The quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for cool cats, where your card's color isn't defined until you play it! Winner receives a $250 gift certificate at the booth.
Description:
Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox! Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
Manipulate, bribe, & deceive your way to victory & prizes! You have influence over powerful members of society, but so do your opponents. Winner receives a $250 shopping spree at the booth!
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Will you be the assassin, or the assassinated? Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
An innovative puzzle game of building pyramids with spheres - following the randomly drawn rules. Winner receives a giant prize package of our games worth over $250!
Description:
A fast-paced, innovative puzzle game that takes place in three dimensions with 60 colorful spheres. All of the players play at the same time. Everybody tries to position the spheres on their trays to earn as many points as possible. The task cards indicate how the spheres must be placed to earn points. Complete these tasks while racing against the timer. You get a point for each sphere you use and a bonus token for using all five colors, but you lose two points for each task card you don't follow correctly. Prove to your opponents that you are the master of multi-dimensional thinking! Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
2024 U.S. National Finger Guns at High Noon Championship
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A fast-paced game of strategy, negotiation, and pure hilarity - battle royale style. Winner receives a $250 gift certificate for our booth.
Description:
Craft your plan, convince the crowd to join in, then count down and draw your finger guns. Hand gestures show everyone's actions and targets. Eliminate players with pistols, dynamite, and power shots, or stand to the side and lasso up an ally. Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
No expansions. Special rules recognized. Winner receives a trophy and a $250 gift certificate at the booth.
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Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run. Participants will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
A beautifully crafted 2-player abstract strategy game, featuring wooden boards and natural stones. Winner receives a $250 shopping spree at our booth!
Description:
Your turn is in two parts. First, a player may move one of their stones up to two spaces in any direction, including diagonally, in what is called a passive (or set up) move. Second, they take a more aggressive move, which must be the same direction and number of spaces as the first move. It is this second move that allows you to push stones across the board - or off the board's edge. Remove all four of your opponent's stones from just one of the four boards to win. Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
Players take on the role of dwarves. As miners, they are in a mine, hunting for gold. Winner receives rt airfare and hotel for Germany to play in the World Championship in November!
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Suddenly, a pick axe swings down and shatters the mine lamp. The saboteur has struck. But which of the players are saboteurs? Will you find the gold, or will the fiendish actions of the saboteurs lead them to it first? After three rounds, the player with the most gold is the winner. Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
Your village has been overrun by savage werewolves. Get rid of them faster than the neighboring villages. Winner receives a $250 gift certificate at the booth.
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The werewolves are represented by the number on each of the cards that make up your village. Call for a vote when you think you have the fewest werewolves, but be careful; everyone else gets one more turn to save their own village first... Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
Brent Beck's trick-taking game is based on Oh Hell!, Wizard and Spades - players state how many tricks they think they'll win each hand. Winner receives a special prize package worth over $250!
Description:
Pirates and other special cards add to the unique strategy, which includes an emphasis on Nil bidding. Mermaids will be used, but no White Whale, Kraken, Loot or special Pirate Abilities. Players will play in 2 preliminary rounds; top scorers will advance to elimination play.
2024 U.S. National Terraforming Mars Championship - Final Round
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Final Round, for qualified terraformers. Winners at the final table will share a prize pool of $1,000.
Description:
The 6th Annual Tournament, run by John Lash. Play one of the corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things. This event will include the Prelude Expansion. Players may play in any or all of the 4 preliminary rounds, but may only qualify for the Final Round once.