Weekly Featured Games

Pandemic (Play-To-Win) 8/18/2025

Join the fight for humanity’s future with Pandemic!

On Monday, August 18, Goose Games features the cooperative board game, Pandemic. Players take a unique role within a team of disease-fighting specialists to battle diseases and save humanity.

The game is played on a world map with interconnected cities, where diseases spread and outbreaks occur. Players must strategize and coordinate their actions to:

  • Move around the globe to treat diseases and build research stations.
  • Treat diseases to prevent outbreaks and control the infection.
  • Build research stations to discover cures.
  • Discover cures by gathering the necessary city cards of the same color and bringing them to a research station.

Outbreaks and epidemics escalate the challenge. Players must work together, using each specialist’s unique abilities, to overcome the threats. If the outbreak marker reaches the last space, the disease cube supply runs out, or the player deck is empty, humanity is lost, and all players lose.

Play to Win!

Goose Games is adding an extra incentive to save the world this Monday. Everyone who participates in the Pandemic game night will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of Pandemic.

Sea, Salt, & Paper 08/11/2025

Sea Salt & Paper is a captivating card game blending elements of set collection and hand management into a visually charming experience.

During the game players aim to collect cards that offer various scoring opportunities. These cards are beautifully illustrated with origami figures, adding a unique aesthetic to the game. Gameplay involves drawing cards from a deck or two discard piles, and choosing whether to add one to their hand while discarding another, or taking the top card from a discard pile. Players can play sets of “duo” cards, like two fish or two boats, to gain special abilities, such as taking an extra turn, stealing a card, or drawing more cards.

The game revolves around accumulating points through different card types:

  • Collector cards: Increase in value as players collect more of a kind (like shells or penguins).
  • Multiplier cards: Boost the points earned from certain card types in a player’s hand (e.g., a lighthouse card enhances the value of boat cards).
  • Mermaid cards: Provide a color bonus, granting points for each card of the color a player has most of. Collecting all four Mermaid cards results in an instant win.

The strategic heart of the game lies in deciding when to end a round. Once a player has at least seven points, they can choose to:

  • Stop: End the round immediately, and all players score their points.
  • Last Chance: This is a push-your-luck gamble. The player who calls “Last Chance” reveals their hand and declares their score, allowing other players one final turn to try and surpass that score. If the “Last Chance” player remains in the lead, they score bonus points for the color they have the most of; if not, they only score the color bonus, while other players score normally.

The game concludes when a player reaches a certain point threshold, which varies depending on the number of players (40 for two players, 35 for three, and 30 for four). Sea Salt & Paper offers a delightful mix of set collection, hand management, and a touch of calculated risk, making it an engaging and visually appealing card game for families and gamers alike.

Rating: 7.5/10
Players: 2-4
Time: 30-45 minutes
Weight: 1.48/5

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