Party Game

Trivial Pursuit is the original trivia game that started it all.

Each player has a circular playing piece with six pie-shaped holes. The goal of the game is to collect a pie in each color. The colors correspond to different question categories.

The board consists of a circular track with spaces in seven different colors. Six of the colors correspond to question categories while the last color gives a new dice roll. Six spaces along the track are "pie spaces", and from these there are "spokes" of track leading to the middle of the board.

Players roll a die and move along the track in any direction they like. When a player stops on a color they get a question of the appropriate category. If the player answers a question correctly while on a pie space, they get a pie of that color (assuming they don't already have it). A correct answer on another square allows the player to roll again.

Once the player has one pie in each color, she can move along the spokes to the middle of the board to win the game.

In this game players try to be the first to guess the correct title from the ReFraze given.

For instance:
Category = 80s Pop Song
ReFraze = Smack my person with your finest hit
Hint = Pat Benatar
Answer = Hit me with your best shot

Many different sets are available:

New for 2008; Sayings-Phrases, Quotes & Slogans

NEW JR. Edition includes 30 blank dry erase cards to let kids 8 and up to make their own ReFrazes $15.99

Sayings
JR.
TV Shows
70's Country
80's Country
90's Country
50's/60's Pop
70's Pop
80's Pop
90's Pop
2000's Pop
Christian/Gospel
Movies (Up to 1985)
Movies (1986-Present)

Home Page: http://www.refrazegame.com/

This is a portable version of Apples to Apples, with 270 red apple cards and 90 green apple cards, in a magnet-snapped box with a handle. All of the cards are new with this version.

The game is exclusive to Target stores and its partners (such as Amazon.com).

Players in Mascarade start with six coins and a randomly dealt character card. Characters stay face up just long enough for players to more or less memorize them, then are turned face down. Your goal is to be the first player to hold 13 coins, and while you start nearly halfway to that goal, you can go down just as surely as you can go up!

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!

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. The first edition of Mascarade contains 13 characters. The beggar (woman) has no special ability. Bruno Faidutti says on his blog: "...she has no ability so far. I always like to find blank cards in a game, for which I can imagine my own effects. Here, the card is not blank – it has a picture and a name, but you can devise its effect, and I'm sure there'll be some prize for the best idea."

"Oodles of Doodles takes the art of doodling to a new level as you race against time, trying to get your teammates to shout out items that fit a certain category, but only you see the list of eight items you must doodle."