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Which board game is this token from with a number on the front and "SW" on the back?
The token is from Small World. You can see it in the pictures there.
Here's a photo taken of the Small World instruction manual laid on top of the box lid. Note the illustrations of the coins in the ...
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What game did these black and yellow dice come from?
Well, that was an obscure one.
As seen in the below image, these dice are from the 2006-07 Collectable Miniatures game Dreamblade. As far as I can tell, the game was extremely popular in a very small ...
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What is this weird d12 for?
These dice are for a game called GOLO Golf Dice.
I asked dice guru Kevin Cook at dicecollector.com and he recognized them almost immediately. This game is sold by a company called Zobmondo. It looks ...
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Identify boardgame from Big movie
It is Cathedral, specifically the Mattel edition.
You can see the same colour figurines, the circular towers and the picture is the same as the box but mirrored.
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Can anyone help my identify this card game
The card game Pit had a version that was released under the name "Billionaire" circa 1984, which is where your card comes from. This image contains the full set of cards including the one you showed.
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What is this die for?
It looks like this die is from the Pokemon Card Game; part of the 'Roaring Skies Elite Trainer Dice Set' which is used to keep track of damage done to Pokemon in the card game.
The symbol on the dice ...
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What game uses dice with compass point arrows, forbidden signs, explosions, arrows and targeting reticles?
These are survivor dice from the cooperative world-of-survival-horror board game Dark, Darker, Darkest.
(The picture is labeled as "an expansion", but it's just a set of dice in each of the player ...
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What game uses dice with sides powers of 2?
Backgammon uses a die like that; it's known as a doubling cube. It's used, when playing a multi-game match or for money, to track the current stakes of the game. Note that in this capacity it's not ...
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What is this game with a 12x8 pegboard and 59 double sided pegs?
your pegboard looks like an earlier or a later edition of the plastic pegboard we have at the psychology museum. All pegs have two colors like yours. Among other things these and other pegboards were ...
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Can anyone identify board game with 2 rows 2 holes wide each and 2 upright metal pins?
This is a basic cribbage board.
The pegs are moved alternatively to track score for each of two players. There are sixty holes so that each player completes a number of "laps of the board" to reach a ...
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Identify this space combat game with a letter based ship architecture
Could this have been part of the Starfire series? Images show a hexagonal grid & ship counters and the description says:
A "word" makes up a ship. As damage is done between ships, ...
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Which game is this six-sided die with two sets of runic-looking plus, minus and empty sides from?
These are fudge or fate dice used for the fudge role playing game.
Fudge uses customized "Fudge dice" which have an equal number of plus, minus and blank sides. A number of these dice are ...
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Resource board game with villagers, huts, and breeding
Sounds like Stone Age by Z-Man games.
Copied from the website:
THE BEGINNING OF TIME
Life was hard in the early days of human history. Our ancestors were
hard workers, but through ingenuity learned ...
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Identify old boardgame
This is a wooden version of Shuttles (named for the rows that can be moved sideways) aka Impasse, Labymaster, Labyrinth, or Traject. The PC game was an implementation of this older board game from ...
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Which game is this six-sided die with two sets of runic-looking plus, minus and empty sides from?
Those are called fate or fudge dice, and they have 2 blank sides, 2 sides with a + and two sides with a -. That particular die does not come from any specific game, it's instead the "Ancient Fate ...
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Where is this die from?
This die is from the Star Wars: Galactic Battle Game. This was a game that involved individual action figures being purchased which came with cards & dice for use in the game. Some models like ...
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Is the game in McDelivery Canada ad real or fake?
This is a fake game.
I reached out to Cosette / OPC who was the agency for this ad campaign, and it is NOT a real game. They had their art department make a quick board and collected random pieces ...
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Identify: time travelling game
This sounds like Chrononauts.
From the official description:
What would YOU do with a Time Machine? Would you stop the sinking of the Titanic? Prevent the assassination of JFK? Kill Hitler before ...
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What is the name of this game with dice and tiles?
The name of this game is called "Shut the Box". I believe there are one and two player versions of it.
The goal of the game is to obtain the numbers on the tiles through dice rolls, "shutting" the ...
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What's this game depicting an old viking in the middle of a big character sheet with futhark script?
I did a google image search of this and after following a few leads I found it is from Runaljod: The sound of the runes. BGG link here
The image in question can be found of the games Kickstarter page ...
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What is the racing board game they are playing in Netflix's show about Formula 1, s02e09?
It looks like Slot Car racing. There are a number of different brands, so which set is hard to identify, but here's an example by Tyco:
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Which game do these dice belong to?
This is Go Long, a game about (American) football.
The black die is for yards gained, if I remember correctly.
Here's an image of the dice from Go Long (from BoardGameGeek):
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Which dice game has a board with 9x9 squares that has different colors on the diagonals and midway on some edges?
It's a dice version of the match-3 (3 alike or 3 different) game "Set". It's cleverly enough called "Set Dice"
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Info about this coin obstacle course game from Micki Gemla Sweden?
It's a miniature golf sim game played with coins instead of balls. It was made in 1970 by Micki Leksaker Sweden. It was just called "Minigolf"
(Image from https://www.worthpoint.com/...
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What is this game with a wooden fish board and many little pinholes?
The fish is a plaice. The board layout looks similar to Cribbage. There are different board layout to it, but wikipedia has one that looks like your fish. I'm saying similar since I'm unfamiliar with ...
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Genre-mash up battle game
The game is called Heroscape. It was primarily fantasy based, but there were some other expansions like a Marvel themed one. The game was discontinued in 2010 but Wizards of the Coast has recently ...
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Identify this game - strange yellow plastic piece
It appears to be the tail piece from "Zoo it yourself" Tupperware animal toys.
https://www.amazon.com/Tupperware-Tuppertoys-Zoo-It-Yourself-5-piece-ELEPHANT/dp/B00FN34D34
You can see the individual ...
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