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Ticket to Ride
The board is a map of the US with colored routes between cities. Players have cards showing sets of cities they
must connect by the end of the game, scoring or losing points if they do or don't. Turns are mostly spent getting
colored cards or spending them to occupy routes on the board with their trains. Tension is present from the get-go.
Tsuro
Players place square tiles onto a grid-board to form a path for them to move along,
trying not to go off the edge or collide with other players. Not a deeply strategic game.
BANG! The Dice Game
If you're familiar with BANG!, this has the same roles but a shorter play time,
and uses dice rather than cards to determine what you can do on your turn.
Star Realms
A deck-building game is one in which each player has a small personal deck of cards that they cycle through
and which they can modify during the game, mostly by adding better cards to it. Star Realms is among the
shortest of these. Use spaceships and space stations in 4 flavors to kill the other player before they kill you.
Sushi Go!
A very simple card-drafting game. Much as you might imagine if you're a sports fan, you choose one of
the cards you're holding to keep and pass the rest to the next player, but you're all doing that at once.
Risk: Plants vs Zombies
A 2-player version of Risk with the theme of PvZ. Also includes a second game played on a board resembling
the lawn from the video game and using some different components, still with Risk-style dice-throwing combat.
Takenoko
The players build the board as the game goes along. There's bamboo that can be grown and a panda that can
eat it. No one owns anything. Points are scored by fulfilling cards in your hand that want parts of the board built
a certain way, bamboo grown a certain way in particular places, or the panda to eat certain colors of bamboo.