Best 2-player word games
The top-rated word games that play well with 2 players, ranked by BoardGameGeek community rating across 74 games. Codenames XXL leads the list (light complexity).
Top word games for 2 players
- Codenames XXL (2015)
- Codenames Duet XXL (2017)
- Paperback (2014)
- Scrabble (1948)
- Letter Jam (2019)
- Hardback (2018)
- Scrabble Scattergories (1988)
- Balderdash (1984)
- Scrabble Boggle (1972)
- Beyond Balderdash (1993)
- Werewords Deluxe Edition (2018)
- Word on the Street (2009)
- Super Boggle (1979)
- Medium (2019)
- Quiddler Deluxe (1998)
- Letter Tycoon (2015)
- Cross Clues (2020)
- Wise and Otherwise (1997)
- Wordsy (2017)
- Upwords (1982)
- Word Domination (2017)
- Unspeakable Words (2007)
- Codenames Harry Potter (2018)
- Think! Words (2012)
- Knit Wit (2016)
- Cranium Hoopla (2002)
- BuyWord (2004)
- Travel Pass the Bomb (1994)
- What's My Word? (1972)
- TAGS (2018)
- Spell Smashers (2018)
- Facts in Five (1964)
- Tile Lock Super Scrabble (2004)
- Such a Thing? (1989)
- SHH (2015)
- Wie ich die Welt sehe... (2004)
- Poetry for Neanderthals (2020)
- Probe (1964)
- Unspeakable Words Deluxe Edition (2015)
- Typo (2004)
- Scrabble Slam! (2008)
- Will Shortz Tribond (1989)
- Scarabeo (1963)
- Mixmo (2009)
- Murder of Crows (2012)
- Cranium Zigity (2004)
- Prolix (2010)
- Train of Thought (2011)