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Get the gun and shoot the Snitch. Escape a maximum security prison with your fellow inmates by smuggling a gun inside. Work together and use your prison contacts cleverly.

But beware! At any moment, one of your associates might become the Snitch. If he foils your painstaking plans, he wins. Or maybe... there is no Snitch at all.

Components

• 50 Prison Contacts
• 3 Escape Plans
• 1 The Snitch Card
• 1 Guard Card
• 1 Soap Bar
• 1 Cardboard Gun
• 1 Interrogation Deck Token
• 3 Overview Cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

The players try to complete 5 Schemes in order to get the gun inside the prison.They do this by playing cards facedown underneath other player's Schemes. …

Call them smiley faces or emoticons; cither way, everyone's made one. A wink ;) or a frown :( tells people exactly how you're feeling. Well, if you can make a smiley face, you can play SmileyFace. So slop typing and start smiling! :D

SmileyFace is an emotion-filled card game for four to eight players. The player who acquires the most points over the course of seven rounds wins the game.

In each round, players take turns playing cards from four different emoticon-themed suits (happiness, sadness, surprise, and anger). …

Components

• game board
• 70 fish cards
• 4 market full cards
• 75 wooden fish
• 30 worms
• 5 buyers
• Instructions

Setup

• Each player takes all the fish of one color and six worms; place the remainder back in the box. Each player places one of his fish on the zero space of the scoring track [1]

• Place the five buyers randomly among the markets, with no more than one buyer at any market[2].

• Shuffle the fish cards and deal four cards face up in a single row (the "ocean"). Place the remainder of the deck face down next to the last card dealt [3]. …

Non-fictional Characters

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  Abraham Lincoln - The 16th president of the United States, national hero, and abolisher of slavery.

  
  
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  Agatha Christie - An English writer known for her detective novels revolving around her fictional characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

  She also wrote the murder mystery The Mousetrap and the novel And Then There Were None.

  
  
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  Albert Einstein - A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity and influenced the philosophy of science.

  
  
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  Blackbeard - Edward Teach, a notorious English pirate who operated in the Caribbean. The captain of a vessel known as Queen Anne's Revenge. …

Components

• 28 Non-Fictional Character cards
• 28 Fictional Character cards
• 2 blank Character cards
• 24 Keyword cards
• 14 Action cards
• 16 Red Carpet cards
• 2 Spy standees
• 2 standee bases
• 2 dry-erase markers
• 2 double-sided Character sheets
• 2 double-sided Keyword sheets
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Players split up into 2 teams. The game is played over a series of rounds, during which 1 player becomes the Spy and receives a Character card.

The Spy's goal is to describe their Character in such a way that their team guesses who they are and the intercepting team cannot. Each team's goal is to be the First to guess the Character the Spy is talking about. …

A funny game of interactive storytelling! Everyone has cool stories to tell... time to dust off those old memories and share 'em! An excursion into snowy wastelands in a beat up old car?

A set of ninja stars you got for Christmas when you were 12? Tell your stories and other players will interact by hashtagging your story. You may even gain some followers along the way!

Components

• 200 Hashtag Cards
• 40 Double-sided Prompt Cards
• Score Pad
• Instructions

Setup

Divide out the cards into 2 decks:

• Hashtag …

The Portuguese summer is filled with lively outdoor festivals, called Arraial.

Each neighborhood, and even each street, hosts its own Arraial, where friends and neighbors join to enjoy music, food, and drink. In Arraial, players organize their own festivals. Whoever attracts the greatest number of visitors will win the game!

Components

• 1 Phase Marker
• 4 Couple Visitors
• 72 Color Pieces
• 56 Individual Visitors
• Manjerico First-Player Token
• 4 Street Boards
• 4 Level Bars
• 1 Phase Card
• 24 Color Piece Cards
• 1 Central Board
• Instructions

Setup

1 Place the Central Board in the middle of the table. …

Components

• 12 Goal Cards
• 80 Werechow Can Tokens
• 44 Auction Cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Collect Werebeasts that match your goals, but don't let anyone figure out which Werebeasts you're collecting.

Setup

Take the Werechow Goal card and randomly choose a number of Goal cards equal to one more than the number of players (for instance, with five players, use six goal cards and one Werechow Goal card).

Lay out the goal cards so everyone can see them.

Then take the Auction cards that match the chosen Goal cards (each Goal card has four corresponding Auction cards, except for the Werechow goal card). Return the unused Goal and Auction cards to the box. …

Components

• 40 Artichoke
• 6 Beet cards
• 6 Broccoli cards
• 6 Carrot cards
• 6 Corn cards
• 6 Eggplant cards
• 6 Leek cards
• 6 Onion cards
• 6 Peas cards
• 6 Pepper cards
• 6 Potato cards
• 4 player reference cards

Object of the Game

Harvest vegetables to build your deck and gain new powers, while abandoning Artichokes by any means necessary. If you're able to draw a hand free of Artichokes at the end of your turn, you win the game!

Setup

Give each player a reference card. Separate all 40 Artichoke cards from the rest of the stack. Deal 10 Artichoke cards face-down to each player, forming their Personal Deck, and return any left over to the tin. …

Nanuk is a card game for 5 to 8. The players are Inuit hunters in the Arctic, braving the wilderness to find food for the tribe.

The game is played in rounds, each of which has four phases: Boasting to decide who leads the hunt, Choosing Sides in which players decide whether to go on the hunt or stay home, Planning the Hunt, and Finishing the Hunt.

The more days a hunt lasts, the better the chance that the hunters will find the game they need . . . but the greater the danger of encountering Nanuk, the polar bear, ending their hunt in disaster. …