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- Everything you love about the classic "Ticket to Ride," but on a global scale: you'll still be working to connect two cities, but accommodating travel across lakes and oceans as well as over land, claiming routes around the world. Supports 2-5…
- A cooperative memory game that tasks 2-6 players with arranging objects in a warehouse: placing 35 tiles face-down, then racing to remember what you've put where in order to deliver each item to the right customer in a frantic 5-minute rush. Better…
That Sound Game
a Noisy Game for Weird People
A limited communication party game that can get a little noisy! A variation on charades that tasks teams of players with guessing as many prompts as possible using noises and movements to convey hints... with your hands behind your back! Supports…- An abstract tile-laying game that tasks 1-4 players with building a harmonious ecosystem, featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Draft tiles and tokens to build terrain and place animals, aiming for unbroken stretches of land…
- A bluffing-type party game where all but one of the players (the chameleon!) knows a hidden word. If that's you, it's your job to try to figure out the word without getting caught, while everyone *else* tries to suss you out! Supports 3-8 players,…
- A card-based bidding game where players are tasked with showing off their wealth by bidding on extravagant items, but there's a twist: no matter how much you win, if you have the least money left at the end of the game, you're kicked out of high…
- What a problem to have: your farm has produced WAY too many artichokes. A family-friendly card-based farming game where players draft cards, harvest veggies, compost the rejects, and race to abandon all those artichokes. Supports 2-4 players but…
- A family-friendly fantasy city building game, with dragons! You and up to four other players take on the role of Flamekeepers - tasked with enticing artisan dragons to come live in your city and getting them set up with their own specialized…
- A kid-friendly co-op dungeon crawling game for the whole family! Work together to explore the dungeon, avoid traps, fight monsters, and find treasure! Charmingly designed with art made by kids, with randomized grid tiles that enhance the game's…
- A complex card-driven strategy/exploration game that's a sequel to the hit game "Scythe" - the game shares a setting, though the mechanics are quite different. You and up to four other adventurers set out to the crater where a massive meteorite…
Deception
Murder in Hong Kong
A hidden-roles party game that's quick to play and easy to pick up. Players take on the roles of investigators trying to solve a murder, but (as you might have deduced!) the killer is among you! A limited communication deduction/bluffing game in the…- A co-operative open-world exploration game where players crash-land far apart from each other on an uncharted planet. Played with a massive deck of cards that depicts your location from a first person point of view, players are able to communicate…
- This one isn't quite a board game. Rather, it's a deck of cards, each of which depict one of 75 exercises for reducing stress and improving chronic pain, in an accessible and easy-to-follow way.
- A family-friendly deck-building party game inspired by capture the flag. Face off against randomized opponents (there are a ton of them!) in a race to claim (and keep) the flag. This one has some fun interactive play pieces and takes about 45…
- Ever wished you could build your own hotel/casino on the Strip? This auction/tile placement game tasks you and up to four other players with doing just that: bidding on rooms to add to your layout, earning cold hard cash, and renovating until you…
- Did you ever wish "Ticket to Ride" took place in space? You're in luck! "Wormholes" casts you and up to 4 other players as tycoons in a peaceful galaxy at the advent of a new technology: wormholes. Create a network of wormholes to deliver passengers…
- Play as one of four types of Renaissance Man: a merchant, knight, baker, or scholar, tasked with training your successor. Build a support system for your future master by laying worker cards, aiming to be the first to complete a pyramid of skilled…
- A trick-taking game with... a medieval Catholic twist? A retooling of Jerry D'Arcey's "Dragonmaster" game, where the rules for each hand are reimagined as edicts from the Church, and players must choose whether to follow the rules or risk committing…
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