When I opened this review for a game called Hundreds of Horses, I expected to have a good laugh about an awful game. The first two sentences:
It’s like a less-complicated Dixit. And all horses.
However, the author is actually fairly positive! It’s clearly not a “hobby game” and not meant for hobby gamers, but it works and can be fun. What other games fall into this category? I’ll nominate:
- Happy Salmon. What’s more fun than high fiving and running around a table?
- Spot It: Reverse spot the differences. Pure reflex game that can be explained in ten seconds
- Time’s Up!: Describe something, describe it in one word, and charades. Practically always a hit
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I’m not sure it falls into your category but skyjo. It is a tiny bit complex and while a game is short one usually does play a series of games tracking points. But single games are totally fine too imo so maybe it qualifies.
What I have come to love about the game as a dad of two is that the game can be paused and picked up with zero downside. The game has no hidden information one can know and no information to keep track of. No past plays to remember or anything. If you know the game I could sit you down at a table mid game, tell you nothing but whose turn it is. And you could continue playing as if you were there from the beginning. It’s great if you are interrupted by the kids, cats, dogs, door bell, mom calling, house on fire, ordered pizza. That makes it such a nice game got parents imo.
Skyo is great, quick to learn, the older part of my family also grasped it quickly and had fun.
The simplest I can think of is Strike. You are throwing dice into a pit and hope for the best. You do have some control in trying to hit other dice to change their value and you have push-your-luck decisions to make. We sometimes use it to decide the first player in the real game.
Zombie Dice and Martian Dice are some other simple dice games I like. And since OP mentioned Spot It I will throw in Spots which is a newer game, I don’t have a physical copy yet but had a lot of fun with it on BGA.
Outside of dice games I like Bandido a lot. If you look at the components you can probably figure out what to do without reading the rules. Works solo or co-op. Another one: Illusion, you are simply comparing which card has more of a given color.
