Games and Gaming at the Learning Commons

Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive® is the official board game of Brandon Sanderson’s best-selling epic fantasy series, The Stormlight Archive®. This epic storytelling game takes players to Roshar, a world torn by storms and war, where only the Knights Radiant can face the wrath of Odium! Using the Call to Adventure game system, it challenges you to create original heroes, face challenges, and build the character with the highest destiny score.  Face a Thunderclast, journey to the Cognitive Realm, or wield Shardplate; anything is possible when you answer the Call to Adventure!

If you loved playing the Candy Land board game when you were a child, you can share the experience with your loved ones and start down the "magical" road to sweet surprises!

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner.

Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card.

In an abandoned warehouse a gangster band is splitting its loot, but they can't agree on the split! It's time to let the guns talk and soon everyone is aiming at everyone. The richest surviving gangster wins the game!
Ca$h 'n Guns helps you relive the best scenes of your favorite gangster movies. The goal is to have more money than anyone else after eight rounds while still being alive.

Two players work together to build a castle. Wall and tower pieces link to form courtyards. The player who finishes a courtyard claims it with a Keep.
Your cards determine what pieces you get each turn . . . but you decide where to put them. If you're clever, the pieces played by your opponent can end up scoring for you!
Donated by Steve Jackson Games.

Castle Panic is a cooperative tower defense board game for 1 to 6 players. The co-op element makes Castle Panic a great family game, and the perfect kick-off for your weekly game night.
You must work together to defend your Castle, in the center of the board, from Monsters that attack out of the forest, at the edges of the board. Trade cards, hit and slay Monsters, and plan strategies together to keep your Castle towers intact.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

The Hundred Years' War is over and the Renaissance is looming. Conditions are perfect for the princes of the Loire Valley to propel their estates to prosperity and prominence. Through strategic trading and building, clever planning, and careful thought in The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game, players add settlements and castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, farm livestock, and more.
Donated by Ravensburger Games

In Catan (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players collect these resources (cards)—wood, grain, brick, sheep, or stone—to build up their civilizations to get to 10 victory points and win the game.

Allows you to add up to two more opponents to The Settlers of Catan. The only change in the rules is that there is a building round at the end of each turn in which any player can build.

Build ships, set sail, and conquer the magnificent island world of Catan. Nine voyages of discovery are awaiting the settlers.

Buy your favorite cats then collect Litter Boxes and trade them in for Fish Bones. Sounds easy enough unless you get fleas, start chasing mice, or have to clean the litter boxes! It’s all furry fun until you fall in WATER... Then you’re mad as a wet cat because you’re out of the game for 3 turns! The board is made up of the world’s most popular and exotic cats. The back of each deed contains fun cat facts.

It's the moment of truth. Will your friend choose Outer Space, or The Bottom of the Sea? Do they prefer the Window or the Aisle? Are they all about the Party, or the After-Party? Successfully predict how your friends will answer weighty questions like these in Choose One! and you'll advance your token to the finish line!
Donated by Morningstar Games

Chronology is a card game of all time. More specifically, during the game each player builds a timeline of cards, with each card listing an historical event and the year in which it occurred.
At the start of the game, players are dealt two cards, which are then placed face up in chronological order. On her turn, a player is read an event from a new card; the player must then indicate the position on her own timeline where the card should be placed. If she's correct, she takes possession of the card and inserts it in her line; if not, the next player gets a crack at it, and so on. The first player with ten cards wins.

Be the first to move your child-shaped playing piece from square one to square 100 on the Chutes and Ladders game board--but watch out! If you land on the square that shows you ate too much candy--Ouch!--you get a tummy ache and slide down a chute to a square a few numbers below. But if you end your turn on a good-deed square, such as helping sweep up a mess, you'll be rewarded by a ladder-climb up the board.

Players use their runes to maneuver through each concentric path in a circular temple. Each rune moves 2, 3, or 4 spaces, indicated by the rune's image. Between each path lies a moving gateway. Look out though, as every rune in each ring will cause the gateways to move faster!
Donated by Breaking Games.

Burgle your way to adventure in the deck-building board game Clank! Sneak into an angry dragon's mountain lair to steal precious artifacts. Delve deeper to find more valuable loot. Acquire cards for your deck and watch your thievish abilities grow.
Be quick and be quiet. One false step and CLANK! Each careless sound draws the attention of the dragon, and each artifact stolen increases its rage. You can enjoy your plunder only if you make it out of the depths alive!

One murder… 6 suspects. In this suspenseful Clue game, players have to find out who's responsible for murdering Mr. Boddy of Tudor Mansion in his own home. Get the scoop on the mansion's rooms, weapons and guests and start detecting! Was it Plum with the wrench in the library? Or Green with the candlestick in the study? Eliminate information throughout the game in this classic whodunit. The player who correctly accuses Who, What, and Where wins!

Join the Belcher family in a 'whodunit' that’s more mindboggling than finding mayonnaise in the microwave. Clue: Bob’s Burgers lets you piece together the answers to who killed 'Ned Boddy', What weapon was left behind, and Which room of the apartment was the scene of the crime! The collectible game is illustrated by the show creators themselves and includes a custom Clue board, six Rumor Cards for each of the suspects, nine locations, and six metal tokens to represent the weapons, which include a Burger Phone, Spatula, Horcelain, Wine Bottle, Kuchi Kopi, and Gene’s Keyboard!

An Infernal Puzzle Box, delivered by a Hellrider of Elturel, has been stolen from the party of adventurers. Determined to reclaim their box of infernal secrets, one of Zariel’s minions has slain and secretly replaced an adventurer, unbeknownst to the rest of the members! In CLUE: Dungeons & Dragons, it’s up to you to determine WHO has been replaced by a devil in disguise, WHAT weapon was used in the execution, and WHERE in the Forgotten Realms the Infernal puzzle box could be hidden.

Play as one of six characters from The Office, as their boss Michael Scott forces them to play a real-life game of Clue to determine who killed the HR rep, Toby. Gameplay is similar to standard Clue, with special "intrigue cards" new to the game.
The winner gets "an extra week of vacation" from Michael Scott!

Codenames is a social word game with a simple premise and challenging game play. Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the table. Their teammates try to guess words of their color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. 

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames — give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table — but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents.

Compounded is a game about building chemical compounds through careful management of elements, a fair bit of social play and trading, and just a bit of luck. In Compounded, players take on the roles of lab managers, hastily competing to complete the most compounds before they are completed by others – or destroyed in an explosion. Some compounds are flammable and will grow more and more volatile over time; take too long to gather the necessary elements for those compounds and a lot of hard work will soon be scattered across the lab.
Donated by Greater Than Games.

In Concept, your goal is to guess words through the association of icons. A team of two players – neighbors at the table – choose a word or phrase that the other players need to guess. Acting together, this team places pieces judiciously on the available icons on the game board.

It's classic Connect 4 gameplay with a Marvel Spider-Man theme! In this Connect 4 strategy game, opponents choose to play as Peter Parker or Miles Morales, in a friendly neighborhood competition to own the grid!

You’ve come to make your fortune on Cooper Island, whose untouched peninsulas stretch out like long arms into the wild Atlantic. With two ships and a few workers, each of you has landed on a separate peninsula, which you hope to explore, cultivate, and settle. But who will do this best? And how? Will you expand your land quickly, or will you instead spend your efforts cultivating it, making it more and more valuable and productive?

Be the last government official standing in this dystopian science fiction game of bluffing and intrigue!

Darkness Comes Rattling is a cooperative board game for 2-6 players that follows the story of the Tribes of Man in their quest to save the world from corruption and Darkness.
Each player will guide a mighty warrior and traverse a world of shadows, spirits, and other dangers as they combat the coming night.
Donated by Wyrd Games.

Batman! Superman! Wonder Woman! Aquaman! The Flash! Green Lantern! Cyborg! The Justice League of America is ready for action – are you? Fight the never-ending battle for truth, justice, and peace in the DC Comics Deck-Building Game!

Dead of Winter is the first game in the Crossroads series, designed by Isaac Vega and Jon Gilmour. It puts 2-5 players together in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity are either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

Gather your friends (in person or on a video call), open your mind, and prepare to discover what you're really willing to accept from a romantic partner! What behavior or attribute is an insurmountable flaw and what might you be inclined to overlook? Judge potential soul mates and get to know your friends better as you examine the little things that can lead to love or frustration.

Recruit from a battle-ready roster of Disney and Pixar heroes and villains — Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey, Gaston, Aladdin, Demona, Sulley, Dr. Facilier, Maleficent, and Ariel — then combine the cards for your characters into a single deck. You take turns playing standard actions and cards from your hand to move your characters and attack opponents. If you knock out rival characters or occupy certain spaces near the center of the arena until your next turn, you score points. When a player reaches 20 points or runs out of cards in their deck, the game ends at the conclusion of that round, and whoever has the most points wins.

The Disney's Sorcerer's Arena Epic Alliances – At the Ready expansion brings three new characters into the area: Robin Hood, Mrs. Potts, and Mulan, each with new attacks and abilities true to their characters. You can improve positions with Mrs. Potts, pull fast ones with Robin Hood, and aid allies with Mulan.

Every picture tells a story – but what story will your picture tell? Dixit is the lovingly illustrated game of creative guesswork, where your imagination unlocks the tale. In this award-winning board game, players will use the beautiful imagery on their cards to bluff their opponents and guess which image matches the story. Guessing right is only half the battle – to really succeed, you’ll have to get your friends to decide that your card tells the story! Every turn, the storyteller will call out a short phrase or word to match the image on his card. Then each player will choose the card that most closely matches that phrase, and then everyone must guess which card the storyteller saw when he invented his brief tale. Correctly guess the storyteller’s card, and you’ll move ahead. Convince everyone else that your card is best, and you’ll do even better.

It has all the fun of a traditional property trading game with some dog-eat-dog twists! Buy your favorite dogs then collect Dog Houses and trade them in for Big Bones. It’s all tail-wagging fun until you land on KENNEL... then you’re sent to the kennel and you’re out of the game for three turns! So grab your token and advance to GO FETCH! Who knows? Your dog may win first place in obedience class - or you may end up with fleas!

You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!  In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner.

This entertaining game is playable for 3 to 5 players. One person is elected as the killer (whoever is the most evil in your group) and the rest are victims. The killer wins by killing all the victims. The victims win by escaping.

High-stakes bidding on million-dollar race cars. Frantic bets placed in secret even as the cars race around the track. And to the victor, the biggest purse of all. But in the world of motor racing, the margin between victory and defeat can be a single moment: a steep banked turn, tires screaming and spitting out smoke, and the downforce, pressing you down in your seat and keeping you on the track as you make your move inside to pull ahead.

Dungeon! is a fast-paced game where you and your friends can decide which way to go in the hunt for bigger and better treasure.
Will you stick to level 1 and clear out the Goblins and Kobolds? Or will you delve deep into level 6 and set your sights on the Purple Worm or the Red Dragon? Along the way, you’ll have to face off against such iconic monsters as the Black Pudding, the Drow, and even the Owlbear!

In Dutch Blitz, each player has her own deck of forty cards, with cards 1-10 in four colors; red and blue cards show a Pennsylvania Dutch boy, while yellow and green cards show a Pennsylvania Dutch girl. Each deck has a different symbol on the back to aid with card sorting between rounds.
Donated by Dutch Blitz.

The players are following Columbus by exploring the islands he traveled to. Players slowly explore the islands and discover wealth in the form of Gold and fish. As they learn about the land and sea areas of this new land, they position their Caballeros to try to maintain control of the important regions. Castillos give them a measure of protection from others and ships allow them to establish trade and fish for food. Success is measured in the size of land and sea areas they control. Their success is measured twice and in the end these scores are summed and the winner declared.
Donated by Rio Grande Games.

Can you sing a song with “Love” in the lyrics?  How about “Heart”?  Encore is the game that’s all about singing songs with the words we stick you with.  Roll the dice, move your pawn around the board and belt out your favorite tunes!

The second Epic Spell Wars game is finally here and it’s loaded with all-new ways to deliver a smoking death to all who oppose you. This stand-alone game is also 100% compatible with the original game, which allows players to turn an already epic game into an EPIC game.

In Euphoria, a worker placement game, you lead a team of workers (dice) and recruits (cards) to claim ownership of the dystopian world. You will generate commodities, dig tunnels to infiltrate opposing areas, construct markets, collect artifacts, strengthen allegiances, and fulfill secret agendas.

In Evolution, players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect your species from Carnivores, while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach. With over 4,000 ways to evolve your species, every game becomes a different adventure.

Exploding Kittens is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian roulette. It was the most-funded game in the history of Kickstarter and has paved the way for peace and tranquility in the modern world. It also features cards illustrated by The Oatmeal. 
Donated by Exploding Kittens Inc.

Exploding Kittens is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian roulette.

This Party Pack version of Exploding Kittens has enough cards for 2 - 10 players.
Donated by Exploding Kittens Inc.