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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It's All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from...
5) Pandemic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In this game, players collaborate as members of a disease-fighting team combating four deadly diseases. The team travels around the world to stop the infection and develop resources for the cures. Players win by discovering cures for the four diseases, but lose if they do cannot do so fast enough or if they fail to effectively keep the number of infections in check.
9) Monopoly
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Players take the part of land owners, attempting to buy and then develop their land. Income is gained by other players visiting their properties and money is spent when they visit properties belonging to other players. When times get tough, players may have to mortgage their properties to raise cash for fines, taxes and other misfortunes"--Board Game Geek description.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable."--
Author
Pub. Date
©2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense of justice. Waves of urban migration drew Lizzie’s attention to rising financial inequality. One day she had an idea: create a game that shows the unfairness of the landlord-tenant relationship. But game players seemed to have the most fun pretending to be wealthy landowners. Enter Charles Darrow, a marketer and salesman with a vision for transforming Lizzie’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emailed stories, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most Americans who play Monopoly think it was invented by an...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Small world is a fun, zany, light-hearted civilization game in which 2-5 players vie for conquest and control of a board that is simply too small to accommodate them all. Picking the right combination of fantasy races and unique special powers, players must rush to expand their empires - often at the expense of weaker neighbors. Yet they must also know when to push their own overextended civilization into decline to ride a new one to victory--
16) Coup
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In a future where the government is run for profit, all but a priviledged few live lives of poverty and desperation. The Resistance rises out of these oppressed masses in revolt and throws the government into chaos. Many see hope for a brighter future for the first time in their lives. Others see opportunity for absolute power. To take command, you must destroy the influence of your rivals and drive them into exile. Only one can survive.
Pub. Date
©1982
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Description
Go is a 2-player abstract strategy game in which players compete to occupy the most space on the board, while surrending the fewest stones to the other player. At the end of the game, the players count up the open spaces enclosed by their stones and subtract from this the number of their stones captured by their opponent. The player with the higher amount wins the game.
18) Arkham horror
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Arkham Horror is a cooperative game of mystery and terror for up to six players. Inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, each unique scenario puts you in the shoes of one of Arkham's investigators as they explore the streets of the city and work together to save humanity from unknowable horrors." -- container.
"The end is near! Massachusetts. 1926. Too long has the city of Arkham lived on its placid island of ignorance in the midst of the black...
Description
STEAM kit includes the board game Quarto. Each game piece has four dichotomous attributes - color, height, shape, and consistency. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Description
From Mata Hari to James Bond, spies and secret agents have filled our imaginations. Now you get the chance to play spy and counter spy in a dark alley - Spy Alley. Deceptively simple and surprisingly intense, Spy Alley keeps you on the edge of your seat. Players become a spy for their given country and try to uncover their opponents' identity while keeping their own identity a secret. Players use deductive reasoning to expose other spies while attempting...
