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.