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In Endeavor: Age of Sail, players strive to earn glory for their empires. Sailing out from Europe and the Mediterranean, players will establish shipping routes and occupy cities the world over. As they do so, players will leverage their growing industry, culture, finance, and Influence, building their engine and extending their reach into the far-flung regions of the world.

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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Delve into the world of Vikings and dabble in trading, hunting, raiding, pillaging, plundering, and raiding some more. Build houses, explore new worlds, and every round, have a feast in Odin's name.

The large variety of actions and occupations guarantees your Notherners long-lasting fun, with each game creating a new world on your player board!

 

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

 

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The king's greatest friend had been an old general who had advised him and helped him protect his kingdom. He handed the new father a chest. "This is not for you my King, this is for your child. There will come a day when rule will be passed on to this young one. The respect you have earned will not be given to your children - it will be earned. In this simple chest is everything a leader needs to become a strategist and general. It will be seen as a game by the child, but, in truth, is preparation for ruling the land and surviving the tests of battle that will surely come."

War Chest is a simple to learn, yet highly re-playable and exciting war game, where each player controls a unique army. It combines drafting, with an elegant army composition mechanic. Each player plays with different units, requiring you to develop alternate strategies to balance the need to recruit more troops, offset your losses and effectively maneuver your soldiers.

 

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

 

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

 

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SpaceCorp: 2025-2300 AD is a fast-playing board game in which one to four players explore and develop outer space over three eras. Each player controls an Earth-based enterprise seeking profit by driving the expansion of humanity into the Solar System and beyond. During the game you earn profit from exploration discoveries, by conducting production at resource sites, and by completing contracts. For example, a contract in the Mariners era rewards the first player to build a base on Mars. The player with the most profit at the end of the game wins but there are many ways to get there.

 

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

 

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You gotta be lightning fast in the wildly nutty party game Nut So Fast! Flip two cards and watch for exactly four matching nut pictures. If you see a set of four, grab the nut token with the same face right out from under other player's noses! But "nut" so fast because if a number card appears, players instead need to strike the correct nutty pose.

 

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

 

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After millions of years of wasteland on Earth, animal life is finally emerging. But the world is still forming and undergoing a constant change. Only those species able to adapt to the ever-changing conditions will survive to leave their mark in history. Here is your chance! Do your best to become Darwin’s Choice.

Darwin's Choice is a competitive card game in which players create their own animal species from more than 230 animal cards. These animal species will be placed in biomes that differ strongly in their requirements and the food supply. The highest possible adaptation of animal species to their biomes not only ensures their survival but is also rewarded with the coveted Darwin points. In addition to a high adaptation the species with the highest competitive strength are also awarded across all zones.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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There are separate cards to determine the course of the tournament, according to the number of players. A round (1 2 etc) always starts with a bartering session, whereby cards may be exchanged and sold. After that, the knights must do battle! In order to be allowed to fight, the knights must he in possession of a full set of weaponry.
A full set consist of shield, sword, lance and armor. Anyone of them might be substituted by a joker card.

The game is finished when only one player is left with a complete set of weaponry. The winner is the player with the largest fortune at this lime.

 

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

 

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Create the greatest civilization the Ancient World has ever known! In 7 Wonders, you lead an ancient civilization as it rises from its barbaric roots to become a world power. Build an architectural wonder that will fascinate for eons to come, and rule the most powerful civilization on Earth! 7 Wonders: Duel is a fast-paced, two-player edition of Antoine Bauza's award-winning civilization-building game.

 

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

 

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The fascinating scenic landscape of Cornwall in southwest England with its majestic meadows, forests, hills, and wetlands will take your breath away. Lot by lot, the players stake their claim to the region's lands. Regions that already have cottages or churches built on them, or where the the flag of Cornwall blows in the wind, are coveted most of all.

But don't count on the others behaving as you would expect of a well-mannered English gentleman or else they'll steal that coveted land right out from under your nose before you know it. Only once your work is done can you relax in the pub on the countryside.

 

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

 

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Fandooble is a wildly fun and fast party game. Race against your opponents to steal all of the gold from the fearsome dragon. Wizards and knights will help you along the way, but your never know when they'll show up.

Keep and eye on that rascally scoundrel Fandooble though; he'll steal your hard stolen gold and give it to someone else before you can say, "Don't steal my gold, rascally scoundrel Fandooble."

Watch out, though – roll three dragons and you lose the gold you just stole; roll three red fire-breathing dragons, and you are really out of luck!

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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In Inca Empire, each player is an "Apu," or leader of one of the four regions ("suyus"). Your job as an Apu is to increase your status in the eyes of the divine emperor ("Sapa Inca") by doing the best job of expanding and improving the empire. Each Apu begins with the manpower of their region. They build roads and conquer neighboring regions, increasing the manpower and resources available to them. Apus are rewarded for each new region they add to the empire and for improvements such as terraces, garrisons, cities, and temples.

The player who has the most victory points (VP) at the moment Pizarro arrives at the Inca capital of Cuzco wins the game.

Note: Due to the highly interactive nature of the Sun card placement, Inca Empire cannot be played with only two players.

Inca Empire is a re-implementation of Tahuantinsuyu.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 4

 

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This game uses the very popular card system which first appeared in Avalon Hill's We the People game to detail the struggle between Carthage's Hannibal and the Roman Republic in approximately 200 BC.

Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage is an asymmetrical card driven game for 2 players set in times of epic struggle between ancient Rome and Carthage. It presents a conflict between two super-powers of Antiquity from classical Clausewitzian perspective, according to which a power only reverts to military operations when there is no other way to achieve the goal: political dominance.

Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage has been designed by one of the most acclaimed designers in the World, Mark Simonitch. Players use Strategy Cards for multiple purposes: moving generals, levying new troops, reinforcing existing armies, gaining political control of the provinces involved in the war, and introducing historical events. When two armies meet on the battlefield, a second set of cards, called Battle Cards, are used to determine the winner. Ultimately both players seek victory by dominating both fronts: military and political.

 

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

 

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It sounds so simple, and it is: Take a card or pay one chip. If you take the card you get its points, but points are bad. But you also get the chips that others have played, and that's good (each chip nullifies one point). So say, "No thanks!" and play your chips, but watch out: When you're out of chips that card's all yours.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 7

 

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The characters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are having a Parade!

All players are producers of this parade. Characters from Lewis Carroll's books such as Alice, The White Rabbit, and The Hatter are steadily invited to join this weird procession. On your turn, you play a card (from your hand of five) to the end of the parade. Unfortunately, that card might cause other cards to walk off the parade. These cards count as negative points in the end. The length of the parade line is important. If the number of the card you just played is less than the line length, you may receive the excess cards (counting from last played to the first of the line). But you don't take all the relevant cards, only the cards that meet one of these requirements:

1. the color is the same as color of the card just played, or
2. the number is the same or lower than the card just played

The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted or when one player has collected all six colors in their point piles. Then everyone plays one last card. From the four cards remaining in their hand, players choose two cards to add to his or her point piles. The player who has the least negative points after this is the winner.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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Draft your Guild, Plan your Attack, and Seize Victory!

Take to the field of battle in this intense head-to-head contest of wits and strategy. Use the diverse assortment of mercenaries at your disposal to capture strategic terrain and exploit your enemy's weaknesses. With 50 different sellswords to compose your guild, no two battles will be the same!

Sellswords is a tile placement game for two players where heroes gather for the battle of a lifetime! Each of the 50 heroes has their own ability to help turn the tiles of battle in your favor!

 

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

 

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As owners of a fantastic steam park, you're to build gigantic, coal-powered rides to attract as many visitors as you can – but building attractions won't be enough. You'll also need to manage your employees, invest in advertising in order to attract and please the different kinds of guests visiting your park, and, above all, keep the dirt that your park produces under strict control!

Steam Park is an easy-to-learn game with two difficulty levels: one for the less experienced gamers and a more strategic one for those who want a more exciting challenge. In this management game, you'll have to build your own amusement park and make it the largest and most profitable in the region. By constructing the three-dimensional, wonderful rides designed by Marie Cardouat, you will see your park grow right before your eyes. Choose your strategy! Build Stands to attract more Visitors, or Toilets to keep the Dirt under control. Whatever decision you take, take it quickly: The less time you spend planning, the more time you'll have to maintain your park. Thanks to a clever, original action-choosing mechanism, winning in Steam Park is as much a matter of being the best as of being the fastest!

 

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

 

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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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Take over the world in Zeppelin Attack, a deck building game set in the world of Evil Hat Productions' Spirit of the Century. You play villainous masterminds bent on world domination. To win, you must build a powerful deck of Zeppelin cards, weapons, defenses and operatives, and then use these to fight your opponent’s Zeppelins. The player who gets the most points from winning battles and acquiring valuable cards will win the game. There’s only room for one ultimate criminal overlord: you. Bring your zeppelins.

 

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

 

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Peril racks Spirit Island. The invaders are more numerous and more capable than ever before. As hope begin to fade, defense of the island falls to those spirits more in tune with the danger and chaos of the natural world. Will you be able to harness their power to protect the island or will it fall to the persistence of the invaders? Whatever the outcome, Spirit Island will never be the same after the time of Jagged Earth! 

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 6

 

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Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively characters to meet, events to host - you have a busy year ahead of yourself. Will the sun shine brightest on your city before the winter moon rises?

Everdell is a game of dynamic tableau building and worker placement.

On their turn a player can take one of three actions:
a) Place a Worker: Each player has a collection of Worker pieces. These are placed on the board locations, events, and on Destination cards. Workers perform various actions to further the development of a player's tableau: gathering resources, drawing cards, and taking other special actions.
b) Play a Card: Each player is building and populating a city; a tableau of up to 15 Construction and Critter cards. There are five types of cards: Travelers, Production, Destination, Governance, and Prosperity. Cards generate resources (twigs, resin, pebbles, and berries), grant abilities, and ultimately score points. The interactions of the cards reveal numerous strategies and a near infinite variety of working cities.
c) Prepare for the…

 

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

 

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Burgle your way to adventure in Clank!, the new deck-building board game.

Sneak into an angry dragon's mountain lair to steal precious artifacts. Delve deeper to find more valuable loot. Acquire cards for your deck and watch your thievish abilities grow.

Be quick and be quiet. One false-step and --CLANK! Each careless sound draws the attention of the dragon, and each artifact stolen increases its rage. You can only enjoy your plunder if you make it out of the depths alive!

 

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

 

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Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.

You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:

• Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
• Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
• Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them

The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.

If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. The official announcement and pre-orders will be available on January 2, 2019.

 

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

 

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Players set out on a mission to collect old furniture from a bulky waste collection site and to turn a profit by selling their recovered goods to paying customers. It's first come, first served, but players are only able to take a few items home at a time. And they have to be wary of thieves, who are out on the prowl just waiting to steal the collected goods from the players' homes.

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6

 

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The year is 1566. The Order of Malta has placed the first stone of what will become a powerful city in the Mediterranean. It is up to you to undertake the building projects that will complete the city and make Valletta the future capital of Malta. Procure raw materials from craftsmen and hire builders, masons, and woodworkers to construct the mighty bastions and beautiful baroque buildings of the capital. As your projects progress, enlist the aid of historical figures such as Emperor Charles V or Jean Parisot de Vallette himself to score even more points and become a master builder. Hire the help you need, manage your resources, and leave your mark on the city!

 

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

 

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After establishing themselves in Honshu, the Lords and Ladies head north to Hokkaido. Beholding Hokkaido's mountainous landscape, they see that expansion on this land will prove to be a greater challenge than before. Hokkaido is the second map-building card game in the Nippon series, bringing new ideas and drafting mechanisms to the first design, Honshu. A game of Hokkaido consists of 12 rounds, each divided into two separate phases. Each player must expand their personal map to maximize their scoring possibilities.

 

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

 

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Play as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former glory and win the crown!

Working on the same game board with the other players (but beginning at your own entrance), you'll dig a competing network of tunnels by spending increasingly valuable materials to lay polyomino tiles onto the map. You want to extend your tunnels to connect with buried gold and materials, with workshop locations that can transform resources, and especially with toppled statues. Statues are key to scoring, and you'll spend carts to move them through the tunnels to prime scoring locations near the heart of the mountain.

A major aspect of the game is the cascading production. You begin with a line of four trolls, and every troll shows the combination of resources — gold, stone, iron, marble, carts, runes, and hammers — that it produces. When a new troll is hired, place it above two other trolls, forming a "pyramid". The new troll activates, gaining its resources, and any trolls beneath it ALSO activate, gaining any resources that they have room to carry. In this way…

 

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

 

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Enki! Isis! Minerva! Tanit! Zeus! Add a divine element to your games of 7 Wonders: Duel with the Pantheon expansion! Pantheon enables you to recruit deities from five different ancient Mediterranean cultures to become patrons of your developing city. Each god or goddess offers a powerful blessing such as fabulous wealth, military fortitude, or the means to thwart your opponent`s plans, while Grand Temple cards make the game`s final Age intensely competitive by offering unprecedented points to you if you devote your city to divine concerns, and two new Wonders offer pathways towards victory by courting the favor of the gods.

 

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

 

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In Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening and are working two beds with a variety of flowers. Whenever no unplanted box is visible on a bed, you have completed it, then you count your points and replace it with a fresh, unplanted bed. You gain points for all of the visible plant pots and planting bells.

In more detail, players select various polyomino tiles of flower beds from a central market grid, depending on the location of the "gardener", then place them on one of their two personal garden boards. Each board has several garden elements that are worth points when not planted over, and these are scored on two different tracks as soon as a garden has been finished. Crossing over a line on each track awards bonus tokens that can fill in empty spaces or give you a better selection of the flower bed tiles. Whenever a garden is finished, you receive a new one to complete. After the gardener completes her fifth lap around the market, the game enters its last round. The player with the most points from their completed gardens at the end of the game wins.

Cottage Garden is the first part of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy.

 

Minimum Age: 8
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 4

 

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In the small East Frisian village of Arle on the verge of the 18th century, your family must take care of numerous tasks: dehydrate the moot, plow the farmland, and breed the animals. Improving your craftsmanship in the village and constructing the appropriate buildings will be invaluable.

Turn by turn, assign various tasks to the members of your family while keeping an eye open for the changing seasons. Use your vehicles to trade resources with others and upgrade your goods.

The fields of Arle await you!

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 1
Maximum Players: 2

 

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Infinite City is a standalone tile game in which players become the leaders of corporations building an ever-sprawling city, maneuvering to control the largest districts while holding on to the most valuable buildings.

Infinite City uses tiles to represent buildings, and colored pegs to represent control by players. The tiles are mixed, five tiles are dealt to each player, and five tiles are placed face down in the shape of a cross at the center of the play area. On their turns, players play a tile face up adjacent to one of the five starting tiles or a previously played tile, play one of their colored pegs on the tile, and follow the instructions on the tile. These instructions may lead to playing additional tiles, drawing tiles, moving tiles previously played, turning face down tiles face up, taking tiles from opponents, preventing actions or even exchanging hands of tiles with other players. When players finish their turns, if they have less than five tiles in their hands, they draw additional tiles so that they end their turn with at least five tiles.

The game ends when one player places the last of his colored pegs, or the fifth Power Station tile is played. Each player is awarded points for contiguous groups of at least three tiles controlled by him at a rate of one point per tile. Some tiles have a point value number in the corner; players receive the number of points indicated for such tiles that they control. Also, some…

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan. You are one of the two most powerful traders in the city.

But that's not enough for you, because only the merchant with two Seals of Excellence will have the privilege of being invited to the Maharaja's court.

You are therefore going to have to do better than your direct competitor by buying, exchanging and selling at better prices, all while keeping an eye on both your camel herds.

A card game for two seasoned traders!

 

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

 

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NOT ALONE: Exploration, is the first expansion for NOT ALONE.

It includes new Hunt cards for the Creature, new Survival cards for the Hunted, and new Location cards for the planet. These 10 new Locations can be played together, or they can be mixed with Locations from the base game, giving NOT ALONE an almost infinite combination of places to explore. Come visit the planet Artemia again, if you dare, in NOT ALONE: Exploration.

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 7

 

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Patchwork is a form of needlework that involves sewing together pieces of fabric into a larger design. In the past, it was a way to make use of leftover pieces of cloth to create clothing and quilts. Today, patchwork is a form of art, in which the designers use precious fabrics to create beautiful textiles. The use of uneven pieces of fabric in particular can result in real masterpieces and is therefore being practiced by a large number of textile artists.

To create a beautiful quilt, however, requires effort and time, but the available patches just do not want to fit together. So choose your patches carefully and keep a healthy supply of buttons to not only finish your quilt, but to make it better and more beautiful than your opponent's.

 

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

 

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Being a show manager you invest money for your shows. You will engage the cast for your productions and try to avoid miscasts. Staging your show in new York you may celebrate your biggest triumphs, but also suffer your worst crashes. Money is short and competition fierce. You will gain the most victory points with the most successful shows. In a variant, dream couples may emblaze the show, thus making it more profitable, but beware of Lonely hearts to spoil it all! curtain up for the opening night!.

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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The "Stone Age" times were hard indeed. In their roles as hunters, collectors, farmers, and tool makers, our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective.

In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors did. They collect wood, break stone and wash their gold from the river. They trade freely, expand their village and so achieve new levels of civilization. With a balance of luck and planning, the players compete for food in this pre-historic time.

Players use up to ten tribe members each in three phases. In the first phase, players place their men in regions of the board that they think will benefit them, including the hunt, the trading center, or the quarry. In the second phase, the starting player activates each of his staffed areas in whatever sequence he chooses, followed in turn by the other players. In the third phase, players must have enough food available to feed their populations, or they face losing resources or points.

 

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

 

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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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Take over the world in Zeppelin Attack, a deck building game set in the world of Evil Hat Productions' Spirit of the Century. You play villainous masterminds bent on world domination. To win, you must build a powerful deck of Zeppelin cards, weapons, defenses and operatives, and then use these to fight your opponent’s Zeppelins. The player who gets the most points from winning battles and acquiring valuable cards will win the game. There’s only room for one ultimate criminal overlord: you. Bring your zeppelins.

 

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

 

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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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In Evolution, players create and adapt their own species in a dynamic ecosystem with hungry predators and limited resources. Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect you from Carnivores, while a Long Neck will help you get food that others cannot reach. With over 12000 different species to create, every game becomes a different adventure. So gather your friends around the table and see who will best adapt their species to eat, multiply and thrive!

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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In Rock Paper Wizard each player competes against a powerful wizard!

In this brand new Dungeons & Dragons Edition of Rock Paper Wizard, your adventuring party has just defeated a fiery dragon in a treacherous cave. Now you and your fellow wizards argue over how to distribute the shares of treasure left behind and do what every self respecting wizard does, initiate a spell battle!

Choose your wizard's spell and cast some magic by repeating one of the hand gestures found on the cards in front of you. Everyone says "Rock, Paper, Wizard" aloud, and upon saying "Wizard", forms a hand gesture and points it towards a target. Each card describes the spell's effect, which can push an opponent towards the exit, advance yourself towards the hoard, or manipulate the coins each wizard must collect to win.

The first wizard to collect 25 gold pieces wins!

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6

 

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Ra is an auction and set-collection game with an Ancient Egyptian theme. Each turn players are able to purchase lots of tiles with their bidding tiles (suns). Once a player has used up his or her suns, the other players continue until they do likewise, which may set up a situation with a single uncontested player bidding on tiles before the end of the round occurs. Tension builds because the round may end before all players have had a chance to win their three lots for the epoch. The various tiles either give immediate points, prevent negative points for not having certain types at the end of the round (epoch), or give points after the final round. The game lasts for three "epochs" (rounds). The game offers a short learning curve, and experienced players find it both fast-moving and a quick play.

 

Minimum Age: 14
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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The success of Ginkgopolis attracts all sorts of experts (artists, engineers, bankers,journalists.) who wish to profit from its success. Design competitions and advertising campaigns eventually lead to increasingly imposing avant-garde buildings. So imposing, in fact, that it becomes necessary to provide green spaces in order to maintain the air quality in this boomtown. And don't let the speed of construction cause you to forget ISO standards. an occasional inspection will set you straight!

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 5

 

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In Karnickel, each player places his rabbit on the circular train track made of eight interchangeable tiles, sets the train engine on its start space, then takes turns rolling the custom dice. After you roll, set any die that shows the "train" out of play, then count up how many times each of the player colors appears on the remaining dice; you must move one of the rabbits (yours or another player's) clockwise around the track the full number of spaces. You then pass the rabbit dice to the next player. Players take turns, each time rolling only the dice passed to them and hopping the rabbits from tile to tile, trying to land on the tiles where they will be able to collect the most carrots.

When a player rolls only trains, the rabbit hopping has to stop as the train is ready to move! That player rerolls all seven dice, counts up the number of trains rolled, then moves the train that many spaces around the track. Every rabbit on a tile that the train moves through is scared away by the engine and hops off the track, failing to collect any carrots this time. All rabbits still on the track after the train moves — either because the train didn't reach them or because they were on one of the two tunnel tiles — get to grab 1, 2 or 3 carrots...or maybe lose one — exploding carrots are a risk!

Everyone then hops back onto the track, and the next player rolls all the dice to start a new round of play. Whoever has the most…

 

Minimum Age: 6
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 4

 

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Maracaibo, the new strategy game for 1-4 players by Alexander Pfister, is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century. The players try to increase their influence in three nations in four rounds with a play time of 40 minutes per player.

The players sail on a round course through the Caribbean. E.g., you have city tiles where you are able to perform various actions or deliver goods to. One special feature is an implemented quest mode over more and various tiles, which tells the player, who chase after it, a little story.

As a player, you move with your ship around the course, managing it by using cards like in other games from Alexander Pfister.

 

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

 

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An artifact of untold power lies in your hands. To claim it, you must escape the caverns alive. No less than nine horrific beasts stand in your way - that, and the greed of the other players.

In this game of kill-stealing, you decide whether to swing for a whopping 50 points of damage - or hold back, awaiting a more opportune time to strike. Only the final blow matters if you are to score the kill. Hold back or sabotage other's plans too much - and the entire party will die, without a winner.

Okay, that's what it says on the box... what's it really like?

Cutthroat Caverns is truly unique. While most definitely a highly interactive card game and very easy to play, it requires the strategic thinking of a board game. And, for some uncanny reason, the game will make you FEEL like you are in the middle of a classic dungeon crawl, even though table talk is about as much roleplaying as you are likely to do. That all said, it has proven to have a very broad appeal with gamers across several genres.

The real joy is the delicate balance between helping the party (and staying alive) vs working towards your own selfish goals (and risking the welfare of everyone). There are no dice. Each Turn, you will choose how much damage you are willing to do to the monster- or won't do - as you jockey for position to land the killing blow. And when characters can make that kind of decision, things get very funny & very deadly - very quickly…

 

Minimum Age: 12
Minimum Players: 3
Maximum Players: 6

 

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In ancient times, monarchs built temples to demonstrate their wealth. The highest temple belonged to the wealthiest monarch. In this two-player game by Uwe Rosenberg, you are one of these long-forgotten monarchs. With the help of various nations, your temples will grow more and more beautiful, reaching ever closer to the sky. But beware of your opponent and the nations on his side, for they will want to destroy your temples and convince your own people to change sides...

So, who will be the greatest monarch?

 

Minimum Age: 10
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 16

 

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In Linko! (a.k.a. Abluxxen), you take turns playing number cards, and the more cards of the same number you play, the better as cards score points at the end of the game. If someone else plays the same amount of cards with a higher number, however, your cards get nicked! Stealing cards can be good, but if you can't use them later, and end the game with cards in hand, they'll cost you points.

In more detail, the deck contains 104 number cards (1-13 x8) and five joker cards. Each player starts with a hand of 13 cards, and six cards are laid face-up next to the deck. On a turn, a player lays down one or more cards of the same value, adding jokers if desired; if she already has cards on the table, she lays these cards so that previously played cards are still visible. If any opponent has most recently played the same number of cards and those cards are of a lower value, then the active player "abluxxes" those opponents — that is, the active player can take the abluxxed cards into her hand and the opponent then draws the same number of cards, either from the display or the deck; if she doesn't take these cards in hand, then the opponent either returns these cards to his hand or discards them and draws that many cards. Refill the display only after someone finishes drawing cards. (Jokers can be played on their own, and they are considered to be higher than all values.)

As soon as the deck runs out of cards or a player has no…

 

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

 

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CV: Gossip, an expansion for the life-building dice game CV, gives players new ways to fight bad luck, even more opportunities to invest in happiness, and interactive rumor cards that will grant players new goals in life!

About CV: "CV" means curriculum vitae - your resume - and in the dice and card game CV you will lead a character through his entire life, making many choices about friends, relations, jobs and activities. Everything is possible: a dream job, new relationships and skills. You can be whoever you want!

 

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

 

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Out of the frying pan, and into the line of fire!

In Food Fight, your favorite foods have gone to war. Draft glorious food warriors into your army and march them onto battlefields from Watermelonloo to Spaghettis-burg! Battle morning, noon, and night across three meals. Food mascots lord over the mealtime chaos, searching for a new champion – but who will reign supreme? The most cunning, the most savage, the most delicious?!

Food Fight uses a new card-drafting mechanism that allows players to build meals that work well together and allows for powerful combo plays.

 

Minimum Age: 13
Minimum Players: 2
Maximum Players: 6

 

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