Lanterns

You’ll place lake tiles into the center, connecting them with previously placed tiles, to gain lantern cards which you’ll use to create sets and turn them in for points. This game is incredibly beautiful and so classic — it’ll draw you back for play after play.

Calico

Calico has you sewing cozy quilts. The rules are fairly simple, but the puzzle of it all will have you scratching your head. Creating specific patterns attracts different cats to come curl up on your quilt which is adorable.

Tiny Towns

Here you’ll place resource cubes into specific layouts to construct the buildings with those layouts. The more you add to your board, the harder it becomes to successfully create the patterns you need.

Sagrada

Sagrada is all about building stained glass windows. You’ll draft dice and add them to your board following various placement restrictions. Sagrada also has a great standalone legacy game called Sagrada Artisans. Artisans provides wonderful variety in window shapes and placement puzzles that keeps the game interesting over the course of multiple plays. Perfect for new Sagrada players or experts.

Kingdomino

Kingdomino is one of the best family games around. Perfect for young and old, you’ll draft terrain tiles to fill out your kingdom looking to maximize your scores by building large terrain groups.

Cascadia

Create the most harmonious ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest. Place habitat tiles to build out land areas for the wildlife and satisfy their scoring conditions. Cascadia is easy to learn, challenging to succeed, and has lots of variety to keep each game unique.

Fyfe

Fyfe is a super puzzly game that plays out kind of like Sudoku. You’re going to be placing tokens onto your board to create different patterns that will earn you victory points. The cool thing is you’ll choose how each row and column on your 5×5 grid board scores so you’ll try to make the most of each token placement to hopefully meet multiple scoring conditions.

Splendor

You’re a merchant trying to buy gems, property, and please nobility. You’ll collect chips and turn them in to buy cards from the center as you race to be the first to 15 victory points to win.

If you play primarily with two players, we absolutely love the two player Splendor Duel.

Spirits of the Forest

I love this quick little drafting game. You’ll place spirit tiles into rows on the table and then work from the outside edges in to draft and collect the different spirits, tokens, and gemstones from the forest to score in the end.