Family Board Games Night - The Games That Made the Cut
- Helaina Cappel
- Oct 26, 2014
- 3 min read
When you join us on November 5th for Family Board Games Night in Support of the Daily Bread Food Bank, these are the games you have the option of playing:
Gulo Gulo
2-6 Players
Ages: 5 and up
Play time: 20 minutes
Each player is a Gulo, or wolverine, trying to rescue a baby Gulo who got caught by the swamp vulture whose eggs it was trying to steal.
Cockroach Poker
3-6 Players
Ages: 6 and up
Play time: 20 minutes
Cockroach Poker is a reverse set collection game that has nothing to do with poker – except that the game is all about bluffing, but with cards that show cockroaches, rats and stink bugs instead of queens, 10s and aces. The goal of the game is to force another player to collect 4 of any one type of critter.
Pick-a-Pig
1-5 Players
Ages: 6 and up
Play time: 15 minutes
While Farmer Henry is enjoying red wine in his newly-built colossal basement, the piggies in the barn are also partying for fun! Impish as they are, they're really organized when it comes to forming groups for games. Recruit your team carefully, but not too slowly!
Martian Dice
2-99 Players
Ages: 5 and up
Play time: 10 minutes
Your mission, Martians, is to swoop down on the pathetic denizens of the primitive planet Earth and scoop up as many of the inhabitants as you can manage. We are interested in samples of the Chicken, Cow, and Human populations so that we can determine which of them is actually in charge. The Earthlings might manage to put up a feeble defense, but surely nothing that a small taste of your Death Rays can't handle. Make Mars proud – be the first Martian to fill your abduction quota!
Quarto
2 Players
Ages: 5 and up
Play time: 20 minutes
This Game has a 4x4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes – color, height, shape and consistency – so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.
Rialto
2-5 Players
Ages: 10 and up
Play time: 45 minutes
In the card-driven board game Rialto, the goal is to earn the most victory points (VPs), which are awarded for a variety of things. The game board displays the six districts of Venice, and players earn VPs for placing council members into these, for building bridges and placing gondolas to connect the districts with one another, and for building advantageous buildings.
Zooloretto
2-5 Players
Ages: 5 and up
Play time: 45 minutes
In Zooloretto, each player uses small, large, wild, and exotic animals and their young to try to attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo – but be careful! The zoo must be carefully planned as before you know it, you might have too many animals and no more room for them. That brings minus points! Luckily, your zoo can expand. A zoo of a family game in which less is sometimes more...
Wasabi
2-4 Players
Ages: 8 and up
Play time: 45 minutes
Wasabi! is a light and fast game where you compete against other players to assemble your quota of unique sushi recipes in a rapidly dwindling space. Players draw a variety of delicious ingredients into their hand from the pantry and play them one at a time onto the board, building off of each other's previously-placed ingredients in the attempt to complete recipes of varying difficulty.
Dixit
2-4 Players
Ages: 8 and up
Play time: 45 minutes
Dixit is game of creative guesswork, where your imagination unlocks the tale!
Bohnanza
2-7 Players
Ages: 8 and up
Play time: 45 minutes
This great card game is about planting, trading, and selling beans - 11 kinds of beans. Players try to collect large sets of beans to sell for gold.
Quartex
2-5 Players
Ages: 8 and up
Play time: 30 minutes
In Quartex, players take turns placing a tile next to other tiles already in play, growing an expansive tile field on the table.
Grid Stones
2-7 Players
Ages: 7 and up
Play time: 20 minutes
Gridstones is a game of strategy and visualization. Place or remove STONES on or from the GRID to create a match to the cards in your hand - but be careful, your opponents will be trying to match their cards too, and the grid will change with every move you make.
Gobblet Gobblers
2 Players
Ages: 5 and up
Play time: 20 minutes
In this Tic-Tac-Toe style game you will line up three of your Gobblers in a row to win.
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