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Game night has been a popular pastime for years. New games with unique goals or even a great classic always make for a fun way to spend time with your friends and family while giving into your competitive side a bit. Now, with October Prime Day deals out, you can pick up quite a few great titles at big discounts. It's the perfect time to shop for holiday gifts.
Board games today come in many forms, and there are options for every taste. You can find games that require cooperative play, strategy games that require intense concentration or simpler card games that are all about luck. And if you shop around, you'll also find there are always good games on sale.
My family and I love board games, so I'm always looking for the best deals. I'll never be a rich man: I end up buying every board game deal I see for my gaming table. Now you, too, can enjoy the feeling of having more board games than you'll ever need. You're welcome. Keep scrolling to check out our roundup of the best board game bargains available, and we'll keep updating the list as we find newer and better deals.
If you like to indulge in being a little sneaky, you'll love Spectre. Your aim is to become the next big spy, and to do so you need to build special devices, create your own networks of spies and more. You'll not only have to work against other players, but also James Bond himself. You can play with up to four people, so it's a good one for family nights if you all love spy films.
Minecraft was always going to branch out into other platforms, but we're not sure anybody expected it to feel so good as a board game. Builders & Biomes can be played with up to four players, and it essentially translates the experience of the video game into a board game. That means plenty of voxel-style board pieces, different items to collect and plenty of areas to explore.
Marvel is probably going to be fairly big for the rest of all of our lives, and so too will the appeal of the humble zombie. Well, Marvel Zombies smooshes the two together into a board game for up to six players. The game comes with minis to play with and has you either trying to save the world or doom it. This set can also be added to other ones to make for an even larger potential game.
Spellbook is a great game for those who love fantasy. Your aim is to build up your very own spellbook, and then use it to navigate around and try to outthink your opponents. There's a degree of luck in there, sure, but you also need to understand how everyone else is going to move and more.
More board game deals
- The Thing 1982: $40 (save $15)
- Ticket to Ride strategy board game: $44 (save $11)
- Ruin It adult party board game: $12 (save $18)
- Taboo Uncensored for adults: $17 (save $3)
- Original Sequence game: $15 (save $10)
- Wordle: $13 (save $7)
- Ravensburger Disney Lorcana TCG: $15 (save $10)
- Don't Spill the Beans: $5 (save $7)
- Mouse Trap: $17 (save $8)
- Twister Air Party Game: $6 (save $7)
- Settlers of Catan: $33 (save $11)
- Azul: $24 (save $8)
- Throw Throw Burrito: $15 (save $10)
Where's the best place for board game deals?
While Amazon might be the obvious choice for board games and has a lot of good deals going on with Prime Day right now, there are still plenty of other places you can find great deals. Target tends to have a good selection of board game deals, often giving discounts such as "buy one, get one 50% off."
What makes a good board game deal?
Remember, a product's list price doesn't always tell you the real value, especially as retailers have started offering Day 1 deals on products. Often the list price is artificially inflated to make the deal look more attractive, so you'll want to check around and see what the true value of a product is. You might also want to install CNET's Shopping plug-in to give you a bit of help with that.