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Given the summer heat in New York, board games have been the perfect way to hang out with friends or family while escaping the sun.

I can鈥檛 stop playing , a multiplayer game with an avian theme. Even if you鈥檙e not a birdwatcher, you鈥檒l like this game. From whimsically coloured boards to the charming birdhouse that dispenses pastel bird eggs, it is a pleasure to play. The object is to recruit birds to your aviary, and beautifully illustrated cards guide your choice with scientific details about a species.

If you prefer a crowd-pleaser with almost no instructions, you could try (pictured above). Two teams take turns rotating a dial to find a target hidden on a colour spectrum, based on prompts. So, in response to the prompt card 鈥渢astes good vs tastes bad鈥, one team member may say 鈥渂lue cheese鈥, leading to a heated debate on where the dial should land between the two.

This, it turns out, is just the right kind of heat.

Corryn Wetzel

Reporter

New York

Topics: games