33 Best 12 Player Board Games (2023 Edition)

Why We Like It: Undercover Allies, new roles give special powers to both teams and expand the max player count to 14. More player’s means and clue cards increase the possible solutions to the crime.
Who Is It For: 12 years and up

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Why We Like It:  Colorbrain is one of the easiest board games for families to learn. Each team holds eleven Color Cards in front of them. Together, they have to figure out which ones to put down to answer the question.
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Why We Like It: The hit social party game is back with more of everything you loved about the first game! SPYFALL 2 is an easy-to-learn card game of bluffing, probing questions, clever answers, and suspicion.
Who Is It For: 13 years and up

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Promising Review: ‘My 10-year-old son and 56-year-old hubby are HP fanatics, and I am just in the room watching most of the time (more of a Marvel kinda girl). We received this yesterday, played from 5pm-9pm when I finally had to force my son to go to bed. Excellent, excellent game!’ – Anonymous
Who Is It For: 8 years and up

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Why We Like It: Family Feud Blockbuster Game is an exciting, fast-paced game for everyone. Teams take turns trying to guess the most popular answers to 200 survey questions about the film.
Who Is It For: ages 12 and up

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Why We Recommend It: Accuse your friends of witchcraft using cards, strategy, deceit, and a bit of luck. Take this game to any party, family activity, or game night group and see what fun you have.
Who Is It For: 13 years and up

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Why We Like It: Play a card from your hand and place a chip on a corresponding space on the game board – when you have five in a row, it’s a SEQUENCE.
Who Is It For: ages 7 and up

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Why We Like It: The magnetic darts stick fast and instantly right where they hit. This dartboard toy can be an educational motivational tool, stimulate the child’s spirit of challenge.
Who Is It For boys and girls ages 5 and up

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Why We Recommend It: Easy to get started, focuses on concepts. Show your skills – train your robot first, then identify an image by collecting data. Reach the destination before the others do, beware of laser zaps! Play with basic or advanced cards. Use any of 4 sets of images for recognition.
Who Is It For: 6 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: 12 Zombivor miniatures and ID Cards, 6 Lost cards, 12 Wounded cards, 1 Resurrection mode, and Lost Zombivors rules flyer.
A fantastic multiplayer game.
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Promising Review: ‘A great game that gives consequences to your simple game actions. We love gathering together to play, and the game is not terribly complicated. I am not the best at rule interpretation and I found that I could understand the manuals rather easily.’ – Lemmon
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card.
Who Is It For: 17 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: ‘This is a funny but challenging game. My kids and husband played at Christmas and the cards in our set are super difficult. As we got the hang of it we enjoyed it…’ –
Cynthia Wags
Who Is It For: 17 years and up

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Why We Like It: Murder in Hong Kong, players find themselves in a scenario of intrigue and murder, deduction, and deception.
Why We Recommend It: Engaging and entertaining.
Who Is It For: 13 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Draw your friend’s tag-team style.
Combine your best artistic skills with family and friends and don’t be surprised when you end up on the ground laughing.
Who Is It For: 7 years and up

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Promising Review: ‘I purchased this game over another because it came with an extra deck of cards. They are of good quality and was surprised to find different notes on the back of the boards in Spanish of course, a neat touch. Played with my kids ages 12, 7, & 6 they all loved it.’ – Anthony C
Who Is It For: 12 years and up

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Promising Review: ‘Time spends well when you play this game with your friends and family. the quality of the mat is not paper so it will last forever.
They could have done better with card quality. they are not bad but not great. but I highly recommend buying this game to have fun with family and with friends.’ – Ketki
Who Is It For: 7 years and up

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Why We Like It: Whether it’s the dramatic “all-in” question or the thrill of winning more chips, Wits and Wagers makes any gathering a party.
Who Is It For: 3 years and up

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Promising Review: ‘A fun twist on the original Smart Ass game. Time playing can vary due to the knowledge or lack thereof of players; either way, it is a fun “party” game.’ – jvolbrown
Who Is It For: 12 – 18 years

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Why We Like It: This stand-alone game has classic Munchkin rules, but with a superhero theme. Fight the supervillains and steal their super treasure.
Who Is It For: 10 years and up

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Promising Review: ‘A hit with my students! Have them fill in one line or the entire playing card. The highlighted numbers are very helpful.’ – Mags
Who Is It For: 7 years and up

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Why We Like It: Fun bingo game to help teens recognize and express their anger in healthy ways.
Who Is It For: 12- 18 years old

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Why We Like It: Perfect for Halloween or winter parties. Features all of the classic horror characters with a brilliant ‘comedy horror’ script. The ‘guilty’ suspect is selected randomly on the night so no-shows are not a problem and the game is re-usable. 
Who Is It For: 16 months and up

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Promising Review: ‘Very fun game to play! We’ve played this game a couple of times already and each time, the various and crazy answers make for a hilarious fun time! Great for gatherings and the instructions are easy to follow.’ –
Elsa Flores
Who Is It For: 10 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Work on your detective skills with Talking Tables Murder Mystery Game Kit.

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