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We Rate Dogs! the Card Game - For 3-6 Players, Ages 8+ - Fast-Paced Card Game Where Good Dogs Compete to Be the Very Best - Based on Wildly Popular @W

Stephen Tasker, Darren Watts, et al.

$24.95 $23.20

Ages 8+; 3-6 players. Choose dog cards, then compete in a show together!

Haikubes [With Over 60 Word Cubes]

Forrest-Pruzan Creative

$26.95 $25.06

For the whole family! If Amanda Gorman awoke your love of poetry, try creating some yourself! Role these dice and put the prompts together to write your own haiku.

Lizzy Loves Darcy: A Jane Austen Matchmaking Game: Board Games

Thomas W. Cushing

$25.00 $23.25

Ages 10+; 2+ players. Race up the social ladder while trying to match the Austen lovebirds of your dreams.

Llamanoes: Dominoes . . . with Llamas! (Llama Card Game for Kids, Board Game for Children)

Chronicle Books and Shyama Golden

$12.99 $12.08

Toddler+; 1+ player. Dominoes but make it llamas.

Princess Bride Adventure Book Game

$39.99 $37.19

Ages 10+; 1-4 players; play through six chapters to complete the story you know without disrupting the plot too much please. Watch out for rodents of unusual size and interrupting children!

Matchmaking: The Jane Austen Memory Game

John Mullan and Barry Falls

$16.99 $15.80

Ages 8+; 1+ players; help Jane Austen’s characters meet-cute! You’ll know who is destined to fall in love because the backgrounds on their cards match.

Pooper Heroes: A Family Card Game

Zsolt Batki and Aga Giecko

$14.99 $13.94

Ages 5+; 2 - 7 players. Match colors on your cards to keep playing. Can’t match? Oh well, go poop. Teach kids about healthy digestion while letting them saying a “naughty” word that will ensue in much giggling.

Go Fetch

Megan Lynn Kott

$14.95 $13.90

Ages 4+; 2+ players. Go Fish with dogs instead of aquatic animals. The four suits are: stick, ball, disc, and bone!

Bond Bingo: The Ultimate 007 Game

$35.00 $32.55

Ages 6+; 2+ players. Twelve bingo boards featuring 64 heroes, villains, cars, and gadgets from the James Bond movies. Officially affiliated with the franchise.

Jeopardy! Game Tin: With 90 Game Cards and Book Full of Classic Questions [With Book(s)]

Igloobooks

$19.99 $18.59

Ages 12+; 2 - 4 players. Try your hand at winning the favorite TV game show!

Fat Cats

Ridley's

$12.00 $11.16

Ages 6+; 2-5 players. Strut, pounce, and perform your best cat tricks using your cards to win the most treat cards. May the best cat (card) win!

Chess Set - Once a Pawn a Time

Patzi Stewart

$29.99 $27.89

Ages 6+ (because of the sizes + materials of the set). Set comes with two books that teach the game to new players.

Animal Mah-Jong

Ryuto Miyake

$34.99 $32.54

Whole Family; 3 - 4 players. Learn how to play the classic game, improve your logic skills, and learn about animals that live all over Asia: the tiles feature the drawings of Japanese artist Ryuto Miyake.

Penguin's Iceberg Adventure Cooperative Game

Mudpuppy

$15.99 $14.87

Ages 3+; 2+ players. Work together to match shapes making a path for your baby penguins to cross so they can snuggle with their mamas.

Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty: Associates

Ced

$22.99

Ages 10+; 1 player. Role-play as Sherlock Holmes while untangling a case involving a kidnapped princess, missing diamonds, and a mysterious death. Gather clues using the comic that comes with the game and track your progress on the character sheet.

The Blindfold: A Brain-Bending Game of Scribbles and Sabotage

Tom Ackerman

$19.99 $18.59

Ages 8+; 2 - 6 players. Write words on a paper, then defend your terrain by ripping other people’s words off the sheet. Unfortunately for you, the other players can also rip up your words. And all players must wear the game’s blindfolds during their turns, adding to the difficulty. Try not to rip your own word off the paper!

The Jewish Foods Memory Game

Tablet

$17.95 $16.69

Ages 3+; 1+ player. Exercise your noggin’ while noshin’! Match the foods on the cards (bagel to bagel) by their photos, descriptions in English, in Hebrew, or decide to match cards to their meals (kreplach to chicken soup and so on).

The Questions Hip-Hop Trivia

Sean Kantrowitz

$25.00 $23.25

Whole Family; 1+ player(s). Celebrate hip-hop’s 50th birthday by proving you can answer all 300 questions in this deck!

Poop Bingo: A Hilarious and Fascinating Educational Game for Kids!

Aidan Onn and Claudia Boldt

$19.99 $18.59

Ages toddler - middle school. Match cards while learning a little about nature. (Kids are a little obsessed with this topic; might as well make them happy while they're learning!)

Exit: The Return to the Abandoned Cabin

$17.95 $16.69

Ages 12+; 1 - 4 players. Solve a series of riddles and codes to escape the sinister cabin where a policeman leaves you. Game is played through once; cannot be re-played.

Blots Card Game

$11.99 $11.15

Whole family; 3-8 family; what do you see in the blot?

Papercuts: A Party Game for the Rude and Well-Read (a Card Game for Book Lovers)

Electric Literature

$22.00 $20.46

Ages high school+; 4 to 8 players; a subversive card game that combines classic literature with rude questions. Win points for the funniest answer in each round.

Coup

$16.99 $15.80

Ages 13+; 2-6 players. Bluster your way into power. All the power. (Using character and coin cards.) Muahahaha.

Listography: The Game: May the Best List Win! (Board Games, Games for Adults, Adult Board Games)

Forrest-Pruzan Creative and Lisa Nola

$24.95 $23.20

Ages 12+; 3 - 6 players. Pull a topic card, then create the best list to win.

Fluxx Pirate Fluxx Single Deck

$20.00 $18.60

Ages 8+; 2-6 players. As the saying goes, pirates don’t have rules so much as guidelines. The rules of this game change on the cards in play until the goal card is pulled at which points players better watch their Hats, Shackles, and Ships!

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