Guide recommends modern board games for people quarantined together

"The best board games to play with your quarantined housemates" collects recommendations of modern board games suited to common quarantine scenarios, including solo play, two-player gaming, and family time. The guide highlights family-weight titles that are not merely "kids' games": Dixit, which uses wordless picture cards and a storyteller/clue mechanic that "works wonderfully in some groups and not at all in others"; Kingdomino, a dead-simple tile-laying game that constrains kingdoms to a 5×5 grid; accessible engine-builders like Splendor; and award-winning abstracts such as Azul.

It also recommends roll-and-write Welcome to..., Dice Forge, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Parks, Quacks of Quedlinburg, Kingdom Builder, Lords of Waterdeep, Wingspan, and Carpe Diem, summarizing each game's core play loop and appeal. For two players, the list recommends compact, tense designs including 7 Wonders Duel (three possible victory conditions), Jaipur (fast trading and set-selling decisions), Air, Land, & Sea (an 18-card pool with a withdraw mechanic), Dual Powers: Revolution 1917 (a calendar-driven action timing game), and KeyForge: Call of the Archons, which forbids deckbuilding by issuing unique, preconstructed decks generated by an algorithm.

Most of the recommended games are noted as available on Amazon, though some may require visiting a local gaming store's website, and the guide suggests supporting local shops if possible.

Key Topics

Culture, Board Games, Dixit, Kingdomino, Splendor, Azul