Deck Out Your Coffee Table With These Beautiful Board Games

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While you may be stuck (for better or for worse) with the players in your current game night rotation, that’s not to say the board games in your cue can’t be gussied up themselves. And since a balance between form and function is everything in today s world, we recommend opting for something that’s as nice to look at as it is fun to play with.

From hand-painted backgammon sets and designer dominoes to wooden jigsaw puzzles and spiffed-up tic tac toe, a chic new board game will provide just the refresh your game night—and your coffee table—need right now.

Below, 24 beautiful board games to try out for your next round of at-home entertainment.

Check, Mate!

Be as strategic in your decorating plan as you are with your gaming technique; opt for graphic checkerboard spreads and pretty pawns in bright neon hues or city-scape shapes.

Mark Graham acrylic neon chess game set

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Skyline Chess acrylic New York City chess set

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Ridley s Games Room chess and checkers set

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Pendleton chess and checkers set

Child’s Play

Take a trip down memory lane with the boredom busters of your youth; think prettily-packaged pickup sticks, grown-up jenga, luxury connect four, and tic tac toe in lucite brights.

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West Elm pick up sticks coffee table game

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Pinetti Pisa Tower box

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Edie Parker Four-In-A-Row acrylic and metal game set

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Sunnylife lucite tic tac toe game

Royal Flush

The hand we’ve been dealt by this pandemic is drumming up a desire to beautify our living spaces—and why shouldn’t our entertainment follow suit? Try punctuating your end table with a darling deck of playing cards for an extra dash of fun.

Hay After Dinner playing cards

Jonathan Adler Versailles playing card set

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Vogue x LouLou Baker playing cards

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Unfortunate Portrait fashion playing cards

Luck Be a Lady

From custom-painted backgammon boards to leatherbound perudo cups, a quality dice game or domino set is always worth going all in on.

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Nine Fair Pennsylvania cherry custom backgammon board

Not-Another-Bill perudo game set

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Printworks Classic V2 domino set

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Wolfum handcrafted wooden backgammon game

Puzzles With Panache

Vintage prints and intricate wooden pieces make for the perfect addition to any tablescape, and are a welcomed diversion from the monotony of working from home.

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Liberty Puzzles Fancy Cakes wooden puzzle

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Christian Lacroix Let s Play double-sided puzzle

Behäppi medium Hatchel puzzle

Piecework Forbidden Fruit puzzle

Wild Card

Give your after-dinner routine a good shuffle and try your hand at some fortune-telling tarot cards or a design-inspired memory game to keep the mind sharp.

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Old Lenormand Cards Teuila fortune telling cards

Maharam memory game

Galison Frank Lloyd Wright memory game

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Helvetiq Matchmaster card game