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Love Letter
Players: 2-4
Playing time: 20 minutes
Age: 10 and up
Game Overview: The players are the young men seeking to sway the heart of the princess, and attempt to get their love letter into her hands. The castle's…
Playing cards
List of card games: http://www.classicgamesandpuzzles.com/Card-Games.html
Boxcars
Playing time: 2-4 hours
Age: 13+
Game overview: In Boxcars, the players take the roles of rail barons. As rail barons, the players deliver freight from city to city, collecting money for their efforts. They use the money earned to…
Tags: 13+, 2-4 hrs, 2-6 players, Board game, England, Games, large, Railway, Scotland, United States, Wales
Dominion
Playing time: 30 min
Age: 14+
Game overview: You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant Kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! you want a bigger…
Pressure Cooker
Playing time: 30-60 min
Age: 14+
Game overview: Welcome to Tres Yummy, the hottest new restaurant to hit town in years, and tonight is opening night. Unfortunately, management has not yet hired a chef. Players take the role of chefs…
Tags: 14+, 2-4 players, 30-60mins, Chef, Cooking, Games, Kitchen, large, Tres Yummy
Puerto Rico
Playing time: 90-150 min
Age: 13 and up
Game overview: Prospector, captain, mayor, trader, settler, craftsman, or builder? Which roles will you play in the new world? Will you own the most prosperous plantations? Will you build the…
Tags: 13+, 3-5 players, 90-150 mins, builder, captain, Cards, craftsman, Games, mayor, medium, Money, Prospector, settler, trader
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
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.