board games i own
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board games
collection table
Collection not yet updated from BGG
| game | description | my rating (1-10) |
|---|---|---|
| Azul | tile placement - quick to teach and learn | 8.0 |
| Azul: Summer Pavilion | tile placement - great fun if someone has played the original azul | 7.0 |
| Backgammon | a classic - remove your pips from the board fastest | 6.0 |
| Bananagrams | use all your tiles to make connected worlds - like scrabble. then everyone draws a new tile until the tiles run out. first to use all their tiles wins | 8.0 |
| Caverna: The Cave Farmers | better than agricola - grow your farm and expand your cave to score the most points. worker placement game | 9.0 |
| Chess | high skill ceiling, difficult to get into, playing with a clock makes it a different game - much recommended | 6.0 |
| Codenames | give one-word clues to your team to have them guess as many of your cards as possible - without accidentally guessing any of the opponents cards | 6.0 |
| Codenames: Duet | 1.0 | |
| Cribbage | a classic - score points through combinations of cards | 6.0 |
| Dice Forge | upgrade your dice - changing the sides to give yourself better options for each role | 1.0 |
| Downforce | racing where you don’t need to win the race to win the game - if you successfully bet on the winner of the race | 7.0 |
| Five Crowns Mini Round | 1.0 | |
| Great Western Trail: Second Edition | very fun - a little complicated for new gamers - optimize a hand of cattle as you travel to kansas city | 9.0 |
| Groves | draw workers from a bag - gain new placement options for them as you expand your grove | 6.0 |
| Jaipur | two player card game - either draw cards or purchase coins | 8.0 |
| Letters from Whitechapel | hidden movement game - everyone works as a police team against one player to catch them each night | 7.0 |
| Love Letter | 1.0 | |
| The Mind | a silent game - place numbers one through one hundred in order - having randomly dealt them to each player | 6.0 |
| Overworld | explore the world by adding tiles to it - creating dungeons to score points. tile/worker placement game | 6.5 |
| Patchwork | place patches of fabric on your quilt - growing your buttons as time ticks down | 8.0 |
| Puerto Rico | build out a plantation - each player chooses and action and everyone does it. predict what others will choose to optimize your turns | 7.0 |
| Qwixx | dice game where you want to fill in as many numbers before your opponents do | 8.0 |
| Race for the Galaxy | card game where the cards are currency as well as actions | 6.0 |
| Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition | connect exit points with rails and roads to win - everyone always uses the same pieces on every turn - but every network is so different at the end | 8.0 |
| Raptor | two player asymmetrical game - either play as the scientists or the raptors | 6.0 |
| Ravine | a social game | 4.0 |
| SCOUT | fun card game where the twist is that you cannot reorder your hand - while trying to make the best sets and runs | 8.0 |
| The Search for Planet X | hidden knowledge/deduction game - uses an app for replay-ability - figure out where in the sky things are based off what is not next to them | 6.0 |
| Splendor | fun quick game to teach - less fun when played optimized - gain gems and spend them on cards for points. quick turns | 8.0 |
| Suspend | hang pieces of mostly straight metal rod on a tower - try to make it fall on your opponent’s turn | 5.0 |
| Taboo | 6.0 | |
| Tak | game from The Name of the Wind book series - I’ve built my own copies of it | 1.0 |
| Wingspan | beautiful game about birds - enjoyed by board game people and non-board game people | 7.0 |
| Wingspan: Oceania Expansion | adds nectar - reducing the food pressure during the game | 9.0 |
(additional note: ratings of 1.0 mean the game is unrated)
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data from my game collection on bgg
additional data from board game geek