Double Nine dominoes with a "spin". Eleven tiles with the Spinner symbol add interesting offensive and defensive strategies to the game. Spinners are wild. Spinners are once again our most popular domino game, closely followed by Mexican Train Dominos.
Packed in a decorative tin case.
Wizard is a several times selection of Games Magazine. Wizard is a trumps and bidding game which is easier for kids than hearts (fewer cards to hold, quicker rounds) and as appealing to adults as euchre. In the first round, each player gets one card; there will be one trick. Everyone bids. In the second round there are two tricks. Total of bids may or may not equal the number of tricks available. At the end of the round, each player who makes his bid gets 20 points plus 10 per trick one. Miss your bid and lose 10 points per trick.
Here's how one thoughtful reader responded, "Hi - I'm not too happy with your review of Wizard. We are four adult female relatives who happily play Wizard all afternoon once a week, and have done so for two years straight! It's like Spades plus wild cards, only better. It's a wonderful, wonderful game and I can't figure out why it's not better known - but I don't know anyone who's heard of it.* It's much more interesting than Euchre because of the added risk, and also because it calls for more skill in bidding and taking tricks; that's not a good comparison (Euchre bores us). It's a TERRIFIC game and we're so glad I happened on it at your Keystone Crossing store! - Mary et al. (Indianapolis) Mary also wrote, "We wore out enough sets of cards that we eventually bought plastic cards and made up our own sets, buying blank cards to label 'Wizards'. The cards are not of great quality - poorer quality than generic poker cards you can buy in the drug store."
Another customer testimonial came when I was showing Wizard to a customer in our store recently. A shopper who happened to be standing nearby chimed in. She said, "Our family loves Wizard...even the people who claim not to like cards. We call it the card game for people who don't play card games." She made the sale. * Note to Mary, somebody has heard of Wizard. It has led our card games department in sales for the past two years.
A fast, appealing, and inexpensive word card game. Sort of a gin rummy with words. You start with three cards in your first hand, four on your next, and so on until you are dealt ten cards for your last hand. The challenge is to meld your entire hand into words. Draw and discard in turn. Try to use high scoring letters, but don't get caught with them uncombined. Quiddler rewards forming even short words because there is a bonus for making the most words in each round. Another bonus is rewarded for the longest word played in the round. Quicker and less intimidating than Scrabble Appealing card designs. Solitaire rules included.
Publisher The Set Game Company produces several high quality games, the most popular of which are Set, Quiddler, and Five Crowns. Be sure and check them out!
Many Awards! Highly Recommended.!
An instant classic and winner of many awards, Set is "The family game of visual perception." Each of the 84 cards shows 1 to 3 symbols. The object is to identify a "set" of three cards in which each feature (symbol, color, number or shading) is either the same or different on all three cards. The magic rule: "If two are... and one is not, then it is not a set.
Five Crowns is not over 'til the kings go wild. This game is very popular for several reasons. It is easily learned, yet addictive. Fortunes can change quickly, so even if behind, one has hope. Five Crowns is fun for 2 or more. Kids, teens, and adults all enjoy playing. There are five suits in five bright colors. In the first round play three cards, threes are wild. Next, four cards; fours are wild. Remember, the game's not over 'til the kings go wild. The pace is fast and luck is more important than skill.
HOW DOES IT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING?
Just think of an everyday object. 20Q will ask questions, which you answer by pressing buttons. marked Yes, No, Sometimes or Unknown. After a few simple questions, which sometimes seem very unrelated, 20Q will tell you what you're thinking with uncanny frequency!
To give you some idea of the kind of brain you're up against, this ingenious machine has been known to guess a mustache, glass bottle, and radiation. Deluxe version with larger LCD screen in gift box.
This is a beautiful chess set that has an antique and unique look and feel to it; the picture just doesn't do it justice. It is made of a plastic-resin mix that makes the pieces heavy (King weighs 5.4oz). This set has yellowish & black colored playing squares, black with green accented pieces & grey with off white accented pieces.
Measures 18" with 2" squares and stands 2" off the surface. The King is 4.75" tall with a 1.5" base and a velour like padding.
Includes board and pieces.
You're under a curse such as: you may not bend your elbows. Or your curse may be that whenever someone says the name of a food, you must say "that sounds delicious !" Then your turn comes around and you're given a task to accomplish, say, trying to get another player to switch long distance phone services or to wait tables at a diner.
Catch someone not doing his curse and ring the bell. You are one step closer to winning. On your turn, after you accomplish your task (while remembering to observe all your curses), you get to draw and assign the next curse to the player of your choice. He could end up in a situation where he is supposed to explain to a cop why he was speeding while speaking like a grizzled old pirate "Avast ye Matey" and speaking like an upper crust Englishman. Contradictory curses, too bad.
Curses sets up some very, very funny situations. The more creative and uninhibited your friends, the more fun you will have. Cointains 120 game cards, rules, and bell to ring.
Blokus is a game that our staff agreed instantly, is very, very good. Each player is trying to put more of her blocks onto the board than anyone else. We sometimes say that Blokus is a hands-on multi-player Tetris.
Each player has a selection of differently shaped pieces. One piece is a single square, others are 2,3,4 and 5 squares in different configurations. A player's pieces may only be put down such that their corners touch. Pieces of one color may not line up along an edge. Naturally you will want to put down your pieces in a way that stymies the competition and keeps your options open.
Easily learned and fun to play. Adapts readily to 2,3, or 4 players (All four colors are played in every game). If there are fewer players, they take turns placing the "neutral" pieces on the board.
This game is wildly popular.
The luck of your roll tells you whether to give a chip to the person on your right, put some in the center, or give to to the left. We suspect that some people may be using coins rather than chips to boost interest. Set comes with three dice, rules and two dozen chips in a plastic tube.
