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What you see before you is a storytelling and problem-solving game. In each round, the players are all presented with the same challenging situation, but each has different resources to resolve the situation.

Though only one player wins each round, the real fun is in the stories!

Components

• Deck of Object cards
• Deck of Situation cards
• Instructions

Beginning the Game

Two decks of cards are shuffled and placed facedown on the table: the Object deck (small cards) and the Situation deck (large cards). Everyone draws a hand of five Object cards from the deck. Players look at their cards but conceal them from the other players. …

To build the perfect sandwich, you must use the freshest ingredients, accent it with flavorful condiments, and serve it up with a proud smile.

But in the game of Hoagie, building the perfect sandwich isn't easy; to win, you must stack your sandwich with great tasting fixings while keeping Merideth, Bo, and Reuben, a trio of sandwich destroying oogies, from spoiling your ingredients.

Components

• 112 cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Playing Hoagie is simple; be the first to build the perfect sandwich while fouling your opponents ingredients with spoiler cards. …

Basic Combat Overview

Combat in Tainted Grail is a turn-based confrontation between a Character (or a Party of Characters) and an enemy, represent- ed by the Encounter card. Together, Characters build a long line (Sequence) of cards, with the aim of gaining enough markers in the Combat Pool to defeat the Encounter.

These markers represent the total progress Characters make against their opponents, such as their tactical advantage, wounds they cause, and the op- ponent's exhaustion.

The detailed rules of Combat are described further down, but in general, most Combat Encounters play out like this: …

Components

• 84 cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Be the first to discard all of your cards.

Setup

1. Shuffle the deck; then, distribute three cards, face down, to each player. You may not look at these 3DOWN cards.

2. Distribute six additional cards, face down, to each player. You may look at these cards. Select three of these cards and place them face up on your 3DOWN cards to create your 3UP 3DOWN pile, as shown below.

   
   
   

3. You should now have three cards in your hand, and a 3UP 3DOWN pile in front of you. …

These optional rules provide variants for Hardback. You can choose to use any combinations of the following variant rules to add complexity and challenge to the standard Hardback rules.

Literary Awards

Literary Awards are optional Prestige bonuses that you can add to the game to encourage players to compete more directly and spell longer words.

Setup changes: During setup, stack the Literary Award cards next to the Prestige tracker board. Stack the Literary Awards face-up in order, with 7 on the top and 12 on the bottom. …

Hy-yah! Splat! La-la-laaa! Burp! The race is on in Yackety Smack! Record your own creative sounds on the Sound Smacker and try to be first to identify the corresponding cards. Win a round and you collect the cards in play and get to record your own laugh-out-loud sounds for the next round!

Components

• 1 Sound Smacker (voice recorder)
• 60 Yackety Smack Cards (15 of each style)

Object of the Game

Collect the most cards!

Setup

• For a 2 player game: remove one full set of color cards from the deck and one additional card from any other color set (you should now you have 44 cards to play with). …

Components

• Game cube with 96 letter pegs
• Score pad
• Sand timer
• Instructions

Object of the Game

In SCRUBLE Cube, players form words on the cube using letter pegs of different values.

The letter pegs rotate to allow for easier pattern recognition. In SCRUBLE Cube, words can begin and end anywhere on the cube and are formed in a single line.

Words may be formed around the cube surface using adjacent letters so that more than one cube surface is part of the word formed. The SCRUBLE Cube game contains premium pegs for added word and letter point scoring. Diagonal words are not permitted. …

This section provides a brief overview of the many different types of cards in the core set.

Identity Cards

There are five identity cards in the core set, with the hero on one side and the alter-ego on the other.

Identity-specific Cards

Each identity comes with a set of identity-specific cards that are used in a player's deck whenever that player is playing that identity.

Obligation Cards

Each identity also comes with an obligation card that is shuffled into the encounter deck whenever a player is playing that identity. …

Components

• 112 Been There cards
• 112 Done That cards
• 12 YES cards
• 12 NO cards
• Been There, Done That die
• 4 Scoring Sheet Notepads
• 8 Pencils
• Rulebook

Setup

Remove the Been There, Done That card deck from the game box.

Each player takes a scoring sheet, a pencil, one YES card and one NO card.

The tallest player goes first.

Game Play

1. he first player rolls the Been There, Done That die to determine whether they select a Been There or Done That card from the deck. …

Components

• 258 cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

• Main objective: guess the words, earn points, win games, excellent
• Secondary objective: expand your pitiful vocabulary

Game Play

• Split your group into 2 even teams. If there's an odd number of people, summon a friend that didn't quite make the invite list. If this person rejects you (karma), then one person on the smaller team will go twice.

• Find a timer (or use your phone); set it to 60 seconds.

• Identify the person who last shaved any part of their body - this person will be the first Cluegiver. …