Carcassonne brings ease of learning, tremendous replayability (I know I use that word a lot here, but it does matter), portability (you can put all the tiles and meeples in a small bag and stuff it in a suitcase), and plenty of different strategies and room for differing styles of play. There’s a brand-new app version out from Repos this fall. Familiarity with the original game is helpful but by no means required. Hand cards become cards on the table, revealed a few at a time in a set pattern that limits player choices to one to four cards (roughly) per turn. Borrowing its theme from one of the greatest boardgames of all time, 7W Duel strips the rules down so that each player is presented with fewer options. The new app is also fantastic, with a campaign mode full of variants. The game moves quickly due to a small number of decisions, like Lost Cities, so you can play two or three full games in an hour. In Jaipur, the two players compete to acquire collections of goods by building sets of matching cards in their hands, balancing the greater point bonuses from acquiring three to five goods at once against the benefit of taking one or two tokens to prevent the other player from getting the big bonuses. Jaipur is my favorite two-player game, just as easy to learn but with two shades of additional complexity and a bit less randomness. Two-player games this week that I decided to pull the list I’ve added to theīottom of my annual top 100 rankings and make a separate post, with some updatesįor things I’ve played more recently and a few games on which I’ve changed myġ. I’ve been getting so many requests for recommendations for

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