Recommended Casual Game Award

Spell Smashers is a word game in which you play letter cards to spell words and deal out damage to monsters for each letter you use. Choose your battles carefully, however, as each wound will fill your hand with difficult to use letter combos you can't easily discard.

In Loony Quest, each player has thirty seconds to draw on their transparent screens, using lines, circles and dots to complete objectives. Then lay the screens over the game board to check how accurate you were. Play through six levels, and the player with the most points at the end wins the game.

Visit far off locations to gather artifacts from around the world, but choose wisely where you send your archaeologist, because you won’t know until the end of the game what the artifacts from each location are worth.

The sequel to Gamewright’s Dragonwood, Dragonrealm takes you beyond the forest to new locations and challenges.

Players use cards to create sets of colors, numbers, or runs, which determines how they attempt to capture a location. The number of cards you play determines how many dice you get to roll and the probability of success. 

Letter Jam is a cooperative word game in which players give clues to help each other figure out their secret letters. If all players can unscramble their letters into a valid word without looking at them, they win the game together.

Time to head back to school in this nostalgic set collection game with a refreshingly unique theme and some really neat components. Players collect homework, notes, detention slips, and more as they compete to have the best school experience.

Dinosaurs are having high tea. (Of course they are! Don’t you know a T-Rex loves his cucumber sandwiches?) But you’ve forgotten the names of the other guests. Ask tactical questions and try to place the right name to the right guest.

Mystic Market is a game of set collection, market manipulation, and card drafting, with a little magic thrown in. Players try to buy ingredients cheap, sell them high, and brew magic potions to give themselves a leg up in the competition.

A fabulous atmospheric party game, Paranormal Detectives blends mystery and deduction with multiple forms of clue giving. One player is a ghost, giving varied types of clues to the detectives and trying to lead them to the story of how they died.

An updated version of Vegas Dice Game, players roll dice and select all the dice of one number and place them on the corresponding casino. Players take turns until everyone is out of dice, at which point money is earned based on who has the most and second most number of dice at each casino. This version adds some twists to the classic gameplay, as well as an advanced version with special boards that offer unique abilities.