It can happen to anyone: a friend of a friend joins for the evening and suddenly Catan is not an option.
What are your goto games in those situations?
It can happen to anyone: a friend of a friend joins for the evening and suddenly Catan is not an option.
What are your goto games in those situations?
At 6 players we mostly switch to party games.
Just One is by far our favorite, works great with all sort of crowds.
Secret Hitler is another we tend to play, doesn’t work well with the more casual folks.
Always interested in expanding this list, it’s hard to find something outside word games and social deduction that don’t have a ton of downtime.
My go to would have been Deception: Murder in Hong Kong which I think needs between 6 and 9 players to really shine, but discounting social deduction, I’d look at Captain Sonar. The downside there is the player count is brittle… I do agree with @Zipheir that Bohnanza works well from 4-7. If 6 is acceptable, Point Salad is fine and that means you don’t have to sort cards as you use them all.
Really, after 6 people, we break up into two groups. I mean, sometimes we break up at 6…