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Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badgeEach Recommended game has been carefully evaluated by our editorial staff and found to meet the following conditions:

• Representative of the casual game genre in terms of game length, depth, and complexity
• Appeals to a general audience, with a G or PG content rating
• Has acheived a high rating in gameplay, quality, and originality

 


 

Stringamajig is a party game in which players use a loop of string to draw words. Using your string and some charade skills, can you get the table to guess the word 'tooth'? How about 'snail'?

Mental Blocks is a cooperative puzzle game in which each player is dealt a card that shows one perspective for the block tower they are building. Players cooperate to assemble the structure before the timer runs out.

In this cooperative logic puzzle game, players manipulate the meeple partiers spread around their house, in an effort to collect photos certain meeples in certain locations, while trying to avoid disastrous situations.

Line up the boats to plan the perfect move, as you jump from boat to boat to claim the perfect wedding gifts, sometimes literally out from under your opponents!

The detectives have gathered. But one among you is a conspirator and another their informer. Play cards to match the word the informer has given you, but the conspirator has no idea what the word is and must attempt to bluff their way through. Can you spot who it is?

Cabo: Deluxe Edition features beautifully whimsical artwork, with a blend of memory elements and lightly strategic gameplay. Each player has four cards face-down in front of them. The goal is to get the collective value of your cards closer to zero than your opponents' cards, choosing the perfect moment to go out and have all players reveal their cards and compare.

Each player controls a tribe, dropping them through a cube tower, hoping they come out again to produce the resources they need to make advancements, develop tools, and add to their tribes.

 

In this cooperative building game, one player sees the card that shows what the team is trying to build and must use gestures to convey it, while a second player interprets these signs and walks the builder (who has her eyes closed) through the building process.

A family friendly auction game in which players must bid for plots of land, competing to fulfill shared and secret objectives, earn bonus tokens, and come out on top with the most money in order to be named the new head of the family.

A two player set collection and hand management card game set in the Scottish Highlands, from the designer of Lost Cities and The Quest for El Dorado.

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