Rio Grande Games

Arctic Scavengers Card Game: With Recon Expansion

In the year 2097, the entire earth was enveloped in a cataclysmic climate shift plunging the globe into another ice age. Over 90% of the world's population was eliminated, driving the survivors to band together into loose communities and tribes. Each player is the leader of a small tribe of survivors.  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 5

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 13

Coloretto Card Game

The players draw cards from a card supply in the middle of the table. During the game, the players try to specialize in a few colors, as at the end of the game, a player can score plus points for only 3 colors; the rest score minus points. The more cards a player has of a color, the more points he  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 5

Duration: 30 minutes

Min. Age: 13

GamesLore Rating: 6

Friday Card Game

Friday, the second game in Friese's Friday-project, (Black Friday was the first) is about Robinson and Friday. The player is Friday and must help Robinson to survive and prepare him for the last two battles against the pirates.

No. of Players: 1

Duration: 25 minutes

Min. Age: 10

Power Grid: The Card Game

The players represent CEOs of mighty power companies producing electricity. During the game, the players bid for power plants at auctions and supply them with resources. Their income depends on the amount of electricity produced in each round. At the end of the game, the player who produces the most  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 6

Duration: 60 minutes

Min. Age: 13

Race For The Galaxy Card Game

In Race For The Galaxy, players build galactic civilizations by game cards that represent worlds or technical and social developments.

With cards, players can settle new worlds and build more developments, gaining both victory points and card powers that provide advantages in certain phases.  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 4

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 12

GamesLore Rating: 8

Race For The Galaxy Card Game: Alien Artifacts Expansion

Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts, an expansion for Race for the Galaxy, is incompatible with earlier expansions for that game, instead taking the game in a new direction.

No. of Players: 2 to 5

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 13

Race For The Galaxy Card Game: Brink Of War Expansion

As conflicts spread, galactic prestige becomes all-important, both to extract concessions and to fend off attackers. Meanwhile, the Alien departure point is located and the Uplift Overseers arise. Can you build the most prosperous and powerful space empire in a galaxy on the brink of total war?

This  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 6

Duration: 60 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Race For The Galaxy Card Game: Expansion 1: Gathering Storm

This first expansion for Race for the Galaxy adds cards, a 5th player, and other ways to expand your universe.

No. of Players: 2 to 5

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Race For The Galaxy Card Game: Rebel vs Imperium Expansion

As the Imperium crushes outlying systems, Rebel worlds begin to ally, politically and militarily. Meanwhile, the Uplift Code, within the genomes of the Alien Overlords' former servitor races, is being sequenced. Can you build the most prosperous and powerful space empire in a galaxy where border  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 6

Duration: 60 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Race For The Galaxy Card Game: Xeno Invasion Expansion

This is Arc#3 of Race for the Galaxy. After settlers enountered a violent xenophobic race, the “Xenos”, the galaxy finds itself under relentless assault. No negotiation is possible. Long-lost Alien secrets may hold the key to defeating these attacks. Can you build the most prosperous and powerful  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 5

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 13

Race For The Galaxy Jump Drive Card Game

With the invention of JumpDrive, the race for the galaxy begins! Develop new technologies and settle worlds to build a space empire. Find winning cardcombinations! This fast paced card game introduces players to the Race for the Galaxyuniverse. Can you build the most prosperous galactic civilization?This  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 4

Duration: 20 minutes

Min. Age: 13

Musical Chairs Card Game

Musical Chairs is a whimsical card game for 2-4 players that sends the players back to their youth!

Timing is everything with card play simulating the crescendo of the music. Moving around the game board, players battle for the best chair cushions in order to plump up their scoring. The remaining  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 4

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 14

Art Decko Card Game

Art Decko, first released as Promenade, is a light strategy game for 2 to 4 painting collectors in which you try to create a valuable deck of gold and painting cards over the course of play. These cards - gold and paintings - both count as currencies in the game, and you can use them to purchase  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 4

Duration: 45 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 10

Full Throttle Card Game

The wild moped riders are ready to race with their souped-up mopeds! Knowing that neither your courage nor your health insurance lets you take part in such a dangerous race, you and your friends instead choose the safe way to enjoy these races and start betting on the mopeds. While the six mopeds  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 6

Duration: 20 to 40 minutes

Min. Age: 10

Race For The Galaxy Card Game: Expansion And Brinkmanship

As empires expand into space, they encounter mysterious alien artifacts and races uplifted to sentience eons ago. Meanwhile, Imperium factions provoke other worlds to ally and rebel as the galaxy drifts towards war. Can you build the most prosperous space empire in these challenging times? Expansion  ...More...

No. of Players: 1 to 6

Duration: 30 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 12

Race For The Galaxy Jump Drive Card Game: Terminal Velocity Expansion

As empires rapidly expand, the race for the galaxy continues! Jump Drive: Terminal Velocity is an expansion to Jump Drive. It adds new game cards, optional start worlds and goals, material for a fifth player, and a series of five challenges for solo play.

No. of Players: 1 to 5

Duration: 30 minutes

Min. Age: 13

Morgan's Magic Map Card Game

After a life of raids and robberies, the famous pirate Captain Morgan retired from piracy. He created a magic map to remind him where he buried his ill-gotten gains. He tore the map into many pieces to foil those who would try to find his treasures. Unfortunately for the old pirate, he was cursed  ...More...

No. of Players: 2 to 4

Duration: 30 to 45 minutes

Min. Age: 14

Hooky Card Game

Of the 26 children in classes today, 3 are off playing hooky. In the morning chaos before school starts, children straggle in from the playground, and your job as homeroom teacher is to deduce which are missing. Each student has a name starting with 1 unique letter of the alphabet (like "J" for James),  ...More...

No. of Players: 3 to 5

Duration: 45 to 60 minutes

Min. Age: 14

Seas Of Strife Card Game

See our Terms for Back Orders. Expected in stock 25th November 2024

A clear and beautiful day at sea! That's what you had planned when you left port this morning. Unfortunately, the ocean is often fickle, and today has turned out to be no exception. Now you must face a variety of hazards before you can reach safety! Can you navigate the troubled waters to return  ...More...

No. of Players: 3 to 6

Duration: 45 minutes

Min. Age: 10

Mamma Mia Card Game

As Pizza makers, the players put ingredients on the table. A player may place an order, thinking the needed ingredients are available. If they are, the pizza is made, if not disappointment. Mama Mia is a fast, easy, fun, but unusual card game!

No. of Players: 2 to 5

Duration: 30 to 40 minutes

Min. Age: 10

GamesLore Rating: 7

Bohnanza Card Game

Farm beans, harvest crops and trade your way to fortune in this card game classic.

Anyone who thinks beans are boring is clearly completely wrong. In Bohnanza, every player trades beans to sell as profitably as possible. The more a player grows, the higher the yield – but be careful not to  ...More...

No. of Players: 3 to 5

Duration: 45 minutes

Min. Age: 10

Tichu Card Game

See our Terms for Back Orders. Expected in stock 25th November 2024

Over 642 million Chinese play Tichu nearly every day! The goal of the game is simple: just get rid of your cards. Tichu is primarily a partnership game for four. The game comes with two complete decks of cards, so players may alternate playing decks when playing with four or play with larger groups.

No. of Players: 2 to 4

Duration: 30 to 45 minutes

Min. Age: 10