Black Friday 2023

A Wordle-inspired game of deception. One player is the Lie-brarian and will choose a secret word from a classic work of literature.

All the other players work as a team to guess that secret word as quickly as possible through logic, literacy and deduction.

In Mountain Goats, you work to move your goats to the top of 6 different mountains. They can score points as long as they stay there.

Goats can share spaces on the way up, but there is only room for one goat at the top of each mountain. Get your points before you get knocked off!

In Dandelions, players roll a group of dice, then choose one to move to a beautiful garden. Along the way, you can harness the power of the wind with three special actions — float, puff, and gust — to get the most points.

A trick-taking game unlike any other. Steer your boats and fight the Kraken based on which cards are played to the tricks and who wins each trick.

Work through four difficulty levels in the scenario book, or build your own on the customizable map.

Draft cards and scoring conditions from a central market. Form herds of dinos, and make sure they are all fed! Herbivores and carnivores both need food, but if the carnies are not properly fed, they won’t mind chomping an herbie to fill their bellies!

Three simultaneous auctions occur every turn. You can’t win them all. But, can you win the right ones? Compete to model different types of fashion, each with their own scoring criteria.

A trick taking game where you always know what suits your opponents are holding. Can you use this knowledge to hit your bid exactly?

How do you fit all that “stuff” in your head? How do you organize it in a fun and fulfilling way, without it being stressful? The dice (much like life) are going to throw things at you, but you arrange your pursuits and priorities (polyominos) in your brain.

Win auctions. Then in future auctions, you have to BID specific amounts to make your previous cards score.

Come one, come all to Big Top! Hire the wildest and most wonderful acts to attract crowds of delighted spectators.

Can you balance the task of planting the tallest trees across not just one but many forests?

In Sequoia you are trying to grow skyscraper trees by carefully managing your dice rolls. After your 10 turns, if you have the tallest tree, then you earn the victory points from that forest.

Have you ever played "spades" or "hearts" and thought "I wish this game had time travel?"

Join the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and play tricks to each time period as you try to outwit your fellow travelers and collect enough wreaths to decorate all the holiday doors.

You're launching GPS satellites into space. They need to orbit the earth in the correct order. But your launch windows are limited.

You can only launch satellites where the spinner points each turn. It is your job to pick the best satellite for each launch to get your birds in order before your opponents.

Gussy Gorillas are a peculiar group of primates that strive to keep each other gussied up and well-groomed. These apes remove dirt, insects, and debris from the difficult-to-reach and difficult-to-see places of each other’s fur.

Players start out with a personal deck of face-down cards. Without looking at the card(s) in their own hand (but showing them to everyone else), players simultaneously trade or keep their hand, one or two cards at a time, to form a personal collection. Once all cards have been traded or kept, players tally their collections and the highest score wins — but pairs can cancel out and special cards are not always helpful, so trade carefully!

Trailblazers is a simultaneous drafting, route-building game where players construct their own network of hiking, biking, and kayaking trails. Trail cards can even be overlapped, giving you the freedom to blaze routes however you please. Just be careful not to push-your-luck too far… only trails that loop back to camp will score points!

Lead the undercover investigation against five criminal groups to gather enough evidence to convict them. However, if you investigate too aggressively, the criminals will smell a rat and go dark!

Players bid simultaneously with their investigator cards to claim evidence cards — the highest investigator takes the evidence card that is closest to the deck, the lowest takes the furthest, etc. Collect 3 evidence of a kind to score 10 bonus conviction points, but accidentally collect a 4th and lose those cards!

One bottle per person is the new law — thus bribes, suitcase inspections, and arrests are on the agenda.

Each round, one player takes a turn in the role of a border guard while the other players act as travelers. In a quest to acquire coveted carbonation and its accompanying bottle caps, the border guard tries to confiscate as many sodas as possible while only the cleverest travelers will sneak across with their fizzy contraband. After each player has been the border guard (twice in a 3-4 player game, once in a 5-8 player game), the game ends and whoever has the most bottle caps wins!

The Pumafiosi (Puma Mafiosi) operate in a strict hierarchy, and everyone wants to reach the top. But stand out too much and you’ll put a target on your back. That’s why the second highest card wins each trick, and the winning player slots their card into the Pumafia hierarchy.

The catch is that winning cards can be knocked down one or more steps on the hierarchy by higher-valued cards, and whoever owns a falling card is penalized!