Amazon is running another one of its excellent, yet confusingly worded, sales. Buy one eligible book, board game, or movie at regular price, and you’ll get another one for half price. The wording on the sale makes it sound like you have to buy two at regular price, but I assure you, it’s just one. So what kinds of board games, books, and movies are we talking? You can check out the whole sale here, or you can keep reading for our picks of the best of the bunch.
Amazon Buy 1, Get 1 Half Price Sale
The main sale link brings you to the full sale, with books highlighted on the page. You can scroll through those, or you can click into the department of your choice. Books and movies are obvious, but if you want board games, you’ll have to navigate to the “toys” department, because that’s where Amazon categorizes them.
Among the excellent items on offer in this sale are movies, both individual and collections. You can save on everything from modern masterpieces like Zodiac and Top Gun Maverick to older classics like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy from the ‘90s or the Dark Knight trilogy. There's also a surprising number of 4K Disney movies included in here.
For board games, tons of entry-level mainstays are represented here, like Catan and Ticket to Ride: Europe. There are murder mystery board games and cooperative games as well. And if you’re looking for books, you’ll find plenty of fantasy and sci fi and mystery titles ranging from Brandon Sanderson and George R.R. Martin to Mary Shelley and Gillian Flynn.
These sales are always popular among the IGN audience. I think that’s because there are so many eligible items. And many of them are already discounted well below their suggested retail price, which makes this a discount on top of a discount. Stacking deals is my favorite way to min-max bargains. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you just can’t beat the deals you can get outside of Amazon sales like this.
Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN's board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.
