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22) Shopping list
Publisher
Orchard Toys
Language
English
Description
Find the food on your shopping list and be the first to fill your trolley" Winner "Best Toy" Petit Filous and Right Start Award, Basically a form of shopping pelmanism, where you remember the tiles that other players rejected. Each player takes a trolley and a shopping list and the cards are spread out face-down on the table. Players turn over the cards in turn. If on their list the card goes into their trolley, otherwise it is replaced face-down...
23) Anti-Monopoly
Author
Publisher
University Games Corporation
Language
English
Description
The basic of the game is to end the monopolistic pratices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board. The players are Trust-Busting lawyers going about the board slapping lawsuits on the monopolies. The winning true buster is the one who ends with the largest number of social-credit points when one of the players runs out of money.
24) Pandemic
Author
Publisher
Z-Man Games
Language
English
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"-- boardgamegeek.com.
25) Apples to apples
Author
Publisher
Out of the Box
Language
English
Description
Its the game of hilarious comparisons, ready for party play! In each round, a new judge draws a Description Card. Youve got to decide which card in your hand matches the Description in play, and hope the judge thinks your card is the best. And with so many cards in this version, itll never be the same game twice! -- Boardgamegeek.com
26) Myth: pantheons
Author
Publisher
AEG Alderac Entertainment Group
Language
English
Description
In Myth, each player takes the role of a mythic deity, vying to gain the worship of the ancient worlds great cities and gain the most followers. One player may have a goddess of the harvest and fertility, multiplying her followers, as another player with a trickster deity steals away valuable wealth and rewards. Will you declare war on your enemies, send sickness to decimate their followers, smite them with lightning, or see the future in...
28) Stare!
Publisher
Game Development Group Inc
Language
English
Description
Quickly - you have 20 seconds to stare at the image on the card. It might be a movie poster, an old advert, a comic, a funny photo, or maybe even a work of art. When the timer runs out, you'll be asked a series of questions about the image - What color is the woman's hat? How man teddy bears do you see? In which hand is the man holding the gun? "How much can you recall? Don't worry, wild guesses count. Answer correctly and you keep going - unless...
29) Mag Blast
Author
Publisher
Fantasy Flight Games
Language
English
Description
The art of renowned cartoonist John Kovalic, coupled with the hilarious "Make a silly noise or miss!" Blast targeting system, makes MagBlast (third edition) the perfect card game for two to eight players, ages ten and up. This edition retains all of the fast-paced fun and powerful ships of the previous edition, and it includes eight new flagships, seven ship types, twenty action card types (including fighters and bombers) and three blast card types...including...
Author
Publisher
Steve James Games
Language
English
Description
Players choose orders (sometimes randomly, sometimes not) from the figuraatively menu, and try to fill them with cards from their hands. Some orders are easy, like the Cowabunga, One cow meat, one bun. Some are a little harder, like the chickabunga Conga, same as Chicabunga (Bird meat plus bun), plus fries and s drink.Sound easy? Mow try your hand at a Lord of the fries, a meat munch, or the infamous pattriarch (fish, meat , Cheese, bun, fries, drink...
31) Batt'l kha'os
Author
Publisher
Z-Man Games Inc
Language
English
Description
Battle rages on between orcs and knights. Purple and Orange form a chaotic melee and no-one knows which side will win this battle. Mage towers scattered on the battlefield are strategic objectives, and it soon appears that whomever controls the most towers will reap the seeds of victory. Players place tiles to form majorities of their army on the corners of towers: when all 4 corners are resolved, the player with the majority of corners seizes control...
Author
Publisher
Minion Games
Language
English
Description
Those pesky humans game turns the tables and lets you play the role of the monsters who are fighting off the annoying humans who keep invading you dungeon. this game is playable aganst one or team of your friends. It is highly re-playable due to the variable dungeon tile design and variety of Avitars and abilities you may choose to play with each game. Mechanics are kept very simple to keep the pace of the game moving forward.
34) Black stories
Author
Language
English
Description
50 Black stories, 31 crimes, 49 Corpses, 11 Murders, 12 suicides, and one deadly meal. How could that have happened? Black Stories are fiddly, morbid and mysterious riddles for teenagers and adults. The players try to reconstruct the crime by asking, guessing and fiddling about. A spooky card game just right for a party.
35) Take the train
Publisher
Bicycle Boardgames
Language
English
Description
Head down the tracks of luck AND strategy in this fast-moving sequencing card game. Be the first to get rid of your cards with the most Train Fares left and you win! Wherever your cards take you, this journey is sure to be and adventure in FUN!
36) Fuse
Author
Publisher
Renegade Game Studios
Language
English
Description
Intruders have made their way onto your ship, and their goal is total destruction! More than twenty bombs have been detected onboard, and the countdown has begun. Your elite Bomb Defusal Team (BDT) has been called upon to neutralize the threat. Does your team have what it takes to work through the intricacies of the bombs and defuse them all in time? Fuse is a real time co-operative game that employs 25 dice and 65 cards. Each game is set to a ten...
37) Abandon ship
Author
Publisher
AEG/Alderac Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Abandon ship is a game in which you play to move your group of rats off the ship before the rising water drowns them. The Nvrsnks is also loaded with valuable points-earning cheese, but don't let desire for that lovely food send your rats to the watery death. Your opponent may also share some of the rats in your group; they may want to move the rats in a different manner than you.
38) Snow tails
Author
Publisher
Lamont Brothers
Language
English
Description
This is a special promo track, called The Leap of Death" for the game "Snow Tails". Here are the rules for the special promo track: To clear this particularly dangerous obstacle, sleds must cross the purple line with a speed of at least 5. A sled below this speed takes 1 dent card for each point of speed below 5. Furthermore, if a sled ends its movement on a crevasse square, the player doesnt refill his hand (as if colliding with another sled)....
Author
Language
English
Description
In this notorious game, an inversion of Clue, you hate Doctor Lucky. Maybe he left you out of his will. Maybe he killed your pet rock. Whatever the reason, you want him dead. Unfortunately, so do the other players. Since you don't want to go to jail, you need to make your attempt in secret; if anybody can see you, whistle nonchalantly, and let the Doctor live ... until next time. Players move around the mansion, collecting murder weapons (to make...
40) Risk
Author
Language
English
Description
"Take over the world in this game of strategy conquest, now with updated figures and improved Mission cards. In the Risk game, the goal is simple: players aim to conquer their enemies territories by building an army, moving their troops in, and engaging in battle. Depending on the roll of the dice, a player will either defeat the enemy or be defeated. This exciting game is filled with betrayal, alliances, and surprise attacks. On the battlefield,...
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