In I Want My Teeth Back, players strategically decide when to spin a wheel for an opportunity to collect missing teeth. The first player to collect a full “mouthful” of the teeth wins.
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It’s the early 90s. Baggy jeans and flannel shirts reign supreme, and the unmistakable sound of dial-up internet fills the air. Dan DiLisio, the coolest kid in your neighborhood, is heading off to University, and is letting you and your school friends raid his beloved music collection before he goes.
In return he’s asked you to make him a mixtape for his road trip up to college. To make things more interesting he’s said that the kid who makes the best tape will win his Quantum Leap poster signed by Scott Bakula.
Man, you really want that poster…
“I Made You a Mixtape” is a I-split-you-choose card game where you will be competing with the other players to make the best compilation possible out of an album collection. Your tape will be judged on how well it’s themed, how the tracks flow with each other, and the balance of lengths between side A and side B.
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A vengeful samurai has risen from beyond the grave, seeking the ruin of the Empress that betrayed him. In search of three imperial treasures, the spirit ravages all in his wake. Now the Empress must call upon her three most trusted hunters to locate the Ravager before he exacts his vendetta.
Hunt the Ravager is an asymmetric, card-driven game of hidden movement where 2-4 players will each take turns as the Ravager or the hunters seeking him. The Ravager will score points for destroying the land and successfully returning treasures to his hidden lair. The hunters will need to quickly locate the Ravager to protect the treasures and minimize the ruin to the Empress’ lands.
Hunt the Ravager
– Hidden movement, card based, asymmetric game for 2-4 players with a feudal Japan theme.
– Beautifully presented with artwork from the acclaimed Andrew Bosley.
– Modular game board and point based rather than binary victory conditions, makes each game played completely unique!
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Connor’s murder mystery birthday party goes wrong when the game ends abruptly, his roommate is dead, and he must decide which of his friends is the killer.
Be the detective and help Connor prove his innocence.
Put your detective skills to the test with Game Night Gone Wrong, a gripping true crime board game from Hunt A Killer. A party turns deadly—and it’s up to you to figure out who did it, how, and why. Examine realistic evidence, analyze witness statements, and uncover hidden motives in this mystery game designed for solo or group play.
Difficulty 3/5
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The Hunger is a race in which each vampiric player must optimize their card deck, hunt humans to gain victory points, fulfill secret missions, and eventually acquire a rose and return to the castle before sunrise. The more you hunt, the slower both you and your deck become, which will make it harder and harder to get back before daybreak. Can you become the most notorious vampire without burning to ashes at sunrise?
During the game, players spend “speed” to move their vampires around the map, hunt humans worth victory points, and add new cards to their deck.
The game ends at dawn, after which the surviving player with the most victory points on their cards wins!
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Human Punishment is a combination of social deduction, social experiment, and party game for 4-16 players. Each player takes on the role of a human, a machine, or an outlaw in a distant future. Players must investigate others to figure out who is on their side, grab one of the four different weapons, and eliminate the enemies. Stay focused because hidden enemies may be on your team! Find your team, trust no one!
The traitor mechanism in Human Punishment transforms the table into a social experiment…
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Hot Streak is a game for hard luck gamblers who love to bet on and scream at the racers, who in this case happen to be mascots who may (or may not) keep running in the right direction.
At the start of the game, set up the racing deck with one card for each mascot and a number of random cards based on the player count. Reveal these cards to all players, after which players draft a betting ticket from those on display, then in reverse order draft a second bet. For each bet, you can play it safe — or flip it to the risky side, which might pay out more – or cost you money if you lose. After betting, each player chooses one of three cards in their hand to secretly add to the racing deck.
Shuffle the deck, burn three cards, then reveal cards one by one from the deck, moving the mascots along the track, with them sometimes swerving into another lane and knocking over another racer, sometimes turning around, sometimes all moving at once, and sometimes just going backwards! If a racer runs off the track or would be knocked over while already fallen, they’re disqualified. If needed, shuffle all cards in the deck, burn three cards again, and keep racing until all four spots on the box podium are filled. Pay out bets based on these results.
For races #2-3, first deal each player a random card from the deck, then place bets again, then have each player contribute a card from their hand to the deck. After race #3, everyone tallies their money.
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Lead the undercover investigation against five criminal groups to gather enough evidence to convict them. However, if you investigate too aggressively, the criminals will smell a rat and go dark!
In each round of Hot Lead, criminal cards are displayed in a column equal to the number of players. Players then make their bid by simultaneously revealing an investigator card from their hand. The highest investigator bid takes the criminal card closest to the deck, the second highest takes the second closest, and so on. These cards are worth points equal to their face value (0-5).
Gather enough evidence on one criminal organization to convict them when the game concludes after ten rounds; in game terms, by having exactly three of a suit, you earn 10 bonus points. Ten bonus points are also awarded to those who acquire criminal cards of all five suits. If you investigate too aggressively and grab the fourth card of a suit, those criminals will sense a rat and you’ll scare them underground, thereby losing all of those cards. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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Pandora’s Box has been opened, and Greece’s most notorious monsters have escaped.
Horrified: Greek Monsters is a standalone game that features gameplay similar to 2019’s Horrified. In this co-operative game, players become avatars of the Greek gods and must work together to re-capture these monsters.
To do that, they must first uncover the monsters’ lairs. Medusa, Cerberus, Chimera, and Minotaur are hidden in locations that must be discovered: the Statue Garden, Underworld Door, Chimera’s Cave, and Labyrinth. Similar to the myths that inspired the game, uncovering the lairs comes with a cost: Players must discard three color items before the lair token can be flipped over to reveal which monster’s hideout they’ve discovered.
Horrified: Greek Monsters includes six monsters, each with unique abilities, and the more monsters in the game, the harder the challenge, with players needing to use their unique powers to figure out how to defeat each monster.
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Richard Garfield introduces Hive Mind™, a party game that rewards thinking alike, and there are no wrong answers! Gather 3-12 friends and family, then choose and ask questions everyone might answer the same, because thinking differently might send you right off the board! “What are 3 unusual pets?” “What are the 4 best ice cream flavors?”
In Hive Mind™, players answer trivia and opinion questions trying to match their answers with other players, scoring points for each match they achieve. They don’t have to be correct! They just have to be the same as what other players think. Each round, players will roll the die to determine how many lowest scoring answers move down the player board. Then a question will be asked, and answers given and scored. Once one or more players moves lower than level six, they are eliminated from the Hive Mind and everyone else wins!
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