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BEST CARD GAMES
Cards do a lot of heavy lifting in modern board gaming, from deck-building engines to fast bluffing fillers. These are the best card-driven games we have reviewed, ranked by how much game they squeeze out of a deck.
The game that invented deck-building, and still the cleanest version of it.
Read the full Dominion Board Game Review review →- 7 WONDERS8.9/10
Simultaneous card drafting that plays up to seven in about thirty minutes.
Read the full 7 WONDERS review → - SPLENDOR8.6/10
Card-and-chip engine racing that is trivial to teach and hard to master.
Read the full SPLENDOR review → - COUP8.0/10
A tiny deck of characters powering the tightest bluffing game around.
Read the full COUP review → - DIXIT8.2/10
A deck of dreamlike art turned into a storytelling and guessing game.
Read the full DIXIT review → - UNO6.5/10
The everyone-knows-it colour matcher that still earns its place in the bag.
Read the full UNO review →