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Witch Trial Print and Play Game

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Witch Trial is one of Cheapass games most popular products. You can get a print-and-play version of this game at the link.

In Witch Trial, you play an attorney at a prestigious law firm. You will act as a prosecutor or defender in several cases involving unmarried women, free thinkers, vegetarians, the homeless, and other undesirable types. While witchcraft per se isn’t really a crime, it’s customary to bring suspects into court on related offenses, such as card playing, smoking, and tampering with the post.

This game requires lawyer-like reflexes, a little bit of luck, and the willingness to bargain when you know you can’t win.

Battlestar Galactica Express Game – Now Dark Moon

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Dark Moon is a free print and play board game that originally began life as Battlestar Galactica Express. From the BGG description:

In Dark Moon (formerly known as BSG Express), players are blue collar miners working at the edge of space, draining the mineral deposits from Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. When an incident occurs, infecting some of the crew with an unknown pathogen, things begin to rapidly spin out of control. Players must perform repairs, maintain life support, and fortify the shield that protects the outpost from Titan’s harsh environment in order to survive long enough for rescue to arrive. However, not everyone is interested in survival. Whom can you trust when your best friend might be trying to kill you?

Roll dice, point fingers, quarantine players, and (maybe) betray your friends, all in 60 minutes. Will you escape from Titan, or will you perish on the Dark Moon?

Timeline Board Game

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Timeline is a two player strategy game with a time travel theme. Players lay tiles to move through time collecting things, then take them to the end of time to sell them.

Monster Mansion Print and Play

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Monster Mansion is a print-and-play game in which players try to escape from the mansion before time runs out. This is the “mini” version to entice you to participate in their Kickstarter, and eventually, to purchase the retail version.

Mesopotamia Birth of Civilization Game

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Mesopotamia Birth of Civilization is a free, downloadable board game by Garry Stevens designed to teach the history of the Fertile Crescent. Garry writes:

Mesopotamia follows the rise and fall of twenty nations from the Sumerians to the Persians over two thousand years of history. It purloins freely from those wonderful classic games Civilisation, History of the World, and Ancient Conquests, to which I owe a huge debt. The game is more historical than Civilisation, but less world-encompassing than History of the World (HOTW). The basic system is that of History of the World, but with one very significant difference.