Board Games for College Kids

Quelf

• This party game encourages players to use their wit, creativity and sense of humor. Players move around the board as characters with quirky names. When a player lands on a colored space, he draws the corresponding card and perform whatever task the card asks for. A green square corresponds to a trivia question. A red square draws a "scatterbrainz" card in which the player answers questions about a given topic and yellow instructs players to perform silly stunts. Before long you may be reciting a poem about your armpit, or wrapping your face in toilet paper.

Wise and Otherwise

• The game contains 500 cards inscribed with folk sayings and proverbs from around the world. One player reads the first part of the phrase, and the others attempt to finish it correctly. For example, a player might read "Don't add salt..." then each player comes up with what he thinks is the right answer. The correct ending of the Chinese proverb is "...to a boatload of salt fish," but the players vote on which answer they think is best. A player receives points when others vote for their ending, or when a player guesses the true ending.

Scene It?

• Scene It mixes the classic board game with modern technology. Billed as the world's first DVD board game, Scene It features hundreds of film clips from the big screen. Players have to watch movie clips and answer questions about scenes, actors, and famous lines.

Dixit

• This storytelling game can only be won with careful thought and strategy. Each player holds six images. One player serves as the storyteller and invents a sentence or phrase using one of their six cards. The other players select from their six images the one that best matches the sentence or phrase used by the storyteller. The images are shuffled and presented to all players. Each player then votes on which image he believes to be the one used by the storyteller. The storyteller gets points if other players vote for his image.