Board Game Descriptions
| Game Name | Game Description |
| Abduction | Abduction from Eden Studios. The players take the role of victims of an alien abduction trying to escape from captivity on an alien ship. Cards are placed by the players throughout the game to determine the ship's layout, and represent the exploration of the ship. Other cards allow players to find weapons, or use other special powers, by holding a specific card or playing other cards as events. The object is to be the first to escape...the others better not get in the way.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Advanced Civilization & Trade | Advanced Civilization from Avalon Hill. The dawn of history begins on the Mediterranean. Play one of nine ancient civilizations struggling to be the first to reach beyond the Iron Age. As you go, powerful trade cities will help you advance your civilization through the epochs.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Intermediate Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Age of Renaissance | Age of Renaissance from Avalon Hill. The Dark Ages are ending and Merchant Princes begin to form empires from their home cities. As they progress, they meet charismatic leaders and discover Military Advantages. But the way is not pleasant! No it is quite miserable as Religious Strife, Civil War, and even the Black Death stand in your way!
Players: 12 Difficulty: Intermediate Age Range: 13 and Over |
| American Megafauna | American Megafauna pits
dinosaurs against mammals in ancient America. It recreates the
titanic contest of these two types of prehistoric beasts from the
Triassic to the present. This is a game of ecology, evolution, and
DNA. Players start as one of four nondescript archetypes, but can
branch out to new species by bidding on genotype and DNA cards.
Players use gene coins from a "gene pool." DNA cards allow
players to create strange animals, from cud-chewing crocodiles with
antlers, to saber-tooth meat-eating camels. The victor in this
titanic ecological struggle will determine the masters of the
planet.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| And Then There Were None | And Then There Were None. Players are challenged to play a home-brewed board game based upon the Agatha Christie novel that's so dangerous, so diabolical, that even the creator cannot overcome it. Can you be the first to gain victory over the unbeatable? Due to the nature of the game, younger players may not wish to participate.
Players: 10 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Apples to Apples | Apples to Apples from Out of the Box. The Game of
Hilarious Comparisons. Each round is filled with surprising and
outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things
and events. Select the card from your hand that you think is best
described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your
card, you win that round. And everyone gets a chance to be the
judge!
Players: 16 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Are You a Werewolf: Steeped in the Blood of Peasants | Are You a Werewolf using standard Looney Labs tournament rules. This is a redo of a classic game, mafia, with a gothic horror twist. The rules are simple - each round, among the players one is the seer, two are werewolves and the rest of the players are peasants. Each night the seer has a vision of who is or isn't a werewolf and two peasants die from vicious werewolf attacks. The next day frightened villagers lynch someone. Play continues until there are only four people standing or the
werewolves burn at the stake. A real winner. Come and join the fun! Will play as many rounds as time permits.
Players: 15 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Arkham Horror | Arkham Horror from Chaosium/Descartes (1987). Kind of
like cramming the Call of Cthulhu RPG into a boardgame, this
adventure game has players exploring the town of Arkham as they
attempt to stop unmentionable horrors from spilling into the world.
It's possible for everyone to go insane and lose in this game.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Axis & Allies | Axis & Allies from Milton Bradley. Nothing tests
you like war. In this game of high adventure, World War II is in
full swing and the fate of the planet lies in your hands. It's up to
you to decide when and where to strike and how hard. Will it be a
strategic bombing raid, a sneak submarine attack, a hit-and-run
assault by your well-trained infantry, an anti-aircraft barrage or a
major invasion by land, sea and air forces? If you're a brilliant
military strategist, a prudent economist and an astute politician,
you'll lead your nation to victory.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Car Wars/Battle Cattle Card game: Cars Vs. Cows Part 1 | Car Wars and Battle Cattle from Steve Jackson Games. It's leather vs steel. Wheels vs Hooves. Winner take all.
Players: 12 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Car Wars/Battle Cattle Card game: Cars Vs. Cows Part 2 | Car Wars and Battle Cattle from Steve Jackson Games. Another round of Cows and Cars. Time to make scrapmetal or hamburger.
Players: 12 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Car Wars: Capture the Flag or Die Trying! | Car Wars from Steve Jackson Games. The only thing better than a fast car is a fast car with a gun. In Car Wars, professional autoduellists battle for glory in the arena. Come play Steve Jackson's new version of his classic game. Players compete to capture the flag and escape the arena. The last one standing is the winner! Pre-gen vehicles provided. Remember, Drive Offensively.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Car Wars: The Card Game | Car Wars from Steve Jackson Games. Enter an arena 50 years in the future, where your life depends on how fast you can tear your opponents' cars apart, all while they're gunning for you... Rocket launchers and autocannons are your tools, and theirs as well. Car Wars: The Card Game is an easy-to-learn introduction to the wild world of autoduelling, played entirely with cards.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Carcassonne | Carcassonne from Rio Grande Games. A clever tile-laying game. The southern French city of Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters, and in the fields. The skill of the players to develop the area will determine who is victorious.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers | Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers from Rio Grande
Games. This is a new game (not an expansion) in the Carcassonne
line. It has new graphics, a new set of components, a theme set in
the stone age, and new rules to match the theme. As in Carcassonne,
players place tiles and put game figures on them, but with different
strategies and results. Players have figures that can represent
hunters, gatherers, or fishermen and place them in meadows, forests,
or on rivers. They also have huts, which can be placed on rivers or
lakes. There are also special forest tiles with special features.
Players will like this game that features the tile-laying and token
placements of Carcassonne with many new twists.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Cheapass Games Late Night Marathon | Cheapass Games Late Night Marathon. Blow up cows, find
a brain, be a bad actor for money. It must be another hilarious
Cheapass game! Dozens
of titles to choose from. Beginners welcome. Sponsored by the
Cheapass Demo Monkey.
Players: 24 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Chez Whatever | Chez Geek/Greek/Grunt from Steve Jackson Games. Play Regular Chez Geek, College Version Chez Greek, or Military Version Chez Grunt. Players choose which version we play; Hilarity ensues. The official blurb for those not familiar: Beer. Nookie. Roommates. Just another Friday night at Chez Geek, the fun card game that lets you set up house with your friends -- for as long as you can stand them. Get a job at the beginning of the game, and spend money and time to accumulate Slack points. You can have a party, hang out with friends, dodge losers, and play with the cats. Borrow from your roomies so you can have snacks while you watch TV. What other game gives you points for sleeping? Just look out for the car alarm. Drink, party, and sleep late as you pursue Slack points to win the game. This is a Steve Jackson Games Sponsored Event. Players: 6 Difficulty: Intermediate Age Range: Adults Only |
| Chrononauts | Chrononauts from Looney Labs. The Card Game of Time Travel. In Chrononauts, each player becomes a time traveler, with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using a time machine to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up impossible artifacts and priceless works of art, coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself. Set the timeline to the version of reality that you came from originally... the one you must return to in order to win.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Citadels | Citadels from Fantasy Flight Games. Citadels is a card game of bluffing, diplomacy, and
city-building where constantly shifting roles keep the game changing
from turn to turn. Beginners welcome. All rules will be taught.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Cities and Knights Of Catan | Cities and Knights of Catan from Kosmos/Mayfair.
Cities and Knights of Catan plays just like "Settlers."
Collect resources to build cities and increase your prosperity over
the island of Catan. In "Cities," Commodities are
introduced as well as the threat of a Viking attack. As a Prince of
Catan it is your duty to train knights to defend the island, while
wisely distributing your resources and commodities to improve your
cities. One Prince or Princess will achieve the position of Supreme
Lord of Catan. Rules Taught. Materials provided.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Clue Master Detective | Clue Master Detective from Parker Brothers. Welcome to a revamped edition of the classic game of whodunit, Clue. Now with more rooms, weapons, and suspects. Can you figure out whodunit?
Players: 10 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Clue, Blue Chapter | Clue VCR game from Parker Brothers. Come and play the blue chapter of the hilarious Clue VCR Game.
Players: 10 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Clue, Green Chapter | Clue VCR game from Parker Brothers. Come and play the
green chapter of the hilarious Clue VCR Game.
Players: 10 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Clue, Red Chapter | Clue VCR game from Parker Brothers. Come and play the
red chapter of the hilarious Clue VCR Game.
Players: 10 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Clue: Vintage Clue | Clue from Parker Brothers. Whodunit? Where? With What? Was it Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Wrench? Solve a fascinating new mystery every time you play this classic detective game that relies on your sleuthing ability to deduce the culprit, the scene of the crime, and the murder weapon. Play this classic on a very special vintage set.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Counting Zzzzs Demo | Counting Zzzzs is the newest game from Blood & Cardstock Games. Try to get a good night's sleep with pleasant dreams while your opponents try to wake you up or give you nightmares. If you like Showbiz Shuffle give
Counting Zzzzs a try!
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Counting Zzzzs Tournament | Counting Zzzzs is the newest game from Blood & Cardstock Games. Try to get a good night's sleep with pleasant dreams while your opponents try to wake you up or give you nightmares. If you like Showbiz Shuffle give
Counting Zzzzs a try! Winner will receive a free Blood & Cardstock T-shirt!
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Daytona 500 | Trade some paint in Daytona! This racing game has you bid for your car, so not only do you have to acquire the car that you think can best bring you victory, you can't spend too much on it. And the cards that move your cars move other players, so as you're messing with other players' chances at the finish line, they're doing the same to you...
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Deluxe Illuminati: World Domination 101 | The phone company is controlled by creatures from outer space. The Congressional Wives have taken over the Pentagon. And the Boy Sprouts are cashing in their secret Swiss Bank account to smash the IRS! The players compete to grab powerful groups and increase their wealth and power. No ploy is to devious, no stratagem too low, as you scheme your way to victory.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Devil Bunny Double Feature! | Match your wits against the foul Devil Bunny in two offerings from Cheapass Games. In Devil Bunny Needs A Ham, be the first to guide your sous-chefs to the top of Happyville's tallest building. But watch out; Devil Bunny is jonesing to knock you off whenever he can. In Devil Bunny Hates the Earth, you are a taffy pulling machine machine trying to ingest enough squirrels to cause a malfunction and foil Devil Bunny's plan for world domination through bad taffy. Seriously.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| DiceLand: Deep White Sea | Diceland from Cheapass Games, the game where you control an army of big paper dice. Just give one a toss, Kill what you can and be the first to score 50 pts. Come play this fun addictive quick game. All rules taught, all supplies provided. Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All ages |
| Diplomacy | Diplomacy from Avalon Hill. Conquer Europe through diplomacy, negotiation, and strategy. It is the turn of the century and seven Great Powers of Europe are gathered around the negotiation table. Who do you trust? What do you promise? When do you strike out on your own? Do you stab your ally before you are stabbed first? This is an introductory game for people with no prior experience. Basic rules will be explained and reviewed as needed throughout the game. The game will end promptly at 1:00.
Players: 7 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| El Grande | El Grande from Rio Grande Games. It is time of awakening. The position of the king is secure, but the high aristocrats, the Grandes, look to expand their influence. Thus, intrigue fills the country! Their primary weapons are the attendants to the king: the Caballeros. Each Grande has his favorites, recruited from the provinces, which he deploys to accumulate the power he so desires. Fencing, not with the sword, but with cunning and deceit, the Grandes struggle for power, sending the Caballeros openly into the regions and secretly to the Castillo.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Elfenland | Elfenland from Rio Grande Games. Follow the map of Elfenland and visit as many towns as possible, using the common types of transportation: dragons, unicorns, giant pigs, elfcycles, troll wagons, magic clouds, ferries and rafts. These types of transportation, however, are available in limited numbers and can only be used in specific regions. Thus, an exciting race starts to find out who will make the best use of the available transportation. The one to visit the most towns will win the game.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Epic Munchkin | You're good at Munchkin, and you've gotten to Level 10. Think you can get to TWENTY??? In this special Variant of Munchkin, the game is only HALFWAY done when you get to level 10, and then THE REAL FUN Begins.... Special Epic Rules will be explained at the table. This is a Steve Jackson Games Sponsored Event.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Expert Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Facts in Five | Facts in Five, The Game of Knowledge from 3M Company. Facts in Five is a trivia game. Five class/category cards are chosen and five letter tiles are drawn. Players have five minutes to come up with a list of twenty five names or items. For each class/category that was selected they must come up with an example which starts with each of the letters which was chosen. Player receive one point for each valid answer. After a number of rounds, the player with the highest total is the winner.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Family Business | Family Business from Mayfair Games. Each player gets a mob, and the object is to be the last
player with any mobsters left.
Place contracts out on your friends, start vendettas, get
police protection just when you need it.
A typical game runs 20 minutes to 1/2 hour.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Fluxx/Aquarius | Fluxx from Looney Labs. The Card Game with Ever-Changing Rules. At the beginning of the game, the rules just say 'draw one card, play one card', so that's what you do. As the game progresses, these rules will change, and you may even find out how to win! Aquarius from Looney Labs. A card game of strategy and cunning. Be the first to achieve your secret goal, while sabotaging your rivals.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Frag in the City | Frag from Steve Jackson Games. Frag in the City takes Frag to the third dimension. Dodge behind a dumpster for cover. Run into the park and take refuge behind a tree. Duck into a building and take the express elevator to the roof, then open fire with a portable nuke from the best perch in this town. Frag is a computer game without a computer. It's a "first-person shooter" on a tabletop. Move your fighter and frag your foes; draw cards for weapons, armor, and gadgets! If you die, you respawn and come back shooting! Children under the age of 16 are welcome with a playing adult.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All |
| Frag! Deadlands | Frag! Deadlands from Steve Jackson Games. The fast-moving "first person shooter" boardgame... mutated into the Weird West! Combine the Deadlands background with the fast, fun Frag rules. Play as a magic-using huckster, an undead Harrowed gunslinger, or a Mad Scientist... frag your foes on the main street of Doomtown, and hang them on the gallows!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Intermediate Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Frag: 3D Frag | Frag from Steve Jackson Games. Frag is a computer game without a computer. It's a
"first-person shooter" on a tabletop. Move your fighter
and frag your foes; draw cards for weapons, armor, and gadgets; move
through the blood spatters to restore your own health! If you die,
you respawn and come back shooting! Play Frag on a 3D board built
from Lego. Simple new rules for moving and attacking from different
levels. Most frags after 2 hours wins.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Freeloader | Freeloader from Cheapass Games. Freeloader is a game
celebrating the glorious pastime of living off other people's
success. Players spend the game roaming the neighborhood, doing
favors for their "friends" in exchange for great loaner
stuff like the Doctor's Car, the Artist's clothes, or the Waitress'
leftover food. To win the game you have to collect Food, Clothing,
and Shelter before the deck runs out. It's all worth points, and
whoever has the most points wins.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Gloria Steinem's Nightmare Fun-Pack | Miss America Pageant, What Shall I Wear, Mystery Date.
Ah, for the days when all a girl had to worry about was if her hair
looked good and if she'd be ready when the perfect man showed up at
her door...
All rules taught, and all materials are provided. Sense of humor required. Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Grave Robbers from Outer Space Demo | Grave Robbers From Outer Space from Z-Man Games. A fast-paced stand-alone card game that provides a
humorous look a B-movies. Players are creating bad horror and sci-fi films using cards that represent characters, props, locations, creatures and special effects. Creatures are used to attack characters. Props and locations can strengthen characters against creatures. Whoever has the strongest characters in play when the credits roll wins the game.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All |
| Guillotine | Guillotine from Wizards of the Coast.
The revolutionary card game where you win by getting a head.
This irreverent and humorous card game takes place during the French
Revolution. Players represent rival guillotine operators vying for
the best collection of noble heads over three rounds.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Illuminati: World Domination 101 | Illuminati from Steve Jackson Games. World Domination 101: It's a world where major conspiracies control everything that goes on. As one of those conspiracies, you must try to take control, disable or destroy organizations and groups to increase your wealth and power and ensure that your conspiracy is the one to dominate the world.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Intermediate Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Interactivities Ink All You Can Play Buffet | All of Interactivities Ink's fun little games strewn on a table with an experienced game server to teach and arbitrate game play. Get your stuff home with You Need Drew's Truck. Try to save Hamlet for a change, or Ophelia, or guide the play to end in whatever way your goal card says. Tons of fun for everyone.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Kids Track | This special track of games and events is just for 12 and under gamers. All children 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Kingdoms | Kingdoms from Fantasy Flight Games and Designer Reiner
Knizia. Players assume the roles of rival kings, establishing
castles and collecting treasures in a landscape of shifting fortunes.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Knights of the Dinner Table: Hack! Card Game | Knights of the Dinner Table: Hack! Card Game from Eden Studios. Hack! is the fast paced, hilarious card game taken from KenzerCo’s award-winning magazine, Knights of the Dinner Table (KoDT). Based on Eden Studios' critically acclaimed Abduction card game, players in Hack! take on the fantasy personas of characters from KoDT, including the GameMaster. Players explore a dungeon, encountering monsters, traps, NPCs, and even new and twisted rules. Players build the dungeon as they go, using cards from their hand. Since the dungeon is different each time they play, each game is unique! Conflict is solved with a simple die roll. Every card bears a quote from KoDT, adding to the fun. Each deck has its own specialty and unique victory condition, allowing each player to capitalize on his/her strengths.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| La Citta | La Citta from Rio Grande Games. Each player is an Italian prince and begins the game with two cities. The first building in each city is the prince's castle. First, the princes must provide food for their people. As the populations of the princes' cities grow, so must the food supplies. With their basic needs met, the people look beyond these basic needs for the services their cities can provide. As the cities grow and seek to provide the services their people want, the princes build schools for education, statues for culture, and public batch for health. Of course, not all cities' services are equal. Those that provide better services for their citizens will attract people from those that do not. In the end, it is the prince that provides the best services for the people that will have the largest and best cities. That prince will win the game!
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Lemony Snicket Perilous Parlor | The Perilous Parlor from Mattel. Board game inspired by and based on the "Series of Unfortunate Events" childrens books by anonymous author 'Lemony Snicket' in which the Baudelaire orphans are cared for by the evil Count Olaf while hoping for visits from the friendly Mr. Poe, the executor of their estate. If you wish to play a game where the hero always wins, the villain is forever defeated, and innocent children are brought to warmth and safety, then I encourage you to play something else. The lives of Violet, Sunny, and Klaus Baudelaire are fraught with sorrow, misfortunate, and unpleasantness, and the game in their honor contains the exact same things.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Lifeboat | Lifeboat from Fat Messiah Games. Adrift at sea, six people share a tiny lifeboat. As the supplies run low, they discover that some barrels are filled with jewels and art treasures instead of water or hardtack. Greed mixes with love and hatred as the passengers take sides. Lifeboat is a card game with a unique blend of cutthroat strategy and clever guesswork.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Lord of the Rings Trivia Game | Lord of the Rings Trivia Game from Fantasy Flight Games. The Lord of the Rings Trivia Game is the ultimate test of your knowledge of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings! In this exciting board game, each player, or team of players, takes on the role of Frodo Baggins and seeks to destroy the One Ring by throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom. As the players travel through 14 areas of Middle-Earth they must spend precious resources and answer challenging questions. There are 1200 questions; all based on the original books and prepared by a team of Tolkien experts. Multiple choice answers can make the game easier for less experienced Middle-Earthers. The winner of the game is the first player or team to reach and successfully face the challenges at Mount Doom.
Players: 16 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Lunar Rails | Lunar Rails from Mayfair. Welcome to the Moon! Face the challenges of building a rail empire on this barren and airless world. Plot your network of steel to earn fortune and glory. Your rails, and those of your competitors, will span the surface of the moon, transporting goods from supplier to demand. While no political boundaries stand in your way, mountains, craters, and the destructive forces of nature may. Spend your money wisely, make every mile marker count, and the wealth of the Moon will be yours to command. Based on the award-winning Empire Builder Game System.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Lunch Money | Lunch Money from Atlas Games. An exciting, fast-paced, multi-player card game that combines dark, psychological images with the raw dynamics of a merciless street fight. You play cards to take your opponents' counters from them, and to defend your own counter pile. A player who runs out of counters is "unconscious" and out of the game. The object of the game is to be the last person with any counters left; in other words, the last person still "conscious" and in the game.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Lunch Money Button Men | Buttonmen from Cheapass Games. Each player uses his or her own Lunch Money themed buttonman. It's all over in about 45 seconds, and before the spectators even know what's happened, you're ready to pick up your dice and play again! This is a convention long roving tournament. Rules taught here or at Boardgaming HQ. Join the fun!
Players: 50 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Medici: Morning Medici | Medici from Rio Grande Games. You are buyers for different merchant houses in the competitive, but profitable age of the infamous Medici family. Ships sail throughout the Mediterranean and beyond in search of rare and valuable merchandise and profitable markets for the goods you buy. Every day you go to the wholesale market where you must compete with other buyers for the merchandise available that day. Bid at the markets for the best prices on valuable and not so valuable goods. Corner the market on a commodity and reap additional rewards. Fill your ship and set sail for foreign markets where your goods will fetch high prices. After three trips to the market, the player with the most money wins! Author / Inventor: Reiner Knizia
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Mexica | Mexica from Rio Grande Games. The Aztec prophesy foretold they would build their home where they found an eagle on a cactus eating a snake. After years of
searching they found their eagle on an island in lake Texcoco and there began building a city. Using dams and the natural landscape, they built a city with districts separated by roads of water and connected by many bridges.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Midnight Munchkin Madness! | Table will decide which way our munchkinly preferences lie...will it be munchkin with or without the unnatural axe, space munchkin, or munchkin fu? Only the munchkinliest munchkins can truly decide!!! :)
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Mille Bournes | Mille Bournes from Parker Brothers. You're cruising along at 100 mph, bolstered by an extra tank of gas, when suddenly your opponent cuts you off with a flat-tire card. You slam to a halt, sidelined until you draw a spare tire. It's a 1,000-mile race along an imaginary road; your goal is to arrive first, avoiding the hazards--flat tires, accidents, empty gas tanks--while inflicting them on your opponents and collecting the spares and repairs that will speed you on.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Monopoly: Pokémon | Pokémon Monopoly from Parker Brothers. Play the classic game of Monopoly with a Pokemon twist. For beginning players, or tested veterans. As an added bonus, players may play with the added addition of "Pokemon" rules.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Monopoly: Spiderman | Spiderman Monopoly from USAOpoly. Now it's your turn to choose your own spider-token, and swing into action against deadly super-villains like the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Venom, and many more! You get to help Spider-Man conquer his greatest enemies! Employing classic Monopoly game strategy, you will take risks, make deals and employ your finest negotiating skills as you web-swing around the game board and try to capture the bad guys! Only one of Spidey's helpers can win this sensational strategy-filled contest of champions. Will it be you?
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Monopoly: Star Wars Episode 1 | Star Wars Episode 1 Monopoly from Hasbro/Parker Brothers. Buy, sell and control your destiny in the Star Wars galaxy. This special Collector's Edition Episode One Monopoly game features a unique 3-D gameboard, eight Star Wars hero and villain tokens, special Jedi card decks, republic credits, stacking apartment pieces and an original design Monopoly board.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Munchkin | Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games.
Munchkin...The Dungeon Crawling Experience without all that
messy role-playing stuff.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Munchkin!!! | Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games. Go down into the
dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal
their stuff. Grab the treasure and run. Admit it. You love it! This
stand-alone card game captures the dungeon experience…with none of
that stupid roleplaying stuff. Fast-playing and silly, Munchkin can
reduce any group to hysteria. And, while they're laughing, you can
steal their stuff. All Materials Provided.
Players: 10 Difficulty: Intermediate Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Munchkin Fu | The Munchkins are back! Now the game is chop-socky Hong Kong action. The characters are Samurai, Ninja, Yakuza, and Monks. The foes are mooks, demons, and assorted bad guys from all the worst martial arts films you've ever seen. Collect treasures and learn new styles to build up your character's powers. Kill the monsters, take their stuff, and be the first one to 10th level!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Munchkin/Star Munchkin/Munchkin Fu: Elves and Ninjas and Aliens, Oh My | Munchkin/Star Munchkin/Munchkin Fu from Steve Jackson Games. Dungeon crawling through the ventilation systems and hidden alleyways of Neo Hong Kong. It's what's gonna happen when you take the award winning Munchkin and the award winning Star Munchkin and the all new Munchkin Fu and throw it in a blender!
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| My Word! | My Word! from Out of the Box. Find a Word and ... IT'S YOURS! My Word! is the first word game that plays like a party game! Quickly search for words while single and double letter cards are dealt on to the table. The first player to call out a word using at least three cards wins those cards. Fast and fun, My Word! appeals to fans of word games and party games alike!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Nightmare | Welcome to Nightmare! Nightmare is a fast-paced board game with a VCR Twist. Can you get to the remote in time and escape the Gatekeeper, or will you be plunged into your worst nightmare? Contains a few scary elements, so younger players may not wish to play.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Nuclear War | Nuclear War from Flying Buffalo. A comical cataclysmic card game. A humorous confrontation between touchy world powers as each player attempts to sway his opponents' populations with diplomacy, propaganda, and finally nuclear weaponry. Little old ladies defect in electric cars and the dread SUPERGERM spreads devastation! One of the few games where it is possible to have no winners. You have to play it to believe it. This game's a blast.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Poker | Join us for a late night Poker Tournament. Each player starts with $500 of Monopoly money. How much will you have when the clock strikes 2am?
Players: 80 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Poker: Intro for Beginners | Would you like to learn how to play Poker? Come learn the basics before the Poker Tournament starts at 10pm Saturday. This session is for Beginners only.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico from Rio Grande Games. 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 most valuable buildings? You have
but one goal: achieve the greatest prosperity and highest respect!
This is shown by the player who earns the most victory points to win
the game! Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Puerto Rico - With Expansion | Puerto Rico from Rio Grande Games. Since we'll be using the expansion for this session of Puerto Rico, experienced players only. No need to be experienced with the expansion, although that helps. Rules of the expansion will be explained, but we expect players for this session to have knowledge of the basic Puerto Rico rules.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Expert Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Quiddler | Quiddler from Set Enterprises. The Short Word Game. Quiddler, is a beautiful word game with naturally smooth gameplay that plays fast. Using special cards, Quiddler draws on one's ability to combine letters into words. Players must combine their entire hand into words trying to use the highest point value letters. There is a visual perception aspect that draws on combining the cards with the highest points into the words rather than the first words a player recognizes. There is also an element of strategy. Players can aim their actions at increasing their odds of getting either the long-word or the most-words bonus. The game is enjoyed by both beginning readers and accomplished word game players.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Retro-Chic Boardgames: The Kennedys | Play the rarely-seen (and possibly for good reason) Kennedys boardgame, released by Transco Games in 1962. Play Jack, Caroline, Bobby, Jackie, John Jr., or Teddy as they wander through the Kennedy Mansion (which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Clue Mansion...) and compete for power, money, and influence. And check out a selection of other games from the 50's, 60's, and 70's that will be on display.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Rio Grande Games Demos | Come to the Rio Grande Games Booth in the Exhibit Hall and learn how to play some great games. Demos available for Mississippi Queen, Ghost Chase, Lohenhertz, Torres, Java, Dragonhand and many more!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Risk | Risk from Parker Brothers. Conquer the world in one evening! Risk is a classic game of strategy: it's general vs. general, fierce attacks and valiant defenses, bold strikes and cunning traps. To win, you must capture every territory on the board. But victory depends on how you deploy your forces, where you fortify your frontiers and when you attack your enemies.
Variants may be available.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Robotanks | Robotanks from Fat Messiah Games. Robotanks is a strategy boardgame of cyber-arena combat. Four teams enter the field, but only one survives in the arena sport of the future! Program your tanks, then set them loose to destroy your enemies. Fire weapons, activate turrets and radar, even self-destruct your tanks. Remember to defend yourself — the last surviving command post wins!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Santa Fe Rails | Santa Fe Rails from GMT Games, by designer Alan Moon. In this game about the westward expansion of the railroads, players steer the development of five major railroads and four short lines so as to enhance the values of the city and boomtown properties they control while also earning bonuses for completion of connections.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Scotland Yard | Scotland Yard from Ravensburger (1985).
There's panic on the streets of London!
The notorious criminal Mr. X is on the loose, and a group of
detectives has 24 hours to track him down. Sort of like hide and
seek, only different. The
detectives really need to cooperate. One player, naturally, needs to
be Mr. X.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Scrabble | Scrabble from Selchow & Righter. The classic
crossword game. Build crosswords for points, add to your score by
building words on special spaces on the gameboard! Use up all seven
of your letter tiles on your turn for an extra 50 points! Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Set $100 Tournament: Final | Set from Set Enterprises. This is the final round. All players must have won a Qualifier round. Players compete for a $100 savings bond and Set T-shirts. Sponsored by Set Enterprises.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Expert Age Range: All Ages |
| Set $100 Tournament: Qualifier | Set from Set Enterprises. The object of the game is to identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features: Color, Symbol, Number and Shading. A 'Set' consists of three cards in which each feature is EITHER the same on each card OR is different on each card. That is to say, any feature in the 'Set' of three cards is either common to all three cards or is different on each card. The Magic Rule: If two are... and one is not, then it is not a 'Set'. The play continues until the deck is depleted and all players have dealt; the highest score advances to the final round on Sunday at 9am. Players compete for a $100 savings bond and Set T-shirts. Sponsored by Set Enterprises.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Settlers of Catan: Giant | Settlers of Catan from Kosmos/Mayfair. 1995 Game of
the Year and 2002 Gaming Hall of Fame. Come learn and play this
convention favorite on our special giant sized board. Players are
recent immigrants to the newly populated island of Catan. Expand
your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and cities
by harvesting commodities from the land around you. Trade with other
players, or at local seaports to get resources. The first player to
achieve 10 points from a combination of roads, settlements, and
special cards wins. This event runs every 2 hours throughout the
convention.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Settlers of The Stone Age | Settlers of the Stone Age from Mayfair. An exciting game of migration and development. Come join in the adventure! Will your tribe journey far and fast? Will they overcome the dangers of this world? Will they bring you victory and survival? Are you ready to play in this newest creation of Master game designer Klaus Teuber? Based on the award-winning Settlers of Catan game system, Settlers of the Stone Age presents players with all-new challenges unique to the great dangers and opportunities at the dawn of mankind.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Showbiz Shuffle | ShowBiz Shuffle is an exciting new card game for 2-4 people. Collect actors and directors, then combine them with stunts, special effects or other pluses to make the biggest box office hits. Out-mogul your friends - or if that doesn't work try giving them bad ratings or a drinking problem! The most fun you can have without making it into Entertainment Weekly! Winner receives a free Blood & Cardstock T-shirt!
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame | Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame from Eagle Games. Finally, a boardgame version of this award-winning PC strategy game. Create a civilization to stand the test of time! The game begins in 4000 BC where the players found the first small settlements of a fledgling people. Each player’s civilization explores the world around them, discovering resources, terrain, treasures, technologies, and minor civilizations. Will your civilization rise or fall? Play Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Boardgame & create history!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Spades/Hearts | Spades and Hearts, two popular trick taking card
games. In Spades the spades are always trump. Each player must make
a bid for the number of tricks they expect to take. The winner of
each trick leads to the next. Highest score wins. The object of
Hearts is to avoid scoring points. Every heart that you take is
worth one penalty point and the queen of spades is worth 13 penalty
points. The player with the least points wins.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Spy vs. Spy | MAD Magazine's Spy vs. Spy comes to life in this game of risk and rivalry. Be the spy to collect the most bombs and outwit your opponents. Come and have a blast.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Star Munchkin | Star Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games. The Munchkins
are back - but now they're in space! Now they're Mutants, Androids,
and Cat People . . . grabbing Lasers, Vibroswords, and Nova
Grenades. . . fighting Fanged Fuzzballs, Bionic Bimbos, and the
Brain In A Jar. This is a complete game using the best-selling
Munchkin rules (with a few new twists like Sidekicks). Come try out
the latest version of this INSANELY popular game!
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Star Munchkin: Space Madness | Star Munchkin from Steve Jackson Games. The Munchkins are back - but now they're in space! Now they're Mutants, Androids, and Cat People . . . grabbing Lasers, Vibroswords, and Nova Grenades. . . fighting Fanged Fuzzballs, Bionic Bimbos, and the Brain In A Jar. This is a complete game using the best-selling Munchkin rules (with a few new twists like Sidekicks). Come try out the space version of this INSANELY popular game!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Steve Jackson Demos | Come learn how to play some great games from Steve Jackson Games. Demos available all weekend, all materials provided, beginners welcome!
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Strange Synergy | Strange Synergy is one of the newest games from Steve Jackson Games with art from Phil Foglio. The game is built around 100 different Power Cards . . . superpowers, mutations, skills, gadgets. Each warrior starts with three different powers. You choose the combination! Can you create the unbeatable team? Can you win against superior powers? How many ways can you make four different teams of three warriors, out of 100 powers? The mind boggles, and the fun never ends!
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Super Space Ninja Munchkin!!!!! | You've played Munchkin, Star Munchkin, and most likely Munchkin Fu. Step up and play the most INSANE Variant... ALL THREE COMBINED. This will use ALL AVAILABLE MUNCHKIN CARDS. This is a Steve Jackson Games Sponsored Event.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Expert Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Talisman | Talisman from Games Workshop. You and your friends
each take the role of an adventurer on a quest to find the legendary
Crown of Command. This is not an easy task, you must journey through
the countryside encountering powerful monsters, magical items, and a
wealth of treasure. Once you've gained enough experience, power and
Talismans, you can face the menacing guardian of the Crown of
Command, the Dragon King. With a lot of luck and a sturdy blade, you
too can win the crown and become ruler of the land.
Players: 6 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Through the Desert | Through the Desert from Fantasy Flight Games. From the
award-winning game designer Reiner Knizia comes a game of strategy,
patience, and cool plastic camels! The desert is treacherous,
mysterious, and without mercy. But for those willing to risk the
dangers of the shifting, sun-baked sands, the desert holds riches
beyond compare. Players each control a tribe of nomads vying for
control of the desert. By establishing caravans and taking over
oases, the players gain points as their tribes increase in power.
Strategy is essential in deciding how and where to build your
tribe's caravans. There is more than one way to gain points, and
several ways to win.
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Tigris & Euphrates | Tigris & Euphrates from Mayfair. A Game of Culture, Crisis, Conflict, and Civilization. It
is your responsibility to see that your dynasty grows and prospers
in this land. You must use your four leaders: the King, the Priest,
the Merchant, and the Farmer, to accomplish your goal of forging
strong kingdoms out of the fledgling settlements that dot the
landscape. If necessary, you will further your dynasty's aims at the
expense of your neighbors. As the lands available to control are
limited, conflicts and takeover attempts are the order of the day.
The key to your victory, however, does not rest in military conquest
alone! You must develop all four areas of civilization: Politics,
Religion, Trade, and Agriculture. Each of these areas is the
responsibility of a different leader, and you must use all four of
your leaders together to secure your destiny.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: 13 and Over |
| Tikal | Tikal from Rio Grande Games.
Each player is the director of an expedition intent on
exploring Tikal in search of the secret paths that lead to the
temples and precious treasures that have remained hidden for over
1000 years. A player receives points during four scoring rounds for
each recovered treasure and for each temple that he controls. But,
both temples and treasures can change hands. The expedition that
earns the most points exploring Tikal wins the game.
Players: 4 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Traders of Genoa | Traders of Genoa from Rio Grande Games. This is a game of trading, wares, and negotiation. The players take the roles of traders in Genoa in the 16th century. They fulfill orders, deliver messages, and take ownership of buildings in the city. Of course, this is not possible without the help of the other traders - thus, the need for clever negotiation. And that can cost money and other valuable goods! The player who earns the most in the game is the winner!
Players: 5 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Vanished Planet | Vanished Planet is a brand new 2003 release board game. It is a cooperative space-faring strategy game for 1 to 6 players. Players must complete missions acquired throughout the game before their homeworlds are destroyed by a malevolent world-eating creature. Playing the game requires strategies involving ship movement, resource management and technology building, all while trying to delay the creature's progress towards destroying the players' homeworlds. Vanished Planet is takes place in a richly detailed game world. As Vanished Planet is a brand new game this will be a coached event.
Players: 3 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Xmachina | XMachina is the game where you make impossible inventions out of improbable components for unreasonable customers. It's Rube Goldberg time for the lucky players of this hysterical party game.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
| Yahtzee | Yahtzee from Milton Bradley. The can't-stop-playing
game for any occasion! Build different combinations of the five dice
for the most points. Throw the dice to build straights, full houses
or get five of a kind for a… YAHTZEE! The unique combination of
luck and strategy makes every game an exciting challenge.
Players: 8 Difficulty: Beginner Age Range: All Ages |
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