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A 6 nimmt! alternative

Everyone plays a candle at once. Place the fifth on a shelf and you take the wax.

Four players, thirteen tricks. Hearts cost a point each and the Queen of spades costs thirteen — unless you take them all.

Match the suit or the number, and play an eight to change the suit. Empty your hand first.

Four players, two teams, a short deck and two jacks that rule the trump suit. First team to ten wins.

Four players in two teams. Bid your tricks, spades are always trump, and make your contract without collecting bags.

A Connect Four alternative

Drop discs into the rack. Four in a line — across, up or slanted — wins.

An Othello alternative

Place a disc to outflank a line of the other colour and flip it to yours. Most discs at the end wins.

The two-player race on an inlaid board: throw, move your fifteen checkers home, and bear them off first.

Race your four pawns around the board and home. Throw a six to come out, land on others to send them back.

A Hive alternative

Two players, no board. Place and move carved tiles of the lake shore until one Elder is surrounded.

A Yahtzee alternative

Roll five dice up to three times, keep what you like, and fill thirteen boxes.

A Catan alternative

Build lanes across the island, raise stalls into inns, and trade for the goods you need.

A Can't Stop alternative

Throw four dice, pair them, and climb the trails. Push your luck or make camp; three cairns win.

A Scrabble alternative

Lay letter tiles on the paper to make words that cross. Stamped squares multiply; all seven tiles earn forty.

A Carcassonne alternative

Lay tiles to build a valley of lanes, walled villages, mills and pastures, and set your wardens where the points will be.

A 7 Wonders Duel alternative

Take cards from the season spread, build your river town and raise marvels. Win on points, by lore, or at the boundary stone.

A Castles of Burgundy alternative

Roll two dice each day, take tiles from the lake’s jetties and grow your island of halls, cottages, boats and meadows.

A Great Western Trail alternative

Walk your tea caravan down the Leaf Road, build waystations, and ship your finest chests downriver.

A Brass: Birmingham alternative

Set up guild works around a lake, link the towns by ferry and then by road, and sell cloth, tools and stoneware at the market gates.

An Orléans alternative

Draw townsfolk from your satchel, set them to work, roll your cart through the valley and raise guild posts.

A Gaia Project alternative

Settle glowing isles on a night sea, move glow through three jars, and link your lanterns into leagues.

A Twilight Struggle alternative

Two courts, one realm. Play cards to spread your sway over five reaches, and keep the Truce from breaking.

A Scythe alternative

Walk tall wicker striders across the valley, harvest and build, and win six ribbons at the harvest fair.

A Concordia alternative

Play one guild-folk card a turn: send boats and carts through the Fernmark, build houses, trade goods, and let the seven stars count.

A Terra Mystica alternative

Reshape the soils of a green valley, build next to your neighbours, and let the sap rise through six years.