Indoor intellectual activities
353 activities found
Mysterium
One player is a silent ghost sending cryptic dream-card visions to psychic investigators who must identify the correct suspect, location, and weapon that led to the ghost's murder.
Nine Men's Morris
Players alternately place and move nine pieces on a grid to form rows of three called mills, removing an opponent's piece each time a mill is formed until the enemy has none left.
Orléans
Fill your bag with citizen tokens — knights, farmers, monks, and traders — then draw them to populate your action board, travel the Loire valley, and build a trading empire in this acclaimed bag-building game.
Othello
Place black and white discs on an eight-by-eight board and flip your opponent's pieces by trapping them between yours — the player with the most discs when the board fills wins.
Hanabi
A cooperative card game with a twist — you hold your cards facing away from you, relying on clues from teammates to play firework cards in the correct order without making too many mistakes.
Hive
A two-player abstract game with no board — surround your opponent's Queen Bee using heavy Bakelite insect tiles, each with unique movement rules, in an ever-shifting hexagonal hive.
Istanbul
Race through the Istanbul bazaar with your merchant and four assistants, collecting rubies by trading goods — drop an assistant at each location you visit and return later to retrieve them.
Keyflower
Bid meeples to claim village tiles in summer, autumn, and winter auctions, then use them as worker-placement actions — a beautifully interlocking auction and village-building game across four seasons.
Le Havre
Manage a French harbour town — collect goods from the harbour, build or use buildings to process them, and feed your workers each round in this classic two-player-friendly economic game.
