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Parkade

2023-12-27T14:51:13-05:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	3-13
Playtime	5-15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	386102/parkade http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/386102/parkade/forums/63

Parkade is a quick, easy-to-learn party game for 3-13 players. It takes 5-15 minutes and there is zero set up.

Convince the guard that the word on your vehicle “fits” with the word on any of the open spots. The first driver to park all of their vehicles wins! In each of the 3 play modes players will race to convince the parking guard why their vehicles pair with the open spots. Sometimes pairs will be pretty obvious (show princess/queen, bread/butter), but sometimes you’ll need to get creative.
Simple and adrenaline-pumping! Teach your friends to play in 10 seconds or less! Includes 1,000 words, 200 cards, 150 unique vehicle illustrations, and 1 teeny tiny cone token.

That’s all there is to it! Don’t let the perfect spot get snatched away!

Parkade is "a game for Fridays" and is the second in the "Game Days" line of party games by Facade Games (the first being Trophies, "a game for Thursdays")

—description from the publisher

Hollywood 1947

2023-09-05T09:35:12-04:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	1-9
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	370621/hollywood-1947 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370621/hollywood-1947/forums/63

The year is 1947 and you are a member of the thriving movie-making industry of Hollywood. However, it is suspected that there are communists hiding among your small production studio slipping “un-Patriotic” messages, themes, props, and lines into your movies! Will you be able to find all the communists before your studio is shut down? Or will you be suspected yourself and banned from the industry?

In the game each player will secretly be a Patriot, Communist, or Rising Star. Each round every player will have a unique Job to perform (such as the Screenwriter, Gaffer, Director, Actor, Editor, etc). These jobs will affect what kind of movie is getting made that round, what cards are in players’ hands, and who will receive special information. Players can choose to skip their jobs to instead re-roll any two of the dice in the game. At the end of each round the players with stars showing on their dice will get to add a card into the movie.

The added cards will be shuffled, one will be removed, and the rest will be revealed. The team with the majority of revealed symbols (including the symbols on that round’s movie poster) wins the round! Indicate the winning team for the round by placing that team’s matching film-strip over the movie poster. The first team to win 4 rounds wins the game! The Rising Star plays both sides by trying to make the game go to 7 rounds and making the 7th round a tie.

Hollywood 1947 is a social deduction game. You must never show your cards or loyalty to anyone, but you may say whatever you’d like about the cards you put into a movie, or about your true allegiance. Open discussion about which cards were added into a movie is encouraged. However, if you are a Communist or the Rising Star, lying will often help you accomplish your goals since the majority of players will be Patriots.

That’s a wrap. Most players get the hang of the game after only a few minutes. So let’s go make some movies, but be careful who you trust!

Hollywood 1947 is the 5th standalone game in the Dark Cities Series by Facade Games. Previous games in the series include Salem 1692, Tortuga 1667, Deadwood 1876, and Bristol 1350.

You can follow the Kickstarter at this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/travishancock/hollywood...

-description from publisher

Bristol 1350

2021-02-17T12:49:51-05:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	1-9
Playing Time	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	308989/bristol-1350 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/308989/bristol-1350/forums/63

The dreaded Black Death has descended upon the town of Bristol. You are racing down the streets in one of the three available apple carts, desperate to escape into the safety of the countryside. If your cart is the first to leave the town and it is full of only healthy villagers when you leave, you and your fellow cart-mates successfully escape and win the game!

However, some villagers on your cart may already have the plague! They are hiding their early symptoms from you so that they can enjoy their last few days in peace. If you leave town with a plagued villager on your cart, you will catch the plague. You must do whatever is necessary to make sure that doesn’t happen!

On the surface Bristol 1350 is part cooperative teamwork, part racing strategy, and part social deduction. In reality, it’s a selfish scramble to get yourself out of town as fast as possible without the plague, by any means necessary.

1-9 Players. Learn in 15 minutes, play for 20-40 minutes. Ages 13+.

The game comes in a magnetic book box and includes a rubber playmat, 9 wood pawns, 3 miniature carts, 6 rat/apple dice, a linen bag, and 64 cards. The deluxe version adds 6 coins, 6 cards, and 3 metal carts.

Kickstarter in 2020, anticipated release in 2021.

This is a standalone game. It is Volume 4 in the Dark Cities Series by Facade Games (previous Volumes include Salem 1692, Tortuga 1667, Deadwood 1876).

Trophies

2020-01-07T17:06:23-05:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Travis Hancock Holly Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	2-30
Playing Time	5-15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	292748/trophies http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/292748/trophies/forums/63

Trophies is a quick, easy-to-learn party game for 2-30 players.

In the game, the judge holds the deck, reads a topic from the back card, and shows the group a random letter on the front card. Be the first to say a word that matches the topic and the letter and you win a trophy card! The player with the most trophies wins the game and gets to hoist the tiny metal trophy high above their head in triumph! The person who "tried their best" gets a participation trophy.

That's all there is to it! You may be surprised by how simple yet addictive (and loud) this came can be. Great for Thursdays or other evenings when you want to play a game but don't have much time and want to jump right in!

Trophies is the first in the "Games for Thursdays" line of party games by Facade Games.

—description from designer

Deadwood 1876

2018-11-21T14:31:35-05:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	2-9
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	245197/deadwood-1876 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245197/deadwood-1876/forums/63

There’s gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and you’ve come to find (or steal) your share. You’re staying at one of the three major establishments in Deadwood where you and your associates are working together to steal some of the gold-filled safes floating around town. But you suspect that the “friends” you’re working with are secretly plotting to keep all the gold for themselves. Will you be ready to turn on them before they shoot you in the back?

In Deadwood 1876, you use cards from your hand to try to win Safes from other players. Safes contain Badges, Gold, or Showdown Guns. Near the end of the game, players with Badges get extra turns. After the final turn, the team with the most Gold will advance to the Final Showdown. There, teammates will have to fight each other to the death using Showdown Guns. The last person alive is the winner!

The game is a balance between teamwork and selfishness. If a player uses all of their best cards to hunt down Gold for their team, they’ll be defenseless to fight against their teammates if they go to the Final Showdown. But if a player only goes after Guns and saves all of their best cards, their team might not have enough Gold to actually reach the Final Showdown. If someone on your team doesn’t seem to be pulling their weight, they might be plotting to steal your gold after using you to get to the Finals! There may come a point where you need to gather Showdown Guns instead of Gold, or attack, mislead, frame, abandon, or banish your own teammates.

Deadwood 1876, volume 3 in the "Dark Cities" series from Facade Games, can have 2-9 players. Learn in 20 minutes, play in 20-40 minutes.

—description from the publisher

Tortuga 1667

2017-05-31T16:52:51-04:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	2-9
Playtime	20-40 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2017 Golden Geek Best Party Game Nominee
Additional Info	218530/tortuga-1667 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/218530/tortuga-1667/forums/63

The year is 1667 and you are a pirate sailing the waters of the Caribbean. A Spanish Galleon floats nearby, and you’ve talked your crewmates into working together to steal all of its treasure. What you haven’t told your fellow pirates is that you have no intentions on sharing the treasure once you have it. Your crewmates have told you that they share your loyalty and that they’ll help you maroon the greedy pirates on your ship to the rocky island of Tortuga. But you’ve seen your friends’ loaded pistols and heard their whisperings of a mutiny. You know that nobody can be trusted.

Tortuga is all about the interactions you have with the other players. In some cases, such as when you and your shipmates are attacking the Spanish Galleon, you need to rely on your enemies in order to succeed. In the very next turn, however, your shipmates might stab you in the back with a mutiny in order to keep all the treasure for themselves.

Since nobody holds a "hand" of cards, this game is also about knowledge and communication regarding the community Event cards. Unless you are in desperation mode, it is not wise to reveal Event cards at random. Almost half of the Event cards can hurt your team drastically. It's often in your best interest to use an action to view the cards first, or to rely on the knowledge of a trusted ally. Knowing where harmful Event cards are located allows you to force an enemy to reveal those cards and suffer the consequences. The most successful players are the ones who are able to discern who is on their team and then share vital information with them at opportune moments.

Vote cards also play a key role in the game. Each Vote card has three sections - one each for Attacks, Mutinies, and Brawls. Players must put themselves in the best position to use their Vote cards, since their hand of Vote cards may not always be ideal based on their pawn location. For example, sometimes it may be worth putting in Water, causing an attack to fail, in order to save a Crossbones card for when you want to Mutiny against your captain.

For 2-9 Players. 20-40 minutes. Ages 12+.

Salem 1692

2017-04-26T16:35:30-04:00

Vendor: Facade Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Travis Hancock
Publisher	Facade Games
Players	4-12
Playtime	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	175549/salem http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175549/salem/forums/63

Accuse and defend your fellow townsfolk as you hunt down the witches of Salem. Act fast, before conspiracy turns you against your own.

The year is 1692, and it is a perilous time to live in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. One wrong step, or one misplaced accusation, and you could be the next witch to hang. "Salem" takes players into this perilous world and lets them re-live the tension, politics, and religious extremism that still has people talking about it 300 years later.

The game is packaged in a faux book box that closes magnetically. The game, disguised as a worn out leather book, can easily hide on your bookshelf and masquerade as an antique.

Players can play as prominent villagers from the old Salem town, and even read their bios in the instruction manual. The servant girl Mary Warren, pastor Samuel Parris, farmer John Proctor, storyteller Tituba, and beggar Sarah Good are some of the 12 characters featured in the game.

Players, each acting as one of these unique characters, are given 3-5 Tryal cards (depending on the number of players). These Tryal cards reveal the true identity of each player, "Witch" or "Not a Witch."

During gameplay, players gather cards that they use to accuse, or defend, other players. Deciding who to trust is key to survival, since you can never play a card on yourself. When you suspect someone to be a witch, you can begin accusing them with red accusation cards. When enough accusations have been placed on one of the players, the player who lays the final accusation chooses one of that player's Tryal cards to reveal. Once all "Witch" Tryal cards have been found, the villagers of Salem win.

Players can also use green and blue cards such as "Alibi", "Stocks", "Matchmaker", "Asylum", and "Scapegoat" to help or hurt their allies or enemies.

As players draw cards, they will eventually draw black cards that take immediate effect. One black card, "Night", forces all players to close their eyes while the Witches choose someone to eliminate, the Constable chooses someone to potentially save, and the Spy chooses a Tryal card to look at. The other black card, "Conspiracy," forces all players to take a face-down Tryal card from the player to their left. Killing witches quickly is essential, otherwise "Conspiracy" may soon have the whole town turned evil.

Before long, accusations will be flying, and screams of "She's a WITCH!" will wake the neighbours. Will you be the hero who purges your town of witches, or will you be wrongly accused and hung for witchcraft? Or perhaps you will be a witch yourself, escape conviction, and bring Salem to the ground.