Two Player board games!!!!

[barms90]

Hello, what boardgames do you recommend for just two players???? Thanks

Scrabble, boggle, Yahtzee are favourites here for two

PS the game is Race for the Galaxy and we love it, not some game called ‘Love Race for the Galaxy’. In case of confusion.

Our favourite is Terraforming Mars. But we also like Wingspan and Great Western Trail.

7 Wonders Duel
Carcassonne
Ticket To Ride
Wingspan
Quacks of Quedlinburg

7 Wonders Duel is two players only. The others can be more but we play them as two player games all the time.

What kind of games do you like?

Wingspan

DH and I love big euro worker placement games such as:

A Feast for Odin
Fields of Arle
Caverna
Agricola
At the Gates of Lo Yang
Nusfjord

Some of them can be played with more than 2 players but work well for 2. There are smaller (specifically 2 player) versions of Agricola and Caverna. Have a look at boardgamegeek.com for info.

Another vote for Wingspan. Just getting our heads round Great Western Trails.

Star Realms is fab, as are the Tiny Epic games- most of the Tiny Epic games can be played single player as well.

Ooh, thanks for the Great Western Trails suggestion @BlueChampagne - I’ve not heard of it before & it sounds great!

Ticket to ride
Cluedo (can play in a 2 instructions explain )
Labyrinth
221b Baker Street

Just looked up some of these games and my god the prices have gone up of games! £60 for wingspan!

I'm going to put a list on my phone and check out charity shops - we just took exploding kittens to one as we didn't like that one

My DD & I play…
Dobble
Headbanz
Cluedo
Monopoly
Operation
Sofia Tea Party

Bananagrams is great if you like wordgames - it's similar to Scrabble, but much more fast-paced
Schotten-Totten is a good game - strategic enough to be fun, but not so strategic as to slow the game down
Monopoly Deal is fun - we had to take some of the wild cards out and do a couple of other tweaks to make it harder, though
A bit old-school, but cribbage is a classic for a reason. It's also fun to hear older relatives unwittingly talking about pegging

Maybe we were missing something, but we didn't rate Hive - found the games got very samey quite quickly.

Scrabble
othello

Maybe we were missing something, but we didn't rate Hive - found the games got very samey quite quickly.

Totally agree. That one went off to the charity shop very quickly.

Just looked up some of these games and my god the prices have gone up of games! £60 for wingspan!

I agree that they seem expensive but the quality of the components is very high. We’re not talking flimsy boards and plastic dice.

We watch “Watch It Played” on YouTube to get an idea of whether a game will suit us or not. Currently considering Photosynthesis….

Agree the big games are expensive (keep an eye on Zatu Games). However, if you think about how many times you might play it, and the cost of a night out, then it helps.

I gather Wingspan was designed by an all-female team.

There's a games cafe near us so I'm going to compile a list and try a few out first !

Depends on the age of the recipient but I went down the route of some good 2 player games for my sons a few years ago (now aged 12 and 9) and the ones they enjoy that I don't see mentioned above are,

Rubiks race
Tetris duel
Top trumps match board
Who dunnit

Ingenious - 2-4 but better with 2 IMO.. very tactical!

Sandwich Masters

Another vote for Carcassonne - we love it.
Bananagrams
Exploding Kittens (especially the box set which offers a variety of games for 2 or more players)
And, our favourite, Cartagena, the pirate game, which is hard to source in the UK but worth getting.

Thanks everyone!!! My son is 11 and we have a lot of games ticket to ride, carcassonne, dixit, splendor (I love he hates) of the top of my head....but I'm just after some that are expic for two players as we are the only two that play!

If anyone is looking for a good multiplayer game he loves scotland yard-I hate it :)

Some I haven't seen mentioned above;
Dice Throne
Caper
Hanabi (cooperative)

Oh and Similo (also a cooperative card game)