Board Games | Family Games

  From the Designers:You are twisted. I can’t believe you actually want to put these adorable kittens in a blender! I guess that’s none of my business. Maybe you’re more of a dog person. Sure, kittens are curious by nature, but when they get in a kitchen full of dangerous appliances, it is up to you to save them. This fast-paced card game has players working to save all of their own kittens before the unthinkable happens. But sometimes the only way to save your precious litter of kittens is to let those curious little cats learn the lesson of why you should never play in a Blender! According to the box: A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a no kill cat shelter. Objective:Save your kittens and send your opponents' kittens to The Blender. Setup & Play:Put the game box top on the table, open-side up and place the oversized Blender card inside, face-up: that's The Blender. Place the oversized Box card face up in the base of the box: that's The Box. Leave a little space between The Blender and The Box: that's The Counter. Assign each player a Kitten color (red, green, blue or yellow), shuffle the deck, deal each player 6 cards and it's time to start saving adventurous kittens. On each turn, players play two cards and then draw back up to 6. Kitten cards may be played into The Blender, The Counter or The Box. All other cards are played face up in front of the player so that all players can see which cards have been played. Players can play Kitties on the Move to move kittens to or from The Blender, The Counter or The Box; the number on the card specifies the number of kittens that can each be moved 1 space. Playing a Blend card will destroy the kittens currently in The Blender, save the kittens in The Box, and move the kittens on The Counter into The Blender unless countered by another player's Blend "Pulse" card. Players can move kittens around with other cards as well. Kittens in the Blender moves all of the kittens on The Counter or in The Box to The Blender. With These Cats in the Blender a player can move all cats of a chosen color from The Counter and The Box to The Blender. Kittens in the Box moves all kittens in The Blender or on The Counter to The Box, while Cats on the Counter moves all the kittens in The Blender or The Box to The Counter. Total chaos reigns when the Dog's in the Kitchen as each player gives her hand to the player in the direction indicated on the card. The game ends when all 16 of the Blend cards have been played. Saved kittens are worth 2 points each, blended kitties cost 1 point each. Highest score wins. Contents: 1 oversized Blender card, 1 oversized Box card, 110 playing cards (64 Kittens: 16 in each of 4 colors - red, green, blue and yellow; 18 Kitties on the Move: 6 of each number; 16 Blends: 8 Regular Blend & 8 Blend Black; 4 Dogs in the Kitchen: 2 left & 2 right; 2 Kittens in the Blender; 2 Your Cats in the Blender; 2 Cats on the Counter; 2 Kittens in the Box), rules.

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Have you conquered the body in Viral? Are you ready to turn up the heat? The Viral: The Hive expansion introduces five asymmetric and highly thematic viral factions. In this expansion, each player starts with a new hive within the body from which to spread their influence and unlock new abilities for their viral faction. Introduces 5 new asymmetric and highly thematic factions!

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In VIRAL, 2-5 players take on the role of viruses invading a patient's organs. Players compete to control zones in the patient's body, with the goal to gain the most Viral Points. Each round, players secretly select mutation and zone cards, place their viruses, and then wreak havoc upon the body and their opponents' viruses!With the hilarious events and unexpected player interactions, VIRAL will entertain players until the final zone is scored.Contents:1 Rule Book1 Board5 Player Boards40 Virus Tiles8 Zone Tiles4 Crisis Tiles1 First Player Token1 Step Marker5 Tie Tokens5 Research Tokens5 Score Tokens90 Cards

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  Kohaku is a peaceful koi-pond-building, tile-laying game. Each turn, players will draft both a Koi and Feature tile from the central pond board to place into their personal koi pond. Score points by surrounding flowers with koi containing matching colors, placing frogs next to koi tiles that have dragonflies, and ensuring that baby koi have a safe place to hide by placing them near rocks. Butterflies score based on line of sight, so make sure to line them up with similar-colored koi. Turtles and statues bring a sense of balance to your pond and score points more easily, but sometimes aren’t as valuable as some of the other features. You must carefully plan the placement of your tiles, because once they are in your pond, they can’t be moved! With no restrictions on the shape of your pond, you can build a unique layout to maximize your koi pond’s appeal. After there are no koi tiles available to refill the central pond board, the game ends. Players will total the points scored by each feature in their pond. The player with the most points wins.

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Dicenstein! is a great new dice game in which you are a mad doctor, collection and stitching together body parts to build monsters. But the body parts aren’t just condemned criminals or disease victims – you are after nothing less than the best! You are digging up the world’s most infamous monsters, and piecing them together for an Ultimate Creation!! Then send your monster forth to battle your rival’s monsters, and fight for the best body parts, meanwhile building your Monster Army to terrorize the countryside. May the best (or worst) monster win! Dicenstein’s rules are simple and straightforward, letting you get right to the monster-making and battling (which is why you’re here, no?)  It takes only about an hour to play. Dicenstein! is designed for 2-4 players.

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  Key to the Kingdom is a restoration of the 1990 classic game. The new version features the classic hole-in-the-board mechanism to hop through portals and explore the Demon King's domain. As the kingdom's not-so-mightiest heroes — Pitiless Pixie, Knovice Knight, Unique Unicorn, Merciless Mercenary, and Gnarled Gnome — you'll go on adventures to gather the three pieces of the magic key, then hop through a portal to defeat the Demon King once and for all. This new version gives players greater control over the whims of the dice. You'll use your collection of items to tweak your rolls. But make sure you have the right item ready when you go on an adventure to give you an easier path through. You'll get magic items and companions along the way as well. It also adds a new endgame in which you need to face a series of mini-challenges to win the game.  

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What if the power to grant life was used on the best parts of the world’s most infamous monsters? What if you knew this secret? Would you make the world a better place, or just a better place … for you? Dicenstein lets you dig up body parts, use them to build a monster, then use that monster to attack your rivals’ monsters, all the while assembling a monster army for world domination. It features heaps of dice rolling and constant decision-making to better your monster and your parts collection. You have to balance creating your monster army (which means spending body parts) with creating the best monster possible (which means hoarding monster parts). The monsters are constructed by rolling monster part dice and assembling them onto a slab in your lab. Each monster has its own unique ability - combine multiple monsters to get more abilities!

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