Ames' syllabi

-board game where players travel across many spaces on the board. Each space they land on, the player draws a card, but that card is kept secret until the player reaches the end of the board. At this point, the player turns over each of the cards that they picked up and plays them in the order that they had originally picked up

– a card game where each player starts with and is supposed to remember a card. All of these cards are shuffled back into the original deck and the original deck is split into 5 different decks. Each players goal is to try to draw the initial card they had at the beginning.

-card game based around having a ludicrous amount of cards in each players hand. The hand that each person has must stay in the order it is (no rearranging the cards). Each round each player must play a card with is strict time limit that resembles the card in the middle. In addition there will be cards that shuffle other players hands.

– card game that revolves around ridding your hand of all your cards (similar to the premise of uno). However, there is a switch in the middle that players can activate with certain cards. The switch changes the rules between two modes: 1. whoever gets rid of all the cards in their hand wins. 2. whoever reaches 15 cards in their hand wins.

– Social deduction game that revolves around confusing one player. a word prompt is made known to all players except one. Half of the players who know what the word is must say out loud something similar to the prompt. The other half of the players must say something that is the opposite of the prompt. For example if there are 4 people who know what the prompt is and the prompt is banana two might say, monkey, healthy, while the other two might say unhealthy, purple (because yellow is the opposite of purple). 5 rounds go by and if the one person can’t guess the prompt the 4 people win. If the one player manages to guess the prompt then they win.

Flight

Flight is a board game where someone is killed on a plane and players need to find out who the killer is before the plane lands.

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar is a board game where players try to make plans Monday through Sunday throughout the week without getting overbooked and burned out.

Trade Show

Trade Show is a board game where each player is told by their employers to collect three items from three different show booths. Each player is trying to impress their employer so be the first one to collect your items and leave the trade show.

Music Producer

Music Producer is a party game where one player in the group is the producer and the rest are artists. The artists get to pick their genre and are given a song. They must create a name and sales pitch to the producer. Whoever song gets chosen by the producer, wins.

Secret Admirer

Secret Admirer is a party game where each player is given a paper airplane with a note from a secret admirer. Before the note is delivered, each person is given a role for a student in class. There is one teacher. All of the airplanes are distributed through the teacher and given to the classmates. Goal of the game is to try and guess your secret admirer.

Character Matching

In a deck of cards, there are 10 characters divided up into different sections. For example, one of the cards might have a characters arm or leg. The objective of the game is to collect all of the pieces to your character before other players do. One of the challenges can be other players might be going for the same character. Each player receives 7 cards to start out with. The person to the left of the dealer goes first. They can either pick up a card from the deck or discard pile. Then they have to discard a card. You must only have 7 cards in your hand the whole time. The game keeps going until someone finds their character.

Ennegram Personality

The Ennegram is a personality test. The personalities are explained by numbers 1 – 9. Each number explains a different personality. This game will test the knowledge of the different personality types. Each player is given 9 cards with the descriptions of each personality on the back to get a good understanding of each one (1 – 9). For example, a type 8 personality is called a challenger, therefore, they do not hesitate when an argument comes their way. Once everyone has a good understanding of the personalities, someone starts with picking up a scenario card. After the scenario is read out loud, each player must pick the number (personality) they think matches it. Whoever get it right, gets a point. The goal of the game is to have the most points at the end of 9 rounds.

Story-Telling

Some people are great at story-telling and some not so great. This game will challenge you to get creative in the way you tell stories because you are given different scenarios and items that you have to work together to tell your story. There is a deck of cards number 1 – 12. That deck is shuffled and everyone goes around the table and picks one of those cards. Depending on the number you picked, is the amount of cards you pick from the “Item” deck. The Item deck consists of different objects, places, people, etc. Your goal is to create a story with those items. Each player takes time to create their own story from their items. Then, one by one, each person tells their story. Each person votes on which story was the best.

Create Your Own Coffee

Each person drinks their coffee differently. There are a bunch of different beans, syrups, creamer, sugar, and toppings to choose from. In this game, you create your coffee drink and try to sell your invention to the other players. There are four decks of cards: Bean, Syrup, Toppings and Milk. Each player picks up one card from each pile. From the items on the cards, each player must come up with a name and business pitch to try and sell their coffee drink to the other players. Once everyone shares their business pitch with one another, there is a majority vote over which coffee drink wins.

Bridal Party

Sometimes being a part of a bridal party can be exciting, exhausting, fun, and stressful. In this game, everyone is given a role: Bridesmaid, Maid of Honor and the Bride. The goal of the game is to make sure the bride gets to her wedding day with everything she wants and needs. This card game will go through three phases: bridesmaid dresses, bridal shower and bachelorette party. Each phase will have different challenges with scenarios to encounter. If the bridesmaids and maid of honor fail to complete one of the phases , you risk putting the bride into a bad mood. If you fail all three phases, you lose the game. Different cards explain different tasks and abilities you are to take for the scenarios.

1.A game where players take turns drawing cards and using their hands against each other in the first stage to build DND- like characters and sabotage their opponent, who will be trying to do the same. The second half of the game sees these characters face off in a simple rpg turn- based combat game to determine the winner.

2. A game where players draw cards with different quirks on them, like, “one legged,” or, “soft spoken” that require each player to do something like stand on one leg or only speak through whispers. The players must then complete tasks while slowly accumulating more quirks and the last person standing, so to speak, is the winner.

3. A game that’s played much like blackjack, but some cards have negative values. The first to 21 or the closer of the two when the deck is gone is the winner.

4. A card game for multiple players where each player starts with a recipe card. Their recipe card is their goal for the game, and the first person to cook their recipe wins. They take turns drawing a card and playing up to two cards. If they play all the cards needed for their recipe, they have cooked it. Other cards can change other players’ recipes and even their own, or can mess with players in another way.

5. A game played a lot like war, but the catch is that after each turn, players will pass their hand to the player to the left.

Tower of Babel 2

A competitive card game where players must build the tallest tower by collecting and playing cards.

Up Up Down Down

A co-operative board game where players control a single character by drawing and playing cards.

50x Combo!!!

A competitive board game where players create combos by collecting and playing strings of cards.

Steal the Kill

A competitive card game where players fight bosses by playing cards and whoever gets the last hit wins all the loot.

To Slay a God

A co-operative card game where players prepare to fight a Greek god by collecting and trading cards.

Tokaido is a point based resource game where tourists are traveling across japan stopping at different sights and people in order to acquire points which will be tallied up by the time all of the tourists reach the end of their journey.

1. Trick Shot is a game where everyone competes to see who can successfully make trick shots into cups, using only a plastic ball and a booklet filled with shots and visual instructions ranging from beginner to advanced.
2. In Gotcha, players have 3 opportunities to “give” their roll of the die to another player, forcing them to move forwards or backwards the number of spaces chosen by the other player.
3. Role Play is a continuous game that can be played casually or hardcore throughout the whole night as everyone acts out characters/roles from whatever movie or tv show the card they pick shows.
4. No Words is a game where everyone picks a card in the beginning which tells them what words they cannot say throughout the game, then as the group picks cards that tell them what to do, describe, or act out, you are in charge of calling out fellow teammates for using their forbidden words.
5. One person hides an object (specified) object in the room then the players all roll the dice which decided how many moves they have to find the hidden object.