Amazon’s one-day tabletop sale discounts board games from D&D, Exploding Kittens and Pandemic creators

As well as escape room games and modern classics.

Deal by Matt Jarvis Editor-in-chief

Published on July 28, 2020

Grab classic board games and modern tabletop hits for up to half price in Amazon’s board game and trading card game sale running today.

A number of board games and card games are discounted as part of today’s Deals of the Day, spanning award-winning family games, party games, classics and escape room games.

The games on sale include a number of party games from the makers of the immensely popular Exploding Kittens, with dodgeball-food-fight game Throw Throw Burrito and monster-making card game Bears vs. Babies both down to $20 - a drop of 20% and 33% respectively - while On a Scale of One to T-Rex and You’ve Got Crabs have both been reduced to $16.

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If roleplaying is more your style, the Dungeons & Dragons 5E crossover with Rick and Morty is 39% off at $18.35. Designed to teach newcomers how to play D&D 5E, the starter set features an adventure supposedly written by Rick from the animated series that takes beginner players up to third level.

Elsewhere, Kingdomino - winner of the prestigious Spiel des Jahres ‘Game of the Year’ award in 2017 - is on sale, reduced to $14 from $20. Its expansion, Age of Giants, is also on sale at under $16, while two-player spin-off game Kingdomino Duel is under $10.

Forbidden Island and its sequel Forbidden Desert, the family-friendly co-op games designed by Pandemic creator Matt Leacock, are both on sale. You can currently grab Island for $15, while Desert is 30% off at $17.55.

Forbidden Desert family board game box and gameplay layout

While there are plenty of recent board game hits in the mix, there are some stone-cold classics, too. An updated edition of head-to-head strategy game Stratego is almost half price at $16.69 from $30, while its four-player counterpart Stratego Conquest sees an even bigger drop from $50 to under $17 and Stratego Waterloo is nearly half price at $31. They’re joined by modern classics Puerto Rico, the deluxe edition of which can currently be had for $35, and The Castles of Burgundy, on sale for $42.41.

There are a number of escape room board games included in the tabletop deals. Exit: The Game entries The House of Riddles, The Catacombs of Horror, Theft on the Mississippi are are all up to 28% off. They’re joined by Escape Tales: The Awakening, down to $19.43 from $30, and Escape the Room: Stargazer's Manor, which can be picked up for $17. Finally, there’s the MacGyver escape room game, 20% off at $17.

Other picks from Amazon’s board game sale include: