Best Board Games with "No Close Inspection Disadvantage" Accessibility Settings

Ancestree

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Ancestree is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to build the strongest family tree. You select and link tiles, building your family person by person, scoring points for marriages, wealth and continuous generations. It is a strategic game...

Kingdomino

Release Date: 01/03/2017

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Figures and Placeables

Kingdomino is a kingdom-building game where you place domino tiles to match terrain types and score points. As you play, you build a territory in a grid that requires careful consideration of where dominoes are placed to maximise points. What makes this...

Colt Express

Release Date: 01/01/2014, updated in 2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Figures and Tokens

Colt Express is a traversal game where you move a bandit along an express train in the Old West to collect the most loot. Each player pre-selects moves, attacks and pick-ups that then play out together. Unusually, play becomes about planning, predicting...

Last Defense!

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Dice, Figures and Tokens

Last Defense! is a game about saving a city from alien invasion in just twenty minutes. You play by rolling dice and moving to stop the invading monsters, free Scientists from the rubble and discover Tools. It's a simple combination of cooperative...

Azul

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Azul is a tile-laying collection and sequencing game where you help the king decorate their palace with Portuguese tiles. You aim to gain tiles on your game card that form patterns to score the most points. What makes it unique is its balance between...

Tsuro

Release Date: 01/01/2005

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Board, Figures and Placeables

Tsuro is a strategic tile-laying traversal game where the goal is to keep your piece on the board longer than anyone else. You play by adding intricate winding Path tiles to a board to move pieces along the path that you create. It is a game of cat and...

Flamme Rouge

Release Date: 01/01/2016

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards and Figures

Flamme Rouge is a quick and tactical bike racing game. You control a team of two riders around the puzzle piece track to get to the finish first. The trick is using your endurance and sprinter rider cards to tactically use slipstream efficiently.

Catan

Release Date: 01/01/1995, updated in 2013

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Cards, Dice, Figures, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Catan is a strategy game set on an uninhabited island where you accumulate, spend and trade resources to build the biggest kingdom. Players must compete for space, resources and ultimately for ten victory points to be crowned the winner. What starts as...

Dead Reckoning

Release Date: 01/05/2021

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Figures, Placeables and Tokens

Dead Reckoning is a role-play game where you power-up sailor cards to command a pirate ship, trade, hunt treasure and take control of islands. Unlike other card games, you're not trading cards but levelling them up by applying upgrades and advancements...

Blood Bowl

Release Date: 01/01/1986, updated in 2020

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Dice, Figures, Score Board and Tokens

Blood Bowl is a sporting and fighting game American football game played with two teams of Tolkienesque fantasy races. They compete to either get the ball to the end zone or kill all the opponent players. Despite the violent overtones, it's a finely...

ShipShape

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

ShipShape is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to create the highest-scoring ship full of loot. You bid for hole-ridden Crate pieces, then carefully stack them in order to form your Hold. It is part auction, part puzzle where you have...

Hanabi

Release Date: 01/01/2010

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Hanabi is a cooperative game where you create a firework show by placing the cards in the right order. Your goal is to organise all the suits of cards in ascending order like Solitaire. The twist is that only other players can see your cards and you...

Roll For It!

Release Date: 01/01/2011

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Dice

Roll For It! is a push-your-luck dice game where you compete to be the first to forty points. You roll dice to complete point sequences - the more complex, the bigger the score. It is a mix of chance and strategy, where even the savviest of players can...

Kim-Joy's Magic Bakery

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Placeables

Kim-Joy's Magic Bakery is a card-collecting game where you run a bakery in a magic forest. You play by collecting Ingredient cards and then using them to “bake” Layer cards to match customer orders. It is a team game, where your shop's capacity is...

The Magic Labyrinth

Release Date: 01/01/2009

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Board, Figures and Tokens

The Magic Labyrinth (also known as The Magic Maze) is a traversal puzzle game where magician apprentices retrieve magic objects from their master's maze. However, there are invisible walls in the maze that you have to avoid. The walls are set up under...

Legacy of Dragonholt

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Text and Tokens

Legacy of Dragonholt is a tabletop role-play game in the style of Dungeons & Dragons. Here though, things are approachable with less reading and no one (game master) who has to run the game. With up to six friends, you quickly build unique heroes...

Trial by Trolley

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: Board and Cards

Trial by Trolley is a game about exaggerated moral choices, based on the trolley problem that forces you to choose between two bad scenarios. Each team places a series of innocent things on their...

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Best Board Games with "No Close Inspection Disadvantage" Accessibility Settings

Ancestree

Kingdomino

Colt Express

Last Defense!

Azul

Tsuro

Flamme Rouge

Catan

Dead Reckoning

Blood Bowl

ShipShape

Hanabi

Roll For It!

Kim-Joy's Magic Bakery

The Magic Labyrinth

Legacy of Dragonholt

Trial by Trolley

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