Star Realms is a solid little 2 player deck builder game! The base game is just a deck of cards and you dont need much room to play, so it’s a great portable game.

Our family usually packs Sushi Go and No Thanks when traveling

Love Letter

Hive Pocket goes on every vacation with me; its portable, indestructible, and can be played anywhere. Will also usually bring: Love Letter, Tides, SpaceShipped, and a deck of cards for Regicide/Scoundrel/Loot-The-Loop/etc. Will sometimes try to bring Bang! The Dice Game, Anomia, or Happy Salmon if there's a potential for party games being played.

I recently travelled with the following small games and can recommend them.

Sprawlopolis - Lovely co-op city builder with 18 cards, much more replayable than you'd think.

Fugitive - A great cat and mouse/hidden movement game with numbered cards. Either flee as the fugitive or hunt as the marshal.

Air land and Sea - A tactical game with the added wrinkle of choosing when/if to withdraw.

Monopoly Deal - A classic, fast, fun, ruthless. Monopoly as it should be.

Hive Pocket - Chess like, strategic, tactile and can be played pretty much anywhere.

Stew - A simple bluffing card game of creating a stew together and working out when the best time is to eat the stew, if at all.

Hope this helps!

Splendor. I 3d-printed a small case for it so that it will easily fit in a bag or backpack. It's one of our favorites.

Machi Koro is super simple to travel with. Just rubber band the cards and throw the dice and money tokens in a bag and there you go.

Jaipur is similar that way.

Anything by Oink Games.

I haven't seen "Wizard" mentioned yet. It's a staple among german outdoor tourists.

Elfer raus! / Domino (the card game) is pretty fun and easy to learn. It’s usually sold in a small-form box; i.e. about the size of a Schmidt tin-game.

Hive is a great travel game! It's small (so therefore easy to transport) and just requires any flat surface to play on. It's a turn based game where your objective is to place tiles (which have different bugs on them) to surround your opponents Queen whilst also defending your own Queen from being surrounded. It has a surprisingly deep level of strategy involved for such a simple game.

Sprawlopolis is very light weight and offers a lot of replayability.

We have laminated (I believe that is the english word) clever, qwixx, knaster and knister so that we can bring 1 set of dice and play those all.

We really like regicide, which is just 1 pack of cards.

Lastly you have some (card)games with a small footprint, such as The Crew, or Cahoots, or Pickomino.

7 wonders duel.

This is somewhat hypothetical because I don't travel that often so I haven't actually traveled with all of these. But this is what I'd pack:

• Next Station: London: great roll & write with a nice compact flap box. Works for solo.
• Sea Salt & Paper: one of our current favorites, small box, easy to teach
• Scout: ditto
• Orchard: My small comfort solo
• Some Buttonshy games. Maybe some Pack O Game ones too.

Easy to teach can be an important consideration in case you find some new people to play with.

Star Fluxx

Deep Sea Adventure

The city (London, NY, Sf etc) based ticket to ride games are great. You can play in about 20 mins. I've played it in airports, poolside at the air bnb, and hotel rooms. I'm actually traveling with it this weekend lol

The city (London, NY, Sf etc) based ticket to ride games are great. You can play in about 20 mins. I've played it in airports and poolside at the air bnb. I'm actually traveling with it this weekend lol

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@dpunked Palm Island!

Handsome (button shy) and Arboretum tend to be family travel faves.

(edit: Scout is a new addition to the travel games)

@dpunked I really like Mijnlieff - abstract with small footprint that plays quickly. Friend of mine came up with a perfect travel game that fits in a wallet - Mesozoic Mayhem.

Just brought:

• Silver & Gold
• Village Pillage
• Mint Works
• Star Realms
• Bananagram

Might sound old fashioned but when we travel we usually just take travel Scrabble and a magnetic chess board!

Bananagrams! It's good for any age, I like it especially at things like family reunions

Hidden Leaders has a fairly large box, but there's not all that much to bring. The cards and 2 tokens fit into a medium sized ziplock bag.

The board is slightly more difficult, but there's a copy of it printed into the bank of 5 explanatory cards, although I believe those were part of the Kickstarter exclusives.

Railroad Ink is a roll-and-write game in a tiny box (or multiple tiny boxes of different colors) and scales well from just one to six players.

Fluxx and Saboteur (with expansion), some friends take BANG! but it gets bulky with expansions pretty fast.