BOARD GAME CAFE Gë e Mï 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.