Travelling, holidays, camping or long car journeys – these are the moments when a good travel game really comes in handy. These games are small, lightweight, quick to explain and offer plenty of fun in a compact format. They don’t take up much space, often have no complex components, and can be played almost anywhere – on a train, at the airport or over a coffee in your holiday flat. Here’s a selection of the best travel board games to take with you wherever you go.
The smallest games:
Barbecubes
The grill is hot and it's time to get the food ready for grilling – but be careful not to drop the food into the grill, or everyone will go hungry!
Scout
SCOUT is a ladder-climbing game in which cards have two potential values, players may not change the order of the cards in their hand, and players can skip their turn to take a card from the current high set into their hand.
Deep Sea Adventure
In Deep Sea Adventure, a group of poor explorers hoping to get rich quick set out to search for treasure in some underwater ruins. They are all rivals, but because of their budget they all share a single rented submarine. Even in the rented submarine,…
Bandida
Bandida is a notorious outlaw who has decided to escape from prison, just like her role model Bandido. This time you can choose whether to side with the police and try to catch Bandida, or to come to her aid in her escape.
Bandido
A dangerous bandit is trying to escape from the dungeon. Join forces with your friends and close off every exit by carefully laying cards before he pulls off the great escape! A great cooperative game, perfect for a coffee break.
Kariba
The little animals in the desert are thirsty, so they come to drink at the oasis. But the law of the strongest rules there – bigger animals chase away smaller ones. Can you play your cards so that you bring more chased-away animals to safety…
Tucano
Bananas, papayas, pineapples ... The rainforest is full of juicy, tasty fruit waiting for you. But be careful: at the end of the game some of the fruit may turn out to be rotten ... Pick the best fruit wisely to avoid the bad ones,…
Agropolis
Agropolis is a standalone game that brings the same card-placement gameplay and variable scoring as Sprawlopolis to a new setting: city blocks give way to orchards, wheat fields, livestock pens and vineyards. As before, players draw three goal cards and then try to place cards…
Card games:
Skull King
Skull King is a trick-taking card game similar to Oh Hell!, Wizard, Euchre and Spades. Players must predict how many tricks they will win each round. A special feature of this game is that bids are made simultaneously, which can lead to a round with…
Love Letter (Slovenian edition)
Love Letter is a game of risk, deduction and luck for 2–4 players. Your goal is to get your love letter into Princess Annette's hands while deflecting the letters of competing suitors.
Flip 7 2nd Edition
The second edition of the popular game Flip 7, now in a handy, smaller version without a box. Flip cards one at a time, but watch out – if you hit the same number twice, you're bust! Flip 7 is a tense mix of luck…
Trio (Slovenian rules)
Trio is a card game in which players look for three matching cards. The deck consists of 36 cards, numbered from 1 to 12 three times. Players receive some cards in hand, which they must sort from lowest to highest, and the remaining cards are…
Illusion (Slovenian edition)
Can you trust your eyes? How many colours do you really see? These questions drive the gameplay of Illusion, whose rules let you start playing right away. Who has the right perspective not to be fooled?
The Game (Slovenian edition)
In The Game, players try to discard all 98 cards in the deck onto four piles in order to win, but they have to do it the right way.
Larger but still compact:
Splendor Duel (Slovenian edition)
The board game Splendor Duel is a standalone game for two players only, based on the board game Splendor; it keeps some of that game's key mechanisms while being somewhat more complex, dynamic, interactive, rich, tense and competitive.
Jekyll Vs Hyde (Slovenian edition)
Jekyll vs. Hyde is a two-player game based on the famous novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. As Dr Jekyll, you must resist Mr Hyde's fierce attacks to protect your mind and keep the secret of your dual…
Jaipur (Slovenian edition)
You are one of the two most influential traders in the city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, but that's not enough for you! Only the trader with two "seals of excellence" will have the honour of being invited to the Maharaja's court. To beat…
Arboretum
Arboretum is a strategic card game that challenges players to create the most beautiful path through a garden. Choosing the right cards and arranging them correctly will earn the most points at the end of the game. With elegantly simple rules, Arboretum offers players surprisingly…
Mountain Goats
In Mountain Goats, you try to move your goats to the top of 6 different mountains, where they can score points for as long as they stay there. On the way up you can share space with other goats, but at the top of each…
Kites
Enjoy the fun of getting together with Kites from Floodgate Games. Enjoy sunny days and windy moments as you set off on a cooperative adventure with friends to keep your colourful kites in the air! In Kites, players work together to keep their kites high…
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