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Various family members enjoy table games and i'm looking for present ideas for them all. I know you lot are good gamers.
Criteria
Doesn't need to be family/kids friendly
Fast paced or strategy
Game play 10mins - 1hr
Some Strategy preferable, or skill based rather than pure luck
No big board games (needs to be able to travel in a Van/Caravan)
Catan etc are a bit too complex I reckon
best enjoyed with a lot of booze
Games already enjoyed:
Jungle Speed
LIgretto
deep sea adventure
cribbage
Scrawl
[url= https://www.phaseshiftgames.com/dungeondrop.html ]Dungeon Drop[/url]
It's a dungeon crawler that fits into a 10x10x10 cube, you just need to make sure the table edges are covered and you're sorted. Table size affects density of your dungeon. Good for short games or you can extend as much as you like.
[url= https://www.looneylabs.com/our-games#Fluxx ]Fluxx[/url] is another, we got pirate fluxx and it's a good laugh.
[url= https://explodingkittens.com/ ]Exploding Kittens[/url] is always a popular choice as well.
Dobble
Love Letter is surprisingly deep for a simple little card game. Works for 2-4 players.
Jaipur is good for 2 players, small box but can go even smaller if you just put the components in a bag. Lost Cities also.
Deckbuilding games like Dominion are worth a try, just take the cards you need with you.
Bananagrams for a word game that packs down well.
Pucket
+1 for Dobble.
Bananagrams can be quite good fun too (though you may be able to play the same thing with a bag of scrabble tiles if you have them to hand)
small, fast moving, strategic and enables development of concealment and reading tells, etc.
Pirate dice.
Cards against humanity?
Citadels is good, small, and quick to learn but lots of variation in play with strategies etc.
Port Royal.
Going to have a look at Citadels myself now though.
Word Stacker is excellent if you're after a card based word game.
Exploding kittens is AWESOME, especially with the expansion packs
Unstable Unicorns
Look Who's Purging now
Zombie Dice
Dungeon Mayhem
In fact most of these have expansion pack that really enhance pay (and inevitably enhance the price too)
also heard good things about Poetry for Neanderthals (need one sober(ish) person) but haven't played it personally
Pass the Pigs
Carcassonne, but it may be expanding the brief.
Glass-topped table? 😎