Skull

Do you like misleading people? Do you want to lure other people to their doom? Do you like to damn the torpedoes and go full speed ahead to achieve victory? No? Huh. That’s awkward. Just uh, push the back button then I think.

Sushi Go!

Sushi Go! is a great introduction to the pick and pass mechanic that you’ll see in many other games such as 7 Wonders or Caper. Your goal is to collect sets of sushi cards that work together to score you sweet sweet points. You can’t eat the cards.

Hey, That’s My Fish!

Here FISHY FISHY FISHY! The game starts with player having penguins sitting on ice flows that have fish on them.As you move and eat fish, the ice flows disappear. Eventually your penguins have no other place to move to. The game ends when all the penguins are stranded, alone in the universe.

Pit

Not a game for quiet spaces. Everyone is yelling at the same time, trying to trade their commodities with each other as quickly as they can. The idea is that you are dealt a hand of wheat, oats, fruit bats, breakfast cereals, etc, and you must trade sets of items for other sets of items to make a hand of all one type of good. There’s no turn structure, the fastest trades the mostest. Is this the first real-time board game? It came out in 1904, so I imagine it’s a contender.

Crokinole

Flick me up (before you go go). Are you even Canadian if you’ve never played this? Huh? Are you? Maple syrup ain’t got nothing on this. Go ride a moose and eat some back bacon you hoser. The Queen and I both played this as children, so we bought our board shortly after we got married 21 years ago, well before we got in to hobby board games.

Forbidden Island

The Island is sinking, man, and I don’t wanna swim. A group of explorers have come to the Forbidden Island to find the lost treasures. As previously mentioned there’s a plot twist; the island is sinking. Now those explorers must hurry to find the treasure, and to save their own lives.

Solar Draft

Do you want to build a Solar System? C’mon, let’s go and play. Solar Draft is a family-friendly card drafting game where you build a solar system full of cute planetary bodies with very expressive, and very cute faces. Come for the art, stay for the gameplay.

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