It's the Old West, and you find yourselves working at Friedey's, the watering hole of the damned.

You're the last few payers in a poker game you're not allowed to win.

Now lose all your money as fast as you can, while everybody else is trying to do the same. Oh, and you'll probably need the Brain.

Dead Money is the newest game in the Friedey's series (Give Me the Brain, Lord of the Fries, and The Great Brain Robbery). It's a wacky cross between poker and Give Me The brain.

Players begin with a hand of cards and no Brains. The Brains are cards in the deck; there are eight of them all together. The object of the game is to get rid of your cards, which represent (among other things) the money you have left in this poker game. Of course, a lot of the cards make you draw more cards, and a lot of them require that you have a Brain.

Dead Money is a quick-playing and clever variation on a Cheapass classic game, and it features glorious cowboy zombies by artist Brian Snoddy.  

Price:   £9.99

Diceland: Dragons is a 12-die expansion featuring dragons, riders, and other fantasy characters. The envelope contains all new rules for the expansion, though you will need to find the basic rules in a boxed Diceland set, or at www.diceland.com. 

Price:   £6.99

 

Price:   £4.99

A return to the hilariously funny Friedey's… players are zombies working in a mass market food emporium, just trying to survive the day and get enough tasks done so they can head home. This time however the game is in colour! Making this a real delight for dead eyes… and if that was not enough in itself this version also features fifteen new bid cards by Brian Snoddy, and a bunch of new goodies like the Dog Brain, the Mop, and the Piece of String! 

Price:   £11.99

Board Game, 4-6 Players by Cheapass Games

Jacob Marley is alive and well. And what’s more, he’s the boss of you.

You’re a lowly clerk in young Jacob Marley’s powerful investment firm, which lends money to needs people throughout the city of London. Marley has decided to elevate one lucky clerk to the status of “friend,” meaning a partnership in Marley’s business, a handsome promotion, and Marley’s lifetime friendship. He’ll even get you out of Hell if you manage to outlive him. Such a deal!

To make the most points with the boss, you must lend his money to the most trustworthy clients, and stay away from the ones that will ruin you. If you’re lucky, you’ll even grow up to be as stingy and horrible as he is.

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Jacob Marley, Esquire is a banking game with all the fun and excitement that implies. No, seriously, it’s good.

As a clerk in Marley’s investment firm, you are given an account of £12 to lend to various ne’er-do-well clients in London. Each turn, you move Marley through the streets of the city, randomly affecting the economy of London with a cool Economy Chart. Then you can see what’s going on in the street where Marley stopped. Will you lend your money to a lawyer, a financial institution, or a petty criminal? The choice is yours, but make sure you’re not the only player with a client like this, or it can cost you a bundle of money and points!

Players: 4-6

Playing Time: 90 minutesr

You need one Pawn to represent Jacob Marley, ten colored counters for each player, six more counters, money, and a way to keep score. 

Price:   £5.49

This expansion for One False Step for Mankind - the original boardgame where absurdly wealthy Gold Rush towns race to the moon - provides a new set of Moon-colored boards for the original game, plus a few twists on the basic rules.  

Price:   £2.49

You and your associates are unscrupulous wrestling promoters, cajoling bankrupt and suicidal American businessmen into secret Tijuana deathmatches, for money, fame, and glory. Actually, it usually leads to an untimely death, rather than those other things. But hey, "Mexican Wrestling" is just another word for "nothing left to lose." 

Price:   £5.99

Playing Time: 1 Hour

Elements: game board, rulebook.

You Need: Two decks of playing cards, two pawns for each player, and two 6-sided dice.

Springtime. Midnight. The Mall is beckoning.

Welcome to LeGrand Mall, the oldest and most poorly secured indoor mall in the world. It's as airtight as the Titanic and as solid as a wet paper bag. This place just begs to be robbed.

Enter you. And your infantile collection of friends. It's not enough to simply loot this mall. No, you have to do it with a certain amount of flair. Which boils down to an all-night looting race, with shopping carts, flashlights, and guns.

The object? Park your car, dash into the mall, and load your shopping cart with the goodies on your list. You can snitch stuff out of the stores if you like, but it's even more fun (and easier) to steal it from your friends. And that would explain why you're carrying a huge gun.

Game Synopsis: Your primary Pawn is you, your other Pawn is your car. You've got a hand of cards which represents your shopping list. When you hit the right stores, put the cards into your Shopping Cart (on the table in front of you) and draw some more. Now you've just got to get all this loot back to your car before the other players shoot you and try to steal it.

This is the Classic Edition of Spree, featuring the original Phil Foglio artwork, a new 2-color board, and the "extra violence" rules from the Hong Kong edition. It’s the best Spree ever! 

Price:   £2.50

One of the biggest little games in Cheapass history. The Big Idea was first released in 2000 and has recently gone out of print. It's a hilarious game about investing and inventing; players combine random adjectives and nouns to create brilliant new products like Evaporated Pants and Mildew-Resistant Cake. Then they use their mad skills to invest in the best new ideas and make the most money. Click here for Counter Magazine review.

Price:   £8.99

Multiply your invention potential from jillions to gazillions.

The Big Idea: More Cards is a deliciously different assortment of 64 cards for The Big Idea, featuring such gems as Dangerous Cheese, Bulletproof Caveman, and Scandalous Turkey Pants.

You need The Big Idea (semi-deluxe edition) and all the required bits for that game. 

Price:   £2.99