Board Games

A game for everyone, anywhere.  So simple to learn, such fun to play.

One up on Connect 4, this time you have to connect five.

Take turns to lay your tiles on the table.  The first to get five in a row, up, across or diagonally, wins.

Children seem particulary good at this, annoyingly.

2- 4 players

Age suitability: 6 years plus.

A matching game - Pick a card and try to choose a tail to match up with your unicorn's head.  If you succeed, you can move your unicorn one square across the rainbow towards that pot of gold.

A game for 2 to 4 players.

Age suitability: 3 - 5 years

Age suitability: 14 years plus because of the magnets.

Please note: this gamecomes with a strict warning that it contains magnets which can cause serious injury if swallowed.  They can also affect the performance of electronic devices.

Colourful wooden board with four wooden counters and a dice.

28 cm across

Age suitability: 3 years +

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It's 1897 and you a farmer on the island of Puerto Rico.  You need to hire workers, grow and sell your crops, build warehouses and sugar mills and end up the wealthiest farmer on the island.

2-5 players

The game takes somewhere between an hour and a half and two and a half hours to complete.

A gruesome strategy game.

On one side of the board, you have a map of Amity Island and the surrounding waters.  One player plays the role of the shark and tries to eat as any swimmers as possible whilst the other three (Brody, Hooper, and Quint) have to find it and rescue the swimmers.

On the back, the players are on the boat Orca and the shark has to get them or sink the boat.

The games takes about an hour.

2-4 players.

Age suitability: 12 years and up.

ace through the maze to recover your treasure. The only snag is that the walls keep moving. as your competitors try to retrieve theirs.  At the start of each go, you move one section of the board one space which may help or hinder.

A game that first came out over thirty years ago and since then has given rise to over 60 different derivatives.

Each game takes 20 - 30 minutes.

2-4 players

Age suitability: 7 years - adult.

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Based on the BBC tv series, the Faithfuls must try to banish the traitor and win the pot of gold.

The game takes 60-90 minutes to play.

4-6 players.

Age suitability: 12 years plus.

A family game for younger children. Observation and matching.

The aim of the game is to collect 5 baby birds.  To do this, you have to decorate your nest first.

Two layers of difficulty to suit the age of the players.

Contains 4 nest boards, 4 sets of double-sided decoration tiles, 16 level1 challenge cards and 16 level 2, 3 bird figurines and 20 baby bird tiles.

Number of players: 2-4

Game duration: 5 minutes

Age suitability: 3 years plus

Size of Box: 20 x 15 x 5cm

This is the English language edition.

An extension to the excellent board game Akropolis in which players try to complete the statue of Athena.

Family board game in which the characters race their pet dinosaurs in the park. 

Each player controls a child character and their dinosaur.  When they throw the dice, theycan either move their dinosaur meeple or their child meeple forward.  The winner is the player who gets their dinosaur to the park gates first.  However if the dinosaur gets too far ahead of the child and the dice lands on Billy the park keeper, the dinosaur has to move back to its owner. So each player has to decide whether to risk sending their dinosaur far ahead in the hope of getting to the end the fastest or to play safe and move both their child and their dinosaur forward together.

Number of players: 2-4

Game duration: 15 minutes

Age suitability: 5 years plus

Size of Box: 20 x 15 x 5 cm

This is the English language edition.

Easy to learn and quick to play board game in which you try to build the biggest city but before you build your markets, temples, housing and barracks, you need stone.  The more stone you have, the bigger and the higher you can go.

The game won a mass of awards and nominations for family game of the year when it came out in 2022.

Each game takes about 25 minutes.

1-4 players.

Age suitability: 8 years plus.

Traditional board game with wooden board and pieces.

Race to get your pieces from one point of the star to the opposite point, either by moving one step at a time or by hopping over one or more other pieces.

The board measures about 28 cm across.

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

Choose which path to take in your life and see who retires the richest.

Go to college and aim for a higher paid job or start earning straightaway instead, buy a house, take out a loan - what will pay in the end?

2-4 players.

Age suitability: 8 years plus.

Answer six trivia questions in six different subjects to win this classic quiz game. 

2,400 questions in 6 categories: Geography, Entertainment, History, Art and Literature, Science and Nature, and Sports and Leisure.  This game is recommended for players of 16 years and up, so many of these questions would be beyond me.

Contents: includes gameboard, 400 cards, 1 die, 6 wedge holders, and 36 wedges.

2-6 players.

Introduce the delights of Scrabble to younger children.

For children starting to spell, one side of the board has pictures and clues for children to guess words that are already on the board (for example f--h paired with a picture of a fish).

On the other side of the board, older children can play a more conventional game of Scrabble, making up their own words but with bigger tiles and simpler scoring.

Contains : Double-sided board, 84 word tiles, 30 counters for scoring, and instructions.

2 - 4 players.

Age suitability: 6+

Here is a video from youtube with a very American voiceover:

Scrabble is one of those games that has been around for ages.  You either love it or you don't.

We sell it in this, the bonanza version  where you get Classic Scrabble on one side of the board and Scrabble Together on the other.  Every one knows the classic version but Scrabble Together is a cooperative game in which you work together to solve word challenges.  If you can't do it, you use a help card.  You lose when you have used up all the help cards.  You win when you complete twenty challenges.

2 - 4 players

Age suitability: 10 - Adult

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Help the rabbits race up the hill towards the juicy carrot but watch out for the naughty mole and the holes that open up in the path.

2 - 4 players.

Age suitability: 4+ years.

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Go round the board and pick up cheese pieces without getting caught in the trap. First mouse to get six cheeses wins.

Board requires adult assembly.

2 - 4 players

Age suitability: 6+

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 Play the centuries-old strategy game on this wooden board.

Comes with 48 colourful acrylic 'stones'.

Two-player game for people of almost all ages (not suitable for the under 3 year-olds - small bits - choking hazard).

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