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BEATLES ANTHOLOGY SERIES JIGSAW PUZZLES

The Anthology Series, the definitive documentary that chronicles the complete history of The Beatles, comes to life in this special collector's series of jigsaw puzzles. Piece by piece, you'll recall the early magic of this legendary band.
What a great way to relive some of the most momentous events in music history! It's a must-have for any collection of Beatles memorabilia, and makes an outstanding gift for any fan of the Fab Four

The collage design keeps the process consistently engaging and a good challenge to even an experienced puzzler.

January 12, 2009 11:49 - Compatibility Game - Great Game for Groups of Couples, This is a great game because everyone plays at once, so no one has to wait for their turn, and people come up with some hilarious matches. It is great for a night with couples.

COMPATIBILITY

Compatibility, a multi-award-winning board game, will have you laughing and chatting for hours.

Launched in 1995 in Australia, Compatibility was invented by Craig Browne in 1991. The game was licensed to the well-known Australian game company, Crown and Andrews, for the domestic market and to Mattel International for worldwide distribution.
Winning a number of awards, including Game of the Year and the coveted Mattel inventors award, more than 500,000 copies of Compatibility have been sold. It has been distributed in 12 countries and translated into 5 languages. Compatibility remains one of a very small list of Australian games to make it to the world market.

Do great minds REALLY think alike? Comaptible Couples?

To play the game, you split into pairs. Then, one person draws a card and rolls a die. The card has six categories, one for each possible result of the die roll. The category might be something like "love," "college," or "desperation," and everyone has to flip through their deck of cards and pick the five cards (or fewer, depending on the space they are on) that they most think fit the category. Some of the cards have pictures, like of cigarettes, clowns, or roses, some have words like "hope" and "sex," and some just have colors. When everyone has chosen their cards, they line them up from best fit to worst fit, and when everyone is ready, they flip their cards over and see whether they match their partner's cards. You get to move two spaces if you match your partner's card, and three if you match cards, and you put the card in the exact same spot.

It's amazing how hard it is to think like some people, and how easy it is to think like others.

So much fun and really interesting to see how compatible you are with friedns and family!! We highly recommend this game for anyone who likes to play boardgames that require nothing more than a great sense of humor.

January 9, 2009 12:55 - STRATEGO - ICE VS. FIRE EDITION - Milton-Bradley's two-player addictive spin on the game of capture the flag.

STRATEGO - ICE VS. FIRE EDITION

Step onto the battlefield and put your strategy to the test in this classic game. Each player must use cunning and luck to outwit their opponents and win the game.

This version of Stratego is similar to the classic version, with one notable (and arguably major) exception: the number of playing pieces has been reduced.

The game pieces are revamped for a fire-versus-ice fantasy setting: the Spy is now a Slayer, who can take out the highest-ranked Dragon piece. Name changes aside, the gameplay remains the same as the original game. However, the number of pieces has been reduced from forty to thirty, and the gameboard therefore only has three rows of ten spaces instead of four on each side of the board. This alteration in the board alone can considerably change winning game strategies compared to the classic version.

Stratego is the classic game of capture the flag where the gameboard is your battlefield. In Stratego - Ice Vs. Fire Edition, you lead armies of elves, wizards, dragons and more into battle. Play classic Stratego or add special and unique powers for a higher level of play! Ice Vs. Fire is also known as the "Refresh" version of this time-honored game of strategy and deception. Protect your flag and capture your opponents' to claim victory!

December 10, 2008 12:49 - WISE AND OTHERWISE - Voted a Best Party Game of the Year by Games magazine, Wise and Otherwise belongs next to Pictionary and Scrabble in your arsenal of fun.

WISE AND OTHERWISE

In Wise and Otherwise, players have to finish foreign sayings that rarely make sense.

With 2500 sayings from across the world, creative wordplay and careful use of dialect are just as important in this game as the metaphors that you create.

"The Beginning is... Half the Whole"

Or

'When crab no have hole....'

'lobster sad ALL day.'

(NOT the right response, but it still puts us into convulsions.)

Below are a few sample proverbs from one of the cards in the game.

There's an old Tibetan saying: "It is no use trying to tug a..."
There's an old Zambian saying: "A small thing is not noticed..."
There's an old Dutch saying: "For the sake of the grease the cat licks..."
There's an old English saying: "Cheese and money should always..."
There's an old Croatian saying: "Those who eat porridge..."

Only the first half of the proverb is shown here - if you want to find out how the proverb ends, you'll have to play the game!

Every player would have written down an ending to the statement and handed it to the reader, who would then read everyone's aloud as well as the correct answer. Players vote for what they think is the correct answer and hope that others will vote for theirs. As you receive points you move your pawn up the board and the first to the end wins. Creative people will really enjoy this game because many times the correct ending to the statement is extremely goofy. The whole spirit of the game is light-hearted and the losers have just as much fun as the winner.

The best thing is creativity is rewarded -- not necessarily knowledge. Therefore, all ages can play and have a chance at winning. Moreover, if you have friends that have a wide range of skills, they can ALL get together at a party and have fun

Each time you never know what crazy endings people will come up with, or what the real ending will be! This game ensures good times and a room full of uncontrollable laughter! Even if you don't like boardgames, this one is a sure-fire winner.
It is easily one of the best party games ever.

love games that are easy to explain. When we can start playing within minutes of the time we sit down it gives us more time to play more games. Wise and Otherwise is one of those easy to learn games. - Ben Lott

November 17, 2008 11:58 - TALISMAN - THE MAGICAL QUEST GAME - Only with strength, courage, wisdom and a few good dice rolls will players be able to survive the ultimate test and beat their opponents to victory.

Talisman - The Magical Quest Game was first published in the early to mid 1980's, when fantasy role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons were quite popular.

Talisman is a fantasy board game where each player takes up the role of a hero seeking to rule the world. Heroes battle monsters, and each other, to be the first to travel through the three regions of the board (Outer, Middle, and Inner) and place the Crown of Command upon their head. Once someone wears the crown, the other players can swear fealty (i.e., concede victory) or attempt to brave the killing power of the crown to eventually wrest it for themselves. The random nature of the adventure deck and the numerous different hero types results in no two Talisman games ever being the same. This makes the game exciting and creates a sense of adventure.
Roll a die, move your character (each with his own special abilities), and draw a card which could be a monster, a treasure, or a follower, or attack one of the other players, should he or she be unlucky enough to be there.

Talisman is a great game and well worth the time investment it takes to play (at least two hours). We have yet to play a fantasy themed board game that does as good a job of creating a sense of adventure and role-playing as Talisman.
The game appeals to many for the simplicity, and yet exciting ever changing gameplay, that it will always have great replay value. The cards change the outcome and you can never play the same game twice. This game is must have item for every die hard, stay up all night, eating cold pizza, drinking Mt Dew, game playing fanatic.

November 3, 2008 14:10 - I'm Dreaming of a Red Christmas: a Christmas Mystery - This was a really fun game and is a great way to celebrate Christmas with company staff or for group christmas parties.

Looking for some light-hearted party fun this Christmas? Then check out this mystery game!

I'm Dreaming of a Red Christmas: a Christmas Mystery

The classic "Christmas Characters" are amusing. The plot is pretty straight forward, and when the solution is revealed it's simple and makes sense.

Residents of the North Pole are accustomed to keeping secrets. They swear never to disclose the location of Santa’s Workshop, and they keep Santa’s identity anonymous. A Santa Claus serves for a term. When he retires, he appoints his successor. Most retired Santas then leave the North Pole and travel the world with their spouses. The current Santa showed no signs of retiring. In recent years, he bewildered the sweet Pole folk with what can only be described as “poor choices;" he even bordered on being bad-listed! Somebody decided that enough was enough and laced his eggnog with poison at the Annual Christmas Eve party. His death comes as a guilty relief to most, but now there’s no Santa to deliver the gifts at midnight. The Pole Folk must discover the killer, in order to convince someone else to step up to be Santa and save Christmas! For once, the North Pole has a secret that is too big to keep.

A scripted Christmas mystery set on Christmas Eve, at the North Pole.

The game is great. Although the script is short, it is perfect for a Christmas Party where you need time for other things such as opening presents or other games in between scripts.

October 21, 2008 14:18 - Rolit - Have a ball! Look, block, rotate... and win! The object of the game is to capture your opponent's Rolit balls and turn balls to make them your color. The player with the most Rolit balls of their color wins!

Rolit has ingeniously simple rules making it a great game for the whole family to play. The object is to block your opponents' playing pieces and capture them by rolling their colors to your own. The player with the most playing pieces showing their color at the end of the game wins! Engaging Othello style fun for 2 to 4 players aged 7 and up.

October 8, 2008 12:51 - STRATEGO - DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS EDITION is more like a chess game, except that all your pieces look the same from your opponent's point of view, and higher ranked pieces take out lower ranked, with a few exceptions.

The item of choice for many Democratic convention attendees to bring home to their children is the new version of the classic Stratego board game. Instead of soldiers on a battlefield, it pits Democrats and Republicans against each other in their campaign for the White House.

It's a must have for any family of political junkies. It is kind of like chess

STRATEGO - DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS EDITION $23.99

You should have no problem deciding which side you will play for in Stratego - Republicans Vs. Democrats Edition. With control of the White House being the goal, you'll want to be the first to sling some mud in this race. The entire cast of political hooligans are on board to help your cause, including a running mate, speechwriters, spin doctors, spies, and best of all, scandalous political bombs for you to drop when all else fails. In Stratego - Republicans Vs. Democrats Edition, it's your civic duty to seize control of the White House at any cost!

But watch out for spies!!!

September 8, 2008 11:04 - Agricola - International Gamers Awards, Multi-Player Nominee 2008 In Agricola (Latin for "farmer"), you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else in the 17th century. .

Agricola

In Agricola (Latin for "farmer"), you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood or stone; building fences; and so on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the little rugrats?

Agricola is a turn-based game. There are 14 game turns plus 6 harvest phases (after turn 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14). Each player starts with two playing tokens (farmer and wife) and thus can take two actions per turn. There are multiple options, and while the game progresses, you'll have more and more: first thing in a turn, a new action card is flipped over.

Problem: Each action can be taken just once per turn, so it's important to do some things with high preference. Each player also starts with a hand of 7 Occupation cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 Minor Improvement cards (of more than 140 total) that he may use during the game if they fit in his/her strategy. This amounts to countless strategies, some depending on your card hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course, sometimes you better react on what your opponents do.

Agricola can also be played without cards (family game) and can even be played solo.

August 21, 2008 13:01 - TRIVIAL PURSUIT DIGITAL CHOICE - Breathe new life into your favorite game with Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice, which allows you to jettison your old-school cards in favor of an exciting electronic unit loaded with 600 questions.

Challenge your knowledge in classic Trivial Pursuit categories, including Sports & Leisure, People & Places, Science & Nature and History with TRIVIAL PURSUIT DIGITAL CHOICE.

You know all the questions by heart and maybe your Trivial Pursuit experience is feeling a little old. Breathe new life into your favorite game with Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice, which allows you to jettison your old-school cards in favor of an exciting electronic unit loaded with 600 questions. You'll play the game just like you always have, but instead of shielding the answers on the back of the card from your opponents, you'll simply read them off the electronic unit.
You also can customize the game to suit your strengths and weaknesses — simply go online to download up to 1,800 additional questions of your choice in more than 100 microcategories at no additional charge. With Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice, you have even more opportunities to prove yourself a master of trivia.