Recommended Casual Game Award

The sequel to Gamewright’s Dragonwood, Dragonrealm takes you beyond the forest to new locations and challenges.

Players use cards to create sets of colors, numbers, or runs, which determines how they attempt to capture a location. The number of cards you play determines how many dice you get to roll and the probability of success. 

Letter Jam is a cooperative word game in which players give clues to help each other figure out their secret letters. If all players can unscramble their letters into a valid word without looking at them, they win the game together.

Time to head back to school in this nostalgic set collection game with a refreshingly unique theme and some really neat components. Players collect homework, notes, detention slips, and more as they compete to have the best school experience.

Dinosaurs are having high tea. (Of course they are! Don’t you know a T-Rex loves his cucumber sandwiches?) But you’ve forgotten the names of the other guests. Ask tactical questions and try to place the right name to the right guest.

Mystic Market is a game of set collection, market manipulation, and card drafting, with a little magic thrown in. Players try to buy ingredients cheap, sell them high, and brew magic potions to give themselves a leg up in the competition.

A fabulous atmospheric party game, Paranormal Detectives blends mystery and deduction with multiple forms of clue giving. One player is a ghost, giving varied types of clues to the detectives and trying to lead them to the story of how they died.

An updated version of Vegas Dice Game, players roll dice and select all the dice of one number and place them on the corresponding casino. Players take turns until everyone is out of dice, at which point money is earned based on who has the most and second most number of dice at each casino. This version adds some twists to the classic gameplay, as well as an advanced version with special boards that offer unique abilities.

In a post apocalyptic world, players race against the clock (and sometimes each other) to roll dice, collect resources, and claim territories.

Explore in the first half of the game, landing on islands, spreading out settlers, and founding villages. During the second half, players will spread out from the villages they placed in the first half, connecting islands, gathering resources, and blocking other players.

In New York Slice, one player slices the pizza and the other players choose their portions. Once all the pizzas are gone, players score based on the slices they’ve collected and the pepperoni they ate!