Players are quilters competing to create the coziest, most beautiful quilts. Turns are simple--sew patches into your quilt by drafting and placing tiles onto your personal board. Earn victory points by sewing on buttons, fulfilling your design goals, and attracting cuddly cats to curl up on your quilt!

Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers;...

"You are a seasoned archaeologist who is competing against your colleagues to find the most Scarabs relics. These golden beetle amulets are extremely valuable as they can help solve ancient mysteries about the long-gone civilizations that created them. They are known to be scattered across the world: buried in the Egyptian desert, hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest, immersed in the Bermuda Triangle, and frozen in Antarctica. To find them, lead your...

"Avidly Reads Board Games is an exploration of the board games culture"--

Players put their charm, quick thinking, and persuasive personality to the test with the creative and hilarious Snake Oil game. One player is the "customer," and the rest of the players are "salesmen" trying to convince the customer to purchase their product over the others. The products to sell are made by combining two of the Word cards, and players have to gear their sales pitch to the customer's character. Selling a snow machine to a caveman would...

"Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community"--

Players investigate the museum that has become the focal point of strange creatures. Players' courage and skill will earn rewards to seal away the Ancient One and win the game. Gilman felt that the twilight abysses around him were those of the fourth dimension. Those organic entities whose motions seemed least flagrantly irrelevant and unmotivated were probably projections of life-forms from our own planet, including human beings. What the others...

"Travel back in time to the greatest city in Mesoamerica, and become part of its history. Witness the glory and the twilight of the powerful pre-Columbian civilization. Gain wealth and resources, guide your workers, secure the favour of the gods, and become the builder of the magnificent Pyramid of the Sun." -- container.

Haru Ichiban means "First Wind of Spring" in Japanese. In the Emperor's gardens, spring slowly awakens nature. Carps, frogs and dragonflies warm under the first sunbeams. Two apprentice gardners compete for the coveted job of Imperial Gardner. They will have to show how skillful they are, and will try to take advantage of this first wind of spring to flower the water lilies in their colour, and use them to create the most harmonious combinations....