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Information about the current board games at Cal State LA

Card Games (A - Z)

Uno Star Wars Mandalorian Edition

Uno Star Wars edition. This edition comes with a special “Wild the Force card”. When you play the special card, choose another player and then choose a color. the chosen player must show you their hand, and if they have at least one card of the chosen color, they are forced to draw two cards. If they do not have any cards of the chosen color, they suffer no penalty and play continues in current order with the chosen color. If this card is turned up at the beginning of play, the person to the left of the dealer chooses the color and begins play.

  • Players: 2 - 10
  • Playtime: 30 Min
  • Age: 7+

Entertainment Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: ANNIHILAGEDDON Deck Building Game  Box

Annihilageddon : epic spell wars of the battle wizards.

Its an all-out battle to the death for the Annihilageddon trophy in the crazy world of Epic Spell Wars! While fully compatible with other Cerberus Engine releases, this game features a whole new world of mayhem literally. Mayhem Events, Familiars, Past Champions, Wizards, Spells, Creatures, Treasure, and Wild Magic. It all adds up to an Epic Spell Wars experience unlike anything you`ve seen before. And fans of the series have seen a lot. Yeesh.
  • Players: 2 - 5
  • Playtime: 60 - 90 Min
  • Age: 15+

Boss Monster Box Cover

Boss Monster

Inspired by a love of classic video games, this game pits 2-4 players in a competition to build the ultimate side-scrolling dungeon. Players compete to lure and destroy hapless adventurers, racing to outbid one another to see who can build the most enticing, treasure-filled dungeon. The goal of Boss Monster is to be the first boss to amass ten souls, which are gained when a Hero is lured and defeated — but a player can lose if his Boss takes five Wounds from Heroes who survive his dungeon.

  • Players: 2 - 4
  • Playtime: 30 min
  • Age: 13+

Donated By Brotherwise Games

Cards Against Humanity Family Edition Box

Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition

Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition is a new party game that’s just like Cards Against Humanity, except it’s written for kids and adults to play together. In each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card.

We didn’t just take the adult stuff out of the original game: we wrote a whole new game from scratch and tested it with thousands of families.

  • Players: 4 - 30
  • Playtime: 30 Min
  • Age: 8+

The Chameleon Box Cover

The Chameleon

Everybody knows the 'secret' except the Chameleon. But who is the Chameleon? To catch them, players must describe the 'secret' with just one word. Too obvious and the Chameleon blends in. Too vague and you start looking guilty. Now let the frantic debating, hoaxing and finger-pointing begin. But be careful, choose the wrong player and the Chameleon escapes.
  • Players: 3 - 8
  • Playtime: 15 Min
  • Age: 14+

Chemistry Fluxx Box Cover

Chemistry Fluxx

Chemistry Fluxx is the elemental car game where the rules are always changing. Use atoms and laboratory gear to match the current goal and win! chemistry Fluxx is the perfect compound of chance and skill, where you'll not only be playing with elements and molecules, but you'll also be learning about them! chemistry Fluxx is so much fun you'll be playing it more than periodically.

  • Players: 2 - 6
  • Playtime: 5 - 30 Min
  • Age: 8+

dominion board game box

Dominion

In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end.

  • Players: 2 - 4
  • Playtime: 30 Min
  • Age: 13+

Donated By Rio Grande Games

Fairy Tale Fluxx Box Cover

Fairy Tale Fluxx (Coming Soon!)

Fluxx is a card game in which the cards themselves determine the current rules of the game. By playing cards, you change numerous aspects of the game: how to draw cards, how to play cards, and even how to win. Fairy Tale Fluxx, illustrated by renowned folk artist Mary Engelbreit, brings the zaniness of "the card game of ever-changing rules" to the land of "happily ever after", and the results are fit for a king!

  • Players: 2 - 6
  • Playtime: 5- 30 Min
  • Age: 8+

Letter Jam Box Cover

Letter Jam

Letter Jam is a cooperative game for 2 to 6 players. In each round, every player has a letter that everyone else can see. But no one can see their own letter! Players try to find words that can be made with the letters they see. The player with the best clue spells it by marking the letters with numbered tokens. Your letter’s position in the clue helps you guess what it might be. Then you can move on to a new one!
  • Players: 2 - 6
  • Playtime: 45 Min
  • Age: 10+

Loteria Board Game

Loteria (Coming Soon!)

Loteria is a traditional Mexican game combining cards and Bingo, and it has been played as a game of chance, as a pastime and for educational purposes. Cards are drawn and the illustrations matched to Bingo-like grid cards, each showing 16 of the 54 possible cards. Like Bingo, one may win by matching all of the fields on the grid-card, or by matching a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line.

  • Players: 2-10
  • Playtime: 10 Min
  • Age: 4+

Munchkin Apocalypse Card Game Box

Munchkin Apocalypse

Munchkin Apocalypse is a core set in the Munchkin series with an end of the world theme that includes natural disasters, zombie takeovers, Armageddon, alien invasions, nuclear war, etc. It's the end of the world! In Munchkin Apocalypse, every possible natural (and unnatural) disaster has happened. You are a rugged survivor in a world full of people – and things – that want to kill you and take your stuff. So do it to them first! And what's with all these seals running around? Don't they know the world is about to end? You should keep an eye on that seventh one in particular . . .

  • Players: 3 - 6
  • Playtime: 90 Min
  • Age: 10+

Donated By Steven Jackson Games

Munchkin Legends Board Game Box

Munchkin Legends: Guest Art Edition

Munchkin Legends is the Munchkin card game about legendary adventure...with none of that role playing stuff. You'll defeat mythic monsters and grab fabled magic items! Don the Death Mask and Achilles' Heels. Wield Thor's Hammer...or maybe the Magic Bassoon. Start by slaughtering the Heebie-Jeebies and Johnny Zucchiniseed, and work your way up to the Kraken...

  • Players: 3 - 6
  • Playtime: 90 Min
  • Age: 10+

Donated By Steven Jackson Games

Munchkin Lite Board Game Box

Munchkin Lite

Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run. Admit it. You love it. And you'll love this version of the game. It's got all the same dungeon-crawling, pun-making, backstabbing madness of original Munchkin.

  • Players: 3 - 4
  • Playtime: 60 Min
  • Age: 10+

Donated By Steven Jackson Games

Munchkin Xmen Board Game Box

Munchkin X-Men

Join the X-Men on a thrilling adventure to defend mankind from renegade mutants. In the game, players take on the role of students attending Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and team up with Professor X, Wolverine, and more super-charged mutants to take down the likes of Sabretooth, Juggernaut, and the almighty Magneto.

  • Players: 3 - 4
  • Playtime: 60 - 120 Min
  • Age: 10+

Donated By Steven Jackson Games

Simon's Cat Card Game Box

Simon's Cat

The fast-paced Simon's Cat Card Game features adorable art taken directly from animator and illustrator Simon Tofield's YouTube series, Simon's Cat. In the game, players go around the table playing cards to escape Simon's attention. Get caught and you get Blame; get too much Blame and you get fed last. No one wants that.

  • Players: 3 - 6
  • Playtime: 10 - 25 Min
  • Age: 6+

Donated By Steven Jackson Games

Star Trek Chrono-Trek

In Star Trek Chrono-Trek, a time-travel game similar to Chrononauts but set in the Star Trek universe, each player becomes a Star Trek character with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using time travel to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up artifacts, coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself.

  • Players: 2 - 6
  • Playtime: 15 - 45 Min
  • Age: 11+

Super Kitty Bug Slap Card Game Box

Super Kitty Bug Slap

Grab the coolest cats you can find for some bug-slappin' action in this a speedy card game of swift thinking and quick paws! Super Kitty Bug Slap is a fast-paced game that lets 3 to 5 players see who has the most skills. When the game ends, the quickest kitty with the most cards wins!

  • Players: 3 - 5
  • Playtime: 20 Min
  • Age: 6+

Donated By Steven Jackson Games

Sushi Go Card Game Box

Sushi Go

In Sushi Go!, you are eating at a sushi restaurant and trying to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for collecting the most sushi rolls or making a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value! And once you've eaten it all, finish your meal with all the pudding you've got! But be careful which sushi you allow your friends to take; it might be just what they need to beat you!

  • Players: 2 - 5
  • Playtime: 15 Min
  • Age: 8+

Uno Dare Box

Uno

Players race to empty their hands and catch opposing players with cards left in theirs, which score points. In turns, players attempt to play a card by matching its color, number, or word to the topmost card on the discard pile. If unable to play, players draw a card from the draw pile, and if still unable to play, they pass their turn. Wild and special cards spice things up a bit.

  • Players: 2 - 10
  • Playtime: 30 Min
  • Age: 6+

Uno Dare

Uno Dare

The familiar fun race to yell "UNO!" comes with wild, new choices! While playing the color and numbers matching game, you're faced with a decision: draw extra cards or take a dare! Dare cards come in 3 categories: Family, Show-Off, and Daredevil, with 16 dares on each card. You may end up talking like a pirate until your next turn, or standing on one foot, or even showing your best dance moves! There is even a blank card to make up your own dares!

  • Players: 2 - 10
  • Playtime: 30 Min
  • Age: 7+

List of Card Games (A-Z)

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