Category: Ω Board Games

Colossal Cat in the Box

| T3d-1978

Cat in the Box is a trick taking game where your suit is every color all at once – until you observe it. Players are dealt a hand of cards with no suit but different numbers, and over the course of the game they will claim various suits to best meet their bid. But be warned! Because of the nebulous nature of the cards, a paradox can form at any time! The player who causes the paradox will lose points, while everyone else will get the opportunity to score based off of their completed tricks and any patterns they made on the research board. 

Colossal Cat in the Box is a supersized version of Cat in the Box!

Game Mechanics:

  • Enclosure
  • Hand Management
  • Predictive Bid
  • Trick Taking

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • 20 – 40 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.00

Colonists, the

| T3d-1978

You and your opponents will take on the role of mayors of different villages forming in a newly established colony. The goal is to have the highest level of employment, and as mayor you’ll have to create jobs, educate your people, and strategically use your limited resources to expand your city and sow the seeds for greatness in the future.

Game Mechanics:

  •  Area Movement
  • Hand Management
  • Modular Board
  • Open Drafting
  • Solo/Solitaire
  • Tile Placement
  • Worker Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 30 – 360 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 4.06

Codex Naturalis

| T3d-1978

In Codex Naturalis, you are competing with your opponents to create the best manuscript of living species in primary forests. You’ll do this by placing down cards, overlapping them to assemble an overall manuscript, providing yourself with resources or points! You’ll have to plan carefully to maximize your points, and you’ll have to be willing to make sacrifices to get the best possible outcome.

Game Mechanics:

  •  Hand Management
  • Layering
  • Open Drafting
  • Pattern Building

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 20 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.74

Cockroach Poker

| T3d-1978

Cockroach Poker is a game filled with filthy critters that has nothing to do with poker – but everything to do with bluffing. The goal of the game is to force one player to have a set of 4 cards of one type of the 8 total critters – ranging from roaches to rats to bats to stinkbugs – making them the sole loser. This is done by a player passing a card face down to another player, claiming it as one type of card. The receiving player can either 1) flip it over, declaring whether or not they believe the first player or 2) peek at it and pass it to the next player, either saying what it is or bluffing. If you’re right in your accusation, the original player keeps the card. If you’re wrong, you keep the card. Keep the critters out of your play space, and don’t be the only loser!

Game Mechanics:

  • Hand Management
  • Set Collection
  • Single Loser Game

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • 20 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.10

Clue Escape: The World’s Fair Board Game

| T3d-1978

The crew from Clue is back, and this time they’re at the World’s Fair. But trouble seems to follow them as a brilliant scientist winds up dead. Uncover clues, solve puzzles, find out who, what, and where the murder happened, and see if you can escape!

Game Mechanics:

  • Cooperative Game
  • Modular Board

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 6 Players
  • 90 – 120 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.00

Clue Escape: Treachery at Tudor Mansion

| T3d-1978

It’s the classic clue game – in an escape room board game! You and your acquaintances have all been invited to Tudor Mansion for dinner by Boddy Black, who dramatically dies after he threatens to blackmail all of you. Now you must discover who killed him where and with what, and escape the mansion before it’s too late.

Game Mechanics:

  •  Cooperative Game
  • Modular Board

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 6 Players
  • 90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.33

Clever Cubed

| T3d-1978

Clever Cubed is a fun dice rolling game, where you’ll carefully choose dice to place them in matching colored areas to hopefully create chain-scoring opportunities! But be careful when you go big – your opponents can use your discarded dice if their value is lower than your chosen dice. May the cleverest player win!

Game Mechanics:

  •  Dice Rolling
  • Paper and Pencil
  • Re-rolling and Locking

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.39

Classified Information

| T3d-1978

You are part of the spy organization for one of the two factions in the cyberpunk city of Intellexia. You have been charged with the protection of a secret code that the other player cannot discover. But they have their own code which would be invaluable in this new dystopian world. The both of you will battle it out in this fast-paced deduction game, each turn either playing a card for its ability, its guild affiliation, or just discarding it out of the game. Pay close attention to what your opponent does, and obfuscate your own actions in Classified Information.

Game Mechanics:

  • Card Game
  • Deduction
  • Hand Management

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 10 – 15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.33

Claim 2

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

With the sudden death of the king and no known heirs, the kingdom is up for grabs! The only thing – you have to get the approval of at least 3 out of the 5 factions of the land to become the new ruler. And you’re not the only one wanting power. 

Claim 2 is a two player game split into two phases. In phase 1, players will play their cards to recruit followers from various factions to support their cause. In phase 2, players will use their followers to gain the favor of the different factions, giving them special powers to gain an edge over their opponent! Do you have what it takes?

Game Mechanics:

  •  Take That
  • Trick Taking

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 25 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.60

Civolution

| T3d-1978

Board Game Overview

Civolution is a euro game where you will compete over 4 “eons” (rounds) to create the most successful civilization. Will you give them the power of the wheel? Or maybe you’ll focus on evolving wings for them? The possibilities are endless, as you’ll face new challenges, along with new ways to play your dice and cards, each time you play.

Game Mechanics:

  •  Area Movement
  • Dice Rolling
  • Modular Board
  • Open Drafting
  • Pattern Building
  • Tech Trees/Tracks

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 90 – 180 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 4.22