Browse Items (67 total)
- Collection: Board Games
Quilt Show
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult
Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…
Tags: 13+, 2-4 players, 30-75 mins, Awards, fabric, Games, Quilt making
Those Pesky Garden Gnomes
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Game overview: This is a trick-taking card game with a twist - or two! In every hand, each player has her own secret goal - and these changes randomly with each hand. The closer you come to your goal,…
Tags: 13+, 3-5 players, 45 mins, Board game, Cards, Games, Gnomes, small
Dominant Species
Playing time: 2-4 hours
Age: 14+
Game overview: Dominant Species is a game that abstractly recreates a tiny portion of ancient history: the ponderous encroachment of an ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying…
Tags: 14+, 2-4 hrs, 2-6 players, Ancient history, Animals, Bird, Board game, Games, Insect, large, Mammal, Reptile
Twilight Struggle: The Cold War, 1945-1989
Players: 2
Playing time: 180 minutes
Age: 13 and up
Game overview: Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-five-year dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional flares of warfare between the Soviet Union…
Tags: 13+, 180 mins, 2 players, Board game, Europe, Games, large, Second World War, Soviet Union, Superpowers, United States, WWII
Leaping Lemmings
Playing time: 20-90 minutes (10-15 minutes per player)
Age: 13 and up
Game overview: Leaping Lemmings is a game for 2-6 players. Players represent genetic scientists working in a research lab 18.15 miles from Waterloo, Montana. By…
Tags: 13+, 2-6 players, 20-90 mins, Board game, Eagles, Games, Lemmings, medium, Montana, Scientists, Waterloo
Fire in the Lake: Insurgency in Vietnam
Players: 1-4
Playing time: 180 mins
Age: 14 and up
Game overview: Fire in the Lake is a 1-to-4-player board game depicting insurgent and counterinsurgent (COIN) conflict during the main US period in Vietnam,…
Tags: 1-4 players, 14+, 180 mins, Board game, Economics, Faction, Games, large, Military, Politics, United States, Vietnam
Sail to India: A Game of Exploration and Trade
Playing time: 60 minutes
Age: 14 and up
Introduction: It is the Age of Discovery! With the Mediterranean under Osman Turkish control, the Portuguese are looking for alternative routes to the East Indies, moved by the trade of gold,…
Tags: 14+, 3-4 players, 60 mins, Adventures, Cards, Games, India, Mediterranean, Portuguese, Sailing, ships, small
Valley of the Kings: A deck-building game of ancient Egypt
Playing time: 45 minutes
Age: 14 and up
Game overview: Players are Egyptian nobles at the time of the pharaohs, preparing for their death and burial in the Valley of the Kings. In the Egyptian religion, when you die you can take it…
Tags: 14+, 2-4 players, 45 mins, Ancient Egypt, Artifacts, Cards, Egypt, Games, Kings, small
Cheaty Mages
Players: 3-6
Playing time: 30 mins
Age: 12 and up
Game overview: In this game, the players take the role of mages who have mastered a number of…
Istanbul
Playing time: 40-60 minutes
Age: 10 and up
Introduction: Hustle and bustle in the bazaar district of Istanbul: merchants and their assistants are hurrying through the narrow alleys attempting to be more successful that their…
Tags: 10+, 2-5 players, 40-60 mins, Bazaar, Board game, Competitive, Games, medium, Merchants
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7 Wonders
Players: 2-7
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Lead one of the seven great cities of the Ancient world. Exploit the natural…