Welcome to the wonderful world of Hooky. Of the 26 children who should be in classes today, three are off playing hooky. It is morning before school starts, and in the chaos, your job as a homeroom teacher is to figure out which three are missing. There are some children off in the playground who are late getting to their homerooms, and you will learn...
Barbarossa, in Italian "red beard" was, according to its inventor, inspired by Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master fantasy trilogy (Die Schule der Rätselmeister in the German translation), in which wizards are devoted to the creation of riddles and riddle solving tournaments. In an interview designer Klaus Teuber stated "As you know there are moments when...
Our intrepid author Paige Turner is back! In Paperback Adventures, you get to play as the protagonist in one of Paige's wild brainstorming sessions. Conquer a menagerie of pulp novel characters in this solo deckbuilding word game. Just like in the original game Paperback — and the follow-up game Hardback — you will build your own deck of cards throughout...
The group has a multiple-choice question and only two minutes to work it out. The snakes amongst you already know the right answer — and they'll stop at nothing to keep you away from it. In Snakesss, you deal out the cards and try to answer a multiple-choice question with the rest of the players. The more people who get it right, the more points you cash...
Anomia plays off the fact that our minds are positively brimming with all sorts of random information: things to eat, pop songs, websites, etc... Sure, under normal circumstances, it's easy to give an example of a frozen food or a dog breed, but you'll find that your brain works a little differently under pressure! To play, draw and reveal a card from the...
This game is all about thinking up clever words that will be hard to decipher and cleverly combining letter pieces to guess secret words. Decipher is a different kind of word game for 2–4 players. Players use four differently-shaped letter pieces to create and solve word puzzles. In each round, a different player builds a secret word puzzle. The others...
In the game Medium, players act as psychic mediums, harnessing their powerful extra-sensory abilities to access other players’ thoughts. Together in pairs, they mentally determine the Medium: the word that connects the words on their two cards, and then attempt to say the same word at the same time! Two cards. Two thoughts. One mind. —description from the...
In the party game Alice in Wordland, players take the roles of characters from Alice in Wonderland, each with their own unique abilities and all invited to the tea party of the Queen of Hearts. They have to follow her mad rules of discussion, saying words in particular themes under the pressure of time. The game includes a plastic music-playing teapot...
Newspeak is a tense game of dystopian subversion in which you take the role of either the 'dissidents' or the 'moderators' in a mind-bending battle of wits to determine the reality around you. Will you challenge the status quo and shatter your fragile reality or seek to protect the safety of what you know? Dissidents utilise matching underground codes to...
ABACA is a game of endless variety. The deck consists of 108 cards. Each card contains either a single letter or a combination of two letters as well as a scoring value. There are five variations of the basic game that can be played: Primary ABACA, ABACA Royal, Argo ABACA, ABACA Rummy and Combination ABACA. ABACA: Ten cards are dealt to each player. The...
Based on a Italian Dictionary (but it can be done with any dictionary in any language) A.Z. has got a number of cards on which there are written two words. After a card is taken, each player must think and write the highest number of words of the dictionary that stay between those two. The game is easy and liked by addicts of the genre, and it's easy...