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1) Pandemic
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In this game, players collaborate as members of a disease-fighting team combating four deadly diseases. The team travels around the world to stop the infection and develop resources for the cures. Players win by discovering cures for the four diseases, but lose if they do cannot do so fast enough or if they fail to effectively keep the number of infections in check.
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Players attempt to gain the most points through claiming routes and completing paths of routes through North America.
3) Carcassonne
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Players place land tiles to develop roads, cities, fields, and cloisters, and deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights and monks to score points as they develop the land around the medieval city of Carcassonne.
6) Mysterium
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"In this asymmetric cooperative game, one player adopts the role of the ghost and the others play as psychics. All players share the same goal of shedding light on the strange circumstances surrounding the ghost's death and laying his spirit to rest at last. Unable to speak, the ghost attempts to communicate by sending visions to the gathered psychics, who will be able to reconstruct the events of the fateful evening by correctly interpreting these...
7) Jenga
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Remove one block at a time from below the top layer of the tower and stack it on top. Last player to stack a block without causing the tower to fall wins the game.
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This classic game of luck, strategy, and determination is easy to grasp for children as young as 6 years old, yet it's fun for adults and older siblings too. By drawing cards, players move their game pieces around the board, hoping to eventually accumulate all their pieces at the final destination--home sweet home. Sorry is known as the game of "sweet revenge," since players can send each other's pawns back to the starting line, thus forcing one another...
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Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. Everyone gets a chance to be the judge. Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events.
10) Dominion
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"You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people,...
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Betrayal at House on the Hill continues the tradition of great Avalon Hill games. This horror-themed tile game never plays the same way twice. You build the house tile by tile, room by room using 50 haunting scenarios. During the game, one player becomes the traitor and must be defeated.
Face your terror as it builds-tile by tile. Take a deep breath before you enter. It might be your last. Your fear will grow with each tile you place as you investigate...
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"Create your own journey with Tsuro, the Game of the Path. Place a tile and slide your stone along the path created, but take care! Other players' paths can lead you in the wrong direction-- or off the board entirely! Find your way wisely to succeed by staying on the board."--Container.
13) Patchwork
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The game requires the players to design a quilt with limited funds in a limited amount of time.
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We designed Trekking through History for gamers and non-gamers to play together. The goal was to make a game inviting for non-gamers, but with a little subtlety under the hood for gamers. In the game, you go on a three-day tour of human history, traveling thousands of years in a time machine to experience great moments from our past. The game takes place over three rounds, each representing one day of your trip. Each day, you visit a series of historical...
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"The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources, and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water. As terraforming progresses, more and more people will immigrate from Earth to live on the Red Planet. In Terraforming Mars, you control a corporation with a certain profile. Play project cards, build up...
16) The game of life
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In The Game of Life game players choose a path and move their car tokens around the gameboard from Start to Retirement. Who is headed for wealth and fortune? Pick a path for a life of action, unexpected surprises, and dream vacations, but spend cash wisely because the wealthiest player at the end wins the game. Includes pets.
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"Introducing Century, a series of exciting and wonderfully addictive stand-alone, mixable games. Each title is set in different centuries, from the 15th to the 17th, and depicts the major trading systems and routes of these eras. While quick and easy to learn, the century trilogy will fully engage even the most strategic players. Discover the beauties of the spice trading road and its colorful markets with the amazing artwork by international renowned...
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"Wits & Wagers is history's most award-winning party game. Why does everyone love Wits & Wagers? Because you don't need to know the answers to win! The excitement is betting on the best guess. First, everyone writes down a guess to a fun question like 'What percent of bank robberies are committed by women?' Then players bet on which guess is closest to the right answer"--Amazon.com product description.
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As a skilled artisan, use tools of the trade and careful planning to construct the most beautiful stained glass window in the Sagrada Familia. Gain prestige by adapting to the preferences of your fickle admirers, and of course, by adding your own artistic flair while completing your glass masterpiece. Glass pieces are represented by dice, which have a color and shade (indicated by the values on the dice). Each round, players take turns drafting from...






