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Easy Board Games for Beginners: What to Play After Monopoly & Risk (My 10 Picks)

Meeple from Carcassonne, one of the easiest board games for beginners © Klo CC BY-SA 3.0.

If you enjoy Monopoly or Risk, you already like board games, but you’ve just been playing older designs that often feel slow, luck-heavy, or too long for what they deliver. Modern “gateway” board games keep what’s fun (tension, interaction, satisfying choices) while cutting down the parts that frustrate new players (downtime, rule arguments, endless turns, … Read more