Berea College Library of Things

A family-friendly card game where players match word cards to a given topic. One player acts as the judge and plays a green card with a description while the other player chooses a red card from their hand with a word they think best matches the description and the judge picks their favorite match. This game is recommended for 4-8 players ages 12+ and comes with 441 red and 63 green cards.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat offers an unparalleled gaming experience in the world of science fiction warfare. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or a beginner, this is the ultimate 2-player miniature wargame that caters to all.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Embark on an extraordinary journey with the 'BattleTech Beginner Box,' your gateway to the world's greatest sci-fi miniature wargame and RPG universe. BattleTech is renowned for its epic stories, versatile gaming experiences, and the promise of limitless adventures that appeal to all types of players.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Cards Against Humanity is an adult party game in which players complete fill-in-the-blank statements, using words or phrases typically deemed offensive, risqué, or politically incorrect, printed on playing cards.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan’s many harbors and regions: Pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Experience the rise and fall of advanced indigenous civilizations in the South American Andes. Confront new strategic challenges in this captivating game. Build roads, settlements, and gain development cards while using the robber to hinder your opponents, all within the rich tapestry of Inkan history.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

CATNIP Auction House is a party bidding game for 3-10 players. Each player represents an elite cat that will spend its precious catnip to bid on various items until the inventory is gone. Pick the right time to bid for an item or drop out of the running to score more catnip. Each item is precious, and may even have an ability that gives your cat and advantage in a later round of the game. The most mice collected at the end of the auction determines the winner!

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Dive into the world of checkers board game fun with 24 game pieces. Perfect for sharpening strategic thinking while keeping everyone engaged. A great way to have fun with family and friends!

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

The classic detective game! In Clue, players move from room to room in a mansion to solve the mystery of: who done it, with what, and where?

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Codenames is a social word game with a simple premise and challenging game play. Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A classic two-player strategy game where players take turns dropping colored discs into a vertical grid, aiming to be the first to get four chips in a row- horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This game is recommended for ages 6 + and comes with 21 red discs, 21 yellow discs, 4 blue blocker discs, and a grid.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A fast-paced card game where players build stacks of valuable asset cards- like gold, cars, and cash- while trying to steal from other players and protect their own. Players take turns adding Matching Asset pairs to their collection, but opponents can challenge and steal those assets. The goal is to be the first to reach 1$ million. It is recommended for 2-6 players ages 7+.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Doomlings is a funny, lightweight card game that takes 5 minutes to learn, 20-45 minutes to play, and is suitable for 2-6 players ages 10 and up. Play traits for points over multiple rounds, called ages and catastrophes. Win by having the most points when the 3rd and final catastrophe brings about the end of the world.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Perfect for Family Game Nights & All Ages: Whether you're a beginner or a pro, this dominoes set for adults and kids is great for strategy games!

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Dominion: 2nd Edition is an improvement over the classic Dominion. Upgraded covers and cards make it more interesting and fun to play. This new version has streamlined rules and amended card text to eliminate confusion. You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams. You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

This kit includes: short adventure + 64-page rulebook, DM Screen, 6 blank character sheets, 11 dice, poster map, cards for magic items, and more.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Designed for 2-5 players, ages 7 and up, Exploding Kittens is great for kids, teens, and adults alike. Draw cards and try to avoid the dreaded Exploding Kitten! Use strategic action cards to skip your turn, shuffle the deck, or defuse the Kitten with laser pointers or catnip sandwiches. The last player standing wins!

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

In this version, players who "explode" aren’t necessarily out—they can return as zombies and continue playing, making for a more unpredictable and chaotic game, recommended for 2-5 players ages 7 and up. Includes 61 cards

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A classic family board game where players travel through life stages- from college to retirement- making decisions about careers, marriage, children, and investments. Players spin the wheel to move across the board, collecting money, buying houses, and encountering life events along the way. The player with the most money and assets at the end wins. It is recommended for 2-4 players ages 8+.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A colorful party game where players use clues to guess specific colors from a massive palette of 480 shades. The clue-giver provides one- or two-word hints to describe a target color, and players place markers on the board to guess the correct shade. The closer the guess, the more points they score. This game is recommended for 3-10 players ages 8+, it comes with a game board, 100 cards, 30 player pieces, and one scoring frame.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Take a trip down memory lane with this metal jacks game with ball classic design that brings back cherished childhood moments. Enjoy hours of family fun while improving hand-eye coordination and fostering connection!

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

The Jenga GIANT JS7 hardwood game is the biggest authentic hardwood Jenga brand game ever sold. Starts at 2 feet high at setup and can stack to over 5 feet high in play!

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $130

A furious real time dice rolling miniatures action adventure game where Po and the Furious Five must go on quests to battle villains and save the Valley of Peace. Choose your favorite Kung Fu Master to play through the game and experience massive replay value with 3 different modes, varieties of characters to play as and special moves to try over 9 unique Scenarios.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Explore Latin's enduring influence, where timeless idioms, iconic phrases, and words that still resonate today await you. Unveil the hidden treasures of a language that has left an indelible mark on history and continues to shape modern society.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

In the Magic: The Gathering – Arena of the Planeswalkers, players customize the battlefield by designing the map then placing terrain and powerful glyphs.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Although an 8" Chess Set is as small as MegaChess makes Chess Sets, it is still much larger than most chess sets.The plastic MegaChess pieces are made of rugged, waterproof, and UV-resistant injection-molded, hollow plastic.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $80

Black Series Retro Arcade collapsible Skeeball speedball set.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out. Players must work together playing to their characters' strengths and planning their strategy of eradication before the diseases overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Standard Poker Playing Cards

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Poker Chips Set for Texas Holdem,Blackjack, Tournaments with Aluminum Case, 2 Decks of Cards, Dealer, Small Blind, Big Blind Buttons.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

All you need to play is a ball, a paddle, and a pickleball net. As long as you have a portable pickleball net, you can set up a court virtually anywhere, from your backyard, to a park, or a recreation center.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $70

How many ways can you spell FUN? Bring back memories -- and create new ones -- with the Scrabble game!

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A game full of bluffing and negotiation set in a medieval marketplace. Players take turns as merchants trying to smuggle goods past the watchful Sheriff, who inspects the other's bags to catch contraband. Merchants must decide to tell the truth or bluff to sneak the illegal goods past the sheriff. This game is recommended for 3-6 players ages 14+, it comes with 228 cards, 110 gold coins, 6 merchant stands and bags, and 3 sheriff/deputy standees.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

The classic, easy-to learn strategy game Mancala is one of the world’s oldest games, still played and enjoyed by families worldwide. Perfect for kids' games or a night in with your significant other, as you only need a partner to play!

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A game where players race to get all their pawns from the start to the home space. Players draw a card each turn that tells them how many spaces to move or gives special instructions, like swapping places with another player. If you land on another player's pawn, you send them back to the start- hence the name "Sorry!" This game is recommended for 2-4 players ages 2+, it comes with a gameboard, 16 pawns, and 45 cards.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

The aim of this fast-paced, laugh out loud game is for players to get their team to correctly guess the guess word listed on the game card. If the describer says a forbidden word listed on the card while giving the clues, they'll get interrupted with the electronic buzzer and lose a turn.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A fast-paced card game where players race to slap the pile when the spoken word matches the card flipped. Players take turns saying "Taco," "Cat," "Goat," "Cheese," "Pizza" in that order while flipping a card. If the Card matches the word, everyone must slap it; the last one to slap takes the pile. Recommended for 2-8 players ages 8+.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A fast-paced word game where players think of words that fit a given category, but there's a twist- you can only use each letter of the alphabet once. Players take turns pressing a letter on the Tapple wheel and saying a word that starts with that letter, if you can not think of a work before the timer runs out you lose, and the last standing player wins. This game is recommended for 2-8 people ages 8+, it comes with instructions, Tapple wheel, and 36 cards.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care taking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A hilarious card game that is part card battle, part dodgeball. Players collect matching sets of cards to score points while dodging soft foam burritos during battles triggered by a certain card. The goal is to collect the most points while surviving burrito duels. It's recommended for 2-6 players ages 7+ and comes with 2 burritos, 120 card games, and 7 tokens.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Set out on an epic journey building railways across the country in the Ticket To Ride Board Game. Players use strategy and decision-making as they run trains and decide routes between iconic cities. Designed for 2 to 5 players, this game challenges you to build railway routes connecting iconic cities across North America, where players collect train routes and complete destination tickets.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

It is a two-player strategy game where players take turns placing black or white stones on a 19x19 grid. The goal is to control more territory on the board than your opponent by surrounding empty spaces with stones. You can also capture your opponent's stones by surrounding them. The game ends when both players agree there are no more moves, and the player with the most territory wins. Recommended for ages 5+ and comes with a game board, 181 black stones, 180 white stones, and 2 bowls.
Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

UNO is the classic family card game that's easy to pick up and impossible to put down! Players take turns matching a card in their hand with the current card shown on top of the deck either by color or number.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Video Game Console SNES Classic Edition System Mini SNES, Pre-loaded 20 Original Games, Included an Aditional TF Card Integrated 785 Official Super NES Games, HDMI Output Save/Load Function.

Loan period:3 days
Location: Circulation Desk
Replacement cost: $139

Compete with your friends and family to create the funniest memes; Do this by using one of your dealt caption cards to caption the photo card in each round.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

The YardGames Giant Wooden Yard Dice are 3.5" solid wood cubes with heat-branded pips that resist scuffing or fading, perfect for outdoor play in any weather.

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

A word-guessing game where players have six changes to figure out a five-letter word. After each guess the letters will be given a color, green when it is the correct letter in the correct spot, yellow when the letter is right but not the location, and grey when the letter is not right at all. The goal is to guess the word using clues from previous guesses. The game is recommended for 2-4 players ages 14+, it comes with 3 Wordle boards, 3 shields, 3 dry erase markers, 45 green tiles, and 45 yellow tiles.

Loan period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50

Roll it to the limit for the ultimate win with the Yahtzee Classic game. With a sleek shaker and 5 dice, you're ready to roll!

Loan Period: 3 days
Location: Back of Reference
Replacement cost: $50