Best 2-player deduction board games
The top-rated deduction board games that play well with 2 players, ranked by BoardGameGeek community rating across 278 games. Codenames XXL leads the list (light complexity).
Top deduction board games for 2 players
- Codenames XXL (2015)
- Dead of Winter A Crossroads Game (2014)
- Love Letter (2012)
- Citadels Classic (2000)
- Mysterium (2015)
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1982)
- Alchemists (2014)
- Chronicles of Crime (2018)
- Captain Sonar (2016)
- Codenames Duet XXL (2017)
- Battle Line (2000)
- Letters from Whitechapel (2011)
- Fury of Dracula (Third\/Fourth Edition) (2015)
- Detective A Modern Crime Board Game (2018)
- Dead of Winter The Long Night (2016)
- Mr. Jack (2006)
- Discworld Ankh-Morpork (2011)
- Tobago (2009)
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures (2016)
- Fury of Dracula (Second Edition) (2005)
- Lord of the Rings The Confrontation (Deluxe Edition) (2005)
- Awkward Guests (2016)
- Not Alone (2016)
- Lord of the Rings The Confrontation (2002)
- Love Letter Premium (2016)
- Specter Ops (2015)
- MicroMacro Crime City (2020)
- Love Letter Batman (2015)
- Mr. Jack Pocket (2010)
- Tajemnicze Domostwo (2013)
- Treasure Island (2018)
- The Search for Planet X (2020)
- Fugitive (2017)
- Tragedy Looper (2011)
- Fog of Love (2017)
- Whitehall Mystery (2017)
- Love Letter Sender (2019)
- Room 25 (2013)
- Lovecraft Letter (2017)
- Stratego (1946)
- The Shipwreck Arcana (2017)
- Mr. Jack in New York (2009)
- Letter Jam (2019)
- Honey Buzz (2020)
- Watson & Holmes From the Diaries of 221B (2015)
- Outfoxed! (2014)
- Chronicles of Crime 1400 (2020)
- Mythos Tales (2016)
Quick deduction board games for 2 players (30 minutes or less)
- Codenames XXL (2015)
- Love Letter (2012)
- Codenames Duet XXL (2017)
- Battle Line (2000)
- Mr. Jack (2006)
- Lord of the Rings The Confrontation (Deluxe Edition) (2005)
- Lord of the Rings The Confrontation (2002)
- Love Letter Premium (2016)
- Love Letter Batman (2015)
- Mr. Jack Pocket (2010)
- Fugitive (2017)
- Love Letter Sender (2019)