Carlson Library of Things

Bananagrams (Oceanic Bananagrams)

Number of Players: 1-8
Play Time: 15 minutes

Bananagrams is a fast paced spelling party game where players try to create their own crossword using lettered and wild card tiles. With a variety of ways to play listed in the instructions this is a game that is quick to pick up and play and suitable for any number of social situation.

Game Includes:

• Banana shaped game bag
• 8 Oceanic Tiles
• 144 Letter Tiles
• Rules book

Candyland

Number of Players: 2-4
Play Time: 30 minutes

Candyland is a race between 4 players to reach the King Kandy’s Castle to join the celebration. Players will take turns drawing cards and moving along the colored path in this simple game perfect for children who’re just learning to play games.

Game Includes:

• Game board
• 4 plastic player pieces (red, yellow, green, blue)
• 1 deck of movement cards
• Cardboard story insert
• Game box
• Rules book

Chameleon

Number of Players: 3-8
Play Time: 15 minutes

Chameleon is a social deduction party game where a group of players try to determine who among them is the chameleon, the odd person out who isn’t given access to the secret word the rest of the group are given. Each game is played in a single round where players give a clue as to what the word could be culminating in a group vote where everyone tries to guess who the Chameleon is. The Chameleon wins if he goes undetected OR can guess the secret word. The players win if they can correctly guess the Chameleon’s identity and protect the secret word from being guessed.

Game Includes:

• Player Deck (Including 2 Chameleon Cards and 14 Player Cards)
• Topic Card Deck (Included 23 double sided topic cards)
• One (1) 6-sided die
• One (1) 8-sided die
• Board game box
• Rules book

Clue

Number of Players: 3-6
Play Time: 10-60 minutes

The Classic mystery game given a fresh look. With new event cards to help investigators discover the truth the only question is, who will be the one to discover the truth!

Game Includes:

• Game board
• 6 player tokens (blue, purple, yellow, pink, orange, green)
• 6 weapon tokens (5 metal - pistol, lead pipe, candlestick, wrench, knife; 1 plastic - rope)
• 9 event cards
• 21 rumor cards
• 1 stack of player Clue sheets
• 2 six-sided dice
• 1 battery operated one-way light up revealing mirror
• Plastic mirror & pieces holder
• Cardboard mirror & pieces sheath
• Cardboard story insert
• Game box
• Rules book

Clue: Discover the Secrets

Number of Players: 3-6
Play Time: 60 minutes

Played as the original Clue but with an added twist. Players race around the game board starting rumors and gaining clues to try and solve the mystery of the benefactor of the party. Only this time new intrigue cards are added as an additional option. Each time the an intrigue card is drawn it could be a clock card, and as the 8th clock card is revealed someone is out of the game.

Game Includes:

• Game board
• 1 Clue check book
• 1 Confidential envelope
• 1 deck of 24 Intrigue cards
• 1 deck of 24 Rumor cards
• 6 player cards
• 2 six-sided dice (one has the #1 replaced with a ?)
• 6 colored game pieces
• 9 weapons tokens
• Game box
• Rules book

Codenames

Number of Players: 2-8+ 
Play Time: 15 minutes

Codenames is a party game where 2 teams try to determine who is an ally among the clue cards on a grid, while trying to avoid helping their opponents and most importantly avoiding the assassin. Each team nominates a spymaster to give single word clues to help them make their guesses. First team to find all their members is the victor, but careful, finding the assassin means you lose.

Game Includes:

• Deck of 202 word cards (200 double-sided cards, 2 blank single-sided cards)
• Deck 40 key cards
• Plastic stand for key cards
• 8 red agents cardboard tokens
• 8 blue agents cardboard tokens
• 7 bystander cardboard tokens
• 1 assassin cardboard token
• 1 double agent first player cardboard token
• 5 4x9" plastic bags to hold cards & tokens
• Sand timer
• Game box
• Rules book

Connect 4

Number of Players: 2
Play Time: 15 minutes

This tactical 2 player classic sees players taking turns dropping pieces in a grid in order to make 4 in a row first.

Game Includes:

• 1 game grid
• 2 grid legs
• 21 red game pieces
• 21 yellow game pieces
• Game box
• Rules book

Forbidden Desert

Number of Players: 2-5
Play Time: 45 minutes

In this sequel to Forbidden Island, players work cooperatively to find pieces to a mysterious ship while being trapped in and blisteringly hot and windy desert. Each turn the wind blows sending sand and tiles moving, burying and mixing tiles around. Players must work together to keep the sand from burying everything, keep ruins uncovered, and assemble the pieces of the ship before they’ll be forever lost.

Game Includes:

• Difficult timer board
• Difficulty board stand
• 24 exploration tiles
• 49 sand tiles
• 12 equipment cards
• 31 storm cards
• 7 board and card arrow markers
• 6 player pieces
• 6 player cards
• 1 plastic ship base
• 3 plastic ship pieces (propeller, navigation disk, power source)
• 1 metal ship piece (engine)
• Small plastic bag
• Game box
• Rules book

Forbidden Island

Number of Players: 2-4
Play Time: 30 minutes

Forbidden Island is a cooperative game for 2 to 4 players in which players rush to gather the 4 island treasures and return to the helipad before the island sinks into the ocean. Players take turns shoring island tiles, gathering tools, and moving around the island all while gathering treasure cards in order to retrieve the mysterious islands treasures. All the while the waters rise.

Game Includes:

• 6 player indicator tokens
• 6 player cards
• 4 plastic idol pieces (earth stone, statue of wind, crystal of fire, ocean's chalice)
• 24 double-sided cardboard Island Tiles
• 24 Flood Cards
• 28 Treasure Cards
• Water Rising Difficulty cardboard card
• Water Rising Difficulty indicator
• Game box
• Rules book

Furnace

Number of Players: 2-4
Play Time: 30-60 minutes

Players take the role of 19th century capitalists in this Eurogame styled Engine builder. Each round players will bid on business to add to their growing empire in order to produce goods before each player will produce goods using their starting business and any won businesses.

Game Includes:

• 36 double-sided Company cards
• 5 Start-Up cards
• 5 Capitalist cards
• 1 first player token
• 4 colored player tokens
• Numbered color disk
• Neutral 2 disk
• 40 black coal tokens
• 15 yellow oil drum tokens
• 4 multiplication tokens
• 12 upgrade tokens
• 61 cardboard coin tokens
• Round tracker
• Round tracker token
• 1 six-sided die
• 11 plastic bags
• Game box
• Rules book

Furnace: Interbellum Expansion

Number of Players: 2-5
Play Time: 30-60 minutes

The Interbellum Expansion brings the game into the roaring 20s and 30s with new cards and a new variable bidding disc while also adding a solo game mode as well as an extra set of tokens to allow for a 5th player to join. Designed for players with experience with the base game.

Expansion Includes:

• 26 double-sided Company cards
• 4 Agent cards
• 4 single-sided Start-Up cards
• 5 Capitalist cards
• 3 Business School cards
• 14 Manager tokens
• 1 Personal Manager token
• 15 Black Coal tokens
• 10 Blue Iron Bar tokens
• 5 Yellow Oil Drum tokens
• 1 teal player token
• 5 variable Capital disks
• 4 teal Capital disks
• 10 coin tokens
• Game box
• Rules book

Jenga

Number of Players: 1 or more
Play Time: 15 minutes

This dexterity based game has players removing blocks from the tower and repositioning them on the top of the stack. As the tower grows fewer blocks are there to keep the tower standing. The game ends when someone makes the tower fall and the last person to successfully have stacked a block wins the game.

Game Includes:

• 54 wooden blocks
• Game box
• Rules book

Kerplunk

Number of Players: 2-4
Play Time: 15 minutes

A classic take on the traditional press your luck dexterity game. With several variations on how to play listed on the box this game can be enjoyed by nearly all ages.

Game Includes:

• 1 red plastic game base
• 2 clear green plastic neck pieces
• 1 clear green plastic covering
• 1 clear green plastic marble plug
• 28 plastic sticks
• 30 marbles (29 blue, 1 gold)
• 1 plastic insert
• Game box
• Rules book

Mysterium

Number of Players: 2-7
Play Time: 45 minutes

All but one player take on the role of a psychic detective tasked with reaching out to solve a murder. The final player takes on the silent role of the ghost, reaching out to the psychics to help them solve their murder. The only issue is that the ghost's memory isn’t what it used to be and can’t remember the details of their murder, passing clues to the investigators leading to possible events. If all the investigators are successful in guessing their narrative using vision cards passed out by the ghost they get one final chance to solve the mystery and put the ghost to rest.

Game Includes:

• 6 player markers (blue, white, pink, red, black, yellow)
• 36 Clairvoyance tokens (6 in each color)
• 6 Clairvoyance level markers (1 in each color)
• 3 progress boards (person, place, thing)
• 3 Raven tokens
• 6 Culprit tokens
• 6 character sleeves
• 6 Ghost tokens (1 in each color)
• 36 Item cards (18 small, 18 medium)
• 36 Location cards (18 medium, 18 large)
• 36 Suspect cards (18 medium, 18 large)
• 84 Vision cards
• Ghost's board
• 1 two-minute sand timer
• Clock time marker
• Clock timer base
• 2 clock stand pieces
• 1 two-piece bonus tracker
• Plastic piece container insert
• Game box
• Rules book

Rummikub

Number of Players: 2-4
Play Time: 1 hour

This take on the classic game of Rummy using tiles instead of cards. Players will draw tiles and play sets on their own, or from other players sets to score points. Rounds are played until either one player empties their rack or until no tiles are left to be drawn and no more plays can be made. Points are tallied to determined at the end of each round to determine the winner before being able to easily mix the tiles back together to start a new round.

Game Includes:

• 4 tile holders
• 106 game tiles
• Game box
• Rules book

Scattergories

Number of Players: 2-6
Play Time: 30 minutes

Scattergories is played by randomly determining a letter using a special 20 sided die, and having a list of categories to write answers beginning with the selected letter. With a 3 minute timer per round players have to think and write fast to come up with more unique answers than their opponents.

Game Includes:

• 1 20-sided alphabet die
• 1 3-minute sand timer
• 1 pad of answer sheets
• 48 category cards + storage box
• 6 folders
• Game box
• Rules book

Scrabble

Number of Players: 2-4
Play Time: 30-60 minutes

Spelling has never seemed so complicated as players use hand drawn tiles to try and spell words to acquire points. Placement is key to scoring big bonuses but a large vocabulary is even better.

Game Includes:

• 1 game board
• 4 tile racks
• 100 letter tiles
• 1 drawstring bag for tiles
• 1 cardboard insert
• Game box
• Rules book

Solani

Number of Players: 1-4
Play Time: 30-60 minutes

Solani is a tile drafting and placing game loosely based on the Navajo astronomy mythology. Players will take turns drafting star clusters and branch tokens in order to fill their board, scoring points based on their astrological tokens, randomly generated end game scoring, and their ability to connect star clusters with the correct astral paths. Included is a solo gameplay variation of the game to allow a single player to play against coyote, as well as the Kickstarter expansion rules variants to allow players to expand their play experience.

This game pays loving attention to the Navajo mythos, including a full comic within the rules to help players understand how the gameplay tries to connect with these myths. Many cards give life to the stories with flavor text explaining how this first peoples tribe viewed the world they lived in.

Game Includes:

• 4 player boards
• 1 dry erase score board with black dry erase marker
• 1 score mat
• 4 score tracking tokens
• 1 first player token
• 16 Planet tokens
• 30 Astral tokens
• 16 Dark Branch tokens
• 64 Light Branch tokens
• 64 Star Cluster tokens
• 4 Shooting Star tokens
• 16 Astral tile tokens
• 4 Star 20 victory point token
• 1 Elder Spirit token
• 8 Dark Branch setup tiles
• 8 End Game scoring tiles
• 6 Sky scoring cards
• 30 Astral feature cards
• 4 Light cards
• 1 Coyote Solo Mode card
• 2 token bags
• 1 plastic container insert
• 10 small plastic bags
• Game box (including 1 Kickstarter expansion box)
• Rules books (Core Rules + Kickstart Expansion)