The 50 most popular board games on Amazon 🌟 2025

Players take on the roles of a pilot and a co-pilot in a cooperative game for two. The objective is to work together to land your airplane at various airports around the world. Successful landing requires silently coordinating dice placement in your cockpit to balance the aircraft, control speed, deploy flaps, and even brew coffee to enhance focus. Each airport presents unique challenges, so stay alert for turbulence—it could be a bumpy ride!

Azul invites you to step into the captivating world of Portuguese artistry and craftsmanship. This board game draws inspiration from the introduction of azulejos, originally white and blue ceramic tiles, by the Moors. The tiles found a new home in Portugal when King Manuel I, during a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was enchanted by the exquisite Moorish decorative tiles adorning its interior. Filled with awe and inspiration, the king promptly ordered the embellishment of his own palace in Portugal with similar decorative tiles. As a skilled tile-laying artist, you are tasked with the prestigious mission of adorning the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.

Can you remember a few things? It sounds simple, but it’s a challenge! Players give each other gifts and try to recall who gave them what and which gift they have in front of them. If they can’t remember, they must bluff to avoid a penalty point.

Werewords is a fast-paced word-guessing game blended with the intrigue of a hidden role mechanism. In this engaging party game, players work together to guess a secret word, while also navigating the deceit of a werewolf who knows the word but is trying to lead them astray.

Splendor beckons you into the vibrant world of Renaissance merchants, where the pursuit of gem mines, modes of transportation, and opulent shops is the path to acquiring prestigious points. In this strategic game of chip-collecting and card development, your goal is to amass wealth and influence that will make you the most renowned merchant of the era. Perhaps, if fortune smiles upon you, nobility may even grace your endeavors, further enhancing your prestige.

ICECOOL is an energetic and playful flicking game set in a penguin school, where players assume the roles of rascally penguins trying to snatch fish and the vigilant Hall Monitor trying to maintain order.

Animal Upon Animal (original title: Tier auf Tier) is a delightful and family-friendly stacking game that challenges players to carefully balance wooden animal figures to create an ever-growing pyramid. The game is designed for all ages, showcasing both fun and skill in a simple yet engaging format.

Beneath the crumbling walls of Karak Castle lies a labyrinth filled with treasures and monsters. Six brave adventurers enter, each with a unique trick to claim fortune, but they must outsmart their opponents, defeat monsters, and seize the dragon's gemstone. Players uncover the labyrinth tile by tile, engage in battles, and gather treasures, with the most successful adventurer being crowned the true master of Karak!

7 Wonders (Second Edition) is an acclaimed board game known for its widespread recognition and numerous international awards. This new version rejuvenates the classic 7 Wonders game, maintaining its status as a cornerstone in the world of modern board gaming. The game is celebrated for its elegant drafting mechanics, allowing up to 7 players to participate simultaneously without downtime.

It's race day in Quedlinburg, and with the right mix of food and luck, you ride your mount to victory and win the golden cauldron. Players build their own bag of tiles throughout the game, drawing them to advance on the race track. They will collect resources, gain bonuses, and strategize until someone crosses the finish line first.

A fun cooperative game! Each player must come up with a response to a topic, ensuring the intensity matches their secret number. If the captain arranges the answers in the correct order, the team wins!

NMBR 9 presents a unique puzzle game where numbers take on significance only when they rise above the ground level. The game encompasses twenty cards numbered 0-9, each appearing twice, and eighty tiles numbered 0-9, each composed of squares arranged in different configurations. Players embark on a captivating journey where they draw cards, select number tiles, and strategically build their own tile arrangement. The goal is to maximize points by constructing multi-level structures and showcasing their numerical prowess.

Challenge your luck... but not too much! Earn points by playing cards to the stacks, but be careful! You cannot repeat a color or number. Decide when to stop and score from the best stack, or push your luck for more!

Calico is a delightful, tile-laying board game that combines the art of quilt-making with the charm of cats. It's designed to offer a relaxing yet engaging puzzling experience for players.

Qwinto offers a refreshing twist on the roll-and-write genre, engaging players in a simultaneous play experience where quick thinking and strategic number placement are key to victory. In this game, players race to fill out their scoresheets with ascending numbers in three colorful rows, while navigating the constraints of overlapping columns and avoiding duplicates to maximize their scores.

Each round, players have their own unique topic card that is unknown to others, along with randomly drawn letters. They create a word or something resembling a word from these letters and place it in the center of the table, hiding their topic card. After mixing the topic cards, players secretly vote on which words match which cards, earning points for correct guesses and associations.

Colt Express is a fast-paced, action-packed board game set in the Wild West, where players take on the roles of bandits attempting to rob a moving train.

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is a lively and fast-paced card game that combines elements of classic hand-slapping games like "Snap" and "Dobble". The game is simple, fun, and suitable for players of all ages, making it a great choice for family game nights or casual get-togethers.

Players start with three life tokens and two reserve cards, which are placed face up. Each player receives a hand of cards that cannot be reordered and takes turns playing combinations of up to three cards. The player who plays the highest combination wins the round and begins the next, while those unable to play must use reserve cards or lose life tokens, leading to potential elimination if they run out.

Extreme is a cooperative game where players work together to discard all cards from a stack onto four discard piles. It introduces 28 instructions on the cards that affect the rules while playing, increasing the difficulty of completing the game.

The lion's mane is far too long, risking his respect among the other animals. Players help the lion reach the barber before closing time, creating a path from his bed to the salon. They use cards to move the lion along the path, but must be careful as different colored tiles affect the time. If players manage to get Leo to the barber within five days, they win the game.

Collect balloons, gifts, candles, and mountains of sweets at the birthday party. Players roll dice and select their desired items while others take what's left over. Each color coded area on their scoring sheets has different rules for checking off items, and completing sections will earn them rainbow stars. The game ends once a player marks all items in an area, and the player with the most stars wins.

Players fill their scorecards with dice collected each round. They take turns choosing dice from the center of the table, ensuring that the next die matches the previous ones. At the end of a round, they mark all boxes on their filled scorecard, but competition for the needed dice adds a challenging twist.

Machi Koro is a light and fast-paced city-building board game, where players take on the role of mayor of a small town, striving to develop it into a thriving city.

HeroQuest is a classic adventure board game that blends elements of dungeon crawling and role-playing. One player takes on the role of the game master, unveiling the dungeon piece by piece, while up to four other players assume the roles of different characters (wizard, elf, dwarf, or barbarian) embarking on various quests.

Players must act quickly in a cooperative challenge to save a Dodo egg that has fallen from its nest on a mountain peak. Through teamwork, gather materials, collect tools, and build bridges to safely guide the rolling egg to the foot of the mountain. If they successfully direct the egg into the rescue boat, everyone wins together.

Living Forest is a captivating board game where players become nature spirits, striving to protect a sacred forest and its tree from the destructive flames of Onibi. With the help of animal guardians, players work to save the forest through a combination of strategy, luck, and cooperation.

Take a tour through the peaceful vineyards and picturesque wineries of California's wine country. During the annual wine tasting festival, the body of local vineyard owner Barry Underwood is discovered hidden in his wine cellar, after being missing for six years. With the finding of his body, new clues emerge to unravel this vintage murder, and you might just be a suspect.

Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game immerses players in the role of true detectives, blending traditional board game elements with modern technology and storytelling. This game offers a unique and interactive experience, as players solve interconnected cases using both physical game components and an online database.

The trick-taking game Wizard uses a deck of 60 cards, which includes a traditional 52-card deck plus additional assistants and fools. Players compete over several rounds to achieve the highest score, with each round featuring increasing card distributions and determining a trump suit. Points are awarded based on players meeting their bids for the number of tricks won, with specific rules for how tricks are won depending on the cards played. The 20th Anniversary edition introduces special cards not found in the standard game, adding new strategic elements.

Players control their own ghost in a rotating, magnetic castle as they search for the best costumes. On their turn, they can take up to three magical moves, allowing them to shift their ghost between rooms, move sliders beneath the floor, or even rotate the entire board. The goal is to collect four different costume pieces to win.

Zooloretto is a charming and strategic board game where players become zoo managers, tasked with building and managing their own zoos. The goal is to attract the most visitors by creating a diverse and well-organized collection of animals.

Players must fulfill specific tasks on the game board after rolling six dice three times. These tasks include avoiding orange, achieving four different colors, and rolling yellow with numbers other than orange. Success in these tasks allows players to score points based on the highest sum achieved, while failure results in an "X" entry or the use of a "Kribbeln" score that must exceed previous scores. The player with the highest total points at the end wins.

The five unicorns in Glimmering Unicorns: Cloud Stacking often welcome friends to their cloud castle, but they need to build up due to a lack of space. Players collaborate skillfully to stack the unicorns and clouds. If they manage to stack cleverly and collect all ten cloud crystals, they will all win together.

Players draw a card with a complicated word or term, along with its definition visible only to them. They will then invent alternative meanings for the word and vote on the answers. Points are awarded for correctly guessing the right definition and for plausible alternatives chosen by others. The first player to reach the end of the board wins.

Players take on the role of competitors in a standalone two-player version of Qwixx. They roll colored dice and match them to fill out a score sheet, aiming to maximize their points. Unlike the original game, only the active player can use the rolls, and they share the same board, marking progress with their colored stones. Players can knock out each other's stones or lock them in place, adding a layer of interaction. At the end, scores are tallied based on the placement of the stones, with the highest scorer winning the game.

Players rely on strategies to manage numbered cards from 1 to 98, featuring green cards for positive points and red cards for negative points. In this game, players create sets of cards, but the fifth card played takes the entire set. Players take turns, playing one to three cards from their hand during their turn.

Players take on the role of competitors in a game where cards are numbered from 1 to 100, each featuring a certain number of bullheads. Starting with ten cards, players aim to play their cards to win rounds; the player who discards all cards scores zero points, while others lose points based on the bullheads on their remaining cards. Instead of multiple rows, cards are played onto a single stack, needing to be within ten points of the top card; failing to do so means picking up the stack, thereby increasing the number of stacks as the game progresses.

Cards featuring various animal illustrations are stacked in six piles. One card is chosen by a player and placed in the center. Players then quickly select characteristics suitable for that animal by placing tokens on a list of possible traits.

Kiwi birds cannot fly, but with your help, they can take to the skies and potentially win the game. Each player starts with a stack of ten kiwi discs and a catapult ramp. Players throw their discs into designated pockets on the game box, aiming to form a 2x2 square or a 1x4 line to win instantly, while trying to block opponents. If no one wins immediately, players collect and stack their discs, and the one with the tallest stack is declared the winner.

You're Bluffing! is a classic game of bidding and bluffing where players engage in the lively auction of farm animals, striving to complete sets for points. The game operates on a simple yet engaging mechanic where each animal type is represented by four cards, and players aim to collect complete sets through auctions and trades.

Cockroach Salad is a fast-paced card game where players work together to create a salad but not always truthfully. With 128 cards representing different vegetables and the dreaded "taboo" vegetables with cockroaches, the aim is to deceive your way to victory. The game becomes a test of quick thinking and deception as you navigate through the rules of when to tell the truth and when to lie about the vegetables you're adding to the salad.

SET is a fast-paced card game that challenges players to identify patterns and sets among cards with varying attributes. The game tests observation and pattern recognition skills, making it both fun and mentally stimulating.

Clever 4Ever follows the same gameplay as its predecessors, featuring new scoring categories. Players select dice and place numbers in the appropriate color fields to create challenging chains and accumulate points. Unused dice are equally important since each die smaller than the chosen one can be used by other players, keeping everyone engaged in the game.

Players work together to catch the thief who has stolen the king's magical ring. They need help from various animals living in the castle, but time is against them, requiring a good memory and a bit of luck to succeed. This portable version includes only game pieces, a game figure, and a dedicated die, making it a simple dice and movement game with a memory element and limited tactical options.

Who wouldn't want to expand their horizons while having fun? Players come together to collect as many building cards as possible in a quiz game filled with creative options and exciting variations. With a timer running, players must choose the correct answers to 24 question cards, with varying difficulty levels and assistance through pantomime, sounds, and one-word hints.

Players aim to strike out numbers in four colored rows using cards instead of dice, adding a strategic layer to the game. Each player has a score sheet with numbers ranging from 2-12 in red and yellow, and 12-2 in green and blue. Players draw from a set of cards and play them to mark off numbers, with the game's end triggered when a player locks two colors or marks four penalty boxes.

A new unicorn baby named Rosalie is arriving in Cloudland. The unicorns Glitterluck, Stardust, Marvel Flower, and Magic Swirl are planning a fantastic welcome party for her and are inviting all their friends while collecting enormous cloud crystals. They need to hurry to get everything ready before Rosalie arrives.

Players form a racing team and compete for money and glory in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. They fight for resources needed for upcoming races, with movement determined by templates and custom "barrage dice" for a dynamic and chaotic experience. The game won both the Jury's Choice and the People's Choice for Best New Miniature Rules at the UK Games Expo 2018.

Little Tomcat Tiptop has played all day and now it's time to clean up. Players help him put away the building blocks and toys in the right places to tidy up his room. This cooperative assignment game is suitable for 1 to 3 young players aged 2 and up, featuring competitive and combined play variants.