Board games
We are pleased to inform our library users that we have added a new service!
You can now also play our board games - available for on-site use during opening hours.
You need a card number, acceptance of the library policy and a signature to use the games! You can try out games locally in the Kid’s Corner.
Have a good time!
CENTRAL LIBRARY
Name of the game | Recommended age | Number of players | Playtime | Short description | More infos |
7 wonders: Architects |
8+ | 2-7 | 25 min |
7 Wonders: Architects is a lighter, more fast-paced version of the globally successful 7 Wonders, where players can build the wonders that represent their empire, but also improve their military power, trade and develop science. |
Rulebook |
Azul - The Queen's Garden |
8+ | 2-7 | 45-60 min |
In Azul: Queen's Garden, players are tasked with arranging a magnificent garden for the King's lovely wife by arranging beautiful plants, trees, and ornamental features. Using an innovative drafting mechanism, the signature of the Azul series, players must carefully select colorful tiles to decorate their garden. Only the most incredible garden designers will flourish and win the Queen's blessing. |
Rulebook |
Brainbox Hungary |
8+ | 1-6 | 5-60 min |
BrainBox - Hungary is a board game that will both expand your knowledge of Hungary and help you learn English. You'll have to answer questions like what was in the purple bowl, what kind of brandy was in the picture, etc. |
Details about the game |
Codenames pictures
|
10+ | 2-8 | 15 min |
Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent – or worse, with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents, but only one team can win. |
Rulebook |
Cortex 3 |
8+ | 2-6 | 15 min |
Cortex 3 is a fast-paced observation-logic family party game. Players can test their speed in eight types of puzzles, card by card, using different areas of their brain. Observation, deduction, pathfinding... and special scented cards! Combine with other Cortex board games. |
Rulebook |
Dixit |
8+ | 3-8 | 30-40 min |
Players are dealt beautiful painting cards, and the "storyteller" chooses one from their hand to tell a clue: a word or even a whole story. Then the others choose one of their own based on the clue. The cards are shuffled together and the players guess: which one could be the storyteller's? |
Rulebook |
Dobble Harry Potter |
6+ | 2-8 | 15 min |
Dobble Harry Potter is a spinning, pocket-sized card game with 5 game variations. The cards feature 8-8 different images from the world of Harry Potter, and any two cards always have one of the same image on them. The challenge for players is to find the common pictures faster than the others. |
Details about the game |
Ecosystem: Savanna
|
8+ | 1-6 | 12-20 min |
Be on the prowl in Ecosystem: Savanna, a Serengeti-inspired card-drafting game. Players choose, pass, and arrange cards representing a diversity of organisms found in an African grassland, including zebras, elephants, cheetahs, and lions. Earn points by aligning herbivores with habitable landforms like watering holes or placing carnivores to devour nearby prey. |
Rulebook |
French cards |
6+ | 2-6 | 5-40 min |
Classic French card. Games available: rummy, canasta, poker, bridge, blackjack (twenty-one) |
Card games |
Furnace |
12+ | 2-4 | 30-60 min |
Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies, extracting resources, and processing them in the best combinations possible. |
Rulebook |
Győr City Lovers |
10+ | 2-6 | 40-90 min |
Dear Player, we introduce you such a board game which helps you to get to know the sights, the history, the culture and all the values of Győr in an enjoyable way. This game is recommended for anyone who would like to explore this marvellous historic city playfully. The guests and the inhabitants of Győr may discover several new things while they are playing with this game. It is recommended for family reunions, or for gatherings, when you can get useful information about Győr while you are playing with an exciting board game. |
Details about the game |
Hungarian cards |
6+ | 2-6 | 5-30 min |
A true, classic Hungarian card for nostalgic experiences. With a deck of 32 paper cards, the game will be like a trip back in time to your childhood! |
Card games |
Jenga
|
6+ | 1-6 | 5-90 min |
ower building game played with 54 wooden blocks; each block is 3 times as long as it is wide, and slightly smaller in height than in width. The blocks are stacked in a tower formation; each story is three blocks placed adjacent to each other along their long side, and each story is placed perpendicular to the previous (so, for example, if the blocks in the first story are pointing north-south, the second story blocks will point east-west). |
Rulebook |
Kingdomino Duel |
8+ | 2 | 20 min |
A fast-paced board game where you build your own cities. How successful will you be?Your kingdom will consist of estates (adjacent fields with the same coat of arms), for which you will receive victory points at the end of the game. Win the favour of the magicians to help you on your way with all sorts of charms! |
Rulebook |
Knarr |
8+ | 2-4 | 30-35 min |
Knarr is an easy-to-learn family card game with sets. Players recruit Vikings onto their ships to explore settlements and boost trade. |
Rulebook |
Monopoly
|
8+ | 2-8 | 100-200 min |
Players take the part of land owners, attempting to buy and then develop their land. Income is gained by other players visiting their properties and money is spent when they visit properties belonging to other players. When times get tough, players may have to mortgage their properties to raise cash for fines, taxes and other misfortunes. |
Rulebook |
Mysterium Park
|
10+ | 2-6 | 25-30 min |
The park’s former director has disappeared, but the investigation came to nothing. Since that night, weird things are happening on the fairground. As psychics, you’re convinced that a ghost haunts this carnival... You’re now intent on giving it a chance to reveal the truth. |
Rulebook |
Rubik's Race
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7+ | 2 | 5 min |
Rubik's Race is a fast-paced board game designed to get your brain and fingers racing. Shake the scrambler, reveal a pattern, and take on your opponent head-to-head. Shift and slide the tiles to become the first racer to match the 3x3 pattern.It sounds easy enough, but the Rubik's Race is a board game of skill, speed and dexterity. Be the first to drop the divider frame on their completed side of the board. |
Rulebook |
Solo
|
6+ | 2-10 | 40-40 |
Possibly the most popular card game of our time! Each player gets 8 cards and the first to run out of cards is the winner. But it's not that simple! |
Rulebook |
Splendor Duel |
10+ | 2 | 30-35 min |
Splendor: Duel is an easy-to-learn board game for two. Players can use their gems from the board to get more gem cards, which they can use to buy more and more expensive and valuable gems - until they have enough reputation to win. |
Rulebook |
Story Cubes Actions |
6+ | 1-0 | 20 min |
What would happen if your spy sneezed in the middle of a mission? If a scientist broke his test tube in the middle of an experiment? Anything is possible with these cubes, and any situation too! Anything is possible! Try out these cubes and tell stories with your friends! |
Details about the game |
The Red Cathedral |
10+ | 1-4 | 30-120 min |
Autumn is not the best time to climb up on a scaffold in Moscow, but it is still far better than doing so in the winter. Tsar Ivan wants to see results and our team will prove to him that we are the best builders in the city. We are sure to finish off those decorative arches with the brightest shining stones and ensure our place on the list of the government’s trusted workers. |
Rulebook |
Ticket to Ride Paris |
8+ | 2-4 | 10-15 min |
Ticket to Ride - Paris is a simple, quick-to-play, varied family board game with simple rules. Players collect and play different coloured tickets to get around Paris faster than the others. |
Rulebook |
Twister |
6+ | 2-6 | 5-30 min |
A skill game where you can get into increasingly twisted poses and get completely tangled up with your fellow players. Spin around to see what happens next as you try to keep your hands and feet on the carpet! Twister is the game of tangles! |
Rulebook |
Werewolf - One night Ultimate
|
10+ | 3-8 | 10-20 min |
Fast game for 3-10 players in which everyone gets a role: One of the dastardly Werewolves, the tricky Troublemaker, the helpful Seer, or one of a dozen different characters, each with a special ability. In the course of a single morning, your village will decide who is a werewolf...because all it takes is lynching one werewolf to win! |
Rulebook |
LIBRARY OF APÁCZAI CSERE JÁNOS FACULTY
Kingdomino |
8+ | 2-4 | 15 min |
You are a lord seeking new lands in which to expand your kingdom. You must explore all the lands, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to spot the best plots, while competing with other lords to acquire them first. |
Rulebook |
Stella: Dixit Universe
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8+ | 3-6 | 30 min |
A competitive game in the Dixit universe. In each round, players interpret Dixit cards on a board after receiving a common clue word. Each player observes the Dixit cards and secretly associates these cards with the clue word, marking on their erasable personal slates the cards that they choose. Selecting the same cards as the other players allows you to score more points. Conversely, selecting a card that no one else chooses may cost you dearly. |
Rulebook |
LIBRARY OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCES FACULTY
World's wonder |
12+ | 1-5 | 50-70 min |
Players will take turns spending their gold each round to build tiles that will increase their city's economy. A city that produces more food and generates commerce brings more population. Make your city grow! |
Rulebook |
In the Footsteps of Darwin
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8+ | 2-5 | 20-30 min |
Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origin of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who other than young naturalists, eager for discovery, could help the renowned scholar finish writing his most famous work? |
Rulebook |
Dixit: Odyssey
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8+ | 3-12 | 30-40 |
Each turn one player is the storyteller. This player secretly chooses one card in his hand, then gives a word or sentence to describe this card—but not too obviously. Each other player chooses a card in hand that matches this word/sentence and gives it to the storyteller. |
Rulebook |
Dobble Animals
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6+ | 2-8 | 15 min |
Each card in original Spot it! features eight different symbols, with the symbols varying in size from one card to the next. Any two cards have exactly one symbol in common. For the basic Spot it! game, reveal one card, then another. Whoever spots the symbol in common on both cards claims the first card, then another card is revealed for players to search, and so on. Whoever has collected the most cards when the 55-card deck runs out wins! |
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Wingspan
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14+ | 1-5 | 40-70 min |
A competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez. |
Rulebook |
Wingspan: European Expansion
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14+ | 1-5 | 40-70 min |
In this first expansion to Wingspan, we increase the scope of the world to include the regal, beautiful, and varied birds of Europe. These birds feature a variety of new abilities, including a number of birds with round end abilities, abilities that increase interaction between players, and birds that benefit from excess cards/food. Along with the new bonus cards, they’re designed to be shuffled into the original decks of cards (and cards from future expansions). |