CARD GAMES

• Ticket to Ride: The Card Game (Days of Wonder): The latest installment in the popular franchise in which you collect the trains cards you need to reach your destination.

• Race for the Galaxy (Rio Grande Games). Players build galactic civilizations by collecting game cards that represent worlds or technical and social developments.

• Rapscallion (Bezier Games): Use a simple bidding process to obtain cards and time the use of your Rapscallion cards to guarantee the most critical plays. It has some elements of poker, but is set in the Victorian Era.

LOCAL INTEREST

• Build the Kingdom (Missionary Novelty Co.): Your duty is to build the Kingdom of God by placing Books of Mormon, gaining converts and building ward houses. The first player to gain 10 celestial points wins.

• The Greatest Mission in the World (MNC): A Risk-like game with missionaries as the forces of good.

• Celestialzy (MNC): A Yahtzee-like game that involves rolling symbols in various combinations to fill your card.

• LDSopoly (MNC): Gain stewardship over sets of temples in Monopoly-like fashion.

• Book of Mormon Checkers (Covenant): A variation of Tic Tac Toe and Checkers, using game pieces featuring Val Chadwick Bagley's artwork.

• Noah's Ark (Covenant): Animal cards featuring Bagley's artwork that can be used to play a version of Old Maid, Go Fish and other card games.

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