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| Age | 8+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 |
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Classic/Nostalgia
Backgammon
Backgammon is a classic abstract strategy game dating back thousands of years. Each player has a set of 15 “men” that must be moved from their starting positions, around, and then off the board. Dice are thrown each turn, and each player must decide which of his men to move based on the outcome of the roll. Players can capture each other’s men, forcing the captured men to restart their journey around the board. The winner is the first player to get all 15 men off the board. A more recent addition to the game is the “doubling cube”, which allows players to up the stakes of the game, as it is often played for money. Although the game relies on dice to determine movement, there is a large degree of strategy in deciding how to make the most effective moves given each dice roll as well as measuring the risk in terms of possible rolls the opponent may get.
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Chinese Checkers
Chinese Checkers, or Stern-Halma, is a version of Halma supporting up to six players. Parenthetically, it is neither Chinese nor is it Checkers. In many countries, it’s known as Chinese Chess or China-Chess which is even less accurate and definitely shouldn’t be confused with Xiangqi which is the true Chess variant from China.
Trumpolicy
Dare to play with your friends and ebate the kind of society you want! Select and secure those policies you want. Prevent other players from securing policies they might want by using your political influence.
Masterpiece
Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir — paintings by the world’s most famous artists are on the auction block, for sale to the highest bidder. How high will you bid before the tension and bluffing get to you? And how good’s your eye — can you spot a forgery when you buy one?
Clue: The Big Bang Theory
Someone has meddled with one of his sacred belongings and he isn’t taking it lightly. He’s sequestered 6 of his so-called “friends” and created a white board to analyze who did it, what heinous deed was done, and where the act of vengeance took place.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Pizza Power Game, is based on the late 80’s cartoon of the same name. Players play as one of the four Turtles and move around the board while fighting enemies. Players can travel on the streets or through the sewers. Battles are handled with a ‘flipper’ which the players load dice into and attempt to shoot them into one of three numbered compartments. To win you must defeat 3 enemies, go to the Technodrome and recover the secret Mutogen.
Trivial Pursuit 90’s
Each player has a circular playing piece with six pie-shaped holes. The goal of the game is to collect a pie in each color. The colors correspond to different question categories.
Battleship
Battleship was originally a pencil-and-paper public domain game known by different names, but Milton Bradley made it into the well known board game in 1967. The pencil and paper grids were changed to plastic grids with holes that could hold plastic pegs used to record the guesses.