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Converge: Sparks of Hope

2024-03-22T04:19:36-04:00

Vendor: Button Shy
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Button Shy
Players	2
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Converge: Aspects of Vision – Solo Mode
Additional Info	393200/converge-sparks-hope http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/393200/converge-sparks-hope/forums/63

The suns of Malvios are dying. Across the planet, survivors race to glean what hope for the future they can find in the failing light. Pooling their resources, experts from all walks of life converge to find the best path forward – and the team they’ll need to follow it.

The story and gameplay of Converge spans across 3 sets. Each one comes in their own wallet and includes 3 unique 6-card skillsets. All 3 sets can be played individually as standalone games, or players can combine any 3 skillsets from multiple sets to create a new combination.

Converge: Catalysts of Change
Converge: Sparks of Hope
Converge: Engines of Progress

Converge: Sparks of Hope stars the subterranean Delvers, brilliant Astropaths, and compassionate Healers. Seeking refuge below the earth, the Delvers Expand their tunnels to house new team members. The constant Study of the Astropaths allows them to copy other skillset's effects. The Healers practice their craft to Heal the injured, restoring them from the discard pile to a team.

In Converge, players are competing to build the best team that meets the current goals, though goals and teams can shift with each play. So can control of the powerful artifact which gives an advantage to those who possess it.

Each round, players take turns to play a single card from their hand.

Every card has 2 parts: a character with a skillset, rank and special ability, and a goal, each of which has a star value for fulfilling its requirement. These goals apply to both players while the card is in the central area, with fulfilled goals remaining in play.

Cards can be discarded for their special ability, played to the player’s team to fulfill goals using its suit and value, or as a new shared goal.

At the end of the round, players count their current star value. The player with the most stars gains control of the artifact. If they already had control of the artifact, they win! If no player can secure victory by the time all cards have been played, then the player who holds the artifact is the winner.

Converge: Engines of Progress

2024-03-22T04:18:56-04:00

Vendor: Button Shy
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Button Shy
Players	2
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Converge: Aspects of Vision – Solo Mode
Additional Info	393199/converge-engines-progress http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/393199/converge-engines-progress/forums/63

The suns of Malvios are dying. Across the planet, survivors race to glean what hope for the future they can find in the failing light. Pooling their resources, experts from all walks of life converge to find the best path forward – and the team they’ll need to follow it.

The story and gameplay of Converge spans across 3 sets. Each one comes in their own wallet and includes 3 unique 6-card skillsets. All 3 sets can be played individually as standalone games, or players can combine any 3 skillsets from multiple sets to create a new combination.

Converge: Catalysts of Change
Converge: Sparks of Hope
Converge: Engines of Progress

Converge: Engines of Progress includes the stoic Protectors, friendly Merchants, and ambitious Searchers. Protectors often Lead team members to important strategic areas, turning a team member to a goal, while the Merchants’ Trade exchanges team members from one side to another. The Searchers, meanwhile, discover ancient technology that allows them to add a card from the deck to play.

In Converge, players are competing to build the best team that meets the current goals, though goals and teams can shift with each play. So can control of the powerful artifact which gives an advantage to those who possess it.

Each round, players take turns to play a single card from their hand.

Every card has 2 parts: a character with a skillset, rank and special ability, and a goal, each of which has a star value for fulfilling its requirement. These goals apply to both players while the card is in the central area, with fulfilled goals remaining in play.

Cards can be discarded for their special ability, played to the player’s team to fulfill goals using its suit and value, or as a new shared goal.

At the end of the round, players count their current star value. The player with the most stars gains control of the artifact. If they already had control of the artifact, they win! If no player can secure victory by the time all cards have been played, then the player who holds the artifact is the winner.

Converge: Aspects of Vision – Solo Mode

2024-03-22T04:17:47-04:00

Vendor: Button Shy
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Button Shy
Players	1
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion For	Converge: Catalysts of Change Converge: Sparks of Hope Converge: Engines of Progress
Additional Info	396549/converge-aspects-vision-solo-mode http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/396549/converge-aspects-vision-solo-mode/forums/63

The mercurial Creators are masters of light and sound, improvising entertaining displays to break through the gloom. Can you use these unpredictable artists to achieve your goals?

This 6-card solo expansion for Converge works with any combination of factions. With only 5 turns to play, it’s a race to achieve goals and earn stars before time runs out! On every turn, one of the opponent’s cards will be revealed, serving as both one of their faction members and a shared goal. Play 2 cards each turn to counter their steady advance to victory.

Each of the solo cards features an ability on one side and a goal on the other. At the start of the game, pair 3 ability cards with 3 face-up goals. You may use the ability at any time as one of your actions, or complete the paired goal to gain the ability to use as an additional action when you complete the paired goal, giving you an extra chance to turn the tides in your favor. By managing the artifact and shrewdly using your abilities, you might just save the day.

—description from the publisher

Converge: Catalysts of Change

2024-03-22T04:17:08-04:00

Vendor: Button Shy
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Button Shy
Players	2
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansion	Converge: Aspects of Vision – Solo Mode
Additional Info	385975/converge-catalysts-change http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/385975/converge-catalysts-change/forums/63

The suns of Malvios are dying. Across the planet, survivors race to glean what hope for the future they can find in the failing light. Pooling their resources, experts from all walks of life converge to find the best path forward – and the team they’ll need to follow it.

The story and gameplay of Converge spans across 3 sets. Each one comes in their own wallet and includes 3 unique 6-card skillsets. All 3 sets can be played individually as standalone games, or players can combine any 3 skillsets from multiple sets to create a new combination.

Converge: Catalysts of Change
Converge: Sparks of Hope
Converge: Engines of Progress

Converge: Catalysts of Change features the sage Archivists, the resourceful Mechanists, and the experimental Alchemists. Archivists use their extensive library to Educate others, converting a goal into a team member. Mechanists can Scavenge almost anything, letting them turn a discarded card into a goal. The Alchemists are all about pushing the boundaries of science, which often results in team members getting Burned and discarded.

In Converge, players are competing to build the best team that meets the current goals, though goals and teams can shift with each play. So can control of the powerful artifact which gives an advantage to those who possess it.

Each round, players take turns to play a single card from their hand.

Every card has 2 parts: a character with a skillset, rank and special ability, and a goal, each of which has a star value for fulfilling its requirement. These goals apply to both players while the card is in the central area, with fulfilled goals remaining in play.

Cards can be discarded for their special ability, played to the player’s team to fulfill goals using its suit and value, or as a new shared goal.

At the end of the round, players count their current star value. The player with the most stars gains control of the artifact. If they already had control of the artifact, they win! If no player can secure victory by the time all cards have been played, then the player who holds the artifact is the winner.

Fiction

2023-05-17T04:14:38-04:00

Vendor: Allplay
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Allplay
Players	2-8
Playtime	20 mins
Additional Info	380439/fiction http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380439/fiction/forums/63

Fiction is a Wordle-inspired game of deception. One player is the Lie-brarian and will choose a secret word from a classic work of literature. The other players will, as a team, use logic and literacy to deduce the secret word as quickly as possible.

Players have ten guesses and two ten-minute time periods to deduce the secret word, but beware! The Lie-brarian's clues will always contain exactly one lie. The Guessers win if they figure out the word; the Lie-brarian wins if the time or number of guesses runs out.

Night of the Mummy

2021-12-27T09:11:44-05:00

Vendor: Blue Beard Entertainment
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Blue Beard Entertainment
Players	4-8
Playtime	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	301935/night-mummy http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/301935/night-mummy/forums/63

The Mummy’s curse has brought all the exhibits to life and they’ve crashed the Museum of Unnatural History’s annual masquerade ball!

Night of the Mummy is a 20-minute game of hidden roles and logical deduction for 4-8 players aged 10 and up. Each player takes on the role of a classic monster at a masquerade party - identify and expose everyone else to break the curse and escape!

A standalone expansion to Dracula’s Feast: New Blood, Night of the Mummy improves everything you loved about the original - more roles, unique interactions, and a brand new mechanism: some characters hide while dancing, not revealing their roles to other players!

Best of all, combine it with Dracula’s Feast! Incorporate roles from either game into the other for even greater replayability!

The game comes with 10 unique new roles, including 3 advanced guests.

—description from the publisher

That Time You Killed Me

2021-11-30T11:48:39-05:00

Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 53.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Pandasaurus Games
Players	2
Playing Time	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	344258/time-you-killed-me http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/344258/time-you-killed-me/forums/63

You and your opponent are rival time travelers trying to erase each other from history. To prove you are the one true inventor of time travel, you must use your invention to find your enemy in time and murder them — before they get you!

Unfortunately, since your enemy has strewn many copies of themself across the timeline, you may have to do the terrible deed many, many times before it sticks. Just make sure you don't get erased first!

That Time You Killed Me is an abstract narrative game of time and murder that introduces new scenarios with unique rules and components as you play. As with any game about mucking about across time, you must play through this content in a strict, unalterable order.

To set up, place three game boards in a row to represent past, present, and future. Each player starts with a player piece in the same location on each 4x4 board, with the start player having their focus token in the past while the other has it in the future.

On a turn, choose a single copy of yourself on the board where your focus token is located, then take two actions with this copy, with actions being movement to an adjacent orthogonal space, time travel forward to the next board (travel from the past to the future is not allowed), or time travel back to the previous board, leaving a copy of yourself in the current location when you do. Sure, you traveled to the past, but if you stick around long enough, you'll be right back where you started, so now you're there, too! At the end of your turn, move your focus token to a different board.

Under the basic rules, you murder a copy of your opponent by pushing them into the wall of the game board. You have a limited number of copies of yourself in reserve, and murdered copies don't return to your reserve because that would be gross. If you run out of copies, you can no longer travel to the past since you can't leave a copy of yourself behind.

If on your turn, your opponent has copies of themselves on only one board, you win!

Play through four chapters of escalating difficulty, adding more wild time-travel shenanigans and unlocking more content as you master the game!

Jabberwocky

2020-12-27T00:09:24-05:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designers	Joel Colombo Peter C. Hayward Karl Lange Marek Tupy Mark Bethell Joe Myron Patrick Chapman
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	1-7
Playing Time	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	264742/jabberwocky http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/264742/jabberwocky/forums/63

Jabberwocky is eight games in one box!

Use 18 gorgeous cards and 24 gems to play eight completely different games:

Bandersnatch: A solo puzzle game by Joel Colombo.
Borogoves: A 1-2 player map-making game by Karl Lange.
Brillig: A 2-player bidding game by Peter C. Hayward.
Gimble: A 2-3 player rummy game by John Fowler.
Gyre: A 2-3 player area control game by Marek Tupy.
Mimsy: A 2-3 player mancala game by Joe Myron.
Mome: A 2-4 player bridge-building game by Mark Bethell.
Slithy: A 3-7 player negotiation game by Patrick Chapman.

With stunning, evocative art by Tania Walker, Jabberwocky is perfect for couples, families, toves, and raths.

Meow: The Cult of Cat

2020-04-22T22:27:06-04:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	3-12
Playing Time	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	279751/meow-cult-cat http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/279751/meow-cult-cat/forums/63

You’ve finally made it to the Cult of Cat’s initiation ceremony.
Now all you need to do is complete the initiation ritual without breaking any of the secret rules.
How hard can it be?

To win, simply play a card from your hand while following all rules held by other players.
At the start of the game, you don’t know many of the rules are in the game, so you’ll break one each turn.
As more rules are revealed, it’s up to you to remember and follow them all...

Each card will have an animal with a rule specifying an action to be taken. Actions can be verbal or physical, and each rule is unique.

—description from the designer

Dracula's Feast: New Blood

2020-02-25T16:49:58-05:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward Tom Lang
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	4-8
Playing Time	10-15 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	269847/draculas-feast-new-blood http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/269847/draculas-feast-new-blood/forums/63

Dracula’s Feast: New Blood is a 4-8 player logical deduction game by Peter C. Hayward and Tom Lang, with art by Michael Dashow. Dracula invited the townsfolk over for dinner (and maybe a few for dessert), but – what a pain in the neck – a mash of monsters have crashed the party looking for a bite. Now, everything is at stake…

Each turn, either:

INQUIRE another guest; they will respond with a YES or a NO card, and must be honest.
Ask another player to DANCE; if they agree, look at each other's cards! If they refuse, INQUIRE another player.
ACCUSE! Place an Accusation Card in front of every other player - they'll return a YES if you're correct, and a NO if you're not. If you get all YES cards in response, you win the game!

—description from the publisher

Scurvy! More Scuttle Fun

2019-12-09T14:25:29-05:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 4.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	5-10 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Expansion For	Scuttle!
Additional Info	201245/scurvy-more-scuttle-fun http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/201245/scurvy-more-scuttle-fun/forums/63

Includes eight Disease cards:

Pox
Scurvy
Typhus
Beriberi
Fever
Sailor’s Bane
Sea-Sickness
Piratitis!

At the start of the game, you put one of them into play and shuffle the rest into the deck. Each disease has a different ability, and they affect all players. Disease cards don’t count as permanents, and whenever you draw one it goes into play immediately.

As your action in a turn, you can shuffle all Disease cards from play back into the deck - this is the only way to get rid of them, but it might be worth it...especially if all eight are in play!

Scuttle!: The Curse of Black Jack

2019-12-09T14:25:05-05:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 4.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	5-10 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Expansion For	Scuttle!
Additional Info	201116/scuttle-curse-black-jack http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/201116/scuttle-curse-black-jack/forums/63

Black Jack has been cursed to forever crave gold...but whenever he gains too much, his entire fortune disappears! This expansion adds even more diabolical ways you can amass wealth, including a new treasure of each value, three new crew members you can recruit, a Pirate Ghost, and Black Jack himself!

Scuttle! is a complete game in itself, but the expansion adds a whole new way to play the game - as an action, you can flip the top card of the deck. If it's treasure, add it to your stash! If it's not, discard it! But if your new bounty takes you above 21 treasure, you lose it all...

Hidden Panda

2019-09-16T16:13:53-04:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	5-8
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	254314/hidden-panda http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254314/hidden-panda/forums/63

Pandas! Bandits! Conservationists! Grandma!
As a Panda: sneak into the Bandit Camp and get your babies back without getting caught.
As a Bandit: catch those sneaky Pandas, while stealing as many baby pandas as you can.
As a Conservationist: protect the Pandas! There aren’t many left!
As Grandma: lead the team, and make some delicious bamboo soup.

Hidden Panda is a team game.
The Bandit Team consists of all the Bandits.
They’re trying to work out who everyone is, so they can steal the baby pandas.

The Panda Team consists of Grandma, the Conservationist, and the Pandas.
They want to keep the Panda’s identities secret, to keep the baby pandas safe from the Bandits.

Starting with Grandma and going clockwise, players hand out 3 baby pandas each turn, then play 1 tea biscuit. When a player gets 3 tea biscuits, players vote on whether or not to net them.

Netted players lose all the baby pandas they've been handed, but do not reveal their role or leave the game. If all Pandas are netted, the Bandit team win!

Otherwise, the team with the most baby pandas at the end of Grandma's third turn is the winner.

—description from the publisher

Scuttle!

2019-08-21T13:07:09-04:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	5-10 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Expansions	Scuttle!: The Curse of Black Jack Scurvy! More Scuttle Fun
Additional Info	195296/scuttle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195296/scuttle/forums/63

From the publisher:

In this fast-playing card game, players scheme, battle and steal to be the first to collect 21 doubloons. Each turn either draw a card or play a card - cards can be played as either treasure or as an action. Do you want to draw 2 cards, or steal the treasure chest your opponent just played? Or would you rather wipe the board...knowing that your booty is protected!

'Scuttle!' is a card game for 1-5 valiant pirates, suitable for players as young as 6. Based on the classic game Cuttle, Scuttle! has been infused with the drama of the high seas thanks to creative updated rules by Peter C. Hayward. With gorgeous, adventurous art by Kelly Jo, Scuttle! is fun for the whole family.

Bugs on Rugs

2019-08-08T14:13:46-04:00

Vendor: Kids Table BG
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Kids Table BG
Players	2-5
Playtime	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	257349/bugs-rugs http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257349/bugs-rugs/forums/63

So many bugs crawling around on beautiful rugs! Ants like to travel in big colonies. Fireflies love the bright rug colors. Spiders are always on the lookout for juicy flies. Nine different bugs in all, and your job is to make sure all of them get what they want!

Players take turns drafting bugs from the Floor into their hand to make different sets; each bug type scores differently at the end of the game. At the end of each round there will be one leftover bug… it crawls onto the Wall, where its unique power activates to change things up! At the end of the game players reveal their bug collections and we see who has made the most valuable hand of creepy crawlers!

Simple rules, short play time, and lots of different ways to create cool scoring combos make this a perfect casual filler for players of all types.

-description from publisher

Village Pillage

2019-02-12T14:31:15-05:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward Tom Lang
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	247342/village-pillage http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/247342/village-pillage/forums/63

Protect your borders, attack your neighbors, and be the first to collect three turnip relics!

Village Pillage is a 2-5 player game for players 10 and up, featuring simultaneous play and action on all fronts. Each turn, players simultaneously choose two cards from their hand and play one against each neighbor. All cards are revealed at once, then resolved in order: Farmers, Walls, Raiders, Merchants. Farmers produce turnips, Walls block Raiders, Radiers steal turnips, and Merchants either add new cards to your hand or help you purchase a relic. All cards return to hand, and the next round begins! The game ends as soon as any one player has three royal relics.

Treasure Hunters Expansions

2018-09-05T12:13:03-04:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 7.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	2-5
Suggested Age	6 and up
Expansion for	Ninjitsu!
Additional Info	256873/treasure-hunters-expansions http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256873/treasure-hunters-expansions/forums/63

Treasure Hunters Expansions is a pack of three expansions that work with all games in the "Treasure Hunters" line: Scuttle!, Ninjitsu!, Brains!, and all upcoming titles in the series. The expansions are:

Masters of Magic: An ancient grimoire has been uncovered, unleashing the secrets of elemental magic!

The Elements: Each player chooses a unique ability to play with in the game. Harness the power of Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, or Heart!

Heavy Weather: Shuffle the event cards into the deck, and reveal a new weather card each time one reaches the top!

The Lady and the Tiger

2018-05-01T23:49:16-04:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Kevin Carmichael Peter C. Hayward JR Honeycutt Ken Maher Philip Tootill Allysha Tulk
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	15-20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	222643/lady-and-tiger http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/222643/lady-and-tiger/forums/63

The Lady and the Tiger is five games in one!

Doors: A 2-player deduction game by Peter C. Hayward.
Favor: A 2-4 player auction game by Allysha Tulk and Kevin Carmichael.
Hoard: A solo game by Ken Maher.
Labyrinth: A 2-player maze game by Philip Tootill.
Traps: A 2-6 player bluffing game by JR Honeycutt.

Inspired by the classic short story "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton, each game offers a unique experience. Five amazing games, packed into just eighteen unique cards!

With stunning, evocative art by Tania Walker, The Lady and the Tiger is perfect for couples, families, ladies, tigers, and anyone who enjoys bluffing games.

Ninjitsu!

2018-05-01T23:45:05-04:00

Vendor: Jellybean Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designer	Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Jellybean Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	5-10 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Expansions	Treasure Hunters Expansions
Additional Info	230064/ninjitsu http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/230064/ninjitsu/forums/63

Ninjitsu! is a card game for 2-5 sneaky ninjas, suitable for players of all ages. A stand-alone sequel to the hit game Scuttle!, this game of devious bluffing and subterfuge will keep the whole family entertained for hours.

In this fast-playing card game, players scheme to be the first to reach 21 points. Each turn either play a card or draw 2 cards; cards can either be played as treasure or as an action. Ninjitsu! introduces hidden treasures: treasure cards that are played face-down. Swipe hidden treasures from your opponents at any time, but watch out for booby-traps!

Traitor Mechanic: The Traitor Mechanic Game

2016-10-26T18:21:00-04:00

Vendor: Greater Than Games (Dice Hate Me Games)
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer	Christopher Badell Peter C. Hayward
Publisher	Greater Than Games (Dice Hate Me Games)
Players	4-10
Additional Info	197069/traitor-mechanic-traitor-mechanic-game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/197069/traitor-mechanic-traitor-mechanic-game/forums/63

In Traitor Mechanic: The Traitor Mechanic Game, players are automobile mechanics, all working together to fix cars. However, one of them has been hired by a rival auto-shop to undermine their efforts and make this auto-shop go bankrupt. You must work together, fix the cars, and attempt to reveal just which one of you is the...traitor mechanic.