Archives: Games

Games, past and present, in our video and board-game libraries.

Genres

Complexity

Low
Medium

Courtisans

Card, Take-that

Players

2-5

Complexity

Avg. Game Time

20-30 Mins

Ruin royal fortunes with beautiful art

At it’s core, a simple version of a share-market game. Pump up and tank the value of certain royal houses with tarot size cards and beautifully illustrated card art.

Bananagrams

Real Time, Word Game

Players

1-8

Complexity

Avg. Game Time

15 Mins

Real time Scrabble

Play scrabble tiles in real time. If you run out of tiles in hand, EVERYONE has to daw more.

Pictomania

Dexterity, Party

Players

3-6

Complexity

Avg. Game Time

20-40 Mins

Being able to draw well; not necessary

There’s no time to draw a complex masterpiece in Pictomania, the drawing game in which everybody draws and everybody guesses — all at the same time! Players sketch the essence of the word with a few quick lines and try to guess the others’ drawings while there’s still time.

Codenames Pictures

Card, Deduction, Party

Players

2-8

Complexity

Avg. Game Time

15 Mins

Codenames if clues were art by Salvador Dali

The best twist on the original award winning party game. The locations to guess are now surreal artwork open to creative interpretation.

No Thanks

Card, Push your Luck

Players

3-7

Complexity

Avg. Game Time

20 Mins

Game theory at it’s best.

The simple premise of ‘how much money will I spend not to take negative points’ is taken to it’s logical, and accoladed, conclusion.

Decrypto

Deduction, Party, Word Game

Players

3-8

Complexity

Avg. Game Time

15-45 Mins

A word-play version of codenames

Players compete in two teams, with each trying to correctly interpret the coded messages presented to them by their teammates while cracking the codes they intercept from the opposing team.