Contents
1 gatherer card
8 command cards
6 number cards
24 village cards
32 resource tokens – Ore, Wood, Herbs, Food

Overview
In Go Go Gatherer, both players are trying to direct the same gatherer to retrieve their village’s desired resources. The first player to gather all of their village’s desired resources or the player to gather the most of their village’s desired resources when a resource is depleted, wins!

Game Setup

• Place the gatherer card in the center. Divide the 4 resources into separate piles and put a pile on each of the four sides of the gatherer.

• Shuffle the village cards. Draw and place six village cards face up in a row. Each village displays a set of four desired resources.

• Shuffle the number cards and have each player draw one without revealing it. The number drawn correlates with the position of a village in the row. (I.e. if the “2” was drawn, your village is the second from the left). Remove the unused village and number cards from the game.

• Give both players each of the four command cards.

Game Play
Every turn, players will secretly place one of their command cards face down onto the gaming area. Then, they simultaneously reveal that command.

Commands are resolved in a particular order:

1. “Stay Put” - gatherer doesn’t move.
2. “Turn Left” / “Turn Right” - gatherer is rotated 90° per command.
3. “Turn Around” - gatherer is rotated 180° per command.

After the commands are resolved, pick up your command card and put it back in your hand.

An arrow is displayed at the bottom of the gatherer card. Whichever resource pile the arrow is pointing to is the only available resource for that turn.

Players choose whether or not to take a resource token and place it an area directly in front of them called their resource row. When placing the tokens, the row should expand from left to right. If only one resource token remains, the player with the least resources in their row has priority. If both players have the same number of resources then neither player can take the last resource token that turn.

Game End
The game end’s when your village’s desired resources are gathered or any resource pile is depleted.

• Resources must be gathered in the same order listed on the village card.

  Example: Your village desires Ore, Wood, Wood, Herbs. Your current resource row is [Wood], [Ore], [Herbs], & [Wood]. Your row’s first [Wood] token is ignored because Ore is your village’s first desired resource. But, your row’s [Ore] token and second [Wood] token fulfills your village’s first and second desired resources. Your row still needs another Wood and Herb token in that order to win.

• When a resource pile is depleted the game immediately ends. Players reveal their village and whomever gathered the most of their village’s desired resources wins. For ties, the player with the least resources in their row wins.

Hidden War!
A fast, tricky game for two players.

Players: 2
Time: 5 minutes per game.
Pieces: Standard playing cards. Using only 2, 3, J, Q, K, A. Normal rankings, Aces high.

Similar to the kids game "War" except that players choose which card to play and they play them face down, declaring what card it is (possibly lying).

Object
The object of the game is to win the 2's and the 3's, but not the Aces.

Sequence
* Discard 4-10; they are not used. Separate the remaining cards by color, so one player has all the black cards, the other all the red.
* Play 12 tricks, alternating who is the Declarer.
* Resolve the "draws." For each draw a player has earned, he takes one card at random from his opponent's collected cards.
* Scoring: Each 2 or 3, +1 point. Each Ace, -1 point. Tiebreaker is most cards overall.

Each Trick
* Players each choose a card from their hands and place it face down in the middle of the table.
* The Declarer declares what his card is, possibly telling the truth.
* The other player takes one of three actions.
-- Challenge the declaration.
-- Claim something higher (possibly truthfully). Declarer then has a choice to concede the trick or challenge.
-- Claim something lower, conceding the trick. Declarer usually just takes both cards, but he has the option to challenge if he believes that the other player's card is an Ace.

Note that the non-declarer does NOT have the option of claiming the same rank, even if that is what his card really is. He must challenge, claim something higher, or claim something lower and concede.

Challenge
Every claim can be challenged. When challenged, a player must turn up his card. If it is the card claimed, then he has won the challenge, otherwise the challenger wins the challenge. (Always one or the other is considered to 'win' the challenge.) The winner of the challenge may look at both cards and choose to take the trick or not. Whether or not he takes the trick, the winner has won one "draw." At the end of the hand, each player will steal from the opponent's collection as many cards as he has earned draws. He indicates the draw by moving one of his collected cards to the side.

Sample Challenges
As Declarer, Fred (playing a 3) claims K.
Barney (playing a 2) challenges Fred's claim. Fred shows the 3, so Barney takes the trick, setting one card aside to indicate he won a draw.

As Declarer, Fred (playing a J) claims J
Barney (playing an Ace) challenges Fred's claim. Fred shows the J, winning the challenge. He sees Barney's Ace so he gives the trick to Barney. Fred still earns a draw, so he puts aside one of the cards already in his collection to indicate it.

Premise

Shape shifting Rakshasas take turns building an obstacle course for the other to run.

Components

• 16 obstacle cards (four of each type) the builder will use to build the course. • 7 form cards: the Rakshasa and six other magic forms the runner will use to run the course. Each non-Rakshasa form has two powers to overcome obstacles. For example, the dragon form is flying (overcomes the wall) and strong (overcomes the boulder) but is neither aquatic (can’t overcome water) nor small (can’t overcome the narrow passage.) • Tokens

Setup and Play

The builder starts by playing a block of five obstacles with the first two face up and the next three face down. The runner then runs this block. The builder plays the second block of five obstacles with only the first face up, and the runner runs it. The builder’s third block is five face down obstacles (leaving a single obstacle in their hand,) and the runner runs it. The runner then turns around and runs all three blocks again in reverse order.

Each time the runner runs a block they pick a form to use face down. After the block is run, their form is placed face up beside the block and cannot be used again. After the course is run all of the forms except one will be face up.

After the runner has completed their run the players switch roles and play again. The player with the fewest tokens after both runs is the winner.

Running Blocks

When running a block the runner has the following choices for moving past obstacles:

• If the obstacle is face up they may claim to have the power to overcome it (e.g. flying to overcome the wall,) taking zero tokens, or they can take two tokens to skirt an obstacle they don’t have the power to overcome.

• If the obstacle is face down they may skirt the obstacle without flipping it and take two tokens, or they can flip the obstacle. If they flip the obstacle they may then claim to have the power to overcome it, taking zero tokens, or they can take three tokens to skirt the card.

• A runner skirting a face down obstacle may claim to be in Rakshasa form in order to look at, but not flip, the face down card and only take one token.

Bluffing

The runner may lie about having powers. The builder may challenge any claim and force them to reveal their form.

• If the runner was lying they take the tokens to skirt the obstacle plus two additional tokens. They must run the remainder of the block with their form card face up.

• If the runner was not lying, the builder takes two tokens and the runner may choose any form in their hand (including the one they were using) to continue their run.

After each obstacle is passed the builder may take one token to swap any face down obstacle currently on the board with one in their hand.

Odds and Evens

Components:

2 playing cards

22 tokens

10 dice

Set-up: Each player begins with 4 dice and 10 tokens. Playing cards are placed in the center between both players. One playing card is placed face up and the other face down. A token is placed on each, and 2 dice are placed on the face down card. The face up card will act as the Center Pile, and the face down card will act as the Bluff Pile.

Gameplay: On each player’s turn, they roll their 4 dice and keep the result hidden from their opponent. They then declare 1 of the 6 possible outcomes from their dice roll and take the resulting action:

An Even pair (22XX; 44XX; 66XX): Player moves 1 token from their pile to the Center Pile

An Odd pair (11XX; 33XX; 55XX): Opponent moves 1 token from the Center Pile to their own pile

A Straight (1234; 2345; 3456): Player moves 1 token from the Center Pile to the Bluff Pile or vice-versa

3/4 of a kind (any 3/4 dice share the same value): Opponent moves all tokens from the Center Pile to their own pile

2 Pairs (Pairs can be odd and/or even): Player moves one token from their pile directly to opponent’s pile

Nothing: Player passes and does nothing

As the dice roll is kept secret, layers may declare they rolled any of the above outcomes without actually having rolled them. Before any player takes an action (except pass), the opponent may challenge their dice roll. If they do, the player must reveal the dice. If the player’s declared outcome was correct, the player takes the action as intended and the opponent must choose to take all tokens from the Bluff Pile OR allow the player to take 1 die from the Bluff Pile* OR place 1 one of their dice in the Bluff Pile. If the player’s declared outcome was a bluff, the player does not take their action as intended and the player must choose to take all the tokens from the Bluff Pile OR allow their opponent to take 1 die from the Bluff Pile* OR place 1 of their dice in the Bluff Pile.

*Neither player can choose this option if there are no dice in the Bluff Pile.

Winning the Game: A player wins when they have gotten rid of all their tokens (moved them to the Center, Bluff Pile, and/or to opponent’s pile)

The City teeters on the edge of chaos. Once the heart of a powerful Empire its wealth has been squandered and power has waned. Radical Agitators secretly move through the City's impoverished districts stirring revolt and are hunted Imperial Agents loyal to the Palace.

Materials
• Board displaying the Palace and the City’s 18 districts. Each district has a unique combination of three symbols showing Economics (factory, slum, bourgeois), Ethnicity (local, refugee) and Geography (coast, flats, hills).
• 2 sets of 8 Clue cards (matching the district symbols)
• 4 Agitator cards
• 4 Spy cards
• 18 Revolt tokens (red meeples)
• 2 Soldiers (blue meeples)
• 3 dice

Setup
• Both players: takes a set of Clue cards.
• Radical: takes the Agitator cards.
• Imperial: take the Spy cards. Place the Soldiers onto the Palace

Round phases
1. District selection:
• Radical: Choose a district to agitate. Play one Agitator in front of you. Play the three Clues matching your chosen districts symbols face down. Turn one or two Clues face up. Collect the number of dice equal to the number of face up cards in front of you (including the Agitator and any Clues).
• Imperial: Play three Clues matching the district you think the Radical has chosen. Any Clues which match the Radical's face up Clues should be played face up. Play any remaining Clues face down.
• Imperial: Choose whether to attack the district using a Soldier to Raid or Spy to Infiltrate.

2. Imperial Attack:
• Raid
o Imperial: Move a Soldier from the Palace to the district being attacked. (Note: Raid can only be performed if a Soldier can reach the chosen district from the Palace without passing through a district in Revolt.)
o Both players: turn all Clues face up.

• Infiltrate
o Imperial: Play Spy next to your Clues. Turn one of your face down Clues face up.
o Radical: must turn a face down Clue face up.
o Imperial: either turn your final Clue face up (and force the Radical Player to do the same) or withdraw your Spy and return it to your hand.

If the Imperial Player has matched all of the Radical Player’s Clues, the Agitator is captured and removed from the game. Proceed to the Regrouping phase.
If the Imperial Player has guessed incorrectly or withdrawn the Spy proceed to the Revolt phase.

3. Revolt
• Radical: Return the Agitator to your hand. Roll the dice collected during District Selection. The district revolts if a 6 is rolled (place a red meeple).

4. Regroupment
• Any Spy in play is removed from the game.
• Any Soldier in play is returned to the Palace. If it can no longer reach the palace remove it from the game.

Continue playing rounds until:
• All 18 districts are in revolt (Radical victory)
• All Agitators are removed from play (Imperial victory)
• All Spies and Soldiers are removed from play (Radical victory)

IDOL FLATTERY

PREMISE

Both players are Personal Assistants to the same celebrity diva, who is about to exit the posh hotel lobby. You’re both trying to flatter the celebrity with tall tales of how many paparazzi are waiting outside. Who of you will be exposed as a blatant liar first? Keep flattering!

COMPONENTS

18 cards containing Cameras [C], Journalists [J], Helicopters [H], or a combination thereof:

• 6x No-one
• 4x Photographer [C]
• 1x Reporter [J]
• 1x Camera Crew [CC]
• 3x News Team [CJ]
• 1x Live Broadcast Unit [CJJ]
• 1x In-Depth Documentary Taskforce [CJJJ]
• 1x Helicopter [CH]

5 Favour tokens.

GAME STRUCTURE

The game is played in a series of Rounds, in which the players take Turns. At the end of each Round one player will have gained a Favour token. The first player to accumulate 3 Favour tokens wins.

ROUND SETUP

At the start of every round, collect and shuffle all 18 cards.

Both players are dealt 2 cards. They look at these cards and place them face-down in the middle of the table. These cards in the middle of the table are called the ‘Crowd’ which consists of 4 face-down cards. Don’t pile the cards -- during the round they will need to be picked up and looked at individually.

Each player is then dealt 5 cards which they take in hand.

In the first round, the player who can come up with the best name for a celebrity diva starts. Later rounds are started by the player who won the last round. (Feel free to make up a new celebrity name each round.)

TURN

A player’s turn always consists of Peeking through the door, Peeking through the window, and Flattering, in that order.

1. Peek through the door Look at one face-down card in the Crowd, and replace it either face-up or face-down.

2. Peek through the window Add 0, 1 or 2 cards from your hand to the Crowd, face-down.

3. Flatter Make a claim about the number of cameras, journalists and/or helicopters in the Crowd. A celebrity is not easily flattered, so the claim MUST be higher than your opponent’s previous claim. This means all numbers need to be equal or higher than in the previous claim. Example increasing claims: “1 camera”, “1 camera and 1 journalist”, “4 cameras and 1 journalist”, “6 cameras, 4 journalists and a helicopter!”. Present them with more dramatic flair if you want to :)

   Once the claim has been made, the other player must now either keep quiet and accept the claim, or cry foul and call you a liar. If they keep quiet and accept, the Round continues -- your turn simply ends and theirs starts. But should they cry foul and call you a liar, it’s time for a showdown! All the cards in the Crowd are revealed. If your claim was true, you gain a Favour token. If not, your opponent gains a Favour token. The Round is over.

   If someone has 3 Favour tokens, they win the game! (The other player is fired.) Otherwise, start a new Round.

FIght or Fleece

The shepherds have taken their flocks. It’s dinner time for the wolves! Deceive the wolves and be the shepherd with the most sheep at the end of the game to win.

Before the Game

Objective

At the beginning of the game both players agree on a set number of turns to play before the game is over and the victor is declared. Victory is awarded to the player with the highest number of Sheep cards in his or her deck.

Game Contents and Setup

The game consists of two identical decks of 30 cards, each containing 1 Shepherd card, 6 Wolf cards, and 23 Sheep cards. The decks are shuffled before the game starts.

Gameplay

The first player draws a card from the deck, looks at it, and then places it face down in front of him on the table. The player can repeat this action up to two more times if he likes. Then it is the second player’s turn to do the same. At any point a player may yell “They’re coming to eat you,” becoming "the Carnivore." At this point the other player has three choices:

1. Rally the mob. The player who chooses to rally the mob reveals the face down cards in front of him. If he has one or more Wolves, but not the Shepherd among them, he awards all revealed Sheep cards to the Carnivore. Nom-nom. If he doesn’t have a Wolf or he has the Shepherd, the Carnivore awards him with a Sheep card from her deck for every revealed Sheep card.

2. Scatter the flock. The Carnivore reveals her face down cards. If she has a Wolf, her opponent awards her with a Sheep card from his deck for every revealed card. If she doesn’t, she awards all revealed Sheep cards to her opponent.

3. Let them feast. The surrendering player awards his opponent with all face down cards. The Carnivore may not look at those cards while shuffling them in her deck.

After the result of the choices is determined, the players shuffle the cards they are awarded and any remaining face down cards into their decks. Then the game starts again with the second player starting first.

The game continues until the agreed upon number of turns have passed or one of the players loses because he has no more Sheep cards in his deck. Taunting, buying drinks and eating lamb, where appropriate, is encouraged.

Bluffer’s Park

Components: 2 Summary Cards, 15 vote tokens, 16 cards. Each player starts with 3 cards and 2 vote tokens.

Bluffer’s Park is an expansive park and Lake Ontario’s premiere sandy beach situated at the feet of the majestic Scarborough Bluffs which have towered more than 20 stories high along 20 km of shoreline as an iconic Toronto landmark for centuries. One player represents a wealthy real estate tycoon planning on building a resort in Bluffer’s Park. The other player represents a local resident adamant against the project. City Council is about to have a final vote regarding the proposal. Each player must act quickly and decisively (but not necessarily honestly), gathering evidence and meeting with the councillors to try and secure enough votes.

Each turn you will either meet with a voter or do some legwork to gather evidence (represented by the cards) in your favour. Legwork allows you to draw one card, and if desired, discard up to two others (discards are always face down) and draw replacements. There are 3 types of cards: 5 that support building the resort (e.g. economic benefit projections), 5 against it (e.g. geological report projecting increased erosion), and 6 cards that either side can use (e.g. celebrity support). Each card has a Persuasiveness Rank between 1 and 5. You may not end a turn with more than 5 cards, so you must discard down to 5 cards if you go over.

When you meet with a councillor remember they are busy, so there’s only time to show one fact in your favour. Both parties keep close tabs on each other and keep showing up at each other’s meetings. Before going in, both sides work on each other to see what the other has. Both players place 1 card face down and must state what they played (but there’s no need for honesty here). You must name your card first unless you are trying to steal a vote token from your opponent. Each party must consider if they’re facing a bluff. Either side can choose to concede and draw 2 cards. Otherwise, both cards are revealed (and discarded). If one party thinks the other is bluffing they must call it before showing the cards. Whoever has the highest ranked card wins and gets 1 vote token or takes one from their opponent (tie goes to whoever named their card first). If anyone was caught bluffing, or miss called a bluff, they must either give 2 cards to their opposition or forfeit 1 vote token. If you bluffed successfully you draw 1 card.

You win if you have 11 vote tokens. You can try and win with 8-10 votes, but your opponent can appeal. If they appeal both sides reveal all their cards and add up their ranks. To win the appeal the trailing player must have the higher sum. If so, the leader forfeits 3 vote tokens and the game continues until one player gets 11 or survives an appeal with 8-10.

Title
Versus

Summary

Wagering, deception and luck turn simple components into a head-to-head battle of bluffing, brains, and something else that starts with B. It's just you Versus them.

Game Components

- 1 deck of 45 cards – each card has a value from 1-4 (approx. 5 - 4’s, 10 - 3’s, 15 - 2’s, 20 - 1’s)
- A screen for each player.

Game Play

Each player randomly draws one card to determine who deals; continue drawing in the event of a tie.

That person then shuffles all of the cards and deals six face down in the middle of the table in a 3x2 grid, with three cards specifically facing towards each player. Place the deck at the head of grid. For description purposes, the pair of cards closest to the deck will be described “Position 1”, the next pair away “Position 2”, and the farthest pair away “Position 3.”

Each player may then look at the three cards closest to them, without changing their position.

A full game will consist of three matches, with each match consisting of three rounds.

To start the round, the dealer then deals three cards face down to each player. Players look at their cards and then behind their screen place them face down in either “Position 1,” “Position 2,” or “Position 3.” Players may put as many or as few cards as they wish in any position. Once both players are set, the screens are removed and the cards are moved, face down, and placed on top of the card closest to them in the matching position so that both players can see how many cards have been played on which positions.

The second round follows the same way as the first, adding more cards to the center. After a third round of the same, the board is scored. Players turn face up all of the cards they have played and add up the values for each position. Whoever has the largest sum for each position wins both face down cards in that position; ties are decided by the player who used the fewest cards. Resolve all three positions and end the match - these cards are set aside and will be counted after all three matches to determine a winner.

Gather the used and remaining cards and shuffle them all together. Begin the next match by dealing another 3x2 grid.

After all three matches, the player with the most points wins.