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  Bohnanza

  GAMES Magazine - Best Family Card Game 1999

  This great card game is about planting, trading, and selling beans - 11 kinds of beans (this English version includes all the cards from the original game and the first expansion). Players try to collect large sets of beans to sell for gold. There is limited growing space and always new beans to plant. To avoid planting unwanted beans, players trade them to other players who want them for their bean fields.

  Players: 2-7 | Aged: 10 and up | Length: 45 minutes.
  

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  Carcassonne

  Spiel Des Jahres - Game of the Year 2001

  A clever tile-laying game. The southern French city of Carcassonne is famous for its unique Roman and Medieval fortifications. The players develop the area around Carcassonne and deploy their followers on the roads, in the cities, in the cloisters, and in the fields. The skill of the players to develop the area will determine who is victorious.

  Players: 2-5 | Aged: 8 and up | Length: 60 minutes.
  

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  Snorta

  GAMES Magazine - Best Party Game 2006

  Get ready for laughter as your friends and family suddenly start sounding like they were born in a barn! In Snorta each player chooses the sound of a typical farm animal and the fun begins. As players quickly flip over cards, tongue-tied players stumble and stutter to blurt out the animal sounds of the other players. Before long your “barnyard” fills with bales of laughter. You will have a hoot with Snorta!

  Players: 4 to 8 | Aged: 8 and up | Length: 20-30 minutes
  

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  Lost Cities

  International Gamers Awards - Best 2-Player Game 2000

  For the daring and adventurous, there are many lost cities to explore. They are in the Himalayas, the ever-shifting sands of the desert, the Brazilian rain forest, ancient volcanoes and in Neptune's Realm. With limited resources the players must choose wh ich expeditions to begin. Those with high confidence may want to up the stakes: increasing the rewards for success, but risking more should the expedition fail. The player who finds the right balance will find victory!

  Players: 2 | Aged: 10 and up | Length: 30 minutes
  

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  TransAmerica

  Mensa Select - Winner 2003

  America in the 19th century: railroads are booming! Pioneer spirit and vision are everywhere. Everyone wants to be the first to build a railroad network across the country. Each player has five cities and tries to connect them with a shared network of tra cks. As soon as a player has done this, the round ends. The other players lose points. At the end of the game, the player who has the most points left is the winner! Who will be the first to connect his cities? Is it Casey, who was the first t o build through the mountains to the west? Or Annie, who was the one who best made use of the others' tracks?

  Players: 2-6 | Aged: 8 and up | Length: 30 minutes
  

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  Set

  MENSA - Best Mind Game 1991

  Fun, challenging, and addictive. The object of the game is to identify "sets" of three cards. Each card is unique in its four features: number (1, 2, or 3); symbol (diamond, squiggle, or oval); shading (solid, striped, or open); and color (red, green, or purple). A "set" consists of three cards on which every feature is either the same on all of the cards, or different on all of the cards.

  Players: 2-8 | Aged: 6 and up | Length: 30 minutes.
  

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