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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game

Casey Slumkoski — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:26:10 +0000

The journey continues in the magical world of Middle-earth in The Two Towers: Trick-Taking Game, a narrative-driven co-operative card game that lets players take on the roles of heroes and villains in Tolkien’s legendary work, The Two Towers. This standalone game follows 2025’s The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game with chapters 19-36 of gameplay. The chapters can be played in any order and playing the earlier game isn’t required, but ideally you play them in sequence.

In each chapter, each player takes a different character role and each character has a condition that must be met in order to pass the chapter and advance in the story. As you advance through the chapters, new characters, items, and challenges are introduced to the game. The One Ring is the game’s only trump card, but initially rings can’t be led until someone plays one off-suit.

In the two-player game, one hand of cards is dealt to a dummy player, with some cards being face up and others face down. This dummy is assigned a character, and one of the human players will play cards for it based on which cards are free to be played.

In the solitaire game, one player plays four hands of face-up cards, with each hand being assigned a character and only a few cards being available at a time. After you play a trick, deal each hand a new car

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Zombie Teenz Evolution

Casey Slumkoski — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:51:12 +0000

Zombies are attacking the entire town! Cooperate with your friends and launch an expedition to drive off the overwhelming hordes. Collect the four ingredients, and brew the antidote that will save the world!

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Sky Team

Casey Slumkoski — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:33:23 +0000

Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world.

To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact the control tower to clear your path, and even have a little coffee to improve your concentration enough to change the value of your dice.

If the aircraft tilts too much and stalls, overshoots the airport, or collides with another aircraft, you lose the game…and your pilot’s license…and probably your life.

From Montreal to Tokyo, each airport offers its own set of challenges. Watch out for the turbulence as this could end up being a bumpy ride!

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Flip-7

Casey Slumkoski — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:35:43 +0000

Flip over cards one by one without flipping the same number twice.

Sound easy? Think again! This isn’t just any deck of cards… In Flip 7 there’s only one 1 card, two 2’s, three 3’s, etc plus a bunch of special cards that can score you extra points, give you a second chance, or freeze you or your opponents in your tracks.

Are you the type of player to play it safe and bank points before you bust, or are you going to risk it all and go for the bonus points by flipping over seven in a row? Press your luck meets strategy in this addictive card game that’s sure to be the greatest card game you’ve ever played!

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The Crew: Family Adventure

Casey Slumkoski — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:33:30 +0000

The Crew: Family Adventure crossed the gameplay of The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine with the setting of The Swiss Family Robinson. Players find themselves stranded on a deserted island and have to find their way around together. Eating, sleeping, making decisions — how will the adventure end?

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Sleeping Queens 2: The Rescue

Casey Slumkoski — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:32:35 +0000

In Sleeping Queens 2: The Rescue!, the Pancake Queen, the Ladybug Queen, and their friends return with some new characters and a new mission: Save the kings!

Play queens to rescue kings from a parade of perilous predicaments. Find a magical companion to aid your quest, but watch out for Wild Gnomes, Sleeping Willows, and the ever-sneaky Switch Witch! Each player has a knight in front of themselves with a special power, but don’t get too attached because if anyone rolls a dragon on the die, all the knights move left. Save the most kings and crown yourself the royal hero!

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The Crew: Mission Deep Sea

Casey Slumkoski — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:27:05 +0000

In the trick-taking card game The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card, trick by trick, your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu.

This new version of The Crew has the same innovative co-operative trick-taking mechanism as the highly lauded original game — but
with some exciting new surprises! While communication between your crew members is severely limited by your submerged state, it is also critical to your success; finding the hidden land in the murky depths depends not only on winning tricks, but also on carefully negotiating the order in which they are won. If things don’t go as planned, you might just be able to salvage the operation, but it will take near flawless execution and perhaps a little luck to finally reach Mu.

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The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine

Casey Slumkoski — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:56:46 +0000

Astronauts wanted! Scientists say there is a mysterious ninth planet located at the edge of our solar system. But despite all of their efforts, so far they have been unable to provide substantial evidence of its existence. Join this exciting space adventure to find out if the theories are just science fiction or if you will discover Planet Nine.

In this card game you need to complete 50 different missions as you travel across the solar system. But you will only succeed if you can work together as a team. To master the challenges and achieve your mission, communication will be essential – but in space, things can be more challenging than expected…

Contents:

45 Large playing cards (36 Color cards, 4 Rocket cards, 5 Large reminder cards)
36 Small cards (task cards)
16 Tokens (10 Task tokens, 5 Radio communication tokens, 1 Distress signal token)
1 Commander token
1 Rulebook/Logbook

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Rat-A-Tat-Cat

Casey Slumkoski — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:25:21 +0000

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The Table is Lava

Casey Slumkoski — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:10:50 +0000

As dawn breaks, Mount Kahlualualuau is spewing its fiery lava down onto Meepleville. The Table Is Lava presents players with a simple challenge: Toss cards onto the table to save your meeples, while trying to knock other players' pieces into the lava at the same time. Have the most survivors, and you win!

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