Apples to Apples Description: This infamous wild card and party game provides instant fun for 4 to 10 players! It's as easy as comparing apples to apples, too. Just open the box, deal the cards and you're ready to play!" Select the card from your hand that you think best describes a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. Don't fret, as 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. Fast moving and stimulating, Apples to Apples is perfect for any get-together with family and friends! The Party Box comes complete with 504 green and red cards; the green cards have 2 clues per card, the red cards have 1 clue per card. Recommended Age: 12+ Number of Players: 4-10 players Play time: 30 min
Apples to Apples – Sour Description: An Apples to Apples variant where the judge selects not only the best match, but also the worst match supplied by the players. A "spinning apple" device is used to determine the punishment for the worst answer - such as being forced to playing a card the next round before the topic is revealed. Red and green cards are combined in this version, so only one deck of cards is supplied. Get ready for fun with Apples to Apples Sour Edition, a comparison game that rewards good answers and punishes bad ones. The game includes challenge cards and a fun apple spinner. Plays up to eight people Recommended Age: 12+ Number of Players: 4-8 players Play time: 30 min
Betrayal at the house on the hill Description: Betrayal at House on the Hill quickly builds suspense and excitement as players explore a haunted mansion of their own design, encountering spirits and frightening omens that foretell their fate. With an estimated one hour playing time, Betrayal at House on the Hill is ideal for parties, family gatherings or casual fun with friends. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a tile game that allows players to build their own haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new thrilling game board every time. The game is designed for three to six people, each of whom plays one of six possible characters. Secretly, one of the characters betrays the rest of the party, and the innocent members of the party must defeat the traitor in their midst before it’s too late! Betrayal at House on the Hill will appeal to any game player who enjoys a fun, suspenseful, and strategic game. Recommended Age: 12+ Number of Players: 3-6 players Play time: 60 min
Blokus Description: An abstract strategy game with transparent, Tetris-shaped, colored pieces that players are trying to play onto the board. The only rule to placing a piece is that it may not lie adjacent to your other pieces, but instead must be placed touching at least one corner of your pieces already on the board. There is a solitaire variation where one player tries to get rid of all the pieces in a single sitting. Recommended Age: 5+ Number of Players: 2-4 players Play time: 20 min
Bloxels Star Wars
Description: Now you can build your own Star Wars™ video games! Play missions as classic heroes and villains, and use your imagination to create your own Star Wars Universe.
This hands-on video game creation platform makes it easy to create and play your own video games. Watch your game world come to life as you layout, design and configure your own Star Wars story using iconic characters like Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Boba Fett, Greedo and Chewbacca!
When your game is ready, share it with the world (Players must have a Bloxels Star Wars account to access features – parental consent required). The community of 13-bit Builders can explore, play, and favorite each other’s games!
Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 1+ Play time: N/A
Brain Games Description: Challenge your brain! See how you stack up in 4 mind-bending categories. National Geographic Channel's Brain Games unlocks the science behind the mysteries of why we say, see, feel, and act the way we do! Whether you're going HEAD-TO-HEAD against another player or playing solo, you will discover loopholes in YOUR perception of REALITY. In Brain Games, players take turns rolling a die to move 1-3 spaces and then try to pass the mind-bending challenge from the category (Logic, Language, Vision, or Mind & Body) they landed on to earn a token. The first player to get a token in each category wins the game! But be careful, the Head-To-Head challenges make you choose an opponent to take the challenge with but only the winner gets the token. Recommended Age: 14+ Number of Players: 3-6 players Play time: N/A
Cards against Humanity
Description: Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card.
This game is played similarly to “Apples to Apples,” but the cards contain mature topics.
Recommended Age: 17+ Number of Players: 4-30 players Play time: 30 min
Catan Description: Players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players collect these resources (cards)—wood, grain, brick, sheep, or stone—to build up their civilizations to get to 10 victory points and win the game. Recommended Age: 10+ Number of Players: 3-4 players Play time: 60-120 min
Clue Description: The classic detective game! In Clue, players move from room to room in a mansion to solve the mystery of: who done it, with what, and where? Players are dealt character, weapon, and location cards after the top card from each card type is secretly placed in the confidential file in the middle of the board. Players must move to a room and then make an accusation against a character saying they did it in that room with a specific weapon. The player to the left must show one of any cards accused to the accuser if in that player's hand. Through deductive reasoning each player must figure out which character, weapon, and location are in the secret file. To do this, each player must uncover what cards are in other player’s hands by making more and more accusations. Once a player knows what cards the other players are holding, they will know what cards are in the secret file. A great game for those who enjoy reasoning and thinking things out. Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 3-6 players Play time: 45 min
Code Names Description: Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their Codenames. In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. Codenames: Win or lose, it's fun to figure out the clues. Recommended Age: 14+ Number of Players: 2-8 players Play time: 15 min
Escape Room Description: Take the viral social experience of Escape Rooms to the comfort of your own home and for a fraction of the cost that you would pay! Included in this game are 4 unique 60 minute escape room puzzles that will test your cranial skills. Use images, gears, words, keys, shapes, maps and more to solve the three stages within each escape room. An analog timer on the Chrono Decoder centerpiece incessantly counts down, emitting ominous noises to create an environment shut out from the outside world. If the puzzles stump you for too long, slide a hint card into the Hint Decoder to keep your team moving. Slide 4 keys into the Chrono Decoder when you think you have the answer... but beware, if you're wrong, a precious minute will be taken from you. Recommended Age: 16+ Number of Players: 3-5 players Play time: 60min
Exploding Kittens Description: 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. Recommended Age: 7+ Number of Players: 2-5 players Play time: 15 min
Exploding Kittens Party Pack Description: This stand-alone game includes cards from Exploding Kittens, Imploding Kittens and the Exploding Kittens App and allows 2-10 players 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. Recommended Age: 7+ Number of Players: 2-10 players Play time: 15 min
Gravity Maze Description: It’s a maze game. It’s a marble game. Actually, it’s a gravity-powered logic maze game that builds reasoning skills and visual perception. The best part is that it’s fun to play and learn! Use the challenge cards to strategically place towers and create a path for your marble to reach the target. With 60 challenges to test your skills, this fun maze game is definitely a marble run for brainiacs! Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 1+ Play time: N/A
Mille Bornes Description: In this famous old French card game, players compete to drive 1000 km, dealing with hazards along the way. Draw a card to your hand, play or discard. You must lay a green traffic light to start, play cards showing mileage, dump hazards (flat tire, speed limit) on the other players, remedy hazards (spare tire, end of limit) from yourself, play safety cards (puncture proof), and try to be the first to clock up the distance. Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-6 players Play time: 45 min
Monopoly – Deluxe Edition Description: Players take the part of land owners, attempting to buy and then develop their land. Income is gained by other players visiting their properties and money is spent when they visit properties belonging to other players. When times get tough, players may have to mortgage their properties to raise cash for fines, taxes and other misfortunes. Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-8 players Play time: 60-180 min
Pandemic Description: In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand. Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-4 players Play time: 45 min
Qwirkle Description: Mix, match, score and win! Qwirkle is a must-have for your next family game night. MindWare's best seller is a simple game of matching colors and shapes that requires tactical maneuvers, quick-thinking and a well- planned strategy. Players of this addictive game score points by building rows and columns of brightly-colored tiles that are either all the same color or all the same shape, without creating duplicates. Look for opportunities to score big by placing a tile that touches multiple pieces with matching attributes; create a line of all six in a row, and you score a "Qwirkle". The player with the most points when the tiles run out wins! Qwirkle combines the game play of Dominoes and Scrabble and is the perfect combination of skill and chance! This easy-to-learn, yet challenging game for children and adults will have all three generations on the edge of their seat! Recommended Age: 6+ Number of Players: 2-4 players Play time: 45 min
Spontuneous Description: One player says a word and the race is on for the others to sing a song containing that word. Play begins with the Tunesmith turning the timer and announcing a Trigger-Word from his/her Hit-List. The first player who starts singing scores, but must sing a minimum of 5 words containing the Trigger- Word. For example, if the Trigger-Word was “dawn,” the first player to begin singing a 5-word portion of lyrics from any song containing the word “dawn” scores! Recommended Age: 13+ Number of Players: 4-10 players Play time: 30 min
Telestrations Description: Each player begins by sketching a word dictated by the roll of a die. The old fashioned sand timer may limit the amount of time they get to execute their sketch, but it certainly doesn't limit creativity! Time's up! All players, all at the same time, pass their sketch to the next player, who must guess what's been drawn. Players then simultaneously pass their guess -- which hopefully matches the original word (or does it??) -- to the next player who must try to draw the word they see -- and so on Recommended Age: 12+ Number of Players: 4-8 players Play time: 30 min
Ticket to Ride Description: With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in under 15 minutes. Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route. Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-5 players Play time: 30-60 min
Wits & Wagers Description: Each player writes a guess to a question such as “In what year did the bikini swimsuit makes its first appearance?” or “How many feet wide is an NFL football field?” and places it face- up on the betting mat. Think you know the answer? Bet on your guess. Think you know who the experts are? Bet on their guess. The closest answer — without going over — pays out according to the odds on the betting mat. Strike it big and you'll be cheering like you just hit the jackpot! Wits & Wagers is a trivia game that lets you bet on anyone's answer. So you can win by making educated guesses, by playing the odds, or by knowing the interests of your friends. It can be taught in 2 minutes, played in 25 minutes, and accommodates up to 20 people in teams.
Recommended Age: 10+ Number of Players: 3-7 players Play time: 25 min
American Mah Jongg Description: American Mah Jongg is a rummy-like game for four players. Players try to capture pungs, kongs, quintets, and sixtets from discards and complete hands listed in a scoring card released by one of the two Mah Jongg leagues.
Recommended Age: 12+ Number of Players: 2-5 players Play Time: 45 min
Azul Description: In the game 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.
Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-4 players Play Time: 30-45 min
Codenames Pictures Description: Codenames: Pictures differs from the original Codenames in that the agents are no longer represented by a single word, but by an image that contains multiple elements. Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent – or worse, with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win.
Recommended Age: 10+ Number of Players: 2-8 players Play Time: 15min
Karuba Description: This is a tile-laying race game with players starting with boards that are identical, and one player drawing tiles that they all will use. They race to get their explorers to temples first and earn points. Along the way they can collect additional points by collecting items off the paths they create. The game ends when one player gets all of their explorers to their corresponding temples or whenever the last tile is drawn and placed. Most points wins.
Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-4 players Play Time: 30-40 min
Kingdomino Description: In Kingdomino, you are a lord seeking new lands in which to expand your kingdom. You must explore all the lands, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to spot the best plots, while competing with other lords to acquire them first. The game uses tiles with two sections, similar to Dominoes. Each turn, each player will select a new domino to connect to their existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides connects to a matching terrain type already in play. The order of who picks first depends on which tile was previously chosen, with better tiles forcing players to pick later in the next round. The game ends when each player has completed a 5x5 grid (or failed to do so), and points are counted based on number of connecting tiles and valuable crown symbols.
Recommended Age: 8+ Number of Players: 2-4 players Play Time: 15-20 min
Poker Chips Set Description: A set of 100 dual-toned poker chips and a dealer button. All you will need is a deck of cards and you’re ready to play a game of poker!
Recommended Age: 12+ Number of Players: 2-10 players Play Time: 60 min