Games and Gaming at the Learning Commons

You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times.

With the Air Deck, you can play everywhere anytime, whether playing on the train or on a play tray table.
While regular paper playing cards tear, stain, bend and break easily, the Air Deck is incredibly resistant to abuse, and waterproof.
The minimalist design combined with the unusual form factor will make the Air Deck a surefire conversation starter on your travels.

In ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo, players take the role of Nostromo crew members Ripley, Lambert, Parker, Brett, or Dallas. Over the course of the game, they collect scrap, craft items, and fulfill different objectives. The crew will lose and gain morale as they encounter the Alien and other situations. If crew morale reaches zero, players lose the game.

The Game of Crazy Combinations! The wild, award-winning card and party game that provides instant fun for four to ten players! It's as easy as “comparing apples to apples”... just open the tin, deal the cards, and you're ready to play!

The groovy card game that's kind of like dominoes (only better!) Aquarius features three types of cards: Elements, Goals, and Actions. Element cards are played kind of like dominoes, with each player trying to win by connecting seven panels of one particular element. Goal cards determine which element each player is going after, and Action cards allow players to shake up the action in five different ways. The game is fast, fun, colorful, and easy to learn.

In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world. Specialists and unique buildings will help you in achieving this goal.

The year is 1926, and it is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers dance till dawn in smoke-filled speakeasies, drinking alcohol supplied by rum runners and the mob. It’s a celebration to end all celebrations in the aftermath of the War to End All Wars.
Yet a dark shadow grows in the city of Arkham. Alien entities known as Ancient Ones lurk in the emptiness beyond space and time, writhing at the thresholds between worlds. Occult rituals must be stopped and alien creatures destroyed before the Ancient Ones make our world their ruined dominion.

Easy to learn, difficult to master! Enjoyed by casual and hardcore gamers alike, Aura is the perfect gateway into the world of modern card games. Outwit and bluff your way to victory, but remain flexible, because when the cards are revealed anything can happen. 
Donated by Breaking Games.

Azul is a multiple award-winning, tile-placement game. The goal of Azul is to complete your display board, earning points as you place tiles and create patterns.
Loaded with high-quality components, Azul catches the eye and engages players with its beautiful art, clear graphic design, and colorful resin tile pieces.
Azul offers simple rules but meaningful choices making it easy to learn while offering a subtle depth to every turn! It’s perfect for families and veteran gamers.

In the fully co-operative game Back to the Future: Back in Time, each player takes on the role of a major character from the movie: Marty McFly, Doc Brown, Jennifer Parker, or Einstein the dog. The objective of the game is to have the characters move around 1955 Hill Valley, collecting certain items in an effort to fix Doc's famous DeLorean time machine, defeat Biff Tannen and his gang of trouble-making friends, while ensuring that Marty's parents fall in love. Only when that is accomplished can players then accelerate the DeLoreon to 88 MPH down Main Street before the clock tower strikes 10:04 pm!

A bacon themed monopoly!

Using a selection of 144 plastic letter tiles in the English edition, each player works independently to create their own 'crossword' faster than one's opponents. When a player uses up all their letters, all players take a new tile from the pool. The object of the game is to be the first to complete a word grid after the "bunch" of tiles has been depleted.

Players in Banned Words need to get their teammates to guess five secret words or phrases while avoiding traps set up by the opposing team — but you can only guess what those traps might be!
Donated by Wonderforge Games.

Battle for Greyport is a cooperative deckbuilding game based on the characters and world of The Red Dragon Inn. You will travel to important locations around the city, fighting epic battles and recruiting whatever heroes and items you can along the way. Each encounter presents more opportunities to improve your deck, but also brings more dire foes for you to face!
Donated by Slugfest Games.

Battle Line is a two-player card game built around the theme of warfare during the age of Alexander the Great. Battle Line features 60 full-color Rodger MacGowan/Mark Simonitch cards depicting the prominent formations of the period (War Elephants, Heavy Cavalry, Phalanx, etc.) and 10 full-color tactics "wildcards" that give players extra flexibility and choices and help make each new battle wildly different from the last.
Donated by GMT Games.

Battleship is the classic game of naval combat that brings together competition, strategy, and excitement! In head-to-head battle, players search for the enemy's fleet of ships and destroy them one by one. With convenient portable battle cases and realistic looking naval crafts, Battleship puts players right in the middle of the action.

This fun and suspenseful game is a new experience almost every time you play – you and your friends explore “that creepy old place on the hill” until enough mystic misadventures happen that one of the players turns on all of the others. Hours of fun for all your friends and family. Designed for 3–6 players aged 12 and up, this boardgame features multiple scenarios, a different lay-out with every game, and enough chills to freeze the heart of any horror fan.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

The house on the hill has a wicked reputation. Those who dare to darken its door often leave steeped in madness and despair — if they leave at all. Now the horror reaches new heights with Widow's Walk. The house is expanded with the addition of twenty new rooms, including the roof, a previously unexplored floor. Also in its halls you will find new monsters, items, omens, events, and fifty brand-new haunts. Requires Betrayal at House on the Hill Base Game.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

It is the early 1800s, a time of immense construction and urbanization. You are a world-renowned master city planner who has been asked to redesign two different cities. Projects of such significance require the expertise of more than one person, so for each assignment you are paired with a partner with whom to discuss and execute your grandiose plans. Will your planning and collaborative skills be enough to design the most impressive city in the world?

Prepare for a blob-bombing good time! blob lobber is a Goofy dexterity game in which you show off your card-flipping skills. Lob bombs at blobs to gain points, or sweeten the pot for the other players by adding more blobs to the pile. Beware the toxic blob... it poisons everything it touches!  
Donated by Steve Jackson Games.

Blockbuster is a movie game for anyone who has seen a movie, and like all the best films it comes in two parts:
In the Movie Buzzer Battle, both teams are given a topic, such as "Movies with dogs". You start the 15-second timer, yell out a relevant movie, then whack the buzzer to reset the time. The other team is now in the hot seat and has to do the same. Whoever runs out of time hands the advantage to the other team, which takes control of the next round: Triple Charades Jeopardy. During this round, teams play 3 forms of Charades to guess the movies!  

You're all bandits trying to rob this boomtown blind!
Take down the bank, train, stagecoach, and even the brothel in this frantic and fun real-time dice shoot em' up! Who will rob the most money and be the baddest bandit of them all?
Donated by Breaking Games.

Inspired by classic video games, Boss Monster challenges you to become a villain, build a dungeon, lure in adventurers… and destroy them!
Players compete to see who can lure and destroy the most adventurers. But beware! You must make your dungeon as deadly as it is attractive, or the puny heroes might kill you first!
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

The original Boss Monster challenged players to become the ultimate villains: video game-style Bosses. Now Boss Monster 2 builds on the original in every way! An all-new set of 160 cards, Boss Monster 2 is playable as a standalone game or as an expansion to the core set.

Get to know friends and family better. When the fastest answer wins, you never know what they’ll let slip.
Get your friends and family shouting out the hilarious answers that are top of mind. Simple gameplay will have you playing in seconds.
The player with the most points at the end of the game, wins.

In the party game Bubble Talk, the active player each round presents one of 150 images included in the game to the other players; these players then each choose one of the caption cards in their hands, and the active player decides which caption fits the image best, awarding the image card to the player who submitted that caption. Bubble Talk includes 300 different caption cards, with the captions presented in word balloons, aka, "bubble talk".

Into every generation a slayer is born: One girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer. Help Buffy the Vampire Slayer protect Sunnydale from the forces evil in this fully cooperative board game.
Includes the Friends and Frenemies Expansion.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Friends and Frenemies, an expansion for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Board Game, includes six new characters (Dawn, Riley, Tara, Anya, Faith, and Oz, who can be either human or werewolf); two new big bads (Spike & Drusilla, and Dark Willow); and a new board expansion that includes additional Initiative locations.
Included with Buffy Base Game. Not available for separate checkout.