Best Board Game Deals: Save big while stocking games for kids and adults

Game night has been a popular pastime for years. New games with unique objectives or even a great classic always make for a fun way to spend time with your friends and family while showing off your competitive side. With October’s Prime Day deals now available, you can pick up quite a few great titles at big discounts. It’s the perfect time to shop for holiday gifts.

Board games come in many forms these days and there are options for every taste. You can find games that require cooperative play, strategy games that require intense concentration or simpler card games that are all about luck. And if you look around, you will also notice that there are always good games on offer.

My family and I love board games, so I’m always looking for the best deals. I’ll never be a rich man: I’ll end up buying every board game deal I see for my gaming table. Now you too can enjoy the feeling of having more board games than you will ever need. Don’t mention it. Keep scrolling to check out our roundup of the best board game bargains, and we’ll continue to update the list as we find newer and better deals.

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If you like to be a little sneaky, you’ll love Specter. Your goal is to become the next great spy, and that requires you to build special devices, create your own networks of spies and more. You will have to work not only against other players, but also against James Bond himself. You can play with up to four people, so it’s a good choice for family nights if you all like spy movies.

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Minecraft was always going to expand to other platforms, but we’re not sure anyone expected it to feel as good as a board game. Builders & Biomes can be played with up to four players and essentially translates the video game experience into a board game. That means lots of voxel style board pieces, different items to collect and lots of areas to explore.

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Marvel will likely remain pretty big for the rest of our lives, and so will the appeal of the humble zombie. Well, Marvel Zombies brings the two together in a board game for up to six players. The game comes with minis to play with and you try to save or damn the world. This set can also be added to other sets to create even greater potential play.

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Spellbook is a great game for fantasy lovers. Your goal is to create your own spellbook and then use it to navigate around and outsmart your opponents. There’s definitely a certain amount of luck involved, but you also have to understand how everyone else will move and more.

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Where can you find the best place for board game deals?

While Amazon may be the obvious choice for board games and has a lot of good deals going on with Prime Day right now, there are plenty of other places where you can find great deals. Goal usually has a good selection of board game deals, often offering discounts such as “buy one, get one 50% off.”

What makes a good board game deal?

Keep in mind that a product’s list price doesn’t always tell you its true value, especially as retailers have started offering Day 1 deals on products. Often the list price is artificially inflated to make the deal look more attractive, so you’ll want to shop around and see what the true value of a product is. You may also want to install CNET’s Shopping plugin to give you some help with that.