Two-player games have come a long way since checkers ... but we wouldn’t recommend it for most people. Games don’t always have to be escapism, but during our playtesting in 2023 and 2024 ...

Canasta for Two is a 2-player version of Canasta with endless fun. Create melds of 7 cards of the same rank, and earn points as you aim to "go out" by exhausting your cards. It's a game of ...

“Another perk is that you can play with as few as two people or as many as five, and though you have to pay attention to multiple things at once, it’s not so complicated that a beginner or ...

Designing a good shedding game for two players seems almost impossible. Andrew takes a closer look at three new titles from ...

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While many board games require groups of people to play, there are a lot of worthy ones that don’t. So, to find the best two-player games for couples or roommates to play together, we asked ten ...