6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Hanabi. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Hanabi.
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Tranquility is a silent cooperative card game where you fill in the sea with a grid of Island cards. The challenge comes from having to play cards into the grid in sequence and not being able to talk to each other to coordinate. It's a beautiful game...
Release Date: 01/01/2015
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Codenames is a team communication game where you play two competing spy networks. One player in each team gives clues to help them find the cards that are their agents without hitting the assassin. It's a novel combination of push-your-luck, clue-giving...
Release Date: 01/01/2018
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards
The Mind is a cooperative sequence card game with a telepathic twist. Each card has a single number on it. Your task is to play them in order, the lowest first. However, you are not allowed to communicate physically or verbally to coordinate who plays...
Release Date: 01/01/2002, updated in 2017
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Bang! is a card game set in the wild west where you take on different missions with a range of characters. You try and keep your target secret while building your weapon and defence cards. It's a game of bluffing where it's easier to shoot your...
Release Date: 01/01/2012
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Coup is a communication game where you fight to become the only player left with political influence. You play by taking on the roles of five different powerful (uniquely skilled) government officials to become the last politician standing. It is a game...
Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2019
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Love Letter is a push-your-luck card game about winning the princess's affection. You use cards with different abilities to knock out the other suitors. With a small number of cards and characters, it's as much about gaining information about what other...
12 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Hanabi. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Hanabi.
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
Wavelength is a communication guessing game where you try and read your teammate's minds. Unlike other guessing games the answers aren't right or wrong but on a sliding scale that changes each round. There's a clever wheel that secretly deals with the...
Release Date: 09/06/2019
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Team 3 is a cooperative puzzle game where three players work to build structures from Tetris-style pieces. The target build is on a card that only the Architect player can see, and this player can't speak. The Builder player can touch the pieces but...
Release Date: 01/01/2015
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Exploding Kittens is a push-your-luck card game like Russian Roulette but with adorable kittens rather than bullets. You take turns drawing cards until you get the Exploding Kitten card and lose. The twist is the various comical and cunning ways you can...
Release Date: 01/01/2011
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Skull is a push-your-luck card game where you try and guess how many other players just laid skulls rather than flowers. The clever bit is that you progressively bid on how many cards you think you can guess right. If you win, you then have to flip over...
Release Date: 01/01/2005, updated in 2019
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Tokens
No Thanks! is a tactical card game where you play to avoid points. You work through a deck of cards of different values to avoid getting a point you have to spend a chip. Eventually, someone runs out of chips and has to take the card. It sounds simple...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board, Cards and Dice
Tumble Town is a world-building game where you compete to build the best town in the Wild West. You play by rolling dice to match patterns on Construction cards and using those dice to build 3D buildings. It is a town planning game where you need both...
Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2009
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
For Sale is a quick, collection and push-your-luck game about buying and selling houses. You bid for houses of different values using coins at auction, and then sell them in savvy ways to maximise the biggest cheques for your best properties. It stands...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Board and Cards
So Clover! is a cooperative word association brain game. It uses a plastic Clover centrepiece that holds four cards in a square with two words on each edge. Each player writes a linking clue word to the word pairs on the plastic Clover that the others...
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...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Dice and Tokens
Snapshot: Wildlife Photographer is a push-your-luck game about a photographer looking for the perfect animal snaps. You play by revealing Animal cards, then assigning and rolling dice in order to successfully photograph them. It is a game about risking...
Release Date: 01/01/2018
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Cards
Peek and Push is a 2-player brain game where you try and memorise what's on a set of Symbol cards in a grid. It's like Pelmanism/Pairs but here the cards are in a grid and display up to three coloured circles. It's a clever battle of memorisation and...
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: Cards, Score Board and Tokens
Tacocat Spelled Backwards is a silly battle game played with palindrome-themed numbered cards. Battles are won by placing a higher card from your hand than your opponent. But you win by having the lowest card at the end of a hand to score a point. It...
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