Do you have recommendations for 2-player board games?
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Board game expert Ashton Wu's favorite 2-player board games include Wingspan, Patchwork, Splendor, Magic: The Gathering, and 7 Wonders Duel. If you like cooperative 2-player board games, he recommends Eldritch Horror, Sky-Team, Lost Cities, and Spirit Island. Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, according to Wu, is a great mystery game for 2 people to play through together.
There is a couple that I follow online, called Games for Two, and they've actually been featured on several games in Target and Walmart now, based on their social media channel, but they post a ton of 2-player games because it's a husband and wife duo. Anytime I'm looking for a duo game, I go and look up what they've done, and they do a great job with that.
One of the games my wife and I play that she always beats me in is called Blockus. It's a Tetris board game style game where you have to get all the pieces to fit. Card games are huge - there are so many games you can play with a deck of cards, and a lot of times, families already have that in their house. We play a couple of games, Sevens and Spoons. Any dice games are also great.
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One of the games my wife and I play that she always beats me in is called Blockus. It's a Tetris board game style game where you have to get all the pieces to fit. Card games are huge - there are so many games you can play with a deck of cards, and a lot of times, families already have that in their house. We play a couple of games, Sevens and Spoons. Any dice games are also great.
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