Game Profile: Nuts! The Card Game

You are a squirrel in the game of Nuts!



Mechanics Hand Management, Set Collection
Theme Squirrels, Humor
Publication Sandstorm Productions, 2011
Ages 13+
Time 15
Players 2 – 6
Description

 From the minds of Poo comes another quick-playing,
light-hearted causal card game, Nuts!.

Squirrels, they love their nuts.  They’d do anything to get
their paws on nuts.  They will sometime mess with each other to get their
paws on each others’ nuts.  In the end, for a squirrel, it really is all
about the nuts.

Get ready to protect your Nuts in this fast and furious card
game!  Try to gather and steal the best nuts for yourself, while doing
everything you can to leave the other squirrels out in the cold!



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Game Profile: Oh Gnome You Don’t!

Get ready for a Gnome-tastic adventure.



Mechanics Roll and Move
Theme Gnome Racing
Publication Gut Bustin’ Games, 2011
Ages 13+
Time 90
Players
2 – 5
Description

Oh Gnome You Don’t! is the third game designed by local game designer, Lisa Steenson. 

This game is an adventurous time for gnomes as they travel the forest trail.  To acquire beautiful gems, the gnomes mine, collect goods, and sell them at businesses along the way.  Typically cheerful and friendly, the gnomes often let greed and aggression get the best of them as they brawl, play tricks, and set traps to have the most gems at the end of the game.


Overview by Gut Bustin’ Games:

Oh Gnome You Don’t! has 104 beautifully illustrated draw pile cards. There are green cards which are the items that the gnomes can play (table) on their turn. Items are found in the forest (Deer antler, baby field mouse, firewood, etc) or harvested (berries, nuts, mushrooms,honey, etc) or items that gnomes make (Woven basket, whittled flute, etc). Purple cards are actions or attacks that gnomes can play on their turn to affect themselves or another gnome. Red cards are attacks, defense, or interrupts that can be played on other gnomes’ turns. Each gnome gets two green titled cards to start the game. Turns consist of Roll Move Play a card Draw a card. No card is played or drawn when visiting a business. If playing the advanced rules with Brawling (gamers: this is a must!) then the turns include the brawl” Roll, Move, Brawl, Play, Draw. No brawling in a business. It is bad manners.

Other Lisa Steenson games include:

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Game Profile: Oregon

Name Oregon
Byline The Way The West Was Won . . .
 
Mechanics Card Drafting, Tile Placement
Theme American West
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2007
Ages 8+
Time 45
Players 2 – 4
Description
We write of the year
1846. Gunslingers, lawmen, pioneers and whole families left their homes in the
east and mid-west to try their luck in the West. They loaded their covered
wagons with all they could and headed west across steppes, deserts, and mountains.
Many chose to settle in Oregon, where the farming and hunting was plentiful and
they could stake out a bit of land for themselves. The players have already
reached Oregon and gaze upon the rich farmland below and the potential gold and
coal reserves of the mountains. they build ports on the lakes and rivers,
churches, warehouses, post offices, and train stations on the plains. And, of
course, they must farm the rich land to grow the food necessary for the area to
grow and thrive. To win, a player must choose the right times to farm and the
right times to build, for planning is necessary even here in the untamed
wilderness of Oregon!

Game Profile: Ten Days In The Americas

The unpredictable game of making connections.

Mechanics Set Collection, Hand Management
Theme Travel
Publication Out Of The Box, 2010
Ages 10+
Time 20
Players 2 – 4

Description


Ten Days in the Americas
is one of 5 games in a series of games about traveling. The goal is to
plan a 10 day trip linking locations by walking, flying, or sailing to the
next location.  In some versions players can also drive to locations. The trip must
start and end in a country.  
A map game board of the Americas is placed in the center of the play area.  At the start of the game players randomly select
tiles and place them in any day of the trip they would like. Once in place the
tiles cannot be rearranged. When play begins players choose one of three tiles
that are face up or randomly draw a face down tile. Next they can replace and
discard any tile in their player rack with the selected or drawn tile.
Discarded tiles are played face up and are available for other players to take
and add to their trip plans.  The first player to put together a ten-day trip
with good connections wins.



Although not pertinent to game play, each country tile includes some interesting facts about that country.  The facts include capital, population, and size in square miles.

Other Ten Days themes include:


Ten Days
In The USA

Ten Days
In Europe

Ten Days
In Africa
Ten Days
In Asia

Awards: Mensa Select


We have an open copy
of 
Ten Days in Europe available
in our Demo Games Library for you come in and try.



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Game Profile: Pandemic

The fate of humanity is in your hands!



Mechanics Cooperative Play, Hand Management, Variable Powers
Theme Medical
Publication Z-Man Games, 2008
Ages 13+
Time 45
Player 2 – 4
Description


Pandemic is a cooperative game where you all win or you all lose.  You and your fellow players are members of a disease control team, working together to research cures and prevent additional outbreaks.  Each of you will assume a unique role with the team, with special abilities that will improve your team’s chances if applied wisely.  The object is to save humanity by discovering cures to 4 deadly diseases (Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red) that threaten to overtake the planet.


Players all start at a research station in Atlanta.  Infection has broken out in 9 different cities scattered throughout the world.  Players will use their unique abilities to fly around the world, build research stations, discover cures, and treat the deadly diseases.  At the end of each players’ turn infector cards will continue to add to the challenge of the game.  If you and your fellow players aren’t able to keep the disease contained before finding the necessary cures, the planet will be overrun and the game will end in defeat for everyone…Do you have what it takes to save humanity?


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Game Profile: Power Grid

A strategy game of planning with surges of energy.


Classification Economic Strategy Game
Mechanics Auction Bid, Network Building
Theme Utility Power Plants
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2004
Ages 12+
Time 120 – 150
Players 2 – 6
Description


Power Grid is an economic game for the strategist.  On a turn players will bid for power plants at auction followed by the buying of resources from the resource market, where the prices can vary by demand and by round.  Next players buy cities and link them to their existing cities by paying connection fees.  Revenue is generated by supplying power to the cities at the end of each round.  Player order is determined each round by the number of cities each player has.  The player with the least number of cities will go last during the auction phase and first during the resource and cities buying phases.  Going last in turn order is an advantage, however if you fall too far behind it is challenging to catch up.


Power Grid requires a good balance in spending money between acquiring power plants, purchasing necessary resources, and paying city placement costs.  Additionally, it requires deft management of turn order.




We have an open copy of Power Grid available in our Store Demo Library for you come in and try.



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Game Profile: Red November

A frantic game of survival on a gnomish submarine.



Mechanics Cooperative, Dice Rolling, Point-to-Point Move
Theme Sinking Submarine, Gnomes
Publication Fantasy Flight, 2008
Ages 12+
Time 60
Players 1 – 8
Description

Hard times have hit the experimental gnomish submarine Red November. Everything on the sub is going wrong at once. Fires are burning, the sub is leaking, and critical systems keep failing. Help is on the way, but the gnomish sailors must hold out until the rescuers arrive. A crew of slightly tipsy gnomes tries to save a badly damaged submarine. There are 3 disaster tracks. If any of them reach the end of the track the submarine is destroyed and the players lose. The gnomes are allowed to move around the sub on their turn to fix problems. They can use tools picked up along the way. Dice rolls are used to determine if the fix works or not. Players are confronted with fires, flooded rooms and blocked hatches. The element of time is also a problem. Each action takes minutes. If you run out of minutes you also lose the game. Player turns are not necessarily in order. Whoever is the farthest back on the time track goes next, even if they just had a turn. Gnomes have the option of exiting through an outer hatch to slay the draken when it comes into play or to enter the sub at a different hatch. There are many ways to lose a game of Red November, but only one way to win. Red November is a cooperative race against the clock.




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Game Profile: Redneck Life

Do you say redneck like it’s a bad thing?

Mechanics Roll and Move
Publication Gut Bustin’ Games, 2003
Ages 13+
Time 60
Players 2 – 6
Description

Redneck Life is the 1st in a series of games by local game designer Lisa Steenson.

Redneck Life is a world where a roll of 2 dice determines the grade you complete in school, which sets you up for one of 11 fabulous careers, such as Mullet Salon Operator or Monster Truck Announcer! Journey through Blue Collar Americana using credit to buy vehicles, get married, purchase a home, get divorced, remarried, and raise a passel of young’ens. Through accidents and brawls, players lose teeth. Buy some back if you can…as the player with the most teeth at the end of the game wins!

Awards: Tgifcon Game Of The Year 2006

We have an open copy of Redneck Life and the expansion Bustin’ a Gut available in our Store Demo
Games Library for you come in and try.



Available Expansions:

Bustin’ a Gut!
 
Add to the fun and laughter with
more Rigs & Homes, more Go
Redneckin’ cards, and a whole
new set of charts and names!

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Game Profile: Smallworld

The world really is not big enough for dwarfs, ghouls, humans, and skeletons!

Mechanics Variable Powers, Area Control


Theme Fantasy

Publication Days of Wonder, 2009
Ages 8+
Time 80
Players 2 – 5
Description

Smallworld features a world with 14
different races of creatures and 20 different power badges. They are mixed and
matched randomly before each game. Players select a race and power badge
combination from six available. Players then occupy terrain sections of the board
by occupying vacant sections or overpowering races in the sections. After a
couple of rounds players can put their race in decline and set themselves up to
select a new race and power badge combination to re-enter the fray. Points are
awarded for occupying terrain sections and for any bonus points granted by the
race or power badge they have in play. Players will have the opportunity to use
several race and power badge combinations during a single game.

Interestingly, Smallworld includes 2 double-sided boards. Each side of a board corresponds to the number of players – 2, 3, 4, or 5.


Awards: Games 100 – 2010 Traditional Game of the Year








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Game Profile: The Stars Are Right

The world is doomed and you can help!


Mechanics Hand Management and Pattern Recognition
Theme Night Sky
Publication Steve Jackson Games, 2008
Ages 13+
Time 60
Players 2 – 4
Description
In The Stars Are Right,
you take the role of a cultist, summoning the creatures of horror from beyond time
and space as created by the fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft.  The object of the game is to be the first to accumulate 10 victory points worth of summoned creatures.



The sky is made up of a 5 x 5 grid of 25 double-sided tiles depicting various types of stars. Players will start with a hand of creature cards from which they will choose their actions. The cards range in point value with Minions at 0, Lessor Servitors at 1, Greater Servitors are 2, and Great Old Ones at 4.   The actions that may be performed by playing creature cards are to rearrange the tiles in the sky, to summon creatures, and to modify card symbols.  Invoking a creature lets you rearrange the star tiles in the sky through a series of flips, pushes, and swaps with the objective to line up the right stars in the right pattern that will allow you to summon a creature from your hand.  Summoned creatures can bring both victory points and additional powers to change the sky.

The key is to build your horde of Servitors so you can make a chain of flips, pushes and swaps,
rearranging the entire sky. Make the stars right, summon Great Old Ones, and
win.  
The Stars Are Right really challenges your spatial abilities.







We have an open copy of The Stars Are Right available in our Demo Games Library for you
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