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Asymmetric "Jurassic Park"-esque 2 player game
Could it be Raptor? From BoardGameGeek:
Mamma Raptor has escaped from her run and laid her eggs in the park. A
team of scientists must neutralize her and capture the baby raptors
before they run wild ...
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Is this improvised card game is a known game?
Since players choose their next card it is a variant of Colonel Blotto game (unlike in War where players just pick the top card in their deck).
In Colonel Blotto, players are tasked to ...
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Any games like Werewolf for two persons?
Werewolf is not playable by two, as you say.
But if you want modern boardgames for two with a small footprint and a guessing mechanism there are many.
For example:
The Mind
Mr. Jack Pocket
...
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Is Risk: Legacy playable two-player?
It is a three to five player game according to the rules because the negotiation dynamics are integral to the rules. With two players there can be really no good negotiation and the game loses an ...
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Maze Game - Late 70's / Early 80's - Battleship-esk - What's it name?
The game reviewed here on Board Game Geek seems to fit the description quite well
Could this be it?
This is Pathfinder published by MB.
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Maze Game - Late 70's / Early 80's - Battleship-esk - What's it name?
This sounds to me like Pathfinder which was a game of my childhood.
BGG link - https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2884/pathfinder
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How can you get around the lack of early stone in two-player Agricola?
As far as breaking the game goes you'd have to experiment. Since those cards don't always come up it's hard to say with out play testing how early stone would affect a 2-player game with and without ...
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Identification: moving and stacking black and white pieces, packed in a tube
Any of these match?
BGG geeklist of games in tubes
Also from the description sounds a lot like DVONN, but it didn't use tube packaging
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Is No Thanks! playable with just two players?
This is possibly opinion based but I'll try and explain why it wouldn't work with 2.
Looking at the rules here
When you don’t have any counters left, you must take the card.
In a two player game you ...
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Is this improvised card game is a known game?
What you describe sounds very similar to 'War' or 'Battle'. There seems to be many different versions of this game such as this here and other examples on wikipedia.
The basic rule in these games is ...
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What is the name of this two player card game for betting?
https://www.pagat.com/national/sri_lanka.html lists numerous card games but none of those which are explained match OP’s details. Still the name might ring a bell
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Any games like Werewolf for two persons?
You might like Love Letter - it has some similar mechanics, and is for 2-4 players.
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