Board Game Posts

Dish it up at the Blue Spoon Diner! Flap Jack Mac has your orders ready, and your tables are filled with hungry customers. Serve them quickly, and you will cash in on tips.

Can you help the little kid who lost his baseball mitt? Look out for the cranky cus- tomers, too. With the help of lovable cooks, you will stir up and dish out fun.

Components

• 8 Cook Tiles
• 8 Main Dish
• 8 Side Order or Dessert Tiles
• 8 Beverage Tiles
• 2 Matt and 2 Mitt Tiles
• 4 Cranky Customer Tiles
• 20 Gamewright Bucks
• 8 Guest Checks
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Turn over tiles and try to match them to the pictures on your guest checks. Each time you match all the pictures on one guest check, you get a tip (one priceless Gamewright buck!). …

Components

• 48 lifesavers
• 7 flamingoes
• 4 lifeboats
• 2 alligators
• 1 game board
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Score the most points by flinging your lifesavers around the flamingoes on the board, while avoid ringing any alligators.

Setup

1. Attach the flamingoes and alligators to the game board by inserting them into the slots. Insert the flamingoes into the slots with the pink circles and the alligators into the slots with the green circles.

2. Twist them to fit snugly in place.

   
   
   

3. Put the board on top of the box bottom and place it on a flat surface in the middle of the playing area. …

Components

• 11 Left Cards
• 11 Right Cards
• 11 Up Cards
• 11 Down Cards
• 8 Left/Right Cards
• 8 Up/Down Cards
• 5 Gorillas Cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Score the most points by successfully playing direction cards and capturing Priscilla the gorilla.

Setup

• Shuffle the cards and divide them into the same number of draw piles as there are players. The piles don't need to have equal amounts of cards because you can draw from any pile.

• Place the draw piles face down in the center of the playing area within reach of all players. …

Components

• 15 transit cards
• 6 summary cards
• 6 subway boards
• 6 dry-erase markers
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Compete against your opponents by traveling through as many subway stations as possible using a finite number of movements.

Visit the most stops, score the most points, and win the game.

Setup

1. Give each player a subway board, dry-erase marker, and summary card.

2. Decide on which subway map you'll be traveling across this game. (We recommend the "Metro City" map if this is your first time playing). …

Components

• 100 cards (numbered 1 to 100)
• 1 Hi-Lo chip
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Score points by winning discard piles, while also trying to be the first player out of cards.

Setup

1. Grab a piece of paper and a writing utensil to keep track of scores. Nominate a scorekeeper.

2. Shuffle the deck thoroughly, and deal each player a hand of 7 cards, face-down.

3. Place the remaining cards face-down in the center of the play area as a draw pile.

4. Flip the Hi-Lo chip and place it next to the draw pile. If the chip landed on "Hi" the oldest player starts, if it landed on "Lo" the youngest player starts. …

Components

• 200 cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Collect the most cards by guessing whether the group's answer to a question is either over, under, or exactly the correct amount.

Setup

Pull out a stack of 20-40 cards and place them question-side up in the middle of the playing area. Put the box of cards off to the side.

Game Play

Whoever last walked under a bridge starts the game as the first question master.

When you're the question master, take the stack of cards and read aloud any one of the three questions on the top card without looking at the answer on the back. …

Twin It! is a game of fast visual reflexes. The aim is to spot and collect 2 identical pattern cards. Before playing, choose which of 3 modes you want to play: Competitive, Team, or Cooperative.

Components

• 135 cards
• 60 second sand timer
• Instructions

Competitive Mode

(2 to 6 players)

Object of the Game

Win 5 sets of cards (a set consists of 2 or 3 identical cards).

Setup

1. Shuffle the cards thoroughly and deal them out as equally as possible between the players.
2. Stack your cards in a pile in front of you so everyone can see them.

Game Play

The player wearing the most colors begins and play continues to the left. On your turn, reveal the top card from your pile (turning it towards the other players and not towards you) and place it in the center of the playing area, wherever there is space. …

Components

• 175 Perk cards
• 225 Red Flag cards
• Instructions

Setup

Separate the white cards (Perks) from the red cards (Red Flags) and place them in stacks on the table where all players can reach them. Pick a player to be the Single. The player who's been on the most dates makes a great first Single.

Everyone else takes 4 Perks and 3 Red Flags.

Object of the Game

For a short game, play twice around the table. For a longer game, say that the first player to seven points wins. Or just play until none of you want to go on a date ever again. …

Break the Code is a logical deduction game played with Number Tiles and Question Cards. You win if you can guess all of your opponent's tiles. Put on your thinking cap!

Components

• 20 Number Tiles
• 21 Question Cards
• 4 Game Screens
• 2 Rule Sheets
• 1 Memo Pad
• Instructions

For 2 Players

Setup

Place all of the Number Tiles face down and shuffle them. Place your Game Screen in front of you, then randomly take five tiles. Place them face up behind your screen in numerically ascending order starting from the left. …

Components

• 85 Tiles
• 12 Explorers
• 21 Glynium discs
• 1 Guardian
• 4 Rule Sheets
• 1 Variant Sheet
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Players collect Glynium by towing it onto their Mother Ship with an Explorer. The Glynium collected is scored as follows: Yellow - 1 Point, Blue - 2 Points, Red - 3 Points.

Whoever has the most points at the end of the game is the winner. The game ends when no other player can surpass the score of the current leader. Collected Glynium should always be kept in plain sight so that all players can know the current score. …