Games and Gaming at the Learning Commons

In Taco Bell Party Pack Card Game, players gather various kinds of Taco Bell menu items, including crunchy tacos, bean burritos and Freezes, in an attempt to feed a crew of Taco Bell fans. Each member of a player's crew comes with specific cravings that need to be sated and doing so earns crave chips — tokens that look like tortilla chips and that have a surprise amount of points to reveal at the end of the game. Players can also use "sauce cards" to help snag food items and win.

Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is filled to the brim with hand-slapping mayhem! Each player places a card from their hand face up into a community pile while saying taco/cat/goat/cheese/pizza in player sequence. When the card matches the mantra — boom! — everyone slaps their hand on the deck, with the last one to slap picking up the cards. Whoever rids themselves of cards first wins!

Tak is a two-player abstract strategy game dreamed up by Patrick Rothfuss in "The Wise Man's Fear" and made reality by James Ernest. In Tak, players attempt to make a road of their pieces connecting two opposite sides of the board.
Donated by Greater Than Games.

Each player begins by sketching a TELESTRATIONS word dictated by the roll of a die. The old fashioned sand timer may limit the amount of time they get to execute their sketch, but it certainly doesn't limit creativity! Time's up! All players, all at the same time, pass their sketch to the next player, who must guess what's been drawn. Players then simultaneously pass their guess -- which hopefully matches the original word (or does it??) -- to the next player who must try to draw the word they see -- and so on.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.

Things they don’t teach you in school is definitely not your traditional trivia game with boring questions about who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories or where the 1996 summer Olympics were held. Instead, this is a hilarious trivia game with more than 400 unexpected questions and answers you’ll never see coming! loads of laughs and interesting discussions guaranteed!

Throw Throw Burrito is what you get when you cross a card game with dodgeball. Try to collect matching sets of cards faster than your opponents while simultaneously ducking, dodging, and throwing squishy airborne burritos. The cards you collect earn points, but getting hit by flying burritos loses them. So clear some space and put away the antiques, because you’ve never played a card game quite like this before.

Thunder Alley is a stock car racing game for 2-7 players with the feel and flexibility of a card-driven simulation. Players controls not one car, but a team of 3-6 cars. Each race is not only a run for the checkered flag but an effort to maximize the score for every car on your team. Winning is important but if you race one car to the finish line, your team might end up outside of the winner’s circle looking in.
Donated by GMT Games.

Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure in which players collect and play matching train cards to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America.
The longer the routes, the more points they earn.
Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets by connecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

Every day in Mumbai, the bustling Financial Capital of India, hot lunches are hand-delivered to employees in workplaces across the city. These Home-Cooked meals, packed in tins called tiffins or dabbas, are picked up from the customers home, whisked off by bicycle to a sorting facility, loaded onto carts and wheeled to the train station, loaded onto a train car, unloaded, resorted, routed, and delivered (again, by bicycle) to recipients at work. Each tiffin is carried by multiple dabbawalas (delivery people) along the way. Despite more than 250,000 lunch deliveries every day, mistakes are rare. Players represent dabbawalas working to deliver tiffins and earn rupees by starting tiffins on a route and contributing to successful delivery of their tiffins and those of other players.
Donated by Rio Grande Games.

In Tokaido, each player is a traveler crossing the "East sea road", one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. While traveling, you will meet people, taste fine meals, collect beautiful items, discover great panoramas, and visit temples and wild places but at the end of the day, when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – which means that you'll have to be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things.

In Trial by Trolley, one player acts as the Trolley Operator and must choose where to send a murderous, out of control, trolley. Every other player at the table plays cards and argues in order to convince the operator to spare their lives and condemn everyone on the other track to a gruesome death-by-trolley.

This 90's themed edition of Trivial Pursuit features over 2000 questions in 6 new categories: Oops, Wired, Viewing, Trends, Important and Hangin.
It also includes an alternate gameplay option that offers players with a 2-sided game board on side 2. Players get to take a trip through the 90s without being the first one to get to the Y2K bug at the end of the board.

The must have trivia game for all book worms! This game combines the fun of the Trivial Pursuit game with the exciting world of books, authors and literary characters. Inside there are over 2,000 fascinating questions from six different categories. You'll find questions on English and American literature as well as popular romance novels. Your favorite childhood stories are included, too. From the Mother Goose Classics to Edgar Allen Poe to today's best-seller's list, everything fun about books is covered here.

Trophy Buck is a fast-moving game about deer hunting. The 12 custom dice represent deer. Push your luck to bag the most points, but stop rolling before too many "startles" end your turn! Will you bring home a trophy, or will you just be looking at tracks?
Donated by Steve Jackson Games.

Get ready to race to the finish line in this exciting game with the classic Pop-O-Matic bubble that holds and rolls the die. The suspense builds as you try to land on the Double Trouble or Warp spaces that give you additional powers. Can you chase your opponents around the board without getting into trouble and getting sent back to the starting line? The first player to get all four game pieces to the finish zone wins the game.

A beautiful and beautifully simple game of laying a tile before your own token to continue its path on each turn. The goal is to keep your token on the board longer than anyone else's, but as the board fills up this becomes harder because there are fewer empty spaces left... and another player's tile may also extend your own path in a direction you'd rather not go. Easy to introduce to new players, Tsuro lasts a mere 15 minutes and does work for any number from 2 to 8.
Donated by Barnes and Noble Savannah.

In Tudor, you are a Lord in the court of King Henry VIII. Here you will be positioning your Courtiers among the influential Lords who grant you actions that allow you to maneuver your family members to high title offices and gain their respective Rings of prestige and power.
Players take turns placing their Courtiers into the three Audience Chambers, each with unique actions. Then each player will place their one Lord in a Chamber of their choice. Only Courtiers in an Audience Chamber with any player's Lord present will be able to use that Chamber’s actions. But be careful, since there are only a limited number of seats available in each Chamber and competing families can push you out of a Chamber!
Donated by Morningstar Games

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-five year dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional flares of warfare between the Soviet Union and the United States. The entire world is the stage on which these two titans fight to make the world safe for their own ideologies and ways of life. The game begins amidst the ruins of Europe as the two new "superpowers" scramble over the wreckage of the Second World War, and ends in 1989, when only the United States remained standing.

Add a twist of fun into any party or family night with the game that ties you up in knots! This TWISTER game is the classic game with 2 more moves. Give the spinner a whirl and see what’s next as you try to keep your hands and feet on the mat! Right foot red! Can you do it? Left foot green - you got it! If your knee or elbow touches the mat, or you fall over, you’re out. Be the last player standing to win!

Players race to empty their hands and catch opposing players with cards left in theirs, which score points. In turns, players attempt to play a card by matching its color, number, or word to the topmost card on the discard pile. If unable to play, players draw a card from the draw pile, and if still unable to play, they pass their turn. Wild and special cards spice things up a bit.

Classic family card game UNO is now available with braille on every card! UNO Braille was developed in partnership with the National Federation of the Blind to make it easy for blind and low-vision players to join in the fun.

The familiar fun race to yell "UNO!" comes with wild, new choices! While playing the color and numbers matching game, you're faced with a decision: draw extra cards or take a dare! Dare cards come in 3 categories: Family, Show-Off and Daredevil, with 16 dares on each card. You may end up talking like a pirate until your next turn, or standing on one foot, or even showing your best dance moves! There is even a blank card to make up your own dares! What will you risk - drawing more cards or doing something wild? Find out when you play this new version of the classic UNO game - if you DARE!

The ultra-popular card game gets a modern makeover with bold graphics and a sleek, portable case! It's still the classic race to get rid of all your cards by matching colors and numbers - but has been enhanced with an exclusive MOD card. When you're down to your last card, don't forget to yell "UNO!"

In Urban Myth, the truth is in the box. Sometimes truth can be every bit as strange as fiction and fiction can sound like the truth. The challenge of Urban Myth is to differentiate between fact and modern folklore, between what you thought you knew and what you have heard as gospel truth from a trusted friend.

Take luck into your own hands in this crafty, Vegas style dice game! Press your luck at six casino tables and win the big bucks by outwitting your opponents! Each round, roll your dice and decide where to place them. Having the most dice at a table earns you money! But be clever, you'll never know what an opponent might have up their sleeve; a slight of hand might thwart you from earning any cash. The player with the most money wins!
Donated by Ravensburger Games

In this epic contest of sinister power, take on the role of a Disney Villain and strive to achieve your own devious objective. Discover your character's unique abilities and winning strategy while dealing twists of fate to thwart your opponents' schemes. Find out who will triumph over the forces of good and win it all!
Donated by Ravensburger Games

Votes for Women is a card-driven game covering the American women's suffrage movement from 1848-1920, culminating with the ratification (or rejection) of the Nineteenth Amendment. The game provides competitive, co-operative and solitaire play, with co-operative and solitaire play against the "Oppobot."
To win, the Suffragist player must have Congress pass the proposed Amendment and then have three-fourths of the states (36 of the then 48 states) ratify the Amendment.