Word on the Street 

Out of the Box is the company that originally created Apples to Apples. They have a new party game that’s got two teams coming up with words in categories to capture letters that are in those words. This game would be good for school, library or family play.

Tulipmania 1637 

Tulipmania 1637 is an economic stock market game that simulates a bubble market.

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game 

Battlestar Galactica is a longer game pitting Humans versus Cylons in a cooperative strategy roleplaying experience.

Crunch 

Crunch is a clever card game about the banking industry and bailouts.

Excape 

Excape is a clever press-your-luck dice game.

Small World 

Small World is a light battle game where players guide various fantasy races in surviving a land grab in a Small World.

Roll Through The Ages 

In this episode, I briefly talk through the new Gryphon Games lineup and then focus on Roll Through the Ages.

Formula D 

Formula D is a remake of a classic roll-and-move car racing game.

Cosmic Encounter 

Cosmic Encounter is a remake of a classic board game about aliens with super powers trying to populate the galaxy.

Cavum 

A brief review of Cavum.

Say Anything 

Say Anything is a party game about guessing what someone else will say.

Ice Flow 

Ice Flow is a mutliplayer puzzle game where players are attempting to cross the Bering Strait.

Agricola 

Agricola is a strategy game where players are farmers attempting to raise animals, crops, and keep their families fed.

Prophecy 

Prophecy is a fantasy adventure boardgame where players build up mighty heroes to gain control of artifacts.

Metropolys 

Metropolys is a light strategy game where players bid for control of city districts to achieve hidden objectives.

Saikoro 

Saikoro is a 2-player abstract game where players try to stay alive on a disappearing board.

TransEuropa 

TransEuropa is a good introductory train game where players have secret agendas to connect five cities using communal track.

18xx 

18xx is a series of complex economic train games where players invest and manage multiple train lines, set in the 1800's.

Puerto Rico 

Puerto Rico is a modern eurogame that combines strategy and tactics about building an effective plantation in San Juan.

Portrayal 

Portrayal is a party game where players draw what they are told.

Reef Encounter 

Reef Encounter is a medium-weight strategy game about coral reef combat and hungry parrotfish.

World of Warcraft: The Boardgame 

World of Warcraft, the Boardgame is a long fantasy game for two teams of players.

ConHex 

ConHex is a fast abstract connection game for two players.

The Pillars of the Earth 

The Pillars of the Earth is a light strategy game about gathering resources and employing craftsmen to turn those resources into parts of a cathedral.

Yspahan 

Yspahan is a strategy game where players play the role of merchants, occupying souks and caravans in order to score points in this quick 30-minute game.

Lifeboats 

Lifeboats is a light negotiation game about sailors trying to make it ashore in leaky lifeboats.

Rum & Pirates 

Rum & Pirates is a family strategy game about collecting honor points through strategic placement of scarce resources.

Shear Panic with the Lamant Brothers 

Shear Panic is a light strategy game about managing the position of your sheep in a flock.

Another HourCNY Segment 

Scott was on his local live PBS talk show, HourCNY, last week. This time, his focus was games that could be purchased locally.

BattleLore 

BattleLore is a two-player light tactical war game that can be played in a historical or fantasy setting.

Wits & Wagers 

Wits & Wagers is a party game that combines trivia, knowledge of other players, and gambling.

Blue Moon City 

Blue Moon City is a strategy racing game about making clever card combinations more effectively than opponents.

Carcassone: The Discovery 

Carcassonne is a tile-laying game, highly recommended for families and new players to Eurogames.

Ad Acta 

Ad Acta is a game about being a civil servant involving card and queue management and a good dose of humor.

Easter Island 

Easter Island is a a two-player strategy game about bouncing light beams around the board in an attempt to destroy your opponent's pieces.

Timbuktu 

Timbuktu is a lighter-weight deduction game where players lead herds of camels through the dangerous desert, avoiding traps and delivering goods.

HourCNY Special About Board Games 

On Friday, August 25th, Scott appeared on the HourCNY talk show in Syracuse on a 14-minute live segment about boardgaming with your kids.

Tahuantinsuyu 

Tahuantinsuyu is a medium-weight strategy game where players build roads, cities, and temples in a historical setting based on the Inca empire.

GiftTRAP 

GiftTRAP is party game focused on selecting the best gift for your other players.

Aqua Romana 

Aqua Romana is a light strategy tile-laying game about digging aquaducts, cutting off your opponents and avoiding being cut off yourself.

Die Macher 

Die Macher is a 5 hour heavy strategy game about German Politics. It is, however, one of the classic euro-style games.

Masons 

Masons is a strategy game about building walls, creating cities, and developing high-scoring patterns on the board that match scoring cards.

Apples to Apples and Attribute 

Apples to Apples and Attribute are both party games based on the mechanic of matching a descriptive word from your hand of word cards to a main concept.

Cleopatra and the Society of Architects 

Cleopatra and the Society of Architects is a light strategy game about collecting sets of cards and placing buildings strategically for the most points.

Power Grid 

Power Grid is a medium-weight strategy game with auctions, markets, and connections of cities.

Thurn and Taxis 

Thurn and Taxis is a light strategy game about delivering mail to cities in Germany.

Um Krone und Kragen 

This is a dice game that is similar to Yahtzee with more strategy and special abilities.

The Fury of Dracula 

The Fury of Dracula is a deduction/role-playing game where one player is Dracula attempting to hide and ambush the other players, who form a team.

The Big Idea 

The Big Idea is a party/light strategy game about pitching and investing in ideas.

Ticket to Ride Europe, Switzerland, and Märklin 

Ticket to Ride Europe, Switzerland, and Märklin are all different games based on the Ticket to Ride base game.

Pizza Box Football 

Pizza Box Football is a two player dice-rolling game where players take on the role of a play-calling manager.

Antike 

Antike is a German empire-building/logistics game that plays in under two hours.

Ticket to Ride 

Ticket to Ride is a light strategy game great for those new to modern board games. It's about collecting sets of train cards to travel from city to city with the goal of fulfilling hidden routes.

Indonesia 

Indonesia is a long, heavy euro-game involving logistics of production and delivery and the business of mergers and acquisitions.

Santiago 

Santiago is a light-weight strategy game about planting and irrigating crops in a hostile environment. Mechanics involve bidding and placing tiles.

Why Did the Chicken...? 

Why Did the Chicken...? is a light party game about making up the punchlines to jokes.

Lost Cities 

Lost Cities - A light two-player card-based game of exploration.

Mah Jong 

Mah Jong is a traditional tile-based game similar to Rummy, good for all ages.

Heroscape 

Heroscape - A light miniatures battle game that is good for kids and adults.

Adel Verplichtet / Hoity Toity 

Adel Verplichtet / Hoity Toity is a classic eurogame about choosing actions secretly based upon what you think the others will pick.

Friedrich 

Friedrich - a heavy euro/wargame hybrid where one strong player takes on the others using a card-driven combat system.

Hoopla 

Hoopla - a cooporative party game made by the Cranium people.

Board Games 101 

Class is in session! Scott's created a half-hour tutorial talking about the current landscape of boardgames.