Game On A Time Crunch With These Fast-Play Board Games
You can game even when you’re on a bit of a time crunch because these fast-play board games top out at 20-30 minutes.
5-Minute Dungeon
It’s all in the name! 5-Minute Dungeon is a game of adventuring through your standard fantasy dungeon-crawler, defeating the boss, and collecting your loot… In just about five minutes. Games are super quick and fast paced with lots of possible classes to pick from and endless replayability.
Will you make it out alive? Test your wits in a battle to the end with 5-Minute Dungeon! In this chaotic, cooperative, real-time card game, players use quick thinking to combat monsters, overcome obstacles and escape dungeons – all within 5 minutes! With the clock ticking, it’s up to you and your team to battle together in pursuit of victory or perish alone.
Werewolf
Werewolf is the infamous party game of tricking, suspecting, and voting to kick out one of your friends. But guess wrong, and the werewolf continues to walk free among its potential victims. Games last about ten minutes and move fast as players all try to convince the group that they are not the fearsome monster. But somebody always is.
One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast paced game where everyone gets to be a different role. In the course of only one night and the following morning, the players will determine who among them is a werewolf hopefully. One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a micro game of the party game Ultimate Werewolf that doesn’t need a moderator. There’s no elimination and each game lasts about 10 minutes.
Codenames
Codenames is a fast-to-learn, fast-to-play game of recognizing clues and patterns and finding the spy. Games run about fifteen minutes, and are played in two opposing teams. So game nights can get a little competitive.
A party game of wordplay and deduction, Codenames pits two teams against each other as rival spymasters give clever one-word clues to help teammates identify secret agents hidden among 25 codenames.
Santorini
Santorini is an elegant, quick, and beautiful game of building Greek island villages. Each game lasts about twenty minutes, and games are won with strategy and spatial reasoning as you place and stack your buildings around the island. Be the first to make it to the top to win.
Santorini is an elegant strategy game where players become Greek gods competing to build a majestic island village. Despite its simple two-step turns – move and build – the game offers remarkable depth that appeals to both families and serious gamers. Players maneuver builders across an ever-growing 3D cityscape, stepping up levels and constructing buildings. Victory comes from reaching the third level, but divine powers granted to each player create unique strategic possibilities and high replayability. Use the power of the gods to build a beautiful village and be the first worker who rises to the top!
Coup
In Coup, you take on the role of the head of a family in an Italian city-state. Over the course of about fifteen minutes you need to manipulate, bluff, and bribe your way into power. Destroy the influence of the other families, force everyone else into exile, and be the last family (socially) standing.
Welcome to Coup, the fast-paced, fun, and highly recommended card game that’s perfect for gatherings with friends. In this exciting strategy and bluffing game, you’ll find yourself in a world of strategy, deception, and cunning. Play your cards wisely or bluff your way to victory – the choice is yours. With five unique roles to master, every game of Coup is an adventure waiting to unfold. Coup’s gameplay is designed for both adults and kids, making it a superb addition to your collection of board games and card games. It’s a great game for 2 to 6 players, making it perfect for an evening of fun with friends.
Bang!
Bang! brings you to the wild west to take on outlaws, ruffians, and the less-than-occasional shoot-out. Games take about thirty minutes but move very fast and are perfect for parties with places for up to seven players. More with expansion. Are you fit to be sheriff? Or is this town not big enough for all seven of you?
When a man with a pistol meets a man with a Winchester, you might say that the one with the pistol is a dead man, unless his pistol is a Volcanic, In the wild west, the Outlaws hunt the Sheriff, the Sheriff hunts the Outlaws, and the Renegade plots in secret, ready to join one side or the other. Before long, bullets start to fly, Which gunmen are Deputies, ready to sacrifice themselves for the Sheriff? And which are the merciless Outlaws, looking to gun him down?
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