
MINDOK Kingdomino (Czech-Slovak edition)
Children pick landscape dominoes to build a small kingdom, and the better the one they take, the later they choose next round. Which dominoes come up is luck; weighing a good one now against an early pick later is where the thinking is. Scoring takes multiplying, so a six-year-old needs help.


Asmodee Qwirkle
Wooden tiles in six shapes and six colours go into rows that share a shape or a colour without repeating, and longer rows score more. The tiles you draw play their part, but placing them for the most points takes real thought. With three or four players it can take 45 minutes.

ALBI Quoridor
Each player races a pawn across a wooden board, and on any turn can put down a fence instead to make someone else’s path longer. There’s no luck in it: as in a short, friendlier game of chess, thinking two or three moves ahead wins, and a seven-year-old can beat an adult who isn’t paying attention.
