{"id":22697,"date":"2024-01-13T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22697"},"modified":"2025-06-02T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:22:04","slug":"board-card-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/board-card-games-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Board &#038; card games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/board-card-games\/\">this<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>The board games (and a few card games) are often made in Europe, and they rely on more strategy and less luck. My other list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/card-games\/\">card games<\/a> is a list of games you can play with a regular deck of cards.<\/p>\n<p>Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride are the best board games ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Longest Games (roughly 75 to 120 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>Above and Below<\/li>\n<li>Agricola<\/li>\n<li>Candamir: The First Settlers<\/li>\n<li>Lost Ruins of Arnak<\/li>\n<li>Starfarers of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Terraforming Mars<\/li>\n<li>Tzolk&#8217;in: The Mayan Calendar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Longer Games (roughly 45 to 75 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>7 Wonders<\/li>\n<li>Carcassonne<\/li>\n<li>Cities and Knights of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Dominion<\/li>\n<li>Elasund: The First City<\/li>\n<li>Elfenland<\/li>\n<li>Planet Unknown<\/li>\n<li>Settlers of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Stone Age<\/li>\n<li>Ticket to Ride Europe<\/li>\n<li>Wingspan<\/li>\n<li>World Wonders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner ups\n<ul>\n<li>Alhambra<\/li>\n<li>Blue Moon City<\/li>\n<li>El Grande<\/li>\n<li>Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica<\/li>\n<li>Lost Cities: The Board Game<\/li>\n<li>Pandemic +<\/li>\n<li>Photosynthesis<\/li>\n<li>Robo Rally<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek Panic +<\/li>\n<li>Takenoko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shorter Games (roughly 15 to 45 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>10 Days in Africa<\/li>\n<li>Azul Stained Glass of Sintra<\/li>\n<li>Blokus Trigon<\/li>\n<li>Codenames<\/li>\n<li>Imhotep<\/li>\n<li>Ingenious<\/li>\n<li>Karuba<\/li>\n<li>Kingdomino<\/li>\n<li>Master Labyrinth<\/li>\n<li>Paperback<\/li>\n<li>Qwirkle<\/li>\n<li>Tokaido<\/li>\n<li>Wooly Bully<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner ups\n<ul>\n<li>6 nimmt!<\/li>\n<li>Arboretum<\/li>\n<li>Camel Up<\/li>\n<li>Cartagena<\/li>\n<li>Colt Express<\/li>\n<li>Dixit<\/li>\n<li>Kingdom Builder<\/li>\n<li>Prime Climb<\/li>\n<li>TransAmerica<\/li>\n<li>Ubongo<\/li>\n<li>Zooloretto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2 Player Games<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of the best\n<ul>\n<li>7 Wonders Duel<\/li>\n<li>Battle Line<\/li>\n<li>Catan Card Game<\/li>\n<li>Dragonheart<\/li>\n<li>Lost Cities<\/li>\n<li>Newton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Runner up\n<ul>\n<li>Race for the Galaxy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these games have different versions or expansions &#8212; I&#8217;ve listed the version I&#8217;ve played most often.<\/p>\n<p>+ These games are cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read information or reviews of board games, you could look on <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/browse\/boardgame\">BoardGameGeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to this list. The board games (and a few card games) are often made in Europe, and they rely on more strategy and less luck. My other list of card games is a list of games you can play with a regular deck of cards. Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[40,57,42],"class_list":["post-22697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-board-games","tag-games","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22697"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24947,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions\/24947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}