Itasca Board Games

American mah jongg, a variant of Chinese mah jong, is a rummy-like game of both skill and luck using illustrated tiles.

Select the card from your hand that you think is best described by a card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win that round. Everyone gets a chance to be the judge. Each round is filled with surprising and outrageous comparisons from a wide range of people, places, things and events.

Betrayal at House on the Hill continues the tradition of great Avalon Hill games. This horror-themed tile game never plays the same way twice. You build the house tile by tile, room by room using 50 haunting scenarios. During the game, one player becomes the traitor and must be defeated. Face your terror as it builds-tile by tile. Take a deep breath before you enter. It might be your last. Your fear will grow with each tile you place as you investigate...

Bring home the entertainment ... again! The golden age of video rental is back with a party game starring the movies you know and love. And like all great blockbusters, this one is a double bill. Part One is a Movie Buzzer Battle. Part Two is Triple Charades Jeopardy. Let the good times roll. -- Back of container.

"Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition is a fill-in-the-blank party game for kids and adults to play together. This is a brand new game written in consultation with child development experts and playtested with thousands of families. Kids get to engage in absurd wordplay with adults, and adults get to laugh at cards like, 'Filling my butt with spaghetti.' The game is simple. One player asks a question from a black card, and everyone answers with...

"Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. No two games are the same! Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan! Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development. Use resource combinations - grain, wool, ore, brick, and...

"Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. Codenames:...

"Cranium is the hip, new, outrageously fun board game that brings friends together through a variety of activities celebrating your whole brain. Whether you're an aspiring actor, artist, data hound, or wordsmith, Cranium gives you and your team a moment to shine. Each turn, your team will harness its collective brain power to advance around the board. The first team to reach Cranium Central wins the game!"--Container

"Communicate safely! Join the greatest Encryptor team in the world! Your mission: transmit secret codes to your teammates without letting the opposing team intercept them." -- Players compete in two teams in Decrypto, with each trying to correctly interpret the coded messages presented to them by their teammeates while cracking the codes they intercept from the opposing team. In more detail, each team has their own screen, and in this screen they...

"Recipes for Disaster is a collection of the 121 best cards from the original Exploding Kittens and all the expansions. Both new and experienced players can use the 13 Recipe Booklets included to play wild, explosive remixes of the classic game! Choose your game experience - play the Lightning Kittens Recipe for a quick 2 minute game, play the I See Everything Recipe for a psychic experience, play the Black Hole recipe with all Imploding Kittens,...