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Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Surprising stories behind the games you know and love to play. Journey through 8,000 years of history, from Ancient Egyptian Senet and Indian Snakes and Ladders, right up to role-play, fantasy and hybrid games of the present day. More than 100 games are explored chronologically, from the most ancient to the most modern. Every chapter is full of insightful anecdotes exploring everything from design and acquisition to game play and legacy." -- ONIX...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The annual Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) Awards are like the Oscars of the tabletop. Acclaimed British author and games expert James Wallis investigates the winners and losers of each year's contest to track the incredible explosion in amazing new board games. From modern classics like CATAN, Ticket to Ride, and Dixit to once-lauded games that have now been forgotten (not to mention several popular hits that somehow missed a nomination), this...
Author
Publisher
The Sutherland House Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, they fell from prominence for a decade or two but today they are in a new golden age. They're ingeniously designed, beautiful to look at, and exhilarating to play. Games are reclaiming their place in our culture, as entertainment, social activity, and intellectual workout equipment. Alone among all art forms, games require their audience (called "players")...
4) Jumanji
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the startled eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan reunites with Sarah and together with Judy and Peter tries to outwit the game's powerful forces.
7) Clue
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Who killed Mr. Boddy? Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with the gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler?
8) Jumanji
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why-and how-we play them. Checkers, Backgammon, Chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and Bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the behavioral design that make them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors,...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
For generations, Monopoly has been America's favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and, for better or worse, the impulses that make our free-market society tick. An exhilarating game of no-holds-barred competition and brutal domination of opponents, it's a celebration of greed and accumulation of wealth with only one player standing at the end.
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fairy Tail takes place in a world filled with magic. Seventeen-year-old Lucy is an attractive mage-in-training who wants to join a magician's guild so that she can become a full-fledged magician. The guild she dreams about joining is the most famous in the world, and it is known as the Fairy Tail. One day she meets Natsu, a boy raised by a Dragon who mysteriously left him when he was young. Natsu has devoted his life to finding his Dragon father....
13) Clue
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea & Design Works LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Get a clue. Solve the world's favorite murder mystery in this graphic novel adaptation of the classic whodunit board game. When the mysterious Mr. Boddy turns up dead at his own dinner party, everyone's a suspect! Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum - all the familiar faces from the famous board game are back, plus some new ones like Dr. Orchid, Detective Ochre, and Senator White. But will Boddy's body be the last to fall,...
14) Parker Brothers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Engaging images accompany information about Parker Brothers.
15) Zathura
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Two brothers are launched into space while playing a mysterious old board game in the basement of their house. They could be trapped in space forever--where they encounter meteor showers, aliens, a rocket-propelled robot and intergalactic spaceship battles--unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura.
16) Fairy tail: 17
Author
Series
Fearī teiru volume 17
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After Wendy is abducted by the dark guilds, she is exposed to the destructive magical properties of NIRVANA, which drastically alter the light and darkness within her body.
Author
Series
Fearī teiru volume 15
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Laxus' protectors have all been defeated, but he still remains one of the most powerful wizards in Fairy Tail, and his Thunder Palace is threatening to rain down death and destruction on the innocent people of Magnolia! Can the two dragon slayers, Natsu and Gajeel, manage to keep from fighting each other enough to stop him?"--Page 4 of cover.
19) The gauntlet
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.
Author
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Master Makarov's grandson, the too-powerful wizard Laxus has seen the new Fairy Tail guild hall and doesn't like what he sees! So he gathers some of the strongest wizards in the guild, and starts a Fairy Tail civil war!"--Page 4 of cover.
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