BOARD GAME CAFE G e M u Name Description Players Age 5 Second Rule Pick a card, read the seemingly easy topic, then start the timer! Now with only 3-6 8+ 5 seconds to name 3 things that fit the topic, it doesn't seem so easy! Players get tongue-tied, funny answers come flying out and laughter is sure to follow in this fast-paced party game. The twisted timer makes a fun zoooooop! Bananagrams The anagram game that will drive you bananas! 1-8 7+
Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board.
All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes.
It's a great game for family fun as well as being educational. Battleship Hunt, sink, and win with this brilliant Battleship game! Can you sink your 2 7+ opponent’s ships before all of yours go down? Command your battle and deploy your 4 ships on the ocean grid. The vertical target grid keeps you from seeing each other’s deployment! Keep “firing” and record your strikes with the red pegs. Use the white pegs to keep track of your misses so you don’t waste any shots. If you use logic and take some chances, you’ll sink your opponent’s battleship – but do it fast, because they’ll be trying to do the same to you! Rule the oceans with your Battleship game! Boganology Boganology is a fun, bogan twist on a game you know and love! 2-4 12+
Reckon youse got what it takes to sweet talk your way to some extra WINZ benefits? Can you outrun the cops in jandals? Will you pay your child support or take off for a boozy weekend in Piha?
Well, find out in the game that’ll let you and your friends be the bogans you always wanted to be.
– Chocka block full of Kiwi cult-cha – It’s about beer, hungis, and stubbies – Play in your trackie daks! – Straight up choice game, bro – Pack a sad if you don’t get a copy Boggle Earn points by spotting words your friends don’t before time runs out. Shake 2+ 8+ the grid to mix up the letter cubes. Then lift the lid and flip the timer. Players have 90 seconds to write down as many words as they can find on the grid before time is up. At the end of the round, score the words. If two or more players find the same word, that word doesn’t count. The player with the highest score wins. Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. 4+ 17+ Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
This is a card game guaranteed to keep you entertained and bring out the twisted side of your friends. Catan Picture yourself in the era of discoveries: after a long voyage of great 3-4 10+ deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. Its name shall be Catan! But you are not the only discoverer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of Catan: the race to settle the island has begun! Chess Believed to have been invented over a thousand years ago, the game of Chess 2 has secured its place as the true king of all board games. Cluedo Whodunnit? Everyone in the room looked shady. The classic mystery game is 2-6 8+ back.
Reclusive millionaire Samuel Black’s been murdered in his mansion! Now it’s up to you to crack the case!
Question everything to unravel the mystery. Who did it? Where? And with what weapon?
Ransack the mansion for clues, ask cunning detective questions and leave no card unturned. Solve the murder first to win! Connect 4 Challenge a friend to disc-dropping fun with the classic game of Connect 4! 2 6+ Drop your red or yellow discs in the grid and be the first to get 4 in a row to win. If your opponent is getting too close to 4 in a row, block them with your own disc! Whoever wins can pull out the slider bar to release all the discs and start the fun all over again! Cranium The Cranium Game is outrageous fun and gives players a chance to show off 4+ 16+ their talents! Players team up to cruise around the board completing activities in 4 color-coded categories: Creative Cat, Data Head, Star Performer, and Word Worm. One team picks a card from the category that matches their space on the board, and must successfully complete the activity before time runs out. Spelling a word backwards, drawing with their eyes closed, and solving a puzzle are just of few of the activities they might do. The first team to reach the Cranium Central space and complete one last challenge wins! Dominoes This two to four player game is a great choice for game night and it's great for 2-4 players of different ages to play together. Players place their dominoes so that the numbers match up as they race to get rid of all their pieces. Color-coding makes it easy for beginners to make matches. EXPLODING KITTENS Exploding Kittens is a card game for people who are into kittens and 2-5 7+ explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats. Game of Life In The Game of Life game players can make their own exciting choices as they 2-4 8+ move through the twists and turns of life. Move the car token around the gameboard from Start to Retirement, and experience unexpected surprises related to family, career, dream vacations, and other milestones of life. Includes Gameboard with spinner, 100 cards, 5 Spin to Win Tokens, 4 cars, 24 pegs, 1 money pack, and instructions. A player could pick the ski trip card and collect lots of money from the bank, or get the card saying that their flight was cancelled at the last minute, resulting in a payment right back to the bank. Spin the wheel and spend money wisely while experiencing the ups and downs of vacations ranging from an exciting safari to a rained-out day at the beach. Once everyone reaches the end of the game at retirement, everyone pays their debts and adds up their wealth. The player with the most money at the end of the game wins!
Hedbanz Hedbanz is the goofy quick-question game of "What Am I?" Players wear a 2-6 7+ "picture card" in their headband, and then quickly ask questions to figure out what they are. "Am I food?" "Am I a vegetable?" "Am I ketchup?" When they figure it out, they get rid of a chip; first player to get rid of all three of their chips wins! With Hedbanz, kids use their heads in more ways than one! By using deductive reasoning to figure out the answer, kids build on their imagination and memory skills. And since each player asks and answers questions, everyone is involved from beginning to end! It's hilarious, imaginative fun • 2 - 6 players Hungry Hippos You’ll have a chompin’ good time with Hungry Hippo and his pals! Be ready to 2-4 4+ join in the feeding frenzy when you release all the marbles onto the game base, because all the hippos will be chomping and your hippo will need to move fast! If he chomps the golden marble, you win! Jumanji Stalking lions, charging rhinos, snapping crocodiles, and other dangerous 2 5+ creatures—in the wild world of Jumanji, they’re only a die roll away! Grab your pawn, roll the eight-sided number die and move through the jungle. Draw a danger card, then use your decoder to discover the secret message and see if disaster strikes. Your fellow players must race against time to rescue you. The jungle threatens and begins to fill up the Doomsday Grid. If the grid fills up, the jungle will overpower you and your fellow players—everyone loses. If you are the first to reach the centre before the Doomsday Grid fills up, yell ""Jumanji!"" and win! A game for those who seek to find … a way to leave their world behind Kerplunk KerPlunk is a blast from the past! 2-4 5+
One of Mattel's most popular games for over 35 years!
Players must carefully remove sticks one by one, trying not to let any marbles drop Monopoly Classic It's the fast-dealing property trading game where players buy, sell, dream and 2-6 8+ scheme their way to riches. This version of the Monopoly game welcomes the Rubber Ducky, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Penguin into its family of tokens. Choose your token, place it on GO! and roll the dice to own it all! There can be only one winner in the Monopoly game. Will it be you? The thrill of bankrupting an opponent, but it pays to play nice, because fortunes could change with the roll of the dice. Experience the ups and downs by collecting property colors sets to build houses, and maybe even upgrading to a hotel! The more properties each player owns, the more rent can be charged. Chance cards could be worth money, or one might just say Go To Jail! Monopoly Deal The Monopoly Brand Deal Card Game is all the fun of the Monopoly game in a 2-5 8+ quick-playing card game. It comes with 110 cards including Property Cards, Rent Cards, House and Hotel Cards, and Wild Property Cards. Action Cards let players do things such as charge rent and make tricky deals. House and Hotel Cards raise rent values. Wild Property Cards help players build Property sets. And, players pay their debts with Money Cards. Be the first player to collect 3 complete Property Card sets in different colors to win. This card game is a great way to play the Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game in as little as 15 minutes! Monopoly Ultimate Banking Introducing a modern banking version of the Monopoly game: the Ultimate 2-4 8+ Banking Edition. In this edition, Monopoly money is no more! The Monopoly Ultimate Banking game features an all-in-one Ultimate Banking unit with touch technology that makes the game fast and fun. Now players can instantly buy properties, set rent, and tap their way to fortune. Each player gets a bankcard and the Ultimate Banking unit keeps track of everyone's fortunes. It also scans the game's property cards and can boost or crash the market. Traditional Monopoly play gets amped up with this edition -- the game introduces Event cards and Location spaces instead of Chance cards and Community Chest cards. Land on an Event Space, and rents may be raised or lowered, a player may earn or lose money, or someone could get sent to Jail. Location Spaces allow players to pay and move to any property space on the gameboard. Challenge friends and family to win it all with the Monopoly Ultimate Banking game! Never Have I Ever Life's toughest questions bringing up those buried memories… 4-12 17+ Ask yourself, Never Have I Ever...
Facebook stalked an ex-partner? Passed out drunk in an unfamiliar place? Said someone else's name during sex? Lied to your parents? Been caught in the act of doing something terrible? Perhaps not (but probably). But if you ever did, all of these regrettable actions are going to pay off. Now you get to wear them as proud badges of shame in the latest party card game, Never Have I Ever.
The aim of the game? Confess, guess and bust the door open into your friends' humiliating lives. Dig up old memories, relive them during the game and have a laugh at all of those awkward and embarrassing memories. First (or worst) player to "earn" 10 cards and build their wall of shame wins! (Depending on your outlook on life). You'll be the most competitive you'll ever be in a game or life situation!
The only rule is – no judgement. Though admittedly this only really applies during the game. Operation Parents will feel a sense of nostalgia when kids play this classic Operation 1+ 6+ game. You'll also love that it's for 1 or more players. If your child plays solo, they can practice their doctor skills. After placing all the ailments on the gameboard, your child can see how many tries it takes to remove ailments without getting buzzed. When kids play together, they'll have so much fun trying to remove the most ailments to win. Payday Gather the family together to play this game of handling finances. Pay Day 2-4 8+ comes at the end of the month, and to make it there without going broke, players will have to manage their money wisely. Try to stack up the cash by finding bargains and selling them for a profit. Take out loans if necessary, and watch out for those bills. The game features a Pay Day die that adds unexpected twists and turns to gameplay. The player who can make - and hang on to - the most cash wins! Pictionary Count on big laughs when you and your friends get together to find out who's 2-4 Teams 12+ an artist and who really isn't! In this quick-draw classic, the guesses can be just as hilarious as the sketches, making it the perfect way to get the party started
Pictionary™ Board Game now includes two erasable markers, boards for drawing, and an updated Pop Culture category of clues
Year after year since 1985, Pictionary has proven itself to be the ultimate party game!
Scrabble Scrabble™ game challenges players to spell out words using letter tiles with 2-4 10+ various score values
The object of the game is to get the highest score, and scores are given for letter values and boosted by premium squares on the grid. Words can read either across or down, and your word must use a letter tile already in play on the board
Each player competes by using their tiles in combinations and locations that take the best advantage of letter values and premium squares on the board Scrawl Scrawl is a game that is all about terrible drawings and ridiculous guesses. 4-8 17+
Each player is given a clipboard and paper, and a very questionable Scenario Card (“Octopus Mating Season”, for example). They're asked to do their best at illustrating their scenario before passing it to the player on their left. This player, having no idea what the original Scenario was, clips another page over the drawing and attempts to describe the picture underneath. The clipboards are then passed along once more, with the next player attempting to illustrate the new description in front of them.
This continues until each of the clipboards have returned to their original owners. Once the contents of the clipboards are displayed for all to see, players vote for their favourites in a run (the most grins wins!)
Scrawl is the fun party game for 2-8 players, ages 17 and up.
Secret Hitler Secret Hitler is a multiplayer hidden identity board card game. It is set in 1930's 5-10 17+ Germany and there are two teams, liberals and fascists, where liberals have to prevent the fascists from drawing 6 fascist cards or electing Hitler as Chancellor after 3 fascist cards.
Players are secretly divided into two teams: liberals and fascists. Known only to each other, the fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader. The liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it’s too late.
Each round, players elect a President and a Chancellor who will work together to enact a law from a random deck. If the government passes a fascist law, players must try to figure out if they were betrayed or simply unlucky (There are more fascist cards than blues on the deck).
Sequence Play a card from your hand, place a chip on the corresponding space on the 2-12 7+ game board… when you have 4 in a row, it’s a SEQUENCE!!
Learn to block your opponents and remove their chips. Watch out for the Jacks, they are wild. With a little strategy and luck, you'll be the winner!
Sequence is a popular family board game for 2-12 players, ages 7 and up.
Trivial Pursuit 2000s Love the 2000s? Prove it with the Trivial Pursuit: 2000s Edition game! This fun 2-6 16+ game features 300 trivia cards with 1800 questions from 6 categories, including Places, Entertainment, Events, The Arts, Science and Tech, and Sports and Hobbies. With updated gameplay, this edition is not the Trivial Pursuit game from the past. Now, players can choose to answer a question or stump their opponents based on the topic at the top of each card. The first player to collect each colour wedge and answer a final question wins. The Trivial Pursuit: 2000s edition game sure makes for a great game night with family and friends!
Trouble Get ready to race to the finish line in this exciting game with the classic Pop-O- 2-4 5+ Matic bubble that holds and rolls the die. The suspense builds as you try to land on the Double Trouble or Warp spaces that give you additional powers. Can you chase your opponents around the board without getting into trouble and getting sent back to the starting line? The first player to get all four game pieces to the finish zone wins the game. Getting into trouble has never been so much fun! The excitement begins as soon as you press the classic Pop-O- Matic bubble to roll the die. Then race to get all your game pieces around the board to the finish zone, but be careful! You might get into trouble! Can you get all 4 of your pieces around the board without getting bumped and sent all the way back to the beginning? Keep your luck going, and send your opponents back to their starting space in this classic race-and-chase game.
UNO Easy to pick up ... impossible to put down. UNO card game is #1 for Family 2-10 7+ Fun!
UNO™, the classic card game of matching colors and numbers that is easy to pick up…impossible to put down, now comes with customizable Wild Cards for added excitement! Players take turns racing to get rid of all their cards by matching a card in their hand with the current card shown on top of the deck. Special Action cards deliver game-changing moments and help defeat opponents! Use the Swap Hands card to change hands with any other opponent and use the 3 customizable (and erasable) Wild Cards to write your own rules! You’ll find 19 cards of each color (red, green, blue, and yellow), plus 8 Draw Two, Reverse and Skip cards in every color, along with 4 Wild Cards, 4 Wild Draw Four cards, 1 Wild Swap Hands Card and 3 Wild Customizable cards. If you can’t make a match, you must draw from the central pile! Don’t forget to shout “UNO” when you only have one card remaining! The player to get rid of all the cards in their hand scores points for any cards their opponents are left holding. The first player to reach 500 points wins. Get Wild 4 UNO!™ Wooden Stacking Tower Game How high can you stack the tower by removing other pieces and adding to the 3+ top of the tower without knocking it over? Mancala A game of judgment, strategy, and patience—some historians believe Mancala 2 6+ to be the oldest game in the world. The objective is to empty all of your stones before your opponent. The game is over when a player empties all six cups on their side Ticket to Ride Europe From the craggy hillsides of Edinburgh to the sunlit docks of Constantinople, 2-5 8+ Ticket to Ride Europe takes you on a new train adventure through the great cities of turn-of-the-century Europe. Players collect cards of various types of train cars and use them to build stations, pass through tunnels and into ferries, and lay claim to railway routes throughout Europe. Will you risk a trip through the dark tunnels of Switzerland? Venture aboard a ferry on the Black Sea? Or erect lavish train stations in the great capitals of the old empires? Your next move might just make you Europe's greatest train magnate! Pandemic Can you save humanity? As skilled members of a disease fighting team, you 2-4 8+ must keep four deadly diseases at bay while discovering their cures. You and your teammates will travel across the globe, treating infections while finding resources for cures. You must work as a team to succeed. Pandemic is a cooperative game, all players win or lose together. The clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics fuel the spreading plagues. Can you find all four cures in time? The fate of humanity is in your hands! Scattergories Do you have what it takes to be creative and think outside the box? The 2-4 players 13+ Scattergories game keeps you on your toes. Try to outwit other teams by or teams 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.
Articulate Articulate is the fast talking description game! It is outrageously simple, fast 4-20 12+ and hugely entertaining. Played in teams, the idea is to describe as many words as possible to your team-mates in just 30 seconds, without saying "rhymes with" or "sounds like". Yahtzee See why this game has captivated players since its launch in 1956. If you're 2+ 8+ lucky you'll roll a Yahtzee, otherwise you'll have to be content with a 3 roll full house, large or small straight, or any other combination of the dice. For a challenge, go for a bonus Yahtzee - two or more in one game! Risk Lead your troops. Take a risk. Rule the world. Rally your armies to march 2-5 10+ across continents. Carefully craft your strategy - you'll face your opponents in battle and they'll fight with everything they've got. Keep advancing until you've defeated all of your foes and have taken over the world! Unstable Unicorns A strategic card game about your two favourite things: Unicorns and 2-8 14+ Destruction! Build a unicorn army. Betray your friends. Unicorns are your friends now. The first person to build an army of 7 Unicorns wins!