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If a player reveals a flood card for a tile that is currently flooded, it is permanently removed from the game.įorbidden Island has made this list for best cooperative gateway game because it is especially easy to teach, with a theme appropriate for any age group, and a visually-stunning table presence.

Flood cards, which must be drawn at the end of a player’s turn, flood specific location tiles on the board. On their turn, players take up to three actions – moving, shoring up an island tile, giving a treasure card to another player on the same tile, or capturing a treasure by discarding four identical treasure cards. Each player takes on the role of a unique adventurer at the beginning of the game, each of which grants special abilities that break the standard rules of the game. To win, players must discover and collect all four treasures on the island, and escape via the helicopter pad before any player’s route is closed off. Third, the game is a lot of fun, and it’s easy to get new players to appreciate the challenge of completing routes while competing with other players for spots on the board (and potentially blocking routes on purpose).įorbidden Island, designed by Matt Leacock, is a fully cooperative game in which players will either win or lose as a group. Second, the three choices available on a player’s turn are simple and intuitive draw cards, build a route, or draw additional destination tickets. First, the objective of the game is very clear and easy to comprehend players earn points at the end of the game for completing route cards and completing routes on the board.

What makes Ticket to Ride the best route-building gateway game for this list is the fact that the game concepts and objectives are very easy to teach to non-gamers for a few reasons. The game has a set-collection element as players attempt to acquire the necessary colors to complete critical routes on the board, and a clear route-building aspect as players work to connect cities from their destination tickets. The standard version of Ticket to Ride features a map of the United States, and in the game, players compete to fill the board with train tokens of their color in order to score the most points by building routes and fulfilling destination tickets.