The Game: Lost Cities

Number of Players: 2.
Play Time: 20 to 40 minutes.
Ages: 10 and up.
To Buy: $23, for store locations.

Great For...

Couples. With nothing to set up, it’s a great go-to game for after dinner. Plus, the longer you play, the more strategies emerge, so it never gets old (even if the relationship lasts for years).

How It's Played

Score points by playing as many cards as you can in each suit, laying them down in ascending order. You can skip some cards as you go, but you won’t be able to play the skipped cards later if you draw them, so you must balance the benefits of waiting to accumulate the best cards against the need to get your cards down before the game ends.