OVERVIEW Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is an expansion of the original game Pandemic with a similar set of rules. This is a co-operative campaign game for 2-4 players that consists of 12-24 sessions called “months” before finishing the story, depending on how far each group of players advances through the game. Unlike other games, the …
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OVERVIEW Galaxy Trucker is a science fiction tile-building game created by Vlaada Chvatil in 2007. Set 25 years in the future in a world full of trash, players take on the roles of garbagemen building ships and trying to collect the most credits by the end of their journey. If you don’t own Galaxy Trucker …
Overview: Pictionary is like charades, but with pictures. The drawer draws pictures to get his or her team to guess the clue word. When the team guesses right, they advance their pawn on the game board. First team to get to the finish square and answer a final clue wins. If you don’t own Pictionary …
Overview: The game got its name from the Mancala, which is the large hole or store at the short ends of the game board. On the long ends of the board, there are 6 cups, each filled with 4 stones. The main objective of the game is to gather as many stones as you can …
Forbidden Sky is a 2-5 player cooperative, tile placing board game brought to us by Matt Leacock and publisher Gamewright. This high stakes adventure is the third in the Forbidden series, after Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert. As the name suggests, the story has taken us to the dangerous and stormy skies, and collaborative strategy …
OVERVIEW Dominion: Intrigue is an expansion of the original game Dominion. Both games follow the same set of rules, but Dominion: Intrigue supports games of 6 players instead of 4. It is a card game where players build their deck or “dominion” to earn more points than their opponents. If you don’t own Dominion: Intrigue …
Cargo Noir is all the fun of a board game mixed with the seedy criminal world of smuggling. Set in 1950s film aesthetic, Cargo Noir challenges players to collect as many Victory Spoils as they can by outbidding other players for the chance to take home the goods. Cargo sold under the table at each …
Overview: The Game of LIFE was modernized in 1960 from a 19th century checkered parlor game originally released by Milton Bradley. The game is a linear timeline of the milestones that someone will experience from the time they enter adulthood through retirement. The player is forced to make career choices, and face life events such …
OVERVIEW Snakes and Ladders was a game that originated in Ancient India where players traveled through the game board climbing up ladders that symbolized good deeds and sliding down snakes into evil. It was brought to the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, and first published in the United States in 1943 by Milton Bradley. …
OVERVIEW Candy Land is a children’s fantasy board game for 2-4 players of all ages that was developed in the late 1940s. It includes a colorful game board with a rainbow path that players must advance through to get to the Candy Castle. They will pass a variety of candy-themed locations on their journey such …