I ett kusligt hus samlas en grupp människor, till synes främlingar för varandra. Var och en har fått ett brev, signerat Herr Kropp, som sagt dem att befinna sig där vid den tidpunkten; Överste Senap, Fru Vit, Herr Grön, Fröken Scarlett, Professor Plommon och Fru Påfågel. Butlern Wordsworth tar emot dem en efter en, och tillslut kommer även den mystiske Herr Kropp. Det visar sig att Herr Kropp har utpressat alla de närvarande. Efter en rad avslöjanden släcks ljuset, när det åter blir tänt ligger Herr Kropp död på marken. Vem var mördaren?
Äventyret börjar med att de båda bröderna upptäcker något som de först avfärdar som ett löjligt gammalt spel. Pojkarna, som är nyfikna av sig, öppnar ändå lådan och upptäcker ett spel, med en spelplan som har rymdtema och en färgad bana som leder till den lilla planeten Zathura. De börjar spela och varje gång någon av pojkarna slår tärningen eller drar ett spelkort så händer något häpnadsväckande.
När den unge Alan Parrish hittar ett mystiskt brädspel har han ingen aning om vilka enorma krafter det innehåller. Inte förrän han på ett magiskt sätt, mitt framför ögonen på sin vän Sarah, förflyttas till Jumanjis vilda djungel! 26 år senare blir han befriad ur spelet av två överraskade barn. Alan återförenas med Sarah och tillsammans med Judy och Peter försöker han besegra spelets våldsamma krafter. Detta är ett mycket uppfinningsrikt äventyr som förenar fantastiska specialeffekter med en förtrollande blandning av komedi, magi och spänning.
One day, Jason finds an unusual board game called Mamba. When his surfer friends start to play, the games unleashes its deadly curse, killing the losers in a gruesome fashion. Supposedly it will grant the winner a wish. As his companions die off, Jason decides that the only way he can reverse the tragedy is by continuing to play. With his girlfriend, Erica, Jason rolls the dice and hopes to make his wish before one of them suffers a horrible fate.
Jeanne, a brilliant architect has a new assignment: renovate the sumptuous Daguerre mansion owned by an eccentric family, head of a Board Game empire. When the landlord and patriarch Cesar is found dead, everyone present becomes a suspect. Suddenly Jeanne’s mission turns intoa life-size investigation to expose the murderer...
A professional GO player gathers a team to help him carry out his revenge against the man who killed his brother.
När två bröder återförenas i sin försvunne pappas videobutik, finner de ett mystiskt VHS-brädspel. Nyfikna trycker de på play-knappen, och plötsligt befinner de sig i en interdimensionell mardrömsvärld där deras pappas själ har fastnat. Enda sättet att rädda honom är att avsluta spelet, men varje drag betyder att någon förlorar… sitt liv!
Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he’s feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story shows how the classic board game has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon and follows the colorful players who come together to compete for the coveted title of Monopoly World Champion.
Sju ungdomar är fast i ett ondskefullt spel kallat Game of Death, vars gyllene regel är att döda eller bli dödad. De som inte följer reglerna kommer att gå en våldsam död till mötes: deras huvuden kommer att explodera! Är de redo att följa spelets regler och vända sig mot varandra, eller finns det räddning i sikte?
This is a continuation of Friends Games. Now the group of friends realises they have fallen into this game and they are in the second set of game, Kageguchi Sugoroku. Will Katagiri Yuichi find out who led them into this deceptive game between money and friends?
Four strangers struggle to figure out why they matched on Icebreaker, a friend-finding app.
America’s favorite board game, Monopoly, is a love letter to unbridled capitalism and the impulses that make our free-market society tick. Contrary to the folksy legend spread by Parker Brothers, Monopoly’s origin involves a radical feminist and a community of Quakers in Atlantic City. If not for the determination of an economics professor and impassioned anti-monopolist, the real story behind the creation of the game might never have come to light.
Charles, Louis, and Guillaume are three friends who live together as roommates in the same house, where they spend all of their free time still playing the same Farador campaign they began as teenagers; their other friend Paul has recently moved out of the house and abandoned the game to live with his girlfriend. When Charles's sister Kim, who has recently broken up with her longtime Belgian boyfriend Tom after realizing that she might be a lesbian, moves into Paul's vacated room, her presence, and her determination to push her brother to finally take the plunge on his unrealized ambition to write and publish an erotic fantasy novel, upset the group dynamics and force them to make one last push to finally reach the Castle of Farador and end the game.
A girl's discreet attempt to assess her one night stand and his friends takes a deadly turn when she and her roommates host a dinner party where they unknowingly unleash a malevolent force.
When Kris tells Sam Weatherfield, the inventor, about breaking his parent’s window and running away, Sam has Kris play a strange, colorful game called HOOMANIA. As Kris places his piece on the board, he is zapped INSIDE the game, full of life-sized animated characters like the daffy Dodo Bird or the goodie-gobbling sluggards. These crazy creatures, and others, either help or hinder Kris in his race to Mount Wisdom. Through his fantastic adventure, Kris learns the true meaning of “wisdom”.
Scrabble is experiencing a renaissance. The younger generation have rediscovered the game online - through the copyright busting Scrabulous - and they're having night after night on the tiles. Alan Yentob sets out to discover why the word game leaves us spellbound, tracing its surprising history, meeting the American tournament Word Freaks, and paying a visit to the SAS-style training camp that the Nigerian government trains their players at.