"Pass the sushi! In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by."--Container.

Shows how to play different games with different rules on the same board.

"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."--

Provides instructions on how to play a range of card and board games, as well as strategy and history of the games.

Purpose of the game is to be the first player to reach the opposite side of the board. Your opponents are putting up fences to block your chances and slow you down. Can you find the shortest route in this game of mazes and madness?

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.

"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...

Players use light points to take their trees through their life cycles, from seedlings to fully grown. Then players collect scoring tokens with points proportional to the richness of the soil on which the trees grow.

"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...

The year is 1667 and you are a pirate sailing the waters of the Caribbean. A Spanish Galleon floats nearby, and you've talked your crewmates into working together to steal all of its treasure. What you haven't told your fellow pirates is that you have no intention to share the treasure once you have it. Each player holds a secret loyalty to the British or French and is trying to have the most treasure in their team's holds before the Spanish Armada...