10 Most Beautiful Board Games

10. Tokyo Highway

How do you make traffic sexy, put it in a board game.

Tokyo Highway is modern art on your table.

It looks more like a straight-up dexterity game with all these little bits, but it’s actually closer to an abstract spatial strategy game.

You start with an entrance ramp and you build roads from there, always going one level up or one level below the last road you built. If you build a road that runs either underneath or above another road, you can place one of your teeny tiny little cars on it.

Genuinely the cars are so small you need special tweezers to pick them up, this game is SO DELIGHTFUL.

Whoever runs out of cars first wins so you’re always ducking and turning, trying to be the first to slip under or over an opponent’s exposed road. Gradually the highways expand and expand twisting around each other like snakes dancing, to create this beautiful minimalist lattice with little bursts of colour throughout.

Table presence is a word used a lot to describe the kind of the game that’ll make you do a double take as you walk past. Tokyo Highway is that kind of game.