31 Best Board Games That Start With P (2023 Edition)

Why We Recommend It: Plan your weekend fun in Pusheen Purrfect Pick! Explore one side of the double-sided game board, collect essentials like friends and items, and take snapshots of your weekend fun.
Who Is It For: 8 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Enlist the help of your Paladins to defend your city From increasing threats.
Multiple paths to victory, thanks to the suspicion system, attribute tracks, and a wide array of potential townsfolk and Outsider combinations.
Who Is It For: 12 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: High player interaction makes for the perfect Game Night. A riot you and your friends will never forget.
Excellent for families. This is a game that will hit the table again and again.
Who Is It For: 10 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: In this game, players work together to help mermaids swim to Mermaid Island before the witch gets there. Spin, move, and pick up a wand to defeat the Sea Witch!

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Why We Recommend It: Pay Day is great for social interaction and a game that parents and children can play on a relatively even level. Simple and quick, a two-lap game takes as little as 15 minutes.
Who Is It For: 8 – 12 years

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Why We Recommend It: The benefits of chess are enormous. Children who partake in chess boost their critical thinking, problem-solving, spatial awareness, and socialization skills, making them a great addition to any classroom or household.
Who Is It For: 12 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Ready, set, go! Be the quickest to fit all 25 shapes into their matching holes in the tray. But watch the timer! If it runs out…pop goes the Perfection game! The player who matches all 25 shapes in the shortest time wins. 
Who Is It For: 5 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: A patchwork is a form of art, in which the designers use precious fabrics to create beautiful textiles.
Who Is It For: 8 – 15 years

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Promising Review: Love all the new options! We can play all day long and it never gets old. The variations are great and the new rules clarified some things. We still have to make up our own rules to keep the peace.-GR
Who Is It For: 12 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: In Pictionary, the quick-draw family game, count on big laughs as players find out who’s an artist and who really isn’t! In this game, the guesses can be just as hilarious as the sketches.
Who Is It For: 8 – 15 years

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Promising Review: Loved this game. Very impressed with the game pieces, very good quality. Instructions are very easy to read and understand. Each game you play has a different board setup you can choose from making it a different game every time you play.-TimsLady
Who Is It For: 10 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Travel around the world, treat local populations, and collect sets of City cards to complete research. Make sure to contain the spread—if there are too many outbreaks, you’ll lose the game.
Who Is It For: 13 – 15 years

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Why We Recommend It: Get ready for classic family fun with Parcheesi Royal Edition. Kids and adults both love this game night must-have. The Royal Edition gives Parcheesi a vibrant royal color scheme and a vintage design. 
Who Is It For:  8 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: This Retro Series version of Payday is the first version of the game, it’s ideal for nostalgic family board games and fun. Gather the family to play this game of handling finances.
Who Is It For: 1 – 1 months

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Why We Recommend It: Pyramid Arcade is a complete game library in one box. Inside, you’ll find everything you need to play 22 different tabletop games, each of which uses the Looney Pyramid gaming pieces in a different way.
Who Is It For: 8 – 15 years

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Why We Recommend It: Disguise learning Dolch and Fry sight words as a delicious pizza! Great game for young children, toddlers, boys, and girls of all ages.
Who Is It For: 13 years and up

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Why We Recommend It:  Players can imagine reliving the movie magic, buying up favorite locations from Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story, The Incredibles, Up, Coco, Monsters Inc., Cars, and more.
Who Is It For: 8 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Children gain listening and sorting skills, where older players can sharpen their poker-playing skills in a whole new light.

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Why We Recommend It: Players must work together playing to their characters’ strengths as they plan their strategy of eradicating the diseases before they overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.
Who Is It For: 13 – 15 years

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Why We Recommend It: Pipeline combines an economic engine building resource game with a spatial tile placement aspect.
You will need more than strong economic skills—carefully crafting an interweaving network of pipelines just might ensure your victory!
Who Is It For: 8 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: In this family board game, the first player to collect nine pizza cards and build their giant pizza slice – wins!
Who Is It For: 10 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: In Potion Explosion, 2 to 4 players brew potions by pulling colored marbles from a dispenser and matching them with the needed ingredients for the potions on the table in front of them. 
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Plague Inc: The Board Game is a strategic game of infection, evolution, and extinction for 1-4 players lasting 60-90 minutes.
Each person takes on the role of a deadly disease competing against their friends in a battle to be the first to infect and wipe out the world!
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: With a grinding of gears and some uneasy rumbling, Aperture Laboratories has resumed testing! Your team of Test Subjects has entered the Lab and is ready to perform all sorts of important, dignified, and dangerous testing procedures.
Who Is It For: 15 – 16 years

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Promising Review: We LOVE this game! This is NOT Sorry! The game is very strategic – do you play offensively or defensively? Creating a wall to stop your opponents also stops your partner. The switch/swap card has literally changed the game outcomes. –KleinCR
Who Is It For: 8 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Power Grid Recharged has all the strategy and fun of the classic first edition, but adds some updates that improve the (already great) gameplay. 
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Pan American World Airways ruled the skies and made travel more accessible without sacrificing glamour.
Who Is It For: 6 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: The cherished look and feel of Parcheesi, including the dice cups, will surely bring back fond memories. In Parcheesi Royal Edition, players race to get all of their pawns into the center home space.
Who Is It For: 8 years and up

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Why We Recommend It: Pendulum is a tuneless, worker placement, time-optimization game for 1-5 players. It was the highest-rated prototype in the history of the Stonemaier Games Design Day. 
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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Promising Review: Absolutely love this, would love it to be official. It has card tokens which are cheap. Metal ones would have been favorable. Still. The board game is still great.-kas
Who Is It For: 14 – 15 years

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Why We Recommend It: Praga Caput Regni is the latest game from Vladimir Suchy, the designer of Underwater Cities. In this game, players take the role of wealthy citizens who are organizing various building projects in medieval Prague.
Who Is It For: 14 years and up

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