9 Great Games for 10 or More People, and One to stay away from

A recent thread on Facebook about games for 10 or more generated a lot of discussion and ideas. There were over 344 comments as of this publishing. Frankly more than is easily digestible. We consulted Reddit, Board Game Geek, and other sites to come up with our list of games. We tabulated the feedback, compared it with other sources and sorted the list based on difficulty from easiest to hardest. The difficulty range is between 1 and 5 with 1 being the easiest. Our personal favorite is Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, but for a the widest appeal we suggest the classic Codenames.

6 Nimmt/Take 5	Secret Hitler	Deception: Murder Hong Kong
Codenames	The Resistance: Avalon	Feed the Kraken
One Night Ultimate Werewolf	Cartographers	Blood on the Clocktower

Great Games for 10 or More

6 Nimmt! / Take 5

6 Nimmt is a card game where players try to avoid picking up cards with bullheads by playing cards in numerical order.

2 – 10 Players
30 to 45 Minutes Per game
Ages 8+
1.25 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 58

Easiest to Learn
Family Friendly
Affordable

tops out at 10

Codenames

Codenames is a word-based party game where players give and guess clues to uncover their team’s words while avoiding the opposing team’s words and the one word to end the whole game.

2 – 8 Players (can hold 10)
30 Minutes Per game
Ages 10+
1.25 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 4

Family Friendly
Affordable

No more than 2 teams

One Night Ultimate Werewolf

In Ultimate Werewolf, players take on roles of villagers or werewolves and must figure out who is a werewolf and who is a villager. The werewolves are trying remain undiscovered and shift the focus to villagers.

3 – 10 Players
10 Minutes Per game
Ages 8+
1.5 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 43

Variable Roles
Affordable
Recognizable

Most be Ok with “lying”

Secret Hitler

In Secret Hitler, players participate in a social deduction game set in pre-World War II Germany, where they try to discover or hide the identity of Hitler and his supporters.

5 – 10 Players
45 Minutes Per game
Ages 14+
1.75 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 17

Current “Hotness”
Alternate Theming Available

Questionable Theming

The Resistance Avalon

The Resistance: Avalon is a deduction and bluffing game where players take on roles in the time of King Arthur., either loyal servants or traitorous minions, in a quest for success or sabotage.

5 – 10 Players
30 to 45 Minutes Per game
Ages 12+
1.75 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 12

Suspenseful
High Player Interaction

Could isolate one player early

Cartographers

Cartographers is a flip-and-write game where players draw maps to score points based on specific conditions.

1 – 100 Players
30 to 45 Minutes Per game
Ages 8+
1.75 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Family Rank 22

Quiet Environment
Strategic Game Play
Holds over 10
Very different every play

Low Player Interaction

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong is a deduction game where players work together to solve a murder mystery, with one player as the murderer and another as the forensic scientist.

4-12 Players
30 to 45 Minutes Per game
Ages 2+
1.75 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 11

Highly Thematic
Very Engaging

Subject Matter may limit audience appeal

Feed the Kraken

Feed the Kraken is a card game where players compete to be the last captain standing by sacrificing crew members to the Kraken.

5 – 11 Players
45 to 90 Minutes Per game
Ages 10+
2 out of 5 Difficulty
BGG Party Rank 19

Beautiful Presentation
Innovative design/Smart

Not as strategic as other

Blood on the Clocktower

Blood on The Clocktower is a fantasy-themed social deduction game where players take on unique roles to uncover or conceal information and solve mysteries.