The Best Push Your Luck Board Games

This collection filters for BGG\'s push-your-luck mechanic, rated 6.5 or higher. These are games where risk management is the core experience, not a side effect.

You will find bag-building games where drawing one more ingredient could be genius or disaster, dice games where greed is the real opponent, card games where the next flip determines everything, and hybrid designs that layer push-your-luck onto deeper strategic frameworks. Some are light enough for families, others are serious enough for hobbyists. All of them create the same addictive moment: the pause before the decision, the collective held breath, and the eruption that follows.