"Tabletop and board games aren't just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are jumping to play "the original social network." In our ever-increasing technological world, playing old-school games is a welcome retreat from the overexposure to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of social media. Over the past few years, board games have become the hot new hobby. Instead of friends sitting...

"With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emailed stories, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most Americans who play Monopoly think it was invented by an...

Board Game Tournament guides students as they conceive and set up their own board game tournament for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience, these books maintain a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. A table...

"Bottom of the 9th is a quick dice and card game for 1 or 2 players that encapsulates the thrills and spills of baseball's final inning into a head-to-head competition between an ace pitcher and a star-studded line-up of heavy hitting batters"--Container

Among Thieves is a game of deception and greed. Players are criminals and blackmailers stealing from the Dystopian Universe's mega corporations. Win by having the most money, but be careful -- the player with the least honor is eliminated. Will you share the ill-gotten gains of your exploits or will you backstab your partners in crime and keep the money for yourself?

The peaceful kingdom of Mythe is suddenly raided by the eveil Red Dragon and his monster companions! The Red Dragon has taken away the golden Sacred Cheese, the symbol of the kingdom's prosperity and unity, and the fate of the kingdom is in peril. The brave young heroes of Mythe must now set out on a desperate journey to the Dragon's castle to recover the Sacred Cheese!

The Brook Service witches are flying again! The question remains: who is brave, who is a coward?

"Ticket to ride is a cross-country train adventure. Players collect cards of various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their destination tickets by connnecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway."--Back of the container