Holiday Gift Guide: 2021 Edition
YOUR GAME GUIDE
Games make the perfect gift for the holidays! Anybody who has been in the store knows that there are plenty of options, but what to choose? This guide will help you find the right gift for anybody on your list.
CLASSICS
AZUL
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30-45 min | 👶 8+
Artfully embellish the walls of your palace by drafting the most beautiful tiles.
7 WONDERS
🧍 2-7 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 10+
Draft cards to develop your ancient civilization and build its Wonder of the World.
CARCASONNE // LIMITED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION AVAILABLE
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 30-45 min | 👶 7+
Shape the medieval landscape of France, claiming cities, monasteries and farms.
dominion
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 13+
Acquire the most valuable lands by building your deck with treasure and power cards.
king of tokyo // limited dark edition available
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 8+
It's a fight to the death when giant monsters battle over Tokyo in this dice-roller.
catan
🧍 3-4 | ⌛ 60-120 min | 👶 10+
Collect and trade resources to build up the island of Catan in this modern classic.
Ticket to Ride
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 8+
Build your railroad across North America to connect cities and complete tickets.
Splendor
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 10+
Renaissance merchants race to grab gems, acquire property, and please nobility.
citadels
🧍 2-8 | ⌛ 20-60 min | 👶 10+
Play various roles as you build your city and hinder your opponents.
codenames // Great game for parties
🧍 2-8 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 14+
Give your team clever one-word clues to help them spot their agents in the field.
pandemic
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 45 min | 👶 8+
Your team of experts must prevent the world from succumbing to a viral pandemic.
alhambra
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 45-60 min | 👶 8+
Compete to build the most valuable picturesque walled city in 13th-century Granada.
Next Step
Sagrada
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 30-45 min | 👶 14+
Craft the best stained-glass windows by carefully placing colorful transparent dice.
everdell
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 40-80 min | 👶 13+
Use resources to build a village of critters and constructions in this woodland game.
ISLE OF CATS
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 60-90 min | 👶 8+
Rescue as many island cats as you can before Lord Vesh comes to destroy their home.
NIDAVELLIR
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 45 min | 👶 10+
Assemble and prepare a formidable crew of dwarfs to fight the mighty Fafnir!
FURNACE
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 12+
19th century capitalists manipulate the market and manage their industrial empires.
WINGSPAN
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 40-70 min | 👶 10+
Attract a beautiful and diverse collection of birds to your wildlife reserve.
VITICULTURE
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 90 min | 👶 13+
Seasons pass as you develop your vineyard, harvest grapes, make wine and fill orders.
PANDEMIC LEGACY
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 60 min | 👶 13+
Mutating diseases are spreading around the world - can your team save humanity?
GALAXY TRUCKER
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 60 min | 👶 10+
Prepare for unknown dangers by building the best spaceship possible.
CATAN: CITIES & KNIGHTS*
🧍 3-4 | ⌛ 90 min | 👶 12+
Expand Catan with a more complex commodity market and knights to defend your cities.
*A copy of Catan is required
CATAN: SEAFARERS*
🧍 3-4 | ⌛ 90 min | 👶 10+
Expand from the island of Catan into the ocean with boat shipping lanes.
*A copy of Catan is required
TICKET TO RIDE: EUROPE
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 40-60 min | 👶 8+
Build train routes across Europe in this sequel to the hit family board game.
TICKET TO RIDE: JAPAN
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 40-60 min | 👶 8+
Build train routes across Japan in this sequel to the hit family board game.
AZUL: CRYSTAL MOSAIC*
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30-45 min | 👶 10+
New challenging/strategic player boards + plastic overlays!
*A copy of Azul is required
AZUL: GLAZED PAVILLION*
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 45-60 min | 👶 8+
Offers players 2 newly designed player boards and matching scoring boards.
*A copy of Azul: Summer Pavilion is required
Step Into Strategy
Lost Ruins of Arnak
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 30-120 min | 👶 12+
Explore an island to find resources and discover the lost ruins of Arnak.
Dune Imperium
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 60-120 min | 👶 14+
Influence, intrigue, and combat in the universe of Dune.
Roll Player
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 60-90 min | 👶 10+
Draft dice and purchase skills, traits and equipment to create the perfect RPG hero.
Terraforming Mars
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 120 min | 👶 12+
Compete with rival CEOs to make Mars habitable and build your corporate empire.
ORLEANS
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 90 min | 👶 12+
Craftsmen, scholars & monks can help you reign supreme—but who will turn up to help?
ROOT
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 60-90 min | 👶 10+
Decide the fate of the forest as woodland factions fight for contrasting goals.
GLOOMHAVEN: JAWS OF THE LION
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 30-120 min | 👶 14+
Vanquish monsters with strategic cardplay in a 25-scenario Gloomhaven campaign.
NEW RELEASE FAMILY GAMES
PICTURE PERFECT
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 50-90 min | 👶 10+
How do you take the perfect picture of a group of people if you have only one try?
KINGDOMINO: ORIGINS
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 8+
Go back in time to the prehistoric era of Kingdomino!
7 WONDERS ARCHITECTS
🧍 2-7 | ⌛ 25 min | 👶 8+
Race against others to assemble your wonder, but speed won't guarantee victory.
MY FARM SHOP
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 45 min | 👶 8+
Managing a farm shop with dice.
SMASH UP: MARVEL
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 12+
Avengers, Hydra, Kree, and more join the Smash Up fray!
special titles available this christmas
DESCENT: LEGENDS OF THE DARK
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 120-180 min | 👶 14+
An app-driven dungeon crawl set in the world of Terrinoth.
CATAN 3D
🧍 3-4 | ⌛ 60-120 min | 👶 10+
Trade, build, and settle as the island of Catan comes to life in full 3D splendor.
TICKET TO RIDE EUROPE: 15TH ANNIVERSARY
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 8+
Ride the rails across Europe to reach valuable cities with deluxe components.
EPIC THEMATIC GAMES
GLOOMHAVEN
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 60-120 min | 👶 14+
Vanquish monsters with strategic cardplay. Fulfill your quest to leave your legacy!
LORD OF THE RINGS: JOURNEYS IN MIDDLE EARTH
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 60-120 min | 👶 14+
Heroes explore Middle-earth, working together to combat evil in an epic campaign.
STAR WARS: ARMADA
🧍 2 | ⌛ 120 min | 👶 14+
Form your fleet, plan a strategy, and execute it with your commands.
DESTINIES
🧍 1-3 | ⌛ 90-150 min | 👶 14+
Characters explore a dark medieval-fantasy land as they race to fulfill their destiny
ANKH
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 90 min | 👶 14+
Take the role of Egyptian gods fighting to become the one true god.
BLOOD RAGE
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 60-90 min | 👶 14+
Ragnarök has come! Secure your place in Valhalla in epic Viking battles.
KEMET // KICKSTARTER COPIES STILL AVAILABLE!
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 90-120 min | 👶 13+
Play as warring Egyptian Gods and build the most powerful army to dominate Egypt.
MANSIONS OF MADNESS
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 120-180 min | 👶 14+
Unravel mysteries in Arkham with your investigative team in this app-guided game.
NEMESIS
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 90-180 min | 👶 12+
Survive an alien-infested spaceship but beware of other players and their agendas.
cooperative games
the crew
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 10+
Go on a planet-discovering space mission in this cooperative trick-taking game.
mysterium park
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 30-45 min | 👶 10+
It's cotton candy, circus, dark secrets - a psychic investigation at Mysterium Park!
escape: curse of the temple
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 10 min | 👶 8+
Run as fast as you can to return the cursed gems before the temple traps you forever.
harry potter: hogwarts battle
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 11+
Defend iconic locations with your friends against You-Know-Who and his cronies.
marvel champions
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 45-90 min | 👶 14+
Battle Marvel villains with unique teams of iconic heroes in this LCG.
world of warcraft: wrath of the lich king" // new release!
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 45-60 min | 👶 14+
Survive against hordes of undead on Azeroth to face off against the Lich King.
zombicide black plague
🧍 1-6 | ⌛ 60-180 min | 👶 14+
Work together to kill zombies in the Middle Ages! Then kill more zombies!
Card Games & Stocking Stuffers
SABOTEUR
🧍 3-10 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 8+
You are dwarves laying tunnel cards to get gold: but which one of you is the traitor?
NO THANKS!
🧍 3-7 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 8+
Take a card each round, or pay to say no; grab the right cards to lower your score.
TACO CAT GOAT CHEESE PIZZA
🧍 2-8 | ⌛ 10-30 min | 👶 8+
Act fast when the flipped card actually is that taco, cat, goat, cheese or pizza...
LLAMA
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 8+
Play all your cards? Or bluff to mess with opponents? Don't get stuck with a llama!
THE MIND
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 8+
Play your cards in ascending order without communicating. Timing is key!
RORY’S STORY CUBES // STAR WARS AND HARRY POTTER VERSIONS AVAILABLE!
🧍 1-12 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 6+
Roll dice and tell a story based on the images rolled.
kariba
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 6+
Animals shoo each other off the watering hole in a lightning fast card game.
DUNGEON MAYHEM
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 10 min | 👶 8+
Battle as a barbarian, paladin, rogue, or wizard and be the last player standing.
KIDS GAMES
COCONUTS
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 6+
Launch soft, rubber coconuts into cups and use them to build your tower first!
CLACK
🧍 3-7 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 8+
Slap magnetic discs together to claim the right discs as quickly as possible.
ZOMBIE KIDZ EVOLUTION
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 5-15 min | 👶 7+
Save the school from a cartoonish zombie horde. Unlock fun new content as you play!
RHINO HERO
🧍 2-5 | ⌛ 5-15 min | 👶 5+
Build a giant tower and try to make your opponent be the one to let it collapse.
MICKEY & FRIENDS: FOOD FIGHT
🧍 3-5 | ⌛ 10-20 min | 👶 6+
Get in on a chaos of concessions by rolling dice and tossin snacks and treats
SPOT IT!
🧍 2-8 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 7+
Quick! Which symbol is on both cards? Race others to gather or dump your cards.
CHEATING MOTH
🧍 3-5 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 7+
Get rid of your cards through cheating! Just don't get caught...
SNAIL SPRINT
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 5+
Lucky dice rolls and skillful moves will get your snails to the winner's podium.
DETECTIVE CHARLIE
🧍 1-5 | ⌛ 25 min | 👶 7+
Help Detective Charlie solve a new mystery in Mysterville, before tea time!
DRAGOMINO
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 5+
Seek baby dragons by finding eggs while exploring the mysterious island.
HEDGEHOG ROLL
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 20-25 min | 👶 4+
Roll your ball to pick up forest fruits powering your hedgehog to win the race.
CATERPILLAR CRAWL
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 10 min | 👶 4+
Roll dice and move to get your caterpillar to the finish line quicker than anybody else!
2 Player Games
7 Wonders Duel
🧍 2 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 10+
Science? Military? What will you draft to win this head-to-head version of 7 Wonders?
Jaipur
🧍 2 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 12+
Trade and sell goods to become the most wealthy merchant in this short game for two.
Shobu
🧍 2 | ⌛ 15-30 min | 👶 8+
Use your stones to push all your opponent's stones off any one of four boards to win!
Patchwork
🧍 2 | ⌛ 15-30 min | 👶 8+
Piece together a quilt and leave no holes to become the button master.
Mandala
🧍 2 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 10+
Create and destroy mandalas in this beautifully tense abstract game for two.
Hive
🧍 2 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 9+
Use your insects to trap your opponent's Queen Bee in this board-less abstract game.
Lawyer Up
🧍 2 | ⌛ 60-75 min | 👶 13+
An asymmetric two-player card game that pits the defense against the prosecution.
Best Chess Set Ever
🧍 2 | ⌛ 60 min | 👶 6+
Checkmate your opponent in this classic abstract.
Harry Potter Defense Against The Dark Arts
🧍 2 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 11+
Acquire the best spells, items and allies to defend yourself and stun your rival!
Raptor
🧍 2 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 9+
Elude or chomp humans as the mama raptor; neutralize her offspring as the scientists.
PARTY games
pICTURE sHOW
🧍 2-8 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 7+
Make your team guess the words on the cards using shadow puppetry!
DECRYPTO
🧍 3-8 | ⌛ 15-45 min | 👶 12+
Decipher your opponents' code before they decipher yours. Don't get caught.
DIXIT
🧍 3-6 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 8+
Give the perfect clue so most (not all) players guess the right surreal image card.
JUST ONE
🧍 3-7 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 8+
Give one-word clues so someone can guess one word, but duplicate clues are discarded.
ONE NIGHT ULTIMATE WEREWOLF
🧍 3-10 | ⌛ 10 min | 👶 8+
An app-driven Werewolf that lasts but a single night. Wolves and villagers beware!
NIGHT OF THE NINJA
🧍 4-11 | ⌛ 15-30 min | 👶 12+
A fast-paced game of deadly secrets, midnight assassinations, and paper-thin alliances.
MILLION DOLLAR DOODLE
🧍 4-7 | ⌛ 30-60 min | 👶 14+
Entrepreneurs create absurd ideas collaboratively and then pitch them competitively.
CONFIDENT
🧍 3-99 | ⌛ 20-40 min | 👶 12+
Players answer intriguing questions with a range, aiming to be correct and confident!
STAY COOL
🧍 3-7 | ⌛ 10-30 min | 👶 12+
Spell simple trivia answers while answering different questions as time ticks down.
POETRY FOR NEANDERTHALS
🧍 2-12 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 7+
A single-syllable word game in which you must speak good or get hit with stick!
LAST MESSAGE
🧍 3-8 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 8+
Identify the criminal before they cover their tracks!
TELESTRATIONS
🧍 4-8 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 12+
Guess what they drew, then draw what they guessed, and see how funny the changes get.
WITS & WAGERS: VEGAS
🧍 5-99 | ⌛ 30-40 min | 👶 13+
A trivia game you can win without knowing trivia, and enjoy without even liking trivia.
BLANK SLATE
🧍 3-8 | ⌛ 20-35 min | 👶 8+
Pick cue cards and each player writes a word they think best completes the phrase.
Deduction, escape room, mystery
chronicles of crime 2400 // new release!
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 60-90 min | 👶 14+
Use all the latest technology to solve crimes in the newest release of the series.
exit series
🧍 1-6 | ⌛ 45-150 min | 👶 12+
Solve difficult clues to escape different situations.
unlock series
🧍 1-6 | ⌛ 60 min | 👶 10+
With one hour on the clock, players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team, searching for clues, combining objects, and solving puzzles.
the key series
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 15-20 min | 👶 8+
Examine clues and solve mysteries to compete against your opponent detectives!
unsolved case files
🧍 1-8 | ⌛ 30-120 min | 👶 14+
Review and study the evidence to put the real killer behind bars.
sherlock holmes consulting detective
🧍 1-8 | ⌛ 60-120 min | 👶 13+
The game is afoot as you and your irregular friends search Victorian London for clues.
Dexterity games
KLASK
🧍 2 | ⌛ 10 min | 👶 8+
Use magnets to push a ball into the goal, but beware of falling in yourself!
DROP IT!
🧍 2-4 | ⌛ 30 min | 👶 8+
Drop geometric shapes in your color to score the most physics-defying points.
JENGA HARRY POTTER
🧍 1-4 | ⌛ 5-15 min | 👶 6+
Climb the stairway in Hogwarts to make it to the classroom first.
JENGA SCOOBY DOO
🧍 1-8 | ⌛ 20 min | 👶 6+
How high can the gang go before your tower comes crashing down!?
THROW THROW BURRITO
🧍 2-6 | ⌛ 15 min | 👶 7+
Throw, dodge, rage in this exciting party game!
