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Did you know that you can check out board games at the Andover Public Library? We have over 80 different games to choose from for your next game night! You can get one game per card and keep it for one week.

Here’s a list of just a few of the games we have for different types of players.

Classic games: for those who like things old school

– Clue
– Battleship
– Connect 4
– Candy Land
– Chutes and Ladders
– Sorry
– Uno
– Taboo
– Parcheesi

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Party games: for those who have lots of friends

– Scattergories
– Say Anything
– Name 5
– Apples to Apples
– Cards Against Humanity (Family Edition)
– Codenames
– Sheriff of Nottingham
– Really Loud Librarians

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Historical games: for those who want thing really old school

– Castellan
– Carcassonne
– Flick ’em Up!
– Great Western Trail
– BANG!
– Tiny Epic Western
– Biblios
– Splendor

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Co-op games: for those who just want everyone to get along

– Forbidden Island
– Forbidden Desert
– Pandemic
– Horrified
– Space Alert
– Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle

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Strategy games: for those who want to win, strategically

– The Settlers of Catan
– The Castles of Burgundy
– 7 Wonders
– Battle line
– Peloponnes
– Revolution
– Tiny Epic Galaxies
– Steam Works

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Children’s games: for children and children at heart

– Press Here
– Crazy Eggz
– Monopoly Junior
– Robot turtles
– Slamwich
– Enchanted Forest

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Two-player games: for a two-person game night

– Columns
– The Fox in the Forest
– Robotech: Force of Arms
– Patchwork
– Aerion

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Fantasy games: for those who want to live in a different reality

– Clank!
– Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn
– Ex Libris
– Welcome to the Dungeon

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Card games: for those who just want to play with cards

– We didn’t playtest this at all
– Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
– Alien Hotshots
– Quiddler
– Ratuki
– The Oregon Trail Card Game
– Rook
– Slapzi
– Squarrels

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Family games: for everyone to play together

– Family Challenge
– Sequence
– King of Tokyo
– Loony Quest
– Qwirkle
– Reef
– Disney Villainous
– Ubongo
– Bananagrams: Wild Tiles
– Steam Up
– Livingstone
– Her story

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Book games: for fans of books to judge whether the book is better

– Miss Bernard is a Wild Card! (My Weird School)
– Pete the Cat: The Missing Cupcakes Game
– Dogman: Hot Dog Card Game
– Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: the Game
– Wizard of Oz

 

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Short games: for those who don’t have time for games

– Big Boggle
– Blokus
– Love Letter
– Spyfall
– Zombie Dice
– Wordle: The Party Game
– Kingdomino
– Star Fluxx
– Puppy Love
– Wonky
– Brick party

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Long games: for those who have nothing but time

– Escape Tales: The Awakening
– Betrayal at the House on the Hill
– Robinson Crusoe
– First in Flight
– Dune
– Agricola

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Abstract games: for those who want their gameplay to be a little abstract

– Continuo
– CrossWays
– Pentago
– Tsuro
– Lantern: harvest festival
– Beez

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Mystery games: for fans of mysteries and escape rooms

– Deckscape: Heist in Venice
– Deckscape: The Fate of London
– Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
– There’s Been A Murder
– Mysterium

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Trendy games: for those who want to play the most popular games

– Pengoloo
– Bugs in the Kitchen
– Froggy Boogie
– Yahtzee jr
– Outfoxed
– Race to the Treasure

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Unpopular games: for those who want to play games that are feeling lonely

– Set: The Family Game of Visual Perception
– Rage
– Adventure land
– Totem
– Say Bye to the Villains
– Resistance: Avalon

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Trivia games: for those who want to share their knowledge (and compete with it)

– Cranium
– Beat the parents
– Malarky
– Mindtrap
– TriBond
– Wits and wagers

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City Building: for those who love dreaming up cities

– Mad City
– Kingdom Builder
– Machi koro
– Imhotep
– Citadels

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Artistic Games: for those who want to appreciate the art

– Kana Gawa
– Parks
– Photosynthesis
– Tokaido
– Wingspan
– Lotus
– Dixit

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Monster games: for those who want to create monsters and battle monsters

– MonsDRAWsity
– Monster Misfits
– Monster Lab
– Smash up
– Nefarious

If you enjoyed the “Fourth Wing“, here are some more books and authors you might like!

A Court of Thorns and Roses / Divine rivals / Bride / Powerless

The serpent & the wings of night / Heartless hunter / A fate inked in blood / When the moon hatched