Modern Board Games
Tasks players with settling an island that yield one of five resources: wheat, wool, brick, ore, and lumber
What is Catan?
Discovered in 1930 to 2006, considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun. However, in 2006, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
His hunchbacked appearance has made him “determined to prove a villain” in a monologue that begins “now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by this son of York.”
Who is Richard, Duke of Gloucester, from Richard III?
Called “The Great One” was named Canada’s athlete of the century. Holds or shares 61 NHL records, including career goals (894), assists (1,963), and points (2,857). The winner of ten scoring titles.
Who is Wayne Gretzky?
Led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He had an affair with a White House intern. Clinton had denied the affair publicly and to a grand jury, leading Starr to accuse him of perjury. The House of Representatives, led by Republican Newt Gingrich, impeached Clinton in 1998, but the Senate did not come close to removing him from office
What is the Monica Lewinsky scandal?
Players place colored trains to create rail lines connecting cities across North America by drawing and playing cards of particular matching colors.
What is Ticket to Ride?
Best known comet due to two factors. 1. A relatively short orbital period of about 75.5 years; 2. It is visible to the naked eye as it passes Earth.
What is Halley's Comet?
Pursuit of the Scottish throne is largely driven by this person's ambition. She thinks her husband is “too full ’o the milk of human kindness” to commit murder, and bids “spirits” to “unsex” her and imbue her with willpower.
Who is Lady Macbeth, from Macbeth?
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, had standout career at Cornell University before joining the Montreal Canadiens organization in 1970. In 1970–1971, he starred in the playoffs, winning Conn Smythe Trophy honors (playoff MVP), before going on to win Calder Trophy (Rookie of the Year) honors the next season.
Who is Ken Dryden?
Became the biggest presidential scandal of all time by forcing Nixon to resign as president. During the 1972 election, burglars were caught breaking into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate building in D.C. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. He was pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford in 1974.
What is The Watergate scandal?
Centers on four viral diseases, with players coordinating their individual movements to minimize Outbreaks and find Cures.
Pandemic
A dwarf planet, scattered disc object, meaning it was “scattered” out of the Kuiper belt by the gravity of Neptune, falling into a high-eccentricity orbit that ranges between 38 and 97 AU from the Sun.
What is Eris?
Is a hot-headed member of the Capulet family who is the beloved cousin of Juliet. Once called "king of cats" while being challenged to a duel.
Who is Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet?
Born in Floral, Saskatchewan, “Mr. Hockey,” equally adept with his stick as he was with his fists. A “hat trick” was later joked to consist of a goal, an assist, and a fight. A six-time Art Ross Trophy winner, he played 26 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, retiring in 1971. After a two-year retirement, he returned to the fledgling WHA, to play with his sons on the Houston Aeros. He played his last NHL season at the age of 52 in 1980
Who is Gordie Howe?
It was the first time a president was impeached. He took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Radical Republicans responded by passing the Tenure of Office Act. He violated the act by trying to remove Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the House impeached him in March 1868
What is the The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
A party game, two opposing teams try to identify a secret array in a 5-by-5 grid of word cards. Only each team’s Spymaster knows which words are goals for their team.
What is Codenames?
A hypothetical solar system body that, between 4 and 5 billion years ago, collided with Earth; the debris ejected by this collision subsequently coalesced to create the Moon, a process known as the “Giant Impact Hypothesis.”
Is entrusted with the rule of Vienna by Duke Vicentio, who pretends to leave the city but actually remains present, disguised as “Friar Lodowick.” His antiquated laws are against fornication, resulting in Claudio’s arrest and imminent execution.
Who is Angelo, from Measure for Measure?
Born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Bobby Orr & revolutionized the position of defenseman. The first blue liner to win the Art Ross Trophy (scoring title), he also won the Norris (best defenseman), Hart (league MVP), and Conn Smythe (playoff MVP) in the same season (1969–1970). That same year, he led the Bruins to their first Stanley Cup in three decades with the now famous “Goal.”
Who is Bobby Orr?
Harding’s Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, leased Navy oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming to private companies at low rates. The leasing of the reserves was not illegal, but allegations arose that Fall had taken bribes from oil tycoons like Edward Doheny.
What is The Teapot Dome scandal?
A genre in which players attempt to collaborate toward a goal, while a hidden faction of traitors secretly conspires to sabotage their efforts. Secret roles at the beginning of the game: Liberal, Fascist, or Hitler.
What is Secret Hitler?
The second-most massive object in the asteroid belt, after Ceres. Discovered by Heinrich Olbers, who also discovered the asteroid Pallas.
Is the son of the Algerian witch Sycorax. After Sycorax died the island fell under the control of the magician Prospero, an exiled duke of Milan. Also called a “monster,” a “demi-devil,” a “strange fish,” a “thing of darkness,” a “moon-calf,” and a “freckled whelp” who lacks a “human shape.”
Who Caliban, from The Tempest?
Born in Montreal, Quebec, “Super Mario” scored his first NHL goal on the first shift of his first game, against Boston in 1984. After a bout with Hodgkin’s disease, he returned to lead the NHL in scoring in 1990s. He then later helped bail the Penguins out of bankruptcy by becoming the lead owner of the team in 1999.
Who is Mario Lemieux?
This administration wanted to send aid to a right-wing rebel group in Nicaragua, the Contras, who were fighting the socialist Sandinista government. However, Congress had prohibited sending aid through the Boland Amendment. To circumvent that restriction, officials secretly sold arms to Iran as part of a deal to free hostages in Lebanon and diverted some of the proceeds to the Contras.
What is The Iran–Contra scandal?