Sushi Go!, is a party platter of mega maki, super sashimi, and endless edamame. You still earn points by picking winning sushi combos, but now you can customize each game by choosing a la carte from a menu of more than twenty delectable dishes. What's more, up to eight players can join in on the sushi-feast. Let the good times roll!

This deluxe edition features lots of opportunities to customize your playing experience. You'll find that while the overall game is basically the same, the variety of cards offers many new opportunities. You'll also notice that the strategy changes from game to game.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 8

 

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Master the dance of intrigue and compete for the favor of the Grand Mogul.

Only the best leaders can carry India into a new age. While the Grand Mogul tours the twelve provinces of India, you must prove that you are worthy of the responsibility. Master the dance of intrigue to win the approval of the Grand Mogul, the loyalty of his advisors, and the wealth of the provinces. Choose your battles wisely, as the Grand Mogul may be more open to your influence in the next province you visit.

While visiting the provinces, you?ll have the chance to influence the court and the Grand Mogul himself. Strategically play your Influence cards or choose to withdraw, letting your competitors exhaust their resources as they fight for control. At the end of a visit to a province, players will compare cards and symbols, seeing who spread their influence the best to each member of the court, swaying them to their side.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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2012 Golden Geek Winner - Best Art and Presentation
The Panda and the Gardener

The players take the role of courtesans of the Nippon emperor. They take care of his Giant Panda by growing a bamboo plantation.

Their mission: to farm parcels of land, irrigate them, and have green, yellow or pink bamboo grow. In turn, they see what the weather brings and perform two actions from among those offered to them: get a new plot of land or irrigation channel, grow bamboo, feed the panda or draw an objective card.
The game ends when a player has completed 7 to 9 objectives (depending on the number of players). The player who gets the best score by adding the total value of their completed objective wins the game.

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Tapestry is a two-hour civilization game for 1-5 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier.

Create the civilization with the most storied history, starting at the beginning of humankind and reaching into the future. The paths you choose will vary greatly from real-world events or people — your civilization is unique!

In Tapestry, you start from nothing and advance on any of the four advancement tracks (science, technology, exploration, and military) to earn progressively better benefits. You can focus on a specific track or take a more balanced approach. You will also improve your income, build your capital city, leverage your asymmetric abilities, earn victory points, and gain tapestry cards that will tell the story of your civilization.

 

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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A Targi is a male member of the Tuareg people, who live in the Sahara desert. As tribe leader, you will be trading dates, salt, and pepper to obtain coveted gold coins and advantages. In the game, the desert is a five-by-five grid of cards. Position your Targi figures on the cards that border the desert. You carry out the actions of those cards as well as the cards at the crossroads between them. If you don?t go to the merchant, you won?t be able to trade ? and even worse, your opponent will. Or maybe a caravan will bring the merchandise you desire. There are many choices to consider. But don?t wait too long, the desert is harsh and you might miss an opportunity to make a deal. In the next round, a completely different set of offerings will be on the table. The goods cards are the means to the end of getting highly desired tribe cards. These in turn bring advantages during the game and victory points at the end. You can win only if you plan shrewdly and always keep some gold in your pocket.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2

 

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TEN is an exciting push-your-luck and auction game for the whole family! Players draw cards one-at-a-time, trying to add as many as they can without exceeding a total value of TEN, or they bust!

Players may push their luck to draw more cards and use currency to buy additional cards in their attempt to build the longest number sequence in each color. When valuable wildcards emerge from the deck, players compete in auctions to obtain them in order to fill gaps in their sequences

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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In Terra Mystica, players govern one of 14 factions seeking to terraform and colonize the landscape in their favor in order to build structures and preserve their race and culture.

Upgrade structures to provide even more resources, like workers, priests, money, and power, erect temples to gain expanded influence in the four cults of Fire, Earth, Water, and Air, and fortify your stronghold to activate your group's special ability. Will your people prosper, persevere, and stand the test of time in Terra Mystica!

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete in doing the best work, with victory points awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar systems and other commendable achievements. The players acquire unique project cards, which represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. You compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles and greenery tiles. When the terraforming process is complete, the player corporation with the most victory points wins.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium, the first expansion for the 2016 smash-hit Terraforming Mars, consists of a double-sided game board representing two new areas of Mars: Hellas, which includes Mars' south polar region; Elysium, which is on the opposite side of Mars' equator. Each of these maps consists of new sets of milestones and awards with relevance for that particular map. As examples, place three tiles around the south pole to be a Polar Explorer, or race to have the most estates beside water on Elysium!.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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As the mega corporations are getting ready to start the terraforming process, you now have the chance to make those early choices that will come to define your corporation and set the course for the future history of Mars - this is the prelude to your greatest endeavors!

In Terraforming Mars: Prelude, you get to choose from Prelude cards that jumpstart the terraforming process, or boost your corporation engine. There are also 5 new corporations, and 7 project cards that thematically fit the early stages of terraforming.

Terraforming Mars: Prelude is the third expansion to the smash-hit game, Terraforming Mars, and can be combined with any other expansion or variant.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Remember that old wallpaper we used to have? In that one room? With the funky colors and the weird starburst patterns? Or like disco flower patterns or something?

That Old Wallpaper, that’s exactly what you’re going to do. Compete to get scraps of wallpaper, arranging them on a wall of your own, and put together that old wallpaper just like you remembered it.

But memory’s a tricky thing.

And no two people remember things exactly the same way.

So get your memories in order, grab all the tiles you can, and try to piece it all together.

• 100 Wallpaper Tiles

• 56 Hazy Memories Tiles

• 4 Starter Cards

• Storage Locations Frame

• 16 Storage Location tokens

• Pad of score sheets

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Europa, Jupiter's moon. Deep beneath the crust, the oceans are teeming with alien sea life. Shellfish, plants, corals, arthropods, even strange fish and larger sea creatures populate a wide-ranging interconnected web of hidden seas. Volcanism is rampant, warming the mineral-rich waters and creating excellent conditions for energy-harvesting.

The largest cavern close to the surface is known as The Pocket. This is where the initial teams of Stabilizers built their first outposts, with the intent to establish long-term communities capable of surviving indefinitely. Aqua-farming is well established; food and other sundries are efficiently gathered. The Pocket has many deposits of minerals and crystals that can be mined and processed to create strong and versatile construction materials locally.

Colonists arrive at the Doorstep at regular intervals when the Threshold is opened. The arrivals are of four general types: Pioneers (who are tasked with exploring the changing surface of the moon and the labyrinth of seas beneath), Engineers (who develop and operate the machinery and structures needed to run the colonies), Marines (who defend the colonies from hostile sea life, unwanted intruders, and other colonies), and Stewards (overseers responsible for strategy and negotiation).

Colony development mostly occurs beneath the ice; this is where all of the moon’s resources are concentrated, so this is where the effort is best spent. To keep close to the…

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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From the Dark Night Metal comic series, the evil hybrid of Batman and Joker — The Batman Who Laughs — is determined to unleash the Dark Knights and Barbatos on Prime.

In The Batman Who Laughs Rising, a passage from the Dark Multiverse has allowed the most dangerous evildoers to infiltrate Gotham City, and these Dark Knights alongside their menacing leader are eager to do their worst to the city.

Players roll dice and work together to save the multiverse, starting with one of four starting heroes — Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, or Batman — and recruiting allies such as Harley Quinn, The Flash, and Cyborg, whose skills can complete objectives or help recover what is lost to darkness. Take out villainous versions of Batman such as The Merciless, The Dawnbreaker, The Murder Machine, and more before facing off with the psychotic Joker-ized antagonist himself, who's represented by a custom-sculpted, full-color figure who commands a fistful of chained Evil Robins!

 

Minimum Age: 15
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Your goal in The Border is to surround as many areas as possible as quickly as you can.

Each player has an erasable game board that features nine areas, with each area being surrounded by a path of hexagons and with these hexagons being grouped in six colors. Most of these paths border two areas. Two hexagons are white and contain an X mark.

On your turn, you roll five dice up to three times, keeping and re-rolling dice as you wish. Each die has a different color on each of its six sides. Once you stop, you can use the die results to X spaces on your game board, but only if you can X off all the spaces in that group. If you roll four orange and one red, for example, you can X off a group of two, three, or four orange hexagons, but not a group of five orange hexagons since you have only four orange on the dice.

After you take your turn, each other player can X off one space on their game board for each die that you didn't use on your turn — but only if those spaces are adjacent to ones that are already Xed. If you marked off a group of three orange hexes, for example, then each opponent could mark off one orange and one red, assuming they are adjacent to previously marked spaces.

When you mark off the final hex that borders an area, you score that area, earning 4-12 points depending on its size. Any other player who surrounds that area on a later turn receives only half as many points.

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Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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15th century princes from the Loire Valley devote their efforts to strategic trading and building in order to bring their estates to prosperity and prominence. Over the course of 5 rounds, collect the most points by trading, live stock farming, city building and scientific research to win!

The Hundred Years? war is over and the Renaissance is looming. Conditions are perfect for the princes of the Loire Valley to propel their estates to prosperity and prominence. Through strategic trading and building, clever planning, and careful thought, players add settlements and castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, farm livestock, and more in this classic Stefan Feld Eurogame.

How to Play: 1. Players take turns rolling two dice and choosing to move goods tiles from the game board to their player boards; from their player boards onto corresponding numbered and colored regions of their playing fields; to deliver goods in exchange for silverlings; or to take worker tiles. 2. Play continues, with players completing additional actions and noting victory points for each tile placed. 3. Five turns are taken per round, with additional victory points awarded for unused money and workers, undelivered goods, and percentage of settlement complete. The player with the most victory points after five rounds wins the game.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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The Hundred Years' war is over and the Renaissance is looming. Conditions are perfect for the princes of the Loire Valley to propel their estates to prosperity and prominence. Through strategic trading and building, clever planning, and careful thought, players add settlements and castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, farm livestock, and more in this classic Stefan Feld Eurogame.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Steal the crown, win the game! The Goblin King is dead and the Crooked Crown is up for grabs! As custom dictates in the ramshackle goblin city of Snark, any goblin treacherous enough to seize the crown for themselves will be declared the new Goblin Ruler. But the Crooked Crown has disappeared! Suspicions are at boiling point and every goblin wants to find and steal the precious object. Power, glory and wealth await the 'rightous' Goblin Ruler! Players maintain a hand of cards for 8 rounds of play. One of them is hiding the Crooked Crown within their hand. Players can spy on each others' hands, boost their own hand, weaken other players' and steal from each other. Whoever holds the Crooked Crown at end of the final round wins the games! —description from the designers

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6

 

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The Duke is a dynamic, tile-based strategy game with an old-world, feudal theme, high-quality wooden playing pieces, and an innovative game mechanism in its double-sided tiles. Each side represents a different posture – often considered to be defensive or offensive – and demonstrates exactly what the piece can do within the turn. At the end of a move (or after the use of a special ability), the tile is flipped to its other side, displaying a new offensive or defensive posture.

Each posture conveys different options for maneuver and attack. The full circle is a standard Move, the hollow circle the Jump, the arrow provides for the Slide, the star a special Strike ability and so on. Each turn a player may select any tile to maneuver, attempting to defend his own troops while positioning himself to capture his opponent's tiles. If you end your movement in a square occupied by an opponent's tile, you capture that tile. Capture your opponent's Duke to win!

Players start the game by placing their Duke in one of the two middle squares on their side of the game board. Two Footman are then placed next to the Duke. Each turn a player may choose to either move a single tile or randomly draw a new tile from the bag. With fifteen different Troop Tiles, all double-sided, and nineteen total pieces for each player (plus special optional tiles), the variety of game play is limitless.

Beyond the endless variety of the basic game, Terrain…

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2

 

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Players in The Game try to discard all 98 cards in the deck onto four discard piles in order to win, but they need to do so in the right ways. Each player starts with 6-8 cards in their hand depending on the number of players, and four discard pile prompt cards are on the table: two showing "1" and an up arrow and two showing "100" and a down arrow. On a turn, a player must discard at least two cards from their hand onto one or more discard piles, with cards on the 1 piles being placed in ascending order and cards on the 100 piles being placed in descending order. One tricky aspect of the game is that you can play a card exactly 10 higher/lower than the top card of a discard pile even when you would normally have to play in a descending/ascending order, e.g., if a 100 discard pile is topped with an 87, you can play any card lower than 87 or you can play the 97. After a player finishes their turn, they refill their hand from the deck. During play, players cannot reveal exact numbers in their hands, but they can warn others not to play on certain discard piles or otherwise make play suggestions. Once the deck is emptied, players are required only to play at least one card on a turn. If you play all 98 cards, you win! If you get good, the rules suggest that you play at least three cards a turn to increase the challenge.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Starting with $49 apiece, players in The Game of 49 bid to buy spaces on the 49-square (7-by-7) game board.

Randomly drawn number cards are auctioned one at a time, with the highest bidder placing a chip on the matching board space. Wild/Payoff cards give players a choice of where to place their chip and also award cash to all players for their chips on the board: $7 per chip, with a maximum payoff of $49.

The first player to claim four spaces in a row, in any direction, wins.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Through what tragedies can Friendship endure? The Grizzled is a fast paced, fully cooperative card game that takes place in the trenches of World War I. Already a best seller in Europe, The Grizzled is an elegant game of avoiding threats and leading a team, and is regarded as one of the finest cooperative games ever made.

Featuring beautiful art by French artist Tignous, who was tragically killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack, The Grizzled's outstanding art is the perfect complement to its message of peace and enduring friendship.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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The Kingdom of Havresac has been stricken with a terrible curse, and only your team of guardians can liberate it. Gather glory, gold and victory points to become the most bravest defender of the kingdom.

All members of your team of guardians are kept in your bag, each with their own special role and ability. On each round, successively draw your guardians from your bag and use them on your own kingdom board in order to rebuild villages, fight off monsters, free fairies in time, open treasure chests… Each guardian you play allows the next to go further out in the kingdom in order to reach the places you aim, if you plan adequately. Your heroic acts grant you points for the final victory, but also gold to recruit new guardians, building up your bag and refining your strategy.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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As members of The Fellowship and the allies who rise to aid them, you must embark on a journey that may either save or doom Middle-earth. Navigate a world beset by shadow, where every choice forges a new path. The threads of destiny weave together, and the fate of The Free Peoples lies in your valor, friendship, and resolve. Will the One Ring be cast into the fire, or will the bearer be lost to despair? The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is a co-operative game in which each player controls two characters, lending their unique abilities to protect Frodo, battle enemies in pivotal locations, and evade the menacing Nazgûl and Sauron's searching Eye. Each playthrough presents new challenges with 24 different objectives, 14 events, and 13 playable characters. The game is won if the group destroys the One Ring before Frodo loses all hope. A solo adventure is included. —description from the publisher

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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The addictive card game you play without talking.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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In this third game in Lookout's Zavandor fantasy setting, it's all about dwarves. And mining. And gemstones. And other enhancements for the mines that need to get developed further during the game to have full effect.

4 different gems are the currencies in this game. However, when collecting income you draw cards from 4 different mines (card stacks) with each having its own distribution! The number of gems you earn depends on the upgrade level of your dwarves. Gems are used to either win new objects for their mine through simultaneous 4-way auctions, or to enhance their mines, objects, and victory point count. Another innovative part is that each object has to be upgraded to fully use its benefits, e.g. a level 1 dwarf only gives you 1 income per round, some level 3 dwarves give you 3 income.

On the King's way through the mountain, the requirements for upgrading some special cards always change, and only the player who wins the sapphire auction knows where the next turn will lead to. There are shorter and longer paths to the Coronation Chamber, where the game ends. The game lasts between 10 to 12 rounds.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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You and your opponents are new television networks , and you need new programming. For this, you'll need Shows, Stars, and Ads.

Shows need Stars and Ads. Stars give you bonus viewers (points), and Ads give you extra money. You'll need everything you can get; you'll have a small amount of resources and time, and you must grab the latest hot show before your opponents.

And some Stars will only give their best effort if you put them on in the proper conditions. For example, some Stars only want to be put on dramas. Other Stars want to be the only Star on the show. And your Ads will only give you the most money if you put them on in the correct time slot.

Finally, Shows age and viewers lose interest, so you have to keep your lineup fresh by canceling shows and sending them into reruns. Fortunately, you can get viewers from your reruns, and the player with the most viewers from reruns each season gets a bonus. So timing your reruns will be important.

If you need a special push, there will be Network Cards available that can give you special powers. But will a Network Card be better than another action? You'll have to make that call.

The player with the most viewers after five seasons wins!

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Expand your copy of The Networks with On the Air, which offers all sorts of extra stuff for fans of the game. this expansion contains New Season 4-5 Shows that grant strange powers, new Stars, Ads, and Network Cards, some blank Shows and Stars for you to customize your copy of the game with, and even stickers that you can apply to your scorning and turn order tokens!

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Toadstools, Mandrake, and African Death's Head Hawksmoth, Oh My! It is the 9-day Quedlinburg festival of quack doctors. Purchasing good ingredients for your brew can help you make the best "healing" ointments in the land, winning you fame and fortune! You can use that fortune to buy even more powerful ingredients to put into your pot. But be careful, one ingredient too many and your potion will explode! Winner of the 2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres, The Quacks of Quedlinburg perfectly blends deck, i.e. 'pot', building strategy with a press your luck element that ratchets up the excitement each turn as the stakes get higher.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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You and your wicked companions have spent the day pillaging the countryside and "dealing" with meddlesome adventurers. It's about time you kicked back with a pint at the evil equivalent of The Red Dragon Inn — The Black Dragon Depths, a nefarious tavern hidden deep in the catacombs below Greyport. No more heroes this time. Now you get to play as the bad guys!

The Red Dragon Inn 6: Villains is a standalone expansion to The Red Dragon Inn series of games. In this game, you and up to three of your friends play as evil villains celebrating the defeat of your archenemies at a wild fantasy party. You gamble, brawl, and drink the night away as you compete to be the last villain standing at the end of the night.

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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The Resistance is a very intense game of secret identities deductiona and deception for 5-10 players.

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 5
Maximum Players: 10

 

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The curtain rises. A monkey hatches from a stone egg. He becomes known as the Monkey King Sun Wukong and travels west in search of the secret of immortality. The Shadow Theater is a fast and exciting two-player family-friendly competitive game. Deploy your monkeys, harvest the sweet fruits of eternal life, hoard jade stones, and become a legend! To win, you have to play tactically and seize your chance. To help you, you can gain some advantages with the powerful dragon weapons. Are you ready to dive into an ancient legend? Dive into the legend of the Monkey King in a strategic duel filled with cunning and challenges!

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2

 

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Around the year 1900, Hamburg is the gate to the world. In the center of the harbor there is a unique complex of storage houses: The Speicherstadt (warehouse district). The dense web of loading canals and bridges rapidly develops to become a vast terminal for spices, coffee and carpets from all over the world. You are a wholesale dealer residing in Hamburg at the boom years of the Speicherstadt, buying shiploads and serving your clients. Hire firemen to protect your goods and counting offices from occasional fires. The player doing the best business during the course of one year will be the winner of the game. The Speicherstadt has a simple but highly original game mechanism.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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In The Vale of Eternity, players are tamers who hunt various monsters and spirits to tame them as minions. In this fantasy world, numerous creatures are living in harmony. Among them, dragons are the most valuable and noble ones, and all tamers dream of taming dragons. The player who manages to tame the most outstanding minions wins. In each round, a player has three phases: Hunting phase: Draft two cards from the game board. Action phase: Take various actions, including selling cards, taming, or summoning cards. Resolution phase: Use the active effects of cards they have summoned. Successive rounds are performed until the end of the game is triggered. The game includes cards of seventy creatures from myths all around the world. —description from the publisher

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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The heron flies over the Himeji sky while the Daimyo, from the top of the castle, watches his servants move. Gardeners tend the pond, where the koi carp live, warriors stand guard on the walls, and courtiers crowd the gates, pining for an audience that brings them closer to the innermost circles of the court. When night falls, the lanterns are lit and the workers return to their clan. In The White Castle, players will control one of these clans in order to score more victory points than the rest. To do so, they must amass influence in the court, manage resources boldly, and place their workers in the right place at the right time. The authors are Sheila Santos and Israel Cendrero, the duo known as Llama Dice who also designed the successful The Red Cathedral with Devir. In this case, we leave the Moscow of Ivan the Terrible behind to explore the most imposing fortress in modern Japan, Himeji Castle, where the banner of the Sakai clan flies under the orders of Daimyo Sakai Tadakiyo. The White Castle is a Euro type game with mechanics of resource management, worker placement and dice placement to carry out actions. During the game, over three rounds, players will send members of their clan to tend the gardens, defend the castle or progress up the social ladder of the nobility. At the end of the match, these will award players victory points in a variety of ways. The central panel shows Himeji Castle in all its splendor, divided into several zones. The largest is inside the…

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Europe at the start of the 20th century: Foreign cultures and their artifacts have a strong appeal for archeologists, and its in that role that players try to increase their knowledge in order to equip and conduct expeditions to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete and Greece. Glory and esteem are waiting!

Thebes: The Tomb Raiders is a card game version of the Thebes board game from designer Peter Prinz and Queen Games. The game dispenses with the map of Thebes, but retains many of the main aspects of the game. The main turn-order play of the game is based on the time-track; players must spend time to take actions, with varying amounts of time spent dependent on the nature and benefits of the action. The player who is furthest back "in time" is the active player. Players use actions to gain knowledge about five civilizations, and then use this knowledge in different actions to "dig" to pull cards from a civilization's deck that contains treasures and dirt. The more knowledge a player has about a civilization, the more-efficient the player is at searching for knowledge.

The game plays over a certain span of time, and when all players can no longer take any actions because they are out of time, the game is at an end and the player with the highest score from their accumulated treasures wins.
 

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Three Kingdoms Redux is a board game that seeks to recreate the tripartite between the states of Wei, Wu and Shu. You assume the role of one of the three lords - Cao Cao leading Cao Wei, Sun Jian leading Eastern Wu or Liu Bei leading Shu Han. Players start the game from asymmetrical positions, reflecting the manpower advantages Wei enjoyed in the early part of the period. The weaker states of Wu and Shu protect themselves by forming an alliance.

As a feudal lord, you manage the different aspects of running a state whilst guarding your borders against both rebellious border tribes and external enemies. Managing each aspect well earns victory points for your state.

But beware, for the balance of power shifts constantly during the game. Understand and take advantage of the power shifts, and you will fulfill your grand ambition of re-unifying China!

The Han Dynasty, founded in 206 BC, ruled the central plains and much of modern day China for nearly four hundred years. However, by late second century, court politics and poor governance has left it in rapid decline. The government was dominated by corrupt eunuchs and officials who levied heavy taxes on the peasants, resulting in public discontent. This culminated in the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Zhang Jiao in 184 AD during the reign of Emperor Ling (168-189 AD).

Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion was eventually put down, many surviving followers went on to become…

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 3

 

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Thunder Alley is a stock car racing game for 2-7 players with the feel and flexibility of a card-driven simulation. Players controls not one car, but a team of 3-6 cars. Each race is not only a run for the checkered flag but an effort to maximize the score for every car on your team. Winning is important but if you race one car to the finish line, your team might end up outside of the winner's circle looking in.

Turns are fast, each play is important and the track situation is fluid. Movement in Thunder Alley allows for many cars to move with one play of the card. If you position yourself incorrectly, you might get left out of the draft and all alone. There are four different types of movement in the game and each has its place and time for use. Solo movement allows you to break away from the pack. Draft and pursuit movement are best used for keeping your team of cars together. Lead movement can create a pack of cars that move toward the front. But the wrong movement in the wrong situation can be disastrous. Experienced players will be able to identify the best type of movement for the current situation.

Cars will suffer wear over the course of a race and eventually pit stops will be necessary. Tire wear, suspension difficulties, fuel issues, and major engine and transmission problems are all modeled in the game. If you feel lucky you might try to hold it together just a little bit longer in hopes that a yellow flag will come out and cause a mass…

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 7

 

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Ticket to Ride is a cross-country train adventure game. Players collect train cards that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets by connecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway. So climb aboard for some railroading fun and adventure. You've got a Ticket to Ride!

October 2, 1900 -- it's 28 years to the day that noted London eccentric, Phileas Fogg accepted and then won a 20,000 bet that he could travel Around the World in 80 Days. Now at the dawn of the century some old friends have gathered to celebrate Fogg's impetuous and lucrative gamble -- and to propose a new wager of their own. The stakes: $1 million in a winner-takes-all competition. The objective: to see the most cities in North America -- in just 7 days.

-Spiel Des Jahres 2004(German game of the year)
-As d'Or Cannes 2004 (French game of the year)
-Game of the year 2004 - Japan
-Game of the year 2004 - Sweden
-Game of the year 2004 - Finland
-Diana Jones Excellence in Gaming Award 2004
-Origins Award Winner - Best Board Game 2005
-Game of the year 2004 - Spain
-Parent's Choice Foundation Silver Medal 2004

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Ticket to Ride: London features the familiar gameplay from the Ticket to Ride game series — collect cards, claim routes, draw tickets — but on a scaled-down map of 1970s London that allows you to complete a game in no more than 15 minutes.

Each player starts with a supply of 17 double-decker buses, two transportation cards in hand, and one or two destination tickets that show locations in London. On a turn, you either draw two transportation cards from the deck or the display of five face-up cards (or you take one face-up bus, which counts as all six colors in the game); or you claim a route on the board by discarding cards that match the color of the route being claimed (with any set of cards allowing you to claim a gray route); or you draw two destination tickets and keep at least one of them.

Players take turns until someone has no more than two buses in their supply, then each player takes one final turn, including the player who triggered the end of the game. Players then sum their points, scoring points for (1) the routes that they've claimed during the game, (2) the destination tickets that they've completed (by connecting the two locations on a ticket by a continuous line of their buses), and (3) the districts that they've connected. (A district consists of 2-4 locations, and you score 1-5 points for a district if you link all of its locations to one another with your buses.) You lose points for any uncompleted…

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Tides of Time is a drafting game for two players. Each game consists of three rounds in which players draft cards from their hands to build their kingdom. Each card is one of five suits and also has a scoring objective. After all cards have been drafted for the round, players total their points based on the suits of cards they collected and the scoring objectives on each card, then they record their score. Each round, the players each select one card to leave in their kingdom as a "relic of the past" to help them in later rounds. After three rounds, the player with the most prosperous kingdom wins.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2

 

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Play as an ancient civilization as they prosper and collapse through time. Build gigantic monuments, raise impenetrable fortifications, and amass vast knowledge as the ages pass. The greatest civilizations will leave their mark long after their collapse. From times long forgotten to times recently lost, civilizations will rise and fall as the tide of time carries them.

Tides of Time is a drafting game for two players. Each game consists of three rounds in which players draft cards from their hands to build their kingdom. Each card is one of five suits and also has a scoring objective. After all cards have been drafted for the round, players total their points based on the suits of cards they collected and the scoring objectives on each card, then they record their score. Each round, the players each select one card to leave in their kingdom as a "relic of the past" to help them in later rounds. After three rounds, the player with the the most prosperous kingdom wins.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 2

 

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Regarded by many as Reiner Knizia's masterpiece, Tigris & Euphrates is set in the ancient fertile crescent with players building civilizations through tile placement. Players are given four different leaders: farming, trading, religion, and government. The leaders are used to collect victory points in these same categories. However, your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your weakest category, which encourages players not to get overly specialized. Conflict arises when civilizations connect on the board, i.e., external conflicts, with only one leader of each type surviving such a conflict. Leaders can also be replaced within a civilization through internal conflicts.

Starting in the Mayfair edition from 2008, Tigris & Euphrates included a double-sided game board and extra components for playing an advanced version of the game. This "ziggurat expansion", initially released as a separate item in Germany for those who already owned the base game, is a special monument that extends across five spaces of the board. The monument can be built if a player has a cross of five civilization tokens of the same color by discarding those five tokens and replacing them with the ziggurat markers, placing a ziggurat tower upon the middle tile. The five ziggurat markers cannot be destroyed. All rules regarding monuments apply to the ziggurat…

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Here, where space is endless and time is precious, you face the challenges of a true space commander. From the bustling hub that is your control center, you coordinate your planet's production, transport, and demand.

However, each of your actions requires the flip of a one-minute sandtimer, and you only have two of these timers. In exactly 30 minutes you must manage as many deliveries as possible, while, simultaneously, the other players do the same. So keep a cool head and your communication channels wide open to arrange opportune deals with each of the other players!

Time 'N' Space is a game for game for 3-4 players, and plays in exactly 30 minutes. An introductory game is also provided that plays in 12 minutes. The sandtimer mechanic in this game makes Time 'N' Space a unique game experience!

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 4

 

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In Tiny Epic Dinosaurs, breakthroughs in modern science have dinosaurs and humans existing side by side. This has allowed for a lucrative industry. Dino Ranching! Independent ranchers have begun farming dinosaurs to sell to the highest bidders for use in their high thrill theme parks. You are one of those ranchers. Do you have what it takes to out ranch your opponents and operate the most successful dinosaur farm!?

Tiny Epic Dinosaurs is a 45 minute, 1-4 player game of dinosaur ranching, worker-placement and resource management. It features classic euro game mechanics with unique twists that portray the dangers of farming these prehistoric beasts.

In Tiny Epic Dinosaurs, players control a team of ranchers and will be acquiring, breeding and selling dinosaurs. The game is played over 6 rounds. With each round consisting of several short phases.

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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You are the mayor of a tiny town in the forest in which the smaller creatures of the woods have created a civilization hidden away from predators. This new land is small and the resources are scarce, so you take what you can get and never say no to building materials. Cleverly plan and construct a thriving town, and don't let it fill up with wasted resources! Whoever builds the most prosperous tiny town wins!

In Tiny Towns, your town is represented by a 4x4 grid on which you will place resource cubes in specific layouts to construct buildings. Each building scores victory points (VPs) in a unique way. When no player can place any more resources or construct any buildings, the game ends, and any squares without a building are worth -1 VP. The player with the most VP wins!

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 6

 

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Each player is a traveler crossing the "East sea road", one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. While traveling, players will meet people, taste fine meals, collect beautiful items, discover great panoramas and visit temples and wild places. At the end of the day, when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – which means that you'll have to be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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The First Expansion

The Tokaido road is ready to unveil a few more treasures for the most faithful travelers: Cherry trees in full bloom, luxurious bathhouses, goodluck charms, calligraphy, legendary objects, and even clandestine gambling rooms are now part of the journey!

Crossroads will open up new doors and many new possibilities to make the journey even richer and more strategic.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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The family game tour invites you to countless adventures in the land of the dancing towers! who is brave, clever and heroic enough to defeat dragons, collect gems and get the King's blessing to marry princess Tara or Prince Talan? keep an eye on the twisting towers, they will lead you all the way to win the royal hear. Each round you will choose from up to 4 actions, which the towers point in your direction at that moment. Then you twist one tower away and start marching the heroes' Group along the roads of touring to your chosen destination. On the way, you may collect gems from the magic mines you pass through before meeting one of tourists inhabitants, 8 different characters help you on your quest to fame and fortune. Who uses their help best may race back to the cable and ask for the royal hand - if he is quick enough to find the right door.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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In charge of valuable cargo, you must deliver it from Osaka to Edo. But fierce competition and the Black Tide may sink your hopes for fortune! Set sail for Japan in this exciting game for traders full of opportunities... and opportunists!

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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It is the height of the Steam Age and the whistle of the Iron Horse harkens the boom of small towns across the country into major hubs of transportation and economic growth. Trains and Stations is a new take on train games designed by Eric M. Lang. Players must make deliveries, develop buildings and profit from their decisions while working with and against other players. Will you focus on establishing mining operations in an attempt to gain a monopoly on coal, silver and gold? Or, perhaps you will focus on laying tracks across the landscape and helping other players move their goods - taking your cut, of course! Every game will evolve differently with unique twists and turns as you control the movement of goods across the game map.

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 5

 

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