Some of the Games We Play
NAME |
TYPE |
DESCRIPTION |
Word, Card, Social Engineering |
Get your friends to pick your nouns to win their adjectives. |
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Creative, Word, Guessing |
AKA the dictionary game: fake people out with your own "definitions" for obscure words. |
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Blokus Trigon |
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Word, Timed |
Find words in letter dice. |
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Strategy, Board |
A German game where fortunes are made growing and trading beans. |
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Breakfast Combo |
Guessing |
Build on previous guesses to narrow down the secret. |
Creative, Guessing, Social Engineering, Timed |
Pitch clues that are easy enough for some, but too hard for most. |
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Dexterity, Icehouse |
Balance Ice House pieces on a CD. |
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Card |
A card game replete with social classes and taxation. |
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(New) Eleusis |
Card, Logic |
Guess the rule that determines which plays are legal. |
Foreign Market |
Creative, Silent Acting, Guessing |
Silently convey what you want to buy to a person who doesn't know English. |
Card |
A "bloody" card game that teaches respect for the Queen of Spades. |
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Timed, Word, Drawing, Guessing |
A timed cooperative Cranium spin-off |
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Word, Storytelling |
Use random words in a story you write in 90 seconds |
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Board |
Twisted Clue. |
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Maxinora |
Logic, Oral |
Figure out the rule that controls how your questions are answered |
Creative, Acting, Timed |
Make quick impressions of various people, animals, and/or objects. |
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Creative, Word, Guessing, Logic |
Like Mastermind, but with words. |
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Card, Word |
Be the first to see a word as letters are laid down. |
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Card |
Also known as Oh Hell, a poor relation of Bridge. |
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Word, Timed |
Form sets of words with letter dice. |
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Card |
A rummy style card game. |
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Word, Card |
A sort of Rummy game where you form words from letters in your hand. |
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Card |
Sort out your hand first, and yell "Racko!" |
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Tile Placement, Set Collection |
Similar to Rummy but played with tiles |
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Set |
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Word, Guessing, Timed |
Find your way around taboo words as quickly as possible. |
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Tavula |
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Creative, Writing, Guessing |
Convert text questions to answers and back for entertaining confusion. Examples |
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Creative, Drawing, Guessing |
Convert text to pictures and back for entertaining confusion. (For an example, see PhotoGallery) |
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Strategy, Board |
Construct a trip by foot, car, or plane |
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Trivia |
In what year 1950-1990 did it happen? |
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Icehouse |
Be the first to match your pieces to the goal. |
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Tri-Corner Rat-F*** |
Card |
Trick-taking game for 3 players. |
Card, Strategy |
Save the island sheep from the rising waters! |
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Word, Card |
Add letters to beginning or end of partial words |
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Card, Memory |
Concentrate: guests are vanishing in the elevator! |
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Creative, Writing |
Answer a random riddle. |
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Drawing, Guessing |
A fast paced game with a family resemblence to Pictionary. |
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Wits & Wagers |
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Word, Guessing |
Twig common words from obscure, often British, definitions. |
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Creative, Guessing, Logic, Icehouse |
Fun with the scientific method: figure out the hidden rules. |