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A demonstration of The Quiet Hour, played out by the computer from a fixed deal.

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The Quiet Hour

1–5 players45–75 minMediumCo-operative

The house has been waiting for someone to ask the right question.

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Board.game Originals

Made here. Playable nowhere else.

  • The Quiet Hour

  • Hollowreach

  • The Fourteenth Card

  • Nine Below

  • Paper Crowns

Ten to learn tonight

The lightest ten on the front of the shelf, lightest first — by the weight on each title's card, then by how long a game of it runs.

  • Four in a Row

  • The Last Tram

  • Paper Crowns

  • Liar's Dice

  • The Unreliable Museum

  • Nine Men's Morris

  • Reversi

  • Oware

  • Hollowreach

  • Draughts

Tonight

Ready when you are

21 titles you can start in the next minute — round one phone in the room, or at a table the others join from a link.

After dark

Every title here is one its own card calls eerie.

  • The Quiet Hour

  • Hollowreach

  • The Fourteenth Card

  • Nine Below

  • Knock Twice

Two chairs, one board

Made for exactly two.

  • Meridian

  • Chess

  • Go

  • Backgammon

  • Hex

  • Reversi

  • Nine Men's Morris

  • Draughts

  • Oware

  • Four in a Row

Somebody here is lying

Bluffing and hidden roles: the long look across the table.

  • Nine Below

  • The Unreliable Museum

  • Paper Crowns

  • Liar's Dice

For the whole room

Six or more at one table.

  • Nine Below

  • The Unreliable Museum

  • Knock Twice

  • Paper Crowns

  • Liar's Dice

Everyone against the game

Co-operative: the table wins, or nobody does.

  • The Quiet Hour

  • Hollowreach

  • Knock Twice

A long think

The heaviest on the front of the shelf: weight three and up.

  • The Quiet Hour

  • The Fourteenth Card

  • Meridian

  • Chess

  • Go

  • Hex

Classics

The ones everybody knows, each with an opponent that was measured.

  • Chess

  • Go

  • Backgammon

  • Hearts

  • Hex

  • Reversi

  • Liar's Dice

  • Nine Men's Morris

  • Draughts

  • Oware

  • Four in a Row

Game NightTell it how many of you there are and how long you have. It picks.The whole shelfEvery title, with filters for players, length, weight and mood.