The best games released in 1972📆 2026

Boggle is a fast-paced, timed word search game that challenges players to find as many words as possible within a three-minute time limit. The game uses a 16-cube grid filled with letters, and players must quickly form words by connecting adjacent letters.

The objective is to be the first player to build a completely leak-free pipeline from the valve card to the outlet card. Iron pipe cards can "leak" due to opponent sabotage and can be repaired with a wrench or a replacement pipe segment; copper pipe cards never leak. The minimum number of pipe cards needed between the valve and the outlet depends on the number of players.

Triple Yahtzee is essentially a standard Yahtzee game, but it features three scoring columns instead of the usual one. The regular Yahtzee rules apply, but with thirty-nine categories instead of thirteen. Scores are added normally in the first column, doubled in the second, and tripled in the third, making it crucial to place high scores in the third column to maximize points.

Players draw four cards of the same type from a standard deck for each participant. After mixing and distributing the cards, they only reveal them at the start of the game. Spoons are placed on the table, enough for everyone except one player, and the game involves passing cards while trying to collect four of a kind. When someone successfully collects four of a kind, they take a spoon, and the player left without one receives a "pig point." Accumulating three pig points means losing the game, but players who become pigs can still participate and communicate, albeit with a penalty. The last remaining player wins.

Players move their pawn one space and then remove a square from a 6x8 grid of removable tiles. The goal is to isolate the opponent so they cannot make a move. This game is part of a collection of two-player strategy games from the 1970s by Lakeside.