The best early board game deals of Black Friday

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$70

Players: 1-5 players, ages 14+
Playtime: 120-180 min.

An accompanying app will help guide you through Arkham’s cursed mansions in this co-op board game with a Lovecraftian horror bent. With four campaigns to choose from, players can find the exact level of difficulty for any occasion.

$29

Players: 2-7, aged 10+
Playtime: 42 min.

One player takes on the role of a ghost, while the other players take on the tole of mediums trying to communicate during a seance in this cooperative paranormal board game. It’s a mystery, too — the ghost was a murder victim who must reveal the circumstances of their death using only a series of cryptic vision cards to convey the situation.

$50

Players: 2-4, aged 13+
Playtime: 60 mins.

From Pandemic creator Matt Leacock and legacy game creator Rob Daviau comes the genre-defining hit. It includes the original Pandemic as well a 12-month campaign that you will never forget.

$35

Players: 2-4, aged 12+
Playtime: 90 min.

Here’s a well-regarded storytelling mystery game with multiple time-hopping narratives. In the fiction of TIME Stories, “TIME” is an acronym for Tachyon Insertion in Major Events. For the layman, that means time travel. Players take on the role of novice Temporal Agents and, suffice it to say, there’s plenty of work to go around.

$132

Players: 3-6 players, aged 14+
Playtime: 240-480 mins.

The fourth edition of Twilight Imperium, the essential, galaxy-spanning 4X board game from Fantasy Flight Games, will take up your entire day to play. It’s worth it.