By Drumond Park
How quickly can you describe a word without actually saying it?
Speed is of the essence in this fast-thinking, fast-talking game - the more words your team can guess from your descriptions in 30 seconds, the quicker you'll cross the finishing line. And that's without saying 'rhymes with' or 'sounds like'.
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Articulate uses 6 categories of words, so you could end up describing anything from a kettle to a country depending on which category you've landed on from Object, Nature, Action, World, Person or Random.
To spice things up further Articulate throws a "Spinner" in the works to encourage sabotage: land on an appropriate segment and spin the spinner to win bonus places, move yourself forward or indulge your vicious streak and drag the leaders back!
And if you thought that was mean, wait till one team lands on a Control Segment. Then it's a free-for-all of epic proportions that would drown out the Tower of Babel!
Articulate is the perfect game to suit any time, any setting and any group,- even those which include stroppy teenagers and Granny!
When it comes to fast, frenzied fun and exhilarating entertainment, Articulate simply has no rivals! When the shy start yelling, the cocky turn puce, and everyone's gripped with the giggles - you know Articulate! is working its magic.
Strategy Game; 1-4 Players; Ages 7+ by The Green Board Game Company
RRP - £19.99 Click here for Counter Magazine review.
Welcome to Cat Attack: a brand new game for all the family that is guaranteed to appeal to board game enthusiasts, cat lovers and lunatics everywhere!
Cat Attack is a fast action, classically hilarious strategy boardgame for the family and for serious gamers. Inspired by the close observation of the ordinary domestic cat in its natural environment: attitude, treachery, cunning and theft.
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Board game for 3 or more players ages 12+, by Pants on Fire.
Do YOU speak any foreign?
Eurobabble is the ludicrously silly party game of gentle self mockery, stereotyping our European cousins, and whether you speak any foreign or not is almost irrelevant. In fact, the less you understand, the funnier it is.
It's also ridiculously simple:
Can you say in an Italian accent: "We have ways of making you talk"?
What is the answer to: "Quel est le nom du stade national de football anglais?"?
Can you impersonate a children's television presenter in the style of a Dutch person?
And which is the German word for swimming trunks - Badehose; Schwimmelpanten; Unterwassertrunken?
Correct answers win country flags - the first player/team to collect all six (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish) wins.
It's as simple as that. Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud and guaranteed to make any party go with a bang.............or should that be a boem, boum, bum, boma, paf or rätt.
Board Game; 2-10 Players; Ages 12+ by Asmodee
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for the most exciting news of the year! Formula D will be available in the US by the beginning of November! Formula D is a new updated version of the 90's best seller 'Formule Dé', a fabulous game which sold more than 100,000 copies all over the world during a 15 year span! This new version will be released simultaneously in French, German, Spanish, English, Dutch and Italian.
Fans of the original will be in familiar territory, as the new version is based on the former mechanics of 'Formule Dé' and will also be playable with the original racing boards. Gamers who are not familiar with the original version will discover that the content of this newer version creates a thrilling Formula One experience.
Formula D has been completely re-designed, the graphic contents have been updated and modernized and each element has been thoughtfully revitalized to generate a more realistic gaming sensation. Players now enjoy beautifully painted cars, super-realistic gear levers, and many more hidden surprises!
Two different rule books are included: a short, simple version for beginners who want to jump directly into the game without blowing a fuse, and a more advanced version for hardcore gamers who enjoy exploring the entangled mechanisms within their brains!
Reach new levels as you step up to the podium.
It's still not over! A second board allows you to feel the speed and excitement of street racing. Get ready to enjoy a wild ride on the big city streets!
Two race boards are included: the legendary Monaco circuit and a street racing track too! Formula D invites you to enjoy two exhilarating experiences in a single box!
Play your cards - or rather your dice - right and you could become the new Schumacher!
GO mental ®is the great game of improbable connections. Each GO mental® question contains 4 things - one is the odd one out: the others are somehow connected. Simply name the odd one out and make the connection between the other 3. Fascinating and funny, improbable and irreverent, GO mental® has 1200 teasing brain-twisters that will delight and dumbfound as, alone or in teams, players race their brains from GO to mental.
Oh, so it’s not just another trivia game, eh?
Right. GO mental® isn’t about mere facts. It’s about spotting connections. It’s about strategy. You can steal other players’ questions. You can grab bonus points. You can challenge other players and send them backwards. In too many board games most players are uninvolved most of the time. Not with GO mental®! Whether it’s your turn or not, you’re always involved and in the thick of the action. It’s not about what you know - it’s about using what you know and even what you don’t know!
Sounds good. Anything else it’s about?
Yes, it’s about the only game that mixes music, mythology and Monty Python; cars, computers and cocktail recipes; sports stars, cartoon characters and nursery rhymes; famous people and ordinary objects; common knowledge and rare information. Plus, along the way, GO mental® is an eccentric encyclopaedia, a mini-miscellany - in fact, an all-round education in entertainment.
It’s about the most fun your brain can have!
A strategy game for the whole family, Ingenious is easy to learn, quick to play and beautifully made. Game play involves scoring points by placing coloured tiles on the hexagonal board, all the while trying to block your opponents and avoid being blocked off. Players 1-4, Ages 8+
Contents: playing board, 34 maze cards, 24 treasure cards, 4 playing pieces
Be the first to collect all of your treasures by shifting the walls of the Labyrinth to create a clear path to get to them. Watch out for traps as the walls constantly move. This mysterious maze game is magic!
For 2 to 6 players aged 12 and upwards, a game lasts about 90 minutes, by Pants on Fire.
Who lies wins.
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well". Samuel Butler (1835-1902).
And lying well is the key to winning because LIAR LIAR is the trivia game with a twist. You can lie. In fact, you have to lie to win the game. You can lie about knowing the answers, you can make up the answers, you can lie to your opponents with false facts and you can lie about the roll of the dice. Just don't get caught or falsely accuse an opponent of lying, otherwise it is back to the start.
It is more than an ordinary trivia game because Liar Liar combines a little general knowledge with tactics, luck, bluffing and an ability to make up lies on the spot. Not only is it fun to try to out-lie, out bluff and out-fox family and friends, you will be continually amused by the quirky questions, unbelievable truths and totally believable lies.
Who said: "LIAR LIAR is quite simply the most fun boardgame I have ever played"?
A: The Queen B: Jonathan Ross C: A relative of the game's designer.
"It's better by Tube". Take 6 secret destination tickets and get ready for a trip on the Underground. You'll have to think carefully and plan ahead for it's the person who commutes from a main line station of their choice and back again who'll be the winner.
Buy your way to fame & fortune with Modern Art, the high stakes gallery auction game. Each player runs a gallery, choosing which pieces of art to sell from the collection, and which pieces to buy from other galleries. Bid on the right one and at the end of the round you could be rolling in the dough. Mistake a Pissaro for a Picasso and you could be out of luck and money. Perfect for the armchair art critic.
Board Game, 3-5 Players, Ages 8+ by Rio Grande Games
Players play on a 3D board, representing the Niagara River and the falls. Canoes float down the river as the river flows, but players can row their canoes up-river or down-river to collect gems, to return them to shore, and to avoid the waterfall. This game is great fun for the family, but is strategic and gives players the chance to plan and steal from one another.
A classic game for generations and probably the best dice game ever! These pigs are truly addictive! Throw the pigs - how they fall determines the points you get. Dare you risk throwing again? Beware, if you get too greedy you might 'Pig Out' you lose the points you have scored!
The classic game of liar dice!
‘The second most addictive thing to come out of South America’
Stephen Fry
Perudo is a version of the popular dice game played in Peru; a version of liar dice which is part-luck and part-skill. It requires a quick mind and excellent bluffing ability.
The combination of deception, skill and laughter make it the perfect after dinner game.
Royalty play it. Supermodels play it. Socialites play it. Musicians play it. London’s private member’s clubs are obsessed by it. Perudo’s famous fans including Stephen Fry, Sting, Hugh Laurie, Richard Branson (who even used to keep it on his aeroplanes!), Mariella Frostrup, Viscount Linley, Tom Stoppard, Susannah Constantine, The Jaggers, Keith Allen, Sienna Miller and Jonathan Ross.
***PLEASE NOTE: Due to the excessive weight of this item we are having to charge extra p&p to ship to addresses outside the UK, which will be added before your order is charged. Overseas orders will be charged at cost - we will contact you to agree this before charging/shipping.
Project X is a new visual search made by game inventor Arne Lauwers and the 'doodle' artwork of Euegene.
Playable from 2 players on with no maximum number of players, it is a simple to learn, hard to win piece of art you can play wwith. Project X is playable from the age of 6 and lasts 15 to 40 minutes.
On an ever changing game board you need to be the first to accomplish 6 missions successfully. There are over 100 missions in 3 different categories. There are individual missions, outbid missions and missions where you need to be the first to find the unique item.
This award winning game gives you an excellent chance to be as nasty as possible to the other players and be cunning and devious enough to win more money than them. It brings out the worst in everyone, bribery, shiftiness, bluffing, blackmail and double-crossing!
Board Game, 2-6 Players, Ages 12+ by Upstarts
No driving ability needed - only those prepared to plot, scheme, and make bitter enemies of their closest friends will take the road to victory. Only the downright devious will triumph! Conjure up a spot of wet weather just as your opponent leaves the pit lane with dry weather tyres, or cause a failure in their pit crew's equipment. Increase your chances with a craftily-placed oil spill, or decide to give the leading driver a puncture as they near the finish line. This is no ordinary race... this is a Really Nasty race!
The classic game of strategic conquest with 3 ways to play, faster gameplay, and updated map and playing pieces. Includes gameboard, 7 dice, deck of 42 cards, 5 sets of coloured units, 5 capitals, 15 cities, parts sheet and instructions. Players 3-5, Ages 12+
Players 2-4, Ages 7+
One player is Mr X, on the run somewhere in London. The other players are detectives and work together to catch Mr X before time runs out. With strategy and teamwork the detectives can trap Mr X but if he escapes, he wins the game.
For 3-6 players, aged 10+
Contents: 1 board, logbook, 6 playing pieces, 20 cards, 125 tickets, visor.
Play a card from your hand and place a chip on a corresponding space on the game board. When you have 5 in a row, it's a sequence. Learn to block your opponents - remove their chips and watch out for the Jacks - they are wild!
With a little strategy and a little luck - you're a winner!
Age 7+
Board Game; 3-4 Players by Mayfair Games
Players are recent immigrants to the newly populated island of Catan. Expand your colony through the building of settlements, roads, and villages by harvesting commodities from the land around you. Trade sheep, lumber, bricks and grain for a settlement, bricks and wood for a road, or try to complete other combinations for more advanced buildings, services and specials.
Trade with other players, or at local seaports to get resources you might lack. The first player to achieve 10 points from a combination of roads, settlements, and special cards wins.
Extend your The Settlers of Catan? game to include more players and more scenarios. More tiles, more resource cards, more development cards, and components (settlements, villages, roads) for two additional players.
Allows for two additional players to be added to The Settlers of Catan?.
"The Best Game Ewe Ever Herd!"
Ah, do ewe long for the life of a sheep? Bright summer days filled with games of tag and attempts to flock closer to Roger, the Heartthrob Ram? But Watch Out! The shearer wants to drag you away from all the fun and games!
In Shear Panic, ewe maneuver your ewes to score points, playing tag, standing close to Roger, or trying to avoid the shearing scissors! Will your brave sheep score the most points, or will it be "Off with the wool" for ewe?
Shear Panic includes:
9 sheep figures, 1 Roger figure, 1 Shearer figure, 4 player boards, 1 scoring board, 1 sheep panic die, 1 "return to flock" die, 5 track markers, 48 "mutton buttons" (12 each in four colors) Rules sheet.
A new railroad adventure board game from noted game designer, Alan R. Moon. With elegantly simple gameplay, Ticket to Ride can be learned in 3 minutes, yet players face strategic and tactical decisions that vary with every turn. Players collect cards of various types of train cars that are then used to claim railway routes connecting various cities across a map of North America. The longer the routes the more points they earn.
Counter magazine review
For 2 to 6 players, aged 8 and up.
Tri-ominoes is a fun-to-play game of number matching that is played with triangular shaped pieces!
Try to match a side of one of your Tri-ominoes to one that has already been placed down. Every time you place one, you score the total number of points on that piece. Special plays will give you bonus points!
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