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Secret Hitler
The year is 1932. The place is pre-WWII Germany. In Secret Hitler, players are German politicians attempting to hold a fragile Liberal government together and stem the rising tide of Fascism. Watch out though-there are secret Fascists among you, and one player is Secret Hitler.
Cards Against Humanity
Cards Against Humanity is the best-selling party game that turns your mediocre personality and lack of social skills into hours of fun. I love you. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card
Codenames
Spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. Spymasters take turns giving one-word clues. A clue may relate to multiple words on the table. The field operatives try to guess which words their spymaster meant. When a field operative touches a word, the spymaster reveals its secret identity. If the field operatives guess correctly, they may continue guessing, until they run out of ideas for the given clue or until they hit a wrong person. Then it is the other team's turn to give a clue and guess. The first team to contact all their agents wins the game
Mysterium
In this asymmetric cooperative game, one player adopts the role of the ghost and the others play as psychics. All players share the same goal of shedding light on the strange circumstances surrounding the ghost's death and laying his spirit to rest at last. Unable to speak, the ghost attempts to communicate by sending visions to the gathered psychics, who will be ble to reconstruct the events of the fateful evening by correctly interpreting these ethereal messages. Cooperation and inspired guesswork will facilitate their task of unmasking the culprit.
Bang!
Bang! When a man with a pistol meets a man with a Winchester, you might say that the one with the pistol is a dead man ... unless his pistol is a Volcanic! In the wild West, the Outlaws hunt the Sheriff, the Sheriff hunts the Outlaws, and the Renegade plots in secret, ready to join one side or the other. Before long, bullets start to fly! Which gunmen are Deputies, ready to sacrifice themselves for the Sheriff? And which are the merciless Outlaws, looking to gun him down?
Coup
In a future where the government is run for profit, all but a priviledged few live lives of poverty and desperation. The Resistance rises out of these oppressed masses in revolt and throws the government into chaos. Many see hope for a brighter future for the first time in their lives. Others see opportunity for absolute power. To take command, you must destroy the influence of your rivals and drive them into exile. Only one can survive
What Do You Meme?
Compete to create the funniest meme by pairing Caption Cards with the Photo Card in play. Everyone gets to be the judge! The judge of each round picks the best combination of Caption Cards and Photo Cards.
Taco vs Burrito
In this surprisingly strategic game, players compete to build the weirdest, wildest, most valuable meal to win the game. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast. Give your opponent Tummy Aches to reduce the value of their meal. Use Trash Panda, Crafty Crow, and Food Fight to gain the cards you need to win. Block opponents with a No Bueno by beware of the Health Inspector and Order Envy... they are real game-changers. Once one player is out of cards, the game is instantly over!
One Night Ultimate Werewolf
One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast-paced game where everyone gets to be a different role. In the course of only one night and the following morning, the players will determine who among them is a werewolf... hopefully. One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a microgame of the party game Ultimate Werewolf that doesn't need a moderator. There's no elimination, and each game lasts about 10 minutes
Exploding Kittens
The game is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an exploding kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game -- unless that player has a defuse card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the exploding kittens
Apples to Apples
Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. Everyone gets a chance to be the judge. Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events
Really Loud Librarians
Think fast, not hard in this merciless word-shouting board game. Start by drawing a category card. Your team will then shout words from that category that begin with the letter on the race track. Move along the track every time you get a word right and race against your opponents to win. This is a simple game for versatile occasions. Play it as a two-player game for a casual night-in or bring it along as a party game for big groups.
Kittens in a Blender
Sure, kittens are curious by nature, but when these adorable kittens play in a kitchen full of dangerous appliances, it is up to you to save them. This fast-paced card game has players working to save all of their own kittens before the unthinkable happens. This Deluxe Edition includes the 5-6 player expansion More Kittens in a Blender adding flavors, double kitten cards and some new suPURRpowers!
Unstable Unicorns
Build a unicorn army. Betray your friends. Unicorns are your friends now. Players start with a baby unicorn in their stables, and begin to build their own unicorn armies. The first person to complete their unicorn army wins the game
Scattergories
Do you have what it takes to be creative and think outside the box? The Scattergories game keeps you on your toes. Try to outwit other teams by coming up with unique answers in this fast-paced party game. Choose a category card, then roll the large 20-sided die and see which letter shows up. Race against the timer to think of answers for each category that begin with the letter on the die. Here's where it pays to be unique! You can only score points if your answers are different from the other teams'. The Scattergories game has over 3,500 possible category combinations, assuring you hours of fun.
Sheriff of Nottingham
In this game, players take turns playing the Sheriff looking for contraband goods, and the Merchants trying to stock their Stall with the best goods. The Sheriff can inspect any bag they want, but they must be careful, as they’ll have to pay a penalty if they find the Merchants were telling the truth.
Codenames: Duet
Based-on the original party game hit, Codenames Duet is a standalone co-op clue giving adventure that sends you and your partner on a top secret mission to a crowded city. Your objective? Contact 15 agents while avoiding a band of enemy assassins.
UNO: All Wild!
In UNO All Wild™ card game, every single card is wild for a fast-paced, even more unpredictable version of this family favorite! There's no matching of number or color like regular UNO®, but it's not as easy as it sounds. Special Action Cards really change the game! There's a Wild Skip Two card where players skip two other players instead of the traditional one, a Wild Forced Swap card where players change entire hands and more!
Dixit
Dixit is an exciting game of storytelling through imagination and clues. The 84 artistically designed cards tell a different story for every individual and put creativity to the test!
Dixit: Origins (Expansion)
Add even more fun to your Dixit game with the addition of Dixit Origins! Dixit... a surprising, enchanting and evocative game to be enjoyed with friends and family alike. This multi-award-winning party game returns with an 84-card expansion pack. Travel to lands of imagination with the magnificent illustrations of Clément Lefèvre and be transported on a new voyage of discovery! Get caught up in the Dixit spell and experience an amazing new journey through your imagination and beyond.
Hollywood 1947
The year is 1947 and you are a member of the thriving movie-making industry of Hollywood. However, it is suspected that there are communists hiding among your small production studio slipping "un-Patriotic" messages, themes, props, and lines into your movies! Will you be able to find all the communists before your studio is shut down? Or will you be suspected yourself and banned from the industry?
Throw Throw Burrito
What do you get when you combine a card matching game, dodgeball, and some toy burritos? A game night you’ll be telling your grandkids about! Meet Throw Throw Burrito - the world’s first dodgeball card game from the guys that changed your life with Exploding Kittens. It’s a party game unlike any you’ve played before. Collect cards, earn points, throw burritos, rub your success in everyone’s face - the kid and adult games for game night you’ve been looking for.
Exploding Kittens: Party Pack
The game is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game. Unless that player has a Defuse Card, which can defuse the kitten using things like laser pointers, belly rubs, and catnip sandwiches. All of the other cards in the deck are used to move, mitigate, or avoid the Exploding Kittens. The Party Pack Edition can support up to 10 players.
Smug Owls
Who better to solve the riddles of the universe than the fabled wise owl? Race the other owls to craft answers to never-before-seen riddles created by a magic deck. You answer can be funny, punny, clever, profound, nonsensical, you name it.
Challengers!
Will your dream team succeed? Helped by your Bard, your Kraken just captured the flag! You're now waiting for your opponent's attack ready to fight back with your Necromancer and your Rubber Duck! From outer space aliens to deep-sea creatures, improbable allies working toward a common goal: WIN THE WORLD'S GREATEST CAPTURE THE FLAG TOURNAMENT!
Ca$h 'N Guns
Each player takes on the role of a gangster during the split of a gigantic take. At the end of 8 turns of play, the richest player still alive wins the game.
Just One
Just One is a cooperative party game in which you play together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be cancelled! A complete game is played over 13 cards. The goal is to get a score as close to 13 as possible. In case of a right answer, the players score 1 point. In case of wrong answer, they lose the current card as well as the top card of the deck. Thus losing 2 points. In case of lack of answer, the players only lose the current card, and therefore only 1 point. You have the choice - make the difference!
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is filled to the brim with hand-slapping mayhem! As in Snap and Dobble, each player places a card from their hand face up into a community pile while saying taco/cat/goat/cheese/pizza in player sequence. When the card matches the mantra — boom! — everyone slaps their hand on the deck, with the last one to slap picking up the cards. Whoever rids themselves of cards first wins! For extra fun, special action cards – the gorilla, narwhal, and groundhog — force players to make certain gestures before racing to slap the deck!
Camel Up
Welcome to the craziest camel race you'll ever see! In this edition the race just got even crazier! The race now includes new contestants - camels that are so confused that they start the race running in the wrong direction! That's not all that's new! The track has been significantly enhanced since your last visit - it now includes new art and components. So place your bets on fun!
Hand-To-Hand Wombat
A game of teamwork, towers and troublemakers. Can you and your team build three towers before the other team destroys them? Can you do all that with your eyes closed?
Lovestruck
Congratulations, you and your friends have just been selected as contestants on a new reality dating show! But while everyone claims they're on the show for the right reasons, some contestants are secretly trying to stir up drama to boost their screen time. As you go on dates with the other contestants, your goal is to figure out who is who and find the love of your life. Match incorrectly and you may go home alone, or worse, with someone who isn't who you think they are. Lovestruck is inspired by the intrigue, drama, and did that really just happen? outrageousness of reality TV. Get ready to recreate the thrill of competing on a dating show...with only a small chance of heartbreak.
Bears vs. Babies
A family-friendly, highly-strategic party game. Build amazing Bears (and other Monsters) strong enough to eat the horrible Babies when they attack.
Decrypto
Communicate safely! Join the greatest Encryptor team in the world! Your mission: transmit secret codes to your teammates without letting the opposing team intercept them.
Auxgod : Music Battle Card Game
You're one click away from having your friends and family act a fool. With our Pop Music Edition, play whatever you like. Create 3 teams. Each round, one team will act as the judges and draw a card. Dance. Sing. Battle. The two remaining teams battle against each other by playing a song from their phones - an epic showdown. Judges pick a winner. The team with the best song gets a point based on our judging criteria. The following round the role of judges rotates. The first team awarded 7 points is declared AUXGOD.
Flip 7
Flip over cards one by one without flipping the same number twice. Sound easy? Think again! This isn't just any deck of cards... In Flip 7 there's only one 1 card, two 2's, three 3's, etc plus a bunch of special cards that can score you extra points, give you a second chance, or freeze you or your opponents in your tracks. Are you the type of player to play it safe and bank points before you bust, or are you going to risk it all and go for the bonus points by flipping over seven in a row? Press your luck meets strategy in this addictive card game that's sure to be the greatest card game you've ever played!
These games are a great place to start playing. They are also a great way to begin the evening before diving into something more dense.
Munchkin
Munchkin brings you the essence of the dungeon-crawling experience, without all the messy roleplaying. Kill the monsters, steal the treasure, stab your buddy
Boss Monster
Inspired by classic video games, Boss Monster challenges you to become a villain, build a dungeon, lure in adventurers ... and destroy them! Boss Monster is a standalone card game that challenges 2-4 players to become videogame-style villains and build deadly side-scrolling dungeons. Players compete to see who can lure and destroy the most adventurers. But beware! You must make your dungeon as deadly as it is attractive, or the puny heroes might kill you first! Are you a bad enough dude to become the ultimate boss monster?
Catan
Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. No two games are the same! Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan! Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Use resource combinations -- grain, wool, ore, brick, and lumber -- to buy handy development cards and build roads, settlements, and cities. Acquire your resources through trades, cards, or lucky dice (even outside your turn). But beware! Someone might cut off your road or buy a monopoly. And you never know when the wily robber might steal some of your precious gains!
Betrayal at House on the Hill
It's the house of your nightmares. The House on the Hill still sits abandoned, its windows staring blankly out at the world. No one can remember who lived there, or what happened to them. Now, a fearless group of explorers has been drawn to the house, for different reasons. Some received mysterious invitations, while others are investigating unexplained disappearances. A few have simply come to check out a cheap fixer-upper. Playing as those explorers, you will be challenged to face the horrors of the house. Circumstances will place you in any of 50 chilling haunts, created for this third edition, which will terrify even the strongest among you. But beware, for one explorer will betray the others, leading to a life-and-death struggle for survival. The house will see and hear it all. They say that the House on the Hill always wins. It's up to you to prove them wrong.
Ticket to Ride
Ticket to ride is a cross-country train adventure. Players collect cards of various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their destination tickets by connnecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway.
Lords of Waterdeep
Welcome to Waterdeep, the City of Splendors! You are a Lord of Waterdeep, one of the secret rules of this great city. Through your Agents, you recruit Adventurers to complete Quests and advance your agendas. The Lords of Waterdeep all have the safety of the city at heart, but each one is also laying his or her own plans! Through backdoor dealings, mercenaries, and plain old bribery, can you guide the city to become the greatest Lord of Waterdeep?
Splendor Marvel Edition
Bring together a team of super heroes and try to prevent Thanos from ending the world. The Infinity Stones are scattered throughout the Multiverse. use their essence to recruit heroes and villains and gain Infinity Points. Assemble the Avengers, acquire locations and when you are ready, claim the Infinity Gauntlet!
King of Tokyo
Players of this game choose to play as mutant monsters, rampaging robots, or abominable aliens who battle each other. Players roll the dice and choose how to play the game--attack your enemies, heal your wounds, improve your monster, gain 20 victory points or eliminate you enemies to become the King of Tokyo!
Choose your own Adventure: House of Danger
Object of the game: You are an aspiring detective and psychic investigator. For weeks, you have experienced recurring nightmares that you sense might be important. Your mission is to get to the bottom of these visions. You will decide how to move through the story as a grouop. The story is divided into five chapters, each of which is to be played in a single session."--Instruction booklet, page 3
Can you survive the house of danger? Gather your friends for a perilous and laughter-filled adventure through the House of Danger. Make risky choices, collect bizarre clues, and face mortal challenges. Play again and again to uncover more secrets and more exciting endings!
Pandemic
In Pandemic, you and your fellow players are members of a disease control team. You must work together to develop cures and prevent disease outbreaks, before 4 deadly diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black and Red) contaminate humanity.
Fluxx
Place the Basic Rules card on the table, deal three cards to each player, and follow the Basic Rules, adapting to new rules as they appear on the cards played. Continue until a player meets the most recently played Goal
Dungeon Mayhem
Split the party and unleash the mayhem! Play as one of four brave, quirky characters--barbarian, paladin, rogue, or wizard--battling it out in a dungeon full of treasure! With magic missiles flinging, dual daggers slinging, and spiked shields dinging, it's up to you to be the last adventurer standing!
Unmatched Coble and Fog
In battle, there are no equals. Anyone, anywhere. Unmatched is a fast-paced game of tactical combat between unlikely opponents. Pick your favorite hero, choose a map, and use your hero's unique deck and abilities to win the day. You can mix up heroes and maps from any Unmatched set. Face new challenges and find fresh combos. Dozens of possibilities await, and more with every new set.
Sushi Go
Pass the sushi! In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for making the most maki rolls or for collecting a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value. Be sure to leave room for dessert or else you'll eat into your score! Gather the most points and consider yourself the sushi master!
Gloom
In the Gloom card game, you assume control of the fate of an eccentric family of misfits and misanthropes. The goal of the game is sad, but simple: you want your characters to suffer the greatest tragedies possible before passing on to the well-deserved respite of death. You'll play horrible mishaps like Pursued by Poodles or Mocked by Midgets on your own characters to lower their Self-Worth scores, while trying to cheer your opponents' characters with marriages and other happy occasions that pile on positive points. The player with the lowest total Family Value wins
Deadly Dowagers
Deadly Dowagers is a game of marriage, murder, and money; compete with the other lovely ladies in your town by strategically growing your dowry. Be careful not to gain too much infamy, however, or the duke may pass you over for another bride!
Star Realms
Rule the stars. Forge your own star realm. Build up your military through shipping and trade, then use your mighty fleet of warships to protect what's yours and take what isn't! Star Realms combines the fun of deck building games with the interactivity of trading card game-style combat
Herbaceous
Everyone has a green thumb when playing Herbaceous. Relax while enjoying this beautiful and elegent game of picking and potting herbs. Pot the best collection of herbs in your different containers, but don't wait too long or your friends might grab them first.
Boop
Boop is a deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players. Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes boop, which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats And then, get three cats in a row to win. But that isn’t easy with both you and your opponent constantly booping kittens around. It’s like herding cats! Can you boop your cats into position to win? Or will you just get booped right off the bed?
7 Wonders Duel
Develop your science and your army, construct prestigious buildings and lead your civilization to victory! 7 Wonders Duel is a stand-alone game in the world of 7 Wonders, made especially for 2 players
Dungeons & Dragons: The Yawning Portal Game
Settle in for a rollicking time at the Yawning Portal tavern with the Dungeons and Dragons: The Yawning Portal game—a fresh take on the D&D experience for both D&D experts and newcomers!
This iconic inn attracts fascinating adventurers with one thing in common: they’re famished and have unique tastes in food. As part of the tavern's staff, feed them by matching up food tokens with the orders pictured on their Hero card. Earn colored gems (and points) for every matching food token, or a prize for completing an order. Collect more points if you’re the first to achieve an Objective challenge or earn an endgame bonus. The player with the most points at the end wins! But there’s a twist—the colored gems that appear most frequently on the board receive the highest point value. So, strategize to tip the scoring scale in your favor. This D&D game makes a great gift for D&D fans and beginners alike, and it's an exciting game for Family Game Night.
Dungeons & Dragons: Bedlam in Neverwinter
Participate in a roleplaying adventure, enjoy rich storytelling, and combat with the iconic D&D monsters of the classic Dungeons & Dragons game, but with surprising features unique to this game, such as a fresh 3-act storyline, challenging puzzles, and a dynamic gameboard!
Azul
Players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round, players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Carcassonne
Players place land tiles to develop roads, cities, fields, and cloisters, and deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights and monks to score points as they develop the land around the medieval city of Carcassonne.
Horrified: American Monsters
Imagine living in a place so wretched that it's not plagued by one, two, or even three monsters, but six of the most horrifying fiends you've ever heard of. In this game, you'll come face to face with them all as you work together to rid the town of these maniacal or misunderstood creatures... Before it's too late.
The Fox in the Forest
A trick-taking game for 2 players, each playing cards to win tricks against the other over multiple rounds. Players score points during a round depending on how many tricks they end of taking at the end of the round. Most points at the end wins.
Castle Panic
Defend together or be destroyed! Monsters are attacking your castle. Can you work together in this cooperative game to stop the horde, or will the monsters destroy Castle Bravehold?
Cat in the Box
Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is the quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for 2 - 5 cool cats, where your card's color isn't defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox! (Notice this does not say pair o' dogs. Gross.)
7 Wonders
Game takes place over 3 Ages, each using one of 3 card decks. Each player uses 6 cards per Age to build their city and Wonder. At end of third Age, the player with the most victory points wins.
Flamecraft
In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.
Love Letter
Calling suitors one and all! Compete to deliver your missives to the kingdom's Princes in this quick card game of risk and deduction. Can you outwit your friends and earn the trust of the noble Princess
The crew: Mission deep sea
In this highly anticipated follow-up to the original cooperative card game - winner of the 2020 Kennerspiel des Jahres - players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card, trick by trick, your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu. This new stand alone version of The Crew has the same innovative cooperative trick-taking mechanic as the highly lauded original game - but with some exciting new surprises!
My Little Scythe
Presents a competitive, family-friendly game in which each player controls 2 animal miniatures embarking upon an adventure in the Kingdom of Pomme. In an effort to be the first to earn 4 trophies from 8 possible categories, players take turns choosing to Move, Seek, or Make. These actions will allow players to increase their friendship and pies, power up their actions, complete quests, learn magic spells, deliver gems and apples to Castle Everfree, and perhaps even engage in a pie fight
Cascadia
Take a journey to the Pacific Northwest as you compete to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia! Turns are simple: select a tile/token set and place each into your expanding ecosystem. Earn points by fulfilling wildlife goals, and creating the largest habitat corridors. With variable scoring goals, each game of Cascadia brings a new spatial puzzle to your table
Ex Libris
In Ex Libris, you are a collector of rare and valuable books in a thriving fantasy town. The Mayor has just announced a new seat in the Village Council, Grand Librarian. The prestigious and lucrative position will be awarded to the citizen with the most extraordinary library! Unfortunately, several of your book collector colleagues (more like acquaintances, really) are also candidates. To outshine your competition, you'll need to expand your personal library by sending your trusty assistants out into the village to find the most impressive tomes. Sources for the finest books are scarce, so you'll need to beat your opponents to them when they pop up - especially if they match your library's secret focus! You only have a few days before the Mayor's Official Inspector comes to judge your library, so be sure your assistants have all your books shelved in time! She is a tough cookie, and will use her Official Inspection Form to grade your library on several criteria including alphabetical order, shelf stability, prominent works, and variety. And don't think she'll turn a blind eye to books the Council has banned! You'll need shrewd planning, cunning tactics, and perhaps a little magic to surpass your opponents and become Grand Librarian!
Onitama
In Onitama, players will vie to capture their opponent's Master, or, traverse their Master across the board to their opponent's Master's starting position to win the game. To do this, you will be armed with a handful of special and ancient maneuvers, presented on beautiful Tarot size cards, that manipulate the field of battle to your advantage. Will you use the Dragon to overpower your opponent, the Horse to outmaneuver them, or the Cobra to strike quickly?
Thunder Road: Vendetta
Ready. Aim. Drive! Thunder road: vendetta is a game of fast turns and dicey decisions. Command your crew of cars as they race over perilous roads, dodge hazards, slam into cars, and fire those guns. When all else fails, call in the chopper! How to win this race: Be the first player to move one of your cars onto the Finish Line - or - be the last player standing.
Hive: A game crawling with possibilities
The object of the game is to totally surround your opponent's Queen bee while at the same time trying to stop your opponent from doing the same to you. The pieces surrounding the Queen Bee can be made up of a mixture of both your pieces and your opponent's. The first player to surround their opponent's Queen Bee wins.
Sentinels of the Multiverse: The classic comic book card game
Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition is the award-winning cooperative comic-book card game in which you and your friends team up as mighty heroes to thwart the nefarious plans of the villains who threaten the entire multiverse! Now bigger and better than ever!
Disney Villainous
In this epic contest of sinister power, take on the role of a Disney Villain and strive to achieve your own devious objective. Discover your character's unique abilities and winning strategy while dealing twists of fate to thwart your opponents' schemes. Find out who will triumph over the forces of good and win it all!
Unmatched: Slings and Arrows
In battle, there are no equals. Anyone, anywhere. Unmatched is a fast-paced game of tactical combat between unlikely opponents. Pick your favorite hero, choose a map, and use your hero's unique deck and abilities to win the day. You can mix up heroes and maps from any Unmatched set. Face new challenges and find fresh combos. Dozens of possibilities await, and more with every new set.
Apiary
In Apiary, a worker-placement, hive-building challenge awaits you: explore planets, gather resources, develop technologies, and create carvings to demonstrate your faction's strengths (measured in victory points) over one year's Flow.
However, the Dearth quickly approaches, and your workers can take only a few actions before they must hibernate! Can you thrive or merely survive?
Calico
Players are quilters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful quilts. Turns are simple--sew patches into your quilt by drafting and placing tiles onto your personal board. Earn victory points by sewing on buttons, fulfilling your design goals, and attracting cuddly cats to curl up on your quilt!
Machi Koro
Welcome to the city of Machi Koro. You've just been elected Mayor. Congrats! Unfortunately the citizens have some pretty big demands: jobs, a theme park, a couple of cheese factories and maybe even a radio tower. A tough proposition since the city currently consists of a wheat field, a bakery and a single die.
Armed only with your trusty die and a dream, you must grow Machi Koro into the largest city in the region. You will need to collect income from developments, build public works, and steal from your neighbors' coffers. Just make sure they aren't doing the same to you!
The Mind
Eyes locked, cards in hand, are you and your friends ready to become one mind? The Mind is the ingenious, addictive and ridiculously fun game that everyone is buzzing about. How do you know what is in someone's hands without speaking? How do you make the right decision when the game is on the line? The answers lie in this little box. But beware, once you enter The Mind, you will not be able to think about anything else. And while the rules are simple, surviving every level is anything but.
Courtisans
Tonight the queen holds a banquet. Backstabbing is fair game and no trick is too dirty if it allows you to place your favorite families in the spotlight.
Waddle: Downtown
Penguins are curious creatures. Flighty though flightless, they move about quickly towards things that appeal to them. In Waddle, ever-curious penguins will visit different places, sometimes in different neighborhoods. Each turn, you'll move the penguins around the city, or bring some new ones in from out of town. Get the penguins to move into the patterns matching your cards to score points. The player with the most points at the end of a set number of rounds wins!
High Society
It's the turn of the century, and it's time to live large. As the quintessential bon vivant you must spare no expense following the latest trend and surrounding yourself with the fineries of life that you justly deserve. Assert your status, impress your peers, and avoid at every turn. In Reiner Knizia's classic auction game, players must bid against each other for life's luxuries, while avoiding going bankrupt in the process.
Watergate
In Watergate, one player assumes the role of a newspaper editor, while the other embodies the Nixon Administration-- each with a unique set of cards. To win, the Nixon Administration must build up enough momentum to make it to the end of the term, whereas the editor must gather enough evidence to connect two informants directly to the President. Of course, the administration will do all in its power to smother that evidence. Can the secret source known as "Deep Throat" tip the scales? A thrilling race against time begins...
The Thing
The Thing - the board game is an intense game experience for 1-8 players based on the 1982 cult movie directed by John Carpenter. Immerse yourself in a highly cinematic atmosphere full of pathos. Manage the base wisely using your actions while you look for a way to escape... but first, you have to find out who, among the players at the table, is The Thing, hiding under the veil of fake humanity. You must cooperate to survive - but who is really on your side? And if you reveal The Thing -- are your ready to fight it?
Modern Art
In Modern Art, you are a museum trying to buy and sell paintings for the highest rates! Over four rounds, you and your rival museums auction various paintings. At the end of each round, the paintings are sold to the bank and the more popular artists become more valuable! The museum with the most money at game's end wins, so make sure to buy low and sell high in Modern Art!
Escape from New York
Escape from New York transports you into the iconic atmosphere of the movie, released in 1981 by master director John Carpenter. The whole of Manhattan is the world's biggest open-air prison. You'll play as Snake Plissken, Brain, Maggie, and Cabbie, the iconic taxi-driver. In a race against time, you'll explore the dangerous streets of New York, searching for the President, the government tape, and a diagram of the bridges, and escape without stepping on a landmine. You can work together or you might, at any point during the game, decide to betray your companions to complete your own personal objective and escape from New York alone. Whatever your decision, you must face the prisoners bands of Manhattan, headed by the Duke of New York and two other fearsome foes, Romero and Slag.
Catan: New Energies
A standalone game for experienced Catan players. Contains everything you need to play the game- no extra products needed!
Jaipur
In Jaipur, you are hoping to become the Maharaja's personal trader by amassing more riches than your opponent at the end of each week (round). To do so, collect and exchange goods at the market, then sell them for rupees. If you arrange a larger sale, you'll receive a reward.
The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth
Play as Sauron or the Fellowship of the Ring: the destiny of Middle-earth is in your hands! Develop your strategy and try to lead your camp to victory. But pay attention-in this epic duel, 3 immediate victory conditions will require crucial choices every turn.
Sea Salt & Pepper
Create an ocean from folded paper! Assemble your hand of cards, play their effects, take the initiative to stop the round. Will you dare to give your opponents one last turn to try to maximize your own points?
Forest Shuffle
Life is bustling in the local forest: Animals scurry around the clearings looking for edible plants and insects. Some prefer the dense treetops, others the lush undergrowth and only feel comfortable in the shelter of trees. In Forest Shuffle, you create an ecologically balanced habitat for flora and fauna. By planting trees, you can provide homes for different animals, plants, and mushrooms to flourish. But to score the most points, you need to honor their preferences: some creatures require the presence of their fellow species; others prefer certain habitats or food sources. In the end, the player with the most points wins.
Horrible Therapist
Compete to create the funniest, most unhinged comic about therapy by submitting answer cards to complete a prompt. The player who puts down the funniest final card wins, turning therapy into a hilarious and darkly entertaining experience.
Exploding Kittens: The Board Game
Exploding Kittens is a kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game. The deck is made up of cards that let you avoid exploding by peeking at cards before you draw, forcing your opponent to draw multiple cards, or shuffling the deck.
The game gets more and more intense with each card you draw because fewer cards left in the deck means a greater chance of drawing the kitten and exploding in a fiery ball of feline hyperbole.
Stratego
Maneuver your soldiers behind enemy lines to capture the flag.
Games with a multitude of interlocking mechanics. These games are lengthy and challenging.
Wingspan
You are bird enthusiasts--researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors--seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth: gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower; lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors; draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them. The winner is the player with the most points accumulated from birds, bonus cards, end-of-round goals, eggs, cached food, and tucked birds
Scythe
Scythe is a board game set in an alternate-history 1920s. It is a time of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor. The ashes from the first Great War still darken the snow in 1920s Europa. The capitalistic city-state known simply as 'The Factory, ' which fueled the war with heavily armored mechs, has closed its doors, drawing the attention of several nearby countries. With characters from five factions converging onto a small but highly desired swath of land, who will gain fame and fortune by establishing their empire as the leader of Eastern Europa?
Eldritch Horror
The world stands on the brink of catastrophe. The year is 1926, and an elder being of unfathomable power threatens to awaken from its long slumber, bringing death and madness in its wake. Strange cults and unspeakable monsters wreak havoc on every continent as the fabric of reality tears itself apart, opening gates to bizarre other worlds. Only a few, brave investigators understand what is truly happening. These tenacious souls come from every walk of life to pit their skills and weapons against the threat of the Ancient One. It falls to them to explore the most remote corners of the globe, to fight the nightmarish creatures that lurk in the shadows, and to find the answers to the ancient mysteries of the Eldritch horror
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Your legend begins! The realm's oldest enemy has returned, and the stage is set for the next great confrontation between Terrinoth and the forces of darkness in Descent: Legends of the Dark, the definitive dungeon-crawling board game for one to four players! With a fully integrated companion app as your guide, you're invited to embark on the first part of a campaign that stretches across this enchanted land, exploring dark forests and ancient battlegrounds as you confront the undead lurking behind a veil of mists, demonic barbarians stalking the wilds, and more. Throughout these trials, you will develop your skills to meet greater challenges, craft new weapons and armor to aid you, and gain power that will stretch beyond this box into future adventures. Terrinoth is in peril. Forge your own legend in Descent: Legends of the Dark!
Small World
Small World is a fun, zany, light-hearted civilization game in which 2-5 players vie for conquest and control of a board that is simply too small to accommodate them all. Picking the right combination of fantasy races and unique special powers, players must rush to expand their empires - often at the expense of weaker neighbors. Yet they must also know when to push their own overextended civilization into decline to ride a new one to victory-
Axis & Alies
Game set in 1941 where players reenact World War II, with the Axis powers of Germany and Japan aligned against the Allied powers of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Players control one of the Axis or Allied powers, commanding the country's military forces and war-time economy. The winning side prevails on the battlefield, captures strategic cities, and controls critical resources
Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
Players must work together to successfully attack the evil Mastermind four times. If they do, then the Mastermind is beaten and all the players win the game. The player with the most Victory points is the most legendary hero of all and the individual winner
Arkham Horror: The Card Game
Something evil stirs in Arkham, and only you can stop it. Blurring the traditional lines between roleplaying and card game experiences, Arkham Horror: The Card Game is the Living Card Game of Lovecraftian mystery, monsters and madness!
Terraforming Mars
In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.
Root
Root is a game of adventure and war where 2 to 4 players battle for control of a vast wilderness.
The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland, intent on harvesting its riches. Under her rule, the many creatures of the forest have banded together. This Alliance will seek to strengthen its resources and subvert the rule of Cats. In this effort, the Alliance may enlist the help of the wandering Vagabonds who are able to move through the more dangerous woodland paths. Though some may sympathize with the Alliance’s hopes and dreams, these wanderers are old enough to remember the great birds of prey who once controlled the woods.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the region, the proud, squabbling Eyrie have found a new commander who they hope will lead their faction to resume their ancient birthright.
The stage is set for a contest that will decide the fate of the great woodland. It is up to the players to decide which group will ultimately take root.
Root: The Marauder Expansion
This is an expansion. A copy of Root the board game is required to play. The Marauder Expansion to Root the board game introduces two new factions to the Woodlands - Lord of the Hundreds and Keepers in Iron - alongside four hirelings, and a new setup draft suitable for both casual and competitive play.
Wyrmspan : a Wingspan game
You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan, a place where dragons of all shapes, sizes, and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves. During a game of Wyrmspan, you will build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes. Your sanctuary begins with 3 excavated spaces-- the leftmost space in your Crimson Cavern, your Golden Grotto, and your Amethyst Abyss. Over the course of the game, you will excavate additional spaces in your sanctuary and entice dragons to live there, chaining together powerful abilities and earning the favor of the Dragon Guild.
Expeditions : a sequel to Scythe
The eyes of the world are on Siberia, where a massive meteorite crashed near the Tunguska River, awakening ancient corruption. An expedition led by Dr. Tarkovsky ventures into the taiga to learn about the meteorite and its impact on the land. Itching for adventure, heroes from the war privately fund their own expeditions to Siberia, hoping to find artifacts, overcome challenges, and ultimately achieve glory.
Viticulture
Viticulture is a worker-placement strategy game. The Essential Edition includes the second edition of Viticulture along with several elements from the original Tuscany Expansion Pack, hand-picked by famed designer Uwe Rosenberg
"Old-world Tuscany awaits your winemaking skill and strategic cunning. You'll plant vines, harvest grapes, age wines, and fill merchant orders to create the greatest winery in Italy."
Carnegie
Carnegie is an elegant and interactive management game. Players compete to grow their companies through shrewd investments in real estate, industry, and transportation. Through careful observation of their opponents' choices, players will find ways to take sole advantage of lucrative opportunities.
Dune
In Dune you will become the leader of one of six great factions. Each wishes to control the most valuable resource in the universe - melange, the mysterious spice only found at great cost on the planet Dune. Who will control Dune? Become one of the characters and their forces from the book and ... you decide!
Dungeons and Feelings
Dungeons & Feelings is the strategy / social board game hybrid where the only way to conquer your dungeon is to open up, dig deep, and share your feelings. Dungeons & Feelings is inspired by classic adventure video games and distills their mechanics into easily accessible board game form. In Dungeons & Feelings, you will proceed through a dungeon of your own design. Along the way, you will fight monsters, avoid traps, and discover treasure as you gain experience, level up, and acquire loot. When you are ready, you will fight the Dragon and emerge victorious!
T.I.M.E. Stories
The fabric of the universe and its parallel worlds are threatened by intrustions. The T.I.M.E. Agency sends agents to eliminate these dangers. Players act as agents, and choose an avatar to act in the past to not cause temporal damage. Players attempt to complete their mission as quickly as possible, with a minimum number of attempts.
Fun and simple games that many people are familiar with.
Clue
For generations, Mr. Boddy has met his end at the hand of one of six legendary suspects in the classic detective game CLUE. Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Miss Scarlett and Colonel Mustard are all here in Boddy Mansion. One of them has done away with Mr. Boddy but in which of the nine rooms (perhaps the Library, or Lounge, or Conservatory)? And which of the six weapons was used to commit this dastardly deed (the Wrench, the Rope, or maybe the trusty ol' Lead Pipe)? Collect the right clues, make the right deductions to determine Who? Where? Which weapon? and you'll solve the mystery and win the game!
Scrabble
Players take turns placing letter tiles on the board to form words crossword-style. Letters are worth points, and premium squares multiply letter and word scores. The player with the highest final score wins!
Cranium
Object of the game: To circle the board victoriously - sketching, sculpting, acting, humming, and puzzle-solving as you go
Cranium Game is the fun board game packed with something for everyone fun. There are four different activity categories: Creative Cat - Sketch, sculpt and draw stick-figure masterpieces with your eyes closed, Data Head - Sleuth, solve and just know what you know, Star Performer - Act, hum and unleash your inner impersonator, and Word Worm - Spell words like quarterly backwards, solve puzzles and define funny words
Uno
Object of the game: To be the first player to score 500 points. Points are scored by getting rid of all the cards in your hand before your opponent(s). You also score points for cards left in your opponents' hands
Risk
A board game of military strategy where players lead their armies as they sweep across continents to launch attacks against other players.
Battleship
The classic Naval combat game. Players try to sink all enemy ships by calling out suspected hiding areas and keeping track of hits and misses
Monopoly: Dungeons and Dragons Edition
Your party has stumbled upon the call to explore fantastical creatures of this realm and beyond with MONOPOLY® : Dungeons & Dragons! Buy, sell, and trade iconic and deadly monsters like the Beholder, Storm Giant, and infamous Demogorgon to nerf the competition in this role-playing adventurer's twist on the classic game. Build up Expeditions and Bases to capitalize on research, while fateful Encounters and Treasures determine your next moves. What do you do?
Blokus
Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking, encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board.
Bananagrams
A Scrabble-like game in which one to eight players form individual crossword puzzles with words that can change as players continue to draw tiles throughout the game. When there are no more tiles to draw, first player to use all his/her letters wins. Four alternate games described
Connect 4
Players try to build a row of four checkers--horizontally, vertically, or diagonally--while keeping their opponents from doing the same
Sorry!
The object of the game is to be the first player to get all four of your pawns from your color Start to your color Home. Slide, collide and score to win the game of Sorry! Draw cards to see how far you get to move one of your pawns on the board. If you land on a Slide you can zip to the end and bump your opponent' pawns or your own! Jump over pawns and hide in your Safety zone while getting powers with the 2 power-up tokens. Keep on moving and bumping until you get all three of your pawns from your color Start to your color Home. But watch out, because if you get bumped, Sorry! It's all the way back to Start!
Cathedral
Cathedral Classic from Family Games is a beautiful version of the popular Cathedral game. To win this classic strategy game, you must battle to gain the most space as you build castles on the game board. If you can block and out-maneuver your opponent at every turn, you'll claim the victory. With its beautifully finished hardwood game pieces, the game looks different every time you play. Cathedral is an elegant game that includes an all-wood game board and castle pieces in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Trouble
Can you stay out of trouble long enough to win the game? Trouble is a classically fun game in which players race to be the first person move all their pegs around the game board and into the finish slots to win. But watch out! If another player lands on the same spot as you, your peg has to start over. Featuring a fun Pop-O-Matic bubble to roll the dice, Trouble is a race to the finish!
Jumbling Towers
The object is to remove one block each turn from the middle or bottom of the tower and place it on the top without knocking over the tower.
Monopoly: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition
Take a journey through Middle-earth. Make the journey with the Fellowship and claim the territories of Middle-earth in this special edition of the classic Monopoly game. Gather power as you move in and out of these territories, building strongholds and fortresses to secure your holdings. You may even acquire relics such as staffs of the Wizards. Become the most powerful player throughout Middle-earth to be the winner. Play the classic version or make use of the power of the One Ring with the special 'The lord of the rings' optional play. The Eye of Sauron advances the One Ring and moves the game along quickly.
Ouija® board : Mystifying Oracle
Whether you call it Wee-Gee or Wee-Ja, the Ouija board spells fun! Just ask it a question and wait to see what answer the Mystifying Oracle will reveal to you.
Mahjong
A traditional Chinese game using illustrated tiles, with game play similarities to rummy.
Yahtzee
1 or more players roll dice for scoring combinations and try to get the highest total score.
Boggle
The objective is to list, within 3 minutes, as many words of highest point value as you can find among the random assortment of letters in the cube tray.
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