Attention golddiggers! As you move your piece from start to finish on the board, you accumulate and discard husbands, always keeping track of your growing liquid cash assets (a tiny calculator and note paper is included in the box). Sometimes, you get to roll to steal other players' husbands. When possible, sink your liquid assets into real estate and...
Similar to the game Authors, each card features 5 quotations from a single author. Quotations are read until someone guesses the author correctly. From the New-York Times of August 22, 1863: "Mr. John H. Tingley, of No. 152 Fulton-street, advertises a new game for the social circle, called the "Game of Familiar Quotations." It affords a very pleasant way...
Each player takes a Character card. The 48 cards that have items written on them are placed face down in the center of players. An example of items on the cards are, A piece of beef, Two little pigs, A pound of candles, A bottle of hair oil, Two spools of cotton and other similar needs of the time to go shopping for. Three questions are asked to player on...
While this 1906 question-and-answer game from Milton Bradley might seem to be a response to Parker Brothers' 1893 Komikal Konversation Kards, it actually owes more to the much earlier 1784 Comic Conversation Cards (unknown publisher). While the former provided questions and answers to be distributed randomly amongst a mixed group, the 18th century game...
The Game of Fuzzy Logic. The game where the best clues are the ones that aren't too good. Are you clever enough to give clarity to your teammates while simultaneously confusing your rivals? In Fuzzy Logic, two teams take on pairs of mystery words, going head-to-head to see which team can correctly guess its word first. Here’s the twist: Each pair of words...
This social card game combines a plethora of different mini games that are simple to learn but will likely lead you to laugh until you cry. Players will take turns drawing a card that contains some form of a mini game. There are no winners for each game, just a sole loser, as life should be. The game will continue until one loser shamefully accrues a...
This 1930s party game was one of a series of 30 "One shilling" games published in England by C.W. Faulkner & Co. Ltd. The Game of Games consists of a box of trifold cardboard leaflets, with one side consisting of the cover illustration and two pages of ads, and the other with 24 questions arranged in three columns. As the brief instructions put it: "The...
"Here collected for the first time is a compendium of Surrealist games, strategies, and procedures. It is for those who wish to employ for themselves the techniques of Surrealist inquiry and discovery; it sets out the rules and directions for playing the games. There has been nothing like it: much of the material gathered here has been previously...