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Nmbr9

NMBR 9 is an abstract tile-stacking board game designed by Peter Wichmann and first published in 2017. Players receive t...

Strategy Abstract Spatial Tile

7.8 Good

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Gin Rummy

Gin rummy is a two-player matching card game in the rummy family, generally credited to Elwood T. Baker and his son C. G...

Strategy Card Classic 2 Player

7.8 Good

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Qwixx

Qwixx is a dice-and-number game designed by Steffen Benndorf and first published in Germany in 2012. Each player marks n...

Strategy German Family Dice

7.7 Good

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Liar's Dice

Liar's Dice is a family of bluffing games played with concealed dice. Players make progressively higher claims about how...

Social Folk Deduction Dice

7.6 Good

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Prime Climb

Prime Climb is a mathematics board game designed by Dan Finkel that uses arithmetic and color-coded prime factors as the...

Educational Strategy Board Arithmetic

7.5 Good

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Sprouts

Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper mathematical game devised by John Horton Conway and Michael Paterson at the University of...

Strategy Mathematical 2 Player Topology

7.5 Good

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Rummy 500

Rummy 500 is a draw-and-discard card game in the rummy family, usually played over multiple hands until a player reaches...

Card Classic Sequence Folk

7.0 Good

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Equations

Equations is a mathematical strategy game created by Layman E. Allen and adapted from the WFF 'N PROOF educational game...

Educational Strategy Board Arithmetic

6.9 Fair

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Farkle

Farkle is a push-your-luck dice game usually played with six dice. Players roll, set aside scoring combinations, and may...

Family Accumulation Folk Dice

6.9 Fair

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Ten Thousand

Ten Thousand is a family of push-your-luck dice games in which players build a score by setting aside scoring combinatio...

Classic Accumulation Folk Dice

6.9 Fair

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Skip-Bo

Skip-Bo is a sequential card game originally created by Hazel "Skip" Bowman and later published by Mattel. Players try t...

Strategy Card Family Sequence

6.8 Fair

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Mexican Train

Mexican Train is a domino game in the Trains family, played mainly in the United States and commonly using a double-twel...

Casual Family Folk Tile

6.8 Fair

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Shut the Box

Shut the Box is a traditional dice-and-tile game associated with English and Norman or French pub culture. In the common...

Classic Folk Pub Dice

6.7 Fair

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Zonk

Zonk is a regional name for a dice game in the same broad family as Farkle and Ten Thousand. Players roll six dice, set...

Accumulation Folk Dice Push Your Luck

6.7 Fair

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Number Scrabble

Number Scrabble is a two-player mathematical game played with the numbers 1 through 9. Players alternately claim an unus...

Strategy Folk Mathematical 2 Player

6.6 Fair

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Spite and Malice

Spite and Malice is a competitive patience card game also known as Cat and Mouse. In the standard two-player form, each...

Card Sequence Folk 2 Player

6.4 Fair