Board Game Menu

All the board games we have available for you to hire and play at Piranha Café.

Click the 'find out more' button below each to get a brief overview of the game and, for some of them, watch our how to play videos (or someone else's if we haven't made one yet) too!

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Newspeak Newspeak

Newspeak

30 - 60 Mins Ages 14+ Deduction 3 - 6 Players
Newspeak is a game of dystopian subversion.

Newspeak

30 - 60 Mins Ages 14+ Deduction 3 - 6 Players

Newspeak is a game of dystopian subversion in which you take the role of either the ‘dissidents’ or the ‘moderators’ in a mind-bending battle of wits to determine the reality around you.

The Genius Star & Square The Genius Star & Square

The Genius Star & Square

5 - 30 Mins Ages 6+ Puzzle 1 - 2 Players
Place all your pieces into the shape with over 62,000 different combinations!

The Genius Star & Square

5 - 30 Mins Ages 6+ Puzzle 1 - 2 Players

In these puzzling games you’ll race your opponent or challenge yourself to place all your pieces into the shape with over 62,000 different combinations!

Homeworlds Homeworlds

Homeworlds

15 - 30 Mins Ages 10+ Abstract Strategy 2 - 4 Players
A super abstract game of martian chess using little pyramids.

Homeworlds

15 - 30 Mins Ages 10+ Abstract Strategy 2 - 4 Players

A super abstract game of martian chess. Protect your home world, grow your fleet and conquer your enemy’s ones... all represented by some colourful plastic pyramids.

Flies With More Interesting Lies Flies With More Interesting Lies

Flies With More Interesting Lies

15 - 20 Mins Ages 8+ Drawing 2 - 4 Players
Draw the scenarios and finish your illustration with a fly.

Flies With More Interesting Lies

15 - 20 Mins Ages 8+ Drawing 2 - 4 Players

Quick draw gameplay with a novel twist - draw the scenarios and finish your illustration with a fly.

The three scenario cards determine what the fly will be up to each round.
Escape the Starline Express Escape the Starline Express

Escape the Starline Express

15 - 20 Mins Ages 12+ Escape Room 1 - 6 Players
Solve puzzles and riddles to uncover what really happened on the Starline Express.

Escape the Starline Express

15 - 20 Mins Ages 12+ Escape Room 1 - 6 Players

Gather your guests for an evening of intrigue with this quick-thinking, quick-solving escape room game!

Solve puzzles and riddles to uncover what really happened on the Starline Express.

Unrest Unrest

Unrest

10 - 20 Mins Ages 10+ Tug of War 2 Players
Can the Rebellion topple the regime? Or will the Empire continue their rule?

Unrest

10 - 20 Mins Ages 10+ Tug of War 2 Players

In Unrest, two players are pitted head-to-head in the asymmetric struggle for control over five City Districts.

Can the Rebellion topple the regime? Or will the Empire continue their rule?

Mass Transit Mass Transit

Mass Transit

15 - 20 Mins Ages 8+ Cooperative 1 - 6 Players
Can you work together to get the commuters home in time?

Mass Transit

15 - 20 Mins Ages 8+ Cooperative 1 - 6 Players

Can you work together to get the commuters home in time?

Players must work skillfully together to do so, but the twist is that communication is limited:

You can’t share your hands or strategy!

Dead and Breakfast Dead and Breakfast

Dead and Breakfast

20 - 40 Mins Ages 6+ Tile-Laying 2 - 4 Players
Build a mortifying motel and fill it with horrifying inhabitants.

Dead and Breakfast

20 - 40 Mins Ages 6+ Tile-Laying 2 - 4 Players

In this game of ghoulish guesthousery, players build a mortifying motel, fill it with horrifying inhabitants, adorn its walls and invite puzzled patrons in from the cold to meet their frightening finale.
Junk Forts Junk Forts

Junk Forts

20 - 40 Mins Ages 10+ Card Drafting 2 - 5 Players
In Junk Forts, you play as kids competing to build the best fort in the junkyard.

Junk Forts

20 - 40 Mins Ages 10+ Card Drafting 2 - 5 Players

In Junk Forts, you play as kids competing to build the best fort in the junkyard.

Assemble your team, trawl for treasures and defend your fort in this card-drafting game for 2-5 players.

Odin's Ravens Odin's Ravens

Odin's Ravens

30 Mins Ages 10+ Race 2 Players
Race across separate tracks, comprised of domino-style landscape cards.

Odin's Ravens

30 Mins Ages 10+ Race 2 Players

In this two-player card game, two ravens race across separate tracks, comprised of domino-style landscape cards.

Will you win the race by clever use of your cards to be Odin’s favourite?

Wing It Wing It

Wing It

15 - 90 Mins Ages 12+ Storytelling 4 - 7 Players
Talk your way out of absurd situations using the odd array of items on the cards in your hand.

Wing It

15 - 90 Mins Ages 12+ Storytelling 4 - 7 Players
The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

60 - 90 Mins Ages 12+ Cooperative 2 - 5 Players
Play as Hobbits, trying to get The One Ring to Mount Doom.

The Lord of the Rings

60 - 90 Mins Ages 12+ Cooperative 2 - 5 Players

In this cooperative board game you’ll be playing as Hobbits, trying to get The One Ring to Mount Doom.

Make your way across a series of conflict boards, placing cards and using your abilities to survive.

The Fortune Hotel The Fortune Hotel

The Fortune Hotel

30 Mins Ages 14+ Mini Challenges 3 - 8 Players
Awaiting each of you at reception is a briefcase. Inside one, is a fortune.

The Fortune Hotel

30 Mins Ages 14+ Mini Challenges 3 - 8 Players

Awaiting each of you at reception is a briefcase. Inside one, is a fortune.

To make sure that you’re the one holding it by the time you check out, you’ll need to win random mini-challenges!

Expeditions: Around the World Expeditions: Around the World

Expeditions: Around the World

30 - 45 Mins Ages 8+ Route-Building 2 - 6 Players
Try to direct three expeditions around the world.

Expeditions: Around the World

30 - 45 Mins Ages 8+ Route-Building 2 - 6 Players

Try to direct three expeditions around the world to the cities and archaeological sites you want to visit, based on the cards in front of you.

Betrayal: Deck of Lost Souls Betrayal: Deck of Lost Souls

Betrayal: Deck of Lost Souls

20 - 30 Mins Ages 12+ Hidden Role 3 - 5 Players
Take on secret roles and try to defeat the one true Curse, trapped within the deck.

Betrayal: Deck of Lost Souls

20 - 30 Mins Ages 12+ Hidden Role 3 - 5 Players

A standalone game from the Betrayal series, in Deck of Lost Souls you’ll take on secret roles and try to defeat the one true Curse, trapped within the deck of cards.

Reykholt Reykholt

Reykholt

30 - 60 Mins Ages 12+ Strategy 1 - 4 Players
Compete against rival geothermal farmers to produce the best vegetables in Iceland!

Reykholt

30 - 60 Mins Ages 12+ Strategy 1 - 4 Players

Compete against rival geothermal farmers to produce the best vegetables in Iceland!

Who’d have guessed that would be the subject of a board game eh?!
Manifest Manifest

Manifest

45 - 90 Mins Ages 13+ Delivery/Race 2 - 5 Players
It’s the roaring ‘20s and there’s a fortune to be made steaming across the wild oceans.

Manifest

45 - 90 Mins Ages 13+ Delivery/Race 2 - 5 Players

It’s the roaring ‘20s and there’s a fortune to be made steaming across the wild oceans.

To succeed, you’ll need a captain’s steady nerve and the help of Lady Luck to land your cargo where it’s needed.

Paupers' Ladder Paupers' Ladder

Paupers' Ladder

60 - 90 Mins Ages 14+ Adventure 2 - 4 Player
Explore the wild and treacherous land of Brighthelm.

Paupers' Ladder

60 - 90 Mins Ages 14+ Adventure 2 - 4 Player

In Paupers’ Ladder, players are a pauper in Garolium’s tournament.

Along with your bird companion, explore the wild and treacherous land of Brighthelm as you strive to learn three of the five virtues.

Molehill Meadows Molehill Meadows

Molehill Meadows

20 - 30 Mins Ages 8+ Flip & Write 1+ Players
Play as Mika the Mole, an intrepid adventurer with an affinity for shiny things.

Molehill Meadows

20 - 30 Mins Ages 8+ Flip & Write 1+ Players

In Molehill Meadows you play as Mika the Mole, an intrepid adventurer with an affinity for shiny things, a hunger for juicy worms and an innate desire to dig. And dig you will by using polyomino shapes.

Lunar Base Lunar Base

Lunar Base

15 - 30 Mins Ages 10+ Strategy 2 - 6 Players
In Lunar Base you draft and play cards to expand your base.

Lunar Base

15 - 30 Mins Ages 10+ Strategy 2 - 6 Players

In Lunar Base you draft and play cards to expand your base.

Make shipments from Earth work to your advantage. Recruit agents and send them to infiltrate opponents’ bases to hasten your expansion.
Star Trek Lower Decks Star Trek Lower Decks

Star Trek Lower Decks

20 - 40 Mins Ages 14+ Co-op Push Your Luck 2 - 6 Players
Work together to complete your assignments.

Star Trek Lower Decks

20 - 40 Mins Ages 14+ Co-op Push Your Luck 2 - 6 Players

In this push-your-luck card game, 2-6 players work together to complete their assignments while also making time for some well-earned rest and relaxation.

Cartaventura: D-Day Cartaventura: D-Day

Cartaventura: D-Day

45 - 60 Mins Ages 10+ Adventure 1 - 6 Players
A choose your own adventure in which you are the hero. This one’s all about D-Day.

Cartaventura: D-Day

45 - 60 Mins Ages 10+ Adventure 1 - 6 Players

Cartaventura is a pocket-sized collection of historical adventures in the style of a choose your own adventure book in which you are the hero.

This one’s all about D-Day.

Pentago Pentago

Pentago

10 Mins Ages 8+ Strategy 2 Players
Pentago is connect 4 with a twist, changing the board after every turn!

Pentago

10 Mins Ages 8+ Strategy 2 Players

Pentago is connect 4 with a twist: After placing a marble, the player has the option to twist one of the grids by 90°, thus changing the board after every turn!

Mars Expedition: Sol 43 Mars Expedition: Sol 43

Mars Expedition: Sol 43

5 - 200 mins Mins Ages 8+ Logic Puzzles 1 - 2 Players
Mars Expedition: SOL43 features 43 logic testing missions.

Mars Expedition: Sol 43

5 - 200 mins Mins Ages 8+ Logic Puzzles 1 - 2 Players

Mars Expedition: SOL43 features 43 missions during which you will experience being a cryptographer, navigator, geologist, mineralogist, geochemist, physicist, and futurist.
BTTF: Dice Through Time BTTF: Dice Through Time

BTTF: Dice Through Time

45 - 60 Mins Ages 10+ Co-op Dice Game 2- 4 Players
Take control of a DeLorean and travel through the Back to the Future film trilogy.

BTTF: Dice Through Time

45 - 60 Mins Ages 10+ Co-op Dice Game 2- 4 Players

In this cooperative dice game, you’ll take control of a DeLorean and travel through the entire Back to the Future film trilogy, completing memorable events and returning key items before you’re OUTATIME!

World Splitters World Splitters

World Splitters

45 - 75 Mins Ages 8+ Bid + Area Control 2 - 5 Players
In World Splitters, you’re re-designing the administrative divisions of the New World.

World Splitters

45 - 75 Mins Ages 8+ Bid + Area Control 2 - 5 Players

In World Splitters, you’re re-designing the administrative divisions of the New World with other competing factions.

Split and bid for the land while obtaining influence in each region.

Langskip Langskip

Langskip

20 - 30 Mins Ages 8+ Race 2 - 4 Players
Langskip is a bluffing game. You’ve been mistakenly sent to the realm of Helheim.

Langskip

20 - 30 Mins Ages 8+ Race 2 - 4 Players

Langskip is a bluffing game. You’ve been mistakenly sent to the realm of Helheim, reserved for those who died dishonourably.

Race to Asgard to convince Odin otherwise before everyone else!

Previously On... Previously On...

Previously On...

20 Mins Ages 12+ Quiz 2+ Players
Find out who’s the biggest box-set fan by being the first to guess the series.

Previously On...

20 Mins Ages 12+ Quiz 2+ Players

How well do you know your TV shows?

Find out who’s the biggest box-set fan by being the first to guess the series based on the abstract picture cards.
Talisman 5th Edition Talisman 5th Edition

Talisman 5th Edition

90 Mins Ages 12+ Adventure 2 - 6 Players
Set forth on an epic adventure, racing to be the first to obtain a Talisman..

Talisman 5th Edition

90 Mins Ages 12+ Adventure 2 - 6 Players

Set forth on an epic adventure, racing to be the first to obtain a Talisman, reach the Crown of Command in the center of the board, and defeat the elder dragon to win.

Jungle Joust Jungle Joust

Jungle Joust

30 - 45 Mins Ages 12+ Betting 12- 6 Players
Become the rhino jousting kingpin and the richest in the land.

Jungle Joust

30 - 45 Mins Ages 12+ Betting 12- 6 Players

Become the rhino jousting kingpin and the richest in the land by playing cards to help your champion, hurt your opponents one, controlling the market and betting wisely.

Amul Amul

Amul

30 - 45 Mins Ages 10+ Card Drafting 3 - 8 Players
In Amul you’re an ambitious merchant, competing for wealth and success.

Amul

30 - 45 Mins Ages 10+ Card Drafting 3 - 8 Players

In Amul you’re an ambitious merchant, competing for wealth and success.

Collect goods, hire guards, assemble caravans and make contracts while managing your hand effectively.

Silver Dagger Silver Dagger

Silver Dagger

30 - 60 Mins Ages 8+ Hand Management 2 - 4 Players
A quick-playing ‘take-that’ game with hidden character mechanisms.

Silver Dagger

30 - 60 Mins Ages 8+ Hand Management 2 - 4 Players

A quick-playing ‘take-that’ game with hidden character mechanisms.

Try to get rid of the werewolves encircling your village faster than your opponents and vote when you think that you’re ahead.
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