Can the act of preventing a pandemic outbreak be fun? There is a board game that actually allows players to form a team to prevent diseases from spreading while discovering cures for those diseases. Players will travel through the world and treat infections while they find resources for cures. Using …
Read More »Dominion, Build your Empire with this Card Game
Playing the role of a monarch expanding his or her empire, you and other players will attempt to build card decks, buy cards and try to become more powerful as play progresses. The decks that you have at your disposal make up your dominion, and through victory points and resources …
Read More »Codenames, A Spy Themed Card Game
Designed by Vlaada Chvatil in 2015 and published by Czech Games Edition, Codenames is a card game that can be played from 2 to 8 players, and one game of Codenames usually takes 15 or more minutes to play. The theme of Codenames is that spies compete against each other …
Read More »Carcassonne, a Two Player Tile Placement Game
A board game based on the act of forming the board of play with tiles, Carcassonne was created by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede and published by Hans in Gluck for German players and by Rio Grande Games and Z-Man Games for North American players. Carcassonne won Game of the Year Awards in …
Read More »Camelot, a Medieval War Strategy Board Game
George S. Parker knew he had a great game in the making when invented a game that had more options than checkers but wasn’t as complicated to play as chess. In 1887 Parker introduced Camelot for the very first time, and it wouldn’t take long for checkers and chess experts …
Read More »Broadside, a Naval Battle of the 1812 War
The naval battles of the War of 1812 are highlighted as some of the most important battles of this American war, and in 1962 Milton Bradley decided to create and publish a board game that accurately captured the feeling of those naval battles. Broadside is a board game where warships …
Read More »Battlebots, a Competitive Robot Combat Game
Competitive robot combat has been a recent phenomenon where people get together to form teams and make robots for fighting purposes. Many robot combat leagues have come and gone, but the one that stands out the most has been Battlebots. Originally airing on Comedy Central, and now shown on ABC, …
Read More »Bang! a Fun Cooperative Western Card Game
Created by Italian publisher daVinci Games in 2002, Bang! Card Game is a take on the Wild West time period where cowboys got into many scuffles with law enforcement. Bang! happens to be a cooperative card game where all players are assigned roles as if they were in a Spaghetti …
Read More »Advance to Boardwalk Board Game
For decades Monopoly had been an extremely popular board game for many players of all ages, and in 1985 Parker Brothers decided to make a spin-off of the original Monopoly by making a board game that took place only on the famous Boardwalk space. By landing on Boardwalk in Monopoly …
Read More »Free Parking, Feed the Meter Card Game
Free Parking is a unique card game that fits the mold of a Mille Bornes where players have to be able to move without getting in trouble. You can either get Free Parking as part of a 2-game bundle along with Waterworks or you can get Free Parking by itself. …
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