20 cool desktops with AliExpress for any company

1. Dwarf pests

Original title: Saboteur.
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 3 to 10.

Players are divided into gold miners and pests. The task of the first is to pave the way to the mine with gold with the help of maps. There are three of them, but the treasure lies only in one. The second task is to prevent the gold miners from reaching the treasure. In addition to path cards, players have action cards. With their help, you can blow up a tunnel or repair a tool.

The game consists of three horses, at the end of each there is a division of gold. The player with the most nuggets in the game wins.

2. Carcassonne

Original title: Carcassonne.
Party duration: up to 90 minutes.
Number of players: from 3 to 5.

An economic strategy, the essence of which is to build a game landscape and place subjects on it: knights, peasants, monks or robbers.

The playing field is divided into 72 squares with terrain elements - tiles. Participants take turns taking them from a common pile and attaching them to the landscape: the road to the road, the field to the field, the castle to the castle. The next action the player can place on the attached tile of his character (meeple). If he puts it in the field, the meeple will become a peasant, if on the road - a robber, to a monastery - a monk, to a city - a knight.

Meeples placed on the board, together with completed tiles, bring points. The player who has collected the most wins.

3. Patchwork kingdom

Original title: Kingdomino.
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 4.

An exciting game where everyone can try on the crown of the monarch. The goal is to build a kingdom by connecting pieces of the playing field (tiles) according to the domino principle.

Each tile must match the next one in the terrain pattern. If the fragment cannot be attached, it is discarded. When the tiles are over, it's time to count the points. To do this, the number of squares in the collected landscapes is multiplied by the number of crowns in them. The player with the most points becomes the ruler of the patchwork kingdom.

4. Colonizers

Original title: Catan.
Party duration: up to 4 hours.
Number of players: from 3 to 4.

An iconic game for those who are ready to spend the whole evening at the board.

Players find themselves on the island of Katan, which they have to master. Each of them has five settlements, four cities and 15 roads in their arsenal. The colonialists establish settlements, lay roads, and distribute resources. And then the most interesting thing begins: trade in raw materials and the expansion of their territories. The most calculating and far-sighted participant with 10 victory points wins.

5. Stone Age

Original title: Stone Age.
Party duration: up to 2 hours.
Number of players: from 2 to 4.

A classic family game for those who really love board games.

The starting conditions for all players are the same: a tablet, five meeples and 12 food tokens. Each turn is a day in the life of the tribe. In the morning, you place the characters on the main playing field, during the day they extract resources, and in the evening they need to be fed. Sounds simple, but every action requires strategic thinking. Otherwise, you will never become the leader of the tribe.

6. Lost cities

Original title: Lost Cities.
Party duration: about 40 minutes.
Number of players: 2.

A card game in which participants go on mysterious expeditions. Everyone receives eight cards in their hands, the moves are made in turn. To collect an expedition, you need to lay out cards of the same color in ascending order. Instead of the one played, the player takes a new card from the deck.

The "Pari" card doubles the points for the expedition, but you can get it only at the very beginning. If a player cannot or does not want to place a card on an expedition, he must discard it on the general playing field. The winner is the one with the most points.

7. Dixit

Original title: Dixit.
Party duration: from 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 3 to 12.

The game, invented by Jean-Louis Rubier, is based on associations. Develops thinking and imagination.

Each of the players has six cards in their hands. One of them is appointed as the storyteller. He takes one of his cards and places it face down in front of him. In doing so, he must describe this card with words, gestures or sounds.

The rest of the players must find the card that they most associate with what the narrator is showing and place it on the table.

After that, all the cards laid out are shuffled and laid out in a row face up, and the players give tokens with the number of the card, which is considered the storyteller's card. At the end, all tokens are revealed at the same time and the points earned by the players are calculated. The player with the most points wins.

8. Kluedo

Original title: Cluedo.
Party duration: up to 2 hours.
Number of players: from 2 to 6.

A detective game, according to the plot of which a murder took place in a luxurious country mansion. The task of the players is to solve the crime and name who, what and where killed the owner of the house. The intrigue is that everyone is under suspicion.

The game begins with the fact that from the deck of characters, the deck of the instruments of crime and the deck of rooms, they all draw one card at a time and hide it in a scandalous envelope. Players move their character figures around the playing field using dice and put forward versions. The winner is the one who is the first to solve the mystery of the scandalous envelope.

9. Wild jungle

Original title: Jungle Speed.
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 15.

A popular all over the world game that develops reaction. Similar to "The Drunkard", only much more varied and interesting.

There is a sacred totem in the center of the playing field. The cards are divided equally among the participants. The moves are made in turn clockwise. If two players reveal cards with the same symbols, they need to take the totem into their hand as soon as possible. Did not have time? You take your opponent's cards. Also in the deck there are surprise cards that add excitement. The winner is the one who gets rid of all cards faster.

10. Dobble

Original title: Dobble or Spot It!
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 8.

Another game for attentiveness and reaction. Suitable for companies that like to make noise and laugh.

Plants, animals and other symbols are depicted on round playing cards. The task of the players is to find a pair of the picture as soon as possible.

Five game mechanics are possible: "Tower" (we collect cards from ourselves), "Poisoned gift" (toss cards to rivals), "Well" (we get rid of cards in our hands), "Hot potatoes" (we open up together and give cards to rivals as soon as possible) and "Collect everything" (we reveal ourselves together and take the cards from the opponents as soon as possible). When you're in a hurry, and you also need to voice the characters, it's fun.

11. Drum

Original title: Geistesblitz.
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 8.

And one more mindfulness game. A row of objects is placed in the center of the table. For example, a red apple, a green key, a blue clock, a black bat, and a white ghost. Then the players reveal the cards from the deck and try to touch the object of the desired color faster than the opponents. The catch is that there are more variations in the colors of objects on the cards than on the table. It turns out to be a fun gambling bustle.

"Barabashka" has a continuation - the games "Baramelka" and "Barbaron", the general rules are the same. They are also presented in this lot.

12. Cockroach salad

Original title: Kakerlaken Salat.
Party duration: about 20 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 6.

A fun game for noisy companies. The cards with the image of vegetables are distributed among the players. The task of each of them is to chop the salad as quickly as possible (get rid of the cards) and not run into a cockroach (forbidden cards). The main rule: you cannot name the same vegetable twice in a row, but you can give out cabbage for a salad, and pepper for a tomato.

This fast-paced game was invented by Jacques Zeimet and has variations. For example, this lot contains "Cockroach soup". And there is also "Cockroach poker".

13. Trainer for the mind

Original title: Scrabble.
Party duration: about 60 minutes.
Number of players: from 3 to 4.

Entertainment for connoisseurs of the Russian language. The players take turns putting words from letters on the field. Each letter has a price. Also, points are added if you get to the prize sector. Words are laid out from left to right, top to bottom, horizontally and vertically, but not diagonally. The winner is the participant who scored the most points, that is, who made many words with complex letters.

14. Pentago

Original title: Pentago.
Party duration: up to 30 minutes.
Number of players: 2.

At first glance, the game looks like the classic "match five". The goal is the same - to collect a chain of five balls of your color. But everything is complicated by the fact that opponents have the opportunity to rotate parts of the playing field by 90 degrees during their turn. You will have to wiggle your brains no less than in chess.

15. Bounce Off

Party duration: up to 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 4.

A simple, at first glance, game. The players receive yellow and blue balls and throw them one by one onto the playing grid, trying to add up the piece that was drawn on the card. However, the game requires cunning, fine motor skills and patience.

16. Luxury

Original title: Splendor.
Party duration: about 40 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 4.

Players transform into wealthy Renaissance merchants. Their task is to organize the extraction and cutting of precious stones. The most successful are supported by powerful patron nobles. There are only five cards, they are available to those who have succeeded in the development of their production. This can be done using special development cards, the number of which is also limited.

After a couple of moves, the game turns into a race. The winner is the one who can accurately calculate his actions, as well as predict the behavior of opponents.

17. Werewolves

Original title: The Werewolves of Millers Hollow.
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 8 to 18.

Monsters have appeared in a small village. Every night, violent werewolves kill some of the locals. They drove the whole area into fear and would have continued their crimes if the villagers had not gathered courage and fought them back.

This game is one of the versions of the popular "Mafia". Participants are similarly divided into “bad” and “good”. And they don't know in advance what role will get to whom. Each group has its own tasks. Werewolves must eat all the inhabitants, and they are trying to catch the killers as soon as possible. The leader keeps order, and special characters help both groups.

18. Secret message

Original title: Love Letter.
Party duration: about 25 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 4.

The charming princess imprisoned herself in her own chambers in protest. Her fans wish to express their respect and sympathy, and for these purposes they send her secret messages. They have to do this with great caution, as unthinkable intrigues are woven in the palace.

At the very beginning of the round, each participant receives a secret card with a number that indicates the degree of his closeness to the princess. The task of the players is to leave the card of the person closest to the main character in their hands by the end of the round. After all, she can only receive one message. The one who was able to transfer the letter to the princess receives a token at the end of the round. The player who has collected the maximum number of tokens wins.

19. No thanks

Original title: No, thanks.
Party duration: about 30 minutes.
Number of players: from 2 to 7.

Another simple card game. Its participants have a choice: take a card and get a penalty point, or refuse it and donate one of their chips for this. The game continues until all cards from the deck have been played.

The winner is the one with the fewest penalty points. The trick is that each player will have to draw a card at some point, since his own chips may run out.

20. Taboo

Original title: Taboo.
Party duration: from 30 to 90 minutes.
Number of players: from 4 to 16.

This is a word guessing game. Participants are divided into teams, and a leader is selected from each, whose task is to explain the word written on the card within a certain time, without resorting to forbidden words. Opponents are armed with an hourglass and a special quack, with which they can loudly report a violation of the rules.