The best board games for exactly 5 players 2023
Looking for a game that you can play with five players? The games on this list are either designed purely for four players or can be played especially well by five. Included are cooperative board games for 5, classic games for 5 (e.g. Doppelkopf, role-playing games for four, board games for 5 adults, card games for 5 and many more games that can be played very well by five.
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List of the best games 2023 that can (also) be played by five players
Enclosed now is our list of the best board games for exactly 5 people that you can buy 2023:
Telestrations
Nominated for 9 awards and won 7.
⭐️ Nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013
More details for Telestrations- 4 - 8 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Telestrations
Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
- 4 - 12 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
A Fake Artist Goes to New York
- 5 - 10 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
The Resistance: Avalon
Nominated for 4 awards and won 1.
More details for The Resistance: Avalon- 5 - 10 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Detective Club
Nominated for 6 awards and won 3.
More details for Detective Club- 4 - 8 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Detective Club
The Resistance
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for The Resistance- 5 - 10 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
BANG! The Dice Game
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for BANG! The Dice Game- 3 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Don't Mess with Cthulhu Deluxe
- 4 - 8 Players
- 1 - 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Don't Mess with Cthulhu Deluxe
Spyfall 2
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Spyfall 2- 3 - 12 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Spyfall 2
Good Cop Bad Cop (Third Edition)
- 4 - 8 Players
- 20 - 45 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Immediately playable
Herd Mentality
- 4 - 10 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Saboteur
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Saboteur- 3 - 10 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
👍 Good price!8€ at.de
The Great Dalmuti
Nominated for 2 awards and won 1.
More details for The Great Dalmuti- 4 - 8 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
🔥 Great price!7€ at.de
Tiefe Taschen
- 4 - 8 Players
- 20 - 50 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Tiefe Taschen
Scribble Time
- 4 - 8 Players
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Trial by Trolley: Derailed Edition
- 3 - 13 Players
- 30 - 90 Minutes
- 18+ years old
- Immediately playable
Hellapagos
- 3 - 12 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Fool!
- 4 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Fool!
Photo Party
- 6 - 15 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
WINK
- 3 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Panic on Wall Street!
- 3 - 11 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Shadow Hunters
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Shadow Hunters- 4 - 8 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
Dracula's Feast
- 4 - 8 Players
- 5 - 15 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Dracula's Feast: New Blood
- 4 - 8 Players
- 10 - 15 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Mr Lister's Quiz Shootout
- 3 - 8 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Immediately playable
Cranium Scribblish
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Cranium Scribblish- 4 - 6 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Immediately playable
Burke's Gambit
- 4 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Immediately playable
Video reviews for Burke's Gambit
BANG!
Nominated for 8 awards and won 2.
More details for BANG!- 4 - 7 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!18€ at.de
Nosferatu
- 5 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Immediately playable
Snakesss
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Snakesss- 4 - 8 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Immediately playable
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