Category: Party Games

Green Team Wins

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The game is played over 15 rounds, where players will simultaneously answer one question at a time.

There are three types of questions: Fill in the Blank, This or That, and Multiple Choice. To set up the game, randomly choose 5 cards from each type and shuffle them.

Everyone will be asked the same question, then writes down their responses at the same time. All players with the winning answer join the Green Team and score points. If your answer is not the most popular among the other players, then you join the Orange Team and score zero points for that round. Players joining the Green Team from the Orange Team will score one point. Players who are on the Green Team and stay on it will earn two points.

But it’s not about having the best answer, or the smartest answer, or the funniest answer. Only the most popular answer wins – the one that the most players at the table wrote down.

To win, get on the Green Team, stay on the Green Team, and win – because that’s what the Green Team does. They win.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 12 Players
  • 15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.05

Good Cop Bad Cop (Third Edition)

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You’re a cop in a corrupted police district where you have to figure out who’s on your side and who’s not with the ultimate goal of eliminating the leader of the opposing team. You’ll use guns, equipment, deduction, and some social engineering to assist your allies and take down your enemies. But be quick ’cause there aren’t enough guns for everyone!

The 3rd Edition gives Good Cop Bad Cop, overall, makes the game a little easier to learn and play. It adds usability improvements in the graphic design of the cards, simplifies the wording of the equipment, reduces the rulebook to a single page, adds an equipment reference sheet, and removes player numbers on equipment entirely.

The set of equipment has been culled to provide a more consistent experience that keeps the game always moving towards a conclusion. One equipment was removed, one was added as new, and a few others were taken from expansions and promos.

The box art and design is new as well and it is the first game of the Pull the Pin Games line. The 3rd Edition is still compatible with all previous expansions and promos.

—description from the publisher

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 4 – 8 Players
  • 20 – 45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.33

GENSMAK!

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GENSMAK!

A party trivia game for everyone. That happens to be trivia. With strategy & hints by comedians. Designed for people of all ages to play. Even trivia skeptics.

Win by being the first to twenty points and correctly answering one question from every generation, so be strategic! Pay attention to the categories and difficulty levels of the cards you choose as you chart your path to glory— the game changes with every card.

Don’t know the answer? Take the hint! Our hints are mini logic problems and plays on words that give you a fighting chance at getting the answer right every time, even if you don’t get the reference. It’s a big reason people love the game, even those who typically hate trivia! As one fan says, “It’s like TikTok and Jeopardy had a love child!”

Enjoy hours of laughter, nostalgia, stories, and surprise with your favorite people. Love it or we’ll refund your money. No cap.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 10 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.67

For Sale

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For Sale is a quick, fun game nominally about buying and selling real estate. During the game’s two distinct phases, players first bid for several buildings then, after all buildings have been bought, sell the buildings for the greatest profit possible.

Rounding rule

The rounding rule preferred by the designer Stefan Dorra is that players get back half of their bid rounded DOWN (not UP), as confirmed in correspondence with him here and here. A history of how the rounding rule has changed in different editions is documented here.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 6 Players
  • 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.25

Feed the Kraken

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Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction game, with three asymmetric factions. All players may be sitting in the same boat, but they want to navigate in different directions! The loyal sailors must bring the ship safely to mainland, whereas the pirates crave to secretly maneuver the ship into the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile a crazy cultist is busy convincing parts of the crew to help him summon their dark lord —the Kraken— from the depth of the sea to save them all.

The goal of the game is to navigate the ship towards your final destination, which would be easy if only players weren’t divided into three different factions. Each secret faction wants to reach a different area of the board. Every turn the ship will sail in one of the three possible directions —but which one will it be? The current captain and their chosen lieutenant will study ancient sea maps and pass their often conflicting orders onto the chosen navigator, who has to make the final decision. Meanwhile the rest of the crew is busy drinking rum, gambling and telling each other tales of ancient sea monsters.

After each navigation, the lieutenant and navigator go off duty, and the captain has to find somebody sober enough to take their spot instead. Everyone can discuss, how well that last navigation went, who is to blame for the current course, and who should be in charge in the future instead. Convince your enemies that it is in their best interest to make you the next lieutenant, or navigator! You can even draw your guns and become the new captain in open mutiny! But for how long will you be able to keep the trust of your crew? The next mutiny might already be waiting for you if your decisions don’t please your fellow sailors.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 5 – 11 Players
  • 45 – 90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.17

Flip 7

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Flip over cards one by one without flipping the same number twice.

Sound easy? Think again! This isn’t just any deck of cards… In Flip 7 there’s only one 1 card, two 2’s, three 3’s, etc plus a bunch of special cards that can score you extra points, give you a second chance, or freeze you or your opponents in your tracks.

Are you the type of player to play it safe and bank points before you bust, or are you going to risk it all and go for the bonus points by flipping over seven in a row? Press your luck meets strategy in this addictive card game that’s sure to be the greatest card game you’ve ever played!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 18 Players
  • ~20 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.03

Everything Ever

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You’ve prepared your whole life for this. Every movie you’ve seen, every show you’ve watched, every song you’ve listened to, every place you’ve visited, every book you’ve read, every kind of food you’ve eaten, and every person you’ve ever heard of makes you better at this game. It’s finally time to get credit for everything you already know!

In Everything Ever, you and your friends take turns listing things from categories like “Every Dinosaur Movie” or “Every Brand of Soap”. Two category cards are in play, and on your turn, you must say something that fits in one category and something that fits in the other, with both of those somethings not having been said previously. If you can’t think of something, you can play a category card from the three in your hand to cover the one you’re blanking on, then name something from that new category. If you can’t think of something for a category, you must take that pile as a penalty, then flip a new category from the deck.

If you say something that fits both categories at the same time, you can either discard one of your penalty cards or draw a new category card from the deck, then play a third category card to the table. (Once someone is penalized, drop back to two categories.)

Keep your friends’ iffy answers in check with judge cards, and win by collecting the fewest cards once the deck runs out.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 10 Players
  • 20 – 60 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

GoodCritters

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It’s the most anticipated moment of any heist: time to split the loot. Of course, everybody trusts the boss to divide everything evenly, right? But will the boss be even-handed and make sure that every “made critter” gets a piece? Maybe the boss will pay off only some of them and keep the rest of it…

GoodCritters is a game for 4-8 criminal critters who are pulling off heists and fighting over the loot! Whoever is chosen as the boss can distribute the loot from the heist however they desire, but it’s the crew that has the final say. If the crew doesn’t like the split, they might just tell the boss to take a hike and put some other critter in charge! In the end, the critter that collects the most valuable stash of loot wins!

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 4 – 8 Players
  • 30 – 45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.44

dude

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dude is a game where you say “dude”. The word “dude” appears on each card in one of six different ways, with 12 dooode cards, 12 dewd cards, 12 dude. cards, 12 dude? cards, 12 tiny dude cards, and 12 tie-dyed dude cards.

The goal is to quickly find matches for as many of your cards as you can. To play, you say the word “dude” as you think it should be said, based on how it appears on your card. At the same time, listen to how the other players are saying the word “dude”. Trying to figure out whether you have the same card as another player is the essence of dude.

Game Mechanics:

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 6 Players
  • 1 – 5 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Decrypto

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Players compete in two teams in Decrypto, with each trying to correctly interpret the coded messages presented to them by their teammates while cracking the codes they intercept from the opposing team.

Each team has their own screen, and in this screen they tuck four cards in pockets numbered 1-4, letting everyone on the same team see the words on these cards while hiding the words from the opposing team. In the first round, one team member from each team takes a code card that shows three of the digits 1-4 in some order, e.g., 4-2-1. They then give a coded message using synonyms of the code words so that their teammate can guess the sequence. If the teammates guess incorrectly, the team receives a black mark of failure.

Subsequent rounds have the same structure, except now the other team can attempt to guess your code. If they’re correct, they receive a white mark of success; if not, then the first team must guess the number correctly or take a black mark of failure. (Guessing correctly does nothing except avoid failure and give the opposing team information about what our hidden words might be.)

The rounds continue until a team collects either its second white mark (winning the game) or its second black mark (losing the game). Games typically last between 4-7 rounds. If neither team has won after eight rounds, then each team must attempt to guess the other team’s words; whichever team guesses more words correctly wins.

Game Mechanics:

  • Communication Limits
  • Paper and Pencil
  • Team-Based Game

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 8 Players
  • 15 – 45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.83