Best Bar & Café Board Games
Sitting at a bar or a café can get a little boring sometimes. While you wait for your drinks, why not play one of these awesome board games?
You’ll find bars and cafés can get busy and noisy, so we’ve made sure to choose board games that work well in these environments. The games on our list are easy to learn, have pretty quick playing time, and of course, are super fun!
Let’s take a look at the 10 best bar and cafe board games!
🏆 Our Top Picks for Best Bar & Cafe Board Games
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Love Letter
Players: 2- 4
Playing time: 20 mins
Love Letter is a game of risk, deduction, and luck.
Your goal is to get your love letter into the hands of the Princess. Lure heroes away from danger, and make sure you’re not caught putting your own love letter into the Princess’s hands!
At the beginning of the game, each player is dealt one card. The game is played over several rounds in which players will play one card from their hand and take a new one from the draw pile.
You work to try to expose and knock your opponents out of the running while making sure your letter gets to the Princess. Powerful cards put a target on your back, while weak cards can kick you out of the game.
Love Letter is perfect for a bar or café environment as it’s simple to learn and quick to play, giving you the opportunity to play many rounds!
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small
Players: 2
Playing time: 30 mins
This game is perfect for some one-on-one play!
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is designed for two players and has players assume the roles of farmers in the 17th century trying to raise families and build farms.
In the game, players focus on the animal aspects of the game. So long, plows and veggies! Players work to breed horses, cows, sheep, and pigs.
Like the original Agricola, this game is still very much strategy-orientated. Players win victory points by enclosing space with fences and acquiring the largest number and variety of animals. The player with the most points wins!
There are also four standard and four special buildings included in the game that give unique abilities to your farmer, and you’ll need to find a fine balance between building infrastructure and acquiring animals.
Hive
Players: 2
Playing time: 20 mins
Hive: A game that’s crawling with possibilities!
Hive is a fun board game to play at a bar or café for two people. The game itself is a little different as there’s no board. Rather, the players add pieces, thus creating the board.
The object of the game is pretty simple; you want to surround your opponent’s queen bee while trying to block your opponents from doing the same. Although the object is easy to understand, executing it requires strategic planning.
Each player starts with eleven tiles that represent five different insects, each with its own unique way of moving (sort of like chess). You win if you’re the first to capture the opposing player’s queen!
Welcome to the Dungeon
Players: 2- 4
Playing time: 30 mins
Come in, if you dare…
Welcome to the Dungeon is a fun 30-minute game where you’ll need to beat the dungeon twice or be the last warrior standing to win the game.
In this push-your-luck dungeon game, your courage and choices are tested as players take turns entering the dungeon in increasingly difficult situations.
Whether equipment is taken away, or monsters are added, the game becomes more and more difficult, and you hope that when someone else goes down, they stay down!
Tiny Epic Kingdoms
Players: 2- 5
Playing time: 30- 45 mins
Just because your kingdom is tiny doesn’t mean your ambition is.
Tiny Epic Kingdoms is a fantasy game where each player starts with a small territory and a unique faction. Players work to gather resources, research magic, explore other territories, and battle each other to protect their realm.
The game may be pocket-sized, but it’s a huge amount of fun as everyone wants their tiny kingdom to succeed, but there just isn’t enough space for all!
If you liked Tiny Epic Kingdoms, be sure to check out Tiny Epic Galaxies and Tiny Epic Quest too, as well as many other versions with fun themes for every fandom!
Coup
Players: 2- 6
Playing time: 15 mins
Coup is a fast and fun bluffing game for all. Players try to be the last one standing as they bluff, guess, and eliminate their opponents. All this is done in 15 minutes or less!
The game has five hidden roles: Captain, Assassin, Duke, Ambassador, and Contessa. Players start with two cards, taking one action each turn. With simple rules, you can focus all your energy on bluffing your way to victory!
Although there is bluffing, the game itself is quick and light, so the whole family can play.
Bunny Bunny Moose Moose
Players: 3- 6
Playing time: 20 mins
A hunter is on the prowl. Will you be smart and disguise yourself, or will you become the hunter’s new mantlepiece decoration?
In this hilarious game, players take the roles of rabbits and moose. While the hunter strolls through the forest, players do their best to try to look like animals the hunter won’t shoot. They do this by making moose antlers or rabbit ears on their heads, hence the name Bunny Bunny Moose Moose.
The game is hilarious, but be warned, you’ll have quite a few spectators laughing along with you!
BANG! The Dice Game
Players: 3- 8
Playing time: 15 mins
BANG! The Dice Game has all the emotions of BANG! But with a handful of dice!
Set in the Wild West, the battle between those that obey the laws and those that don’t has heightened. Suddenly, arrows fill the sky, and an Indian attack is underway. Are you courageous enough to survive?
The dice game follows the same idea as the core game BANG!, everyone takes a card at the start of the game, secretly placing them on a team. You’ll either be a part of the Sheriff and deputies, or outlaws and renegades.
With the dice version, players can roll the five dice up to three times. The results of the dice determine how you’ll shoot, the range of shots, and also how you’ll heal.
What’s great about the dice version is that it has a shorter play time and leaves a little up to luck!
Jaipur
Players: 2
Playing time: 30 mins
In Jaipur, you can become the Maharaja’s personal trader!
Jaipur is a game of strategy and trading. Players take on the roles of two of the city’s most powerful traders, looking to become the Maharaja’s personal trader and reap all the benefits the position will give them.
Players work to grow more riches than their opponent by collecting and exchanging goods at the market. As you try to out-trade your opponent, you’ll arrange large sales, collect useful camels and try to receive a Seal of Excellence from the Maharaja.
Jaipur is a fantastic trading game as it bends strategy and luck. It’s fast-paced, taking up to 30 minutes making it a great game for a bar or café.
Hanabi
Players: 2- 5
Playing time: 25 mins
You and your team have been tasked with creating a dazzling firework display like none before.
Hanabi is a fun card game where players work cooperatively, but in the end, there’s a twist! You can’t see your own cards.
Each player is dealt five cards, but the catch is that you can see everyone’s cards except your own. Players work together so they can share vital information to construct a proper launch sequence.
The game is fun for a bar or café as players have to work together, making it very engaging and collaborative.
Will your team create an unforgettable show, or will they be booed by the audience?
Wrap-Up
We hope you enjoyed our best bar and café board game list! These fun card and dice games are small enough to fit in a handbag and play on a bar table with friends. Which of these games is your favorite to take a long to a bar or café? Did we miss any of your favorites?
Drop us a comment below and let us know! We’d love to hear from you.
