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Games for Six Players
Thu Jan 26 08:12:26 UTC 2012
Six players is often a difficult number when trying to set up a games session. There are many good games for five and seven can always be split into three and four. But there are not that many good games for three and splitting into a group of four and a group of two tends to make the two wonder why they bothered showing up for the group event in the first place. Here then are some suggestions for six-player games which you may like to take for stocking your game library.

See also: Other Numbers of Players · War Games for Six Players

Contents: Racing · Cards · Dice · Railroad · Board · Party · Your Mileage May Vary
RACING
Let's begin with a game genre that actually gets better with a lot of players.
CARDS
Games which are mainly just cards and tend to be lighter and quicker.

DICE
Games which are primarily about rolling dice.

  • Alhambra - The Dice Game
  • Fill or Bust/Volle Lotte review
  • Great Balloon Race, The/Himmelsstürmer review
  • Knatsch/Knights review
  • Liar's Dice/Perudo/Call My Bluff review
  • Pickomino review

RAILROAD
Railroad games are another genre that often support six players.

BOARD
Regular Board Games
  • Ab die Post review
  • Acquire review
  • Arkham Horror review
  • Around the World in 80 Days review
  • Autoscooter review
  • Battlestar Galactica review
  • Bazaar review
  • Betrayal at House on the Hill review
  • Black Vienna review
  • Bootleggers review
  • Caravanserail review
  • Carcassonne - The Cathars
  • Carcassonne - The Count of Carcassonne
  • Carcassonne - The Prince and the Dragon
  • Carcassonne - The Tower
  • Chronology
  • Cloud 9 review
  • Clue/Cluedo review
  • Con Game, The review
  • Cuttthroat Caverns
  • Diamant (up to eight) review
  • Dog Eat Dog review
  • Dragon Delta review
  • Drachengold/Dragon's Gold review
  • Elfenland review
  • Enchanted Forest review
  • Europa 1945-2030 review
  • Executive Decision
  • Fliegende Holländer, Der review
  • For Sale review
  • Fossil review
  • GemBlo
  • Gloria Mundi review
  • Hanse, Die review
  • Heimlich & Co./Under Cover review
  • Hick Hack in Gackelwack review
  • Hoity Toity (some versions) review
  • I'm the Boss/Kohle, Kies & Knete review
  • Jet Set
  • Laborigines review
  • Letters from Whitechapel review
  • M
  • Medici review
  • Mystery of the Abbey/Meutre à l'Abbaye review
  • Mitternachtsparty/Midnight Party review
  • Outpost review
  • Parthenon review
  • Penguin
  • Pfeffersäcke/Medieval Merchant review
  • Pillars of the Earth Expansion
  • Piranha Pedro
  • Poison
  • Programmer's Nightmare review
  • Ransom
  • Rasende Roboter/Ricochet Robot review
  • Red November review
  • Restaurant review
  • Return of the Heroes + Under the Shadow of the Dragon review review
  • Saboteur review
  • Saülen von Venedig, Die
  • Scepter of Zavandor, The
  • Scotland Yard/New York Chase review
  • Shadows over Camelot review
  • Shark review
  • Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective review
  • Showmanager review
  • Siedler von Catan, Die/The Settlers of Catan with 5-6 Expansion Kit review
  • Siedler von Catan Historische Szenarien II, Die review
  • Silk Road
  • 6 Billion review
  • Strozzi
  • Take It Easy review
  • Take It to the Limit review
  • Tales of the Arabian Nights review
  • That's Life review
  • Tongiaki review
  • Tsuro review
  • Ursuppe with 5-6 Expansion Kit review
  • Vineta
  • Viva Pamplona! review
  • Volle Wolle review
  • Wildlife Adventure review
  • Wizards review

PARTY GAMES
This is just a subset as virtually every party game accepts six or more.
For more ideas and more details, visit the Party Games page.

YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY
Just as important as knowing which games for six there are is knowing which games are good for six. The following games accept six, but probably play better with the number listed.

  • Alibi (three) review
  • Das Amulett (four) review
  • Bohnröschen (four)
  • Condottiere (four) review
  • Australian Rails (three) review
  • Beast, La (five or fewer) review
  • British Rails (two) review
  • Canasta/Canasta Caliente (four) review
  • China Rails (three) review
  • Citadels/Ohne Furcht und Adel/Citadelles (five) more
  • Down with the King (four) review
  • Empire Builder (four or fewer) review
  • Eurorails (four or fewer) review
  • Expedition (four or fewer) review
  • Express (four) review
  • Funny Friends (four) review
  • India Rails (four or fewer) review
  • Iron Dragon (four or fewer) review
  • Das Kollier (four or fewer) more
  • Last Night on Earth (five)
  • Leader 1 (three or fewer) more
  • Marathon (three) more
  • Mit List und Tücke (four) more
  • Mü und Mehr: Mü (five) more
    Race for the Galaxy: Rebel vs Imperium (four or fewer) more
  • 6 Nimmt! (four or fewer) more
  • Space Beans (three) more
  • StarCraft (four)
  • Tutanchamun (three) more
  • Tichu (four) review
  • Time Pirates (four) review
  • Wabash Cannonball (four)

See also: Other Numbers of Players · War Games for Six Players

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