September 2025 Games

In 18CTN, 3-5 tycoons compete to earn money and build the best stock portfolio by investing in and operating companies that develop and exploit a fictional island (120 minutes). It's an expansion/extension for a popular game, adding an 18xx style stock & investment system, featuring the 4 player colors as major companies. It also adds a commodity value system that interacts with the 5th major company (robber) and the minor companies (ports).

Numberwang (4 players, 40 minutes): Numberwang is a deceptively simple trick-taking game with shared incentive bidding. Before every hand, look at each player’s cards and bid how many tricks you expect them to take. Score points for bids that you hit exactly, and score bonus points by forcing other players to miss their bids. Everyone’s seen your cards, so trip them up with unexpected plays.

Hot Dog (4 players, 30 minutes): I brought a pack of 6 hot dogs to the cookout, but my partner brought a 12-pack of buns! No one wants to eat this pile of empty buns… In Hot Dog, each card in the deck has two different values: the dog value and the bun value. Work with your partner to take tricks with both dogs and buns to fill your plate and score the most points. But your partner changes with every deal, and you may find yourself in a free-for-all!

How to Play: Numberwang, Hot Dog

Bare Bones is the dice game that thinks it’s a card game! Use custom dice to score points and action cards to manipulate them. Minimalist artwork lets you focus on the gameplay at hand. This game was designed as a palate cleanser for gamers, but has morphed into its own, drawing fans from across the spectrum.

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It's a light strategy game with a touch of luck. Players take on the role of one of eight cricket teams competing in a championship. In each round, players bat and bowl one over using six dice. As the game progresses, players gain experience, allowing them to enhance their skills. The game lasts for five rounds (45-60 minutes) and offers four different ways to earn winning points.

Andaaz Apna Apna: One secret word. A bunch of one-word clues. But here’s the catch — some players are out to help, and some are here to totally mislead. In this fun party game, one player is the Guesser, while everyone else secretly joins Team Nice or Team Naughty.

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Dark Heists, the spooky deck builder game where you play Victorian era crime lords building criminal organizations to do high stakes heists and have the most notoriety by the end of the game. A board game for 1 to 4 players. Plays 60 to 90 minutes. For mature audiences.

Moe is also kindly representing the following games at his booth.

Stadium (2 players, 30-60 minutes): The player vs player strategic card game where you play cyber-football against your canny opponent. Do you have the moves to win the game?

Tack (2 players, 10-20 minutes): The light dice placement board game, where you play against an opponent to get your ship upright. 

TacTile (2-4 players, 20-30 minutes): The abstract engine building board game where you race, build and combo your way across the board before your opponents do. 

How to Play Dark Heists

Empower Empathy™ is an action-packed board game where players become superheroes, battling Goobi, a villain spreading emotional havoc across the City of Empathropolis. Using CBT-based mechanics, players tackle Think-Feel-Act challenges, decode emotions with FaceOff Cards, and gain strengths through Power-Up discussions. Through teamwork and strategic play, players must restore the city blocks by building empathy, resilience, and emotional intelligence. Perfect for families, educators, and therapists, Empower Empathy™ turns emotional growth into an epic adventure!  

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Highly tactical, last player standing battle royale with no player elimination in an ever-shifting arena. All players scramble around a board collecting Gadget Cards that can alter the layout of the board, enhance their own abilities, change existing conditions, or - most importantly - attack other players.

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Girls vs Ghouls is a team-based game of hidden identities, strategic board play, and Halloween mischief. Players are secretly assigned to one of two teams—Girls or Ghouls—and compete to lure trick-or-treaters to their side using a mix of open Treats and secret Tricks.

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Lunar Skyline is a dual-suited trick-taking game where strategic bidding and calculated play are key. Players bid on the number of tricks they need to complete building contracts, with each card offering two suits to choose from—giving players more options to strategize. Hit your bid exactly to earn valuable bonus contracts, but go over and face penalties that could cost you the game. Master the balance perfectly to outsmart your rivals and leave your mark on the lunar skyline!

Cat Rescue: Carefully place cats in the shelter, line them up for adoption, and make sure no foster home gets overcrowded. Play cooperatively or compete against friends, adding even more excitement to every rescue. With charming artwork and engaging gameplay, Cat Rescue is the purr-fect game for cat lovers and board gamers alike!

How to Play: Lunar Skyline, Cat Rescue

Ministry of Lost Things is a new tabletop puzzle adventure series from award-winning game publisher PostCurious. Blending escape rooms, board games, and interactive fiction, Lint Condition is the first case in an episodic exploration of the Elusiverse: a realm where every lost item has a story.

The movie-making game with a side of sabotage! Here, you're a studio executive who's interested in making and boosting your own movie whilst sabotaging or thwarting your rivals in the industry.

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You’re a mallard who dreams of being Madonna—A canvasback who yearns to be the next Celine Dion—A blue-winged teal looking to make it big like Beyoncé. To get there, you must learn all the dance formations of a true diva. But your only dance partners are rubber duckies! Rustle up your feathers, get in formation, and become the next Mariah Duck-arey!

In Okay, Duckies, Now Let’s Get In Formation, players take turns adding rubber duckies to a bathtub aiming to arrange the duckies into delightful formations. This crunchy spatial puzzle for two players will have you searching for patterns of duckies on an ever changing board.

How to Play

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Use wacky-shaped stencils to draw your secretly assigned word. Trace four shapes and present your drawing. As a team, guess the correct subject of each player’s drawing from a list of doodle doppelgängers!

Pumpkin Rally is a 1v1 strategy game where two rivals—Harlie the dog and Booboo the ghost—embark on an intense quest to collect pumpkins in a spooky, mystical realm. 

Oishii is a delightful card-based tabletop game that each player runs their own food stall, create tasty menu sets and serve big orders to earn money.

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Playing soccer with playing cards! Using six cards in your hand, challenge for possession to move a soccer ball up and down a 3x3 field in order to get the best shot on goal. Whoever scores the most goals wins the half. Play another to decide the match!

Soccer 54: Premier is an exclusive 18-card variant of the free print-and-play game Soccer 54, which only requires a standard deck of playing cards. 

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Use familiars and other forms of sorcery to craft “spells” in this word building game for two to five players. Draft cards from a shared pool then use the letters and special powers collected to craft the most valuable word!

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Wabi Blobi is a cozy, collaborative art game where players turn paint blobs into creative doodles while sharing silly, imaginative stories. Using fun prompts, players create unique artworks and unexpected stories, sparking creativity and connection. The game emphasizes mindfulness, creative expression, and the joy of connecting through art.

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Z Photo Game™ is a card-based board game that engages higher-order thinking and storytelling skills using a deck of 209 beautifully printed color photographs by me. Imagine that you and your friends are fine art photographers competing for gallery space and recognition, and exhibit curators struggling to host a popular and meaningful art show. Square 1 is high school Intro to Photography and your goal is to earn the most points and become the next Ansel Adams with your portfolio of photos. It’s easy to play with a quick start out of the box. 3-8 players, ages 10+.

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