It's nice to have some small games to throw in your suitcase to have while you travel or to have at your destination. Some are miniature games with multiple playing pieces (like Ultra Tiny Epic Galaxies), others are dice or card games. I've selected a few interesting games to include in your next travels. Most of these are in a container about the size of a deck of cards (or two).
- Ultra Tiny Epic Galaxies - the ultra small version of the already small and extremely popular Tiny Epic Galaxies game.
- Sushi Go! is smaller version of the popular card drafting game Sushi Go Party!
- Coup is a very popular bluffing game of intrigue.
- Hive Pocket is a tiny travel version of the tile placement game Hive.
- Fugitive is a card based chase game. See video here.
- Saboteur (3+ players) or Saboteur: The Duel (1 or 2 players) - a mining game.
- Love Letter is an historical strategy game.
- Sea Salt & Paper (highly rated by Foster the Meeple)
- Nana (highly rated by Foster the Meeple)
- The Mind is an unusual game requiring coordinated card play without communicating!
- There are two card deck versions of the board game Clue or Cluedo (as it's called in the UK): Clue Card Game and Cluedo Shuffle. I think they are the same other than the name.
- Monopoly Deal is a card deck version of the game.
- Catan Dice Game is a dice variation on the game.
- Struggle For Catan is a card based variation on the game.
- Palm Island is a resource management card game.
- Dustrunner is a "Mad Max" themed card game.
- Jeopardy! card game.
- Scrabble Slam! is a card deck version of the game.
- Pocket Games Test Cricket is a small dice cricket game.
- Quiddler, a word card game, is sort of a combination of Scrabble and Rummy.
- Five Crowns is a good rummy-style card game (invented by the same person who invented Quiddler).
- Star Realms is an advanced space-themed deck building game.
- A regular deck of playing cards, of course, provides a multitude of games.
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Some other games that also come in small packages (about the size of a deck of cards but slightly thicker) suitable for travel (from Oink Games):
- Scout (a Spiel des Jahres nominee)
- Insider
- Startups
- Deep Sea Adventure
- In a Grove
- Town 66
- Nine Tiles Panic
- Moon Adventure
- A Fake Artist Goes To New York – a party game for 5-10 players
Here and here are a couple of good video reviews of Oink Games.
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Ticket To Ride: The Card Game is larger than the pocket sized games listed above but is much smaller than the standard board game version. Rummikub Travel is also not as small as those above but could still be a travel game (7.5" x 5" x 2").
There are a few card based games that are really small – the cards are the size of standard playing cards but there may be only a dozen or so cards. Most are two player and some with a solo option; a few are solo only. Some of the most popular are produced by Button Shy Games:
- Skulls of Sedlec
- Revolver Noir
- Ugly Gryphon Inn
- Ragemore
- In Vino Morte
- SpaceShipped series
- Avignon: A Clash of Popes
- Rove
- Circle the Wagons
- Unsurmountable
- Sprawlopolis
- Tussie, Mussie
- Hierachy
- Agropolis
- The Family Dinner - an 18 card RPG
- Stew
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Another maker of tiny game is Perplext whose games are about the size of a couple of chewing gum packs (about 4" x 1" x 3/4").
See also my Print and Play (PnP) page.
