This is the official introduction of my recent original game design: Colorbars. You will be playing cards to a row on the table - your "tableau" - lining up the colored cells on the card to create a "bar" of a...
How To Play NewVenture Games
Learn how to play our board and card games from the designer himself! (Tesla, CardBoard, Victor or Victim, Battlefield, Mining Mars, etc.)
Touring in my Gameroom: “Take a trip and never leave the farm!”
The classic "Touring" card game was published continually for over 60 years. Invented in 1906, it followed the rise of the automobile in popularity. By 1924, the Parker Brothers company added it to their catalog and began a...
Anti-Grid – a NEW two-player abstract strategy game from NewVenture Games!
Two players, two sets of pieces, and two boards intertwined, entangled in a struggle to annihilate the opposing forces. "Custodial capture" has always been a favorite mechanism of mine in abstract games, and Anti-Grid gives...
Who would’ve thought that Rhombuses could be so much fun?
This is a great visual pattern-making game for the whole family. Very easy to learn and play for 2 to 6 people, or even with teams. It's simply a matter of playing these uniquely designed cards side-by-side to form diamond...
Bonnets, Bustles, and Boots is a Clever Card Game for 3 Players with a Theme of Victorian Fashion
A card game specifically designed for courting couples and their chaperone...their what? The idea for this original NewVenture card game comes from the late Victorian-era practice of courting couples always have a mature...
“Siege of Paris” – a three-player 150-year-old board game
Siege of Paris is a very interesting three-player strategy game inspired by a real-life battle in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. Legend has it that the game was actually invented DURING the siege!
How To Play Grasshopper! – It’s about getting from here to there.
A little over 200 years ago, this little game began to catch on in the U.K. It was not a new concept, historically, but an extremely convenient adaptation of game pieces that nearly everyone - or at least every English pub -...
Play a classic board game from India: Aadu Puli Attam
From India, the source of many of the games we play, comes this centuries-old classic board game: Aadu Puli Attam. It's Tigers versus Goats - a popular theme in the predator versus prey genre.
How To Play Are you the Victor or the Victim? Play the game to find out!
It's a family-oriented game in which players draw and pass letter cards around the table attempting to win by spelling "Victor" with their cards all in one color. At the same time, players are attempting to force their...
How To Play Tesla – The Master of Lightning – a card game
This video teaches how to play the card game "Tesla - Master of Lightning" from NewVenture Games. This is a blind-bidding, trick-taking, deck-building card game in which players compete to win and use "good" cards and avoid...