An auction game in which players bid from their pool of "worker rats" to gain control of corporate projects. The workers from the winning bid are then are assigned to the project. Each turn, one worker is removed from each project. A project is complete once all workers have been removed. The value of a numbered project is only determined at completion by...
A party card game of silly noises. During each turn, the judge turns over a thing (!) card from the draw pile. All the other players then combines a ? sound card with the ! thing card and makes the noise described. The judge chooses the biggest, daftest one and that player wins a point! Play moves to the next player/judge and a new turn starts. The player...
Movies have the power to excite and inspire, to elicit gasps and tears from audiences, to linger in memory for a lifetime. There is no question movies have moved multitudes. But for you, a powerful Hollywood executive, movies are just an elevator pitch and a high-stakes gamble. Let those directors and critics sweat the details when it comes to a film’s...
Description from the publisher: The year 1914 passed. France survived the Schlieffen Plan with the Miracle on the Marne and the Race to the Sea ended in a stalemate. Unable to outflank its opponent, each side entrenched. A new type of warfare began that would claim the lives of many millions: trench warfare! Designed by Renaud Verlaque, winner of the 2003...
Big Rock Candy Mountain is a game for 2-5 players. Each player controls a miniature hobo (from now on referred to as a meebo). The players have their meebos hop trains in order to move around the U.S. to find work. When a meebo works it collects dimes. These dimes are than cashed in at a hobo jungle to throw a ho-down and increase the meebos reputation....
In The Big Time!, players take the role of theater owners in Chicago during the Golden Age of vaudeville from about 1905 to about 1915. The object is to make your theater the most spectacular in the city by booking the greatest and most diverse roster of acts that you can find (and afford!). You win the game by having the highest score on the Success...
Big Time Boxing simulates the sport of professional boxing like no other game before it. You’ll move your boxer inside and outside, throwing a variety of punches. You’ll try to get your opponent on the ropes or in a corner, where you can pound him with your best big hits. You might get cut, or warned by the referee for hitting below the belt. Worse, you...
Curling is a winter team sport popular in Canada and other “snowy” countries. Competitors throw 44-pound granite stones (or "rocks") down an ice sheet into a bulls-eye target area (the “house”) at either end of the 155 foot playing surface. Teammates often furiously sweep the ice with brooms to affect a thrown rock’s speed or trajectory. This is a finesse...
P&P FILES NOW POSTED! It's third-and-five on your 30 yard-line and your opponent has the ball. He usually throws short in such situations, but he seems to like screen passes and hasn't thrown a long ball all game. He calls his play; now what will YOU do? Play a man-to-man defense, zone, blitz? Play realistic pro football on your tabletop in about an hour....
Congratulations! You and a friend have just made it into the lofty ranks of professional golfers! You’re about to play your first tournament as pros, but the two of you decide to play a round on the golf course a few days early. It’s a fairly tough course and bragging rights are on the line, so you really want to win this “friendly” match! Big Time Golf...
Big Time Hoops is a fast-playing, card-based simulation of professional basketball for two players. To recreate the flow of the game and remove "housekeeping" altogether, the game eschews individual cards for basketball players and focuses exclusively on the major action elements of the sport. In general, you'll hold a hand of three cards, most of which...
Six horse owners get together annually to race their best thoroughbreds – for a little money, but mainly for bragging rights. There are three races and three strict bets. The most money wins. Unlike similar table-top games, in Big Time the luck element is minimized. Sure, you’ll have a “stable” of horses, but you won’t roll dice and check your horse card...