GNIAC is a party game that includes Creative Contests, Team Challenges, and Games of Skill. There are 30 games inside the can, and a spinner underneath the lid. To play, you spread the cards out, grab some pens and paper, and hit the spinner to find your first host. That person chooses a card, reads the game out loud, then hosts that game. If it's a...
The Game of 190, a Bingo-like game, uses 190 cards. Each card features three rows of nine squares, with five squares in each row containing one or two letters. Ninety balls with one or two letters on them are drawn from a bag and called out, and written down on a chart. Each player has one of the 190 cards, and checks to see if any letters on the card...
Very simple game that is total luck. Four or more can play. Divide up the available counters equally. The first player chooses a design on the board, puts one counter on it, and spins the spinner. If it stops on his chosen design, he takes back his counter. If it doesn't, the counter stays on the board and the next player chooses a different design and...
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...