# Suggestions for fun two player games?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-fun-two-player-games/806160 "2018-01-08T20:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-for-fun-two-player-games/806160/38 "2018-01-10T16:14:12Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> More importantly, deckbuilders are what’s now called “multiplayer solitaire” games. While you are nominally at the same table as the person whom you are playing with, you’re really just comparing scores at the end of the game. What you do during the game tends to not matter too much to what the other person is doing.

This is also my core complaint with most Eurogames, which usually minimize player conflict to one degree or another.

I was about to explain why I like deckbuilding games anyway, but then remembered that I was about to describe something I’ve already described. So I’ll let the ghost of Johnny past tell it.

> [@Board Games, revisited](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-games-revisited/679955/80):
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> This is a really valid complaint, and it’s weird that I like Dominion anyway since this is my main problem with nearly every Euro game every developed.
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> But with Dominion, I kind of feel like Phileas Fogg sitting around playing whist with his gentlemen cronies. Once everyone gets comfortable with the game, it goes _very_ quickly, with most turns taking just long enough for a player to say, “market, market, whatever, whatever, eight gold, buying a province.”
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> And then everyone nods approvingly, somebody says “jolly good show, chap” and adjusts his monocle, and the game keeps going.

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