Browse Items (36 total)
- Tags: Board game
Citadels: A game of medieval cities, nobles and intrigue
Players: 2-8
Playing time: 20-60 minutes
Age: 14+
Introduction: In Citadels, each player leads a city and seeks to increase its property by building new city districts. The game ends after one player has built his eighth…
Tags: 14+, 2-8 players, 20-60 mins, Board game, fantasy, Games, medieval, small
The Resistance: Secret Identities - Deduction - Deception
Playing time: 30 minutes
Age: 13+
Game Objective: The Resistance is a social deduction game with secret identities. Players are either members of the Resistance attempting to overthrow a malignant government, or Spies trying to…
Tags: 13+, 30 mins, 5-10 players, Board game, Games, Government, resistance group, small
Pandemic: Can you save humanity?
Playing time: 45 minutes
Age: 8+
Game Overview: In Pandemic, you and your fellow players are members of a disease control team. You must work together to develop cures and prevent disease outbreaks, before 4 deadly diseases (Blue,…
Tags: 2-4 players, 45 mins, 8+, Board game, Co-operative, diseases, Games, large
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
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
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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