This undated but mid-20th century Canadian game uses a regular deck of cards and poker chips as playing pieces. It has French and English instructions printed on the inside of the box lid. The board is a large fabric mat, 30" square, with a big circle and the game name in the center. Each side has a space for one playing card and a series of circles...
A traditional style quiz game that features a Canadian theme and optional added elements of risk and wagering. In the 'basic' game, players earn points by either answering the trivia questions posed by their opponents, or by their own questions being incorrectly answered twice. In the advanced version, players are allowed to wager on whether opponents will...
Canyon is a trick-taking game in which players try to predict exactly how many tricks they will take. The number of cards in a hand increases and then decreases in size. A correct prediction gives your marker movement points around a scoring track depicted on a river in a canyon, whose main feature of interest is a section of "rapids" near the finish line...
In 1920’s Chicago, two things are certain: Prohibition has the whole population clamoring for a drink, and there’s only one man who can supply it. Al Capone. Secret bars all over town are making back-alley deals with Capone’s thugs to get the booze they need to satisfy their thirsty patrons and keep themselves in business. Capone combines card drafting...
In Captain’s Wager, players take on the roles of rogue airship captains sending their pirate crews off on adventures in search of treasure. Problematically, several captains often show up for the same adventure. So how shall we figure out who gets what loot? We’ll gamble for it of course. That’s the pirate way! Captains Wager is a betting and hand...
A great storm ravages the skies, grinding airships to kindling and sending pirate crews scrambling. Whole crews are sucked in and spirits drift out, bringing curses and spreading chaos. as the haunting worsens, you risk losing your loot and being doomed to captain a ghost ship for all eternity. Maelstrom is an expansion for Captain's Wager which adds: 4...
Car Tricks is a unique car racing game in that no one person controls a specific car. Instead, players try to predict the entire order of finish for all the cars in the race. All players can influence the speed of a car through their card play. Cards are played in tricks that are used to determine what car can move that round, how far it will move, who...
Learn when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with [b]Card Night[/b], a collection of 52 classic card games, including rules and strategies. Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, and two indexes that organize each game by difficulty and number of players needed, Card Night includes directions for playing all the most popular card games, including...
FROM THE BOX: "Aces High, Deuces Low; Play the Cards, Win the Dough!" Now celebrating its 25th Anniversary, Card Sharks is the high-octane home version of the classic 80's game show that features two contestants vying for cash prizes by playing the legendary "High/Low" card game. Players gain control of the cards by correctly answering curious census...
From the box: In this CARDCAPTORS game, choose which of the four friends that you want to be. Try to collect as many Clow Spirit Cards as you can be guessing if the next hidden Clow Card has a higher or lower value than the last one that you saw. Be sure to stop when you feel that your luck is running out because if you guess wrong you will lose everything...
An interesting game, that looks like it is card dominoes but it is a game in its own right. Each player chooses a colour and places that card in front of them. It has no part in the game other than to remind players who has which colour. I don't know why but the rules say that "this colour is kept for the WHOLE EVENING". (Their capital letters, not mine)....