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Time to film the latest western being produced at Deadwood Studios, makers of terrible western movies. All the special roles are up for grabs: "Man falling off roof", "Crying woman", "Stagecoach driver", "Dead man", and more. Yes, they're all available, and if you're good enough – that is, if you progress up through the "hack" levels represented by the number on your character's die – you may even get to play that complicated character part "Rear-end of Horse"!

In Deadwood Studios USA (originally published as Deadwood), players wander across the backlot each day, looking for acting jobs. Your actor is a six-sided die, and the number on top represents your status. (These dice are never rolled; they just show your status.) After you take a role in the movie, you can roll a die and try to "act", or you can "rehearse" to improve your odds. As you work, you'll earn money and fame, and you can trade those things at the casting office for higher status, which brings you the ability to take better-paying roles.

At the end of the game, you add up your money, fame, and status points, and the player with the highest score is the best actor at Deadwood Studios!

Players answer multiple-choice trivia questions of increasing difficulty, with the option of quitting with their winnings up to that point. This adaptation has makeshift versions of the TV show's "Ask the Audience" and "Phone a Friend" lifelines. Players rotate as host, and after everyone has taken a turn as host, winnings are totaled.

Based on the original ABC version of the world-famous game show, hosted by Regis Philbin from 1999-2002.

Monopoly Star Wars style. In this version of Monopoly players must buy up property and build homes in the Star Wars universe.

In this version of Trivial Pursuit players must answer questions based on the original Star Wars movies.

Game description from the publisher:

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is an exciting all-new co-operative game of adventure in which you join Bilbo Baggins and his thirteen Dwarven companions on their journey through the Lonelands and Misty Mountains, encountering Goblins, Trolls, and other dangers that seek to put an end to their adventures. Traverse your way through two boards, each more difficult than the last, with the goal of coming out alive and prepared for the dangers that lie ahead. Your accumulated points at the end of the game will be your team's mark for finding out how good of a Company you really are!

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug , although it is also a stand-alone game, can be used as an expansion to this game.