Cahoots

(led by Sandy) 2018 game where cards are played to one of four piles by matching color or number. Work together as a team to complete a series of goals — without communicating what’s in their hands.

Sky Team

2x (led by Tim) 2023 2-player game in which players are a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world. To land your plane, players need to silently assign their dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of the plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice. If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game…and your pilot’s license…and probably your life.

Shadows Over Camelot

(led by Chris) 2005 semi-cooperative hand management and deduction game set at the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Players must collaborate to overcome a number of quests, ranging from defeating the Black Knight to the search for the Holy Grail. Completed quests place white swords on the Round Table; failed quests add black swords and/or siege engines around Camelot. The knights are trying to build a majority of white swords on the Table before Camelot falls. On each knight’s turn, the knight takes a “heroic action”, such as moving to a new quest, building his hand, or playing cards to advance the forces of good. However, he must also choose one of three evil actions, each of which will bring Camelot closer to defeat. Moreover, one of the knights may be a traitor, pretending to be a loyal member of the party but secretly hindering his fellow knights in subtle ways, biding his time, waiting to strike at the worst possible moment. (When in doubt, Drew is likely the Traitor)

Tesseract

(led by Sean) 2023 game where players manipulate and control an alien artifact before it destroys our world. The focal point of the game is a block of 64 dice, the Tesseract, which sits at the center of the board on a raised platform. Players will remove cubes to place in their individual labs, transfer them as needed to others, adjust the cube’s values and, importantly, isolate the cubes into the containment matrix, neutralizing them.

Codenames Duet

(led by Chris) 2017 sequel that 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.

Kites

(led by K-ban) 2022 game where everyone works together to keep all their kites — represented by colorful sand timers — in the air. Take turns playing cards, flipping the sand timers, and coordinating with other players to ensure none of the timers run out. If it does, a kite has crashed! Play all of the kite cards in the deck, and everybody wins!

Root

Table 1 (led by Matt) 

Dice Cards

(led by Sean) 2023 roll & write where players are choosing 6 cards from among 9 dealt different dry-erase cards that represent 50 mini roll & write games. Two d6 are rolled 50 times and players cross off either the sum of the dice or the number on either die on any one of their cards. Points are earned differently for each mini-game. This will get a LOT of table time for family gaming during the holidays as well as for an opener/closer when we need a 30-minute game.