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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.

  1. The game that invented deck-building, and still the cleanest version of it.

    Read the full Dominion Board Game Review review →
  2. 7 WONDERS8.9/10

    Simultaneous card drafting that plays up to seven in about thirty minutes.

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  3. SPLENDOR8.6/10

    Card-and-chip engine racing that is trivial to teach and hard to master.

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  4. COUP8.0/10

    A tiny deck of characters powering the tightest bluffing game around.

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  5. DIXIT8.2/10

    A deck of dreamlike art turned into a storytelling and guessing game.

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  6. UNO6.5/10

    The everyone-knows-it colour matcher that still earns its place in the bag.

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