Photosynthesis $23.75 (47%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074K5W5N5/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DERNo-luck, position-based game about trying to grow your trees in the best parts of the forest.
Use light as currency to grow your trees larger and spread their seeds farther, managing your
available stock of trees of different sizes. As the sun moves around the board, trees that are
exposed to it collect light for their owners. The larger the tree, the more light it collects and
the larger the shadow it casts over its neighbors, but trees must eventually die to score.
Fuse $16.65 (45%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018AVE3HG/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER(Possibly not for Shabbos - timed.)
A real-time co-operative game that lasts 10 minutes, after which you've won or lost. Players have bomb cards in front
of them that require certain dice to be placed on them (sometimes in particular ways) to defuse them. In each round,
as many dice as there are players are drawn from a bag and rolled. The players must then decide who will take which
die - each player must take one and only one, or remaining dice will be rerolled and may cause previously placed dice
to be removed from bombs. Completed bombs have their dice returned to the bag and are replaced with new bombs.
Can you get through enough bombs in time?
Kingdomino 12.79 (36%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N3A4070/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DERSimple tile-drafting and tile-placement game for 2-4 players. In each round, players draft
domino-ish tiles by placing tokens on them, with better tiles forcing a later turn order position
in the next round, then add the tiles they drafted last round to their growing personal 5x5 board.
Areas of the same color will score at the end, with the number of crowns in them determining
their value (each square of an area is worth 1 point for each crown in the area).
Decrypto $14.49 (37%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0765KL7B8/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER(Not for Shabbos.) Played in teams. Players take turns giving their teammates clues toward words only their
team knows. Both teams guess which words are being guessed at (by number) - the first team to correctly
guess their opponent's numbers twice wins, and a team also wins if the opposing team fails twice to guess
their own numbers. (Each team has 4 words, numbered 1-4, and the clue-giver draws a card with 3 numbers
in any order on it. So if you can figure out that their word #3 is always getting water-related clues... etc.)
(4, 6, or 8 players.)
The Crew $9.99 (33%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084GP7X3P/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DERA new twist on trick-taking (think Hearts, Spades). You play cooperatively, trying to
fulfill conditions such as certain players taking certain cards, and trying to make good
use of each player's once-per-round allowance for some communication about what
they're holding in one suit. There are about 50 scenarios.
(Box says 2-5 players, but 3 and 4 work best according to the community.)
(
3-minute overview video)
Lost Cities $10.45 (30%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KLWPHFF/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DERLight 2-player card game. Each turn, you must play onto one of your colored stacks of
cards or onto a public discard pile, making the card available to your opponent. Your stacks
have a negative score once you start them that you have to build out of, but you must
always play a higher card, and score-multiplier cards must be placed before any cards
that actually contribute to scoring. Quick and tense. Subject to luck.
Lanterns: The Harvest Festival $19.79 (30%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UG238LK/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DERLight family game. On their turns, players add a card with colored edges to the developing board
and colored cards are given out to the players those edges point to. Match edges and you get an
extra card of those colors. Sets of the colored cards can be traded in for points. (2-4 players.)
Exit: The Game series - "The Abandoned Cabin" and other titles $10.45 (30% or so)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WP2G52Z/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER(Not for Shabbos.) A popular line of "escape room in a box" puzzles. Not sure what
else to say about them.
Gloomhaven $85.00 (39%)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZXVN4P/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DERYou almost certainly don't want this. It's more a video-game-style RPG made
of cardboard than a board game. This is mostly an excuse to post this image:
There are actually many more games on sale on Amazon today - they can be found here:
https://tabletopbellhop.com/tabletop-gaming-deals/amazon-daily-deal-board-game-sale/