Two problems with a common solution: mad cows in England and WWI unexploded bombs in France! March patriotic cows forth to clear the fields in this classic from Cheapass Games.

This week, we’re cracking open a Booster Pack of Heroes with Matt Forbeck!Matt is the designer behind the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, including the Avengers Expansion, with more Marvel advent...

Discover the wonder of the last few copies left! As we uncover old Cheapass Games treasures, we will make them available here.

Discover the wonder of the last few copies left! As we uncover old Cheapass Games treasures, we will make them available here.

Bitin’ Off Hedz is a quick and silly board game about dinosaurs racing to go extinct. It was originally published by Cheapass Games in 1997. Sadly, we lost all the digital files for the original versi...

Discover the wonder of the last few copies left! As we uncover old Cheapass Games treasures, we will make them available here.

A new sculpture honors one of math's most intriguing pursuits: a set of dice that never tie.

It took nearly 15 years, researchers around the world and enough computing power to search through a universe of possibilities to answer one question: Who goes first?

In 2019, James Ernest collected the entire Cheapass Games oeuvre into a single volume, Cheapass Games in Black and White. This hefty tome includes covers, sample art, complete rules, and entertaining ...

YouTube video by James Ernest

YouTube video by James Ernest

Hey, folks. We're working on a few things. Thought you'd like to know about them. Preview: Too Many Notes. We’ve been working on Too Many N

The Lejano game board features 25 uniform squares, separated by lines of a contrasting color. Handmade wooden board by James Ernest. Suitable for playing El Oso, or simplified Tak.

The Lejano game board features 25 uniform squares, separated by lines of a contrasting color. Handmade wooden board by James Ernest. Suitable for playing El Oso, or simplified Tak.

Cheapass Games is pleased to return to the newsletter racket after two months of heavy travel and quiet backstage travail. We have new games, schedule updates, and more.

Greetings, Cheapassians.

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Stamp Showdown is a polished-up version of our classic game Lamarckian Poker, a clever bidding game where players build the best poker hands by trading cards with the pool in the center of the table. It’s clever and fun, and you can even play it with a standard poker deck.

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Introducing Stamp Showdown A polished version of Lamarckian Poker by James Ernest, with a stamp-themed custom deck of cards [url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/456576/stamp-showdown]Stamp Showd...

Hi folks. This is an extra January newsletter, because we wanted to let you know a couple of timely things that couldn’t wait until next month.

Simultaneous trades reshape the market as you disrupt rivals and build the strongest poker-style stamp collection to win the showdown.

Meat on Swords, a Lord of the Fries game, is a new press-your luck card game with the characters from Friedey’s restaurant.

Simultaneous trades reshape the market as you disrupt rivals and build the strongest poker-style stamp collection to win the showdown.

Meat on Swords has been a challenge to create. We tried several times to create a Lord of the Fries-style menu for Carnespadas, only to abandon that in favor of a press-your-luck game mechanic, more befitting a restaurant without a menu.

Residents of Gander, N.L., formed an impromptu volunteer shuttle service for about 200 passengers aboard two planes forced to land unexpectedly at the town’s airport on Wednesday night.

James Ernest recaps the major developments of 2025 for Crab Fragment Labs and Cheapass Games

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Girl Genius: The Works is now at DriveThruCards. The first deck from this exquisite puzzle game was last month’s Coconut Crab reward, and now all four decks are available for sale:

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A 2–4 player, puzzly card game about "making friends"—out of body parts! From the creator of the comic strip Wondermark.

Welcome to the PuzzCulture 2025 Holiday Puzzly Gift Guide! We’re excited to be bringing you our biggest gift guide ever! There are so many tremendously fun and puzzly products to share with you. We…

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Under Old Management

Crab Fragment Labs offers many of its fine games as free PDFs