We're going away for a week next week. Looks like we'll be inside a lot.
What board games are good for two people?
Naked Twister
scrabble
Backgammon.
Or Strip backgammon if your that kind of friends.
Oh Jesus, a revolver and a single bullet?
Boggle is really good. We also like the Logo game.
Rummikub.
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Trivial Pursuit
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Jaipur (a card-based camel/commodity trading game, we keep lending our copy to friends, who like it so much they tend to forget to give it back )
Patchwork (a bit like tetris, but with extra bonus points on offer)
Fjords (not entirely unlike othello, but with a map-building phase)
Hive (complicated, in a good way, but you'll need to be properly dedicated to learn all the effects)
Agricola - All Creatures big and small : a really fun farm building game.
there are loads, but they should keep you going for a while...
and if you haven't got ticket to ride, you need to have a long cold look at your priorities. it's not specifically a 2 player, but it works well.
Scrabble everytime.
Chess.
Hive
Catan
Carcassonne
Pack of cards and a cribbage board?
Backgammon
Tiddlywinks?? You could wink at her tiddle all weekend.
Battleships.
Guess Who?
Top Trumps.
Lost Cities
kingdomino
Barenpark or Indian Summer
patchwork
carcassonne
century spice road
dominion
small world
Sorry!
It is Ludo for bastards.
WordStacker
https://www.amazon.co.uk/WordStacker%C2%AE-Word-Wrangling-Game-Stacks-Sabotage/dp/B01HMZFAU0
It's not a board game but we have a travel bag of Qwirkle that we take on holiday. Qwirkle cubes is good too...
Agricola – All Creatures big and small : a really fun farm building game.
ACBAS is brilliant, but it's been out of print for a while and used copies are changing hands for silly money. Would've been my first suggestion otherwise. A reprint including the expansions is Coming Soon.
Seconding recommendations already made, in rough order of complexity:
- Lost Cities
- Jaipur
- 7 Wonders Duel (symbol heavy, but easy once you get your head around it)
I think Pandemic works well as a 2 player game too.
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Pucket
Connect 4*
Pass the pigs*
(*- Okay, technically not board games but easy two player games)
Go
chess
draughts (ok might be over a bit quick)
Carcassone
jaipur
ticket to ride
quirkle