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4 Player Roundup

Best 4 Player Board Games – Top 10

In this roundup we take a look at the best board and card games suitable for 4 players. These was carefully selected for a wide player type audience to suit various tabletop gamers.

collage of 4 players board games box covers

Sometimes it’s hard to pick the best game to bring to the table, and player count is one of those important factors that comes into play.

Some games claim to play 2-7 players, but the gameplay experience can be radically different – and not necessarily for the better – depending on player count.

If you find yourself planning for a game night with 3 other people, here are some excellent games that play especially well with 4P for you to consider.

1. Scythe – Best Engine-Building Game

At first glance, Scythe has all the looks of a combat-heavy wargame, with miniatures on the game board and thematic artwork. While Scythe does have elements of combat integrated into its gameplay, at its core Scythe is an engine-building and resource-management game with a very interesting theme. It also has an action-selection system and a round-less turn structure that makes for smooth gameplay, not to mention many expansions that makes the game endlessly replayable.

While Scythe does have elements of combat integrated into its gameplay, at its core Scythe is an engine-building and resource-management game with a very interesting theme.

Scythe Board Game Box

Scythe at a Glance

Game Type
Strategy / Territory Building
Area Control
Play Time
90 - 120 mins
Skill/Complexity (3.5 - 5)
Medium - Heavy
Age
14+
Publisher(s)
Stonemaier Games
Published
2016
Categories
Strategy
Players
1 - 5
Our Rating
9.5/10
Related
My Little Scythe
Board Game – Ages 8+
Cost
$79.99 approx
Rules Manual
Official Rules PDF

In a dystopian alternate history 1920s Eastern Europe, players in Scythe are trying to lead their factions to victory by having the most fortune by the end of the game. Players take turns selecting actions on their personal player board, each of which allows a player to interact with the main game board by doing things like producing resources, trading coins for resources, moving units, and moving up on the Power Track (which strengthens their combat abilities). Players will also periodically move up the Popularity Track, which determines how much money a player will get for resources, territories, and achievement stars at the end of the game.

The player boards themselves are very interesting in that there are pieces and buildings on the boards that, when moved or removed, unlock bonuses/abilities and strengthen certain actions. In this sense, the game has a very strong engine-building feeling as players can become much more efficient over the course of the game at doing particular things. The action spots are comprised of a top-row action and a bottom-row action, and players must select a new action spot each turn.

The top-row and bottom-row actions are both optional but the player must execute the top action before the bottom action, and the combination of these actions is different for each faction of the game. Each faction also has special abilities that, when paired with the randomized combination of action spots, makes for a very replayable game with new strategies and approaches to experiment with each time you play.

Throughout the game, when players reach certain milestones (such as completing all upgrades, building all 4 structures, winning combat, or deploying all 4 mechs), they place one of their six stars on the Triumph Track, which also serves for an end-game timer. Once any one player has placed their sixth star, the game ends immediately and players gain money for their current state on the game board (position on the popularity track, number of stars, territories, and resources, plus any money in their supply).

There is definitely much more going on in Scythe than can be summarized in such a succinct overview, but if you enjoy games with engine building, asymmetric powers, resource management, and don’t mind a little bit of confrontation/combat, Scythe is absolutely a game you should look at if you haven’t played it already. And if you aren’t someone who particularly likes combat in games, it isn’t a significant part of the game as the game board, components, and artwork might lead you to believe at first glance.

2. Luna – An Excellent and Underrated 4P Stefan Feld Game

Luna is definitely an underrated title by esteemed designer Stefan Feld, and is often eclipsed by his more popular titles like The Castles of Burgundy and Trajan. It also feels quite different than many of his titles which tend to be heavier on the tactics side; Luna is quite strategic in nature and requires planning many moves ahead as well as trying to outsmart your opponents.

Luna is definitely an underrated title by esteemed designer Stefan Feld, and is often eclipsed by his more popular titles like The Castles of Burgundy and Trajan.

Luna board game box cover with white background
Game Type
Fantasy Theme, Area Majority/
Influence, Modular Board,
Point to Point Movement,
Solo/Solitaire Game,
Tile Placement, Worker Placement
Play Time
60 - 100 mins
Skill/Complexity (3. 4- 5)
Medium - Heavy
Age
12+
Publisher(s)
Hall Games, Tasty Minstrel
Games and Others
Published
2010
Categories
Strategy
Players
1 - 4
Cost
$44.95 ++
Our Rating
8.6/10

Luna also has a very strange theme in which players are competing to become the successor to the Moon Priestess by proving themselves as a good leader of their respective Order. If you’re willing to embrace the odd theme, there is a lot to appreciate about Luna and, out of all of Stefan Feld’s titles, this one really shines as a 4P game.

Luna can probably be best described as an action-selection area-control game with open information and very low luck. The game board consists of several small islands that surround a central island containing a library, and players use followers of their color to perform actions unique to the island they are on and also to become acolytes in the library. Players will have to move their followers around to the different islands as well as recruit new followers to their order.

As in many of Feld’s titles, there are multiple things that can score you points in Luna, and a core aspect of the game is trying to score majority bonuses on the island where the Moon Priestess currently sits (she moves a certain number of islands each round), as well as position your followers to score on future rounds. This takes incredibly careful planning as to how to move followers and exhaust them to perform actions as only players’ active followers count toward evaluating the majority bonus.

Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the game that make it unique and especially good at the 4-player count is the way the rounds end. As an action on your turn, you can simply choose to “pass” by flipping over the top time token on the time token pile (of which there are 4) on the central game board. However, once you pass, you can always hop back in to perform actions on future turns. What passing does is increases the pressure or stress on other players to try and speed up their plans to try and do everything they need to in that round. It can become a mind game within the game itself! When the candle pile gets to the last token, the player to perform the passing action next ends the round and also gets 1 VP.

Naturally, area control games tend to be better at 4P, and this added pressure from figuring out which players are going to pass and try to rush the end of the round truly shines with more players as it only increases the competition and tension. This game can actually be fun to teach as well if you can lean into the bizarre theme and create some narrative around the different actions, which can actually make the game easier (and fun) to learn and understand.

3. Small World – Best Light Combat Game

Small World is a game that allows players to match up fantasy races with unique and bizarre special abilities, and will have players saying things like “My flying ratmen are going to conquer the land!” In this game, players are trying to lead their fantasy races to dominance in a land that is, well, just a little too small.

The goal of Small World is to have the most coins by the end of the game, which players gain by controlling territories at the end of their turn. Players begin their first turn by selecting a race that is randomly paired with an ability, each of which gives players unique ways they can interact with the board as well as potentially score points for controlling certain areas.

The goal of Small World is to have the most coins by the end of the game, which players gain by controlling territories at the end of their turn.

Small World box cover

Small World at a Glance

Game Type
Fantasy, Territory
Building, Area Majority / Influence,
Area Movement,
Dice Rolling,
Variable Player Powers
Play Time
40 - 80 mins
Skill/Complexity (2 - 5)
Light - Medium
Age
8+
Publisher(s)
Days of Wonder
Published
2009
Categories
Family / Strategy
Players
2 - 5
Cost
$44.99
Our Rating
7.2/10
Related
Small World Underground

Players take turns placing chits of their race out onto the game board, paying a base cost of two chit plus one additional chit for each other piece of cardboard already on that space. If a player conquers a region where another is present, that other player gets kicked out, losing a token back to the box and redistributing their chits to their currently-controlled territories. At the end of their turn, players will get 1 coin for each territory they control, plus 1 additional coin for any applicable bonuses.

Eventually, players will find that they are spread a little too thin; as an alternative to conquering regions, players can instead decide to go into “decline.” When this happens, they flip their chits on the board over and keep only one chit in each region. These inactive chits will continue to score that player coins on their turn, but will eventually get conquered by other players as the turns progress. On that player’s next turn, they will select a new race/ability.

What many people really love about Small World is the sheer number of unique combinations that exist in terms of unique race/ability pairs as well as the fun and light-hearted theme. Small World is especially great as a 4P game because, although there are different-sized maps for different player counts, the balance of game length to variety of player interaction possibilities is really best at 4P. At 2P, the game is a lot of back and forth; at 3P, 2 players can gang up on the other; at 5, the game is just a little too long for a lot of people.

If you don’t mind your games to have a heavy amount of conflict, and the fantasy theme appeals to you, this is an excellent choice that many gamers love to keep in their collection as an easy game to teach to new players, as well as a long-time favorite to bring out at game night.

4. Concordia – Most Elegant Strategy Game

When people talk about “elegant” board games, Concordia almost always appears on any of those lists. What does elegant mean exactly? In general, an elegant game could be defined as one with few rules and smooth gameplay, yet one that still has quite a bit of depth to explore. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a fiddly game would be one with many small rules that players must keep track of, often interrupting the game so someone can pull out the rulebook to clarify.

Concordia board game box cover

Concordia at a Glance

Game Type
Ancient Theme, Card Game,
Economic, Deck Building,
Variable Set Up, Point
to Point Movement
Play Time
90 mins +/-
Skill/Complexity (3 - 5)
Medium to Heavy....ish
Age
12+
Publisher(s)
Rio Grande Games and
Others
Published
2013
Categories
Strategy
Players
2 - 5 (4 is Ideal)
Manual
Official Rules
Our Rating
9.5/10
Cost
approx $44.99

Concordia is a game that allows players to enjoy the game by having very little reason to need to ever pull out the rulebook, and it is one that is particularly good with 4P.

In Concordia, players compete to achieve the greatest number of VPs by the time a card deck has been depleted, but all scoring is hidden until the very end meaning that, in general, you will have little idea of who will actually win until the very end of the game. Despite not being a nail-biting race for VPs throughout the whole game, however, players can easily get lost in strategic planning and trying to figure out how they can make everything work together and create a good engine to, of course, score the most points.

The way players score points is by the cards that they have in their hand and deck at the end of the game. Each card, while also serving the purpose of allowing players to perform certain actions, also has an end-game scoring category for certain accomplishments on the game board – a sprawling map of Europe with different regions that produce different types of goods. Players must balance acquiring powerful cards that allow them to build their empire with collecting cards that will actually score them points, a very tough balance to pull off.

A player’s turn is quite simple: pick a card from your hand, and play it to perform the action listed. Since the action is described on the card itself, this is part of the reason why players very seldom need to consult the rulebook (which is only 4 pages long to begin with). Actions can include moving colonists or boats around the board and establishing presence in a region by building buildings, producing or trading goods, collecting money, and purchasing new cards. Players placed their cards into their discard pile after use, and then must use a special card from their hand to collect the cards from their discard pile back into their hand. In this sense, timing and planning out the order of turns is crucial!

One of the main reasons why Concordia is great with 4P is because having more players means more player interaction the game board, and player interaction in Concordia is not always bad. In fact, many times in the game it is advantageous to build a building in another player’s city (and paying more money to do so) because you will be able to receive a resource every time that player chooses to produce that resource. Having more players means that you will have more opportunities to do this and the likelihood that different players will be going for differing strategies. With 5P, the game can get a little bit long, so 4P seems to be the sweet spot for this game.

If you enjoy Euro-style resource-management games or games with hand-management or deck-building, Concordia is one that continues to be a top choice in many gaming groups.

5. Puerto Rico – Best Classic Resource-Management Game

Puerto Rico is a game that has been very influential in the modern board game hobby in terms of mechanisms, and is definitely a game that benefits from repeated plays as you have the chance to explore different strategies and learn how to best play off your opponents.

Puerto Rico board game box cover

Puerto Rico at a Glance

Game Type
City Building, Economic,
Farming Theme, Multiple Boards,
Card Game
Play Time
90 mins +
Skill/Complexity (3 - 5)
Medium to Heavy....ish
Age
12+
Publisher(s)
Rio Grande Games and
Others
Published
2002
Categories
Strategy
Players
2 - 5 (4 is Ideal)
Manual
Official Rules
Our Rating
9.6/10
Cost
approx $29.99

If you’ve ever played a game where you get to choose an action that everyone gets to take, but you get a special benefit for choosing it (e.g., San Juan, Race for the Galaxy, Roll for the Galaxy, Eminent Domain, etc.), that idea came from Puerto Rico, and is a game that is still very much worth trying out if you have not played it before.

In this resource-management game set in colonial Puerto Rico, players attempt to score the most points by shipping goods and constructing buildings in Puerto Rico. There is a lot of subtle strategy in this game though that has to do with timing actions in order to benefit yourself and hurt certain opponents at just the right time. For example, if a player selects the Captain, all players take turns (in clockwise order) loading goods onto available cargo ships, but space is limited and cargo ships can only hold goods of one type. At the end of this shipping phase, players can only keep 1 single barrel of any resource and the rest gets wasted. If a player times this action right, they can really put another player in a bad place.

In general, players are trying to construct plantations and city buildings, and occupy them with colonists, in order to gain benefits and produce resources. The game is very challenging to balance collecting income through selling resources vs. shipping resources for points, having money available to purchase buildings (money isn’t worth anything at the end of the game), and having colonists to occupy buildings in order to allow them to function for their given ability.

The game was originally designed as a 3-5P game, and a 2P variant has since been released. However, having had the chance of receiving years of extensive playtesting, including competitive tournaments, many members of the board game community (73% of BoardGameGeek votes) consider it to be best with 4P.  

6. Barrage – Best Heavy Strategy Game

If you are looking for a 4P game that is on the meaty, heavy, and strategic end of the complexity spectrum, Barrage is one that has received a lot of attention over the past few years since it was released in 2019, and currently sits at the #40 game spot on BoardGameGeek.

Barrage Board Game box cover
Game Type
Industry/Manufacturing theme,
Action Drafting,Contracts,
End Game Bonuses, Income,
Network and Route Building,
Solo/Solitaire Game,
Variable Player Powers, Variable
Set-up, Worker Placement
Play Time
60 - 120 mins
Skill/Complexity (4.1 - 5)
Heavy
Age
14+
Publisher(s)
Cranio Creations and Others
Published
2019
Categories
Strategy
Players
1 - 4
Cost
$60 approx.
Our Rating
9/10

Barrage has a unique theme – set in a 1930s steampunk world, players take on the role of leaders of various European countries who are trying to generate hydroelectric power by constructing structures like dams, turbines, and powerhouses on the main game board.

Barrage is, at its core, a worker-placement game, but it certainly has a lot more going on in terms of strategic planning. Players compete for water resources on a main game board and control the flow of water from the top to the bottom of the game board. The main goal of the game is to accrue the greatest number of VPs over a series of rounds, and players achieve this by generating power and also by working toward various objectives throughout the game.

Barrage is, at its core, a worker-placement game, but it certainly has a lot more going on in terms of strategic planning.

On a player’s turn, they select an action and deploy the required number of workers to that action spot and pay any additional resources required, such as machinery or money. A unique aspect of the game is that when players pay resources (i.e., machinery) to construct buildings, they place those resources on a personal player wheel. Over the course of the round when they perform additional actions, they can rotate their wheel and eventually those resources will come back into the player’s supply for future use.

Barrage is extremely interactive and confrontational in the sense that players can strategically block other players off by diverting water in a way that benefits them and not other players. However, there is also positive player interaction as well – once a player pumps water to create electricity, that water is pushed downstream and can might be caught at a dam of another player who can then use that water for their own benefit.

This is definitely a game with a steep learning curve, and as a new player, it might be challenging in your first couple rounds to figure out how you will use resources wisely to build an engine to achieve points without being blocked by other players, especially if other players are more experienced at the game. Barrage could be a great game to learn and play with the same game group multiple times so players have a chance to advance their strategy at the same level and explore everything the game has to offer.

7. Tzolkin: The Mayan Calendar – Most Unique Worker-Placement Game

Worker placement games tend to naturally be more competitive and tense at higher player counts with the increased possibility to block other players off, and one game that offers a really unique experience is Tzolkin: The Mayan Calendar. This is a game that is visually intriguing, with its main central component being multiple physical interlocking gears that spin on the game board, and one that requires a lot of strategic planning with time being a resource itself.

Tzolk’in The Mayan Calendar board game

Tzolk’in the Mayan Calendar at a Glance

Game Type
Ancient Theme,
Civilization, Economic,
Bias, End Game Bonuses,
Turn Order: Claim Action, Worker Placement
Play Time
90 mins
Skill/Complexity (3.8 - 5)
Medium - Heavy
Age
13+
Publisher(s)
Czech Games Edition
and Others
Published
2012
Categories
Strategy
Players
2 - 4
Cost
$49.99
Our Rating
8.9/10

In Tzolkin, players attempt to gain the most points by the time the central gear has made one complete revolution, and over the course of 4 food days where players will have to feed their workers with corn. On a player’s turn, they can either place as many workers as they would like, or retrieve as many workers as they would like and perform the associated actions where the workers are currently located.

The worker placement spots are located on the gears themselves, and when players place a worker, they must place it on the first available space. If that space has a 0 on it, the player doesn’t have to pay any corn. Otherwise, the player must pay corn equal to the amount indicated.

Once all players have taken a turn, the central gear is rotated one tooth, causing all the other gears to move forward as well. The longer a worker remains on a gear, the more powerful action they will get to perform when removed. However, since a player must either place or remove workers, they must plan accordingly in order to not be forced to retrieve a worker when it wouldn’t benefit them to do so.

Action spaces allow players to do things like collect resources which help for constructing buildings monuments and moving up tech tracks, move up temple tracks which provide ongoing bonuses and points, construct buildings which provide benefits or end-game scoring points, move up tech tracks which provide ongoing abilities, and collect crystal skulls which are good for scoring points.  

At the end of feeding rounds, players must pay 2 corn tokens for each worker, or else they must lose 3 VP for each worker they can’t feed. Players also get reward commodities or VPs depending on their location on the temple tracks and which round it is (rounds alternate with commodity rewards and VP rewards). The game ends at the end of the 4th food day, and at that point plays can cash in resources, corn, crystals, and monuments for VPs, and the player with the most VPs wins.

Tzolkin can be a bit of a brain burner by trying to map out your moves to remove your workers at just the right time to be able to perform a particular action, and it can be challenging to make everything work together to get you to the right place to score you points. However, if you enjoy really crunchy games with difficult decisions, Tzolkin is one you might really like. With 4P in particular, the game can become quite competitive as there is more opportunity to mess up other player’s plans and make them pay more corn to do the things they want, which sometimes they can’t afford.

8. Red7 – Best Filler Card Game

If you’re looking for a really quick card game (5-10 minutes) that is easy to explain, Red7 is a game that is bound to be a hit in a number of circumstances – lunch at work with friends, with family, or in between games at game night are just a few examples. The goal of this game is simple, and that is to be the last player standing.

Red7 Card Game box cover
Game Type
Card Game, Numbers,
Hand Management,
Player Elimination,
Set Collection,
Variable Set-up
Play Time
5 - 30 mins
Skill/Complexity (1.7 - 5)
Light
Age
9+
Publisher(s)
Asmadi Games and Others
Published
2014
Categories
Family
Players
1 - 4
Cost
$60 approx.
Our Rating
7.3/10

Players start a game of Red7 with a hand of seven colored cards numbered 1 through 7, and to stay in the game, at the end of a player’s turn they must currently be winning the game. The game starts with a red canvas card in the middle of the table that states “You are currently playing red. Highest card wins.” On a player’s turn, they can play a card face up from their hand into their palette (tableau), discard a card from their hand to the canvas and change the current rule, or play a card to their palette and then to the canvas. In other words, cards serve two purposes: to build up a tableau but also to change the current winning conditions to their favor.

Players start a game of Red7 with a hand of seven colored cards numbered 1 through 7, and to stay in the game, at the end of a player’s turn they must currently be winning the game.

To check if they are currently winning the game, the player will look to see if they have the most cards that meet the requirement of the card. If they are tied with another player, whoever has the highest valued card in their palette wins the tie. If there is still a tie, whoever has the highest-valued color (with red being the most valuable and violet being the least valuable) wins. A Red 7 card is the best possible card to have in your tableau in this game, hence the name!

Some of the canvas card rules include most of one color, most of one number, highest card, most different colors, and most even cards. If a player is not winning the game at the end of their turn, they are eliminated from the game. The last player standing wins the game.

While Red7 definitely has a lot of randomness to it, many people still love this game because of the fact that it is so quick and fun. If you get dealt a bad hand and get eliminated early on, it’s unlikely that you will have to wait very long for another round to begin. It’s easy to play 2 or 3 rounds in a matter of 15 minutes or so. Part of the fun of the game is looking at your hand and trying to puzzle together how you are going to make things work in your favor and change the rules at just the right time to benefit yourself and force another player out of the game.

9. Ice Cool – Best Family Dexterity Game

Ice Cool is a fun fast-paced flicking dexterity game with a visual table presence that is highly likely to draw people in at first glance. The game board is made up of several box inserts that clip together to form a school with multiple rooms and doors between each room. In this game, players take on the role of student penguins trying to sneak around the school and fetch some fish before lunch break starts without being caught by the hall monitor.

Brain Games ICECOOL kids game box cover

Ice Cool at a Glance

Game Type
Animal Theme, Action/Dexterity,
Area Movement, Flicking,
Take That
Play Time
30 mins
Skill/Complexity (1 - 5)
Light
Age
6+
Publisher(s)
Brain Games and Others
Published
2016
Categories
Family / Kids
Players
3- 4 (Ideal 4)
Cost
$24.99 approx.
Our Rating
7.2/10

Each round, one player acts as the hall monitor trying to catch the students, and the other players try to move around the school and collect fish of their color by passing through doors with one of their fish tokens clipped on top. On a player’s turn, they simply flick the penguin of their color in any direction they wish. The students all start in the same room at the same spot, and the hall monitor starts on the opposite side of the school. The penguin components themselves have a weighted bottom and wobble back and forth, so you can try to make them scoot in a straight line or spin in a curve – or even fly through the air!

If the hall monitor manages to flick their penguin into another player (or another player accidentally runs into them), the student has to hand over their hall pass and return to the starting space. If a student manages to collect a fish token of their color, they draw a points card which are numbered 1-3. On a player’s turn, if they have two points cards of the same number, they can play these face-up in front of them to take a 2nd turn (they still gain the points at the end of the game but can only use a set of points cards once to take a 2nd turn).

A round ends once the hall monitor has caught all the students, or if a student manages to collect all 3 of their fish tokens. The hall monitor will collect points cards equal to the number of hall passes they’ve collected (including their own), and then the next player in clockwise order will become the hall monitor and the round and fish tokens will be reset and replaced.

While Ice Cool is fun at any player count, 4P is the best way to play simply because of the fact that the hall monitor has more opportunities to catch students. In a 2P game, for example, the hall monitor chases the other player around, but with more players things can be a lot more interesting. This is a game you can teach really quick to anyone, and people will enjoy trying to improve their penguin-flicking skills. There’s nothing more satisfying then pulling off a really good maneuver!

10. Quacks of Quedlinburg Best Push-Your-Luck Game

Sometimes pushing your luck to its absolute limit in a game can be thrilling – even when you know your chances of succeeding are low, there’s always that chance that you could pull off an amazing turn and jump up in celebration when things go your way. Quacks of Quedlinburg is a game that can create this feeling and has become hugely popular after winning the 2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres award.

The Quacks of Quedlinburg board game box cover

Ice Cool at a Glance

Game Type
Animal Theme, Action/Dexterity,
Area Movement, Flicking,
Take That
Play Time
30 mins
Skill/Complexity (1 - 5)
Light
Age
6+
Publisher(s)
Brain Games and Others
Published
2016
Categories
Family / Kids
Players
3- 4 (Ideal 4)
Cost
$24.99 approx.
Our Rating
7.2/10

Quacks of Quedlinburg is a fairly light-weight bag-building game, designed by Dennis Lohausen and Wolfgang Warsch, in which players are quack doctors trying to brew ingredients to create medicinal recipes in order to gain the most points by the end of the game. Players begin with a bag of ingredients that are not very great, but, similar to other deck-building or bag-building games, they will try and create a bag that becomes more and more powerful as the game progresses.

Each round, players simultaneously pull ingredients from their bag one by one, and place them into their cauldron. The number on the ingredient indicates the number of empty spaces between the new ingredient and the previously-placed one. The spaces in the cauldron are laid out in a spiral pattern, and at the end of the round, the further up the spiral players manage to place their ingredients, the more points they will score and the more money they will have to purchase additional ingredients to add to their bag.

While all the ingredient tokens players add to their bag are good, and most of which will add special abilities, players all start with cherry bomb tokens in their bag which can cause a player to bust. Once a player has a collective value of 8 or greater of cherry bombs in their cauldron, their pot will explode and their turn will be over. Once all players have either passed or busted, everyone evaluates some end-of-round bonuses and scoring, including the ability to purchase additional ingredients. There are also special ability cards that are drawn at the beginning of each round that provide all players a certain bonus or action which can really mix up the game.

In the few rounds of the game especially, Quacks of Quedlinburg ramps up to be a very exciting and tense game. Players will try to push their luck in hopes of drawing that one ingredient they know is in their bag that will provide a great bonus or move them up a huge number of spaces in their cauldron to score a lot of points and gain a lot of money to spend. The special powers of the ingredients can be a lot of fun and do things like allow players to draw multiple ingredients and pick which one to place, or remove a previously-placed cherry bomb and place it back in the bag. If you are looking for a really engaging game that you can pull out with family or play at the beginning or end of game night with your friends, this is an excellent pick that many people love!

That’s about it for the best 4 player board games category for now. Something new and great comes along, you’ll see it here.

David Harriman

Dave's passion for board games began as a kid when his uncle taught him how to play Chess. He eventually discovered the world of hobby board gaming as a young adult with Settlers of Catan which sparked his interest in discovering what kinds of other games were out there. While Dave is always willing to try new types of games, his favorite games tend to be mid-weight Euro games – The Castles of Burgundy, Viticulture, and Orleans, to name a few.

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