Best North Star Games in 2026

Most Award-Winning Party Game in History - Get ready for endless fun and learning with the best rated board game for families and friends.

Trivia without needing to be a buff - The hit game where you don’t need to know the answers to win. The real fun is betting on the best guess!

Party Atmosphere - Experience the thrill of the casino with a high-rolling trivia gaming experience! Get lucky, and you'll cheer like you hit the jackpot!

Say Anything is the hilarious “get to know you” party game about what you and your friends think.

What’s the worst thing to say to a cop after being pulled over?” Be creative. Be outrageous. Be opinionated. This is your chance to say anything

How to Play: You read a question. Everyone else writes an answer. Secretly choose your favorite answer. Then everyone else tries to guess which one you picked!

An Ocean Full of Life: Enter a vast, underwater cosmos: a mysteriously interconnected world of tentacles, sharp teeth, and black ink, where you must adapt to a continually changing environment.

Adapt to the Ocean: Using an easy-to-learn but deep system, players use trait cards to create their own aquatic species that will survive and thrive.

Strategy Beneath the Surface: Oceans is a highly thematic engine builder, where everything is connected and players can create powerful synergistic systems between their both species and other players.

Deluxe Edition - Includes upgraded components like acrylic tiles and dual layered board, a custom GameTrayz insert, plus the Escape the Castle expansion with 6 new ways to play the game.

Perfect For Puzzle Lovers - Work together using logic, deduction, and discussion to outsmart the Queen of Hearts and finish the Royal Gardens.

Tile Placement - Place gorgeous acrylic tiles in the garden to help your friends and family solve the Queens Whims, secret cards that make up a fun, engaging and challenging puzzle.

FAST PACED GAME- This game takes roughly 60 seconds per round and only takes 30 seconds to learn how to play

UP TO 12 PLAYERS- With Happy Salmon, you can now add 6 more players to the original Happy Salmon Blue pack, totaling to 12 players

SILLY ACTIONS- Actions include the classic “High 5”, the unifying “Pound It”, the frantic “Switcheroo”, and the delightful “Happy Salmon”

Elegant design for open bookshelf display - bookshelf case measures 10.5 in x 8.5 in x 2.63 in

Vintage graphic design adopted from the 1958 edition

Game board measures 18.5 in x 18.25 in unfolded, folds up for storage in the bookshelf case

A fast-paced game of deception and betrayal

Beautiful wooden components

Solid game boards with foil inlay

SAME CLASSIC GAMEPLAY: Classic Cover Your Assets gameplay with new artwork refreshes the look while maintaining the card game that everyone enjoys!

FAMILY FRIENDLY FUN: Fast-paced, competitive, and a little addicting! Build stacks of matching asset cards. Be careful! The top set can be stolen, making it more valuable! Fun for experienced players, as well as those stealing their first asset!

LOVED AROUND THE WORLD: Enjoyed by kids, teens, families, and parents around the world, Cover Your Assets is an all-occasion favorite that will be a hit, while bringing smiles and laughter to your group!

3D MAGNETIC TILES: The original 3D magnetic building sets that engage young minds by fusing together math, science, and creativity. Create flat or 3-dimensional shapes with this set

DIVERSE SET: 32 translucent, colorful shapes including squares (2 large, 14 small) and triangles (8 equilateral, 4 right, 4 isosceles)

CREATIVITY: Sparks hours of imaginative free play in children. Anything they can dream, they can create!

HOLE IN ONE! Play Nine: The Card Game Of Golf! Is a fun and exciting twist on the classic game of golf. Just like in golf, the person with the lowest strokes wins.

FUN FOR ANY AGE: Recommended For Ages 8 And Up, Play Nine has easy to follow instructions and Simple gameplay so the whole family can join in on a round and play a hole or two.

EASY TO PLAY! Players are dealt 8 cards with a discard and draw pile at the center. Players then take turns drawing, discarding, or trading their cards for the Lowest Value cards.

STRATEGY GAME: Build your tracks across the United States in this fast-paced and strategic board game. Connect iconic North American cities across a map of the 20th-century USA and build your train routes to earn points

FUN ADVENTURE GAME: Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure game in which players collect and play matching train cards to claim railway routes connecting cities through North America! LOOKING FOR NEW ADVENTURES? Try Ticket to Ride expansions (Note: Expansions require Ticket to Ride Board Game to play)

MULTIPLE WAYS OF SCORING POINTS: Players collect train cards that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway

AWARD-WINNING – Best-selling game that is fun to play over and over again!

FAMILY FUN – Suitable for 1 to 7 players ages 8 & Up!

EASY TO LEARN – Gameplay is simple enough for quick learning and tons of fun for beginners and pros alike!

FUN FOR EVERYONE – Gather your family and friends and race against each other to build crossword grids. This anagram game that will drive you bananas.

ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATIONAL – While this game is easy to play, Bananagrams is also educational. Teach your kids how to spell words and have fun at the same time.

GREAT FOR TRAVEL – Bananagrams comes in a fun banana-shaped case. This game doesn’t take much space like other board games and brings tons of fun while traveling.

STRATEGY GAME: Compete to build Renaissance Europe’s most lucrative and prestigious jewelry business. As a wealthy merchant, acquire mines and transportation, hire artisans and woo the nobility. Create the most fantastic jewelry to become the best-known merchant of them all!

FUN AND FRIENDLY COMPETITION: Players vie for control of gem mines, trade routes, and storefronts to master the gem trade and attract the attention of nobles. By accruing more ways to produce gems, players work to accumulate victory points in a race for prestige and power.

COUNTLESS REPLAY OPPORTUNITES: Fast and intuitive, this strategy game is a fun game for game nights. The completely variable setup provides nearly limitless replayability. LOOKING FOR NEW ADVENTURES? Try Cities of Splendor Expansion (Note: this Expansion requires Base Game to play).

Ocean-themed version of the classic Bananagrams game Encourages spelling skills, vocabulary skills, problem-solving, critical thinking

Detailed game rules and instructions included

Ocean-themed version of the classic Baagrams game Encourages spelling skills, vocabulary skills, problem-solving, critical thinking

THE CROSS-COUNTRY TRAIN ADVENTURE GAME: Climb aboard for some railroading fun and adventure! Collect and play matching train cards to claim railway routes connecting iconic cities throughout Europe.

FAST-PACED STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Collect train cars and use them to build stations and claim railways throughout Europe. Complete routes to earn points, but plan for the future. Ticket cards can give you many more points if you connect two cities.

BUILD YOUR TRACKS ACROSS EUROPE: Ticket to Ride Europe takes you on a new train adventure through the great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe. Your next move might just make you Europe's greatest train magnate!

Features a giant, cushioned, roll-up playing mat for use on the floor or table - great for playing in teams!

Mat size is 27" x 32" and is easily stored in the tube pack

Each player or team tries to score the required number of five-card sequences before their opponents

What you get – Disney Princess matching game comes with 72 tiles and instructions.

Clear instructions – Easy to learn with a clear instruction manual. Learn to play in less than five minutes!

Develops critical skills – This game helps preschoolers practice their focus, memory, and matching skills.

Ages: 8 and up & For 3 to 6 players

Dice-rollin' battle game

Includes 5 dice and shaker

Yahtzee comes with 100 score cards

Work together to contact all of your agents before the other team!

A perfect party game experience for game nights

2-8+ player (in two teams)

PLAY IT ANY TIME ANY PLACE- Convenient take anywhere size game.

SIMPLE AND HILARIOUS- Fast paced laugh out loud fun for any get together.

WILDLY POPULAR- Perfect for all-ages.

VALUE - This Regal Game features six timeless kids’ card games that will provide hours of entertainment.

QUALITY - The extra-large cards measure 4 inches by 2.75 inches, making them easy to hold and read for children and adults of all ages.

DESIGN - These classic card games have been updated with fun, timeless graphics that are accessible for your family and friends, young and old to enjoy.

SIMPLE AND FASTER MONOPOLY GAME FOR KIDS: This Monopoly Junior board game features simplified gameplay for budding Monopoly fans.

FEATURES TOP HAT TOKEN: The Monopoly Junior game includes an adorable top hat token like the one worn by the Mr. Monopoly character

FUN KIDS MONOPOLY TOKENS: Tokens include Little Scottie, Little Hazel, Toy Car, along with the iconic Mr. Monopoly top hat

Perfect for Families and Super Mario Fans: Find Mario, Donkey Kong, Princess Peach, Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, Bowser, and more popular characters from Super Mario in a maze that shifts each turn! Easy enough for kids to play but still fun for adults!

What You Get: Each game comes with one game board, 34 maze tiles, 24 character cards, and four playing pieces.

Clear Instructions: Clear instructions walk you step - by - step through the game as you set up and start to play. Rulebook includes instructions in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese.

What You Get – Labyrinth comes with 1 game board, 34 maze tiles, 24 treasure cards, 4 vibrant game pieces, and instructions.

Fun Play Experience – In Labyrinth, Ravensburger’s wildly popular board game for kids and adults, players find the shortest route through the l abyrinth to win. In the game, players aim to reach all their treasures and targets as they move along the board, shifting the maze as they go along. Labyrinth supports 2 to 4 players ages 7 and up and plays in 20 to 30 minutes.

Easy to U nderstand I nstructi ons – High quality, easy to understand instructions make it possible to start playing right away.

Now Minecraft lovers can play a special version of UNO!

Same as Basic UNO but features Minecraft characters and includes special Creeper rule card. Draw this card and the other players have to draw three more cards from the pile!

The goal is to get rid of all the cards in your hand.

A NEW TWIST ON THE AZUL BOARD GAME: Join the best chocolate makers in the world to create the most desired chocolate selection ever! This unique edition of Azul includes 5 new factory variants for a delicious twist on the original strategy board game!

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Draft tiles from a central market and place them into rows on their boards. Earn extra points by collecting sets of the same color tile and creating particular patterns, but there are penalties for taking tiles that you can't use.

HIGHLY VARIABLE: Five new variants offer changes and new challenges for players already familiar with the original Azul's gameplay. The other side of each factory tile has a special effect on it that modifies play in one way or another.