This is a great “filler” game (just like Popcorn) as a game can take as little as 10 minutes!
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> London Rules
=> Len’s 1 page rules summary
Review:
Ticket To Ride London (15min game)
Planet
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Planet Rules (PLUS, since they are only 4 pages you can see all four pages at the bottom of this article)
How To Play:
Popcorn Dice Game
Keep rolling 14 dice until you bust or choose to stop. Four burnt popcorn icons and you bust (your turn is over and you get zero points). 30 points or more wins OR roll all 14 dice with a single or double pop icon to be an INSTANT WINNER regardless of your score!
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Popcorn 1pg Rules
=> Popcorn Scoresheets
=> Background Music while playing
Review:
Carcassonne (Big Box with 11 expansions)
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Official Website
=> Rule Book
=> VERY detailed rules (339pgs)
=> Scoring Small Cities & Farms (small cities get 4 points plus 2 extra points for each shield / farms are scored on the basis of fields, one field at a time (thus a city can be counted towards two or more fields)
=> Detailed Info and how to use: River / Phantom / Flying Machines / Abbot
=> Carcassonne Rules Wiki (use first to fine rules explained)
NOTE: most expansion just add complexity (not fun) so choose carefully! Probably only choose 2 or at most 3 expansions because as you keep adding more and more tiles, they get diluted and you rarely see the new expansion tiles! PLUS with too many expansions, the game takes A REALLY LONG TIME TO PLAY!
***See bottom of this page for the expansions that I have (many with links)
Analysis Paralysis and Play Time => the FIX: Draw tile at end of turn instead of start of turn
How To Play in 3 Minutes (Rules Girl):
Showdown Yahtzee
You likely already know how to play Yahtzee … so you then are ready for the super fun board and dice version, Showdown Yahtzee (one of the favorites for our Game Days).
For 2-4 players (best with 4). Instead of each player having their own Yahtzee score pad, there is just ONE and it is not a pad of paper, but individual large tiles that represent all the typical line items in the normal game of Yahtzee. Each player moves around a board and if you land on an empty square, you can try to get any of the available tiles and if you get it you take that tile and place it on the board on the square where your pawn is along with the stated amount of your chips. If your pawn lands on a square that already has a tile, if you can roll that, the tile becomes yours and you put your chips on it (if it was already yours, you just get a free turn to continue moving your pawn till you get to a spot that is wild or has a tile owned by another player). If you land on WILD, you can treat it as a blank square (try for any available tile) or as an occupied square (try to get it for your own).
I have FOUR boxes of this game (it really is that good). Someday it would be fun to have 16 people over for a Showdown Yahtzee tournament … 4 players at a table … the winner from each of the four tables then have a Showdown Showdown!
Review and examples:
Tsuro (very fast easy to learn game)
This is a game that you can setup and play in ten minutes or less. And have lots of fun the whole time. Short but sweet. A casual glance at the game makes it look like everything is just random and you just see who is lucky. However, that is not the case. Yes, you can play it fast and more or less randomly … yet you also can spend just an extra 20 seconds and see some strategies to which tile you place and how you place it! There are definitely many strategies involved with Tsuro! Many!
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Tsuro 1pg Rules
=> Phase by Phase Cards (important – I use them all the time) v4
Note: See the end of this article for notes about how to use the Dragon Tile.
How To Play in 1 Minute (Rules Girl):
Castle Panic
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Original Rules / 2nd Edition Rules
=> Castle Panic Made Easy v1-3 (Len’s 2page Rule Summary with options for younger players)
=> Official FAQ
NOTE: It is highly recommended to always include the Wizard’s Tower expansion when playing (I have it). Next, it is suggested that the Crowns & Quests (I have it) is the next best expansion to use!
You can add more types of monsters yourself (on your printer)=> Set 1 / Set 2 / Set 3
This is a quick cooperative game where all players try to hold off the attacking orcs :) The game play is interesting. The game was so popular that they now make a DELUXE fancy version of the game (with miniatures).
Watch Will Wheaton (yes, he was Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation) explain it and play it with three guests (a comedian, an actress and a voice actor) … here is the condensed version (you can watch their FULL game video at the bottom of this page):
20 Express (aka Streams)
=> BoardGameGeek
=> Rules (4 page PDF)
=> Player Boards (full page jpg)
Here is an overview of the game:
Play Heavenly Games 
