Strategy games for a small table

The points at the end pay for a choice made several turns before it counted. Nothing here is decided by one good round.

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Paper Novel

1–6 players · 15 min · best with three or four

The line you write buys the letters you write the next one with.

1–5 players · 30 min · best with three or four

Take the line before somebody else does.

1–5 players · 20 min · best with three

Every card is also money. That is the whole game.

1–2 players · 25 min · best with two, or one and an explorer

Opening a site costs you twenty points. Now decide.

1–2 players · 20 min · best with two, or one and a trader

Everything you buy is worth less to the next person.

1–2 players · 20 min · best with two

Take four. Hand them the other eight.

1–4 players · 25 min · best with anyone. bots take the empty chairs.

Roll, build, trade. Ten points claims the belt — and the bots want it too.