Apples to Apples is the game of hilarious comparisons that’s always ready for a party or a reunion bringing friends and family together for fun! In each round, a new judge draws a Description Card. Players have to decide which card in their hand matches the Description in play, and hope the judge thinks their card is the best. Special graphic symbols on the cards help identify the color, allowing players with any form of color blindness to play.

• 4 to 8 players
• Ages 12+
• Playtime: 30 minutes
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Inspired by the medieval fortress in southern France of the same name, Carcassonne is a tile-laying game in which players fill in the countryside around the fortified city. Players choose from tiles that depict cities, roads, monasteries, and fields; each new tile placed creates an ever-expanding board on which players can then add their followers. Players score points by having followers on features as they’re completed. The player who makes the most strategic placements of tiles and followers will score the most points and win the game.

• 2 to 5 players
• Ages 8+
• Playtime: 30-45 minutes
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Compounded is a game about building chemical compounds through careful management of elements, a fair bit of social play and trading, and just a bit of luck. In Compounded, players take on the roles of lab managers, hastily competing to complete the most compounds before they are finished by others – or destroyed in an explosion. Some compounds are flammable and will grow more and more volatile over time; take too long to gather the necessary elements for those compounds and a lot of hard work will soon be scattered across the lab.

• 2 to 5 players
• Ages 13+
• Playtime: 30-90 minutes
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Adapt species in an ever changing ecosystem with hungry predators and limited resources. Create your very own species with over 12,000 different trait combinations to explore. Your choices will make every game of Evolution unique. Adapt your species, playing new traits, like Hard Shell to protect your creations from Carnivores, or Long Neck to help them get food that others cannot reach. Survive a constantly changing ecosystem, where the only winning strategy is to adapt to your surroundings and stay one step ahead of your friends.

• 2 to 6 players
• Ages 12+
• Playtime: 60 minutes
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Your goal is to make it to the end of the board without landing on the Exploding Kitten. To do that, you’ll play cards and plot strategies to sabotage your opponents. But don’t get too cocky because one wrong move can cause the board to flip. This completely transforms the board to reveal a new path where every move could be your last. You have to think fast, form alliances, play smart, and avoid the Exploding Kittens at all costs.

• 2 to 5 players
• Ages 7+
• Playtime: 15 minutes
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Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board. As more and more pieces are added the game becomes a fight to see who can be the first to capture the opposing Queen Bee.

• 2 players
• Ages 9+
• Playtime: 20 minutes
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The sun shines brightly on the canopy of the forest, the trees use this wonderful energy to grow up and develop their beautiful foliage. Sow your crops wisely and the shadows of your growing trees could slow your opponents down, but don’t forget that the sun revolves around the forest. Welcome to the world of Photosynthesis: the green strategy boardgame!

• 2-4 players
• Ages 10+
• Playtime: 30-60 minutes
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Scattergories is a crowd-pleasing, fast-thinking game. Roll the die and you have just seconds to come up with a band name, vegetable, shoe style and more, all beginning with the right letter. But be creative! If another player matches your answer, you get 0 points. With more than 190 categories and 20 letters the combinations and fun are endless.

• 2-6 players
• Ages 12+
• Playtime: 30 minutes
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A party card game for the social media generation. Each round, one player takes the role of judge and plays a photo card, after which everyone else plays a caption card to complete the meme. The judge decides the funniest pairing, and whoever played the winning caption card wins the round.

• 3-20 players
• Ages 17+
• Playtime: 30-90 minutes
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