Sharing Adam’s 2025 updated list of all-time Favorite Board Games!

Small card games can be an incredible bang for your buck. They can often be found for a reasonable price point, are easy to teach, and can offer incredible strategy to make each play better than the next. We’re rating the 9 small box card games we recently played below to help you find the ones to try next, and the ones to skip.

And just like that, another year has come and gone, and a new year is upon us. But before we rush into 2025, we want to share our top games of 2024. Consider this our 2024 Board Game Wrapped.

Every year since before I was born, my family gets together and spends the day making Christmas candies. Aunts, uncles, cousins; everyone all gathers around my grandma’s island to make all sorts of delicious treats to share together throughout Christmas and gift to friends and neighbors. At the end of the day, the kitchen is bursting with goodies and we all load up our plates and baggies with a bit of everything to take home.