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Components: 16 x 16 Grids

Quinio

Quinio

boardgame

Players:
2–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
0
Via Passare

Via Passare

boardgame

Players:
2–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
0
Rin

Rin

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
30–180 min
Min. Age:
8
Cover Up

Cover Up

boardgame

Cover-Up is a family game where players place colored tiles on a 16x16 board. The goal is to cover as many squares and numbers as possible to score points. Black spaces cannot be covered, and played tiles must touch existing ones.

Players:
2–4
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
8
Chessgammon

Chessgammon

boardgame

The goal of this dice-driven game is to land your four kings on any four squares of the same color in the board's center. Captured pawns are removed, while captured kings return directly to their home squares.

Players:
2–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
8
Countermine

Countermine

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
12
Halma

Halma

boardgame

Players:
2–4
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
8
Game Inventor's Kit

Game Inventor's Kit

boardgame

A DIY game kit with two boards, dice, pawns, wooden discs, special cards, and chits. The manual provides rules for eight different games and encourages players to create custom variations.

Players:
1–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
8
Hollywood Go

Hollywood Go

boardgame

Players take turns blindly drawing and placing numbered pieces on a 16x16 grid. The first to align five of their own pieces wins. Opponent pieces can be removed and replaced by drawing a matching numbered piece.

Players:
2–4
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
8
Stampede!!!

Stampede!!!

boardgame

Escaped barnyard animals must be rounded up or surrounded on a grid using fences with specific patterns. Different animals are worth varying points. Once all critters are caught or escape, the player with the most points wins the game.

Players:
2–4
Time:
45 min
Min. Age:
8
Conquer the Kings

Conquer the Kings

boardgame

Players:
2–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
0
Kaminett

Kaminett

boardgame

Kaminett is a hybrid of backgammon and Chinese checkers. Players move six different-sized 3D pieces across the board by flipping them 90 degrees. The objective is to transfer all your pieces to the opposite side, moving only onto completely unoccupied squares.

Players:
2–4
Time:
45 min
Min. Age:
0
Original Scala

Original Scala

boardgame

Players:
2–4
Time:
25 min
Min. Age:
8
Antipalos

Antipalos

boardgame

Antipalos is an abstract board game played on a 16x16 grid where players connect opposite sides. Opposing lines may cross at vertices. Players have a limited number of pieces and must remove and reposition them once the limit is reached.

Players:
2–4
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
10
Blox

Blox

boardgame

Blox is a strategy game played with building blocks. The goal is to be the first to construct a chain of your own blocks connecting all four edges of the board. Very simple rules lead to a surprisingly complex gameplay experience.

Players:
2
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
10
Plot!

Plot!

boardgame

Players:
2–4
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
10
Novi

Novi

boardgame

Novi features 256 double-sided square tiles with black and white 3x3 patterns. It offers multiple modes: a solo edge-matching puzzle, a two-player path-building duel on a 16x16 board, and a multiplayer game focused on placing and shedding tiles.

Players:
1–6
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
0
Alien Galaxy

Alien Galaxy

boardgame

In this board game, commanders navigate spacecraft through a perilous galaxy. An included audio cassette dictates the moves. The objective is to avoid lasers, meteors, and black holes. The last surviving player wins the game.

Players:
2–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
10
Conversion Go

Conversion Go

boardgame

Players:
2
Time:
30–90 min
Min. Age:
5
Pinnacle

Pinnacle

boardgame

Pinnacle is a rummy-style card game using a 52-card deck. Players form melds to score points and move pawns across a molded plastic board. The objective is to be the first person to successfully maneuver all of your pawns into the central goal area to win.

Players:
2–4
Time:
45 min
Min. Age:
0
Pegity

Pegity

boardgame

Pegity is an early 20th-century board game derived from Go-Moku. Players insert colored wooden pegs into a punch board to get five in a row. Included paper designs also allow younger children to create pictures instead of playing the standard game.

Players:
2–4
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
12
Wordlink

Wordlink

boardgame

This Indian word game for 1-4 players is similar to Scrabble. Players form crossword-style words from 7 tiles on a 16x16 grid. Bonus spaces modify scores. Each letter is worth one point, while blanks score zero and represent any letter.

Players:
1–4
Time:
–
Min. Age:
9
Keesdrow

Keesdrow

boardgame

Keesdrow is a high-quality word-finding board game for ages 8 and up, ideal for families and friends. Players score points by finding words within a letter maze and marking used letters with colored pegs.

Players:
2–6
Time:
60 min
Min. Age:
8
Universe

Universe

boardgame

Universe is a Parker Brothers board game for 2 to 4 players using pentomino pieces, based on the earlier Pan-Kai. Players win by placing the last piece. It also includes puzzle patterns to solve and features historical ties to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Players:
2–4
Time:
20 min
Min. Age:
0