Board Games for Every Type of Player!

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

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


Party games: for those who have lots of friends

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


Historical games: for those who want thing really old school

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


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

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


Strategy games: for those who want to win, strategically

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


Children’s games: for children and children at heart

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


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

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


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

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


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

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– Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
– Alien Hotshots
– Quiddler
– Ratuki
– The Oregon Trail Card Game
– Rook
– Slapzi
– Squarrels


Family games: for everyone to play together

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


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

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– 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

 


 

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

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


Long games: for those who have nothing but time

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


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

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


Mystery games: for fans of mysteries and escape rooms

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


City Building: for those who love dreaming up cities

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


Artistic Games: for those who want to appreciate the art

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


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

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

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2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book set in the future

Are you participating in the 2024 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year and every month we’ll feature one of the challenge prompts. This month we’re featuring the prompt “a book set in the future.” Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt but there are plenty of other books you can pick up! 

 Join the Reading Challenge on Beanstack!

Middle Grade

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 The dog who saved the world /The last cuentistaWe’re not from hereThe lion of Mars

Young Adult

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The ones we’re meant to find /Scythe/Blood like magic / Cinder Feed 

Adult

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Boundless / Saturn run / Providence The futureLock in 

Graphic Novels

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Project Nought/ArcaThe infinity particle Target practice 

Find a list of more books here!

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Books Coming to Screens: November 2024

Here /Richard McGuire

Here (2024) - IMDb
From the reunited director, writer, and stars of Forrest Gump (1994), Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form.
Nov 1st/ Theatres 

Lost on a Mountain in Maine / Donn Fendler as told to Joseph B. Egan

Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024) - IMDb
Based on the book by the same name, the film tells the inspiring story of a 12-year-old boy, who, separated from his family by a fast moving storm, must fight to stay alive during his nine-day adventure lost in the backwoods of Maine.
Nov 1st/ Theatres / Put on hold

Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo (2024) - IMDb

Follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo lover, overlord, murderer.

Nov 6th/ Netflix

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever / Barbara Robinson

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024) - IMDb

Nobody is ready for the mayhem and surprises that ensue when six of the worst youngsters disrupt the town’s yearly Christmas performance.

Nov 8th/ Theatres / Put on hold

The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead

Nickel Boys (2024) - IMDb

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Nov 8th/ Theatres / Put on hold

Small Things Like These / Claire Keegan

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In 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own.
Nov 8th/ Theatres / Put on hold

Alex Cross series/ James Patterson

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TV series based on James Paterson’s Alex Cross novels. Alex Cross uses forensic psychology to analyze killers’ minds, delving into victims’ psyches to identify murderers and bring them to justice
Nov 14th/ Amazon / Put on hold

Say nothing / Patrick Radden Keefe

Amazon cover imageSay Nothing (TV Mini Series 2024– ) - IMDb

Spanning four tumultuous decades during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Nov 14th/ FX and Hulu/ Put on hold

Silo Trilogy / Hugh Howey

(Season Two)

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Men and women live in a giant silo underground with several regulations which they believe are in place to protect them from the toxic and ruined world on the surface.

Nov 15th/ Apple TV/ Put on hold 

Dune: Prophecy

(based on the world by Frank Herbert)

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TV series set in the ‘Dune’ universe which centers on the lives of the Bene Gesserit.
Nov 17th/ HBO / Put on hold

Interior Chinatown / Charles Yu

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The story of an Asian-American actor struggling against clichéd roles and stereotypes, both at work and in his personal life.
Nov 19th/ Hulu / Put on hold

Press Start! / Thomas Flintham

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Sunny and Rue Zaki, a dynamic brother and sister duo whose mysterious game controller gives them the ability to enter the world of their favorite fast-paced video game.

Nov 21st/ Peacock / Put on hold

Outlander/ Diane Gabaldon

(Season 7 part 2)

Amazon cover imageOutlander (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb

Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.

Nov 22nd/ Starz / Put on hold

Out of my mind / Sharon M. Draper

Amazon cover imageOut of My Mind (2024) - IMDb
Melody Brooks is navigating sixth grade as a nonverbal wheelchair user who has cerebral palsy. With the help of some assistive technology and her devoted allies, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it
Nov 22nd/ Disney + / Put on hold

The Piano Lesson / August Wilson

 Amazon cover imageThe Piano Lesson (2024) - IMDb

Follows the lives of the Charles family as they deal with themes of family legacy and more, in deciding what to do with an heirloom, the family piano.

Nov 22nd/ Netflix/ Put on hold

The Helicopter Heist / Jonas Bonnier

The Helicopter Heist (TV Mini Series 2024) - IMDb
The Helicopter Heist is a reality-based and character-driven suspense series in eight parts about the drama behind one of the most spectacular heists in history, a grand and fast paced Icarus tale about winning, or losing, it all.
Nov 22nd/ Netflix

Wicked / Gregory Maguire

Amazon cover imageWicked (2024) - IMDb

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining two-part cinematic event this holiday season.

Nov 22nd/ Theatres/ Put on hold
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