Carcassonne

In this game, players develop the area around the French walled city of Carcassonne by placing tiles. Each turn, players pick a random map tile and add it to the growing map board. Tiles depict parts of cities, farmland or roads and tiles are placed so that the sides of the tile match a tile already on the board. Players may then place one of their wooden player makers (meeples) on the tile. Players score when a feature gets completed. For example, a road that runs four tiles long would score four points. Younger players can help with the matching while older players concentrate on the strategy.

The Settlers of Catan

In this million-selling game, players trade and compete to settle the island of Catan. The modular tiles create a random board virtually every game. By collecting resource cards, players can expand their settlements and roads across the island.

Thanksgiving Gaming

Of course, along with the store, our game library will be open as well. You can try a game before you buy, or just play for fun.

One of the most popular games at last year’s Essen show, Space Alert is a cooperative game that can be played by 2 – 5 players.

Here’s Czech Games description of the game:

“Players become crew members of a small spaceship scanning dangerous sectors of galaxy. The missions last approximately 10 minutes (hyperspace jump, sector scan, hyperspace jump back) and the only task the players have is to protect their ship.

And there’s the catch. The game really lasts just 10 minutes. On 2 CDs (or Scenario cards if you don’t have a CD player available) are 10-minute soundtracks that represent central computer announcements about the presence of threats. These vary from space battleships and interceptors to different interstellar monsters and abominations, asteroids or even intruders and malfunctions on the board of the ship. Players have to agree who will take care of which task and coordinate their actions (moving around the ship, firing weapons, distributing energy, using battlebots to deal with intruders, launching guided missiles etc.) in real time to defend the ship. Only a well working team can survive 10 minutes and make the jump back to the safety.”

Thanks to Boardgame News for the link.