Party Game

This is a party game for families, friends and cow rustlers. The aim of the game is simple: think like the herd and write down the same answers as your friends.

If your answer is part of the majority, you all win cows. Yeehaw! If everyone else writes an answer that is matched by at least one other person, but yours is the odd one out, then you land the angry Pink Cow, and your herd of cows is worthless until you can offload it onto someone else.

The first player to collect eight cows wins.

Nice Buns is a light strategy game in which players sit together in the "Nice Buns Buffet" and race to fill up their plate with three sets of colorful bao buns. Each round, you roll three dice that let you collect, steal, and trade different buns.

However, there's a twist! Before you do anything, the player on your left will get to decide which dice you can use...and which ones they'll keep for themselves.

—description from the publisher

Revealing the terrible artist in all of us, players in Scrawl start off with a loaded phrase, doodle it, then pass it on. By the time your masterpiece of an "OAP Conga Line" passes through your friends' weird minds and wonky pens — and makes it back to you — things will have gone horribly wrong. Points are awarded for the most disastrous doodles and godawful guesses. Most grins wins.

(Commercial reimplementation of the folk game Eat Poop You Cat.)

Who are you in Mascarade? Whoever you want to be...at least until someone else calls you out on it!

Each character receives a face-down role card at the start of the game, and in a game with 4-5 players some role cards are placed in the center of the table. On a turn, you take one of three actions:

1) Announce your character: Claim the power of a certain character and take the associated action. You don't have to have that character card in front of you to take this action, but if someone else says that they're that character and reveals the card to prove it, that player takes the action instead while you lose one coin to the tribunal.

2) Swap cards or not: Take another player's character card along with yours, place them under the table, shuffle them around a bit, then give one card back to the other player while keeping one for yourself. You (presumably) know whether you changed characters and can have some idea of who you are now, but that other player might be in the dark.

3) Secretly look at your character: Look at your character card to make sure of who you are.

Play continues until one player obtains 13 coins and wins — or until a player has lost all of their coins, in which case the player with the most coins wins.

Mascarade includes more character cards than the number of players, so not all characters will be used in each game. The rules suggest that you use certain characters in your first games, but once you know the game, you can try many other distributions.

Note that this second edition of Mascarade includes 17 role cards, with these cards being a mix of roles from the original base game and the 2014 expansion.

Description from the publisher:

Welcome to the Hidden Temple! Follow your guide Kirk Fogg as he takes you through rooms filled with lost treasures that are protected by mysterious Mayan Temple Guards.

Only Olmec knows the legends behind the treasure in his temple. One of six teams will have a chance to retrieve it.

The teams must prove themselves through intense physical and mental tests. In the end only one team will earn the right to enter Olmec’s Temple.

Can you pass the tests, brave the Temple, and find the treasure in time? The choices are yours and yours alone…