Name That Classic Board Game (3)

[B] Cranium | Charades meets trivia meets Play-Doh meets humiliation. Purple brain box proves you're terrible at everything simultaneously. Club Cranium questions impossible without Wikipedia.

[A] Balderdash | Making up definitions for "zugzwang" while keeping straight face. Real answer always sounds faker than whatever nonsense Greg just invented.

[B] Twilight Struggle | Cold War in cardboard where DEFCON 1 means you lose. Scoring cards arrive exactly when your opponent controls everything important.

[C] Parcheesi | Royal Game of India that America simplified into Sorry! Blockades teach kids about frustration while safe spaces provide false hope.

[D] The Castles of Burgundy | Beige hexagons fight for ugliest game award. Somehow addictive despite looking like a tax form. Dice mitigation through suffering.

[A] Qwirkle | Scrabble without letters for people who can't spell. Making six-tile qwirkles harder than it looks. Colors and shapes, yet still arguments.

[A] Chutes and Ladders | Teaching kids that life is random and unfair since 1943. Slide from 87 to 24 builds character supposedly.

[D] Scotland Yard | Mr. X disappears in London while detectives argue about taxi tickets. Fog tokens make everything worse. Bobby helmets included for atmosphere.

[A] Tsuro | Path-laying where avoiding edges gets harder each turn. Dragon tiles save you once. Elimination game that actually ends quickly, thankfully.

[A] Civilization | Seven hours from stone age to space age. Trade chart makes economics degree useful finally. Calamities hit whoever's winning hardest.

[D] Citadels | Assassin kills architect who built nothing anyway. King goes first but everyone knows that makes you the target. Thief steals from merchant obviously.

[A] Reversi | Othello's older brother where corners matter most. Entire board flips color in final moves. Shakespeare didn't actually invent this one.

[D] Memoir '44 | D-Day with dice where tactics cards limit your brilliant strategies. Terrain hexes matter until dice roll triple flags anyway.

[A] Ultimate Werewolf | Village idiots lynching villagers while werewolves watch. Seer dies night one traditionally. More roles than players know what to do with.

[C] Race for the Galaxy | Iconography requiring three games to understand. Simultaneous actions mean nobody knows who's winning until it's over. Consume-Trade still confuses everyone.

[D] Blood Rage | Vikings competing to die gloriously in Ragnarok. Losing battles on purpose actually smart strategy. Loki's tricks ruin friendships faster than Monopoly.

[B] Smash Up | Dinosaur wizards fight robot pirates for base control. Math required constantly. Every expansion makes calculating power more annoying somehow.

[D] Diplomacy | Seven players enter, zero friendships survive. Writing orders takes five minutes, losing friends takes seven hours. Austria-Hungary never wins.

[C] Hanabi | Backwards card game where everyone sees your hand except you. Fireworks explode when communication fails. Conventions develop naturally then become law.

[B] Acquire | Hotel chains merge while you count stock certificates. Tower goes defunct right after you buy nine shares. Worldwide always safe, always boring.

[C] Caverna | Agricola's dwarf cousin with rubies and adventures. Dogs guard sheep efficiently. Room tiles let you finally build that ore storage dream.

[D] Rack-O | Sequential numbers in rack sounds simple until you're stuck with 47-12-38-3. One card away from winning for seventeen turns straight.

[B] War of the Ring | Fellowship sneaks while Sauron searches desperately. Dice pools determine Middle-earth's fate. Three hours if Fellowship rushes, five if not.

[C] Descent: Journeys in the Dark | Dungeon crawler where overlord player ruins everyone's fun professionally. Heroes argue about opening doors. Campaign spans several relationship-testing months.

[D] HeroQuest | Nostalgia in a box with furniture you assemble once. Barbarian searches for treasure while wizard does actual work. Gargoyle still scary.

[A] Wits and Wagers | Trivia where being close counts and betting on idiots pays off. Mount Everest height stumps everyone. Confidence chips make wrong answers profitable.

[B] Mice & Mystics | Tiny sword-wielding rodents fight through kitchen campaigns. Cheese wheels heal wounds somehow. Cat boss battle remains appropriately terrifying for scale.

[A] Lost Cities | Two-player expeditions where starting a color commits you to misery. Handshake cards multiply failure efficiently. Discarding helps opponents more than you.

[D] Santorini | Greek island building where god powers break every rule. Three levels to win sounds easy until Pan changes everything. Abstract enough for serious players.

[D] Tokaido | Competitive vacation where being last means going first. Painting mountains scores points for some reason. Hot springs strategy surprisingly viable.

[B] Castles of Mad King Ludwig | Build nonsensical Bavarian castles with dungeons next to food rooms. Pricing mechanism ensures mutual suffering. Stairs cost extra because architecture.

[B] Talisman | Roll and move adventure lasting entire weekends. Crown of Command tortures remaining players. Death means starting over after four hours investment.

[C] Galaxy Trucker | Build spaceship quickly, watch it explode slowly. Meteors hit exactly where you skimped on shields. Sewage systems necessary but nobody remembers why.

[B] Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Adventure Boardgame | D&D without the roleplay or imagination parts. Preset adventures mean no arguing about rules interpretations at least.

[C] Pay Day | Capitalism simulator from 1975 where bills arrive faster than paychecks. Lottery tickets remain terrible investment. Mad money vanishes immediately always.

[C] Patchwork | Competitive quilting where buttons are currency. Time track determines everything. That L-shaped piece never fits where you need it.

[B] Star Wars X-wing | Miniature dogfighting where measuring templates matter more than Force powers. Dice favor Empire statistically. Tournament players bring actual lasers somehow.

[A] Monopoly Empire | Monopoly but faster because brands replace properties. Billboard tower grows with corporate purchases. Coca-Cola costs more than actual Coca-Cola stock.

[C] Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on The Cursed Island | Survival game where weather kills you before cannibals do. Building shelter takes three actions you don't have. Mystery cards punish success.

[C] Shogun | Cube tower determines battles randomly but feels strategic. Japan splits into territories nobody can pronounce. Rice feeds armies or scores points, choose poorly.