Board Game Posts

Don't let these devious creatures fool you! Hungering for fireflies, they will quickly gather 'round, lest you give them what they crave.

Some will butt heads and go back into the dark forest, while others will stay, no matter what. In the end, a collection of cute little smiling creatures will surround you... For better or worse!

Components

• 50 Cards
• 40 Beads
• 1 bag to store the beads
• Instructions

Object of the Game

In a series of 10 rounds, players bid fireflies (beads) to get their hands on creatures that will earn them the highest score. …

Counterfeit Ovoid

There are two Ovoids instead of one, so not only will you have to find the Ovoid, you'll have to figure out whether it's a counterfeit!

Discovering the True Ovoid: The Cipher card reveals which Ovoid is real. The other Ovoid is worthless.

Setup: When preparing the Cosmic Pool, deal 8 cards instead of 6. Then randomly add one of the two Cipher cards to the deck, placing the other in the game box without looking at it. Add the Dark Ovoid to the deck, and re-shuffle before dealing envelopes. …

Components

• 30 Cardboard feathers
• 20 Cardboard coins
• 6 Fabric Bandanas (with Velcro strip)
• 12 Adhesive Velcro buttons
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

In Coyote, the players play the role of Indians. Each player wears a bandana around his head with one "feather". The goal is to guess the value of all the feathers without knowing your own!

If you can guess the correct value, you win! But usually, you'll win by bluffing. Whoever guesses wrong will be a true coyote!

Setup

Before your first game, carefully remove all 20 coins. Take the 12 coins with a picture of a coyote and attach one of the Velcro buttons to the back of each. …

Components

• 1 Game Board
• 5 Player Boards
• 162 Locomotives 52 Wooden Passengers
• 6 Tracker Disks
• 1 Hexagon
• 15 Player Disks
• 1 Round Marker
• Instructions

Setup

1 Place the game board in the center of the table.

2 Place one Passenger on each city. Cities are marked with this icon:

3 Place the 6 Tracker disks and white Hexagon Tracker on their matching spaces on the counting chart on the game board.

4 Place the locomotives next to the game board.

5 Players choose a color and take the matching player board and player disks. …

Once upon a time, there was a happy ending: ".. and so, the valiant prince slew the evil dragon and saved the beautiful princess!"

But in the Land of Dark Tales, it's not always that way, and not everyone lives happily ever after. In the deep woods, you can meet disturbing creatures that reject the light, ready to deceive with enchanted items and powerful curses.

Choose your companions and servants with care, and use their intriguing abilities at the right moment, and live the plot of your own Dark Tales! …

The greatest origami masters face off for the title, using their magic to make origami creations really come to life! Can your knowledge of the art of folding paper impress the judges and earn you the title of "Best Origami Artist"?

Components

• 18 farm cards
• 18 skycards
• 18 sea cards
• 18 savannah cards
• 18 lawn cards
• A slip of paper to make the Starting Player origami
• Instructions

Setup

During the game, you will use a number of families equal to the number of players (e.g.: with 3 players use 3 families). You can freely choose which families to use, but take care to always add all the cards of the chosen families. …

In Glen More II: Chronicles, each player is the clan leader of a Scottish clan from the early medieval ages until the 19th century, looking to expand their territory and wealth.

The success of your clan depends on your ability to make the right decision at the right time - by growing barley for whisky production, by selling your goods on the various markets, by befriending clans in the scottish Highlands, or by gaining control of special landmarks such as lochs and castles. …

Components

• Game board
• 400 cards with 3200 words
• sand timer
• 6 game pieces
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Explain words using other words, synonyms or opposites! Try to get your partner or team to correctly guess as many words as possible before the sand in the timer runs out.

You can move your game piece forward on the game board as many steps as your team had correct guesses, and the team that's first to reach the finish space wins the game!

Game Play

1. 

   Shuffle the word cards and place them in piles next to the game board. The players form teams of at least two people, and agree on the order the teams get to explain and guess. …

Components

• Game board
• 400 cards with 3200 words
• sand timer
• 2 game pieces
• instructions.

Object of the Game

The players form two teams.

The men form one team, and the women the other! Both teams will try to be the first to reach the finish space by explaining and guessing words correctly.

However, there's a catch! The men will have to explain women's words from women's world to each other, and women will have to explain men's words. Alias is full of excitement and fun! Can you find the right words? …

In FAMILY ALIAS you say things in other words! Explain words using synonyms, opposites and other clues and help your partner guess as many words as possible before time runs out.

Both the explainer and guesser get to move forward on the board as many steps as they got words right.

Components

• 300 "family" cards
• 180 "adult" cards
• 20 "WILD" cards
• 1 sand timer
• 8 player pawns
• Gameboard with spinner base and arrow
• Instructions

Object of the Game

The first player to reach the victory space wins the game! …