10 Most Beautiful Board Games

5. Riff Raff

This is an Adam top 10 list, you know that it’s going to include at least one MASSIVE TOY somewhere, and step right up Riff Raff a game which comes with this wooden ship that you build right onto the box itself, and it has a metal weight underneath it meaning it ROCKS.

It quite literally and quite metaphorically rocks.

You all have a deck of cards, you turn over your top card, whichever number comes up, you have to put one of your 8 bits of cargo on that number on the ship, all as it swooshes and sways. Any bits that fall off that you can’t catch, are put in front of you, the first person to place their last bit of cargo wins.

I mean sure, there are games out there with better artwork, or cuter components, but as someone who once managed a board game cafe, trust me, few games have more head-turning table presence than riff raff.

By far and away, it is the game that had the most people calling us over to their table to ask ‘what is that’, ‘do you have any more copies’ and also ‘could you talk us through the rules of game of thrones monopoly ONE MORE TIME’.