What's wrong with a little white lie? Well it depends on how far it spreads, because you will eventually get caught. Little White Lie is a tiny game by Christopher Chung (Lanterns) where 2 players try to spread a lie before too many people find out. Cards are held so that only your opponent can see them, and you will decide to pass or challenge, using some...
Livid Visage is a combat based Card Game where you control a team of characters to defeat your opponents crew. Play events to manipulate the board state and get livid. Each player constructs a 40 card deck from a set pack that contains all the cards of the game. The game starts with each player putting in to play a character with powers 3,2,1,0 from their...
A game of bees and ewes and the rest of the alphabet Set the eL, aheM, NO! and Peeking cards (each has a *) face up in a row in front of all players. Deal an equal number of remaining cards out to each player (12 cards/4p, 16 cards/3p) for their initial hand. The player who sings the best rendition of the alphabet song is the first Start Player. There are...
A game of world geography and cunning deception. In Locale, the object of the game is to make up a story by explaining as much as you can about a given location. (Do you know where Bird-in-Hand is? How about Timbuktu?) Players vote on whose story is the most believable. Players score points by writing a story that's good enough to fool others or correctly...
Locarno - Europe 1926 seeks to portray the restored "Concert of European Powers" following the Treaty of Locarno, Oct. 1925. Players assume the role of European statesmen seeking to outclass their geopolitical rivals and attain a position of predominance. The game is based upon Allan B. Calhamer's classic Diplomacy. However, its treatment of minor powers...
From the rules: "For decades, reporters from around the world have been on the hunt for the Loch Ness monster. But lately reports of sightings of Nessie have been increasing. "Such reports naturally have drawn such reporters as the attractive Belinda Viewing from New York, the half-Belgian Claude McMirror, the clever Filosa Sharp, as well as her Londoner...
Lockdown!: The Game is a comedy game created by James Veitch during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in which players try to trade cards to collect sets and loo rolls before COVID-19 ends the game. The trading mechanisms are supported by a bluffing mechanism in which players can lie about the cards they are trading. Each player starts with seven cards from the...
It is the year 2368. You and your gang of criminals just committed a burglary and stole a spacecraft to return to your hideout. Unfortunately, after takeoff, the board computer detected the tampering and locked you out, leaving you unable to navigate. You are on the wrong course, which will surely get you caught; and your resources are running out. There...
You are a cunning and dastardly spy. Deny it, you scoundrel! Use your skills of wit and observation to discover the other spies’ identities and expose them before they expose you. The winner is the last remaining spy. Logical Spies unfolds like a social logic puzzle, in which the players play the role of a spy. Your identity is represented by 6 cards:...
Two horrific murders were committed in London at the end of 1888. The victims were Emma Smith and Martha Tabram. That autumn, for three months, Whitechapel, in East London, was terrorized by a serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper. After committing five more murders, he suddenly stopped. Scotland Yard never solved the case and, to this day...
LONDON: ‘Twilight’s Game’ – variations on a theme is a suite of Cold War themed strategy games using progressively building, but eminently simple, rules in which two or more adversaries seek to outmanoeuvre and/or best their opponents on a squared grid nominally representing the London of Len Deighton’s and John Le Carre’s twilight world of spy fiction. In...
"The game of Lónegan: Hooray for Imagination!" Imagination is imperative for winning in Lónegan. Logic, strategy and knowledge are also required, but are not as important. (From the manufacturer's description back of the box). Lonegan is a variation of a classical game where knowing the definition of a given word is less important than inventing one which...