Board Games in Crossett Library: Games A-Z

15 minutes
2 players
Ages 3+
Alexander Girard's textile designs and colorful illustrations are featured in this 72 card memory game.

2 players
45 minutes
Ages 14+
Megacorporation versus Netrunner in this futuristic cyberpunk game of cat and mouse.

4-10 players
30 minutes
Ages 10+
Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the rotating judge role. If the judge picks your card, you win that round.

2-4 players
4 hours
Ages 12+
Strategize your way to victory as the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, Germany, and Japan vie for world domination at the height of the second World War.

2 players
30 minutes
Ages 8+
Quickly roll & move your pieces off the board, but don't leave lone ones defenseless.

3-10 players
20-45 minutes
Ages 17+
A "have you ever?" party game.

2-6 players
60 minutes
Ages 12+
Can you sort the real definition from your opponents' bluffs and fool them too?

2 players
Ages 6+
30 minutes
Detect the enemy fleet and sink it.

3-6 players
60 minutes
Ages 12+
Players build their own haunted house out of tiles and secretly, one of the characters betrays the rest of the party, and the innocent members of the party must defeat the traitor.

2+ players
Ages 8+
Cage with easy-turn handle, tally card, 75 calling balls, 17 double-sided bingo cards, 100 bingo markers in wooden carrying case.

2-4 players
15 minutes
Ages 3+
Players spin to get an invitation, party hat and toys, while avoiding popping balloons to lose a turn.

2-3 players
10 minutes
Age 7+
Players race to empty their hands by matching the color, shape, or number of symbols on their cards in hand to the top card of discard piles.

2-4 players
60-90 minutes
Age 14+
Test your economic mettle as you build and network in the Industrial Revolution.

2-8 players
Ages 21+
Buzzed is the party game that gets you and your friends hydrated.

2-4 players
15-20 minutes
Ages 3+
Players move by matching pieces to the corresponding color or picture on the game board.

2-6 players
30-60 minutes
Ages 13+
Players place land tiles to develop roads, cities, fields, and cloisters, and deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights and monks to score points as they develop the land around the medieval city of Carcassonne.

3-4 players
60 minutes
Ages 10+
Collect and trade resources to build up the island of Catan in this modern classic.

Not a complete game, but an extension to the game Catan so that one or two additional players can be added.

In Catan: Seafarers you control a group of bold seafaring settlers exploring and taming the wild, uncharted Isles of Catan. You might even discover the precious gold fields.

3+ players
30 minutes
Ages 14+
Sketch out each clue on the drawing board and the first player or team to guess a predetermined number of clues wins.

2-6 players
10 minutes
Ages 4+
A game of quick reaction matching.

2 players
15 minutes
Ages 4+
The object is to jump over and capture the opponent's pieces in this classic game.

2 players
Ages 8+
The object is to put the opponent's king under a direct attack from which escape is impossible.

2-6 players
30 minutes
Ages 3+
Ladders will zoom you forward, but watch out for chutes that will slide you back.

3-10 players
60 minutes
Ages 8+
Deduce the murderer, weapon, and scene in the classic game with more possibilities.

2-8 players
15 minutes
Ages 10+
Give your team clever one-word clues to help them spot their agents in the field.

1-4 players
45-60 minutes
Ages 8+
Fill your garden beds to the last corner with plants, and using the limited space as an inspiration for new arrangements. The player with the most points at the end wins.

2-4 players
15-20 minutes
Age 8+
The game involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points.

2-5 players
90-150 minutes
Ages 14+
Show off your wild inventions at the first World's Fair in London 1851.

2-5 players
60-90 minutes
Ages 13+
In the Cyclades archipelago, the great cities are growing and struggling against one another to establish their supremacy, under the benevolent gaze of the Gods.

2-5 players
60-120 minutes
Ages 12+
A group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive. Games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing.

3-6 players
30 minutes
Ages 8+
Give the perfect clue so most (not all) players guess the right surreal image card.

2-4 players
30 minutes
Ages 14+
Acquire the most valuable lands by building your deck with treasure and power cards.

2-4 players
30 minutes
Ages 10+
This Dominion expansion is all about the money.

2-8 players
Ages 8+
Featuring 91 tiles, this dominoes set can play all the traditional domino games

2-6 players
60 minutes
Ages 12+
A role playing game where a dungeon master can build and populate dungeons so players can explore fantastic locations, trade quips with terrible villains, and defeat vicious monsters.

2-5 Players
Ages 12+
Play D&D through the lenses of the narcissistic genius, Rick Sanchez, from the animated series, Rick and Morty.

1-8 players
90 minutes
Ages 12+
Roll dice to investigate the horrors of Arkham alone or as a group.

2-5 players
30 minutes
Age 8+
Adapt your species to succeed in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators roam

2-5 players
15 minutes
Ages 8+
A card game for people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.

2 players
60-120 minutes
Ages 17+
Create and play two vivid characters who meet, fall in love and face the challenge of making an unusual relationship work.

45 minutes
2-5 players.
Ages 8+
Work strategically together to escape the desert, before sand buries you or your supplies run dry.

2-4 players
Ages 10+
30 minutes
Strategically work together to keep Forbidden Island from sinking in order to have time to capture treasures.

1-4 players
60-120 minutes
Ages 13+
A challenging cooperative game pitting the players against the institution of slavery during the early 1800's through the Civil War.

2-4 players,
60 minutes
Ages 10+
Through three successively difficult rounds, players fly ships and try to avoid obstacles, while grasping financial opportunities.

3-8 players
2-4 hours
Ages 14+
This expansion includes a side board of the Free Cities of Essos and an overlay of the Eyrie, as well as new characters and mechanics to bring House Targaryen and House Arryn into the fray.

Gangbusters is a game about crime in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Players take the roles of criminals, law enforcement professionals, or other characters (such as newspaper reporters) who investigate or oppose criminals.

2 players
30-180 minutes
Ages 6+
Go is a 2-player abstract strategy game in which players compete to occupy the most space on the board, while surrending the fewest stones to the other player. The first mention of Go (圍棋 - "surrounding game") appears in the Analects of Confucius (551-479 BC).

Ages 12+
A game that takes you into the lives of outstanding American women.

2-5 players
25 minutes
Ages 10+
Everyone can see your cards but you. Can their clues help you find out what to play?

Players take on the role of super-heroes from the DC Universe or of their own creation.

2 Players
15-25 minutes
Ages 6+
A strategy game with good illustrations for children who love to play hide and seek.

2-5 players
15 minutes
Ages 4+
In this card game, players match colors to make the most snakes at the end of the game.

1 or more players
10 minutes+
Ages 5+
A 32 card set selected from the pattern and picture decks designed by Charles Eames to build 3-D structures by interlocking picture cards.

3-10 Players
Ages 8+
30 minutes
Try to get other players to pick your hue by describing it in one- and two-word rounds.

2+ players
Ages 17+
Each card has a combination of words on the front that, when recited out loud, sounds like the phrase written on the back. Can you hear the hidden phrase?

1-8 players
20 minutes
Ages 6+
Remove one block at a time from the tower and stack it on top, the last player to stack a block without making the tower fall wins the game.

2-8 players
15 minutes
Ages 7+
Flip a card, watch for a match, and be the fastest to grab the token.

2-6 players
30 minutes
Ages 8+
It's a fight to the death when giant monsters battle over Tokyo in this dice-roller.

2-4 players
15 minutess
Ages 5+
On a game board depicting the basement of an enchanted castle, players move ghost pieces trying to capture secret chips.

2-10 players
40 minutes
Ages 12+
Card game based on characters from the Chinese historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

2-4 players
15 minutes
Ages 5+
The objective is to be the first to dock at the isle of the lighthouse.

2 players
10 minutes
Ages 6+
Move your glass tokens strategically to capture your opponents' tokens in this classic game.

2-5 players
45-75 minutes
Ages 12+
Guide monarch butterflies on their journey along eastern North America.

2-6 players
20 minutes
Age 7+
In this classic French card-based game race to the finish line while slowing others with wrecks, flats and out-of-gas.

2 players
20 minutes
Ages 8+
Move a jewel, rotate a tile, or shift the board - three basic moves lets you navigate your jewels through the mine shaft maze.

2-8 players
60-120 minutes
Ages 8+
The objective of the game is to become the wealthiest player through buying, renting and selling property.

2-5 players
15-20 minutes
Ages 7+
A game of chance, luck, and strategy as players bid in blind auctions, pay with money cards, steal properties with Action cards, and change their luck with Wild cards.

3-6 players
60-120 minutes
Ages 12+
Kill the monsters, steal the treasure, and stab your buddy in this card-based dungeon game.

2-4 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
Your mission is to stop the villain, save the library and the adventurers by collecting all parts of the destroyed books - despite of the danger.

3 to 20 players
30-90 minutes
Ages 17+
A rotating judge picks a card, all other players submit a reply card as a response and the judge chooses their favorite response each round.

3-10 players
10 minutes
Ages 8+
A fast game in which everyone gets a role: one of the werewolves, the troublemaker, helpful Seer, or one of a dozen different characters, each with a special ability.

2 players
15 minutes
Ages 14+
Vie to capture their opponent's Master, or, traverse their Master across the board to their opponent's Master's starting position to win the game. Presented on beautiful Tarot size cards.

1-6 players
10 minutes
Ages 6+
Using a plastic model patient, players attempt to perform successful operations by removing small pieces with tweezers without getting buzzed.

2- 6 players
Ages 8+
Whether you call it Wee-Gee or Wee-Ja, the Ouija board spells fun - ask it a question and wait to see what answer the Mystifying Oracle will reveal to you.

2-4 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
In this cooperative game, your team of experts must prevent the world from succumbing to a viral pandemic.

2-5 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
Travel from Barcelona to Lisboa to cure malaria, typhus, yellow fever, and cholera.

1+ players
A creative card deck sharing the largest collection of permaculture principles, strategies, attitudes, ethics and design methods.

2-6 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
Collect sets and runs before your opponents in this fast paced rummy variant.

2-4 players
Ages 3+
15 minutes
The object is to be the first player to gather a table setting and collect food to set your place at the table for a picnic.

3-16 players in teams
60 minutes
Ages 8+
A charades-like guessing game played in team with drawing on paper instead of acting out the answers.

2 players
20 minutes
Ages 6+
The object of the game is to play your Pokémon cards, that represent different creatures, and be the first player to "knock out" (defeat) six opposing Pokémon.

2 players
20 minutes
Ages 6+
The object of the game is to play your Pokémon cards, that represent different creatures, and be the first player to "knock out" (defeat) six opposing Pokémon.

2 players
20 minutes
Ages 6+
The object of the game is to play your Pokémon cards, that represent different creatures, and be the first player to "knock out" (defeat) six opposing Pokémon.

4-6 players
10 minutes
Ages 8+
A game that is a combination of the two games Poker and Keno.

2-6 players
30 minutes
Ages 6+
The objective is to be the best driver and collect daily wages first.

3-8 players
30 minutes
Ages 17+
Convince the other players to go on terrible dates.

5-10 players
30 minutes
Ages 12+
Who can you trust? A game of social deduction set in King Arthur’s legendary realm.

2-4 players
30 minutes
Ages 6+
Many unknown creatures are hiding in the long and lazy river, the winner finds the most by the end of the journey.

1+ players
Ages 6+
Rory's Story Cubes is a pocket-sized creative story generator, providing hours of imaginative play for all ages.

3-5 players
25–50 minutes
Ages 6+
Explore the mansion and its grounds, finding clues, encountering strange occurrences, and maybe even catching sight of a monster.

4-6 players
20 minutes
Ages 8+
In this traditional Italian card game you and your teammate sweep the most valuable cards off the table before your opponents.

2-4 players
90 minutes
Ages 8+
Players form interlocking words, crossword fashion, on the gamboard using letter tiles of different values

2-4 players
30 minutes
Ages 5-10
A version of Scrabble for players aged 5-10 featuring a double-sided board.

2-4 players
20 minutes
Ages 8+
A whimsical mad-dashing geography game.

4-12 players
60 minutes
Ages 12+
A game that poses 252 moral dilemmas on issues of work, money, friends, family, neighbors and relationships.

5-10 players
45 minutes
Ages 14+
In pre-WW2 Germany, Liberals and Fascists square off in an intrigue-filled parliament.

2-4 players
20 minutes
Ages 4+
Play a card from your hand and place your chip on a corresponding character on the board to create a sequence.

1-6 players
20 minutes
Ages 6+
A triple matching card game that can be played solo or in a group.

2-4 players
30 minutes
Ages 5+
Jump to capture, stack to win in this checkers-like game.

2-5 players
40-80 minutes
Ages 8+
Control wizards, giants, orcs, and more to occupy territory and conquer adjacent lands.

2-4 players
20 minutes
Ages 5+
Race through a Smurf adventure in this pop and move board game.

1-4 Players
90-120 minutes
Ages 13+
Each player is a spirit of nature, defending their island from invaders, who must be destroyed before they spread blight over the island.

2-6 players
10 minutes
Age 3+
This beautifully designed game is a good introduction to board games for young children.

2-6 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
The first spy to complete their mission or the last to retain their identity wins the game.

2 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
Opposing forces march to capture the flag and outrank opponent in piece by piece combat.

2-4 players
60-90 minutes
Ages 8+
Live the story of a child's stuffed toys, saving her from monsters under the bed.

2-4 players
20 minutes
Ages 5+
Travel over the crocodile shortcut and through the endless loop by adding and subtracting the numbers on the dice.

1-4 players
15 minutes
Ages 6+
Be the first player to get rid of your share of the 24 notched, rubber-tipped wire pieces by adding them to the increasingly unstable structure.

1+ Players
5-30 minutes
The Rider-Waite tarot deck, originally published 1909, for interpretive insight and readings. See also the library's books: Practical Tarot Wisdom; Tarot Bible;
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot and The Ultimate Guide to Tarot.

Chess, Checkers, Chinese checkers, Backgammon, Mill, Tic Tac Toe, Mind Magic, Roll-em, Mancala, and Insanity.

1-6 players
45-120 minutes
Ages 18+
A group of citizens is trying to cooperatively survive in a besieged city during an unending war.

2-5 Players
60 minutes
Ages 8+
Players collect cards of various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America.

2-5 players
45 minutes
Ages 8+
Travel the famed Tokaido road, visit hot springs, try new food, and paint landscapes.

2-6 players
90 minutes
Ages 12+
The objective is to collect a pie piece in each color by answering trivia questions.

2-4 players
10 minutes
Ages 6+
Put your hands and feet on different places on the mat without falling over.

2 to 10 players
Ages 7+
30 minutes
Get rid of your cards first, but don't forget to say "UNO!"

2-10 players
30 minutes
Ages 6+
Get rid of your cards before the others, but beware of forgetting to say "UNO!"

2 players
180–360 minutes
Ages 12+
Players take command of each force, fighting a series of battles recreating the battles for the Island of Blood each looking to conquer it for their own.

3 to 20 players
30-90 minutes
Ages 17+
Your chance to make memes out of Cersei, Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister, and all your favorite Game of Thrones characters.

2-4 players
15 minutes
Ages 5+
Players try to collect the most wool from the flock of sheep, while avoiding the wolf.

3-6 players
90 minutes
Ages 12+
There are 6 races, and before each race there is an auction to bid on the horse you want to manage.

1-5 players
40-70 minutes
Ages 10+
Attract a beautiful and diverse collection of birds to your wildlife reserve in this strategic game.

1+ Players
Ages 8+
Witchy kitty has been magically transformed, and you must figure out how to get her back.