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Far Away (Second Edition) (Box Damage)

2024-11-09T14:52:35-05:00

Vendor: Cherry Picked Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Designer	Alexander Jerabek
Publisher	Cherry Picked Games
Players	2
Playing Time	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	262939/far-away http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/262939/far-away/forums/63

A two-player cooperative board game about discovery, survival, and the crushing loneliness of being the only two humans for lightyears.

Far Away is a sandbox for making worlds with scenarios and campaigns resting on top. The biomes, creatures, and landmarks of the world are generated as they are discovered by the explorers. Each mission also comes with Plot Cards which branch the story in different directions as events unfold. The players choose how to react to these variable elements, making each game unique.

A central theme in Far Away is loneliness. This is expressed in two ways: as a mechanical need in-game and by limiting player communication. Players may only speak freely if they are on the same hex. They use the opportunity to plot complex series of actions, or just check in and make sure everything is okay. Newer players can choose to place this limit only on game strategy, while advanced players can choose to stay completely silent when wandering afar.

—description from the publisher

Hair of the Dog

2022-12-27T10:44:08-05:00

Vendor: Cherry Picked Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 32.37

Designer	Alexander Jerabek
Publisher	Cherry Picked Games
Players	2-8
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	325811/hair-dog http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/325811/hair-dog/forums/63

Hair of the Dog is the trendy new spot for dog owners to bring their pets. Sadly, no one in your friend circle has a dog. It’s a real problem. You need to pet one; you all do. Luckily, the Hair of the Dog pub will let you in, as long as you’re buying drinks. Your group heads there with a singular mission: pet all the dogs.

In Hair of the Dog, you are competing to pet the most dogs. Between 2 and 8 players will be running around a dog-friendly pub, trying to pet different dogs. Dogs have some conditions that must be meet before petting, and you’ll have to deduce what those are by either carefully watching your friends or, worse, asking the dog owner through awkward conversation.

Players take turns navigating the bar and performing actions, such as trying to pet a dog, trading for the right dog toy, or buying a beverage. As they do so, they’ll slowly drink their beverage (or quickly drink it if they’d like extra actions). Finally, they’ll move a staff member of the bar. If any staff catch a player without a drink in their hand, that player ignominiously earns a shame token. Everyone can make this drink-in-hand mandate worse by calling for toasts; forcing people into the social contract of drinking more.

To succeed at dog petting, players have to balance progress with temperance, keep a careful eye on which dogs are getting pet when, and trick others into being caught with neither a dog nor drink.

—description from the publisher

Far Away (Second Edition)

2020-04-16T11:26:12-04:00

Vendor: Cherry Picked Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 56.95

Designer	Alexander Jerabek
Publisher	Cherry Picked Games
Players	2
Playing Time	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	262939/far-away http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/262939/far-away/forums/63

Drink!

2017-01-01T15:59:00-05:00

Vendor: Cherry Picked Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Kaylee Breshon Alexander Jerabek
Publisher	Cherry Picked Games
Players	6-30
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	21 and up
Additional Info	190045/drink http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/190045/drink/forums/63

Drink! is an easy icebreaker for your house parties. It gets people laughing and chatting. The game keeps your brain moving and your eyes peeled as you joke around with friends and goad them into downing more and more of their beverages. Drink! brings all the fun of a game without slowing down the party.

The rules of Drink! are simple. Every player draws a card from the game box. On that card is an action or phrase they should watch for. Whenever someone does what the card says, the card holder commands that person to “drink” (take a sip of their beverage). They can wait a few seconds or trick people into performing their action, if they want to be cunning. If anyone can guess what the card says, they keep that card for the rest of the night and can still call out that rule. If they guess wrong, they must drink. If you lose a card, you get a new one. The winner is whoever has the most cards at the end of the party.