The best games from Ben Pinchback 🇺🇸👨 2025

The English second edition of Fleet: The Dice Game includes an updated rulebook, scorepads, and captain and trophy cards. Players return to beautiful Ridback Bay to reap rewards over 10 rounds, with each round consisting of a boat phase and a town phase. During the boat phase, players roll dice and select actions to mark off boat types and unlock fishing licenses, while the town phase allows them to activate special buildings for bonuses and earn points. A fully integrated solo mode lets players compete against Captain Ruth for high scores.

Fleet: The Dice Game offers a strategic and immersive experience as players return to the bustling Ridback Bay to engage in the competitive fishing industry. Unlike typical roll and write games, Fleet: The Dice Game introduces complex decision-making and strategy, accommodating 1-4 players and including a robust solo mode.

Eggs from the dragons of Ridback Mountain are valuable, though not as much as gold since the last market fluctuation. Adventurers from all realms are sent to collect these eggs, but competition is fierce, and dangers lurk as dragons mix in exploding eggs that can cause harm.

Space has fascinated humanity for millennia. In Stellar, players are stargazers calibrating their telescopes to observe various celestial objects, creating a beautiful representation of the night sky. Over eleven rounds, players play cards for their telescope and notebook, aiming to score the most points by the end.

Players take on the role of firefighters climbing ladders in a thrilling game. They aim to eliminate their hand of cards while facing challenging situations that test their skills and decisions. The game is played over several rounds with players receiving cards and choosing hotspots that dictate scoring and specific challenges for the round. The first player to play all their cards wins the round, earning points based on their hotspot card, and the game continues until only one player remains.

Three Sisters is a thoughtfully designed roll-and-write game that takes inspiration from the companion planting method known as the Three Sisters, used by indigenous peoples for centuries. This game intricately weaves the concepts of farming, gardening, and sustainability into a strategic and competitive board game experience.

Players cleverly play bird cards from their hand to collect seeds and birds at the birdbath. Seeds and paired bird sets in their collection score points, while individual birds only score if they have the majority of their species. The game consists of three phases: playing a card, resolving effects, and drawing new cards, continuing until a player must draw from an empty deck, at which point all players tally their points for seeds, pairs, and species majorities to determine the winner.

Fleet Wharfside is a standalone card game that focuses on completing contracts by selecting them from the market and collecting fish from your fleet at the dock. Stories of rich catches in Ridback Bay attract traders willing to pay well for the haul.

Fleet is a strategic card game set in the picturesque backdrop of Ridback Bay in Nunavut, Canada. As the bay becomes accessible, it attracts the world's finest fishermen to its abundant sea life. Players step into the roles of entrepreneurs vying to build the most formidable fishing fleet in this newly discovered fishing haven.

Players take on the roles of a diverse group of kids from Goon Docks in Astoria, Oregon. They must work together to find the treasure of the legendary pirate One-Eyed Willy to save their homes from demolition. In this cooperative game, players clear obstacles, defeat the Fratellis, and discover secret paths to lost treasures, aiming to secure Willy's loot before running out of time or facing too many challenges.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service plunges players into a post-apocalyptic reality where they become drivers for the last delivery company on Earth. Designed by a renowned trio of game designers and illustrated by a famed comic artist, this game combines a rich thematic experience with deep strategic play. Players navigate a devastated landscape, delivering goods between settlements while contending with raider attacks and fulfilling missions for the remnants of civilization.

Superfriends gather in the Hall of Justice to face thirteen of the darkest villains of all time. Play your cards wisely to defeat the Legion of Doom. The game is based on the classic animated TV show and offers a simultaneous, easy-to-learn tabletop experience using Cryptozoic's "Gryphon" card game engine. Each player has a ten-card deck to summon allies or use superpowers.

Ama is tired after a long day of hunting for her grandchildren and needs a break. She sends them to the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market to collect fruits in exchange for her famous fruit salad, while navigating various fruit boats filled with mangoes, bananas, papayas, and more. Players compete as Ama's eager grandchildren, racing to be the first to collect five different types of fruits and create the first bowl of fruit salad, using a blend of polyhedral dice, worker placement, and dice speculation for a unique experience suitable for both new and experienced players.

Players represent families of craftsmen continuing the ancient traditions of the world-famous Jemaa el-Fnaa marketplace in Marrakech, Morocco. They compete to claim the best stalls and attract customers with their goods and spectacular performances. The game unfolds in two phases: scouting the market and dispatching workers, where players gather crucial information and strategically position their families for success.

Everything began when the Empire took control of Earth and declared martial law, condemning those who opposed them to death or worse fates. A group of defectors managed to seize control of the Ridback, a Class II jump ship, and fled with as many condemned individuals as they could save.

Start the DeLorean and get ready for 1.21 gigawatts of fun! In this adventure through time, 2-4 players compete to move Doc Brown's time-traveling DeLorean across three timelines (1955, 1985, and 2015) to ensure key events from the film's plot occur. Players maneuver iconic characters like Marty McFly and Biff Tannen to trigger famous scenes at just the right moment. The player who best repairs the timeline wins.