Description from the publisher: You are a gnome — small in stature but large in heart. Your craving for adventure is matched only by your desire for treasure and your love of mushrooms. You are a fun guy (ahem). Anyway, it's time to leave the protection of your beautiful gnomehome and seek your fortune in faraway places. Gnome and away. Will you sail a...
Players try to complete a travel route across the board using a spinner and action cards. The first to reach their destination wins. On each turn the spinner directs player movement. Spaces on the board can direct you to jump to other locations or to draw cards which can slow you down (take a slow vehicle) or speed you up (take a fast vehicle). They can...
Become A Star Players start as an Extra in Hollywood, U.S.A. and make their way through four tracks of their Hollywood career from Extra to Bit Player to Feature Player and finally, Star. On the way players try to accumulate money and property from Station Wagons to Speedboats and Academy Awards. Variation on dice rolls prompt players to read from The...
In the new version, the winner is not the person with the most money, but the one who earns the most "life points" — a mix of wealth and life experiences, he says. Instead of cash, each player holds a colored Visa card. They're the size of real cards, but numbers and letters are printed, not embossed. Cards aren't swiped, but placed in an electronic device...
In this game, two to eight players compete by trying to out-romance each other. For the winner, the game notes, "Your reward is collecting a KISS, a BEAR HUG, or a HEARTY HANDSHAKE from the lover of your choice. (We suggest the winning lover and the chosen one leave the room for this.)" While luck plays a factor in moving from the start space to the LOVE...
First made available to the public in 1995, the design for the game was originally submitted by Beatrix Potter to her publisher, Frederick Warne, in 1904. The game board - a reproduction of Potter's watercolor original - represents Mr. McGregor's garden, with 12 key points of interest from the book marked on the map. Peter must enter at the gate, visit...
The Game of Politics, or The Race For the Presidency was first published in 1887 and patented in 1888. Unlike the later game of the same name by Oswald B. Lord, candidates in this game play cards against each other to reach the office of Mayor, Governor, Congressman, and Senator before moving on to a battle over each state's Electoral votes for the U.S....
The game was originally published in GAMES with the rules for two two-player games (The Basic Game and Solomon Nim) by Gardner and one (Son of Solomon) by Sackson. There were also two solitaire games and some puzzles. Kadon describes their version like so: "We're honored to have an exclusive of this game invented by the beloved author of countless books on...