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The Crew

DESCRIPTION:

In the cooperative trick-taking game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, the players set out as astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. What about the rumors about the unknown planet? The eventful journey through space extends over 50 exciting missions. But this game can only be defeated by meeting common individual tasks of each player. In order to meet the varied challenges, communication is essential in the team. But this is more difficult than expected in space.

 Number of Players: 2-5 Players

Category: Strategy, Science Fiction, Card, Cooperative

Type of Game: Family, Strategy, Card Game, Science Fiction

Duration: 30 minutes

Wingspan

Wingspan

DESCRIPTION:

You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:

  • Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
  • Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
  • Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them

The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.

 Number of Players: 1-5 Players

Category: Animals, Card Game, Economics,

Type of Game: Family, Strategy

Duration: 40-70 minutes

 

Machi Koro

Machi Koro

DESCRIPTION:

Machi Koro is a fast-paced game for 2-4 players. Each player wants to develop the city on their own terms in order to complete all of the landmarks under construction faster than their rivals. On their turn, each player rolls one or two dice. If the sum of the dice rolled matches the number of a building that a player owns, they get the effect of that building; in some cases, opponents will also benefit from your dice (just as you can benefit from theirs). Then, with money in hand a player can build a landmark or a new building, ideally adding to the wealth of their city on future turns. The first player to construct all of their landmarks wins!

Number of Players: 2-4 Players

Category: Card Game, City Building, Dice

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 30 minutes

Uno

Uno

DESCRIPTION:

Players race to empty their hands and catch opposing players with cards left in theirs, which score points. In turns, players attempt to play a card by matching its color, number, or word to the topmost card on the discard pile. If unable to play, players draw a card from the draw pile, and if still unable to play, they pass their turn. Wild and special cards spice things up a bit.

Number of Players: 2-10 Players

Category: Card Game

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 30 minutes

Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride

DESCRIPTION:

Players collect cards of various types of train cars they then use to claim railway routes in North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who fulfill Destination Tickets – goal cards that connect distant cities; and to the player who builds the longest continuous route.

Number of Players: 2-5 Players

Category: Trains

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 30-60 minutes

Spy Alley

Spy Alley

DESCRIPTION:

Each player assumes a secret identity (nationality) at the start of the game. The object is for each player to collect all the necessary items of their nationality and land on the winners square. (players need to get a codebook, disguise, key, and password) However, if an opponent guesses your identity before you win, you are out. If they incorrectly guess, then THEY are out. Players bluff by purchasing items of nationalities that they do NOT need to win.

Number of Players: 2-6 Players

Category: Bluffing, Deduction, Spies/Secret Agents

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 45 minutes

Spirit Island

DESCRIPTION:

Spirit Island is a complex and thematic cooperative game about defending your island home from colonizing Invaders. Players are different spirits of the land, each with its own unique elemental powers. Every turn, players simultaneously choose which of their power cards to play, paying energy to do so. Using combinations of power cards that match a spirit’s elemental affinities can grant free bonus effects. Faster powers take effect immediately before the Invaders spread and ravage, but other magics are slower, requiring forethought and planning to use effectively. In the Spirit phase, spirits gain energy, and choose how / whether to Grow: to reclaim used power cards, to seek for new power, or to spread presence into new areas of the island.

Number of Players: 1-4 players

Category: age of reason, environmental, fantasy, fighting

Type of Game: strategy

Duration: 90-120 minutes

Sorry

Sorry

DESCRIPTION:

Race your four game pieces from Start around the board to your Home in this Pachisi type game. By turning over a card from the draw deck and following its instructions, players move their pieces around the game board, switch places with players, and knock opponents’ pieces off the track and back to their Start position.

Number of Players: 2-4 players

Category: Children’s Game

Type of Game: Children/ Family

Duration: 30 minutes

 

Scrabble

Scrabble

DESCRIPTION:

In this classic word game, players use their seven drawn letter-tiles to form words on the gameboard. Each word laid out earns points based on the commonality of the letters used, with certain board spaces giving bonuses. But a word can only be played if it uses at least one already-played tile or adds to an already-played word.

Number of Players: 2-4 players

Category: word game

Type of Game: family

Duration: 90 minutes

Rummikub

Rummikub

DESCRIPTION:

Players try to get rid of all your tiles by forming numbers into runs of 3 tiles or more, or 3 to 4 of a kind. The colors of the numbers on the tiles are like card suits. This game may start rather uneventfully, but when the players start putting more and more tiles in play, the options for your upcoming turns can become more complex

Number of Players: 2-4 Players

Category: abstract strategy, card game

Type of Game: family

Duration: 60 minutes

Risk

Risk

DESCRIPTION:

Possibly the most popular, mass market war game. The goal is conquest of the world.

Number of Players: 2-6 players

Category: Territory Building, Wargame

Type of Game: family, wargames

Duration: 120 minutes

Qwirkle

Qwirkle

DESCRIPTION:

The abstract game of Qwirkle consists of 108 wooden blocks with six different shapes in six different colors. Players begin with 6 blocks each and take turns placing them matching them up by color or shape but not both. After the bag has been completely emptied the game ends and the player with the most points wins

Number of Players: 2-4 Players

Category: Abstract, Strategy

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 45 minutes

Planet

DESCRIPTION:

The spark of life is about to jump from your hands to spread out in the world. Deploy your mountain ranges and your deserts, spread out your oceans and your glaciers. Handle wisely your continents to form environments suitable for the apparition of animal life and maybe you’ll manage to create the most densely populated planet!

Number of Players: 2-4 players

Category: environmental, science fiction

Type of Game: family

Duration: 30-45 minutes

Pandemic

Pandemic

DESCRIPTION:

In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand.

Number of Players: 2-4 Players

Category: Medical

Type of Game: Family, Strategy

Duration: 45 minutes

Monopoly

Monopoly

DESCRIPTION:

Players take the part of land owners, attempting to buy and then develop their land. Income is gained by other players visiting their properties and money is spent when they visit properties belonging to other players. When times get tough, players may have to mortgage their properties to raise cash for fines, taxes and other misfortunes.

Number of Players: 2-8 Players

Category: Economic Negotiation

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 60-180 minutes

Life

Life

DESCRIPTION:

This game attempts to mirror life events many people go through from going to college, raising a family, buying a home, working and retiring. The intent of the game is to have the most assets at the end of the game, assets are earned primarily by working and earning tokens with dollars amount on them.

Number of Players: 2-6 players

Category: economic

Type of Game: family

Duration: 60 minutes

Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters

Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters

DESCRIPTION:

Four intrepid treasure hunters are on a quest, searching for precious hidden jewels, but the phantoms in this house do not give up their bounty easily. As their ghoulish numbers grow, the treasure hunters must work together to acquire all eight jewels and escape the house before it becomes fully haunted or else face their own gruesome demise.

Number of Players: 2-4 players

Category: adventure, fantasy

Type of Game: family

Duration: 30 minutes

Forbidden Island

Forbidden Island

DESCRIPTION:

Forbidden Island is a visually stunning cooperative board game. Instead of winning by competing with other players like most games, everyone must work together to win the game. Players take turns moving their pawns around the ‘island’, which is built by arranging the many beautifully screen-printed tiles before play begins. As the game progresses, more and more island tiles sink, becoming unavailable, and the pace increases. Players use strategies to keep the island from sinking, while trying to collect treasures and items. As the water level rises, it gets more difficult- sacrifices must be made.

Number of Players: 2-4 Players

Category: Adventure, Fantasy

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 30 minutes

Diamonds

DESCRIPTION:

“Diamonds is a trick-taking card game in which players collect Diamonds — not cards bearing that suit, mind you, but rather actual “Diamond Crystals” (acrylic crystals) included in the game. What makes the game of Diamonds different from other trick-taking card games is that when you cannot follow suit you get a “Suit Action” based on what suit you do play. Suit Actions are also taken by the winner of each trick, as well as at the end of a full Round of play.”

Number of Players: 2-6 Players

Category: Card Game

Type of Game: Family

Duration: 20-30 minutes