Game Summary: You're driving in a cross-country auto rally through France, but it's filled with real-life traffic hazards. If you run out of gas, will you have a Gasoline card? When you blow a tire, do you have a spare on hand? Use the deck's special cards to overcome hazards and put obstacles in your opponents' path. You can stop them with a Red Light, slow them down with a Speed Limit, or even cause them to have a Breakdown.

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Game Summary: All players roll the five dice in their cup, but conceal the dice from their opponents. Then one player bids on how many of a particular dice he thinks the players have altogether. All players can then either raise the bid, or challenge it. A game of strategy and bluffing, it's up to you to find "the pirate within" in order to come out of this dice game victorious.

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Game Summary: A nicely designed Ravensburger game-in-a-box in which players race for treasure in the raging river. Watch out for treasure chests headed for the waterfall! Will you get them when they go over the edge....or will your opponent?

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Game Summary: This game is considered a "prequel" to the classic Clue detective game. John Boddy is still alive, but nevertheless there is mystery afoot at the Boddy Manor due to 12 deceitful Clue characters and their suspicious activities. It's up to you to collect clues and figure out "whodunit".

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Game Summary: Accumulate points by removing the colored disks from the game surface without impacting the tension bar. The larger the disk, the more points you earn, but the risk is higher as well!

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Game Summary: Use strategy, skill, and a little luck to move the pieces of the labyrinth and find your way to the treasures you must find by looking at your treasure cards. The first to reach all of his/her treasures wins the game!

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Game Summary: Pop the DVD into your DVD player and use your remote to answer trivia questions designed specifically for kids and parents. Collect golden jellybeans to score extra points, but watch out -- you can lose jellybeans by answering questions incorrectly, and once all your jellbeans are gone, the game is over.

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Game Summary: Remember this game from your childhood? Didn't we all have a friend who was just a little cooler than us because his or her parents had bought him the Mousetrap game? While you can play this game by the rules and declare a winner at the end (the one whose mouse has not been trapped), most kids simply enjoy putting the mousetrap together and seeing it work.

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Game Summary: Twenty-four monkey statues have been found in an old temple. You race your opponents to recover these precious artifacts. Stone wheels bar the entrances to chambers where the statues are hidden. Overcome various obstacles to retrieve them and be rewarded with gold. The player with the most gold wins the game!

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Game Summary: Step through the wardrobe as Peter, Edmund, Lucy, or Susan and experience the magic of Narnia in this board game which features the characters and settings made familiar and beloved by C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" book series. Be the first player to avoid the White Witch and the Wolves and make it back to the lamppost, and you win the game.

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Game Summary: My kids really get into Trouble. No, seriously, they really REALLY get into Trouble -- the original "popomatic" dice game that just never grows old.

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Game Summary: Yo-ho, Yo-ho, a pirate's life for me! This "plundering pirate" card game allows players to storm their opponents' merchant ships and steal their treasure! But watch out -- other pirates may be trying to board and capture your ships as well! At the end of the game, the player with the most "loot" wins. Then it's time to play again!

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Game Summary: The classic Battleship game we all grew up with has joined the 21st century! With advanced gameplay and strategic options, this isn't your grandparents' Battleship!

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