12 board games heavy, for experienced groups

3–5 players (best 4) · 45–60 min · weight 2/5

In this classic art-auction board game, players become gallery directors buying and selling paintings from five artists through a variety of auction formats (open, blind, once-around, fixed-price, double). A stock-market-like price mechanism is built in — the more an artist's paintings sell, the higher that artist's value climbs — sparking constant, ruthless scheming and collusion between players trying to inflate the value of the paintings they hold.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine explosion · Best at 4 players

3–5 players (best 4) · 45 min · weight 1/5

A classic negotiation and hand-management card game where everyone plays a bean farmer trying to plant the same type of bean in limited fields, harvest them, and earn the most gold. Under the unusual constraint that you can never reorder your hand, the heart and soul of the game is the lively trading and talking — forcing unwanted beans on other players as "gifts" or striking clever swaps to protect your own fields.

♡5 for this table — Close-Friend Party Cheat Code · Best at 4 players

2–4 players (best 4) · 20–30 min · weight 2/5

An abstract territory-expansion game played on square grid boards, where each player starts from a corner and extends their territory toward the center by placing their own tiles so they only ever touch at corners (never edge to edge) — the player left holding the fewest squares of tiles wins.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine Explosion · Best at 4 players

2–5 players (best 4) · 20–30 min · weight 2/5

A deduction and social-read party game where players become legendary wizards competing to become archmage, using secret spell stones that everyone else can see but you can't to figure out your own hand and cast spells. It's a flashy upgrade of the classic 'Da Vinci Code' system dressed up as a wizard duel — you compare the stones on the board and your opponents' visible stones to logically deduce which spells are in front of you. Landing a spell hits your opponent hard, but calling out a spell you don't actually have backfires and damages yourself instead, making the nail-biting mind games the heart of this well-made title.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine explosion · Best at 4 players

2–8 players (best 4) · 15–30 min · weight 1/5

A classic climbing card game set in a rigid class society. Players are ranked from Dalmuti (king) down to peasant (slave); you must play a set of cards matching the previous count but of lower (stronger) rank to empty your hand first, and your final ranking determines next round's status, seating, and tax-tribute rules — a raucous, delightfully unfair class-based party game.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine explosion · Best at 4 players

2–7 players (best 4) · 25–30 min · weight 2/5

A cheerful reskin of the famous German card game 'Neunundneunzig' (Ninety-Nine) with a jalapeño theme. Players lay down one card at a time onto a shared running total, and the moment that total crosses the hard ceiling of 99, whoever played that card is out — a classic hot-potato, read-the-room card game. You have to work in special cards (locking the count at 99, reversing turn order, subtracting 10, etc.) to survive, and the tense card-hoarding and psych-outs to shove opponents to the edge of 99 make this a well-made party game full of laughs.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine explosion · Best at 4 players

2–8 players (best 4) · 20–40 min · weight 1/5

Based on the popular webtoon/animation series 'asdfmovie,' this is an extreme, no-holds-barred chaos party card game. Players do whatever it takes to get their hand to exactly 10 cards at the start of their turn, shout 'Muffin Time!', and hold onto that count until their next turn to win. Trap cards that block opponents' wins, unpredictable counters, out-of-nowhere minigames, and unfair getting-screwed-over moments run wild, constantly breaking the silence with betrayal and shouting — an unrelenting entertainment party game.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine Explosion · Best at 4 players

2–5 players (best 4) · 10–15 min · weight 1/5

A world-renowned psychological showdown party card game where players simultaneously reveal a numbered card to claim high-scoring tiles and dodge low-scoring ones. Each player receives an identical set of cards numbered 1 through 15, and every round, a scoring tile (a plus-point meerkat or a minus-point eagle) is revealed. To win it, everyone secretly plays one card from their hand and flips it face-up at the same time — the highest number takes the tile, but under the clever rule that 'if the highest numbers tie, both are cancelled out and the next-highest number wins instead,' this well-made classic delivers tense, mind-bending psychological warfare.

♡5 for this table — Unpredictable backstabs · Best at 4 players

3–6 players (best 4) · 30–45 min · weight 1/5

Look at one strange, dreamlike illustrated card and offer an abstract word, phrase, or song as a clue — other players slip in their own matching cards, and everyone must guess which one is the real one. A genuine storytelling-style, emotionally driven deduction party game. Through its 'give a clue that's not too easy, not too hard' mechanism, it becomes a timeless classic for delightfully sharing everyone's thoughts and sensibilities.

♡5 for this table — Guaranteed Hit · Best at 4 players

2–10 players (best 4) · 15–30 min · weight 1/5

A classic hand-management, one-card-style board game where each player starts with 7 cards and must play a card matching the color or number of the center pile to be the first to empty their hand. You must shout 'UNO!' when down to your last card, and the raw sabotage fun of dumping penalty cards on opponents with draw cards (Draw Two, Wild Draw Four) is the heart of the game.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine explosion · Best at 4 players

2–6 players (best 4) · 10 min · weight 1/5

A real-time cooperative board game where players work together to keep a kite flying in the sky. Every time you play a card, you flip the matching colored hourglass (kite), and the goal is to empty your hand of every card before all the hourglasses run out — a lightning-fast real-time race-against-the-clock game.

♡5 for this table — Dopamine Explosion · Best at 4 players

2–6 players (best 4) · 30–40 min · weight 2/5

Explore mysterious floating cities aboard an airship, pushing your luck to reach farther cities for higher-value treasure — a well-crafted, genuine dice-betting bluffing (push-your-luck) party game. Each round one player becomes the 'captain,' rolling dice against the weather hazards ahead (fog, lightning, monstrous birds), while the other passengers guess whether the captain can play the right equipment cards to overcome them, deciding in real time whether to stay aboard or disembark now to bank a safe treasure. The captain's bold bluffing and the passengers' sharp read of the room keep firing off nonstop. A superb party game.

♡5 for this table — Guaranteed Hit · Best at 4 players