License to Laugh is a party game that hinges on your ability to be creative in an attempt to make the other players laugh, or merely please the judge. A round begins with the judge drawing three letter cards at random. Once all of the players have seen the letters the timer is flipped and they have one minute to write a phrase. The phrase they come up with...
Theme: The game has a fairy tale background story in which the young queen of the prosperous and happy "Sonnenland" ("Sunvale" in the English description) was flattered and seduced by her shadow via her dreams to tear apart her necklace of sun pearls. As she did so, the shadow became independent and ruled over the land, drainig life and colors from it. An...
Word-building card game. One set of cards features beginning letters or letter combinations; the other features Lickety Quick clues—part of speech, double letters, number of syllables, and more. Combine the two to make a word first and you win the round and gets the cards as a points. Player who has collected the most points (cards) at the end of the game...
Liebesgeflüster is a partner game where one player draws a wish card and then whispers or acts what is on it, the other player then takes one of the 32 answer cards and chooses on of the 3 possible answers and whispers this back but only the first letters of this word, for example: "LA - PE - BI - BU". The first player then tries to guess the words behind...
In Liebrary, one player reads the title, author, and synopsis of a real-life book (e.g. Julius Caesar, Jurassic Park, or Mr. Brown Can Moo). The other players must each write and submit their best attempt at a first line for the book. The first player reads all the submissions, including the real first line of the book, and then the other players each try...
In Lily Pond, players roll a die and hop their frog around the pond on the gameboard landing on or jumping through the lily pad letters needed for their word cards. The first player to hop through their letters in the correct order and then hop back to the center wins the game. Components 1 Gameboard 60 Word Cards (three-letter, four-letter, and...
This rare McLoughlin Brothers card game is undated, but the style of the box (fancy embossed gold lettering and borders on a pebbled maroon cardboard box) is very similar to that of an 1890s Logomachy. The game consists of a deck of 54 cards, divided into 18 books of three. Each book has cards labelled A, B and C. The A cards bear the first two lines of a...
Limn is a balderdash style party game for four to ten players. Each player gets a few pages from newspapers and/or magazines and clips words or phrases that could describe each one of the other players from these papers. When everyone has chosen phrases for all the players, the clippings are randomized and the players guess who clipped the phrases and who...
"The learn a language game. Card game excitement while learning to speak Spanish/French." Contents: Phrase Book, Rules 120 Ling-Whist playing cards with letters and pronunciations. Seven cards are dealt to each player, and a phrase is selected from the phrase book. During a turn a player draws a card and either discards a card or plays one to his current...
This is one of many competing crossword card games of the late 1930s. Fairchild had two versions: Lingo used bridge-size cards, and Patch Word had small cards to more easily fit on the table. The deck has 54 cards consisting of 2 jokers and 52 letter cards. The rules for the Cross Word game: Deal 11 each for 2-3 players, 9 for 4-5, 7 for 6 or more. Each...
Lingo is a word game played with interlocking tiles. Players take turns removing a single tile from the dispenser and placing it in the pool. Any player can then call a word, using the letters in pool, or a combination of letters in the pool plus an already completed word. If this word is unchallenged, the player claims the tiles and joins them as a word...