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Board Game List BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW TABOO Taboo is a verbal game played with two teams of three players or more, a deck of 502 guess cards with a set of taboo words. UNSTABLE UNICORNS Unstable Unicorns is a strategic card game about everyone's two favourite things: Destruction & Unicorns. The first person to build an Army of 7 Unicorns wins. Start your turn by drawing a card. Then play a card from your hand. COUP CARD GAME In Coup, your goal is to be the last player standing. Each player starts the game with 2 influence, represented by facedown character cards. If a player loses both of their characters, they're out of the game. Whoever is the last player to have a character card left is the winner. PANDEMIC Pandemic is a cooperative game where 2-4 players race against the clock and a four unique diseases, spreading across the globe, threatening to go from epidemic to full- blown pandemic. As it is a cooperative game, either everyone wins by curing all the diseases or everyone loses to a global catastrophe. BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW DIXIT Dixit is a card game using a deck of cards illustrated with dreamlike images, players select cards that match a title suggested by the "storyteller", and attempt to guess which card the "storyteller" selected. CODENAMES Codenames is a game of guessing which code names (words) in a set are related to a hint-word given by another player. Players split into two teams: red and blue. One player of each team is selected as the team's spymaster; the others are field operatives. Each hint may only consist of one single word and a number. CHESS Chess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other king. THE MIND The Mind is more than just a game. If no one holds a c a r d l o w e r t h a n w h a t y o u p l a y e d , g r e a t , the game continues! If someone did, all players discard face up all cards lower than what you played, and you lose one life. You start the game with a number of lives equal to the number of players. BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW CONCEPT In Concept, your goal is to guess words through the association of icons. A team of two players – neighbours at the table – choose a word or phrase that the other players need to guess. Acting together, this team places pieces judiciously on the available icons on the game board. AZUL As a tile-laying artist, you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora. 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. JENGA Built on the simple premise of stacking blocks, Jenga engages players of all ages, across all cultures. Jenga's success rests on its solid play value. Players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses. BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW ESCAPE ROOM IN A BOX: FLASHBACK Your team of 2 to 9 players has 90 minutes to find clues, solve puzzles and crack codes in order to escape the mad scientist werewolf, Doc Gnaw. Solve 22 puzzles and unlock 4 real combination locks to construct a powerful amulet that holds the key to your freedom! ESCAPE ROOM IN A BOX: THE WEREWOLF EXPERIMENT For game enthusiasts who are looking to host an unforgettable night of fun. It’s a 60-90 minute cooperative game where 2-6 players solve puzzles, crack codes, and find hidden clues in order to find an antidote to thwart a mad scientist's plot to turn them into werewolves. ONE KEY One Key is a family game for all kinds of players, a light game that offers a co-operative experience based on the association of ideas and deduction. All the objects are like little universes of their own. Find the right one to solve the enigma! BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW TESLA VS EDITION Tesla vs Edison brings up to 5 players together to contest the rough-and-tumble War of Currents between the companies of great inventors like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Players represent investors teaming up with one of the great inventors of the time to start an electric company and lead it to success. RISK Risk is a strategy board game of diplomacy, conflict and conquest for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. Players may form and dissolve alliances during the course of the game. WITS & WAGERS Wits & Wagers is a trivia game where players place bets with poker chips on who has the correct answer. The answers are all numerical and the person betting on the guess closest to the correct answer without going over wins that round. After seven rounds, a the person with the most chips wins. BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW VIA NEBULA In this easy to learn game, players are trying to construct buildings in the Nebula Valley. It's a time of hope for the people. ... Via Nebula is a route building and pick-up and deliver game for 2-4 players that takes about 45 minutes to play. Via Nebula plays well with all player counts, but best with 3-4 players. TOKAIDO Tokaido is a game (or “journey”) incorporating board movement, set collecting, and variable player powers. It was designed for 2 to 5 players, and takes about 45 minutes to play (or “experience”). MONOPOLY Monopoly is a board game currently published by Hasbro. In the game, players roll two six-sided dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties, and developing them with houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them into bankruptcy THE SINGAPOREAN DREAM The Singaporean Dream is a humorous card game that lets you steal, sabo and pay your to be a perfect Singaporean. You play a classic Singaporean Personality (different for each player) that grants you special powers. The game goal is to collect as many dream as you can before the dream pile runs out. BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW ONE NIGHT ULTIMATE WEREWOLF One Night Ultimate Werewolf is The idea of the basic game is that roles are randomly (and secretly) distributed. Each “night,” when everyone closes their eyes, the werewolves wake up and pick a victim. During the “day,” all the players discuss and vote to lynch somebody, hoping to kill off a werewolf. Bang! The Card Game It recreates an old-fashioned spaghetti western shoot-out, with each player randomly receiving a Character card to determine special abilities, and a secret Role card to determine their goal. Munchkin Marvel Munchkin Marvel is developed by USAopoly, and they did a great job of translating the Marvel Universe into the Munchkin formula. Players take on the role of a S.H.I.E.L.D. ... Each turn, players kick open doors (flip over a card) and see what enemy waits them on the other side. BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW Othello Othello is a strategy board game for two players (Black a n d W h i t e ) , p l a y e d o n a n 8 b y 8 b o a r d . The game traditionally begins with four discs placed in the middle of the board as shown below. ... This player operates under the same rules, with the roles reversed: White lays down a white disc, causing black discs to flip. Sagrada Sagrada is ostensibly a game of methodically making stained glass windows according to particular patterns, but really it's just has you lining up dice according to three criteria, a task initially as easy as counting your own nose, but eventually as furiously impossible as sorting confetti in a hurricane The Resistance Avalon The Resistance: Avalon is a deduction and bluffin g game f o r 5 - 1 0 playersThe Resistance: Avalon is a hidden role game where players are either loyal servants of Arthur or minions of Mordred. The game pits the two sides against each other to see who will rule Camelot BOARD GAMES OVERVIEW Blokus Blokus is an abstract strategy game that plays like a weird reverse version of Tetris. Players compete to place as many pieces onto the board as possible and cover the most area. Same-coloured pieces can not touch on the outside edges but must be connected by corners. Different-coloured pieces can touch any which way. Santorini Santorini is primarily a 2-player game, pitting players in a contest of skill to see whose workers can build a tower and ascend to the top of it. Variant rules for 3 and 4 players are included. Each player has 2 workers. ... If you ever move your builder up so that it is standing on the 3rd level, you win the game! Cluedo / Clue Clue is a board game where three to six players try to figure out three main facts of a murder: the murderer, the location of the murder, and the murder weapon.
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