100 Classic Games Compendium - A Collection of Classic Family Board Games - Includes Chess, Draughts and Ludo

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Sure, its theme hits closer to home nowadays. But there's something cathartic about giving a pandemic the boot… even if it's only in this tabletop world of tokens and cards. Basically? It's more than earned its place on our list of the best board games, and numerous expansions (starring a werewolf or revolving around twisted Christmas tales) should keep that magic alive for even longer.

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YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: 10 Best Hand Management Board Games | 10 Best Modular Board Games | 10 Best Player Elimination Board GamesFor example, if there are three two’s, a player could use the “2’s” spot OR the “three of a kind” spot. If there are no available spots left where the roll can fit, the player is forced to choose where to put a “0”. If you want to take some time and have a mega-database with many bells and whistles, build it one game at a time with GCstar and its excellent BGG "fetch" feature.

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Azul makes the list of the best set collection board games because this award winning puzzle game has you collecting patterned tiles in very strategic and competitive ways. The entire game is set collection with being able to navigate the puzzle as the mechanism that gets you there. Stinky cheese cards count against you, and you want to get rid of them if you can. And you especially don’t want other people to know that you have a stinky cheese card.

Pros: Venerable and battle-tested collection manager; plain and practical interface; Boardgamegeek integration via a third-party script; data import and export both work very well; nice report printing features.