Games Library · How to Play Any Game

Settle an island, harvest what the dice give you, trade like a merchant, and race everyone to 10 victory points.

3–4 players60–90 min (often longer while learning)

The complete legal game — every piece, castling, en passant, and how a game is actually won or drawn.

2 players20–60+ min

Two spymasters, twenty-five words, and one-word clues — find all your agents before the other team finds theirs, and never touch the assassin.

4–8+ players15 min

The counting and pegging classic — race two pegs around the board to 121, fifteen at a time.

2–4 players30–60 min

The 24-card partnership trick game of trump, bowers, and bold calls — first team to 10 points wins.

4 (2 partnerships) players30–60 min

Everyone builds their own domino train from one big double — and when your train stalls, it opens up to the whole table.

2–8 players45–90 min

Buy, build, trade, and bankrupt the table — the property game whose real rules surprise almost everyone.

2–8 players60–180 min

Build words on a grid of bonus squares, hoard the good tiles, and land one seven-letter bingo for the play everyone remembers.

2–4 players45–90 min

Two cards of your own, five shared cards, four rounds of betting — the best five-card hand wins.

2–10 players30–120 min

The matching card game the whole world argues about — shed your cards first, and say it before your last one hits the pile.

2–10 players15–30 min

Five dice, three rolls a turn, thirteen boxes to fill — and one scorecard that punishes every greedy decision you make.

1 or more (best with 2–6) players15–30 min