Game Profile: Sherlock Deluxe

Name Sherlock Deluxe
Byline The Card Game Where Memory And Deduction Are
ELEMENTARY!
Mechanics Deduction, Memory
Theme Sherlock Holmes
Publication Playroom Entertainment, 2009
Ages 5+
Time 15
Players 2 – 5
Description

As Sherlock goes around and searches the clues, every player tries
to remember each of the objects hidden in a face down circle of cards. Sherlock
travels from one card to another, stopping at a face down card, which the
player has to remember. Sherlock continues to move, as long as the player
guesses correctly. When Sherlock travels to a face up card, the player gets to
keep that card. The first player to collect six cards wins, in this multiple
award-winning memory game.

A Memory Game for the whole family!

AWARDS: Dr. Toy Winner – Best Vacation Children’s Products, 2004
Parent’s Choice Gold Award

Keywords: Sherlock,
Children’s Game, Memory Game, Game Profile

Game Profile: Sleeping Queens

A royally rousing card game.


Mechanics Card Drafting
Theme Royalty
Publication Gamewright, 2005
Ages 8+
Time 20
Players 2 – 5
Description
Rise and Shine! The
Pancake Queen, the Ladybug Queen and 10 of their closest friends have fallen
under a sleeping spell and it’s your job to wake them up. Use strategy, quick
thinking and a little luck to rouse these napping nobles from their royal
slumbers.


Twelve queens with various point values will lie sleeping (face down) in the center of the play area.  Each turn players will play a card from their hand and perform it’s action or choose to discard cards, then conclude by drawing cards to get their hand back to 5 cards. Play a knight to steal a queen or take a chance on a juggling jester.  But watch out for wicked potions and dastardly dragons!


Some arithmetic comes into play as your hand will collect number cards that have no other purpose than to clutter it.  On your turn you can discard either a pair of identical numbers or 3 or more cards that make an addition equation such as the numbers 2, 3, and 5.  You can discard all three since 2 + 3 = 5.  At the end of your turn remember to draw cards to get your hand back to 5 cards.


You can choose one of two ways to end the game: 1) when a player has collected 5 awakened queens or 50 points worth of awakened queens or 2) when there are no more Sleeping Queens left in the center play area and whoever has the most points wins.


This kids card game promotes memory development, strategy, and elementary arithmetic skills.
Awards: Dr. Toy – Smart
Play Smart Toy

We have an open copy
of Sleeping Queens available
in our Demo Games Library for you come in and try.



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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street
in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full
range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games,
dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles
from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and
Dowdle.

We proudly
serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver
area.

This Just In: Tsuro…The Game of the Path

Create your own journey with Tsuro…the Game of the Path. 

Place a tile and slide your stone along the path created, but take care!  Other players’ paths can lead you in the wrong direction–or off the board entirely!  Find your way wisely to succeed.

The rules are simple: you place a tile to build the next step for your stone to follow.  Paths will cross and connect, and the choices you make affect all the journey across the board. Stay the path –your journey begins here. 

This is a fun family game for 2 to 8 players.

Come see us at Off The Charts Games for this and other fabulous games.  We are located at 30 NW 2nd St. in Historic Downtown Gresham.

Game Profile: Super Scrabble

Name Super Scrabble
Byline The game for those who cannot get enough
Scrabble
Mechanics Tile Placement
Theme Words
Publication Winning Moves Games/Hasbro, 2004
Ages 8+
Time 45 – 60
Players 2 – 4
Description
Who knew they could make
Scrabble even better! All they had to do was expand the board from 225 squares
to 441 squares, double the number of letters from 100 to 200, and add squares
giving quadruple letter and quadruple word scores. The best part is you already
know how to play.

Game Profile: Tally Ho

A game of who’s hunting who?




Mechanics Tile Placement, Abstract
Theme Hunting
Publication Rio Grande Games, 1973
Ages 8+
Time 40
Players 2
Description
What happens when the
hunter becomes the hunted?  In Tally Ho
one player takes the role of the hunters and the lumberjacks; the other takes
the role of the foxes and bears. Both players hunt each other.   At first, the
forest lies peacefully under the face down tiles. As the tiles get flipped over and moved around the board, the forest awakens and the hunt destroys the
serenity of the forest. The lumberjacks cut down and remove trees to open swaths through the forest to
provide hunting fields for the hunters. The bears then use these same aisles to
track the hunters and the lumberjacks. Unfortunately for the ducks and pheasants they can be caught and eaten by the foxes or caught in the cross hairs of the hunter. The two sides are balanced with luck
dominating the early game, but skill taking over at the end. Good hunting!





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in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full
range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games,
dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles
from Ravensburger, White Mountain, Cobble Hill, and
Dowdle.

We proudly
serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver
area.

Game Profile: There’s A Moose In The House

A very silly card game.


Classification Hand Management
Mechanics Moose
Publication Gamewright, 2004
Ages 8+
Time 15
Players 2 – 5
Description
Eeek!  There’s a moose loose in the kitchen… and another in the bathroom!  In this silly matching card game, the goal is to keep the moose out of your house, while giving them to your opponents at the same time.  Use a door card to close off empty room or if you’re lucky, plant a moose trap to keep those lovable but uninvited visitors away!  The player with the fewest moose wins. 

All players start the game with an invisible empty “house” in front of them and a hand of 4 cards. As the game progresses, players fill opponents’ houses with rooms and then those rooms with moose. On their turn a player will draw a card from the draw deck and then choose one of their cards to play. You might play a There’s a Moose in the House card on any opponent or play an empty room card on any opponent, or play a door card to close off an empty room.

No matter which cards you play, this is a fun family game with silly looking cards.


Awards: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio – Best Toy Award Platinum



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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street
in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full
range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games,
dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles
from Ravensburger, White Mountain, and Cobble
Hill.

We
proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver
area.

Game Profile: Thunderstone Dragonspire

Name Thunderstone: Dragonspire
Byline The Doomgate is open, and an ancient evil has
been released into the world!
Mechanics Hand Management, Deck Building
Theme Fantasy
Publication Alderac Entertainment Group, 2011
Ages 12+
Time 45
Players 2 – 5
Description
Thunderstone returns
with Thunderstone Dragonspire, a deck building game of fantasy adventure! Dragonspire is a
stand-alone game that allows you to combine cards from past Thunderstone
releases.

You are the leader of a band of heroic adventurers. You have come to
the legendary Dragonspire. Your goal is to build a party of mighty heroes,
magic spells, and powerful weapons to find one of the fabled Thunderstones.
Dungeons are dark and dangerous places. Your Heroes must bring their own Light
with them if they hope to combat the Monsters effectively. If you do not have
enough Light, you will suffer. Each player constructs his own deck of cards during
the game. Your deck represents the abilities and gear of your adventuring
party. How you build your deck determines if victory and glory will be yours!
Keywords:
Thunderstone Dragonspire, Deck Building, Fantasy, Game Profile

Game Profile: Ticket To Ride Asia

Name Ticket To Ride Asia
Byline Embark On An Incredible Adventure
New out for 2011 is Ticket To Ride Map Collection: Asia (Ticket
To Ride Asia) an expansion to Ticket To Ride orTicket
To Ride Europe.  Ticket To Ride Asia has a
double-sided board allowing players to embark on an incredible Asian adventure
with partners on the Team Asia map or individually on
the Legendary Asia map.

Team Asia is designed specifically for team play with 4 or 6 players.
 Players pair up in teams of 2 and should sit next to each other so that
players on the same team always play in succession.  Players on the same team score together but must keep their own set of trains
separate from each other.  Teammates on the same team also share 2
cardholders. At the start of the game each player is dealt a hand of
destination cards and train cards.  Next, each player selects a
destination card from their hand and places it in their team’s common
cardholder.  The remaining cards in their hand are to be kept secret from
the other players including their teammate.  When train cards are drawn
the player must place one in their team’s common cardholder and the other in
their hand.  When playing a Destination, players can use a combination of
 train cards from their own hand and from their team’s common cardholder.
 Tunnels in Team Asia play similar to tunnel play
in Ticket To Ride Europe. 

Legendary Asia is
designed for players to travel alone.  At the start of this game players
are each dealt 1 Long Route and along with the 3 regular Destination Tickets,
of which at least 2 Destination Tickets must be kept.  Legendary
Asia also includes designated mountain routes.  On those
routes some spaces will be marked with an X.  A player who claims those
routes must play a second train on the space.  It will count as 2 extra
points, but will leave you less trains to finish the game.  In this
version of the game there is a 10 point bonus to the player who connects to the
most cities.

Keywords: Ticket To
Ride Asia, Game Expansion, Euro Game, Game Profile


Game Profile: Togbago

Name Tobago
Byline Land Ahoy! … After years of searching you have
found her: Tobago, the island of forgotten treasures.
Mechanics Modular Board, Hand Management, Set Collection
Theme Adventure
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2009
Ages 13+
Time 60
Players 2 – 4
Description

In Tobago the adventure begins when you assemble
the modular board into one of 32 different scenarios.  Then three types of
monuments are placed randomly around the board.  Somewhere on the island,
four different treasures are buried.  The adventurers now use clue cards
to narrow down and finally identify exactly where each of the buried treasures
are located.  Now, the race is on to get your ATV across the various
terrain tiles to be the first to arrive at and claim a buried treasure.
 Once the treasure is claimed, treasure cards will come into play to
distribute the treasure amongst the adventurers who contributed clue cards for
that treasure.  Powerful amulets become available on the board once a treasure is raised and distributed.  These amulets are
claimed by racing your ATV in the same manner as you do for the treasures.
 Amulets grant powers that help players in almost every aspect of the
game.  The game ends after the treasure card deck runs out, but not before
the treasure is distributed.

AWARDS: 2010 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Winner

Here is an overview of Tobago

Game Profile: Top Dogs

Name Top Dogs
Byline A Dog-Eat-Dog Card Game
Mechanics Math, Memory
Theme Dogs
Publication Playroom Entertainment, 2005
Ages 8+
Time 20
Players 3 – 5
Description

Mush! It’s dog sledding time!  Welcome to Alaska, where your
team of dogs led by the Musher of your choice is ready to compete in the
Iditarod.
Players must pick their best combinations of dogs to form the
strongest team to compete for each race and win the trophies of diffent values.
 But other players have the same dogs to choose from, and the competition
can become sneaky!

As soon as each player has chosen their team, each set of dogs are
evaluated for team strength and the trophy is awarded.  So jump on your
toboggan and choose wisely in this dog-eat-dog game of psyching out oppponents!

Top Dogs is
a fun and fast math game for kids.

Keywords: Family Game,
Card Game, Game Profile