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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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After years of research and seraching, you have concluded that the legend of El Dorado is in fact, just a myth. But wait! The Amazon holds one last clue to: The Mystery of El Dorado!
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This game is just elegantly smooth in how it plays. Simple mechanics, easy to learn, and so much fun to deduce where the thief is.
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What do you say about a game when the entire box is covered with super adorable cat art, and even unfolds to become a cat?
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Incantatum! Open magical portals through the power of crystallized Animus spirits. A bingo-powered game for up to 6 players, perfect for families of all ages.
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Decktective is a mystery presented as a deck of cards with a full case for 1-6 detectives to solve.
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Nick reviews the first edition of Boomerang, a phenomenal small box game. Draft cards to collect photos and souvenirs all around Australia, but be careful that your “throw” card is less than the final card you “catch”!
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Roll dice and grab chickens from the coop to put in your bag. Cook the chickens for more points while stealing chickens from your fellow crafty foxes. Can you win the best chicken dinner?
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Darkness falls in Sunnydale. Vampires and demons rise from the shadows, but they’re not the only ones. When Buffy is pitted against her allies, who will win?
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In Dream Runners, your goal is to banish nightmares and maintain your serenity so you can acquire dream points and get out of the dream world as fast as you can!
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