Intellectual activities
371 activities found
Quoridor
Race your pawn to the opposite side of the board while placing wooden fences to slow your opponent — every fence you place can be countered, making this abstract game a brilliant spatial puzzle.
Qwirkle
Build lines of tiles that share a colour or shape — never both — scoring points for every tile in a completed line, with a Qwirkle bonus for completing a full set of six in a row.
Race for the Galaxy
Simultaneously choose phases — explore, develop, settle, produce, consume — and reveal them together, building a galactic civilisation from tableau cards with a steep learning curve but incredibly deep strategy.
Mage Knight
Play a legendary Mage Knight conquering cities and dungeons across a randomly built map — manage a hand of action cards, recruit units, and level up your hero in this solo-friendly epic adventure game.
Mancala
One of the world's oldest strategy games — sow stones around a row of pits, capturing as many as possible in your store, in a deceptively simple yet deeply strategic two-player duel.
Monopoly
Buy properties, build houses and hotels, collect rent from rivals, and bankrupt every opponent to win — the world's best-known board game of capitalism, negotiation, and ruthless real estate.
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.
