Good bluffing game for lots of players.

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Maximum players: 10, Good for: 5, 6, 7, 8+, Best for: 7, 8+

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Last time played 3 year 6 month 3 day ago. Played 11 times in total.

Dice placement to create a beautiful stained glass window.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 2

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Last time played 1 month 4 day ago. Played 7 times in total.

Excellent area influence game, best with 3 players.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 3

Pros: Ties are not uncommon, so you have to keep an eye on the tie-breaker factors.

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Last time played 3 month 15 day ago. Played 5 times in total.

A bidding and tile placement game, with an interesting twist: you can bribe the auctioneer. Plays best with 5.

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Maximum players: 5, Good for: 4, 5, Best for: 5

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Last time played 5 year 8 month 9 day ago. Played 2 times in total.

Publicized as a game for kids, played with two players it can actually be a fairly deep abstract strategy game.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, Best for: 2

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The sequel to Kill Doctor Lucky, this time on a sinking boat. Plays well with 6-7 players.

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Maximum players: 7, Good for: 4, 5, 6, 7, Best for: 5, 6

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Good party game.

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Maximum players: 8, Good for: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+, Best for: 6, 7, 8+

Pros: You learn stuff about your fellow gamers.

Cons: That stuff is pretty inconsequential.

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Last time played 1 year 10 month 23 day ago. Played 2 times in total.

Party game.

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Maximum players: 6, Good for: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Best for: 4, 5, 6

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Maximum players: 2, Good for: 2, Best for: 2

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Maximum players: 2, Good for: 2, Best for: 2

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Maximum players: 2, Good for: 2, Best for: 2

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Last time played 2 year 6 month 25 day ago. Played only once.

A classic (1983) cooperative game of deduction in which you try to trap a murderer in London.

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Maximum players: 6, Good for: 3, 4, 5, 6, Best for: none

Pros: Most players on the side of the law.

Cons: More fun to be the villain than one of the cops.

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Last time played 1 year 1 month 17 day ago. Played 8 times in total.

The well-known classic.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 2

Pros: The HFG owns both the French and English versions.

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We call it "Screw your neighbour", but the real name is "Oh hell!". It also comes under the names "Nomination whist", "Elevator whist" (l'ascenseur, in French), "Up and down the river", or "Bust". We always play it with 7 cards down to 1 and back up to 7.

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Maximum players: 7, Good for: 4, 5, 6, 7, Best for: 5, 6

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Last time played 5 month 17 day ago. Played 34 times in total.

Highly regarded game.

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Maximum players: 5, Good for: 2, 3, 4, 5, Best for: 4

Pros: Absorbing game

Cons: Longish playing time

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Last time played 7 year 0 month 26 day ago. Played 3 times in total.

A simple Uwe Rosenberg game

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Maximum players: unlimited, Good for: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Best for: 2, 3, 4

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Last time played 1 year 2 month 2 day ago. Played 9 times in total.

Fun party game in the same vein as Resistance. The HFG does not own it.

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Maximum players: 10, Good for: 6, 7, 8+, Best for: 8+

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Last time played 4 year 9 month 1 day ago. Played 15 times in total.

1995 Spiel des Jahres winner. One of the first games acquired by the HFG, which now owns both the classic version and the Cities and Knights version.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 3, 4, Best for: 4

Pros: Good gateway game, fun to play.

Cons: Luck with the dice plays a bigger role than you think.

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Last time played 5 year 10 month 25 day ago. Played 5 times in total.

An enjoyable game that everyone enjoys enjoying.

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Maximum players: 7, Good for: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Best for: 4, 5

Pros: Table looks very colourful by the end of the game. Plays well with any number of people.

Cons: Unfair advantage if sitting between pacifists. Undecisive players can hold up the game.

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Last time played 7 days ago. Played 48 times in total.

The kind of game where you have to guess who your partner is.

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Maximum players: 8, Good for: 5, 6, 7, 8+, Best for: 7, 8+

Pros: Good when there are lots of people. Topped the "HFG list of Top Ten Games with pretty girls artwork".

Cons: For some reason, Ian always ends up being the neutral character.

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Last time played 10 year 9 month 14 day ago. Played only once.

Cooperative game, but a traitor may be lurking among us. It helps to address each other as "My Lord".

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Maximum players: 7, Good for: 4, 5, 6, 7, Best for: 5, 6, 7

Pros: Strong theme.

Cons: Forceful personalities may dictate play.

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A game of territorial conquest with a cube tower to settle battles.

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Maximum players: 5, Good for: 3, 4, 5, Best for: 4, 5

Pros: Better than Risk.

Cons: Longish playing time.

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Last time played 6 year 7 month 11 day ago. Played only once.

A 1997 Spiel des Jahres nominee. Card drafting and set collection are the main mechanisms.

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Maximum players: 6, Good for: 3, 4, 5, 6, Best for: 5, 6

Pros: Plays well with 6.

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Last time played 6 year 2 month 3 day ago. Played 2 times in total.

Excellent bluff game. It helps to try to put yourself in the minds of the other players, scary though that may be.

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Maximum players: 6, Good for: 4, 5, 6, Best for: 5, 6

Pros: Good with lots of players.

Cons: Must remember that Ian usually plays the first coaster at random.

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Last time played 1 year 2 month 23 day ago. Played 15 times in total.

Combine one of 20 special powers with one of 14 fantasy races to conquer the world.

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Maximum players: 5, Good for: 2, 3, 4, 5, Best for: 4

Pros: No dice to determine battle success, just supremacy in numbers.

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Last time played 9 month 6 day ago. Played 2 times in total.

A trivia based party game. Fun for everyone.

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Maximum players: 8, Good for: none, Best for: none

Pros: Donkeys averywhere.

Cons: You'd better know your American presidents.

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Last time played 3 year 10 month 21 day ago. Played 21 times in total.

A chaotic game.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 3

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Learn how to make animal noises in Russian, German, Spanish, English, and French. A party game.

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Maximum players: 8, Good for: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+, Best for: 6, 7

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Collecting gems, though we call the dark brown tiles "chocolate" rather than "onyx".

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 3

Pros: Simple and relatively fast.

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Last time played 1 year 9 month 25 day ago. Played 9 times in total.

Fun party game in which you try to unmask a spy by spotting his bad answers to questions he doesn't know the answers to.

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Maximum players: 8, Good for: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+, Best for: 6

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A game of combat in space, with fiddly rules.

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Maximum players: 2, Good for: 2, 4, Best for: 2

Pros: Beautiful figurines of star fleet ships.

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Hunt, farm, gather, make babies, feed them.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 4

Pros: Great worker placement game.

Cons: Bad dice rolls means someone's eating a brick.

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Last time played 9 month 27 day ago. Played 5 times in total.

Mensa Select 2013 winner. An economic city-building game. Best with three players.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 2, 3, 4, Best for: 3

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The 30th anniversary edition. The island is sinking and we need to evacuate.

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Maximum players: 4, Good for: 3, 4, Best for: 4

Pros: Sharks! Whales! Sea serpents!!

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Last time played 9 year 2 month 6 day ago. Played only once.