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Quatorze seems like a short filler game, but it’s deeply strategic. It will probably take longer to learn it than to play it the first time.
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It’s rush hour! Can you build a network of busses, trains, and ferries to get every commuter home to the suburbs?
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All players race to come up with words or short phrases that connect the ideas on each pair of dice. Try to come up with something for all ten possible combinations before time runs out.
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Who can win control of the lake? Block Ness is a 3D area control game, and we review it in 5 minutes.
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Bye Felicia! is one of the few party games that makes the cut to stay in my library. It’s light and easy to teach, but gets your brain working.
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“It has been fifteen years since the Great Battle. Fifteen years since our esteemed Engineers from the Citadel of Time made their wrenching decision and created The Fold; fifteen years since the last assemblage – and ultimate sacrifice – of the Tidal Blades.”
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Place numbered clovers into a 4×4 grid. Can you make 4 rows and 4 columns where all numbers ascend?
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Toy Story: Obstacles & Adventures is a cooperative deck-building game. Take on the roles of iconic Toy Story characters and work together to overcome hazards. The game includes six different adventures that will have players jumping back into action faster than Woody can say, “There’s a snake in my boot!”
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Design your Meeple Land theme park – full of fun rides and attractions for all kinds of meeples… Wait, where’s the bathroom?
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The baby hedgehogs are playing dress up, but they don’t have spiky quills like mom and dad. How can they dress up and pretend to be adults? Maybe with this bag of pointy leaves?
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Play fruit-themed cards one at a time into columns. But don’t peek at what you’ve played before! Test your memory with this simple but challenging card game.
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The two of us don’t usually love social deduction games, but having the die as the focus of the game gives a concrete goal. I want to get my die value high (or possibly low). Having that concrete goal made King of 12 a game we could really enjoy.
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The Key feels a lot like a logic grid puzzle. As you work to gather your clues, you’ll feel that you’re getting closer and closer until you find the key piece of information that makes everything else snap into place. More complex than games like Outfoxed and Concluzio, this might be the next step if your family wants a more challenging deduction game.
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The snails are racing through the garden and over the wall (and over each other!) Which snails will make it to the winners’ podium? A great game for younger kids to play with their whole family.
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A security guard caught you red-handed sneaking into the school library late at night for some before-the-final cramming. Your penance is to sort and reshelve all the books that need to be cleaned up! Athenenum: Mystic Library is a drafting and spatial planning game for 2-5 players ages 10 and up. It takes between 30-45 minutes to sort and shelve
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A legacy game with rules that gently ramp up over time – and NO conflict! We think it’s perfect for families.
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Once I started placing chisels, I was sucked in. If I could just get one more chisel over there, I’d split off a big enough chunk and get the fossils I wanted! Maybe I could add just a single chisel to someone else’s line – a tiny investment for a big payoff. What’s underneath that face-down tile, anyway?
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Roll the bones and bluff your way to riches in this wonderfully piratey filler game best at 5-6 players. Izzy & Nick tell all in 6 minutes.
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In Orbital Velocity, two teams compete to get their satellites into orbit. For the purposes of the game, each orbit can only hold a single satellite, so the first team to each orbit wins the round.
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