LinguaPolis is a fun language-learning board game for adults. "Walk around" a fictional version of New York City and practice speaking English in everyday situations!
This deck includes 54 Mandarin phrases essential for those who want to immerse themselves in Chinese life - from everyday greetings and introductions, to eating out, moving around, and finding a place to stay.
A classic card game of cross-country racing, challenging you to outrace your opponents as you dodge the hazards they put in your way. Cards are in French and English.
The French edition of the party game in which players take turns describing a word or phrase on a card without using five other common words or phrases.
English learners acquire new words and practice speaking as they travel through downtown London. Visit museums, historical places and other significant sites, while asking for directions, reading schedules and negotiating travel arrangements in English.
A Scrabble-like game in which one to eight players form individual crossword puzzles with words that can change as players continue to draw tiles throughout the game.
Spymasters give one-word clues that can indicate multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color, while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team.
Can you name 5 fruits or vegetables beginning with “a”?How about 5 TV dads or 5 video games? Name 5 is the game that asks easy questions, then makes them harder because you have to provide 5 answers.
Players form interlocking words, crossword style, on the game board, using letter tiles of different values. Each player competes for the highest score.
A cooperative game about stopping climate change, where you get to build the cutting edge technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet. All components are made with sustainable materials.
What if the nations in the game Risk had used diplomacy instead? Negotiate, form alliances, make deals and use cleverness, rather than luck, to determine the outcome.
This is the original cooperative game in the "Forbidden ..." series. Grab a few trusted teammates to rescue four treasures before the island sinks under encroaching ocean waters.
Players of all ages work together to answer coming-of-age trivia questions. Team up with other generations to make it all the way around the board first by answering questions about popular TV shows, movies, music, slang, and news-worthy events.
A path building and tile laying puzzle game, in which you play fantasy world cats that are trying to escape from the evil (and fire) on your island home.
The alien object appeared in our skies six days ago. Players must work together to contain and control it, or its destructive power will annihilate our world.
Stories are the bridges that connect us to other humans. This game by Esther Perel will take you deeper with friends, family, coworkers, and lovers you thought you already knew -- wherever you are.
This is a captivating game of decorating Portugal's Royal Palace. Playing as stained glass artisans, participants collect magnificent tiles to adorn windows and compete to please the king.
In this card game of time travel, you must change history at key points called Linchpins, so that it transforms into the alternate reality your character calls home. But if you create too many paradoxes, the universe is doomed!
Originally released in 1978, this classic science fiction game with unique alien powers for each player influenced the development of games as we know them today. The board game equivalent of early Dungeons and Dragons.
This social game includes 200 cards, each featuring opposing views of hot button issues...like how to load the dishwasher like an actual human being. Just pick a side, and debate it out.
Pick an illustrated card from your hand (hide it from the other players), and announce a theme inspired by it. Other players choose a card from their hands that they feel represents the same theme.
This MIIS community favorite is a deck building card game in which you cleverly use different denominations of currency to acquire new provinces. If you like Magic: The Gathering, you will love Dominion!
This is one of many expansions to the original Dominion game. Add it if you want to focus on heading out into the realms to do some -- wait for it -- adventuring!
Want to play a fun board game with an ecological perspective? Evolution has been used in the evolutionary biology department at the University of Oxford and featured in the leading scientific journal, Nature.
In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town.
It starts out simple: draw one card and play one card. But in Fluxx, players can change the rules by playing New Rule cards! Can you follow all the current rules while collecting the items needed to match the current Goal?
A 2-player abstract strategy game in which players compete to occupy the most space on the board, while surrendering the fewest stones to the other player.
Hire skilled artisans to work in the shops of Nihonbashi, the main market district of Edo era Tokyo, then increase their skills and experience until they retire.
This is the card game Fluxx, but done ecology-style. Change the rules by playing cards like "Composting!" Follow the rules of the round while collecting items needed to match the current goal.
Take your trees through their life-cycle, from seedling to full bloom to rebirth, and earn points as their leaves collect energy from the revolving sun’s rays.
Each player will receive a seven card hand, and one card face up in front of them. The top card of the discard pile determines what the current rule is. The last player standing wins the round.
In the Risk game, the goal is simple: players aim to conquer their enemies’ territories by building an army, moving their troops in, and engaging in battle. This exciting game is filled with betrayal, alliances, and surprise attacks.
An engine-building, asymmetric game set in an alternate-history version of the 1920s. Players conquer territory, enlist new recruits, reap resources, gain villagers, build structures, and activate powerful mechs.
Play a card from your hand, place a chip on a corresponding space on the game board…when you have five in a row, it’s a Sequence. Learn to block your opponents by removing their chips.
In this fast-playing card game, the goal is to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for making the most maki rolls or for collecting a full set of sashimi.
Grow a beautiful garden of tiles on which flower meeples bloom down connecting vines of the same color. Players race to be the first to play all their flowers in this cascade of color.
Players representing the United States and Russia exert influence to win allies. Strategic movement of each country's units can gain control of the world for their superpower.
The classic family card game, in which players take turns matching a card in their hand with the current card shown on top of the deck either by color or number.
This is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game. You play bird enthusiasts seeking to discover and attract the best ones to your network of wildlife preserves.
During a game of Wyrmspan, you build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes. Wyrmspan is inspired by the mechanisms of Wingspan, though both are standalone games.
Spymasters give one-word clues that can indicate multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color, while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team.
This MIIS community favorite is a deck building card game in which you cleverly use different denominations of currency to acquire new provinces. If you like Magic: The Gathering, you will love Dominion!
A multiplayer drawing and guessing pictionary game. Each game consists of a few rounds in which a player has to draw their chosen word and others have to guess it to gain points!
