Category: Card Game

Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization is the new edition of Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization with many changes small and large to the game's cards over its three ages and extensive changes to how military works.Through the Ages (TTA) is a civilization building game. Each player attempts to build the best civilization through careful resource management and by: discovering new technologies electing competent leaders building wonders and maintaining a strong military. Weakness in any area can be exploited by your opponents. The game takes place throughout the ages beginning in the age of antiquity and ending in the modern age.One of the primary mechanisms in TTA is card drafting. Technologies wonders and leaders come into play and become easier to draft the longer they are in play. In order to use a technology you will need enough science to discover it enough food to create a population to man it and enough resources (ore) to build the building to use it. While balancing the resources needed to advance your technology you also need to build a military. Military is 'built' in the same manner as civilian buildings. Players that have a weak military will be preyed upon by other players. There is no map in the game so you cannot lose territory but players with a stronger military will steal resources science kill leaders take population or culture. It is very difficult to win with a strong military but it is very easy to lose because of a weak one.Victory is achieved by the player whose nation has the most culture at the end of the modern age.

In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders. Over three ages players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that as the title suggests the game is solely for two players.Players do not draft cards simultaneously from decks of cards but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others so timing comes into play as it can with bonus moves that allow the player to take a second card immediately. As in the original game each acquired card can be built discarded for coins or used to construct a wonder. Each player also starts with four wonder cards and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built though so one player will end up short.Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as they are acquired the cost for those resources increases for the opponent representing the owner's dominance in this area.You can win 7 Wonders Duel in one of three ways: each time you acquire a military card you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital (also giving you a bonus at certain positions). If you reach the opponent's capital you win the game immediately. Or if you acquire six of seven different scientific symbols you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If none of these situations occurs then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Something evil stirs in Arkham and only you can stop it. Blurring the traditional lines between role-playing and card game experiences Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a Living Card Game of Lovecraftian mystery monsters and madness!In the game you alone or with a friend (or up to three friends with two Core Sets) become investigators within the quiet New England town of Arkham. You have your talents sure but you also have your flaws. Perhaps you've dabbled a little too much in the writings of the Necronomicon and its words continue to haunt you. Perhaps you feel compelled to cover up any signs of otherworldly evils hampering your own investigations in order to protect the quiet confidence of the greater population. Perhaps you'll be scarred by your encounters with a ghoulish cult.No matter what compels you no matter what haunts you you'll find both your strengths and weaknesses reflected in your custom deck of cards and these cards will be your resources as you work with your friends to unravel the world's most terrifying mysteries.Each of your adventures in Arkham Horror LCG carries you deeper into mystery. You'll find cultists and foul rituals. You'll find haunted houses and strange creatures. And you may find signs of the Ancient Ones straining against the barriers to our world...The basic mode of play in Arkham LCG is not the adventure but the campaign. You might be scarred by your adventures your sanity may be strained and you may alter Arkham's landscape burning buildings to the ground. All your choices and actions have consequences that reach far beyond the immediate resolution of the scenario at hand—and your actions may earn you valuable experience with which you can better prepare yourself for the adventures that still lie before you.

Wingspan is a competitive medium-weight card-driven engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel Natalia Rojas and Ana Maria Martinez.You are bird enthusiasts—researchers bird watchers ornithologists and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.—description from the publisherFrom the 7th printing on the base game box includes Wingspan: Swift-Start Promo Pack.

In the trick-taking card game The Crew: Mission Deep Sea you and the other players work together to search for the lost continent of Mu. This new adventure takes your crew deep down into the abyss on a search for the fabled sunken land. How far you get depends entirely on how well you work together as a team. Card by card trick by trick your search party will discover the challenges that lie ahead and forge a path to Mu.This new version of The Crew has the same innovative co-operative trick-taking mechanism as the highly lauded original game — but with some exciting new surprises! While communication between your crew members is severely limited by your submerged state it is also critical to your success; finding the hidden land in the murky depths depends not only on winning tricks but also on carefully negotiating the order in which they are won. If things don't go as planned you might just be able to salvage the operation but it will take near flawless execution and perhaps a little luck to finally reach Mu.—description from the publisher

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 next Season: Workers are returned to the players supply and new workers are added. The game is played from Winter through to the onset of the following winter at which point the player with the city with the most points wins.

With great power there must also come great responsibility. –Stan Lee Amazing Fantasy #15Iron Man and Black Panther team up to stop Rhino from rampaging through the streets of New York. Captain Marvel and Spider-Man battle Ultron as he threatens global annihilation. Do you have what it takes to join the ranks of these legendary heroes and become a champion?Jump into the Marvel Universe with Marvel Champions: The Card Game a cooperative Living Card Game for one to four players!Marvel Champions: The Card Game invites players to embody iconic heroes from the Marvel Universe as they battle to stop infamous villains from enacting their devious schemes. As a Living Card Game Marvel Champions is supported with regular releases of new product including new heroes and scenarios.—description from the publisher

In Underwater Cities which takes about 30-45 minutes per player players represent the most powerful brains in the world brains nominated due to the overpopulation of Earth to establish the best and most livable underwater areas possible.The main principle of the game is card placement. Three colored cards are placed along the edge of the main board into 3 x 5 slots which are also colored. Ideally players can place cards into slots of the same color. Then they can take both actions and advantages: the action depicted in the slot on the main board and also the advantage of the card. Actions and advantages can allow players to intake raw materials; to build and upgrade city domes tunnels and production buildings such as farms desalination devices and laboratories in their personal underwater area; to move their marker on the initiative track (which is important for player order in the next turn); to activate the player's A-cards; and to collect cards both special ones and basic ones that allow for better decision possibilities during gameplay.All of the nearly 220 cards — whether special or basic — are divided into five types according to the way and time of use. Underwater areas are planned to be double-sided giving players many opportunities to achieve VPs and finally win.

Oathsworn is a Twisting Tales Game for 1-4 players where play is focused on narrative choices and rich miniature combat encounters. The game is set in the Deepwood where a Free company (the Oathsworn) fights for humanity's survival against unnatural horrors and the Deepwood itself.Each gaming session sees the players participate in a multi path game book where the story unfolds to an inevitable encounter. The encounters are multi phase scripted boss fights on the encounter board where players have to outwit and outplay the AI driven monsters and enemies. As the sessions unfold the group is taken into a deep legacy campaign where they gain levels loot and new allies to join them in their journey.Oathsworn boasts a unique push your luck combat system of exploding dice where players are always having to decide between hitting harder and potentially missing the attack. This coupled with a euro style cooldown system called 'Battleflow' makes for a vibrant and engaging play session.—description from the publisher

A dark rumour rises from Mordor. The Eye turns to Middle-earth. The hour has come. The Fellowship is reunited. The Heroes prepare for battle. Will you play as the Fellowship of the Ring to defend the free races and destroy the One Ring? Or will you play as Sauron and pursue Frodo and Sam while deploying your hordes to the gates of the enemy cities? The destiny of Middle-earth is in your hands!A game plays over 3 successive chapters that unfold similarly. On your turn strengthen your Skills hoard your treasure stretch your presence across Middle-earth rally Races to your cause or advance the Quest of the Ring.In each chapter players take cards from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's available that is not partially covered by any other cards. Players can either play the card paying its cost and placing it in their play area obtaining its benefit or discard the card and take as many coins from the reserve as the current chapter.Players can also take a Landmark tile from one of the faceup tiles paying its cost placing it in their play area. They will be able to immediately place a Fortress pawn on the corresponding region of the central board and benefit from its other effects.Immediately win the game by fulfilling one of the 3 victory conditions:If any player gathers 6 different Race symbols on their Green cards they rally the support of the Races of Middle-earth and immediately win the gameIf a player is present in all 7 regions (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit) they dominate Middle-earth and immediately win the game.If none of these three victory conditions are achieved by the end of chapter 3 the player who is present in the most regions of Middle-earth (with a Fortress and/or at least 1 Unit) wins the game. In case of tie share the victory.

Welcome to New Angeles home of the Beanstalk. From our branch offices in this monument of human achievement NBN proudly broadcasts all your favorite media programming. We offer fully comprehensive streaming in music and threedee news and sitcoms classic movies and sensies. We cover it all. Ours is a brave new age and as humanity hurtles into space and the future with an astonishing series of new advances every day NBN and our affiliates are keeping pace bringing you all the vid that's fit to view.Android: Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players. Set in the cyberpunk future of Android and Infiltration the game pits a megacorporation and its massive resources against the subversive talents of lone runners.Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need they must secure their servers and data forts with ice. These security programs come in different varieties from simple barriers to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation's virtual eyes ears and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.In turn runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources purchasing the necessary hardware and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate driven by tight timelines and shrouded in mystery. When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It's not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort's defenses there's no telling what it holds. Sometimes the runner finds something of value. Sometimes the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.The first player to seven points wins the game but not likely before he suffers some brain damage or bad publicity.The Revised Core Set for Android: Netrunner released in late 2017 includes cards from the original Core Set released in 2012 as well as cards from the Genesis Cycle and Spin Cycle series of Data Packs. While the cards in this set have been released previously the art on some of them is new.

In the co-operative trick-taking game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine the players set out as astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. What are the rumors regarding the unknown planet about? The eventful journey through space extends over 50 exciting missions. But this game can only be defeated by meeting common individual tasks of each player. In order to meet the varied challenges communication is essential in the team. But this is more difficult than expected in space.With each mission the game becomes more difficult. After each mission the game can be paused and continued later. During each mission it is not the number of tricks but the right tricks at the right time that count.The team completes a mission only if every single player is successful in fulfilling their tasks.The game comes with 50 missions with three additional missions published in spielbox 2/2020.

Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a co-operative deck-building adventure. Craft a unique deck encounter bizarre creatures discover relics of immense power and finally become strong enough to slay the Spire!Slay the Spire: The Board Game (core edition) includes: -4 Minis -Over 730 cards -Over 450 Art Sleeves -2 Map Boards -1 Merchant Board -4 Player Boards -1 Die -50 plastic cubes -Over 113 tokensCollector's edition: 4x (3mm neoprene) playermats 1x deck playmat Bigger box (fits mats) 1x Merchant bag Metal coinsKickstarter exclusives and Stretch goals: 1x Merchant pat Claw die 8x Claw cards 28x Foil Cards 3x Acrylic heart tokens

The survivors of a long-ago invasion have taken refuge in the forgotten underground city of Gravehold. There the desperate remnants of society have learned that the energy of the very breaches the beings use to attack them can be repurposed through various gems transforming the malign energies within into beneficial spells and weapons to aid their last line of defense: the breach mages.Aeon's End is a cooperative game that explores the deckbuilding genre with a number of innovative mechanisms including a variable turn order system that simulates the chaos of an attack and deck management rules that require careful planning with every discarded card. Players will struggle to defend Gravehold from The Nameless and their hordes using unique abilities powerful spells and most importantly of all their collective wits.

SCOUT is a ladder-climbing game in which cards have two potential values players may not rearrange their hand of cards and players may pass their turn to take a card from the current high set of cards into their hand.More specifically cards are dual-indexed with different values on each half of the card with the 45 cards having all possible combinations of the numbers 1-10. During set-up whoever is shuffling the cards should randomize both the order of the cards in the deck and their orientation. Once each player has been dealt their entire hand of cards they pick up that hand without rearranging any of the cards; if they wish they can rotate their entire hand of cards in order to use the values on the other end of each card but again they cannot rearrange the order of cards in their hand.On a turn a player takes one of two actions:• Play: A player chooses one or more adjacent cards in their hand that have all the same value or that have values in consecutive order (whether ascending or descending) then they play this set of cards to the table. They can do this only if the table is empty (as on the first turn) or the set they're playing is ranked higher than the set currently on the table; a set is higher if it has more cards or has cards of the same value instead of consecutive cards or has a set of the same quantity and type but with higher values. In this latter case when a player overplays another set the player captures the cards in this previous set and places them face down in front of themselves.• Scout: A player takes a card from either end of the set currently on the table and places it anywhere they wish in their hand in either orientation. Whoever played this previous set receives a 1 VP token as a reward for playing a set that wasn't beaten.Once per round a player can scout then immediately play.When a player has emptied their hand of cards or all but one player have scouted instead of playing the round ends. Players receive 1 VP for each face-down card then subtract one point for each card in their hand (except if they were the player scouted repeatedly to end the game). Play as many rounds as the number of players then whoever has the most points wins.

Inis is a game deeply rooted in Celtic history and lore in which players win by being elected King of the Island (Inis). Players can try to achieve one of three different victory conditions:Over the course of the game players also earn deeds typically chanted by bards or engraved by master crafters that reduce by one the magic total of six for any condition. While one victory condition is enough to claim the title of King a game of experienced players usually has a tight balance of power emphasizing the leadership of the capital of the island.At the start of each round players draft a hand of four action cards (with 13 action cards for three players and 17 for four players) during the Assembly. Action cards not played at the end of one season are not held for the next. Players also have access to leader cards for the territories that allow it and where they were elected leader during the assembly. Each Assembly reallocates those cards. Finally they collect epic tales cards that depict the deeds of the ancient Irish gods and heroes like Cuchulainn the Dagda Lugh and many others. These will be kept and used to inspire the clans and achieve extraordinary feats...under the right circumstances. The cards provide a variety of actions: adding clans moving clans building/exploring and special actions.Careful drafting hand management bluffing (especially once players understand the importance of passing their turn) good timing and a precise understanding of the balance of power are the keys to victory. After a discovery game you'll be ready for a full and epic game where an undisputed player will be king by the Assembly for his merit and wisdom.While Inis has dudes that are on a map it's a beginner's mistake to play this as a battle game because eliminating other clans reduces your chances of scoring a Leadership victory condition. Peace among different clans with or without a clear territory leader is the usual outcome of a clan's movement. Battles will occur of course as the Celtic clans can be unruly and a good player will listen to his clan's people (i.e. his hand of cards). That battle aspect is reflected in the clan's miniatures representing warriors. Woodsmen shepherds and traders complete the set of twelve minis for each player; these occupations have no impact on the game but give it flavor.

Playing on a famous horror movie trope Final Girl is a solitaire-only game that puts the player in the shoes of a female protagonist who must kill the slasher if she wants to survive.The Core Box when combined with one of our Feature Film Boxes has everything you need to play the game. Each Feature Film Box features a unique Killer and and iconic Location and the more Feature Films you have the more killer/location combinations you can experience!In game terms Final Girl shares similarities with Hostage Negotiator but with some key differences that change it up including a game board to track locations and character movement. You can choose from multiple characters when picking someone to play and multiple killers when picking someone to play against. Killers and locations each have their own specific terror cards that will be shuffled together to create a unique experience with various combinations of scenarios for you to play!NOTE: The 2022 Kickstarter for Final Girl: Season 2 included a 13 card Final Girl: First Printing Correction Pack of corrected cards for the first printing of Final Girl: Series 1. The cards mostly fix typos and are not required to play the game. The cards were corrected for the second printing of Final Girl: Series 1.—description from the publisherOfficial FAQ and Errata for new players here (use caution some questions slightly spoil some surprises): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-W15lbbHdLvR3gMQZpUFWfuBczfHRZxTdH7PafDt24g/edit

Confront your rival guild in a race for victory. Take Gem and Pearl tokens from the common board then purchase cards gather bonuses royal favors and prestige.Discover new twists and strategic opportunities derived from Splendor the original best-selling game. Acquire cards with impressive powers take advantage of special Privileges and fight over scarce access to Pearls.Splendor Duel is a two-player only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design while being a bit more complex dynamic interactive rich tense and mean.The game features a main board shared by both opponents card powers and three victory conditions.

It's the early 20th century. You have decided to sail back to the newly discovered seventh continent to attempt to lift the terrible curse that has struck you since your return from the previous expedition.In The 7th Continent a solo or cooperative choose-your-own-adventure exploration board game you choose a character and begin your adventure on your own or with a team of other explorers. Inspired by the Fighting Fantasy book series you will discover the extent of this wild new land through a variety of terrain and event cards. In a land fraught with danger and wonders you have to use every ounce of wit and cunning to survive crafting tools weapons and shelter to ensure your survival.Unlike most board games it will take you many MANY hours of exploring and searching the seventh continent until you eventually discover how to remove the curse(s)...or die trying.The 7th Continent features an easy saving system so that you can stop playing at any time and resume your adventure later on just like in a video game!

Gravehold remains the last bastion of The World That Was. As the otherworldly incursions from the creatures known only as The Nameless intensify a cadre of strange survivors emerge from the void itself. Will they be Gravehold's salvation or its undoing?War Eternal is a standalone game compatible with the cooperative deck-building game Aeon's End. Players struggle to defend Gravehold from The Nameless and their hordes using unique abilities powerful spells and an all-new cast of dynamic characters. Featuring a number of innovative mechanisms including a variable turn order system that simulates the chaos of an attack and deck management rules that require careful planning War Eternal can be played alone or combined with other Aeon's End content for a game experience like no other.

Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames — single-word labels like disease Germany and carrot. Yes carrot. It's a legitimate codename. Each spymaster wants their team to identify their agents first...without uncovering the assassin by mistake.In Codenames two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Lay out 25 cards each bearing a single word. The spymasters look at a card showing the identity of each card then take turns clueing their teammates. A clue consists of a single word and a number with the number suggesting how many cards in play have some association to the given clue word. The teammates then identify one agent they think is on their team; if they're correct they can keep guessing up to the stated number of times; if the agent belongs to the opposing team or is an innocent bystander the team's turn ends; and if they fingered the assassin they lose the game.Spymasters continue giving clues until one team has identified all of their agents or the assassin has removed one team from play.

You are an amateur dracologist in the world of Wyrmspan a place where dragons of all shapes sizes and colors roam the skies. Excavate a hidden labyrinth you recently unearthed on your land and entice these beautiful creatures to roost in the sanctuary of your caves.During a game of Wyrmspan you will build a sanctuary for dragons of all shapes and sizes. Your sanctuary begins with 3 excavated spaces—the leftmost space in your Crimson Cavern your Golden Grotto and your Amethyst Abyss. Over the course of the game you will excavate additional spaces in your sanctuary and entice dragons to live there chaining together powerful abilities and earning the favor of the Dragon Guild.Wyrmspan is inspired by the mechanisms of Wingspan though its unique elements make Wyrmspan a standalone game (not compatible with Wingspan).—description from the publisher

Unlike in other cultures the desert Tuareg men known as Targi cover their faces whereas women of the tribe do not wear veils. They run the household and they have the last word at home in the tents. Different families are divided into tribes headed by the ‘Imascheren’ (or nobles). As leader of a Tuareg tribe players trade goods from near (such as dates and salt) and far (like pepper) in order to obtain gold and other benefits and enlarge their family. In each round their new offerings are made. Cards are a means to an end in order to obtain the popular tribe cards.The board consists of a 5x5 grid: a border of 16 squares with printed action symbols and then 9 blank squares in the centre onto which cards are dealt. Meeples are placed one at a time on the spaces at the edges of the board (not including corner squares). You cannot place a meeple on a square the opponent has a meeple on already nor on a square facing opponent's meeple. Once all meeples are placed players then execute the actions on the border squares the meeples are on and also take the cards from the centre that match the row and column of the border meeples.The game is predominantly scored and won by playing tribal cards to your display. These give advantages during the game and victory points at the end. Usually cards are played (or discarded) immediately once drawn. A single card can be kept in hand but then requires a special action to play it (or to discard it to free the hand spot for another card). Each card has a cost in goods to play. Goods are obtained either from border spaces or from goods cards.The display (for scoring) consists of 3 rows of 4 cards that are filled from left to right and cannot be moved once placed (barring some special cards). There is also a balance to be found between the victory point score on the cards themselves (1-3 VP per tribal card) and in the combinations per row (a full row of 4 identical card types gets you an additional 4 VP and a full row of 4 distinct card types gets you 2 VP).The winner at the end of the game is the player with the most victory points.

Prepare Your Place of Power!In a high tower an Alchemist prepares potions using vials filled with otherworldly fluids. In a sacred grove a Druid grinds herbs for a mystical ritual. In the catacombs a Necromancer summons a bone dragon... Welcome to the world of Res Arcana!In it Life Death Elan Calm and Gold are the essences that fuel the art of magic. Choose your mage gather essences craft unique artifacts and use them to summon dragons conquer places of power and achieve victory!A game typically lasts 4-6 rounds. In each round players do these steps:

Star Realms is a spaceship combat deck-building game by Magic Hall of Famers Darwin Kastle (The Battle for Hill 218) and Rob Dougherty (Ascension Co-designer).Star Realms is a fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a deck-building game with the interactivity of Trading Card Game style combat. As you play you make use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row from the Trade Deck. You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score (called Authority) to zero you win!When you play Star Realms you will be able to acquire and use Ships and Bases of any and all of the four factions. Many cards have powerful Ally abilities that reward you for using Ships and Bases of the same faction together however. As you acquire cards using Trade you put them into your discard pile to be later shuffled into your personal deck. When you draw Ships you do what they say and they get placed into your discard pile at the end of your turn. When you draw a Base you play it face up in front of you and may use its abilities once every turn. In addition to Combat being the way you reduce your opponent’s Authority to zero and win the game it’s also useful for destroying your opponent’s Bases. Some Bases are designated as Outposts. Your opponent’s Outposts must be destroyed before you can use Combat to attack your opponent’s Authority directly.Star Realms is easy to learn especially if you’re familiar with deck-building games but it’s a game that takes time to master. Each time you play the game is filled with various strategic decision points. Should I take the best card for me or the best card for my opponent? Should I focus on taking cards of a particular faction or on taking the best card available? Should I be focusing on acquiring more Trade or more Combat? Should I attack my opponent’s Base or their Authority? These are just some of the many choices you’ll be faced with. New players needn’t agonize over these choices just to play but as they become more advanced players they will find this depth of strategy leads to great replayability.This is the first game of the Star Realms series. Multiple decks of Star Realms and/or Star Realms: Colony Wars one for every two people allows up to six players to play a variety of scenarios. Also in the newest version there are new ways to play that allow up to 6 players with modes like Boss Hunter and Free for All.

In Watergate one player assumes the role of a [Washington Post] journalist while the other embodies the Nixon administration — each with a unique set of cards. To win the Nixon administration must build up enough momentum to make it to the end of the presidential term whereas the journalist must gather enough evidence to connect two informants directly to the President. Of course the administration will do all in its power to smother any evidence.A history of Watergate is included with the game!—description from the publisher

In It’s a Wonderful World you are an expanding Empire and must choose your path to your future. You must develop faster and better than your competitors. You’ll carefully plan your expansion to develop your production power and rule over this new world.It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycled to immediately acquire Resources and which ones will be kept for construction to produce Resources each round and/or gain victory points.When a card is fully built it’s added to the player’s Empire to increase the player’s production capacity for each round. The mechanical twist being that the production phase works in a specific order. You'll have to plan your constructions carefully!For a deeper insight of the gameplay please follow this link : It's a Wonderful World - First stepsIn addition to the base game players can also enjoy expansions boxes introducing an innovative Campaign mode. Each Campaign offers a storyline to follow and many gameplay twists. At the end of each campaign players will open a reward booster to unlock new cards enhance their base game and keep a memory of what happened during the campaign. All the campaigns can be replayed and don’t imply game components destruction.More info on the Campaign mode : It's a Wonderful World - Campaign Mode—description from the publisher

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a cooperative adventure game in which the players attempt to complete a scenario each with up to three heroes of their choice and a deck of allies events and attachments to support them. Each round players send their heroes and allies to quest or to fight with enemies that engage them. However as the heroes and allies exhaust after questing defending or attacking the players' options are typically insufficient to deal with everything at once. Therefore players need to determine whether it is more urgent to quest and make progress in the scenario while the enemy forces gain power or to take down enemies while making no progress not knowing what will come next.The core set contains three scenarios twelve famous heroes from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (including Aragorn Legolas Gimli Denethor and Éowyn) and four pre-constructed player decks. Players can either use one of these decks or construct their own deck to increase their chances of success and to explore new strategies. Additionally The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a Living Card Game with over ten years of content and much of its content has been re-released in the form of Campaign and Hero Expansions. Campaign Expansions contain new scenarios for players to embark upon and Hero Expansions contain new heroes and new cards for players to use in their decks.Although this game is set in Tolkien's Middle-earth most scenarios in the game do not represent scenes from The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings; rather they are set in the seventeen years from Bilbo's 111th birthday until Frodo's departure from the Shire allowing players to create their own stories and adventures in Middle-earth. Scenarios from the game's Saga Expansions do follow the events of the books and in addition to being able to be played individually these scenarios can also be played together in sequence as a Campaign Mode with lasting consequences from game to game arising from the players' actions and decisions.

You are a monarch like your parents before you a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents however you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs freeholds and feodums. All are small bits of land controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people uniting them under your banner.But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions construct buildings spruce up your castle and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud but your grandparents on your mother's side would be delighted.''In Dominion each player starts with an identical very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can buy as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy and how they play their hands as they draw them the players construct their deck on the fly striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end.Dominion is not a collectible card game (CCG) but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes with 500 cards. You select 10 of the 26 Kingdom card types to include in any given play—leading to immense variety.Dominion (Second Edition) replaces six Kingdom card types from the first edition with six new types of Kingdom cards while also replacing the blank cards in the game with a seventh new Kingdom card. These new cards are available on their own in the Dominion: Update Pack. The rulebook has been rewritten three cards have mild functional changes (you may added to Moneylender Mine Throne Room) and other cards have been rephrased (while remaining functionally the same).Dominion: Update Pack contains the seven new kingdom cards introduced in the second edition of Dominion thereby allowing owners of the first edition to obtain these new cards without needing to repurchase the entire game.

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is an engine-building game in which players control interplanetary corporations with the goal of making Mars habitable (and profitable). You will do this by investing mega credits (MC) into project cards that will directly or indirectly contribute to the terraforming process. In order to win you will want to accumulate a high terraform rating (TR) and as many victory points (VP) as you can. Players raise their TR by increasing global parameters: oceans oxygen and temperature. TR also determines each corporation's basic income and at the end of the game TR counts as VP. Additional VP and production capabilities are awarded for building project cards and other actions taken during the game.The game is played in rounds and each round the players will choose one of five phases which determines which activities will take place during that round. This means every round is different but can consist of building new project cards taking general and project-specific actions producing income and resources (plants and heat) or researching to draw more project cards. Every player will take all the phases selected for the round and will receive a special bonus during the phase that they selected. To speed up the game within each phase players can act simultaneously without waiting for each other!The game board has tracks for oxygen temperature and terraform rating as well as a place for all of the ocean tiles that will be flipped over the course of the game. The game ends when there is enough oxygen to breath (14%) oceans enough to allow Earth-like weather (9) and the temperature is well above freezing (+8°C). It will then be possible if not comfortable to live on the surface of Mars!The winner is the player with the most VP at the end of the game.

Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game based on the four movies of the Alien series is a fully cooperative game with original art. While based on the Marvel superheroes version of Legendary the two games will be compatible but cannot be fully integrated.Legendary Encounters is a deck-building game in the same family as Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game but now players must cooperate in order to survive against hordes of aliens. Taking on the role of protagonists such as Ripley Dallas Bishop and Corporal Hicks players take turns recruiting cards for their deck from a central selection in order to improve their deck and defeat Xenomorph cards that are added to the central game board.Product Breakdown: > 600 total Original Art Card Set > Full Color Game Board (mat) > Full Color Rule Book > Card inserts for easy organization > Customize your card organization with removable foam inserts

In battle there are no equals.Unmatched: Cobble & Fog features four new heroes for the Unmatched system. Invisible Man uses fog to dart around the board and strike without warning. Sherlock with the trusty Watson by his side schemes and calculates to ensure victory. Dracula and the sisters slowly drain you of your power. Jekyll & Hyde uses the former's cunning and the latter's brute strength to win the day.Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.—description from the publisher

Radlands is a competitive dueling card game about identifying fiercely powerful card synergies.Act as the leader of your post apocalyptic group of survivors in a tooth-and-nail fight to protect your three camps from a vicious rival tribe. If all of them are destroyed you lose the game.The main resource in the game is water. You will spend it to play people and events and to use the abilities of cards you already have on the table. People protect your camps and provide useful abilities while events are powerful effects that take time to pay off.Both players draw cards from the same deck. All cards can either be played to the table or discarded for quick “junk” effects. To win you will need to manage your cards and water wisely.

Earth is a tableau builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules and countless strategic possibilities. With its encyclopedic nature and a near-infinite number of tableau combinations every single game will allow you to discover new synergies and connections just as our vast and fascinating world allows us to do!Over thousands of years of evolution and adaptation the flora and fauna of this unique planet have grown and developed into amazing life forms creating symbiotic ecosystems and habitats.It’s time to jump into these rich environments and create some amazing natural synergies that replicate and extrapolate on Earth’s amazing versatility and plethora of natural resources. Create a self-supporting engine of growth expansion and supply where even your unused plants become compost for future growth.—description from the publisherAWARDS & HONORS2023 Dice Tower Game of the Year Winner 2023 Dice Tower Strategy Game of the Year Winner 2023 BoardGameOfTheYear.org Game of the Year Winner 2023 People’s Choice at Dice Tower #1 Game of the Year EoY voting) 2023 Dice Tower Seal of Excellence 2023 Board Game Arena Best Forest game Winner 2023 Deutsher Spiele Preis 4th Place 2023 Best of Gen Con Gaming Trends 2023 C’ludik expert Game of the Year Winner 2023 Poulie d’Or Expert Game of the Year Winner 2023 Coup de coeur Ludovox 2023 Dod d’Or Winner 2024 Board game Hangover #1 Nature Game 2024 Coup de Coeur Expert Festival Alchimie du jeu de Toulouse 2024 BIG Awards Game of the Year Winner 2024 BIG Awards Best artwork Winner

Meadow is an engaging set collection game with over two hundred unique cards containing hand-painted watercolor illustrations. In the game players take the role of explorers competing for the title of the most skilled nature observer. To win they collect cards with the most valuable species landscapes and discoveries. Their journey is led by passion a curiosity of the world an inquiring mind and a desire to discover the mysteries of nature. The competition continues at the bonfire where the players race to fulfill the goals of their adventures.In this medium-weight board game for 1-4 players you take turns placing path tokens on one of the two boards. Placing a token on the main board allows the player to get cards but playing them requires meeting certain requirements. Playing a token on the bonfire board activates special actions (which helps to implement a chosen strategy) and gives the opportunity to achieve goals that provide additional points. Throughout the game players collect cards in their meadow and surroundings area. At the end the player with the most points on cards and on the bonfire board wins.Meadow also includes envelopes with additional cards to open at specific moments...

The boundaries between worlds have drawn perilously thin. Dark forces work in the shadows and call upon unspeakable horrors strange happenings are discovered all throughout the city of Arkham Massachusetts and behind it all an Ancient One manipulates everything from beyond the veil. It is time to revisit that which started it all…In this game you on your own or with a friend (or up to three friends in this revised version) become characters within the quiet New England town of Arkham and work to investigate the recent strange happenings and solve the mysteries. You have your talents sure but you also have your flaws. Perhaps you've dabbled a little too much in the writings of the Necronomicon and its words continue to haunt you. Perhaps you feel compelled to cover up any signs of otherworldly evils hampering your own investigations in order to protect the quiet confidence of the greater population. Perhaps you'll be scarred by your encounters with a ghoulish cult.With a revamped system of organization and a number of quality-of-life improvements the box comes with everything you need to get your Arkham campaigns started including enough cards and components for up to three other players to join you in your quest against the Mythos.This revised edition is 100% compatible with all material previously published. Players who have all of the content released before this revised starter set will not find any new cards; this set contains the same cards just more copies of them (and some with new art). Old-timers can continue where they left off under the new two-boxes campaign format (replacing the old deluxe expansion + mythos packs format) starting with Edge of the Earth.

The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of Good and Evil in a battle to control the future of civilization. Arthur represents the future of Britain a promise of prosperity and honor yet hidden among his brave warriors are Mordred's unscrupulous minions. These forces of evil are few in number but have knowledge of each other and remain hidden from all but one of Arthur's servants. Merlin alone knows the agents of evil but he must speak of this only in riddles. If his true identity is discovered all will be lost.The Resistance: Avalon is a standalone game and while The Resistance is not required to play the games are compatible and can be combined.

7 Wonders The board game with more awards than any other game on the planet. With over 30 international awards and over a million copies sold throughout the world rediscover 7 Wonders the game which has won more awards than any other game in the world in a whole new version. Lauded by both the public and critics 7 Wonders has claimed its place as an unmissable reference point in modern board gaming. 7 Wonders is based on a simple and elegant mechanic (drafting) which allows up to 7 players to play with no dead time. Players make their choice and apply all of them at the same time. These choices are varied and their impact is real. Finally the game is divided into 3 Ages which little by little increase the importance of these choices and thus the tension in the game. The global mechanics and the care given to the artwork are used to immerse the player in Antiquity and have contributed to the game’s success. A game plays out over 3 rounds called Ages during which you simultaneously play cards one at a time to develop your City.These cards represent the various Buildings you can construct: resource producers civilian commercial military scientific structures and guilds.At the end of each Age you go to war with your nearest neighbours. At the end of all 3 Ages you tally up all of the victory points earned by your City your wonder your military prowess and your treasury. The player with the highest score wins the game.Content: 7 Wonder boards 148 Age cards: 49 Age I cards 49 Age II cards and 50 Age III cards 78 Coins: 54 Coins of value 1 and 24 Coins of value 3 48 Military Conflict tokens: 24 Defeats and 24 Victories (8 per Age) 1 pad of score sheets 3 quick reference sheets describing the effects of the cards 1 List of cards and chaining leaflet 1 rulebook

Paleo is a co-operative adventure game set in the stone age a game in which players try to keep the human beings in their care alive while completing missions. Sometimes you need a fur sometimes a tent but these are all minor quests compared to your long-term goal: Painting a woolly mammoth on the wall so that humans thousands of years later will know that you once existed. (Okay you just think the mammoth painting looks cool. Preserving a record of your past existence is gravy.)What might keep you from painting that mammoth? Death in all its many forms.Each player starts the game with a couple of humans who each have a skill and a number of life points. On a turn each player chooses to go to one location — possibly of the same type as other players although not the same location — and while you have some idea of what you might find there you won't know for sure until you arrive at which point you might acquire food or resources or find what you need to craft a useful object or discover that you can help someone else in their project or suffer a snakebite that brings you close to death. Life is full of both wonders and terrors...At the day's end you need food for all the people in your party as well as various crafts or skills that allow you to complete quests. Failure to do so adds another skull on the tote board and once you collect enough of those you decide that living is for fools and give up the ghost declaring that future humans can just admire someone else for all you care.Paleo includes multiple modules that allow for a variety of people locations quests and much more during your time in 10,000 BCE.

The Rebel Alliance fights valiantly against the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. Each new victory brings the Rebels hope and each heroic sacrifice strengthens their resolve. Still the Empire's resources are vast and the firepower of its Empire Navy is unmatched. With neither side willing to accept defeat their war rages across the galaxy...In Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game a head-to-head game for two players the galaxy-spanning war between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance comes alive on your tabletop. In this easy-to-learn game you and your opponent each choose a side playing as either the Empire or the Rebels and as the game progresses you both strengthen the power of your starting decks and work to destroy each other's bases. The first player to destroy three of their opponent's bases wins.In more detail each player starts with a unique ten-card deck with seven of those cards providing only resources to acquire new cards. Six cards from a galaxy deck are always on display with Rebel cards facing the Rebel player Empire cards the Empire player and neutral cards turned sideways. You can spend resources to acquire cards in the galaxy row that don't belong to the opponent and you can use attack power to take out cards that do belong to them gaining a reward in the process.Each player starts with a base that lacks abilities (Dantooine for the Rebels and Lothal for the Empire) but when that base is destroyed you get to choose a replacement from your base deck with each base having a special ability. Choose wisely to counter your opponent's plans! In addition to having special abilities capital ships absorb damage meant for your base.Players also fight for control of a Force track to gain additional resources or make use of If the Force is with you... abilities on their cards.

In Forest Shuffle players compete to gather the most valuable trees then attract species to these trees thus creating an ecologically balanced habitat for flora and fauna.To start each player has six cards in hand with cards depicting either a particular type of tree or two forest dwellers (animal plant mushroom etc.) with these latter cards being divided in half whether vertically or horizontally with one dweller in each card half.On a turn either draw two cards — whether face down from the deck or face up from the clearing — and add them to your hand or play a card from your hand by paying the cost then putting it into play.During set-up three winter cards were placed into the bottom third of the deck. When the third winter card is drawn the game ends immediately then players tally their points based on the trees and dwellers in their forest. Whoever scores the most points wins.Forest Shuffle is the first in a line of Lookout games sporting the Lookout Greenline label produced on FSC certified paper and avoiding plastic completely.

Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines means of transportation shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point which of course will further increase your prestige.On your turn you may (1) collect chips (gems) or (2) buy and build a card or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card—in order to make sure you get it or why not your opponents don't get it—you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip which you can use as any gem.All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.

“You are not breach mages yet,” Brama lectures as she paces down the line of students her frail form belying her immense power. “Breach mages have protected us since the beginning — since the burning of the world and our pilgrimage into the dark. It was they who founded Gravehold our last bastion and if you wish to stand beside these living legends you must listen and learn. The Nameless shall come again as they always have and you will need to be ready. You are the hope of our future.”As a young apprentice you grew up to stories of the breach mages. Brama the teacher wisest of the mages. Dezmodia the prodigy master of great magic. Mist the stoic leader and tactical genius. Malastar the magical craftsman. Rebellious powerful and reckless perfectly sum up Xaxos. These mages are your heroes and tomorrow after your ordeal you will join their ranks.“Each of you must overcome your ordeal to learn discipline and focus the tools you will need to defend Gravehold. We are nothing without Gravehold. To be a breach mage is to sacrifice your life for Gravehold. When you die it will be in defense of our city. Once you understand this universal truth...only then will you be ready to become a breach mage.”Aeon's End is not required to play Aeon's End: Legacy.

Nidavellir the Dwarf Kingdom is threatened by the dragon Fafnir. As a venerable Elvaland you have been appointed by the King. Search through every tavern in the kingdom hire the most skillful dwarves recruit the most prestigious heroes and build the best battalion you can to defeat your mortal enemy!Each turn in Nidavellir bid a coin on each tavern. In descending order choose a character and add this character to your army. Each dwarf class has its own scoring way: blacksmith hunter warrior explorer and miner. A meticulous recruitment will allow you to attract a powerful hero to your army.You will also be able to increase the value of your gold coins thanks to the smart coin-building system and get the best of the other Elvalands.

Colony Wars is a deckbuilding game in the Star Realms series which is both a standalone box set for two players (featuring an 80-card trade deck as in the original) and an expansion for the base Star Realms set that allows it to be played as a four-player game.In Colony Wars as in Star Realms players will start with a fleet (deck) of 10 basic ships and can spend Trade to acquire more powerful ships and bases from a central trade row of 5 cards. This row is continuously replenished by random draws from the trade deck. Many ships and bases deal Combat damage which you can use to attack your opponent and/or destroy their bases. When you reduce your opponent's Authority to zero you win.

In the village of Tiefenthal lies The Tavern of the Deep Valley. There all citizens from the area gather but it's important to attract new wealthy guests for only then is there enough money to expand the tavern which will then lure nobles into the tavern as well. But which tavern expansion is best? Should you focus on money? Or rather ensure that the beer will keep flowing?In The Taverns of Tiefenthal the challenge is to skillfully choose the dice and develop your personal deck of cards as profitably as possible. The game is structured with five modules so that your group can add extra levels of complexity as you become more familiar with the game.AWARDS 2019 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year nominee 2019 The American Tabletop Awards COMPLEX GAMES winner

From the humble beginnings of civilization through the historical ages of progress mankind has lived fought and built together in nations. Great nations protect and provide for their own while fighting and competing against both other nations and nature itself. Nations must provide food and stability as the population increases. They must build a productive economy. And all the while they must amaze the world with their great achievements to build up their heritage as the greatest nations in the history of mankind!Nations is an intense historical board game for 1–5 players that takes 40 minutes per player to play. Players control the fate of nations from their humble start in prehistoric times until the beginning of World War I. The nations constantly compete against each other and must balance immediate needs long-term growth threats and opportunities.Gameplay introductionPlayers choose a Nation and a difficulty to play at similar to the Civilization computer games series. After the growth phase 2 historical events are revealed which the players will compete for during the round. Then players take a single small action each in player order as many times as they wish until all have passed. Actions are:Players each have individual boards that represent their Nation. There are many ways that players affect compete and indirectly interact with other players. But there is no map no units to move around and no direct attacks on other players.When all have passed there is production new player order is determined (every position is competed for) the historical events happen and if this is the last round of an age the books are scored. At the start of a new round most old cards are removed and new ones are put on the display.Victory points are gained and lost during the game and also awarded at the end of the game. The player with the most victory points is the winner.See 'More information' below for link to rules etc.

Secret Hitler is a dramatic game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930s Germany. Each player is randomly and secretly assigned to be a liberal or a fascist and one player is Secret Hitler. The fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader; the liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it's too late. The liberal team always has a majority.At the beginning of the game players close their eyes and the fascists reveal themselves to one another. Secret Hitler keeps his eyes closed but puts his thumb up so the fascists can see who he is. The fascists learn who Hitler is but Hitler doesn't know who his fellow fascists are and the liberals don't know who anyone is.Each round players elect a President and a Chancellor who will work together to enact a law from a random deck. If the government passes a fascist law players must try to figure out if they were betrayed or simply unlucky. Secret Hitler also features government powers that come into play as fascism advances. The fascists will use those powers to create chaos unless liberals can pull the nation back from the brink of war.The objective of the liberal team is to pass five liberal policies or assassinate Secret Hitler. The objective of the fascist team is to pass six fascist policies or elect Secret Hitler chancellor after three fascist policies have passed.

Codenames Duet keeps the basic elements of Codenames — give one-word clues to try to get someone to identify your agents among those on the table — but now you're working together as a team to find all of your agents. (Why you don't already know who your agents are is a question that Congressional investigators will get on your back about later!)To set up play lay out 25 word cards in a 5×5 grid. Place a key card in the holder so that each player sees one side of the card. Each player sees a 5×5 grid on the card with nine of the squares colored green (representing your agents) and three squares colored black (representing assassins). Three of the nine squares on each side are also green on the other side one assassin is black on both sides one is green on the other side and the other is an innocent bystander on the other side.Collectively you need to reveal all fifteen agents — without revealing an assassin — before time runs out in order to win the game. Either player can decide to give the first one-word clue to the other player along with a number. Whoever receives the clue places a finger on a card to identify that agent. If correct they can attempt to identify another one. If they identify a bystander then their guessing time ends. If they identify an assassin you both lose! Unlike regular Codenames they can keep guessing as long as they keep identifying an agent each time; this is useful for going back to previous clues and finding ones they missed earlier. After the first clue is given players alternate giving clues.

As ruler it's up to you to build the mightiest realm in the world! Will you choose to follow military tactics and sweep away all in your path with a massive army? Will you turn towards sorcery and control an inaccessible island surrounded by impenetrable flames? The choice is yours and no two realms will ever be the same in Fantasy Realms a combo-licious card game.Fantasy Realms takes seconds to learn: Draw a card discard a card — though you can draw from the deck or the discard area!Make the best hand you can by making the best combos. The game ends when ten cards are in the discard area. Aim for the highest score to win!To make scoring easier the WizKids Games Companion offers a scoring helper for Fantasy Realms! After your game is complete input your cards into the app & instantly see who won! Also a handy lookup of all cards! Available on iOS and Google Play.

Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is set in the Marvel Comics universe. To set up the game players choose a mastermind villain (Magneto Loki Dr. Doom Red Skull in the base game) stack that particular villain's attack cards underneath it then modify the villain deck as needed based on that villain's particular scheme. Players then choose a number of hero decks – Spider-Man Hulk Wolverine etc. – and shuffle them together; since players use only a handful of hero decks out of the fifteen included the hero deck can vary widely in terms of what's available.Over the course of the game players will recruit powerful hero cards to add to their deck in order to build a stronger and more resourceful deck. Players need to build both their recruitment powers (to enlist more heroes) and their fighting ability (to combat the villains who keep popping up to cause trouble). Players recruit heroes from an array of five cards with empty slots refilled as needed. At the start of a player's turn he reveals a villain and adds it to the row of villains. This row has a limited number of spaces and if it fills up the earliest villain to arrive escapes possibly punishing the heroes in some way. Some villains also take an action when showing up for the first time such as kidnapping an innocent bystander. The villain deck also contains master strike cards and whenever one of these shows up the mastermind villain (controlled by the game) takes a bonus action.As players fight and defeat villains they collect those cards which will be worth points at game's end. Players can also fight the mastermind; if a player has enough fighting power he claims one of the attack cards beneath the mastermind which has a particular effect on the game. If all of these cards are claimed the game ends and players tally their points to see who wins. If the mastermind completes his scheme however – having a certain number of villains escape for example or imposing a certain number of wounds on the heroes – then the players all lose.Hero decks in the base game: Gambit Black Widow Hawkeye Emma Frost Thor Spider-Man Iron Man Storm Captain America Nick Fury Rogue Cyclops Hulk Wolverine Deadpool

Century: Golem Edition is a re-themed version of Century: Spice Road set in the world of Caravania. In Century: Golem Edition players are caravan leaders who travel the famed golem road to deliver crystals to the far reaches of the world. Each turn players perform one of four actions:The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth victory point card then whoever has the most victory points wins.

Welcome to the most famed Geisha street in the old capital Hanamikoji. Geishas are elegant and graceful women who are skilled in art music dance and a variety of performances and ceremonies. Greatly respected and adored Geishas are masters of entertainment.In Hanamikoji two players compete to earn the favor of seven illustrious Geishas by collecting each Geisha’s preferred performance item. With careful speculation and a few bold moves can you outsmart your opponent to win the favor of the most Geishas?Jixia Academy features the same gameplay as Hanamikoji but with different artwork.Hanamikoji FAQ

In battle there are no equals.Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.Battle of Legends Volume One features four heroes. King Arthur sacrifices cards to power up his attacks and gets some timely assistance from Merlin's magic. Alice is back from Wonderland with a giant vorpal blade and the Jabberwock by her side as she grows and shrinks to gain advantages on attack and defense. Medusa is happy to attack from range and let her harpies hound you but just one devastating glance could end the battle quickly. Sinbad grows in power as he gains experience on each of his voyages.Combat is resolved quickly by comparing attack and defense cards. However each card's unique effects and a simple but deep timing system lead to interesting decisions each time. The game also features an updated version of the line-of-sight system from Tannhäuser for ranged attacks and area effects.The game includes a double-sided board with two different battlefields pre-washed miniatures for each hero and custom life trackers that's brought to life with the stunning artwork of Oliver Barrett and the combined design teams of Restoration Games and Mondo Games.

Sushi Go Party! expands Sushi Go! with 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 à 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!—description from the publisher

Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed deck-building game that is an adaptation of the award-winning Star Realms game. The game includes basic rules for two-player games along with rules for multiplayer formats such as Free-For-All Hunter and Hydra.Each player starts the game with a ten-card personal deck containing gold (for buying) and weapons (for combat). You start each turn with a new hand of five cards from your personal deck. When your deck runs out of cards you shuffle your discard pile into your new deck. An 80-card Market deck is shared by all players with five cards being revealed from that deck to create the Market Row. As you play you use gold to buy champion cards and action cards from the Market. These champions and actions can generate large amounts of gold combat or other powerful effects. You use combat to attack your opponent and their champions. When you reduce your opponent's score (called health) to zero you win!Multiple expansions are available for Hero Realms that allow players to start as a particular character (Cleric Fighter Ranger Thief or Wizard) and fight cooperatively against a Boss fight Boss decks against one another or compete in a campaign mode that has you gain experience to work through different levels of missions.

In Anno 1800 a board game based on the popular PC game from Ubisoft you continuously build up your own industry to develop your home island.Ship fleets allow for lively trade and the development of new islands in the Old and New World. You have to fulfill the wishes of your own population. While the inhabitants are initially satisfied with bread and clothing they soon demand valuable luxury goods. You must plan production chains sensibly and keep an eye on the specialization of your population. The goal: A wise distribution of farmers workers craftsmen engineers and investors — but the competition never sleeps and can snatch the new achievements from under your nose at any time! Who can create the most prosperous island?—description from the publisher (translated)

Monikers is a party game based on the public domain game Celebrities where players take turns attempting to get their teammates to guess names by describing or imitating well-known people.In the first round clue givers can say anything they want except for the name itself. For the second round clue givers can only say one word. And in the final round clue givers can’t say anything at all: they can only use gestures and charades.

Skull King is a trick-taking game similar to Oh Hell! Wizard Euchre and Spades with players needing to state how many tricks they think they'll win each round. A unique element of this game is that bidding takes place simultaneously leading to rounds that are sometimes over or under-bid. As players must win the exact number of tricks that they bid to earn points winning too many tricks is just as bad as winning too few and this leads to intense competition where losing a trick can be as exciting as winning one.Skull King uses a 66-card deck that consists of five Escape cards four suits numbered 1-13 five Pirate cards 1 Tigress card and 1 Skull King card. The game lasts ten rounds and in each round each player is dealt as many cards as the number of the round. All players simultaneously bid on the number of tricks they think they'll take by holding out a fist and on the count of three revealing a certain number of fingers (or possibly a closed fist for a bid of zero tricks).Standard rules apply for the playing of cards with one player leading off a card and other players following suit if possible and playing something else if not; however a player may always choose to play one of the special unnumbered cards — and the power of those cards might let you win a trick that otherwise would have gotten away. In more detail the black Jolly Roger suit trumps the other three suits a Mermaid trumps all numbered cards a Pirate trumps the Mermaid and the Skull King trumps everything — except if he appears in the same trick with a Mermaid in which case she captures him and wins instead. An Escape card loses to any other card and the Tigress card serves as either a pirate or escape card as desired by the player. Whoever wins a trick leads in the next trick.If a player makes their bid exactly they score 20 points per trick; if they collect more or fewer tricks they lose 10 points per trick they are off. If a player makes a bid of zero tricks they win points equal to ten times the current round number — but if they take even a single trick they lose this many points instead. If a player catches pirates with the Skull King or the King with a mermaid they score bonus points. Whoever has the most points after ten rounds wins.

Star Realms: Frontiers is a new standalone Star Realms series game with an 80-card trade deck and new scorecards that's suitable for play with up to four players. It can be combined with Star Realms and/or Star Realms: Colony Wars.Star Realms is a fast-paced game of space battles that combines the fun of a deckbuilding game with the interactivity of Trading Card Game-style combat. As you play you make use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row.You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to generate Combat to attack your opponent and their Bases. When you reduce your opponent’s score (called Authority) to zero you win! Battle your friends or team up to play cooperatively against the game!The default Star Realms: Frontiers box is listed with the following as its features:

In Marvel United you take the role of iconic Marvel Heroes cooperating to stop the master plan of a powerful Villain controlled by the game. Each Villain unveils their unique master plan with cards that trigger different effects and threats that pose challenges across the locations. Heroes must choose carefully the cards to play from their unique decks that not only offer different actions and superpowers to use but also combine with the actions of other Heroes to do the impossible. Build your storyline unite your powers save the day!NOTE: The game design team has contributed to a helpful FAQ thread (also summarized in a convenient FAQ document) which you might want to review if you have questions about how to play.

Aeon’s End: The New Age introduces the Expedition system into the Aeon's End universe which allows players to replay all of the content they own in a short campaign format. After each game players will receive new treasures and player cards that allow them to become more powerful. However the nemeses that players will face grow stronger and stronger with each battle.Aeon's End: The New Age is a standalone expansion that is compatible with all of the other standalone games. All content can be mixed and matched for exciting new combinations!—description from the publisher

Distilled is a highly thematic strategy card game about crafting spirits in a distillery with resource management and push-your-luck elements. In the game you have inherited a distillery and are hoping to someday achieve the title of master distiller through purchasing goods building up your distillery and creating the world's most renowned spirits.Purchase new ingredients and invest in upgrades to your distillery all while eventually distilling the spirit and sending it to the warehouse. Once in the warehouse age your spirit to enhance its flavor and bottle it to sell it for major profits!Achieve the title of Master Distiller by having the most spirit points at the end of the game. Points are obtained by distilling and selling spirits.—description from the designer

The Battle Chest contains all 4 sets from Season Two.Dice Throne is a game of intriguing dice tactical card play powerful heroes and unique abilities.It's a fast-paced 2-6 player combat game (1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all). Select from a variety of heroes that play and feel completely distinct from one another. Attack opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects such as granting permanent hero upgrades applying status effects and manipulating dice directly (yours your teammate's or even your opponent's).Dice Throne: Season Two introduces a roster of new heroes and intriguing new matchups.

During your turn you assemble your hand maybe place cards for their effect and decide if you want to end the round. But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand? You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk? The game ends when you reach 30/35/40 points (4/3/2 players).The excitement of ending the round to catch your opponents off guardThe pleasure of playing your effect cards and making combosIt's a set collection card game like Rummy. The origami created especially for the game is just the illustrations on the cards.

The greatest sorcerers of the kingdom have gathered at the heart of the Argos forest where the legendary tournament of the 12 seasons is taking place. At the end of the three year competition the new archmage of the kingdom of Xidit will be chosen from among the competitors. Take your place wizard! Equip your ancestral magical items summon your most faithful familiars to your side and be ready to face the challenge!Seasons is a tactical game of cards and dice which takes place in two phases:The first phase Prelude consists of a card draft: the goal during this phase will be to establish your own 9-card deck for the main part of the game and with it the strategy.Once the Prelude is complete each player must separate their 9 cards into 3 packs of 3 cards. They will begin the second phase of the game with their first pack of three cards then gradually as the game progresses they will receive the other two packets of three cards.Next comes the Tournament: at the beginning of each round a player will roll the seasons dice (dice = number of players +1).These cubes offer a variety of actions to the players: - Increase your gauge (maximum number of cards you may have placed on the table and in play) - Harvesting energy (water earth fire air) to pay the cost of power cards - Crystallizing the energy (during the current season) to collect crystals. Crystals serve both as a resource to pay for some cards but also as victory points in the end. - Draw new cardsEach player can choose only one die per turn. The die not chosen by anyone determines how many fields the time track would move forward. In addition all the dice are different depending on the season. For example there are not the same energies to a particular season. Throughout the game players will therefore have to adapt to these changes - also the exchange rates of energy to crystals vary during seasons - the energy not present on the dice in any given season is also the best paid during the season.At the end of the game the crystals are summed with victory points granted by the cards (minus some penalties where applicable). The highest score wins.

Dixit Odyssey is both a standalone game and an expansion (Dixit: Odyssey (expansion)) for Jean-Louis Roubira's Dixit which won Germany's Spiel des Jahres award in 2010.Game play in Dixit Odyssey matches that of Dixit: Each turn one player is the storyteller. This player secretly chooses one card in his hand then gives a word or sentence to describe this card—but not too obviously. Each other player chooses a card in hand that matches this word/sentence and gives it to the storyteller. The storyteller then lays out the cards and all other players vote on which card belongs to the storyteller. If no one or everyone guesses the storyteller's card the storyteller receives no points and all players receive two; otherwise the storyteller and the correct guesser(s) each receive three points. Players score one point for each vote their image receives. Players refill their hands and the next player becomes the storyteller. When the deck runs out the player with the most points wins.Dixit Odyssey contains 84 new cards each with a unique image drawn by Pierô and colored by Marie Cardouat artist of Dixit and Dixit 2. The stand alone version also includes a folding game board 6 new rabbit scoring tokens (12 total) and a box large enough to hold all the Dixit cards released to date. The stand alone version of Dixit Odyssey includes enough components for up to twelve players and also has variant rules for team play and for new ways to play with the cards.

Welcome to Alula a mysterious continent with ever-changing geography shaped after the rhythm of the seasons. Beyond the Sea of Mists lies the mysterious continent of Alula. Roam across the land in search of its secrets meet its inhabitants and list its wonders in order to gain more fame than your opponents.Throughout a game of Faraway you will play a row of 8 cards in front of you from left to right. These cards represent the regions you will come across while exploring the lands. Characters on these cards will grant you victory points if you later fulfil the conditions they demand. At the end of the game you walk back the same way scoring cards in the opposite order you played them. There lies the heart of the gameplay. Throughout the game the cards you play will serve both to set new objectives and to meet the ones you played previously.Each turn you play a card from a hand of 3. Then you pick a new card from a face-up river. As play is simultaneous in Faraway you must take into account a clever priority system in all of your choices – being last to pick a card leaves you with fewer options and often less profitable choices for the next turns.—description from the publisherRelated Microbadges

The noble Princess is looking for an ideal partner and confidant to help with her royal duties when she one day assumes the throne. You must prove your worth and gain her trust by enlisting allies friends and family of the Princess to carry a letter of intent to her. Can you earn the Princess' trust and become her confidant?Playing cards one at a time players in Love Letter use the abilities of these key people in the Princess' life to outwit their opponents and successfully deliver their letter and gain her favor. Players must utilize each character's special skill to avoid being caught and successfully deliver their letter to the Princess. Once a set number of favor tokens are acquired that player wins and becomes the Princess' confidant.This 2019 edition of Love Letter features new artwork by Citadels artist Andrew Bosley screen-printed tokens and two new characters (five cards in total) that allow for games with up to six players. When played the Chancellor (value 6) allows you to draw two new cards add those to your hand then place two cards of your choice on the bottom of the deck. The Spy (value 0) wins you a favor token if you were the only player to play or discard a spy during the round.—description from the publisher

Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons.In your hands lies the destiny of one of history's great civilizations. Under constant threat of attack you must conquer new lands oversee dramatic scientific and cultural advances and lead your people into the era of empire. Expand too rapidly and unrest will bring your civilization to its knees; build up too slowly however and you might find yourself a mere footnote of history. As one of eight radically asymmetric civilizations you will compete to become the most dominant empire the world has ever seen.Imperium: Classics is a standalone game that contains the Carthaginian Celt Greek Macedonian Persian Roman Scythian and Viking civilizations and an individual solo opponent behaving as each nation. It is also fully compatible with Imperium: Legends for players wanting to expand their pool of civilizations even further.—description from the publisher

Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is the quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for 2 - 5 cool cats where your card’s color isn’t defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox!—description from the publisher

All of the eligible young men (and many of the not-so-young) seek to woo the princess of Tempest. Unfortunately she has locked herself in the palace and you must rely on others to take your romantic letters to her. Will yours reach her first?Love Letter is a game of risk deduction and luck for 2–4 players. Your goal is to get your love letter into Princess Annette's hands while deflecting the letters from competing suitors. From a deck with only sixteen cards each player starts with only one card in hand; one card is removed from play. On a turn you draw one card and play one card trying to expose others and knock them from the game. Powerful cards lead to early gains but make you a target. Rely on weaker cards for too long however and your letter may be tossed in the fire!Number 4 in the Setting: Tempest Shared World Game Series

Settlers from four major powers of the world have discovered new lands with new resources and opportunities. Romans Barbarians Egyptians and Japanese all at once move there to expand the boundaries of their empires. They build new buildings to strengthen their economy they found mines and fields to gather resources and they build barracks and training grounds to train soldiers. Soon after they discover that this land is far too small for everybody then the war begins...Imperial Settlers is a card game that lets players lead one of the four factions and build empires by placing buildings then sending workers to those buildings to acquire new resources and abilities. The game is played over five rounds during which players take various actions in order to explore new lands build buildings trade resources conquer enemies and thus score victory points.The core mechanism of Imperial Settlers is based on concepts from the author's card game 51st State.

Summoner Wars puts you in the role of a powerful summoner in control of a unique army dedicated to taking control of the war-torn planet of Itharia. Display your tactical prowess by summoning units to your gates outmaneuvering your opponent and cutting down the enemy summoner to claim victory. Be wary though! The enemy will take advantage of every opportunity they find to destroy you and your army.Countless units a wide variety of spells and abilities and the option to build your own decks all make for a game sure to entertain play after play.Summoner Wars (Second Edition) is a fully expandable tactical dueling card game that features updated versions of beloved factions along with exciting new factions ready to join the battle. The game — which features new art and a perfected rules system — can be played in-person with physical cards or online with a browser-based app.

Century: Spice Road is the first in a series of games that explores the history of each century with spice-trading as the theme for the first installment. In Century: Spice Road players are caravan leaders who travel the famed silk road to deliver spices to the far reaches of the continent for fame and glory. Each turn players perform one of four actions:The last round is triggered once a player has claimed their fifth victory point card then whoever has the most victory points wins.

Bruges in the 15th century – culture and commerce flourish and make the Belgian Hanseatic city into one of the wealthiest cities in Europe.In Bruges (a.k.a. Brugge or Brügge depending on the country in which you live) players assume the role of merchants who must maintain their relationships with those in power in the city while competing against one another for influence power and status. Dramatic events cast their shadows over the city with players needing to worry about threats to their prosperity from more than just their opponents...The game includes 165 character cards with each card having one of five colors. On a turn a player chooses one of his cards and performs an action with six different actions being available: Take workers take money mitigate a threat build a canal build a house or hire the character depicted on the card. In principle every card can be used for every action – but the color of the card determines in which areas the actions can be used or the strength of the chosen action e.g. blue cards provide blue workers and red cards help mitigate red threats. All of the action is geared toward the gathering of prestige with the most prestigious merchant winning in the end.

Summoner Wars is a fast-playing action-packed card game for 2-4 players in which they take on the role of Summoners: powerful beings who harness the power of mysterious Summoning Stones to lead their race to conquest on the war-torn planet of Itharia. These Summoners wield terrible magic on the battlefield freezing their foes in place draining their enemies of power and even bringing rains of fire down from the heavens. But most notoriously they summon their great race's hordes of warriors to the battlefield to clash in the never-ending struggle for supremacy. A Summoner is both mage and general and must combine their wizardly might with clever tactics to defeat the enemy Summoner on the opposite side of the battle.The Summoner Wars Master Set contains six new and different complete factions from which to choose:Strategy shapes the composition of each deck of cards and how they are used. Tactics determine the effectiveness of those cards in battle. Call walls of stone to protect you in combat and serve as magic portals for you to summon your warriors. Call your forces forth and send them in a surging wave against your enemy. Cast spells that bolster your forces and cut down those who would oppose you.Victory can come only from the death of your opponent's Summoner...

Awkward Guests a.k.a. Incómodos Invitados is a one-of-a-kind deduction game with infinite re-playability. You can recreate Mr. Walton's murder in so many different ways that you won't ever play two similar games! (Mr. Walton will not thank you for doing this.)The game challenges you to use genuine detective abilities to solve each case. To solve a mystery you have to interrogate the suspects question the household staff examine the crime scene search for clues around the Walton Mansion and consult the police reports. You will do all of this while exchanging information with your opponents or hiding it from them so get ready to use all your gumshoe skills!WHO killed Mr. Walton? HOW did the murderer end his life? WHY did the murderer kill him? Was there an ACCOMPLICE?The heart of Awkward Guests is simple: Players have a hand of six cards and each card has a value (1 2 or 3 points according to the amount of information that it provides) and several references (i.e. the subjects of the card information). During a turn you ask for information about two different references in which you are interested. The rest of the players can offer you cards that contain the requested references and you can trade for those cards by giving the offering players the same number of points they have offered via cards in your hand.After each round ends players can try to solve the mystery. If the mystery is not solved players discard part of their hands and receive three new cards. The player or players who solve the mystery first win.

Artisan dragons the smaller and magically talented versions of their larger (and destructive) cousins are sought by shopkeepers so that they may delight customers with their flamecraft. You are a Flamekeeper skilled in the art of conversing with dragons placing them in their ideal home and using enchantments to entice them to produce wondrous things. Your reputation will grow as you aid the dragons and shopkeepers and the Flamekeeper with the most reputation will be known as the Master of Flamecraft.In Flamecraft 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers gathering items placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread meat iron crystal plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.—description from the publisher

Arboretum is a strategy card game for 2-4 players aged 10 and up that combines set collection tile-laying and hand management while playing in about 25 minutes. Players try to have the most points at the end of the game by creating beautiful garden paths for their visitors.The deck has 80 cards in ten different colors with each color featuring a different species of tree; each color has cards numbered 1 through 8 and the number of colors used depends on the number of players. Players start with a hand of seven cards. On each turn a player draws two cards (from the deck or one or more of the discard piles) lays a card on the table as part of her arboretum then discards a card to her personal discard pile.When the deck is exhausted players compare the cards that remain in their hands to determine who can score each color. For each color the player(s) with the highest value of cards in hand of that color scores for a path of trees in her arboretum that begins and ends with that color; a path is a orthogonally adjacent chain of cards with increasing values. For each card in a path that scores the player earns one point; if the path consists solely of trees of the color being scored the player scores two points per card. If a player doesn't have the most value for a color she scores zero points for a path that begins and ends with that color. Whoever has the most points wins.

In Mindbug you summon hybrid creatures and send them to battle against your opponent — but when you summon a creature the opponent may use one of their Mindbugs to take control of it. Outwit your opponent in a fascinating tactical duel in which having the best cards and playing them at the wrong time can be deadly for yourself.Cards in Mindbug represent weird creatures that all come with unique and powerful abilities such as a Compost Dragon a Snail Hydra or a Kangasaurus Rex. Each player starts the game with ten creature cards (five in hand and five in a draw pile) and tries to use them to reduce the opponent's life total to zero. In addition every player receives two Mindbug cards that can be used to mind control an opposing creature when it is played. This innovative Mindbug mechanism is the core of the game and leads to a unique decision-making process that makes Mindbug feel utterly different from any other card game.Playing a card doesn't require any resources in Mindbug. As a result the game has no ramp-up phase (such as gathering resources) and doesn't require weak cards. Since there is also no deck-building you can start playing right away from a single deck. There is also no unfair advantage as players draw cards from the same deck and always get the chance to mind control the strongest opposing cards. In the end it all comes down to your own decisions making the game extremely fair and competitive at the same time.—description from the publisher

Furnace is an engine-building Eurogame in which players take on the roles of 19th-century capitalists building their industrial corporations and aspiring to make as much money as they can by purchasing companies extracting resources and processing them in the best combinations possible.Each player starts the game with a random start-up card the resources depicted at the top of that card and four colored discs valued 1-4.The game is played over four rounds and each round consists of two phases: Auction and Production. During the auction 6-8 company cards are laid out with their basic sides face up. Players take turns placing one of their discs on one of these cards but you cannot place a disc on a card if a disc of the same value or color is already present. Thus you'll place discs on four cards.Once all the discs are placed the cards are resolved from left to right. Whoever placed the highest-valued disc will claim this card but first anyone with a lower-valued disc on this card will gain compensation either the resources depicted multiplied by the value of their disc or a processing ability (exchange X for Y) up to as many times as the value of their disc.Once all the cards have been claimed or discarded players enter the production phase using their cards in the order of their choice. Each company card has one action — either production or processing — on its basic side and two actions on its upgraded side. During the production phase you can use each of your cards once to gain resources process those resources into other resources or money and upgrade your cards.At the end of four rounds whoever has the most money wins.Furnace also includes capitalist cards that contain unique effects and if you want you can choose to deal one out to each player at the start of the game. For an additional challenge you can require players to create a production chain with each newly acquired company card being placed somewhere in that chain and locked in position for the remainder of the game.

The smartest minds of our generation are gathering together at the Great Science Fair. Everyone's been working hard on their creations but only one will be crowned champion. Contestants have to think on the fly to build their machines quickly and efficiently. Whose project will be the best?In Gizmos you win the game by gaining victory points from building engines. And engines help you get things done faster. Whoever builds the greatest machine and collects the most victory points wins!Machines give you victory points and allow you to do more actions when conditions are met. As you build new attachments can trigger chain reactions letting you do even more on your turn.

In Marvel United: X-Men you take the role of iconic Marvel Heroes cooperating to stop the master plan of a powerful Villain controlled by the game. Each Villain unveils their unique master plan with cards that trigger different effects and threats that pose challenges across the locations. Heroes must choose carefully the cards to play from their unique decks that not only offer different actions and superpowers to use but also combine with the actions of other Heroes to do the impossible. Build your storyline unite your powers save the day!

The forces of evil are threatening to overrun Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle a cooperative deck-building game and it's up to four students to ensure the safety of the school by defeating villains and consolidating their defenses. In the game players take on the role of a Hogwarts student: Harry Ron Hermione or Neville each with their own personal deck of cards that's used to acquire resources.By gaining influence players add more cards to their deck in the form of iconic characters spells and magical items. Other cards allow them to regain health or fight against villains keeping them from gaining power. The villains set back players with their attacks and Dark Arts. Only by working together will players be able to defeat all of the villains securing the castle from the forces of evil.—description from the publisher

Sometimes in order to truly appreciate a tale one must first go back to its beginning. Grand adventures and strong fellowships are important and wonderful but the first step of any journey is just as important as the last. With that in mind it’s time to return to the beginning of one of the most epic adventures of all…With increased contents and some quality-of-life improvements this new version of the classic LCG’s core set is the perfect opportunity for a new player to dive into the game.The Revised Core Set includes cards to allow Campaign Mode (previous core set was strictly standalone scenarios) entirely new Boon and Burden mechanics that add cards that persist with the players from scenario to scenario and full support for 4 players in the core box.-description from publisherThis set is 100% compatible with all previously-released The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game content. Players who already own three copies of the original core set will not find any new cards in this box aside from the campaign boon and burden cards which can be downloaded and printed for free on the official website.

As Supreme Commander of your country's military forces in Air Land & Sea you must carefully deploy your forces across three theaters of war: air land and sea. At the start of each battle you're dealt a hand of six cards. Players take turns playing cards one at a time until all cards have been played — or one player decides to withdraw. The order in which you play your cards is critical as is whether you play them face up or face down. Playing a card face up triggers its tactical ability but the card must be played in its corresponding theater. Face-down cards can be played to any theater but have a strength of only 2 and do not grant tactical abilities.Sometimes it may be best to withdraw in order to deny your opponent complete victory as points are awarded at the end of each battle based on the results. The first player to 12 points wins!Air Land & Sea: Critters at War features the same gameplay as in Air Land & Sea but with 100% critters and more vibrant colors.

The Abyss power is once again vacant so the time has come to get your hands on the throne and its privileges. Use all of your cunning to win or buy votes in the Council. Recruit the most influential Lords and abuse their powers to take control of the most strategic territories. Finally impose yourself as the only one able to rule the Abyssal people!Abyss is a game of development combination and collection in which players try to take control of strategic locations in an underwater city. To achieve this players must develop on three levels: first by collecting allies then using them to recruit Lords of the Abyss who will then grant access to different parts of the city. Players acquire cards through a draft of sorts and the Lords of the Abyss acquired on those cards grant special powers to the cardholder — but once you use the cards to acquire a location that power is shut off so players need to time their land grabs well in order to put themselves in the best position for when the game ends.

Game description from the publisher:Blood Bowl: Team Manager - The Card Game is a bone-breaking breathtaking standalone card game of violence and outright cheating for two to four players. Chaos Dwarf Wood Elf Human Orc and Skaven teams compete against each other over the course of a brutal season. Customize your team by drafting Star Players hiring staff upgrading facilities and cheating like mad. Lead your gang of misfits and miscreants to glory over your rivals all to become Spike! Magazine's Manager of the Year!Once a manager has chosen one of the six teams he has five weeks to groom them into the best in the league culminating with the Blood Bowl tournament. He does this by competing at highlights collecting payouts upgrading his personnel and drafting Star Players.Managers begin the season with a starting team deck full of basic scrub players. These players are none too bright and have limited talents but a clever manager can play to their strengths by carefully positioning them to excel on the pitch.Is your team ready to compete against other teams in head-to-head highlights? Highlights are the randomly determined matchups over which players compete. The more highlights a team wins the more it improves and the more fans it accumulates.The season culminates with the Blood Bowl tournament. After the Blood Bowl the season ends. Players then tally up their total fans and the manager with the most fans wins the game.

In battle there are no equals.Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. (Note that this set is solely for two players but it can be combined with other sets which all serve up to four players.) Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot features the titular heroes. Robin Hood and his outlaws excel at ranged attacks and robbing from their opponents. Bigfoot and his pal the Jackalope crash through the forest for quick attacks before disappearing like a figment of the mind.Combat is resolved quickly by comparing attack and defense cards. However each card's unique effects and a simple but deep timing system lead to interesting decisions each time. The game also features an updated version of the line-of-sight system from Tannhauser for ranged attacks and area effects.The game includes a double-sided board with two different battlefields pre-washed miniatures for each hero and custom life trackers that's brought to life with the stunning artwork of Oliver Barrett and the combined design teams of Restoration Games and Mondo Games.

The world you know no longer exists. There is no government. No army. No civilization. The United States has collapsed and now thirty years after the war started new powers finally try to take control over the ruined country try to establish a new order try to control others and create a new country a new state: the 51st State.51st State is a card game in which players control one of four powers trying to build a new country. Players put new locations into play hire leaders and send people to work in buildings to gain resources and new skills. To do this every card in 51st State can be used in three different ways:51st State: Master Set marks the rebirth of the 51st State line with this set containing 88 cards from the original base game and 50 cards each from both the New Era and Winter expansions; one of these expansions can be mixed with the cards of the base game but not both at the same time. The entire set has been rebalanced to offer a cohesive experience no matter which expansion you choose to use.

What would it be like for Mages of vastly different schools and philosophies of magic to come together in an arena and fight to the death? How would an Illusionist battle a Druid? Or a Warlock fight a Beastmaster? Or a Priestess fare against a Wizard?Mage Wars — redubbed Mage Wars Arena in 2015 to distinguish it from Mage Wars Academy — pits powerful Mages against each other in deadly arena combat. Each Mage uses his own fully-customizable book of spells to achieve total victory over his opponent. Summon mighty creatures to do battle in your name; cast powerful spells to attack your foe and thwart his every plan and strategy; use hidden enchantments to turn the tables and rule the day; adorn yourself with mighty weapons armor and arcane artifacts – all of this and more await you in the arena of Mage Wars!Mage Wars is a tactical board game a combination of a card game and miniatures game combining the best elements from each genre. The game is played on an arena game board divided into square areas called zones which regulate movement and the placement of objects. Each Mage (player) starts in a corner of the arena opposite his enemy.Each player holds a spellbook from which spell cards are pulled out as they are cast during the game. This has the feel of being a real Mage turning the pages of your tome of magic as you plan your strategy each turn. A point system allows you to choose spells for your spellbook with more powerful spells and spells outside your schools of training costing more points. You have full access to cast any spell you want each turn allowing for an unprecedented level of rich strategy and tactics. Many of these spells – such as creatures equipment and enchantments – are placed on the board and become objects in the game. Creatures can move around the arena and attack each other and the enemy Mage. Attacks deal damage as well as interesting special effects such as Burn Corrode Stun Daze Push Cripple Paralyze etc. Creatures can be destroyed when they receive too much damage or can be controlled by powerful curses and enchantments or contained by walls and other creatures.Every Mage comes from a different school of magic each with unique spells and strategies:The base game comes with all you need to get started: spellbooks extra spells to customize with the spellbooks arena game board dice markers etc.New Mages will be released every few months to add new spells powers and variety to the game. The game is NOT collectible but is fully customizable!

Edited description from Bruno Faidutti's write-up of the game in his Ideal Game Library:Skull & Roses is the quintessence of bluffing a game in which everything is played in the players' heads. Each player plays a face-down card then each player in turn adds one more card – until someone feels safe enough to state that he can turn a number of cards face up and get only roses. Other players can then overbid him saying they can turn even more cards face up. The highest bidder must then turn that number of cards face up starting with his own. If he shows only roses he wins; if he reveals a skull he loses placing one of his cards out of play. Two successful challenges wins the game. Skull & Roses is not a game of luck; it's a game of poker face and meeting eyes.Skull & Roses Red features the same gameplay as Skull & Roses with the only change being alternate rules that allow each player to control two biker gangs. Both Skull & Roses Red and Skull are playable on their own with each game containing six different biker gangs. Each Skull or Skull & Roses set can be combined with another to allow for games with more than six players.

A brand new edition of a popular classic London will appeal to the strategic thinker among board game fans. Tasked with rebuilding London in the decades following the great fire players juggle building requirements bank loans and poverty as they strive to realize their vision for the city.The game features a unique mechanism of playing cards to develop the city then running the city by taking all the card actions simultaneously. Players have to repay all their loans before the game ends but need to worry only about how much poverty they're creating relative to the other players.—description from the publisher

San Juan is a card game based on Puerto Rico. The deck of 110 cards consists of production buildings (indigo sugar tobacco coffee and silver) and violet buildings that grant special powers or extra victory points. Cards from the hand can be either built or used as money to build something else; cards from the deck are used to represent goods produced by the production buildings in which case they are left face-down. A seven-card hand limit is enforced once per round.In each round (or governorship) each player in turn selects from one of the available roles triggering an event that usually affects all players such as producing goods or constructing buildings. The person who picks the role gets a privilege such as producing more goods or building more cheaply.Though similar in concept to Puerto Rico the game has many different mechanisms. In particular the game includes no colonists and no shipping of goods; goods production and trading are normally limited to one card per phase; and trades cannot be blocked. Victory points are gained exclusively by building and the game ends as soon as one player has put up twelve buildings.This second edition of San Juan includes all the cards of the original game as well as the additional building cards from the alea Treasure Chest but not the event cards from that expansion. This edition also contains a new building card not previously available: The Hut a building that grants a card when nothing is sold in the trader phase.

What are these strange symbols on the map? They are code for locations where spies must contact secret agents!Two rival spymasters know the agent in each location. They deliver coded messages telling their field operatives where to go for clandestine meetings. Operatives must be clever. A decoding mistake could lead to an unpleasant encounter with an enemy agent – or worse with the assassin! Both teams race to contact all their agents but only one team can win.Codenames: Pictures differs from the original Codenames in that the agents are no longer represented by a single word but by an image that contains multiple elements.

Evolution: Climate is a standalone game that introduces climate into the Evolution game system.In Evolution: Climate players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce predators lurk and the climate can swing between scorching hot and icy cold. Traits like a Hard Shell and Horns can protect your species from Carnivores while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach. Heavy Fur and Migratory can protect your species from the cold while being Nocturnal or Burrowing will provide protection from the cruel desert sun. With over 200,000 ways to evolve your species every game evolves into a different adventure.Evolution: Climate changes Evolution from a two-dimensional game (dealing with the threat of Starvation and Carnivores) into a three-dimensional game (dealing with the threat of Starvation Carnivores and Climate effects) while increasing the vividness of the theme. It adds additional layers into what was already a dynamically strategic game.

Hera tired of Zeus' infidelity decides to take her revenge and releases the Titans on Mount Olympus. In the ensuing battle the power liberated by the combatants ignites in a combustion that shatters the Earth. In the ensuing deflagration the weakest gods are obliterated rendered down into the small fragments of power that constituted their being. The stronger ones were able to resist total annihilation but even their prodigious power could not save them entirely. As the survivors fell from the broken mountain the shards of their divinity and the remnants of those that did not survive were scattered to the 4 corners of a now broken world.As they awoke each god found themselves to be but a shadow of their former selves. They were still mighty stronger than any mortal that yet walked but they were no longer all powerful no longer immortal. Each one could sense the fragments of power that had now fallen to the Earth and that by collecting these they could regain their former grandeur and if they could but amass enough stand at the front of a new Pantheon reshaped in their image.The world around them suffered as much as they did the power released during the epic battle had ignited a cataclysm that reduced the beautiful land of Greece to a barren wasteland. Athens burns Crete has sunken below the waves of the roiling seas and the immortal mount Olympus is now an ash covered wreck of its former glory. But this Event has not only affected the mortal realms. The underworld trembled from the blow even as a legion of fresh souls ran down the river Styx. Would that have been the extent of the underworld's involvement however...Hades having lost the majority of his power no longer holds sway over the Underworld. The gates of hell are open and even though the River Styx prevents the weakest souls from regaining the mortal world the strongest warriors the mightiest heroes and the most vicious monsters have managed to claw their way back up the Styx and back to the surface.As a new power struggle breaks out Gods summon mortal survivors returned heroes and reborn monsters to their side in their hunt for the shards of their lost power.In Mythic Battles: Pantheon it is these clashes between warbands in the midst of a post-apocalyptic ancient Greece that are the focal point of the game. Choose your God draft your warband and take the fight to your enemies with the might of the most powerful beings from Greek mythology at your back.

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: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

Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons.In your hands lies the destiny of one of history's great civilizations. Under constant threat of attack you must conquer new lands oversee dramatic scientific and cultural advances and lead your people into the era of empire. Expand too rapidly and unrest will bring your civilization to its knees; build up too slowly however and you might find yourself a mere footnote of history. As one of eight radically asymmetric civilizations you will compete to become the most dominant empire the world has ever seen.Imperium: Legends is a standalone game that contains the Arthurian Atlantian Egyptian Mauryan Minoan Olmec Qin and Utopian civilizations and an individual solo opponent behaving as each nation. It is also fully compatible with Imperium: Classics for players wanting to expand their pool of civilizations even further.—description from the publisher

Jackhammers chattering trucks beeping engines roaring the sounds of construction are everywhere. Sprawlopolis is growing and YOU are in charge of it all. The last team of planners couldn't cut it so the city turned to your team the best of the best. If anyone can turn this tiny town into a thriving civic center it's you.In Sprawlopolis 1-4 players work together to build a new city from the ground up. Using only 18 cards and a variable scoring system the game is never the same twice. Each turn players will play 1 card from their hand to the growing city trying to score as many points as possible. Players will have to communicate and plan without revealing their own cards in order to most efficiently develop large areas in each of the 4 zone types. Watch out though the city hates paying for road maintenance so each road will cost you points in the end. When all cards have been placed the game ends and players see if they have met dynamically generated minimum score for their game. Can you meet the demands of the officials work with your fellow planners and build the ultimate urban wonder? It’s time to find out!—description from the publisherReleased in the June 2018 Board Game of the Month Club $20+ package.

Millennium Blades is a CCG-Simulator -- A game in which you play as a group of friends who play the fictional CCG Millennium Blades. The game draws heavily on Manga/Anime inspiration for its art and parodies Magic: the Gathering Yugioh and many other collectible games.In this game you will build decks play the meta acquire valuable collections crack open random boosters and compete in tournaments for prizes and fame. The game takes you from Starter Deck to Regionals in about 2-3 hours. The game features a system of card pods where you will play with about 400 of the base game’s 600 cards every game.Multiple games can also be chained together to form a Campaign going from Regionals to Nationals in game 2 and from Nationals to Worlds in game 3 with each game introducing ever more powerful cards and higher stakes but also resetting the power of the game so that each player has a fair chance to win each 'season' of the campaign.At its heart it’s a commodity trading game except that instead of cubes or stocks the things you’ll be buying selling and speculating on are trading cards that can be used throughout the game in periodic tournaments. By trading wisely playing the market working together with friends building collections and winning tournaments you’ll secure points and become the Millennium Blades World Champion.

Your role as criminal mastermind is to recruit a crew of thieves send them to locations across Europe and provide them with gear. It's your job to utilize your resources efficiently to steal goods but being a great mastermind is about more than the things you walk away with. It's the thrill of a well thought-out plan coming together: the set-up the sting. Properly deploy your thieves and gear to dominate locations outmaneuver your opponent's plans and win the night. You've got six rounds to plan and play your cards. Nothing like a tight timeline to up the stakes!Caper: Europe is a two-player drafting game. You take turns sending thieves to famous locations across Europe vying for control through special card powers. These thieves have tricks up their sleeves which you can enhance by adding gear to them. And controlling the locations isn't everything because priceless stolen goods await the thief who's clever enough to snatch them first.Your goal is to score the most points by winning locations collecting stolen goods and equipping thieves with their preferred gear. The mastermind with the most points tallied at the end of six rounds wins.

Thunderstone returns with Thunderstone Quest. Recruit your heroes arm your party then visit the dungeon — and the dungeon has new perils not seen in prior Thunderstone releases. All-new dungeon tiles create new challenges and rewards as you explore deeper and deeper in the dungeon. Each quest brings new dungeons as well as new side adventures!Thunderstone is a fantasy deck-building game. Each player starts with a basic deck of cards that they can use to purchase or upgrade to other more powerful cards. Thunderstone Quest brings new play modes to the table. The game will tell a specific story with a series of pre-set dungeon tiles monsters heroes and support cards. Each will come with a series of mini-adventures and a story booklet that tells players what happens as they progress through the scenarios.Once players have completed the quests they will be able to enjoy great replay value with the available selection of monsters heroes and support cards as well as the new dungeon tiles by choosing random set-ups before the start of play. Aside from heroes such as wizards fighters rogues and clerics cards will include supplies that heroes need like weapons spells items or light to reach further into the dungeon.The dungeon deck is created by combining several different groups of monsters together. Certain groups of monsters may be more or less susceptible to different hero types so players have to take this into account when they choose what to buy.

The LOOP is a quirky co-operative game in which you battle the evil Dr. Faux. Play a Temporal Agent in four different game modes full of new challenges and replay value. Gather powerful artifacts defy the Doctor's duplicates and sabotage his maniacal machine. Make the most of your cards and master the LOOP to use them multiple times in impressive chains — but the Doctor isn't going to make this easy on you!The evil Dr. Faux has built a terrrrible time machine! With the help of the duplicates of himself that he is creating through the ages he aims to carry out his Omniscience 2000 project to become master of the universe. But the rifts that he is opening in spacetime will probably destroy quantum space way sooner...Join the Agency in the shoes of one of its most legendary agents and co-operate to foil the fiendish schemes of Dr. Faux using quirky but still powerful artifacts.—description from the publisher

The Mandala: the symbol of an ancient and sacred ritual. Colored sand is laid to create a symbolic map of the world before the pattern is ceremonially destroyed and the sand cast into the river.In the two-player game Mandala you are trying to score more than your opponent by collecting valuable cards — but you won't know which cards are valuable until well into the game! Over the course of the game players play their colored cards into the two mandalas building the central shared mountains and laying cards into their own fields. As soon as a mandala has all six colors the players take turns choosing the colors in the mountain and adding those cards to their river and cup. At the end of the game the cards in your cup are worth points based on the position of their colors in that player's river. The player whose cup is worth more points wins.The linen playmat shows two circular mandalas with each being divided by a horizontal space (the mountain) to create one field for each player. The playmat has seven spaces in front of each player to hold their river of single face-up cards and their cup: the stack of face-down cards which they score at the end of the game.To begin each player receives a hand of six cards. Each player receives two random cards face down in their cup then two random cards are dealt face up into the central mountain strip of each mandala.On your turn you may play either a single card into one of mountains or one or more matching cards into one of your fields. All cards played into a mandala must follow the Rule of Color: Once a color has been played into one of the three areas of a mandala then later cards of the same color can be played only into that same area. Thus once your opponent has played red cards into their field then you can't play red cards in your field and neither you nor your opponent can play red cards into the central mountain. If you played a card into a mountain draw three new cards from the deck at the end of your turn; if you played cards into one of your fields do not draw new cards.A mandala is completed once it contains all six colors of cards. When this happens the players destroy the mandala taking turns to choose a color present in the mountain and claim all cards of that color. Whoever played more cards in their field chooses first; if tied the player who did not complete the mandala chooses first. The first time you claim cards of a specific color lay one of these cards in the lowest-valued empty space in your river then place the rest into your cup. The spaces in your river are valued 1-6 in order so cards of the first color you claim will be worth 1 point each cards of the second color you claim worth 2 points each and so on.Once a mandala has been destroyed and all the colors in the mountain claimed cards played in the fields are discarded two new cards are dealt face up into the mountain and the game continues.The end of the game is triggered either when the deck is exhausted or when one player adds a sixth color to their river. Both players then tally the value of all the cards in their cup based on the position of the colors in their river and whoever has the higher score wins!

In battle there are no equals.Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.Battle of Legends Volume Two features four heroes: Yennenga Achilles Sun Wukong and Bloody Mary.Combat is resolved quickly by comparing attack and defense cards. However each card's unique effects and a simple but deep timing system lead to interesting decisions each time. The game also features an updated version of the line-of-sight system from Tannhäuser for ranged attacks and area effects.The game includes a new battlefield with a brand new mechanism pre-washed miniatures for each hero and custom life trackers that's brought to life with the stunning artwork of Zoe van Dijk and the combined design teams of Restoration Games and Mondo Games.—description from the publisher

In battle there are no equals.ONCE UPON A TIME Little Red Riding Hood took her basket of nasty tricks and faced off against the legendary Beowulf in this exciting Unmatched set.What big eyes you have Wulfie!That’s called 'rage' kid!Little Red features a clever card-combo mechanism. Matching icons on the cards she plays to the one in her basket (discard pile) triggers potent effects. Meanwhile Beowulf uses rage to power up his cards for devastating attacks.Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.—description from the publisher

A Few Acres of Snow is a two-player deck-building Strategic level board-wargame about the French and British conflict in North America.The card-play contains a focus on a deck-building mechanic similar to Dominion each card will have multiple uses like card-driven games. The players have to choose only one aspect of the card to use when it is played. Each space captured by a player will add another card to the capturing player's deck.From the box description:A war fought at the edge of two mighty empires. For over one hundred and fifty years Britain and France were locked in a struggle for domination of North America. Thousands of miles from their homes settlers and soldiers were faced with impenetrable forests unpredictable American tribes and formidable distances. Despite these obstacles they were able to engage in bitter warfare with the British ultimately taking the prize of Quebec. A Few Acres of Snow is a two-player game that allows you to recreate this contest. You can change the course of history by your decisions.A Few Acres of Snow takes an innovative approach to the subject using cards to represent locations and manpower. As the game progresses you add to your selection of cards increasing the range of actions available to you. There are many strategies to be explored. How quickly should you build up your forces do you employ Native Americans what energy should be expended on your economy?The game is about more than just fighting – you must successfully colonize the land to have a chance.

In Citadels players take on new roles each round to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold and erect buildings. The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects their seventh building. Players then tally their points and the player with the highest score wins.Players start the game with a number of building cards in their hand; buildings come in five colors with the purple buildings typically having a special ability and the other colored buildings providing a benefit when you play particular characters. At the start of each round the player who was king the previous round discards one of the eight character cards at random chooses one then passes the cards to the next player etc. until each player has secretly chosen a character. Each character has a special ability and the usefulness of any character depends upon your situation and that of your opponents. The characters then carry out their actions in numerical order: the assassin eliminating another character for the round the thief stealing all gold from another character the wizard swapping building cards with another player the warlord optionally destroys a building in play and so on.On a turn a player earns two or more gold (or draws two building cards then discards one) then optionally constructs one building (or up to three if playing the architect this round). Buildings cost gold equal to the number of symbols on them and each building is worth a certain number of points. In addition to points from buildings at the end of the game a player scores bonus points for having eight buildings or buildings of all five colors.The 2016 edition of Citadels includes twenty-seven characters — eight from the original Citadels ten from the Dark City expansion and nine new ones — along with thirty unique building districts and the rulebook includes six preset lists of characters and districts beyond the starter list each crafted to encourage a different style and intensity of gameplay.

Feed the Kraken is a hidden role deduction game with three asymmetric factions. All players may be sitting in the same boat but they want to navigate in different directions! The loyal sailors must bring the ship safely to mainland whereas the pirates crave to secretly maneuver the ship into the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile a crazy cultist is busy convincing parts of the crew to help him summon their dark lord —the Kraken— from the depth of the sea to save them all.The goal of the game is to navigate the ship towards your final destination which would be easy if only players weren’t divided into three different factions. Each secret faction wants to reach a different area of the board. Every turn the ship will sail in one of the three possible directions —but which one will it be? The current captain and their chosen lieutenant will study ancient sea maps and pass their often conflicting orders onto the chosen navigator who has to make the final decision. Meanwhile the rest of the crew is busy drinking rum gambling and telling each other tales of ancient sea monsters.After each navigation the lieutenant and navigator go off duty and the captain has to find somebody sober enough to take their spot instead. Everyone can discuss how well that last navigation went who is to blame for the current course and who should be in charge in the future instead. Convince your enemies that it is in their best interest to make you the next lieutenant or navigator! You can even draw your guns and become the new captain in open mutiny! But for how long will you be able to keep the trust of your crew? The next mutiny might already be waiting for you if your decisions don’t please your fellow sailors.Feed the Kraken is a social deduction game designed around a vintage sailor setting. It supports 5-11 players. A match is usually dealt within 45 minutes up to 1:30 hours.—description from designer

For Northwood! Is a solo hand management and precision trick-taking game. Your objective is to peacefully unify the kingdom of Northwood through conversations with their rulers. Over eight rounds you must visit eight animal fiefs and engage their rulers in dialogue (tricks). Each ruler's suit represents the trump for that fief. Each ruler also requires you to win an exact number of tricks to join your alliance so the game gets harder as your options dwindle.You start with four allies each with an ability that you can use once per visit. These abilities can make you draw discard or otherwise manipulate your hand to help you hit the target score. Once you've won a ruler over you can pull them in to substitute temporarily for one of your allies if you need a more specific set of abilities to tackle the harder fiefs.With multiple difficulty levels 24 rulers (12 used per game) and a 16-scenario challenge booklet For Northwood! offers hours of gameplay with a new puzzle every time!Winner of *Best Overall Game* and *Jury Prize* in the 2021 BGG 54-card contest. Also winner of *Best Art* *Best Solo Game* and *Best New Designer*!-description from designer

Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North is a new standalone card game in the established Imperial Settlers universe with players heading to the far north where three different factions live: Scotsmen Inuits and Vikings. Take on the role of leader and make your faction into the best empire in the world!Choosing the faction is only the first step though as each faction can be played using one of the two separate and unique decks. Yes in the base game players will find six pre-constructed decks ready to use straight out of the box. Each one offers a completely different gameplay style!Develop your economy deflect your opponent and fight for dominance in the north. Learn new mechanisms and experience a unique style of Imperial Settlers. Will you be able to create the most successful civilization in Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North?

It's a manufacturing arms race! Compete against other players as you try to build the most efficient set of factories in the shortest time. You must carefully manage your blueprints train your workers and manufacture as many goods as possible in order to achieve industrial dominance!In Fantastic Factories you race to manufacture the most goods or build the most prestigious buildings. There are elements of dice rolling worker placement engine building resource management tableau building simultaneous play and some card drafting. Each round is split into two phases the market phase and the work phase.During the market phase you choose to either acquire a new blueprint for free or pay to hire a contractor. Blueprints are used to construct new factories during the work phase. Contractors can be used to reinforce your strategy by providing resources or allowing you to roll additional dice. You need to be mindful of what cards are available in the marketplace and the strategies your opponents may be pursuing.During the work phase all players simultaneously roll their dice and use their dice as workers to run factories. Factories start as blueprints and need to be constructed. Once constructed each factory can be used once each turn. Worker placement can happen in any order and figuring out the correct sequence can enable a powerful chain of actions. Additionally you can build training facilities that allow you to manipulate the dice values of your workers. Each work phase is like solving a unique worker placement puzzle in order to optimize your output of resources and goods.Once any player has manufactured 12 goods or constructed 10 buildings the game end is triggered and one additional and final round is played. The player with the most points wins (combination of building prestige and manufactured goods). With over 30 unique blueprints and countless synergies across buildings each game is unique. Fantastic Factories offers a lot of replay value and satisfaction as players discover new factory engines with each game.—description from the publisherA large collection of solo puzzles have also been created for Fantastic Factories along with official tools to create more. This puzzle collection can be found in the BGG Play-By-Forum area.

Point Salad is a fast and fun card drafting game for the whole family. There are over 100 ways to score points. Players may use a variety of strategies and every game of Point Salad is unique!Cards come in six different types of veggies and the back of each card has a different scoring method. So for instance one scoring method may award 2 points for every carrot you have but deduct a point for every onion. By drafting combinations of veggies and point cards that work for your strategy you can amass the most points and win.—description from the publisher

A curse has been placed on the Valley of Life. Hearing the spirits of nature cry out for aid clans of druids have arrived determined to use their blessings to heal the land and rescue the spirits. It will require courage and also caution as the curse can overwhelm the careless who wield too much power.In Mystic Vale 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game!Mystic Vale uses the innovative Card Crafting System which lets you not only build your deck but build the individual cards in your deck customizing each card's abilities to exactly the strategy you want to follow.

In Canvas you play as a painter competing in an art competition. Players will collect art cards layering 3 of them together to create their own unique Painting. Each card contains a piece of artwork as well as a set of icons used during scoring. Icons will be revealed or hidden based on the way players choose to layer the cards making for an exciting puzzle. Paintings are scored based on a set of Scoring cards which will change each game. Once players have created and scored 3 paintings the game ends.On your turn you may take an Art card or make a painting. Art cards are selected from a row of cards in the center of play. Each of these cards has a cost associated with their position. After selecting an Art card you must pay its cost by placing an Inspiration token on each of the cards to its left. If you do not have enough Inspiration tokens you may not select that card. Any tokens on the card you have selected are kept for future turns. The far left card costs no Inspiration tokens to take.If you have three or more Art cards you may choose to make a painting. Select 3 of your art cards arrange them in any order and then score them by comparing the visible icons on your painting to the Scoring conditions.Once all players have made 3 paintings the game ends.The player with the most points wins!—description from the publisher

Friday the second game in the Friedemann Friese Series: Freitag-Project (Friedemann Friese) is based on the story of Robinson Crusoe and his loyal partner Friday (Freitag). You play as Friday and when Robinson Crusoe crashes his ship on your island your peaceful times are disturbed. You must help Robinson to survive the island and prepare him to defeat the pirates that are coming for the island.Friday is a solitaire deck-building game in which you optimize your deck of fight cards in order to defeat the hazards of the island. During a turn the player will attempt to defeat hazard cards by playing fight cards from their deck. If defeated a hazard card will become a fight card and is added to the player's deck. If failed the player will lose life points but also get the opportunity to remove unwanted cards from their fight deck. In the end the player will use their optimized fight deck to defeat the two pirate ships coming for the island allowing Robinson Crusoe to escape the island and allowing you to finally have your peace back!

Prince John is coming to Nottingham! Players in the role of merchants see this as an opportunity to make quick profits by selling goods in the bustling city during the Prince's visit. However players must first get their goods through the city gate which is under the watch of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Should you play it safe with legal goods and make a profit or risk it all by sneaking in illicit goods? Be mindful though as the Sheriff always has his eyes out for liars and tricksters and if he catches one he very well may confiscate those goods for himself!In Sheriff of Nottingham players will not only be able to experience Nottingham as a merchant of the city but each turn one player will step into the shoes of the Sheriff himself. Players declare goods they wish to bring into the city goods that are secretly stored in their burlap sack. The Sheriff must then determine who gets into the city with their goods who gets inspected and who may have their goods confiscated!Do you have what it takes to be seen as an honest merchant? Will you make a deal with the Sheriff to let you in? Or will you persuade the Sheriff to target another player while you quietly slip by the gate? Declare your goods negotiate deals and be on the lookout for the Sheriff of Nottingham!Sheriff of Nottingham is the first game in the Dice Tower Essentials Line from Arcane Wonders.

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke is an expandable deduction card game set in the colonial America of 1587.The essence of this asymmetrical game is a witch's struggle against a witch hunter. As the witch strives to complete a ritual of renaturation the hunter tries to discover her true identity among nine villagers. Each turn the two players use their action pawns on active villagers to draw cards play cards and gain influence. Each player has their own variable card deck of fifty cards; with these cards the witch can brew powerful potions improve their familiar and cast enchantments and charms while the witch hunter enlists allies claim strategic locations and ruthlessly investigates the villagers.As the witch your objective is to collect enough secrets to perform a ritual so potent that the entire region will fall under your spell and Mother Nature will reclaim the island. As the hunter you gather all the allies and support you can muster to bring the witch to justice before her fatal ritual comes to fruition.The prototype won the Danish design award Otto at the Fastaval for best game of show in 2018.-description from publisher

Aquatica is a deep but easy to learn family engine builder about underwater kingdoms.In the game you will become one of the mighty ocean kings struggling to bring glory to his realm. To win the game you need to capture and buy locations recruit new characters and complete goals; each of these actions gives you victory points at the end of the game. To do so you need to play cards from your hand (each with a unique set of actions) and combine them. Don't think it's simple! With a good strategy during your turn you can take up to ten actions in a row.You will encounter plenty of mysterious ocean creatures and take them to your hand. With their help you will explore the unknown locations and raise found resources from the ocean depths to your kingdom. Mechanically this is represented with the help of three-layered player board and the unique mechanism of card-rising.—description from the publisher

Three years in the making Oceans is a stand-alone game in the award-winning Evolution series. With over 120 works of art 40 scenarios cards and more than 100 unique trait cards Oceans is the most ambitious project North Star Games has ever tackled.Theme Oceans depicts the boundaries between the known world near the ocean’s surface and the mysteries lurking in Earth’s deepest unexplored region. Enter a vast underwater cosmos: a mysterious interconnected world of sharp teeth glowing eyes and black ink where your survival depends on your ability to adapt to the unknown.The foundation of the oceanic food chain are billions of one-celled organisms called phytoplankton that capture the sun's energy through photosynthesis. Every other species in the ocean is a predator each bigger than the next all the way up to the dreaded Apex Predator. And even bigger than Apex Predators are enormous Whales that gently swim through the ocean scooping up everything in their path. This ecosystem mimics the known world near the surface.But there is more if you are willing to dive deeper...Oceans also includes a deck of 100 unique power cards called The Deep that represents the unknown. These powerful cards break the seams of the reality you've come to accept ranging from astonishing things found in the ocean to the fantastical Kraken or Leviathan.Gameplay Oceans is an interactive engine builder where players evolve their species in a continually changing ecosystem. Players must adapt their interconnected ecosystem to survive against the inevitable march of time (Aging) as well as a multitude of predators looking for food.During the first half of the game players use traits from a deck of Surface cards to modify their species. With only 12 Surface traits it’s easy to wade into your first game without being overwhelmed by new cards. These traits were chosen for their rich thematic interconnections providing synergistic card play that mimics an oceanic ecosystem. The Surface traits bring stability to the game environment.During the second half of the game players can use power cards from The Deep to disrupt the stability. With over 100 unique traits in The Deep players will slowly discover game-altering traits over the course of many games. These traits were designed to evoke wonder and disbelief - to spark your imagination as you consider the fantastic synergies that are possible in Oceans.Additionally there are 2 randomly chosen scenario cards that activate and deactivate at various points during the game. The scenario cards impact the basic tenets of gameplay encouraging people to vary their play style and strategy each game.The Evolution Series Oceans is a stand-alone game in the Evolution series but it's a vast departure from other games in the series. The turn structure has been simplified the game play is much more forgiving and the web of interconnections has increased dramatically. Whereas Evolution has the feeling of a traditional back-and-forth battle game like Magic: The Gathering Oceans has the feel of an interactive engine builder where everything is interconnected and where your engine must continually adapt to a changing environment.Join the Oceans Discord community for rule questions strategy discussions and to get involved in future playtesting.https://discord.gg/GMaDycjKBV

The merchant players in Port Royal which won the Austrian Game Designers Competition under the title Händler der Karibik are trying to earn as much as they can out of the Caribbean Sea but if they set their goals too high they might take home nothing for the day.The 120-card deck depicts a coin on the back of each card — with players earning and paying coins throughout the game — and different items on the card fronts. On a turn a player can first draw as many cards as he likes one at a time from the deck placing them in the harbor (an area near the deck). Each card shows one of the following:If the player draws a ship with the same name as a ship already in the harbor he's spent too much time dilly-dallying and his turn ends (after using the ship to attack if possible) with all the cards in the harbor being discarded. Otherwise the player can stop whenever he likes then use/acquire one card if three or fewer ships are in the harbor two cards if four ships are present and three cards if five ships are present. Players rob ships collecting the number of coins shown on them then discarding the card while they hire people paying the number of coins depicted. After the active player takes his 1-3 cards each other player may pay the active player one coin in order to take one card in the same way.When one player has at least twelve influence points — which are on both people and expedition cards — the game is played to the end of the round giving everyone the same number of turns then the player with the most influence points wins.• Port Royal differs from Händler der Karibik in that it includes ten more cards to allow for play with up to five players and players can win without fulfilling an expedition.

Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze which is themed around the pulp adventures tall tales and local legends of the mid-20th century gives you a whole new way to play Unmatched.In the game players work together to defeat one of two villains: Mothman or the Martian Invader. Each villain has a unique battlefield with unique objectives. If the villain completes their objective (or defeats the heroes) the players lose. The villains are aided by a number of possible minions: Jersey Devil Ant Queen Loveland Frog The Blob Tarantula and Skunk Ape. The enemies use special action cards and a simple targeting scheme to control their movement and attacks.The set comes with four new heroes: Nikola Tesla discharges his electrified coils to power up his effects; Annie Christmas gets stronger when she's fighting from behind; The Golden Bat the world's first superhero has a variety of powerful effects; and Dr. Jill Trent Science Sleuth calls on a collection of gizmos.Keeping to the Unmatched brand you may use heroes from other Unmatched sets in Unmatched Adventures and you can use the included heroes and battlefields to play competitive Unmatched.—description from the publisher

In Let's Go! To Japan you are a traveler planning then experiencing your own dream vacation to Japan.The game consists of thirteen rounds in which players draw activity cards illustrated by Japan-based artists and strategically place them in different days in their week-long itinerary. These can't-miss tourist attractions will have you bouncing between Tokyo and Kyoto as you try to puzzle out the optimal activities to maximize your experience while balancing your resources. The game ends with a final round in which you ultimately go on your planned trip activating each of your cards in order along the way.The player who collects the most points by the end of their trip wins!-description from designer

Bring together a team of super heroes and prevent Thanos from ending the world! The Infinity Stones are scattered throughout the Multiverse. Use their essence to recruit heroes and villains and gain Infinity Points.Assemble the Avengers acquire locations and when ready claim the Infinity Gauntlet!Pick your tokens carefully recruit characters to gain Infinity Points and bonuses. These bonuses help you recruit more powerful heroes and acquire locations… until you gather enough characters power and Infinity Points to trigger the endgame!Even though Splendor Marvel uses Splendor’s core rules and high-quality materials it has a different color structure a new endgame trigger and new victory conditions. You can also gain Infinity Points with the Avengers Assemble tile that can be passed from one player to another several times during the game!If you are keen on Splendor learning the rules will be easy but mastering the game may take you a while.And if you don’t know Splendor soon you will enjoy its quick and simple rules and become addicted to this game without even realizing it!

Love Letter Premium takes the familiar Love Letter game and enhances it in two different ways. First the cards are supersized and much thicker than normal the hearts that players claim are large and wooden and the hard-sided box has a magnetic closure.Second the game now plays with up to eight players thanks to the inclusion of an additional set of cards such as the Assassin (0) which eliminates an opponent if that opponent forces you to reveal it and the Sycophant (4) who must be the target of a played card until it's covered on the next turn. The rules for Love Letter Premium dictate which cards to use depending on the player count.

Regicide is a cooperative fantasy card game for 1 to 4 players played using a standard deck of cards.Players work together to defeat 12 powerful enemies. On their turn a player plays a card to the table to attack the enemy and once enough damage is dealt the enemy is defeated. The players win when the last King is defeated. But beware! Each turn the enemy strikes back. Players will discard cards to satisfy the damage and if they can't discard enough everyone loses.Rich with tactical decisions and a deep heuristic tree Regicide is a huge challenge for anyone who is brave enough to take it on.—description from the designerFor a dice-based typo-inspired April 1st-announced game from the same designers try Regidice!

The Grizzled is a cooperative game about survival in the trenches during the first World War where players win or lose together.Each round the current team leader will choose how many cards every player draws. Then going around the table players must either play a card in their hand or back out of the mission. Each card represents either threats to the team (such as mortar shells and weather conditions) or negative personality traits (such as frightened or obsessive). At the end of the round more cards are added to the draw deck. The game ends only if the players can deplete the draw deck as well as their hands without letting time run out.If one threat shows up too many times the team fails the mission. The team must play their threats correctly in order to gain any progress. However most of the information in a players hand remains secret throughout the game.Planning teamwork and a little luck are the tools you'll need to win this cooperative game for two to five players.

Martin Wallace and Treefrog Games present Ankh-Morpork set in the largest city-state in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Lord Vetinari has disappeared and different factions are trying to take control of the city. Each player has a secret personality with specific victory conditions which means that you're not sure exactly what the other players need to do in order to win.The action takes place on a map of Ankh-Morpork with players trying to place minions and buildings through card play. Each of the 132 cards is unique and the cards bring the game to life as they include most of the famous characters that have appeared in the various books. The rules are relatively simple: Play a card and do what it says. Most cards have more than one action on them and you can choose to do some or all of these actions. Some cards also allow you to play a second card so you can chain actions (Wallace).A team of artists have recreated the city and its residents for the cards game board and box with Bernard Pearson coordinating that team. Ankh-Morpork has been sublicensed to Mayfair Games for the North American market and Kosmos for the German market.

Captain Swallow has always dreamed of pocketing a large nest egg in order to retire on a remote island – but he never counted on stiff competition from Captains Stanley Rackum Dirk Chivers and others greedy and cruel enemies who always manage to attack the same ships as him. If he wants to finally sink back and enjoy peaceful days in the sun he must become the most cunning pirate!In Libertalia you must thwart the plans of competitive pirates over the course of three rounds while using cards that show the same crew members as your piratical comrades-in-arms. Yes not only do they attack the same ships but they employ the same type of ravenous scum that you do! Can you take advantage of the powers of your characters at the right time? Will you be outdone by a pirate smarter than you? Jump into the water and prove your tactical skills!

In the super-fast sushi card game Sushi Go! you are eating at a sushi restaurant and trying to grab the best combination of sushi dishes as they whiz by. Score points for collecting the most sushi rolls or making a full set of sashimi. Dip your favorite nigiri in wasabi to triple its value! And once you've eaten it all finish your meal with all the pudding you've got! But be careful which sushi you allow your friends to take; it might be just what they need to beat you!Sushi Go! takes the card-drafting mechanism of Fairy Tale and 7 Wonders and distills it into a twenty-minute game that anyone can play. The dynamics of draft and pass are brought to the fore while keeping the rules to a minimum. As you see the first few hands of cards you must quickly assess the make-up of the round and decide which type of sushi you'll go for. Then each turn you'll need to weigh which cards to keep and which to pass on. The different scoring combinations allow for some clever plays and nasty blocks. Round to round you must also keep your eye on the goal of having the most pudding cards at the end of the game!

In First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express players try to score as many fame points as possible by building a rich network of rails by building luxurious train cars or by serving well-paying passengers.From the Publisher's website: In the early days of the twentieth century rail is the preferred mode of transportation for the elite. Luxury lines scramble to accommodate the needs of business tycoons diplomats and even royalty. Step into this world and compete to build the most luxurious train lines possible in First Class. Guide your lines from humble beginnings into rivals of the fabled Orient Express itself as you carry out actions each round. Add cars to your trains upgrade those cars to attract wealthier clientele extend your lines towards Constantinople and more. A limited number of action cards is available each round so pick your actions carefully and choose a path for your rail lines. There are many ways to score points but only a true railroad baron will accumulate the most points and win the game.First Class is a card game that includes aspects of board games creating a unique and dynamic experience every time you play. Cards represent your train cars and provide a visual reminder of your empire's growth as they extend out from your player board. On top of that every game of First Class uses two of five interchangeable decks of action cards. Each deck provides new challenges for building your rail empire. One game might have you catering to the celebrities on your trains and fulfilling contracts along your route while another game asks you to accommodate passengers and their luggage while you get swept up in a murder mystery. Each combination of modules opens many possible strategies and provides even more thematic flair. Return to a time when rail was king and grow your empire!

The land of Valeria is under siege by hordes of monsters. You and your fellow Dukes must recruit citizens and buy domains to build up your kingdoms and slay the foul creatures that lurk in the surrounding lands.Valeria: Card Kingdoms is a tableau-building game for 1-5 players and will feel familiar to deck-building fans. The cards you buy can work for you on your turn and on all the other player turns as well. On your turn roll two dice and activate citizen cards with the result of each individual die and the sum of both dice. Other players will simultaneously activate their citizen cards based on the roll. Next take two actions from the following: slay a monster recruit a citizen buy a domain or take 1 of any resource. The player with the most victory points at the end wins the game.

The Fox in the Forest is a trick-taking game for two players. Aside from the normal ranked- and suited-cards used to win tricks fairy characters such as the Fox and the Witch have special abilities that let you change the trump suit lead even after you lose a trick and more.You score points by winning more tricks than your opponent but don't get greedy! Win too many tricks and you will fall like the villain in so many fairy tales...

In his last will your rich uncle stated that all of his millions will go to the nephew who can enjoy money the most. How to find out which nephew should be rich? You will each be given a large amount of money and whoever can spend it first will be the rightful heir. Visit the most exclusive theatres or eat in the most expensive restaurants. Buy old properties for the price of new ones and sell them as ruins. Host a huge party in your mansion or on your private boat. Spend like your life would depend on it. Spend to become rich! If you're the first to run through the money on hand you'll receive the rest of his inheritance – oh and win the game.In Last Will each player starts with a certain amount of money an individual player board two errand boys and two cards in some combination of properties and helpers. At the start of each round lay out cards from the appropriate decks on the offering boards; the four regular decks are properties companions events helpers and expenses with special cards forming a deck of their own. The particular mix of cards varies by round and by the number of players.Each player then chooses a plan for the round with each plan indicating the number of cards the player draws (drawn immediately from the four regular decks in any combination) how many errand boys he can use later (one or two) the number of actions available to him that round and his spot in the playing order that round. In the playing order for that round players then take turns choosing an action with their errand boy(s) with those actions being:Players then take actions in the playing order for that round with each player having as many actions as indicated on his plan. Actions let you play one-time events (which have a cost possibly variable); helpers and recurring expenses (which are placed on your individual player board); and properties (which cost money and may depreciate over time). You can often play companions with events or recurring expenses – of course you should bring a date to the opera or a horse on your yacht! – to increase their cost. You can also use actions to activate cards on your player board possibly with one or more companions and always with the goal of spending money. Helpers and special cards can provide you with unique powers to further boost your profligacy.At the end of each round you must discard down to two cards in hand and properties that can depreciate do so; this is good as a player cannot go bankrupt if he owns properties and the only way to get rid of properties is to sell them which regretably puts money back in your hands unless the depreciation was intense or you manipulate the market.If a player has no money and no properties he declares bankruptcy and the game ends at the conclusion of that round; otherwise the game ends after seven rounds. The player who has the least money (or even who is most in debt) wins.

Mythic Greece. As an upstart demigod you want to earn the favor of the Olympians and become a figure of legend yourself. Gather heroes and powerful artifacts please the gods and bear their power to write your own epic tale.Let your allies achieve their destiny and enter the Elysium home of the glorious and the brave. Once the stories are written only one demigod will be chosen to stand at the side of Zeus.Elysium is a game of set collecting and combinations in which players recruit cards representing heroes items powers and gods. These cards have many different powers and you can create powerful combination to earn gold (the help of the gods) and victory points (the favor of the gods). Each card belongs to one of the eight Olympians gods (a family) and shows a level (1 to 3).During the five turns of the game players will try to transfer their cards to the Elysium and write their own Legends which are series of cards from the same family or from different families of the same level. The more epic the Legends the more favor from the gods they’ll earn. But as they go to Elysium most cards lose their power and players will therefore have to renounce some of their combinations !A game of balance and opportunity with simple action but constant dilemmas and complex strategies.

No moderator no elimination ten-minute games.One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast game for 3-10 players in which everyone gets a role: One of the dastardly Werewolves the tricky Troublemaker the helpful Seer or one of a dozen different characters each with a special ability. In the course of a single morning your village will decide who is a werewolf...because all it takes is lynching one werewolf to win!Because One Night Ultimate Werewolf is so fast fun and engaging you'll want to play it again and again and no two games are ever the same.This game can be combined with One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak.

In Knarr you are the leader of a band of Vikings that you send to new destinations. Manage the recruitment of your crew and choose the best territories to explore. Depending on the destinations reached (for trading or influence) and the Vikings who accompany you you can increase your reputation to gain even more wealth. Each turn you:

A mad scientist holds the world hostage with his terrifying inventions. An alien warlord from a far away galaxy brings his limitless army of bizarre minions to conquer the planet. A giant rampaging robot cuts a swath of destruction across the coast destroying major population centers. And who will stand in their way? A team of heroes all with impressive powers and abilities stand between the world and the forces of evil. Will you help them? Answer the call to protect the multiverse!Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative fixed-deck card game with a comic book flavor. Each player plays as one of ten heroes against one of four villains and the battle takes place in one of four different dynamic environments.Each player after selecting one of the heroes plays a deck of 40 cards against the villain and environment decks which play themselves requiring the players to put the top card of the appropriate deck into play on the villain and environment turns. On each player's turn they may play a card from their hand use a power printed on one of their cards in play and draw a card from their deck. Each round starts with the villain turn continues clockwise around the table then concludes with the environment turn. Each villain has various advantages such as starting with certain cards in play as specified by the villain character card. Play continues until the heroes reduce the villain to 0 or fewer HP or until the villain defeats the heroes either via a win condition or by reducing all the heroes to 0 or fewer HP.

American baseball was on its last legs as a spectator sport. Football had become the predominant national pastime — that is until the year 2032 the year baseball decided to revolutionize the game and regain the throne!Starting in 2032 baseball games were shortened to six innings. Pitchers were encouraged to have bionic arm implants to improve their pitching. These cyborgs or 'Borgs as they're affectionately known were immediately popular and soon ruled the league. In 2041 robotic players were introduced to get more offense back into the game. These robots were similar to designated hitters in that they were used only to bat and did not field. However recent reports indicate fielding 'Bots are on the way.Now in 2045 human players are still in the game and known as Naturals. They are the best fielders by far but are sorely challenged when it comes to hitting and pitching. Some Naturals have learned to hit by swinging before the pitcher starts his windup which gives them a chance to hit the ball. Although it's hard for a Natural to get into the league those who do are popular. Many Naturals have named themselves after the great players of pre-2032 baseball by taking a first and last name borrowed from different star players of the past. The fans love them and their presence on the team ensures good revenue!The stage is now set! The fans are energized and root fanatically for their new favorites be they 'Bots 'Borgs or Naturals!Baseball Highlights: 2045 is like watching TV highlights of early 21st-century baseball games with the gameplay being full of theme with no outs or innings and without bogging down in a play-by-play baseball simulation. In this quick and interactive game two players build their teams as they play combining both strategy (building your team) and tactics (playing the game) without any of the downtime. During each mini-game each player alternates playing six cards to simulate a full game's highlights. The mini-game includes defensive and offensive actions and your single card play may include elements of defensive and/or offensive plays. Do you try to thwart your opponent's pending hits put up strong offensive action of your own or use your better players to do both? Players buy new free agents after each mini-game to improve their roster and the team who wins the most mini-games in the series is the champ!

Pax Porfiriana – Latin for The Porfirian Peace – refers to the 33-year reign of dictator Porfirio Díaz who ruled Mexico with an iron hand until toppled by the 1910 Revolution.As a rich businessman (Hacendado) in the turbulent pre-revolutionary borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico players compete to build business empires of ranches mines rails troops and banks while subverting opponents with bandidos Native Americans and lawsuits. Each turn goes as follows:1. Action Phase: Perform three actions such as play new cards get new cards from the market speculate on cards in the market buy land or redeploy troops. 2. Discard Headlines: Remove any Headlines (i.e. cards with the Bull-Bear icon) that have reached the leftmost position in the Market. 3. Restore Market: Restore the Market to twelve cards. 4. Income Phase: Collect one gold per Income Extortion and Connection Cube in play. If Depression pay one gold for each card in play (includes Partners and Enterprises in your Row and all of your Troops).Four scoring cards (Toppling) are in the game and their effect depends on the current form of government. The government can change if troops are played and as a result of other cards. The form of government also influences different production values of the game such as how much mines produce. Players win by toppling Díaz either by coup succession revolution or annexation of Mexico by the U.S. If Díaz remains firmly seated at the end of the game then the player with the most gold wins.Pax Porfiriana includes 220 cards but only fifty cards (along with ten for each player) are used in a game so no two games will be the same!

A forgotten evil stirs in the ancient land of Varisia. Dark magic once more thrums amid crumbling ruins giants gather in titanic armies cultists murder in the name of foul deities and maniacal goblins plot a fiery end for the peaceful town of Sandpoint.Launch a campaign to strike back against the evils plaguing Varisia with the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords - Base Set. This complete cooperative strategy card game pits 1 to 4 heroes against the traps monsters deadly magic and despicable foes of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game's award-winning Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. In this game players take the part of a fantasy character such as a rogue or wizard each with varying skills and proficiencies that are represented by the cards in their deck. The classic ability scores (Strength Dexterity etc.) are assigned with different sized dice. Players can acquire allies spells weapons and other items. The goal is to find and defeat a villain before a certain number of turns pass with the villain being represented by its own deck of cards complete with challenges and foes that must be overcome. Characters grow stronger after each game adding unique gear and awesome magic to their decks and gaining incredible powers all of which they'll need to challenge greater threats in a complete Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Adventure Path.The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game is an expandable game with the first set containing nearly 500 cards. The Rise of the Runelords - Base Set supports 1 to 4 players; a 110-card Character Add-On Deck expands the possible number of players to 5 or 6 and adds more character options for any number of players. The game will be expanded with bimonthly 110-card adventure decks.Errata: Early printings had the Loot card Sihedron Medallion listed as belonging to B (for Base Set). It is instead supposed to read 1 (for Burnt Offerings ). (It is unknown if this has been fixed in later printings)

Dice Throne is a game of intriguing dice tactical card play powerful heroes and unique abilities.It's a fast-paced 2-6 player combat game (1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all). Select from a variety of heroes that play and feel completely distinct from one another. Attack opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects such as granting permanent hero upgrades applying status effects and manipulating dice directly (yours your teammate's or even your opponent's).Let's take a look at a turn of a 1v1 game.The game begins with 2 players selecting their heroes. Player One chooses Moon Elf and player two picks Barbarian. Each player begins the game with 50 HP (Health Points). The Moon Elf then checks for status effects (like poison or Burn) to resolve.The next phase is called Main Phase (1). This is where the Moon Elf player can upgrade their hero board with cards from their hands if they have enough CP to pay for the upgrades. They can also play any Main Phase Action cards (blue cards).Then they enter the Offensive Roll Phase. The Moon Elf can take up to 3 roll attempts (with their 5 dice) to accomplish an action or attack from their hero board. After deciding on an action within the 3 roll attempts an action is declared.Then the Defensive Roll Phase begins where the opponent (Barbarian) can use their defensive roll (as it appears on their hero board). The amount of damage or incoming status affects are resolved and that concludes the Defensive Roll Phase.The Moon Elf player enters their second Main Phase where they can do any final hero board upgrades or play blue Main Phase Action cards.The Moon Elf then must discard any extra cards over 6 from their hand.The Barbarian player begins his turn by drawing one additional card (over his starting hand of 4) and gaining one CP (Combat Point) for a total of 2.The Barbarian then follows the same phases the Moon Elf.DiceThrone is for 2-6 players ages 8+ and runs 20-30 minutes for a battle. With the ever expanding gallery of heroes the game feels fresh each time you jump in!

Unlock! Heroic Adventures features three escape room scenarios that you can play on your tabletop.Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc. The three scenarios are...Note: All three of these have been released separately in the German market in addition to the box set. Sherlock Holmes: Der scharlachrote Faden Hinunter in den Kaninchenbau and Insert Coin

nana which was later reprinted as Trio is a card game in which players are looking for three of a kind.The deck consists of 36 cards numbered 1-12 three times. Players receive some cards in hand which they are required to sort from low to high and the remaining cards are placed face down on the table.On your turn choose any single card to reveal either the low or high card from a player's hand (including your own) or any face-down card from the table. Then do this again. If the two cards show the same number continue your turn; if they do not return the cards to where they came from and end your turn.If you reveal three cards showing the same number take these cards as a set in front of you. If you are the first player to collect three sets you win — except that a player wins immediately if they collect the set of 7s or two sets that add or subtract to 7 e.g. 4s and 11s.Note that nana and Trio contain identical components but nana is labeled for 2-5 players while Trio is labeled for 3-6 players. Trio has slight changes to the rules with players using all cards no matter the player count. Additionally you play in normal mode — winning with three sets or the 7s — or spicy mode winning with two linked sets or the 7s. Finally Trio includes rules for playing in teams with four or six players.

In battle there are no equals.They show extreme intelligence even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the big one. He has hunted many a dangerous predator but against a pack of raptors is Robert Muldoon the hunter or the hunted? In Unmatched: Jurassic Park – InGen vs Raptors these clever girls use their speed and agility to surround their prey getting stronger when they attack together. InGen's Game Warden and his Security Team lay traps to slow their opponent down and attack from range in a matchup 65 million years in the making.Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.—description from the publisher

As new villains appear to lay claim to the world of Indines new heroes rise to challenge them. BattleCON: Devastation of Indines puts you in control of 30 mighty heroes and deadly villains to decide the fate of the world.BattleCON: Devastation of Indines is a standalone dueling card game designed for head-to-head and team play. Each player selects a character who uses a unique gameplay mechanism to give them an edge in combat. Take control of guitar-playing summoner a pair of tag-teaming werewolves a prodigal paladin a genius artificer and more! Each character's play style requires new strategies but uses the same foundational tactics making a new character easy to learn but challenging to master.Players move along a seven-space-long board trading blows and attempting to strike the opponent using attacks formed by combining a character's unique styles and abilities with a set of basic cards that all characters share. The last player standing wins!BattleCON: Devastation of Indines can be played on its own or combined with BattleCON: War of Indines to create an even greater pool of characters and play variants.Included with the game: BattleQUEST GuideThe BattleQUEST Dungeon Guide contains six adventures (3 solo and 3 cooperative) for players. Using BattleQUEST players can play alone or cooperatively against automated enemies in an attempt to defeat the final boss and claim victory!

You are head of a family in an Italian city-state a city run by a weak and corrupt court. You need to manipulate bluff and bribe your way to power. Your object is to destroy the influence of all the other families forcing them into exile. Only one family will survive...In Coup you want to be the last player with influence in the game with influence being represented by face-down character cards in your playing area.Each player starts the game with two coins and two influence – i.e. two face-down character cards; the fifteen card deck consists of three copies of five different characters each with a unique set of powers:On your turn you can take any of the actions listed above regardless of which characters you actually have in front of you or you can take one of three other actions:When you take one of the character actions – whether actively on your turn or defensively in response to someone else's action – that character's action automatically succeeds unless an opponent challenges you. In this case if you can't (or don't) reveal the appropriate character you lose an influence turning one of your characters face-up. Face-up characters cannot be used and if both of your characters are face-up you're out of the game.If you do have the character in question and choose to reveal it the opponent loses an influence then you shuffle that character into the deck and draw a new one perhaps getting the same character again and perhaps not.The last player to still have influence – that is a face-down character – wins the game!A new & optional character called the Inquisitor has been added (currently the only English edition with the Inquisitor included is the Kickstarter Version from Indie Boards & Cards. Copies in stores may not be the Kickstarter versions and may only be the base game). The Inquisitor character cards may be used to replace the Ambassador cards.

You are a paperback author trying to finish novels for your editor. Complete Westerns Science Fiction Romance or even the rare Best-Seller. Live the dream — and maybe pay the bills.Word-building meets deck-building in the unique game Paperback. Players start with a deck of letter cards and wild cards. Each hand they form words and purchase more powerful letters based on how well their word scored. Most letters have abilities that activate when they are used in a word such as drawing more cards or double letter score. Players buy wilds to gain victory points. Variant included for cooperative play.

Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.Combat is resolved quickly by comparing attack and defense cards. However each card's unique effects and a simple but deep timing system lead to interesting decisions each time. The game also features an updated version of the line-of-sight system from Tannhäuser for ranged attacks and area effects.—description from the publisher

One-hundred years ago The Infinity Engine was shattered and its reality-bending shards have destroyed most of the world. Now it falls upon you to gather your forces defeat your adversaries and rebuild the Infinity Engine! Will you survive?Shards of Infinity combines an unprecedented level of strategy and customization into one small box. Rather than competing for points players must outlast their opponents and reduce their health to zero which can be done in a number of ways. Each player starts the game with a basic deck of cards and they can acquire new cards from a central display of six cards (as in Ascension) and add these new cards to their deck or use them immediately depending on what they are.Every character starts with fifty health and zero mastery. On each turn you can spend one gem (a.k.a. money) to gain a mastery point. The more mastery you have the more powerful your cards become. This lets even the weak cards in your starting deck become more powerful as the game progresses. If you reach a total of thirty mastery you can activate your Infinity Shard which instantly defeats your opponent.As you acquire new cards you can employ allies and champions to craft your strategy. Mercenary cards can be added to your deck as in other deck-building games or they can be played immediately from the center row for their ability; this adds even more drama to each player's turn as a key mercenary flip can alter the very outcome of the game!Will you neutralize your opponents before they can fully master the Infinity Shard? With careful planning and aggressive gameplay only one player can emerge the winner!

Create an instant party with HITSTER the music card game of the century! Listen to over 100 years of amazing hits take turns arranging them in chronological order on your music timeline and create your trip down memory lane. The first player to collect 10 hits is crowned the HITSTERHITSTER is the perfect game for an evening with lots of laughing singing dancing and sharing memories. Simply open the box scan a song card and let the music do the rest to create an instant party. So what are you waiting for?How to play 1. Pick a music card and scan the QR code with the free Hitster app to automatically play it in Spotify 2. Guess when the song was released by placing it in the right position of your music timeline. 3. Flip the music card. If correct you keep the music card to build your timeline. Tip: add the Hitster tokens into the mix for an even more exciting gameFeatures: - With more than 300 of the greatest hits HITSTER will create an instant party for everybody…guaranteed! - Everybody is invited for the HITSTER party! Super easy rules and no game set-up gets the party started in no-time. Simply scan a card with the free Hitster app and the music starts playing automatically in Spotify isn't that cool? - HITSTER is the music game in which you don’t have to be a music expert. Simply guess if a song was released before or after other songs in your music timeline. The futher you are in building your timeline the more challenging it becomes. Your chances of winning increases if you can also name the artists and song titles. - Are you craving to show of your music knowledge? Play HITSTER with the Pro rules or even Expert rules in which you have to know the exact year artist and song title. - Fancy a less competitive trip down memory lane? Then HITSTER can also be played as one team or by yourself—description from the publisher

Inspired by the best-selling and award-winning War of the Ring board game War of the Ring: The Card Game allows players to journey to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and create their own version of the dramatic conflict between the Dark Lord Sauron and the Free Peoples of Middle-earth.In War of the Ring: The Card Game up to 4 players compete in two teams the Shadow against the Free Peoples each player using a specific and different card deck representing the strengths and weaknesses of the different factions involved in the war.The Free Peoples desperately try to complete their quest to destroy the One Ring while at the same time defending their homelands from the encroaching hordes of Sauron and from his evil allies.The Shadow players must strike quickly and decisively before the Ring-bearers can complete their quest; or try to slowly corrupt Frodo burdening him with wounds toil and the sorrow for the loss of his Companions.During the game players will take turns playing cards representing the characters armies items and events of the War of the Ring. Each card they play will help or hinder the journey of the Fellowship as it progresses on its Path; or be used to defend or conquer the strongholds of Middle-earth as they fight to control the new Battleground cards activated in each round.With more than 100 original illustrations from the greatest Tolkienian artists in the world including an amazing gallery of landscapes from The Shire to Mordor by John and Fataneh Howe War of the Ring: The Card Game is more than a game – it also a memorable collection for all lovers of the world imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien.This is your chance to forge the destiny of an age like you never did before!—description from the publisher

In Evolution players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect your species from Carnivores while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach. With over 4,000 ways to evolve your species every game becomes a different adventure.Evolution is played in a variable number of rounds. Each round players draw 3 Trat cards to enhance their species create new species or feed their existing animals. Play continues until the Trai deck has been finished and needs to be reshuffled. Reshuffling the Trait cards signals the final round of the game. At the end of the game the player with the most food traits and population wins.Evolution packs a surprising amount of variety for a game with simple rules. The variety comes from the synergies between the trait cards and from the different personalities at the table. Some players thrive on creating Carnivores to wreak havoc on their fellow players. Others prefer to stay protected and mind their own business. Evolution encourages both play styles by giving each of them multiple paths to victory. And it is the mix of play styles at the table that ultimately determines the ecosystem in which the players are adapting. So gather your friends and see who can best adapt to the changing world around them.

Star Wars: Destiny is a collectible dice and card game of battles between iconic heroes and villains that encompasses characters locations and themes from the entire Star Wars saga.In Star Wars: Destiny two players engage in a fast-paced duel each striving to eliminate the other's characters first. The game's innovative mechanisms combine dice-driven combat with faction-driven hand management. Straightforward rules make the game easy to learn but also enable deep strategic thinking and clever deck-building. Players can create decks that include characters from every faction and any era as long as heroes and villains are on opposite sides of the fight. For example Padmé Amidala might fight alongside Rey and Finn taking on Jabba the Hutt Kylo Ren and Jango Fett.Each round you use your characters' abilities an assortment of dice and a carefully constructed thirty-card deck filled with events upgrades and supports. You and your opponent alternate actions: activating your dice playing cards from your hand attacking your foes and claiming the battlefield. You need to prove your skills and defeat your opponent's characters to claim your destiny!At launch in November 2016 Star Wars: Destiny consists of two starter sets — Rey and Kylo Ren each with nine dice and 24 cards — and the Awakenings booster packs each containing one die and five cards.—description from the publisher

In A Game of Thrones: The Card Game the warring factions of Westeros await your command inviting you to engage in a life-or-death struggle. In every game you select devious plots and challenge your opponents on the field of battle through back alley intrigue and in the political arena. Whether you play a against a single opponent in a game known as a joust or engage in a battle of three or more players called a melee winning challenges against your opponents is the way to victory.Your ultimate goal in A Game of Thrones: The Card Game is to gain influence over the greatest seat of power in Westeros: the Iron Throne! To achieve this goal you must call upon iconic characters such as Tywin Lannister Robb Stark Stannis Baratheon Daenerys Targaryen Euron Crow's Eye The Red Viper and dozens of others. You must maneuver the members of your House and your allies in a constant battle to gain power. The first player to claim fifteen power wins!In the game each player has two decks: a draw deck and a plot deck. Your draw deck contains the tactical elements of your struggle including the characters locations attachments and events that you call upon in your struggle to claim the Iron Throne. You can command characters from throughout A Song of Ice and Fire and you can march forth from the icy walls of Winterfell or muster your armies around Casterly Rock. You may even equip your characters with storied weapons such as the Valyrian steel blades Ice or Widow's Wail. The draw deck holds these powerful characters locations attachments and events. This deck is randomly shuffled and players draw their hands from this deck.At the start of each round each player simultaneously chooses and reveals one of the plot cards from their individual seven-card plot decks. Your plot for a round determines how much gold you can spend on cards which player starts with initiative and how powerful your challenges are. Your plot also bears a reserve value which determines how many cards you can keep in your hand past the end of the round. Plots may also offer powerful effects that can trigger when the plots are revealed or persist to shape the entire game round. You may scorch the earth with a deadly wildfire assault or call upon all players to support the faith of the Seven.A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (Second Edition) differs from the first edition of the game due to elements being cut elements being revised or updated and elements being added. Influence was a holdover from the game's origin as a CCG and is now unnecessary while crests offered nothing to distinguish them from traits and made the game more difficult for new players to learn. Existing keywords have been pruned and some new keywords have been added to showcase the most interesting and essential interactions.The timing rules — such as the details of moribund passive effects with triggers and save/cancel responses — will be replaced with a more straightforward timing system that takes advantage of the Interrupt Reaction and Forced triggers that have been successfully employed in some of FFG's newer LCGs.The second edition also includes two new factions beyond the six Houses in the first edition. New deck-building rules empower players with more options in combining factions alongside a means of building more focused and specialized plot decks.

Beer & Bread is a multi-use card game for two players. Its clever structure of alternating rounds puts a fascinating twist on player interaction card drafting and resource management.Founded on the fruitful lands of an erstwhile monastery two villages have held up the dual tradition of brewing beer and baking bread. While sharing fields and resources they still find pride in their friendly rivalry of besting each other’s produce.Each of you represents one of these villages. Over the course of six years - which alternate between fruitful and dry - you must harmonize your duties of harvesting and storing resources producing beer and bread selling them for coins and upgrading your facilities.However in order to win you must maintain the balance between your baked and liquid goods. Because after the sixth year you only score the coins collected from the type of good - beer or bread - for which you earned less. The village with the higher score wins.—description from publisher

In Living Forest you play as a nature spirit who will try to save the forest and its sacred tree from the flames of Onibi. But you are not alone in your mission as the animal guardians have come together to lend a hand around the Circle of Spirits where you progress. Each turn they bring you valuable elements so try to combine your team of animal guardians as best as possible to carry out your actions but be careful: some of them are solitary and do not like to be mixed with others...You have one of three ways to achieve your goal: by planting 12 different Protective Trees by collecting 12 Sacred Flowers to awaken Sanki the great Guardian of the Forest by extinguishing 12 Fires to permanently repel Onibi.Each turn includes 3 phases: • Guardian Animals (simultaneous push your luck phase) : You draw and turn face up one after the other the Guardian Animal cards from your personal stack. You thus form the Animal Guardian Help Line. You can stop drawing cards whenever you want. However if you reveal a card showing a third solitary symbol then you must stop drawing cards. This card closes your Help Line. • Action phase: You play in turn. If your Help Line shows strictly less than three solitary symbols (not canceled by gregarious symbols) you can then perform 2 different Actions. If your Help Line shows three solitary symbols (not canceled by gregarious symbols) you can then perform only 1 Action. The strength of an Action is determined by the number of corresponding Elements visible on the Guardian Animal cards in your Help Line and on your Forest individual board. • End of the turn: - Onibi attacks you: If some Fires remain at the center of the Circle of Spirits and you cannot resist them then add as many Fire Varan cards to your discard stack as there are Fire tiles at the center of the Circle of Spirits. - Onibi attacks the Sacred Tree: Add as many Fires to the center of the Circle of Spirits as there are Guardian Animal cards taken this turn. - The arrival of new Guardian Animals: Complete the Guardian Animal reserve by revealing as many new cards per level as there were cards taken this turn. - Passing the Sacred Tree: Give the Sacred Tree to the next Spirit of Nature clockwise. - The Return of Guardian Animals: Move all the Animal Guardian cards from your Help Line to your personal discard stack.The game stops at the end of a complete turn when one of the Spirits of Nature has managed to collect at least 12 different Protective Trees OR 12 Fires OR 12 Sacred Flowers.

In Brian Boru: High King of Ireland you strive to unite Ireland under your domain securing control through might cunning and matrimony. Join forces to fend off Viking invaders build monasteries to extend your influence and gather support in towns and villages throughout the land. To become High King of all Ireland you need to navigate a web of shifting alliances outmaneuver your enemies and grab history by the reins.The success of the historical Brian Boru rested on three pillars: his victories against the Vikings the favor he managed to garner with the Church and the alliances he forged through political marriages. This became the foundation of the game with each pillar becoming a suit in the trick-taking that forms the core of the mechanisms. Win a trick and you gain influence in a town which in turn gains you majorities in the regions; if you lose the trick however (deliberately or otherwise) you instead take an action corresponding to the suit of the card.

In Reiner Knizia's Mille Fiori (millefiori is a glasswork technique for decorative patterns the name means Thousand Flowers) you take the role of glass manufacturers and traders who want to profit as much as they can from their role in the production of fine glass art.The game board features different aspects of the glass production cycle: workshops where the glass is created houses where it's installed people who support your work trade shops where it's sold and the harbor where ships take the glass to faraway locations. You want to be present in all of these areas preferably at just the right time to maximize your earnings. The gameboard features 109 spaces with one card in the deck for each of those spaces.At the start of a round each player receives a hand of five cards. Each player chooses a card from hand then passes the remaining cards to the next player then each player plays their card in turn beginning with the round's start player and typically placing a diamond-shaped token of their color in the location depicted on that card:Alternatively you can play a card for ship movement points and not place a token on the game board.Each player plays four cards in a round (in a 3 or 4 player game) then adds the last card in hand to those displayed beside the game board then the start player marker rotates and you begin a new round.For each of the five areas you can meet a certain condition that allows you to play a bonus card from those beside the game board e.g. in the Workshops when you place the third card that surrounds a bonus card symbol or in the Trade shops when you score a goods type that gives someone else more points than you. When you play a bonus card you might trigger another bonus card... and then another!Additionally there are five different ways to score substantial bonus points for the areas e.g. in the Residences you need to place tokens on houses of four different values and in the Townspeople area you need to place tokens on all three types in a pyramid. You can only score each area's bonus once and importantly each time a bonus is claimed then the value available for later players is reduced.When someone has placed their final diamond token or when you can't deal a new hand of five cards to each player then the game ends and the player with the most successful glass dynasty (most points) is declared the winner.

In Villainous: Wicked to the Core each player takes control of one of three Disney characters each one a villain in a different Disney movie specifically the Evil Queen from Snow White Hades from Hercules and Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog. Each player has their own villain deck fate deck player board and 3D character.On a turn the active player moves their character to a different location on their player board takes one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from their hand) then refills their hand to four cards. Cards are allies items effects and conditions. You need to use your cards to fulfill your unique win condition.One of the actions allows you to choose another player draw two cards from that player's fate deck then play one of them on that player's board covering two of the four action spaces on one of that player's locations. The fate deck contains heroes items and effects from that villain's movie and these cards allow other players to mess with that particular villain.Villainous: Wicked to the Core is playable on its own and its characters can also face off against those in the Villainous base game from 2018.

Game description from the publisher:It is 1926 and the museum's extensive collection of exotic curios and occult artifacts poses a threat to the barriers between our world and the elder evils lurking between dimensions. Gates to the beyond begin to leak open and terrifying creatures of increasing strength steal through them. Animals the mad and those of more susceptible minds are driven to desperation by the supernatural forces the portals unleash. Only a handful of investigators race against time to locate the eldritch symbols necessary to seal the portals forever. Only they can stop the Ancient One beyond from finding its way to Earth and reducing humanity to cinders.Elder Sign is a fast-paced cooperative dice game of supernatural intrigue for one to eight players by Richard Launius and Kevin Wilson the designers of Arkham Horror. Players take the roles of investigators racing against time to stave off the imminent return of the Ancient One. Armed with tools allies and occult knowledge investigators must put their sanity and stamina to the test as they adventure to locate Elder Signs the eldritch symbols used to seal away the Ancient Ones and win the game.To locate Elder Signs investigators must successfully endure Adventures within the museum and its environs. A countdown mechanism makes an Ancient One appear if the investigators are not quick enough. The investigators must then battle the Ancient One. A clever and thematic dice mechanism pits their exploration against monsters and the sheer difficulty of staying sane and healthy all within the standard game duration of one to two hours.

In the 19th century shortly after the industrial revolution railways quickly spread over the world. Japan importing Western culture and eager to become one of the Grand Nations saw the birth of many private railway companies and entered the Golden Age of railways. Eventually as a result of the actions of powerful people and capitalists many of these smaller companies gradually merged into larger ones.In Trains the players are such capitalists managing private railways companies and striving to become bigger and better than the competition. The game takes place during the 19th and 20th century in the 2012 OKAZU Brand edition whereas the 2013 AEG/Pegasus edition is set in modern times with bullet trains freight trains and more. You will start with a small set of cards but by building a more effective deck throughout the game you will be able to place stations and lay rails over the maps of Osaka Tokyo or other locations. The trick is to purchase the cards you want to use then use them as effectively as possible. Gain enough points from your railways and you will ultimately manage the most powerful railroads in modern Japan!Trains is the first title in AEG's Destination Fun series! Continue your travels in the acclaimed Planes and Automobiles board games.Integrates with Trains: Rising Sun

Fort is a 2-4 player card game about building forts and following friends.In Fort you're a kid! And like many kids you want to grow your circle of friends collect pizza and toys and build the coolest fort.By doing this cool stuff you'll score victory points and at the end of the game the player with the most victory points wins! Your cards not only let you take actions on your own turn but also let you follow the other players' actions on their turns. Will you devote yourself to your own posse or copy what the other kids are doing?But be careful as your carefully constructed deck might start losing cards if you don't actually use them. After all if you don't play with your friends why should they hang out with you anymore?—description from the publisher

One Night Ultimate Werewolf Daybreak is a fast game for 3-7 players in which everyone gets a hidden role each with a special ability. (No plain villagers here!) In the course of a single morning your village will decide who among them is a werewolf...because all it takes is finding one werewolf to win!Daybreak includes eleven new roles and it can be played on its own or combined with the original One Night Ultimate Werewolf game; when combined you can have up to ten players in a single game.

Verdant is a puzzly spatial card game for 1 to 5 players. You take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast trying to create the coziest interior space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects within your home. You must position your plants so that they are provided the most suitable light conditions and take care of them to create the most verdant collection.Each turn you select an adjacent pair of a card and token then use those items to build an ever-expanding tableau of cards that represents your home. You need to keep various objectives in mind as you attempt to increase plant verdancy by making spatial matches and using item tokens to take various nurture actions. You can also build your green thumb skills which allows you to take additional actions to care for your plants and create the coziest space!—description from the designer

Unlock! Timeless Adventures features three new escape room scenarios that you can play on your tabletop.Unlock! is a co-operative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc. The three scenarios areNote: Each of these has been released separately in the German market in addition to the box set. Unlock!: Timeless Adventures – Die Noside-Show Unlock!: Timeless Adventures – Arsène Lupin und der große weiße Diamant and Unlock!: Timeless Adventures – Verloren im Zeitstrudel!

In Disney Villainous: Evil Comes Prepared each player takes control of one of three Disney characters each one a villain in a different Disney movie specifically Scar from The Lion King Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove and Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective. Each player has their own villain deck fate deck player board and 3D character.On a turn the active player moves their character to a different location on their player board takes one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from their hand) then refills their hand to four cards. Cards are allies items effects and conditions. You need to use your cards to fulfill your unique win condition.One of the actions allows you to choose another player draw two cards from that player's fate deck then play one of them on that player's board covering two of the four action spaces on one of that player's locations. The fate deck contains heroes items and effects from that villain's movie and these cards allow other players to mess with that particular villain.Disney Villainous: Evil Comes Prepared is playable on its own and its characters can also face off against those in the Disney Villainous base game from 2018 and the Disney Villainous: Wicked to the Core standalone game in 2019.

From the imagination of legendary game designer Richard Garfield comes a game unlike anything the world has ever seen—a game where every deck is as unique as the person who wields it and no two battles will ever be the same. This is KeyForge where deckbuilding and boosters are a thing of the past where you can carve a path of discovery with every deck where you can throw yourself into the game with the force of a wild wormhole and embrace the thrill of a tactical battle where wits will win the day!Along with this new breed of game comes a new world: the Crucible an artificial world built from the pieces of countless planets across the stars. Here anything is possible. This world was built for the Archons god-like beings who for all their power know little about their own origins. The Archons clash in constant struggles leading motley companies of various factions as they seek to find and unlock the planet’s hidden Vaults to gain ultimate knowledge and power.This starter set contains two starter decks two unique Archon Decks and all the keys and tokens two players need to play!KeyForge: Call of the Archons is the world's first Unique Deck Game. Every single Archon Deck that you'll use to play is truly unique and one-of-a kind with its own Archon and its own mixture of cards in the deck. If you pick up an Archon Deck you know that you're the only person in existence with access to this exact deck and its distinct combination of cards. In fact in just the first set of KeyForge: Call of the Archons there are more than 104 quadrillion possible decks!Every Archon Deck contains a full play experience with a deck that cannot be altered meaning it's ready to play right out of the box. Not only does this remove the need for deckbuilding or boosters it also creates a new form of gameplay with innovative mechanics that challenges you to use every card in your deck to find the strongest and most cunning combinations. It is not the cards themselves that are powerful but rather the interactions between them—interactions that can only be found in your deck. Your ability to make tough tactical decisions will determine your success as you and your opponent trade blows in clashes that can shift in an instant!KeyForge: Call of the Archons is played over a series of turns in which you as the Archon leading your company use the creatures technology artifacts and skills of a chosen House to reap precious Æmber hold off your enemy's forces and forge enough keys to unlock the Crucible's Vaults. You begin your turn by declaring one of the three Houses within your deck and for the remainder of the turn you may play and use cards only from that House. For example if you take on the role of the Archon Radiant Argus the Supreme you will find cards from Logos Sanctum and Untamed in your deck but if you declare Sanctum at the start of your turn you may use actions artifacts creatures and upgrades only from Sanctum. Your allies from Logos and Untamed must wait.Next you must strive to gain the advantage with a series of tactical decisions leveraging both the cards in your hand and those in play to race ahead of your opponent. If you wish to weaken your rival’s forces you may send out your allies to fight enemies on the opposing side matching strength against strength. Otherwise you may choose to use your followers to reap adding more Æmber to your pool.Notably no card in KeyForge has a cost — choosing a House at the start of a turn allows you to play and use any number of cards from that House for free leading turns to fly by with a wave of activity! Yet balance is key. If you simply reap more Æmber at every opportunity your rival may quickly grow their team of minions and destroy yours outpacing your collection and leaving your field barren. But if you focus on the thrill of the fight alone and neglect the collection of Æmber you won't move any closer to your goal! If you succeed in finding a harmony within your team and have six Æmber at the start of your turn you'll forge a key and move one step closer to victory. The first to forge three keys wins!—description from the publisher

France 1831: In a remote corner of Ardèche the little village of Peyrebeille sees numerous travelers pass through. A family of greedy rural farmers is determined to make its fortune and has devised a diabolical stratagem to achieve this goal: Invest in an inn so they can rob traveling guests getting rich without arousing the suspicions of the police! Whether or not their plan will work out one thing is certain: Not every guest will leave this inn alive.At the end of the round if any room of the inn contains one of the police then they conduct an investigation; if a player has any unburied victims then he must pay 10F per victim to the local gravedigger to hurredly — and quietly — bury the bodies! Lastly in the round any cards (accomplices) in each player's hand must be paid 1F each. After the guest deck has been depleted the second time players take a final round then tally their francs. The player with the most money wins!

In Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn a two-player expandable card game players take on the roles of Phoenixborns demi-gods and protectors of this world. These characters are the great saviors of their civilizations. Before they came into existence the humans were plagued by monsters like chimeras that took away their lands and forced them to live in walled-off cities. When the Phoenixborns came they fought off the chimeras and freed the lands for humans to take over once again.But the time of peace was short-lived. A prophecy arose that if one Phoenixborn was able to absorb enough Ashes of others they would ascend into full gods and take mastery over this world. This as well as humans' greed for land fueled the War of Ashes. The great cities now fight among each other each one of them with a Phoenixborn at its helm and you will decide who will rise and who will fall to ashes.Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn released in 2021 features the same Phoenixborn as in the original Ashes with the same cards but some cards have been modified to balance them. (Publisher Plaid Hat Games estimates that about 30% of all cards across all expansions are being modified.) The rules have undergone a few changes as well mostly to clarify powers. The Ashes Reborn 1.5 Upgrade Kit contains more than 350+ updated Ashes cards along with an updated rulebook allowing players to move from the original game to the new 1.5 rules.

In Oh My Goods! first released as Royal Goods players are European artisans during the Middle Ages who produce tools barrels glass windows and many other goods. Only if you make clever use of your production chains will you have the most victory points at the end of the game.

Star Wars: Unlimited is a fast-paced dynamic game that is both easy to learn and strategically deep. This game features iconic heroes villains ships and settings from all facets of the legendary Star Wars franchise including movies TV series comics video games and everything in between.—description from the publisher

Trapped in a drowned world you and your allies are doomed -- or are you? Using a mystical deck and a healthy dose of logic you can predict each others' fates and escape unscathed.The Shipwreck Arcana is a compact co-operative game of deduction evaluation and logic. Each player's doom constantly changes as they draw numbered fate tiles from the bag. By choosing which fate to give up and which card to play it on you can give your allies enough information to identify the fate you're holding...which is important as the active player cannot communicate with their allies during their turn!Each card has strict rules governing what fates can be played on it. As doom builds up the cards themselves fade becoming one-time powers to help the players while new cards cycle in from the deck.Skilled play requires carefully rationing powers hints and cycling while paying attention to not only where each fate was played -- but more importantly where it wasn't.The rotating active player creates a different group dynamic each turn preventing any one player from dominating the game. Inexperienced players can still use the group deduction phase to ask questions (while they are not the active player).

You are a Dreamwalker lost in a mysterious labyrinth and you must discover the oneiric doors before your dreamtime runs out – or you will remain trapped forever!You may wander through the chambers of dreams hoping that chance will reveal the doors or you can linger in each type of room. In both cases you will have to deal with the slithering Nightmares which haunt the hallways of the labyrinth.Onirim is a solo/cooperative card game. You (and a partner if you wish) must work (together) against the game to gather the eight Door cards before the deck runs out; you can obtain those Door cards either by playing cards of the same color three turns in a row or by discarding (under specific circumstances) one of your powerful Key cards. In both cases you will have to decide the best use of each card in your hand and carefully play around the Nightmares. Those cards are hidden in the deck and will trigger painful dilemmas when drawn...Seven mini-expansions all standalone and compatible with one another are included with the second edition of Onirim including these three that were in the first edition of the game:In addition to these three variants from the first edition there are four new modules in the Onirim 2nd edition box. Just like previously each module consists of something that makes the game easier and something that makes the game harder:Apart from all those there are a few special rules to use the dark meeple in the game (which interferes with Nightmare cards resolving) making the game easier or harder depending on the chosen variant.

Love Letter: Batman is a game of risk deduction and luck for 2–4 players based on the original Love Letter game by Seiji Kanai. The deck consists mostly of criminals with Joker being the most valuable card at #8 Harley Quinn at #7 and so on with Robin showing up at #4 and Batman as #1 which is the guard in the original Love Letter. Your goal is either to hold — that is have captured — the highest valued card at the end of the round or to be the final player active in the round.From a deck with only sixteen cards each player starts with only one card in hand; one card is removed from play. On a turn you draw one card and play one card using the power on that card to expose others and (possibly) knock them out of the round. If you use Batman's ability to KO someone (other than Robin) you score one point with points being tracked via Batsignal tokens. If you're the final player active in the round or the player with the highest card when the deck runs out then you score a point.The game ends following the round in which someone has seven or more points and the player with the most points wins.

Dixit: Journey features the same basic game play as Dixit: Each round one player takes on the role of Storyteller choosing one card from their hand then telling a story singing a ditty or otherwise doing something that in their opinion is associated with the played card. Each other player then chooses one card in their own hand and gives it to the Storyteller in secret. These cards are shuffled and revealed then players vote on which card was played by the Storyteller.If no one or everyone votes for the Storyteller then they receive no points; if they received some votes but not all the votes they score based on the number of votes received. Each player who submitted a correct vote or who received a vote on their card submission also scores. After a certain number of rounds the player with the most points wins.Dixit: Journey differs from Dixit in a number of ways starting with a simplified scoring board that doesn't have players moving around a track in the bottom of the game box. Instead the scoring track is on its own board and this game board includes a summary of the rules as well as numbered places to put the cards each round to facilitate voting. The game rules have been revised to make the game easier to learn while keeping game play the same.

The 7th Citadel is an all-new cooperative exploration and adventure game from the creators of The 7th Continent.In this post-apocalyptic medieval fantasy world you play as a “slave-gardener” who escapes from the Citadel of Necrodruid Ninidazir’ only to find yourself confronted by an even greater Threat!Explore the Collapsing Lands freely by gradually unveiling the board using numbered terrain and event cards. Interact with your environment converse with its inhabitants and build a city that will signal the renewal of this desolate world....As the scenarios unfold your choices for better or worse will lead you inexorably to the epic finale against the Threat!

Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends is a game played by masters of magic. Two to four summoners encounter each other in the Tash-Kalar arena either in teams or each on his own and prove their skill and strategy in a short but intense battle. By clever deployment of their minions they create magic patterns for summoning powerful beings and then use those to destroy their opponent’s forces or to prepare patterns for the ultimate legendary beings.The game includes four different factions each with a unique deck of beings to summon and one deck of legendary creatures. Players take turns placing their common pieces on the board and if they succeed in creating patterns depicted on one of the cards in hand they may play it. When played the card summons a particular being and allows the player to perform an effect described on the card: a giant destroys neighboring pieces a knight moves through enemy pieces a warlord orders previously placed pieces to move and fight an enchantress converts enemy pieces to player's own color etc. After that the player discards the card and the summoned being turns into a motionless piece which may be used in patterns for summoning other beings – or even be awakened and moved into combat by the effects of other cards.Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends offers two game modes. In the standard mode you score points for fulfilling various quests set by the Arena Masters: controlling certain points or areas of the arena destroying a number of enemy pieces in a single turn performing a certain combination of summonings etc.In melee mode your only goal is to entertain the crowd. You do that by destroying your opponents and making them beg (i.e. making them use the catch-up mechanisms) and by summoning legendary beings. After all people want to see a dragon! Both modes can be played as a two-player duel or as a team game with teammates sharing pieces and legendary cards but with each controlling his own faction. (The game includes a duplicate of one faction in a different color.) The melee mode can also be played as a fierce free-for-all battle but don't expect alliances; to achieve a good score you need to destroy all opponents evenly as you track points scored on each opponent separately and your lowest score is your final score.The rules of Tash-Kalar: Arena of Legends are simple and easy to understand but as you start to discover the tactics and are able to anticipate the opponent's moves and patterns it turns into a real clash of wits.

Featuring four new factions and eight new bases Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000 – a.k.a. Smash Up II – integrates into the Smash Up base game bringing exponential new combinations of factions and playstyles! Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000 includes:

You are the founder of a new village during the middle ages in the years after a great plague. The loss of so many people has created big problems for the survivors. Many of the people the villagers used to depend on for essential things like food shelter and clothes are gone. Craftsmen find themselves without suppliers of raw materials traders have lost their customers and many have lost their farms and workshops as they escaped the plague.The roads are full of refugees seeking a new beginning. They come to you hoping to settle down on your land and make a living. Your grain farm is the ideal starting point for a village reliably providing food for many people. You must choose wisely who you allow to settle with you as your food and resources are limited.The people on the road have valuable and unique skills but they all in turn rely on other people with very specific crafts to be able to work. Raw materials tools and services must be provided by other people from the road.If you manage to find people that can work together to make a profit while increasing your food surplus and capacity for building new houses your village will be prosperous.The game comes with a solo mode where a lone village strives to prosper in spite of the dreaded Countess and her evil machinations.—description from the publisher

Moonrakers is a game of shipbuilding temporary alliances and shrewd negotiation set in a space-faring future. The players form a loose band of mercenaries but while they are united in name actual alliances are shaky as players are pitted against each other in the quest to become the new leader of the Moonrakers.Moonrakers is a deck-building game in which players choose Contracts to attempt alone or with Allies in order to gain Prestige and Credits. After negotiating terms with Allies players use their decks of Action cards to play Thrusters Shields Weapons Reactors and Crew to fulfill the requirements on each Contract. Each type of Action card has additional effects such as extra Actions drawing additional cards and protecting players from Hazards encountered while attempting Contracts.Players create powerful decks and gain special abilities by upgrading their ships and hiring Crew Members. This helps them accomplish more difficult and rewarding contracts alone letting them keep more Prestige and Credits for themselves.Allies negotiate who will receive the Prestige Credits and risk of Hazard from Contracts but if you don't make your offers enticing enough players may be tempted to betray you! The first player to 10 Prestige wins but be careful as hazards encountered on Contracts reduce your Prestige!-description from designer

Join forces with legendary heroes to brave the many dangers of a cavernous dungeon. Wield potent weapons and magic. Conquer hordes of vile monsters. Discover fabulous treasures.Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game is a cooperative game of heroic dungeon adventures for one to four players. Players assume the roles of some of the Old World's most iconic heroes then venture into the shadows to battle ghouls Goblins Skaven giant bats swarms of rats and other monsters.Can you survive their relentless onslaught? Can you press deeper into their lair to find the evil villain that drives them forward? There are only two ways for your quest to end – in death or in glory!

Detective Club is a board game for players who enjoy party games with simple rules that take just a minute to explain. Intrigue sudden revelations limitless creativity and tons of fun await you in this game! Lead the investigation as a detective or cover your tracks as the infiltrated conspirator. Discuss accuse object and try to convince everyone.In Detective Club on each round one of the players secretly teams up with another — the Conspirator — and tries to make them guess a secret word using just two illustrated cards! Other players are detectives who also know the word but don't know the identities of each other. Detectives have to find out who the conspirator is making sure they don't get accused by their fellow players!

Survey the galaxy to expand your civilization – will you colonize nearby planets or take them over by force? Harvest resources for trade and do research to improve your technology. Build the best civilization and win the game!Eminent Domain is a civilization-building game in which your civilization's abilities are based on a deck of Role cards. At the beginning of the game each player has the same deck of cards with just two cards for each Role in it. Every turn you must choose a Role to execute (and like Glory to Rome or Puerto Rico your opponents will get a chance to follow suit) and in doing so you will add one of those Role cards to your deck. When executing a Role you can boost its effect by playing cards out of your hand matching the Role you have chosen. For example the more you Research the better you get at Researching (because you'll have more Research cards in your deck).

In Thunderstone: Heart of Doom you had a chance to face Doom's very heart the eighth Thunderstone and defeat the ancient evil – but winning that battle had unexpected consequences. It banished Doom but also freed him to visit other worlds so you advanced to the next world with him.Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin which is fully compatible with all previous Thunderstone offerings is the next stop in your adventure. In Thunderstone Advance you build your party of heroes to defeat the dreaded Thunderstone Bearers in their dungeons or wilderness. The player who defeats the most valuable monsters will win the day but beware – those monsters have all-new tricks up their sleeves and victory will not come easy.Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin includes new rules all new cards in new card frames and a new village and dungeon board.Integrates with

In Villainous each player takes control of one of six Disney characters each one a villain in a different Disney movie. Each player has their own villain deck fate deck player board and 3D character.On a turn the active player moves their character to a different location on their player board takes one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from their hand) then refills their hand to four cards. Cards are allies items effects conditions and (for some characters) curses. You need to use your cards to fulfill your unique win condition.One of the actions allows you to choose another player draw two cards from that player's fate deck then play one of them on that player's board covering two of the four action spaces on one of that player's locations. The fate deck contains heroes items and effects from that villain's movie and these cards allow other players to mess with that particular villain.

A quick and nifty card game by the publisher of Faraway.Each player will spend coins to draft 9 cards from 2 open markets on the table (the lower and upper city) creating along the game a 3x3 square of people interacting with each other to trigger instant effects and end-of-game bonuses.Castle Combo is a tableau-building game that combines simplicity with deep engaging gameplay offering highly satisfying experiences.Each turn you add a character to your tableau—a seemingly straightforward action that packs a punch regarding strategic decisions. You'll need to carefully manage your Keys to influence the Messenger pawn at critical moments as it controls which characters are available for recruitment from two different areas – peasants and nobles.Balancing your Gold reserves is equally important ensuring you can afford the characters that best suit your strategy throughout the game. Selecting the right characters is crucial to maximising their immediate effects and the points they will contribute at the game's end. Finally carefully arranging these characters on your 3x3 board is key to unlocking their full potential.

1840: In Kanagawa the great bay of Tokyo the Master Hokusai decided to open a painting school to share his art with his disciples. You are one of these disciples and more than anything you want to prove yourself worthy of the “crazy old artist”. Follow his teachings to expand your studio and paint your preferred subjects (Trees Animals Characters Buildings) all while paying attention to the changing of the seasons in order to make the most harmonious print… the one that will become the work of your lifetime!

In Disney Villainous: Perfectly Wretched each player takes control of one of three Disney characters each one a villain in a different Disney movie specifically Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians Mother Gothel from Tangled and Pete from Steamboat Willie. Each player has their own villain deck fate deck player board and 3D character.On a turn the active player moves their character to a different location on their player board takes one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from their hand) then refills their hand to four cards. Cards are allies items effects and conditions. You need to use your cards to fulfill your unique win condition.One of the actions allows you to choose another player draw two cards from that player's fate deck then play one of them on that player's board covering two of the four action spaces on one of that player's locations. The fate deck contains heroes items and effects from that villain's movie and these cards allow other players to mess with that particular villain.Disney Villainous: Perfectly Wretched is playable on its own and its characters can also face off against those in the Disney Villainous base game from 2018 and the Disney Villainous: Wicked to the Core and Disney Villainous: Evil Comes Prepared standalone games in 2019.

In 1703 Czar Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg in Russia which quickly earned the nickname Paris of the East. The Winter Palace the Hermitage the Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and many other buildings still amaze visitors from around the world today. To accomplish this he needed a new administration and brought the aristocrats under his control. This was also a golden time for the workers as their skills were much needed to reform and build the new Russia.In Saint Petersburg players play important roles in building the city of Saint Petersburg. To do this they will take turns selecting and purchasing cards from the display of available workers buildings and nobles. Each type of card has an associated phase and at the end of each phase players earn rubles and score victory points based on the cards they have collected of that type. When one of the decks runs out the players play until the end of that round then the game is over. Additional victory points are awarded at the end of the game depending on the number of unique nobles that each player has and the player with the most victory points wins the game.This new edition of Saint Petersburg features an additional optional module the Market which adds a new card type the market cards and a new Market phase with its own rules for scoring points. These cards bring in new resources and not only allow for new tactical opportunities as having a majority in provides extra victory points during the market phase scoring but also allow for a fifth player to join the game. This edition also includes the two expansion modules from the original edition plus four entirely new modules that can be used on their own or mixed and matched as players like.

In Ex Libris you are a collector of rare and valuable books in a thriving gnomish village. Recently the Mayor and Village Council have announced an opening for a Grand Librarian: a prestigious (and lucrative) position they intend to award to the most qualified villager! Unfortunately several of your book collector colleagues (more like acquaintances really) are also candidates.To outshine your competition you need to expand your personal library by sending your trusty assistants out into the village to find the most impressive tomes. Sources for the finest books are scarce so you need to beat your opponents to them when they pop up.You have only a week before the Mayor's Official Inspector comes to judge your library so be sure your assistants have all your books shelved! The Inspector is a tough cookie and will use her Official Checklist to grade your library on several criteria including shelf stability alphabetical order and variety — and don't think she'll turn a blind eye to books the Council has banned! You need shrewd planning and cunning tactics (and perhaps a little magic) to surpass your opponents and become Grand Librarian!

The rules of Red are simple: highest card wins! But Red is just one of seven games you'll be playing in Red7 and if you're not winning the current game at the end of your turn you're out! The last person standing wins the round.The deck in Red7 is 49 cards: each of the colors of the rainbow numbered 1 to 7. A hand takes just a couple minutes!

Build the city’s greatest theme park whatever it takes!Mix your favourite themes from Pirate Robot Vampire Jungle Ninja and Gangster. Build attractions and upgrade them to match blueprints stack up towering rides or simply make the most cash.But watch out – your competitors may pay off the safety inspectors to close your rides or hire hooligans to vandalise your park! Build wisely and protect your park to make sure you come out on top!Whatever happens it’s bound to be Unfair.Your goal is to build the park that scores the most points at game end using three main ways to score:You can also play events to help yourself and hinder your opponents as you build your park over the course of 8 rounds.Recruit staff members to help you or build a super attraction with a unique ability. Bribing officials and blackmailing politicians is entirely optional.

Unlock! Epic Adventures is the seventh release of the series and features three new escape room scenarios that you can play on your tabletop.Unlock! is a co-operative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc. The three scenarios are:• The Seventh Screening - Grab your popcorn! Tonight the horror movie The Werewolf's Final Night premiers. Will you get through unharmed?• The Dragon's Seven Tests - The Gold Dragons temple welcomes every seven years new disciples. Be worthy of Mater Li's teachings.• Mission #07 - EAGLE the secret organization has been infiltrated. Agents it's up to you to identify the mole!

It is the 25th century. You are a member of an intergalactic expedition shipwrecked on a mysterious planet named Artemia. While waiting for the rescue ship you begin to explore the planet but an alien entity picks up your scent and begins to hunt you. You are NOT ALONE! Will you survive the dangers of Artemia?NOT ALONE is an asymmetrical card game in which one player (the Creature) plays against the stranded explorers (the Hunted).If you play as one of the Hunted you will explore Artemia using Place cards. By playing these and Survival cards you try to avoid confuse or distract the Creature until help arrives.If you play as the Creature you will stalk and pursue the shipwrecked survivors. By playing your Hunt cards and using the mysterious powers of Artemia you try to wear down the Hunted and assimilate them to the planet forever.NOT ALONE is a immersive thematic card game where you use guessing bluffing hand management and just a pinch of deck-building to achieve your goal which is survival for the Hunted... or total assimilation for the Creature!

Description from the publisher:There are six companies that will change the world as we know it! You can be part of their success and be an investor. Try to become rich by making the right decisions!Only the biggest investor can get money out of each company. You must try to read the next steps of your rivals and use your capital and your three hidden cards to win against them and become the biggest shareholder!You have to be lucky in this game but you must also think about your moves and analyze your rivals! You can play this card game with only a few players but also with many!

It is an age of great discoveries. New and wonderful items find their ways into the hands of the greatest merchants. And if there ever is a place those traders love it is the town of Dale.There’s an extraordinary guild in the Dale founded by the greatest merchants. The tricky part is getting the membership since one must win the annual trading competition to be invited to the guild.Notable animalfolk merchants from all over the world have gathered in the town to take part in the event. Everyone has only one goal in mind – to be celebrated as the winner and the newest member of the legendary guild.In Dale of Merchants players take the roles of those participating merchants learning new techniques trading goods and managing their stock. The player who first manages to complete their astounding merchant stall wins the game and gets access to the guild!

In Celestia a revamped version of Cloud 9 you board an aircraft with a team of adventurers to perform many trips through the cities of Celestia and recover their wonderful treasures. Your journey will not be safe but you will attempt to be the richest adventurer by collecting the most precious treasures!At the beginning of a journey all players place their pawns within the aircraft; the players start the game with six cards in hand (or eight depending on the number of players). At the beginning of each round one player is chosen to be the captain of the trip and he rolls 2-4 dice to discover the challenges that they will face: fog lightning bolts killer birds or pirates. He must then play the appropriate cards — a compass a lightning arrester a foghorn or even cannons — to continue on the journey and reach the next city. But before the captain plays the appropriate cards each player must decide whether to stay within the aircraft:During the journey each adventurer can try to pull out of the game with fabulous objects (a jetpack astronomy glasses etc.) or by changing the trip (modifying the travel or abandoning an explorer in the city). As soon as a player earns treasure worth at least fifty points the game ends and this player wins.

It is the 1920s and the world is in a state of confusion following WWI. During this time you and your friends find yourselves amongst mysterious events. You are surrounded by strange figures letters with unreadable texts as well as sudden appearances of being unknown. By relying on your connections you set out to investigate these incidents. Unknown to you are the frightful truths that lie in wait ahead of you...Lovecraft Letter is a card game that combines the Love Letter system with the world of H.P. Lovecraft. In addition to the standard sixteen cards in the Love Letter game are new versions of the cards that include special insanity powers. If you have one of these cards in your discard pile then you are insane (at least for the current round) and on future turns can play insanity cards for their regular power or their special power giving you more options during play. The risk however is that you must undergo a sanity check at the start of each of your turns drawing as many cards from the deck as the number of insanity cards in front of you; draw one or more insanity cards and you're out for the round.If you win the game whether by being the last person standing or the player with the highest single card after the deck runs out you win a token colored to reflect whether you were sane or insane. Win enough tokens of the right type and you win the game. Cthluhu can also help you win the game if you release it at the right time...Will you put an end to the evil schemes as an investigator or will you help guide the world to destruction as one of insanity's disciples? It all depends on you.1920年代、世界はいまだ第一次大戦後の混迷の中にあった。そんな折、あなたの身内、あるいは友人が、不可思議な出来事に遭遇する。周囲に現れた奇妙な人影、読めない文字で綴られた手紙、そして、突然の失踪。あなたは伝手を頼りに、この事件の調査へと乗り出した。その先にどのような恐ろしい事実が待っているかも知らずに……。本ゲームは、ラブレターのゲームシステムでクトゥルフの世界観を表現したカードゲームです。通常のカードセットに加えて、恐るべき力を持つ狂気カードが新たに導入され、元のゲームとは異なるゲーム展開を楽しむことができます。探索者として陰謀を未然に防ぐのか、狂気の信徒となって世界を破滅に導くのか。それらは全てあなたの選択次第です。

Letter Jam is a 2-6 player cooperative word game where players assist each other in composing meaningful words from letters around the table. The trick is holding the letter card so that it’s only visible to other players and not to you.At the start of the game each player receives a set of face-down letter cards that can be arranged to form an existing word. The setup can be prepared by using a special card scanning app or by players selecting words for each other. Each player then puts their first card in their stand facing the other players without looking at it and the game begins.The game is played in turns. Each turn players simultaneously search other players’ letters to see what words they can spell out (telling the others the length of the word they can make up). The player who offers the longest word can then be chosen as the clue giver.The clue giver spells out their clue by putting numbered tokens in front of the other players. Number one goes to the player whose letter comes first in the clue number two to the second letter etc. They can always use a wild card which can be any letter but they cannot tell others which letter it represents.Each player with a numbered token (or tokens) in front of them then tries to figure out what their letter is. If they do they place the card face down before revealing the next letter. At the end of the game players can then rearrange the cards to try to form an existing word. All players then reveal their cards to see if they were successful or not. The more players who have an existing word in front of them the bigger their collective success.—description from the publisher

The woods are old-growth dappled with sunlight. Delicious mushrooms beckon from every grove and hollow. Morels may be the most sought-after in these woods but there are many tasty and valuable varieties awaiting the savvy collector. Bring a basket if you think it's your lucky day. Forage at night and you will be all alone when you stumble upon a bonanza. If you're hungry put a pan on the fire and bask in the aroma of chanterelles as you sauté them in butter. Feeling mercantile? Sell porcini to local aficionados for information that will help you find what you seek deep in the forest.Morels a strategic card game for two players uses two decks: a Day Deck (84 cards) that includes ten different types of mushrooms as well as baskets cider butter pans and moons; and a smaller Night Deck (8 cards) of mushrooms to be foraged by moonlight. Each mushroom card has two values: one for selling and one for cooking. Selling two or more like mushrooms grants foraging sticks that expand your options in the forest (that is the running tableau of eight face-up cards on the table) enabling offensive or defensive plays that change with every game played. Cooking sets of three or more like mushrooms – sizzling in butter or cider if the set is large enough – earns points toward winning the game. With poisonous mushrooms wielding their wrath and a hand-size limit to manage card selection is a tricky proposition at every turn.Following each turn one card from the forest moves into a decay pile that is available for only a short time. The Day Deck then refills the forest from the back creating the effect of a walk in the woods in which some strategic morsels are collected some are passed by and others lay ahead.

Once upon a time three big cats became exhausted fighting to be top cat. They agreed to quit the fight and spice up their nine lives with a hot spice eating contest. Alas everyone was soon cheating so the cats invented a very hot often tearful bluffing game.Spicy is a bluffing card game for 2-6 players. The cards are played face down so you can cheat when you announce your card. That said this clever card game isn't just about bluffing for you can almost always play a card that is at least half right if you cleverly play your hand. This means tactically deciding which card to use to get through: Do I play a Pepper 10 or a color wild on a Wasabi 9 and declare it a Wasabi 10? Or do I better pass because surely someone has noticed me thinking for so long now?Spicy contains six game-variant cards but even without these a high replayability is guaranteed.The cards are illustrated with forty separate pieces of art. In addition not only the game box sparkles in chic metallic gold but also the card backs are adorned with a gold-colored finish.

Fugitive is a two-player card game set in the world of Burgle Bros. One player is a fugitive trying to make it out of town while being pursued by an unstoppable agent. The fugitive plays cards face down to the table trying to work their way to a goal while the agent must guess those cards to uncover them. If all the cards are face up the fugitive is caught.

Among the Stars takes place in a war-ravaged galaxy where the warring alien races have declared peace in the wake of a threat with the potential to destroy them all. An Alliance is established to build space stations throughout the galaxy in order to promote trade among the races strengthen diplomatic relations and defend against this impending threat. Each player takes the role of one of those races trying to build the greatest space station. Through card drafting the players select locations and use these to build their station scoring victory points based on the placement. The construction lasts four years and the alien race with the most points at the end wins.

One Deck Dungeon is a card game roguelike — a dungeon delve that is different every time difficult to survive with a character you build up from scratch. The deck consists of various foes to combat and other perils from the dungeon. Each card though depicts both the obstacle to overcome and the potential rewards for doing so. When you defeat a card you claim it as either experience an item or a skill tucking it under the appropriate side of your character card to show its benefits.The longer you take exploring the dungeon the deeper you'll delve and the difficulty will scale up quickly! If you make it far enough you'll have to fight the dungeon boss. Survive and you'll be a legend!One Deck Dungeon is designed for 1-2 players. With multiple sets you can add more players.

Welcome to Arzium land of ancient civilizations bizarre creatures unexplained wonders and vibrant characters.A great sleeping sickness has spread across the land sending every type of creature to roam for hundreds of miles in a dazed incoherent march. It's your job to seek them out and wake them from their sleepwalk recruiting them to help you find even more lost souls!In Roam you and up to three friends compete to find lost adventurers. The game includes more than fifty unique tarot-sized adventurer cards which feature characters from Near and Far Above and Below and Islebound. The opposite side of each card depicts a landscape split into six squares and two rows of three of these cards are placed in the center of the playing area to make the board.Each turn you may activate one of the adventurer cards in your party by flipping the card face down. Activating an adventurer allows you to place search tokens on the board in the shape depicted on your adventurer card. When every square on a landscape card has been searched the player who did the most claims the card finding the lost adventurer and adding them to their party. Each adventurer you add to your party gives you points and a new search pattern that you can use.When searching you also claim coins which can be spent to use special actions or purchase artifacts with useful powers. When one player has ten adventurers in their party the game ends and the player with the most points wins.—description from the publisher

Ohanami consists of a deck of 120 cards that are numbered from 1-120 with each card having one of four symbols on it. The game lasts three rounds with players scoring at the end of each round in addition to bonus scoring at the end of the game.At the start of a round each player receives a hand of ten cards. Each player chooses two cards then passes the remaining cards to the left. All players reveal their cards at the same time then decide whether to use 0 1 or 2 of them in personal rows of cards. When you start a row you can use any card; to add a card to an existing row that card must be higher than the row's highest card or lower than the lowest one. A player can have at most three rows of cards. Discard any cards you don't use.Players repeat this drafting passing and playing process until they have played ten cards. The first round ends and players now receive 3 points for each blue card in their rows.Players then receive a new hand of ten cards to start round 2 once again choosing two cards and passing the rest but now to the right. Players continue building on the rows that they already have scoring 3 points for each blue card and 4 points for each green card at the end of round two.For round three players have ten more cards and pass cards to the left once again. At the end of this round players once again score for their blue and green cards while also receiving 7 points for each gray card in their rows. Additionally each player scores for their pink cherry blossom cards with these cards having a pyramidal scoring structure: one card = 1 point two cards = 3 three cards = 6 etc. Whoever has the highest total score wins!

In CODEX Naturalis you must continue the work of the illuminating monk Tybor Kwelein assembling the pages of a manuscript that lists the living species in primary forests. Can you put the pages together in the best order possible? And are you prepared to sacrifice a species to develop your manuscript?In the game each player starts with a single card on the table a card that shows some combination of the four possible resources in the middle of the card in the corners of the card or both. Players also have two resource cards and one gold card in hand while two of each type of card are visible on the table.On a turn you place a card from your hand overlapping the corners of one or more cards you already have in play. Your starting card has four overlappable corners while resource and gold cards have only three.If you wish you can play a card from your hand face down; such a card has four corners and one resource but provides no points. After you play draw a face-up card or the top card of either deck to refill your hand.When a player reaches 20 points you complete the round and each player takes one additional turn. Players then score points based on how well they matched two public objective cards and one secret objective card after which the player with the most points wins.

Earthborne Rangers is a customizable co-operative card game set in the wilderness of the far future. You take on the role of a Ranger a protector of the mountain valley you call home: a vast wilderness transformed by monumental feats of science and technology devised to save the Earth from destruction long ago.You begin by building a deck that reflects your Ranger's interests personal history and personality. Then as you explore the open world and your story takes shape you augment your deck with improved equipment refined skills and the memories of your journey.The story of Earthborne Rangers is presented as a branching narrative campaign consisting of a main storyline and a multitude of side stories. In it you can choose to follow the critical path or to strike off on your own to discover the Valley's many engaging characters mysterious ruins and beings both familiar and strange.Each game session represents one day in the Valley and you'll pick up in the same location on the map where you rested the night before. Your goal is to either complete one of your available missions or to explore the open world. The session ends when you're either forced to rest (through either fatigue or injury) or you choose to rest for the night.An individual game session is played in rounds and those rounds consist of turns. On your turn you perform one action: either play a card from your hand or choose an action from a card on the table. Each action allows you to interact thematically and narratively with the world and each time you take an action the world comes to life around you. Predators stalk their prey rain pours from the sky rocks tumble down the mountain to block your path and much more.—description from the publisher

Description from the publisher:Legendary explorer Percy Fawcett marched deep into the Amazon in search of El Dorado. He was never seen again. Your team has gone in search of him but now you hope to escape the jungle with the greatest treasure of all: your life.Make the best of your food your ammunition and your health in The Lost Expedition as you plunge deep into the jungle. Choose your path carefully to ensure you're ready for the pitfalls that may occur. Play solo or cooperatively to survive the expedition or play in teams to see which group can escape the jungle first.Errata: In the 'head-to-head' rules the diagram shows more cards than can legally be played. The rules-as-written are correct.

It is a dark time for the galaxy. The Galactic Empire has consolidated its dominion through the might of the Imperial Navy. In the underworld of the Empire's most populated planets and in strongholds throughout the Outer Rim powerful gangsters rule vast criminal organizations. From the shadows those lost to the grip of the dark side of the Force scheme to bring their evil designs to bear on an already oppressed galaxy.Yet not all hope is lost. The Rebel Alliance resists the iron grip of the Empire. Smugglers and other fringe elements lend their aid to the Rebellion. And unknown to the Emperor and his dark minions of the Sith the last remnants of the noble Jedi Order work tirelessly to restore peace and order to the galaxy.Star Wars: The Card Game is a two-player card game that puts one player in command of the Rebels (light side with the factions Jedi Rebel Alliance and Smugglers And Spies) and one player in command of the Empire (dark side with the factions Sith Imperial Navy and Scum And Villainy). The Balance of the Force expansion allows multi-player games. The game is set within the time-frame of the original Star Wars trilogy.Each player has a deck of objective cards representing various missions plus a deck of player cards of units (characters vehicles droids and creatures) events enhancements and fates. Each objective is linked to a set of five player cards. Deck construction consists of choosing which objectives are to go into your objective deck then adding each of those objective's set of five player cards to your player deck. Game play consists of deploying cards to your tableau attacking your opponent's objectives defending your own objectives and committing cards to the Force Struggle.The Empire wins if the Death Star dial reaches 12 with this dial increasing by one on each dark side turn effectively putting a timer on the game. It may also be increased by winning the Force struggle destroying light side objectives and via card effects. The Rebels win by destroying three dark side objectives before the Empire wins.Contains objective sets 1-36.

Challengers! is an interactive deck-management game for 1-8 players that plays in about 45 minutes independent of player count. With the tournament gameplay style you meet another opponent every round.In the Deck Phase you choose new members and add them to your deck which might consist of a wizard alien cat gangster and kraken. 75 distinct characters with more than 40 exciting effects create a unique experience every game. Choose from six different sets and discover new strategies and synergies every game.In the Match Phase stay in flag possession to win the trophy of that round. Try to get the most fans and trophies over the course of seven rounds to be able to qualify for the final. If you can best your opponent in the final you win Challengers!(If you think that all sounds a lot like a board game adaption of a digital Autobattler we are proud to tell you that this is the first of its kind!)—description from the publisher

Jekyll vs. Hyde is a trick-taking game for two players based on the famous novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. As Dr. Jekyll you'll need to resist Mr. Hyde's fierce attacks to protect your mind and keep the secret of your dual nature. As Mr. Hyde your goal is to dominate Dr. Jekyll to overcome his identity.One player is Dr. Jekyll ; the other is Mr. Hyde. The game plays in three rounds. At the end of each round Dr. Jekyll's identity will progressively disappear under Mr. Hyde's relentless attacks. Compare the number of tricks that each player has won in this round and subtract the lowest score from the highest one (for instance if Dr. Jekyll won 6 tricks and Mr. Hyde won 4 tricks then the final result is 6-4=2). This result indicates by how many spaces the Identity Marker will move to Mr. Hyde's side.Evil is relentless! Even if Dr. Jekyll won more tricks that Mr. Hyde the marker will progress towards Mr. Hyde's side. As Dr. Jekyll your goal is to keep balance without giving in to darkness!If the marker reaches the last space of the track (far left) then Mr. Hyde instantly wins the game. Otherwise start a new round: remove the three colored tokens from the board and reshuffle all cards including the 5 cards that you set aside at the beginning of this round.Mr. Hyde wins as soon as the Identity Marker reaches the last space of the Identity Track (far left). If the marker did not reach the end of the track after three rounds then Dr. Jekyll wins escaping from Mr. Hyde's dark influence.

Starseekers! Explore the sky and bring some light back to your world.Stella is a competitive game in the Dixit universe. In each round players interpret Dixit cards on a board after receiving a common clue word. Each player observes the Dixit cards and secretly associates these cards with the clue word marking on their erasable personal slates the cards that they choose. Selecting the same cards as the other players allows you to score more points. Conversely selecting a card that no one else chooses may cost you dearly.At the end of the fourth round each player calculates their total score. Whoever has the most points — which is possibly more than one person — wins.Take calculated risks but beware of the fall.—description from publisher

Enter the futuristic universe of Red Rising based on the book series by Pierce Brown featuring a dystopian society divided into fourteen castes. You represent a house attempting to rise to power as you piece together an assortment of followers (represented by your hand of cards). Will you break the chains of the Society or embrace the dominance of the Golds?Red Rising is a hand-management combo-building game for 1-6 players (45-60 minute playing time). You start with a hand of 5 cards and on your turn you will deploy 1 of those cards to a location on the board activating that card’s deploy benefit. You will then gain the top card from another location (face up) or the deck (face down) gaining that location's benefit and adding the card to your hand as you enhance your end-game point total. If at any point you’re really happy with your hand you can instead use your turn to reveal a card from the top of the deck and place it on a location to gain that location’s benefit.—description from the publisher

Palm Island is a portable game that you can take with you anywhere. Sitting standing waiting riding flying relaxing alone or together you can play Palm Island no table required.Using a deck transforming mechanic a player uses just 17 cards over 8 rounds to shape their island and overcome its unique challenges. Store resources to pay for upgrades and upgrade buildings to access new abilities. Each decision you make will alter your village from round to round. At the end of 8 rounds calculate your victory points.PLAY SOLO working to gain achievements and unlock new abilities to help your village reach even greater heights. PLAY COOPERATIVELY by working together to successfully prepare your village before natural disasters strike. PLAY COMPETITIVELY by racing to purchase bonuses or in casual mode by meeting specific criteria before your opponent.Add villagers to any game mode that you may recruit to your village and use their abilities to score more points than your opponent. The game comes with 2 player decks competitive cards cooperative cards and solo feat cards. Multiple games can be combined to add even more players.—description from the publisher

The Mind is more than just a game. It's an experiment a journey a team experience in which you can't exchange information yet will become one to defeat all the levels of the game.In more detail the deck contains cards numbered 1-100 and during the game you try to complete 12 10 or 8 levels of play with 2 3 or 4 players. In a level each player receives a hand of cards equal to the number of the level: one card in level 1 two cards in level 2 etc. Collectively you must play these cards into the center of the table on a single discard pile in ascending order but you cannot communicate with one another in any way as to which cards you hold. You simply stare into one another's eyes and when you feel the time is right you play your lowest card. If no one holds a card lower than what you played great the game continues! If someone did all players discard face up all cards lower than what you played and you lose one life.You start the game with a number of lives equal to the number of players. Lose all your lives and you lose the game. You start with one shuriken as well and if everyone wants to use a shuriken each player discards their lowest card face up giving everyone information and getting you closer to completing the level. As you complete levels you might receive a reward of a shuriken or an extra life. Complete all the levels and you win!For an extra challenge play The Mind in extreme mode with all played cards going onto the stack face down. You don't look at the cards played until the end of a level losing lives at that time for cards played out of order.

Make your fate! Inspired by character-driven fantasy storytelling Call to Adventure challenges 1-4 players to create the hero with the greatest destiny by acquiring traits facing challenges and overcoming adversaries.Call to Adventure features a unique rune rolling system for resolving challenges a point-based system that encourages storytelling and over 150 unique cards. Players begin each game with an origin card that provides their backstory as well as two starter abilities. Each round they may either acquire trait cards from the board or face a challenge. Challenges each have two possible paths a player can choose from. For example players who encounter the Thieves' Guild may choose to train as a spy or train as a killer. Each challenge has a difficulty that must be overcome by rolling successes on carved runes. The more a player has of the abilities required to overcome the challenge the more runes they will be able to cast.Failed challenges lead players to acquire experience points that may be spent to push through tougher challenges. But beware while some negative experiences will help your hero grow too many tragedies set them on a dark path.As players' heroes grow in ability and experience they move on to harder challenges eventually facing deadly adversaries and acquiring more and more destiny points. The player whose hero has the highest destiny score wins the game.

Tragedy Looper is a scenario-based deduction game for two to four players: one mastermind and one to three protagonists. The game consists of four location boards and a number of character cards. Each scenario features a number of characters hidden roles for these characters (serial killer conspiracy theorist friend) and some pre-set tragedies (murder suicide).Each day (turn) players and the mastermind play three face-down cards onto the characters then reveal them to move the characters around or affect their paranoia or goodwill stats. At the end of each day (turn) if the scenario has a tragedy set for that day it happens if the conditions are met i.e. certain characters have certain stats or are in a certain location together (or not together) with others. As tragedies happen players loop back in time restarting the scenario from the beginning and trying to deduce who the culprit was and why the tragedy occurred.The players win if they manage to maintain status quo — that is if no tragedies occur to the key individuals — for a set number of days within a set number of loops. If not the mastermind wins.Tragedy Looper was originally released in Japan as 惨劇RoopeR in 2011; the first english version of the game was released in 2014.

Summoner Wars is a fast-playing action-packed 2-4 player card game. Players take on the role of Summoners: powerful beings who harness the power of mysterious Summoning Stones to lead their race to conquest on the war-torn planet of Itharia. These Summoners wield terrible magic on the battlefield freezing their foes in place draining their enemies of power and even bringing rains of fire down from the heavens. But most notoriously they summon their great race's hordes of warriors to the battlefield to clash in the never-ending struggle for supremacy.Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set a big box starter set for Summoner Wars akin to the Summoner Wars Master Set features eight complete faction decks and can be played on its own or combined with other Summoner Wars products. All sixteen factions in the SW world are represented as each new summoner is a hybrid of two existing factions blending the themes of the two factions and expanding deck-building possibilities. The factions are:

Game description from the publisher:Batman! Superman! Wonder Woman! Aquaman! The Flash! Green Lantern! Cyborg! The Justice League of America is ready for action – are you? Fight the never-ending battle for truth justice and peace in the DC Comics Deck-Building Game!To start the game each player chooses one of the seven over-sized hero cards each of which has a special power and starts with a deck of ten cards. Each turn a player starts with a hand of five cards and can acquire or conquer the five types of cards in the game: heroes villains and super-villains equipment super powers and locations. To defeat villains you'll need to have power – but when a super-villain is defeated a new one comes into play attacking all the heroes while doing so. Make sure you've acquired defenses – like superspeed or bulletproof powers or The Batsuit equipment – to protect yourself from harm.Craft your hero deck into a well-oiled machine to take on the most vile villains in the DC Universe in your quest for victory (points)!

Orchard is a quick solitaire tile laying game that plays in under 10 minutes and that won the 2018 9-Card Nanogame Print and Play Design Contest. The aim of the game is to harvest fruit (score points) by playing cards so that their fruit trees overlap other trees already in the orchard that bear the same fruit. The more trees you can overlap the more fruit you'll pick.There are 18 cards of which you use 9 in any one game. For print and play you'll need 15 dice (5 each of three colours) to keep track of your increasing harvest and two cubes to represent rotten fruit. These allow you to lay a card that you wouldn't otherwise be able to — but come with a points penalty so you must decide if and when to play them.

5-­Minute Dungeon is a chaotic co-­operative real-­time card game in which players have only five minutes to escape the randomized dungeon. Communication and teamwork are critical to survival because there's no time to form a carefully considered plan — and no predicting what dangers lie ahead.In more detail players assume the role of one of ten heroes each with special cards and abilities. Once the five-minute timer starts the race is on to defeat all the monsters inside the dungeon. In order to defeat a monster players must match symbols from their hand with ones on the monster's card. At the end of each dungeon is a powerful dungeon boss — and after the first boss is defeated the campaign continues to the second boss. Each boss and each randomized dungeon gets harder until players reach the fifth and final boss.There is a Standard Edition and a Dungeon Master Edition (Kickstarted Exclusive Cover).Both Kickstarter editions includes: - 2 New Bosses - A Deck with 25 new cars [15 Doors + 10 Challenge Cards] - A Baby Barbarian Figurine (with blood in the sword)

Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. These fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices...You live in a forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in different ways...You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the first to satisfy their appetite for Fabled Fruit?Fabled Fruit is a Fable game a new and unique concept in game experiences where the gameplay changes over time. The game starts in an initial simple state but as you explore deeper into the game system the mechanisms and gameplay will evolve over time.You play the game many times and each play changes the game slightly. Unlike in a Legacy game however the game is never permanently changed. At any time you may easily restart a Fable game from the beginning either after you have run through the entire game system or at any time during the many plays you will get from this game system. This Fable Game will remain just as playable on the 20th play as it was on the first plays of the game.Fabled Fruit FAQ

Description from the publisher: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 in The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game players add settlements and castles practice trade along the river exploit silver mines farm livestock and more.Additional comment:This game is #1 in the Alea very small box series.

Smash Up is back with even more wild factions in the mix! Science Fiction Double Feature brings four new decks to the base-smashing business with abilities unlike those seen before!Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature can be played on its own as a two-player game or combined with other Smash Up titles to allow for up to four players to compete at the same time.

IntroductionThe ancient Galactic Realm ruled from the Core Worlds of the galaxy is waning. Now the barbaric kingdoms that lie beyond the galactic frontier are amassing their strength choosing this pivotal moment to strike at the heart of the fading republic establishing new empires built upon the ashes of decaying civilizations. But these outer systems are not yet strong enough to engage the forces of the Core Worlds directly. The young kingdoms must first gnaw at the edges of the crumbling frontier developing new types of units and shrewder tactics. They must build up their energy resources to launch magnificent fleets and overwhelming ground forces. Then when the time is right they must strike at the galactic core itself claiming the most exalted planets for themselves. The barbarian kingdom that achieves these goals will carve out the greatest empire in the galaxy.Object of the GameEach player controls a barbarian Star Empire represented by many cards. Throughout the game players will invade Worlds and draft new Units and Tactics into their Empires. Each card lists its Empire Points in the upper right corner. The player whose Empire contains the most Empire Points at the end of the game is the winner!Game Terms and Game Play MechanismsCore Worlds is a deck-building card game for 2-5 players. The following are the central concepts of Core Worlds:• Central Zone: Throughout the game new cards are drawn from the five Galactic Decks and placed face up in the Central Zone the game's common play area. These cards include new Units and Tactics that the players can draft into their Empires as well as Worlds that they can invade.• Empire: Each player represents an Empire that begins with a Home World and a Starting Deck. A player's Empire consists of all of the cards in his hand draw deck discard pile and Warzone (tableau).• Fleet Strength: Each World possesses a Fleet Strength that represents the starships that defend it from attack. A World's Fleet Strength must be matched in order for that World to be successfully invaded. Many Units possess a Fleet Strength that a player can use to invade a World.• Ground Strength: Each World possesses a Ground Strength that represents the infantry and other ground forces that defend it from surface assault. A World's Ground Strength must be matched in order for it to be successfully invaded. Many Units possess a Ground Strength that a player can use to invade a World.• Invasion: In order to add new Worlds to his Empire a player must launch Invasions. A player performs an Invasion by discarding enough cards from his Warzone to match the Fleet Strength and Ground Strength of the World he is invading.• Warzone: Each player's Empire includes a Warzone an area in front of the player where her conquered Worlds are displayed. Players also deploy Units from their hands face up into their Warzones and later use these Units to invade new Worlds.

The Legendary universe gets flipped upside down in Legendary: Villains – Marvel Deck Building Game and you can now play as villains trying to take out the heroes protecting the city!The goal of the game remains roughly the same as in the first Legendary game as players can work both with and against other players to overcome obstacles that the game throws at them. In this case however players use the super villains of the Marvel Universe — including Venom Magneto and Loki — to battle superheroes such as the X-Men the Avengers and Spider-Friends.Legendary: Villains – Marvel Deck Building Game is a standalone game that includes all the cards needed to play.

Warhammer Underworlds is a tactical arena combat game. This is a system designed for balanced small-scale tactical games that can be played quickly and easily by anyone but which even experienced players will find challenging to master. The game rules are designed with competitive play in mind; matches can be played in under 45 minutes on a smaller surface than our larger-scale games and will be ideal for club or tournament play. And not only that we’ll be fully supporting an organized play system for this game right from day one.The forces you can use in this game will be drawn from races across the Mortal Realms including some for factions that have not received any new miniatures since we first ventured into the Age of Sigmar. Each of these sets will be composed of a small band of easy-to-assemble push-fit miniatures in the style of our single-pose heroes to represent a specific band of warriors from that faction. These are provided in coloured plastic and clip together so you can quite literally be playing with them within minutes of opening the box with no glue or paint needed! (Though they do look great painted and your dice will roll better – probably.)The game is played using unique dice and card decks and these will to an extent be unique to each faction. Both decks of cards used in the game are fully customisable – meaning you can choose to create all manner of combinations of overlapping abilities to use and objectives to achieve. This can be a really rewarding part of the game – and means that even the same faction can be played in wildly different ways. We’re expecting to see all sorts of combinations tried out at game stores clubs and in tournaments.—description from the publisher

It is 1729 in pre-revolution France a time when the aristocracy has all the power and the means to rule the country. As a wealthy well-educated aristocrat you have travelled the world and had the fortune to enjoy your life to the fullest – but you see that history is about to change course and you know that in order to stay strong your family must prepare well. You need to find new allies. You must absorb smaller families and use their potency to strengthen your kin. You have to arrange wise marriages nurture strong connections at court obtain titles build mansions and find the right spouses for your daughters and sons...Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy enables you to build a powerful dynasty in 18th century France as you step into the shoes of a French noble and compete for lasting honor. Over three generations you – a resourceful patriarch or matriarch – will attempt to create a lasting legacy by establishing a house with ties to many different wealthy and powerful families from France and abroad (Spain Italy Russia and other countries).This card game offers endless possibilities. Each time you build a family you write a unique story bringing to life the diverse relationships between parents and their children between cousins uncles aunts nephews and nieces. Whether you are looking for the best husband for your only daughter or a suitable wife for one of your two sons whether you are looking to add new blood to your family by marrying into foreign nobility – you will be working to make your family rise in status through prestige and wealth new skills and abilities.In Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy – known previously as Nobles of Paris and winner of Ducosim Spelontwerp in 2009 – you will find 75 spouse cards with unique traits more than twenty secret missions nine titles and nine contribution to the family cards. This all culminates in a highly thematic card game that will satisfy players who enjoy exploring many different paths to victory.Legacy is a worker placement game in which you take actions to improve the standing and/or wealth of your family. You will expand your family creating an ever-growing tableau the family tree. You will need to balance the three 'currencies' in the game Prestige (converts to Honor points at the end of each generation of which there are three) Income (your income which converts to hard cash at the end of each round of which there are 9) and Friend cards (which are actual connections/friends and are the only way to marry into wealthy/famous families and can only be received through actions such as marrying a woman who brings some of her social contacts with her).Prestige Income and Friend cards can be gained and lost. You can for example lose some prestige by marrying someone infamous or lose some Honor points (i.e. reputation) by asking friends for money. There are also numerous actions you can take that will affect one of the three 'currencies' detrimentally such as bribing someone to get a title (for which you need to pay but also in the loss of friends who felt they deserved that title and not you) or the maintenance of a beautiful new park you have built for the people (losing you income). Finally you can also take actions that result in the loss of some of your social contacts (friends) due to jealousy or people simply no longer wanting to be associated with you.These currencies are carefully balanced by the male and female friend cards in the game. Generally men will give you income and possibly prestige but will cost you a dowry/wedding costs. Women on the other hand will give you connections (new friends you can choose from the current socialites (cards lying open on the table) and possibly prestige and will sometimes even earn you a dowry!The card interactions allow for multiple different paths to success but you must choose your road strategically planning out where you want to be headed else you will be left behind in the dust by those with greater and more successful plans than yours.

Samael is dead but a storm is still raging across Vigil. Ascension: Storm of Souls takes players into the chaos following the Fallen One's demise. As Samael's monsters run wild and his minions conspire the world is being slowly overtaken with souls that should have moved on. Are you ready for the new challenges that Vigil's future holds?Ascension: Storm of Souls is the first full-sized expansion for the hit deck-building game from Gary Games. The 200-card set features tons of new cards and mechanisms in addition to a new Event card type. This is a complete game for 1-4 players that's playable on its own or in combination with other Ascension games. Combine this with other Ascension games to play with up to six players!

In Cat Lady players are cat ladies part of an elite group of people including Marie Antoinette and Ernest Hemingway. During the game you and your fellow cat ladies will draft cards three at a time collecting toys food catnip costumes and of course lovable cats. But watch out! Make sure you have enough food for all of your feline friends or your hungry cats will subtract points from your score. The player with the highest total victory points wins!

Canopy is a game in which two players compete to grow the most bountiful rainforest. The jungle ecosystem is full of symbiosis and mutualism and players must grow tall trees and lush jungle plants to attract the most diverse wildlife. By carefully selecting what grows in your forest you can create the ideal balance of flora and fauna and develop a thriving rainforest.In the game players take turns selecting new cards for their forest from three growth piles. Each time you look at a pile you may select it and add those cards to your rainforest tableau or return the pile face down adding one additional card to it. As the piles grow you must search for the plants and animals that will benefit your forest the most — but choose carefully as the jungle also contains dangers in the form or fire disease and drought.—description from the publisherThere are options for three and four players together with a solo game. Also included is a addional deck of season variant cards.

Sedlec Ossuary 16th Century AD.The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector a half-blind monk by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt.You are novice monks competing to create the best arrangement of skulls.Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards take cards into your hand to collect skulls and arrange the cards from your hand into a stack. Whoever better honors the deceased’s last wishes will score more points.The Bone Collector will then judge each player’s completed stack and declare one as the most exceptional.—description from the publisherReleased in the June 2020 Board Game of the Month Club $20+ package.Finalist (top 3) of Button Shy's 18 Card Challenge: Design a game about a real life location.

Every day dozens of birds have a stop on the fences of our countryside. When it is time to leave all these birds mix together unable to organize themselves into flocks to fly home. Help them find their way back to their nest.Players begin each new round of CuBirds with eight bird cards in hand. Some birds also sit on four distinct fences on the table. On your turn you lay a series of identical birds from your hand on one fence's extremity. These birds instantly gather with any identical bird already present on this fence making all birds placed in-between them fly into your hand. With enough identical birds in your hand you can perform a flock allowing you to add some of these birds in your scoring area.Your ultimate goal is to be the first player to gather in your scoring area either seven different species or two species with at least three identical birds in each. Each bird comes with one small and one big flock scores so you may want to wait to reach a big flock to add more birds at once to your scoring area. Beware though as the round ends as soon as a player empties their hand forcing all players to discard their current hands and plans!

In Herbaceous herb collectors compete to grow and store the most valuable medley of herbs. Everyone starts with four containers each of which allows a different grouping action:On your turn you draw a herb then decide to either keep it in your personal collection or put in into the communal pile. If kept the next card goes to the communal pile; if placed in the communal pile the next card goes in your personal collection.At the start of your turn you can decide to use a container. If so you assemble cards from personal and communal spaces group them then turn them all over. You have then collected those and can't use the container again.At the end of the game collectors determine the best collection as a combination of value from their collection matching herbs and herb sets.

Dice Throne is a fast-paced 2-6 player combat game whether 1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all. Select from a variety of heroes that play and feel completely distinct from one another. Attack opponents and activate abilities by rolling your hero's unique set of five dice. Accumulate combat points and spend them on cards that have a large range of effects such as granting permanent hero upgrades applying status effects and manipulating dice directly whether yours your teammate's or even your opponent's.Each player needs their own hero dice and cards to play Dice Throne. Season One of the game was released in a single box that contains components for six heroes while Season Two was released in four small sets that each contain components for two heroes as well as a Battle Chest that has these four small sets. Heroes can be mixed-and-matched across seasons.Linked entries in the BGG database:

Archaeology: The New Expedition is a reimplementation of the popular Archaeology: The Card Game (with several changes).You are an archaeologist working the dig sites of the Egyptian desert. Search for the right pieces to complete torn parchments broken pots and other priceless artifacts. Explore an ancient pyramid in the hope of uncovering a huge stash of treasure! Trade shrewdly at the local marketplace to increase the value of your collection. Sell your treasures to the museum at just the right time for maximum profit.But beware the desert also has its dangers! A devastating sandstorm can throw your expedition into disarray and cunning thieves lurk around the dig site ready to steal your prize discovery!In Archaeology: The New Expedition you want to find treasures and make the most money possible by selling them to the museum. Players start with four treasure cards in hand; one monument tile is chosen at random then the chambers of the monument are loaded secretly with treasure cards.On a turn a player digs for treasure by drawing from the deck. If they find treasure they don't show anyone and keep it; if they find a thief they steal a card at random from an opponent; and if they find a sandstorm all players lose half of their cards in hand to the marketplace which starts the game with five face-up cards. (Each player has a tent that they can discard to avoid the effects of one sandstorm.) After digging a player can:Players can explore only once but they can do the other actions repeatedly and they can take these actions in any order. Once the deck is empty players keep taking actions until they all pass in turn after which they sell treasures to the museum. Whoever ends up with the most money wins!According to the designer Archaeology: The New Expedition differs from Archaeology: The Card Game through the inclusion of tent cards the addition of new treasure types and additional cards to allow for five players the adjustment of some treasure values and the inclusion of six monuments instead of one to have more variety when exploring.

Grove is the citrusy sequel to the award winning Orchard 9 card solitaire game. Its 18 cards feature orange lemon and lime trees and a new 'wild card' element glades. These open spaces without trees combined with a new scoring mechanic offer more ways and opportunities to increase your harvest and create a greater variety of gameplay and strategies compared to Orchard. You'll also find a cheeky squirrrel who can either help or hinder your fruit picking as well as a wheelbarrow - useful if you manage to get an extra large haul.The card backs feature recipe challenges with various scoring conditions and target scores. These provide a win/lose condition (as an alternative to the standard game's ‘beat your score’) for those that prefer it - and add even more variety to the game.

In Oriflamme the players find themselves in the middle of a medieval feud over the French royal crown. The King is dead! Long live the King! As heads of influential families players strive to come to power with cunning and malice power and strength virtue and infamy. Their goal: the king's throne!In this tactical card game hidden cards are played in turn. By tactically uncovering and activating their effects players can outdo or get them out of the way because all players have the same goal in mind — to collect the most influence points for their family and thus win the game.

Experience two fantastical centuries of expansions and combat in Paper Tales. Remodel your assorted assembly of characters units and buildings in each period based on your developments and the age of your heroes. Write a new legend of the rightful ruler who brought unity to the rival kingdoms.In more detail Paper Tales is a simultaneous drafting card game. Each turn players draft five units that they then recruit into their kingdom — assuming that they can pay. These choices determine the players ability to shine in battle generate great income construct dominant buildings and earn legend points. There are only four hiring positions available during the four rounds of the play but your units grow older with each turn until time takes them away.Build a comprehensive strategy and adapt the shape of your realm according to opportunities and restrictions and you will make history!

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 cards in hand the game ends immediately even if the player would normally abluxx an opponent. Each player scores one point for each card on the table in front of him then loses one point for each card in hand. Whoever has the highest score wins. If players wish they can play multiple rounds and sum their scores over the rounds to determine a winner.

The crown is up for grabs to whoever can build the richest domain and seize it from their rivals. It'll take a whole kingdom's worth of people to accomplish this monumental task. Rally your citizens grow your power and reign supreme in Majesty: For the Realm a game of strategically selecting who you want to work your lands set during the Middle Ages. Each game you recruit characters to perform jobs that generate gold for your kingdom. Some characters work better with others opening many paths to victory. Whether you choose to be a silver-tongued monarch who rules with mercy or an iron-fisted tyrant who crushes their rivals the fate of the land rests with you.From the humble Miller to the elegant Noble all of your loyal subjects will play a decisive role in your new kingdom. Some might grow the food needed to feed your many subjects while others lead attacks on other kingdoms and weaken your rivals. They all help generate gold in their own way but your decisions will determine how well they work together. It is up to you to find the combination that helps your kingdom rise while stymying your opponents' efforts. Raise your banners fill your coffers and stake your claim for the realm!

In Two Rooms and a Boom – a social deduction/hidden role party game for six or more players – there are two teams: the Red Team and the Blue Team. The Blue Team has a President. The Red Team has a Bomber. Players are equally distributed between two rooms (i.e. separate playing areas). The game consists of five timed rounds. At the end of each round some players will be swapped into opposing rooms. If the Red Team's Bomber is in the same room as the President at the end of the game then the Red Team wins; otherwise the Blue Team wins. Lying encouraged.

Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game is based on the first two movies of the Predator series. Taking on the roles of characters from the films players take turns recruiting cards for their deck from a central selection in order to improve their deck and defeat Predator cards that are added to the central game board.In more detail within the setting for each film you can play as the humans or as the Predators. As the humans you play the co-op version of the game as in Legendary Encounters: Alien recruiting scanning and attacking the same way while trying to achieve objectives. When you play as the Predators the game is player vs. player instead of co-op with each player assuming the role of a Predator hunting for the most honor (VPs).Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game is a standalone game in the Legendary Encounters series that is fully compatible with Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game. Specifically you can use the Predator deck in Alien or the Alien deck in Predator. Similarly Predator is also compatible with the Marvel superheroes version of Legendary but cannot be fully integrated.

Round up your gang and get ready to pull off a series of bank heists using the power of poker!In The Gang a co-operative version of Texas Hold'em players bet on how good they think their hand of cards will be relative to the other players then try to make their predictions a reality.Early in a round without talking to each other each player chooses a chip indicating how good they think their hand is. Then they begin dealing cards into the middle of the table and have a chance to reassess their hands as more cards are revealed. At the end of the round players see whether they correctly evaluated their hand. If all players did you get to open one of the bank vaults! If not you trip the alarm! If you manage to open three vaults before you trip the alarm three times your gang wins!—description from the publisher

Spain 1936: General Franco and his troops advance through the territories of Spain giving way to a long period of civil war and repression. After the Spanish Civil War a group of loyalists to the Republic continued the armed struggle forming resistance groups better known as Maquis. Hidden in the mountains these men and women risked their lives to defend the ideals of democracy and freedom.Fighting against them were the Army of Franco the Civil Guard and the Armed Police but the Maquis perfected their guerilla warfare in France during the second World War and were determined to take back their homeland. In the head of each Maquis resonated the echo of the desire of many compatriots: Resist!Resist! is a fast-playing card-driven solitaire game in which you take on the role of the Spanish Maquis fighting against the Francoist regime. Over a series of rounds you undertake increasingly difficult missions and completing missions earns you the points needed to win. Failing to defeat missions and enemies may cause you to lose. At the end of each round you must choose whether to end the resistance or risk it and take on another mission.At the beginning of the game you assemble a team of twelve Maquis which are represented by a deck of cards. At the heart of the game is the tension between keeping your Maquis concealed from Franco or revealing them to unlock their full potential. Unfortunately revealed Maquis are removed from your deck and you likely won't be able to use them for the rest of the game. While Resist! does have some minor deck-building elements it is primarily a deck-destruction game in which you have to manage your deck balancing the decision of defeating the immediate threat with trying to move on to the next mission.

The Kingdom is in grave danger. Powerful enemies are conspiring to resurrect the vile and powerful Unhallowed that your party has just slain. Now you the mighty adventurers of the land must visit these summoning locations and defeat the hordes of creatures behind this evil plot. It falls to four mighty adventurers each of whom has a unique set of skills to band together once more to vanquish this evil before the Unhallowed consume the world in darkness.In Set a Watch a cooperative game for 1-4 players you must clear out nine locations to stop the acolytes from breaking the seals holding back the evil Unhallowed. Every round you will visit a new location and pick an adventurer to rest and take camp actions. The rest of the party will take watch and battle a line of monsters trying to make their way into camp using your dice and unique character abilities. Manipulating the creature line is essential to solving each round’s combat puzzle. It is a battle to stay alive and keep the campfire burning! Use your wits and skill to fight for the light…or all will perish in the darkness.

From the team that brought you the smash hit Point Salad Point City is a card-drafting engine-building game with more than 150 unique building cards giving you the opportunity to create a completely different city each time you play!The rules are simple: Take two adjacent cards from the dynamic city grid and add them to your expanding city. Use your resource cards and bonuses to construct building cards that require specific combinations. Build special civic structures to multiply your city's points and be the top urban planner!Point City takes the same simple concept of drafting cards and building the best combinations then adds new layers of resource management and engine building to the mix — making the game easy to learn but challenging for everyone!—description from designer

With the invention of Jump Drive the race for the galaxy begins! Develop new technologies and settle worlds to build a space empire. Find winning card combinations!Jump Drive is a fast-paced card game that introduces players to the Race for the Galaxy universe. Can you build the most prosperous galactic civilization?Jump Drive is a standalone game and offers simpler rules and a shorter game than its older sister Race for the Galaxy.—description from the publisher

Mint Works is a light and straightforward worker placement game. Its compact size makes it easy to put in your pocket and take it anywhere. Its simple rules make it easy to introduce new players to the genre of worker placement.During the game each player will have a limited amount of Mint Tokens which represent their workers. Players will use these mint tokens to earn more tokens take first player or buy and build plans. Plans are how players earn points. Some plans will give only points others will give extra powers to the owner.Once any player has at least 7 points earned (or if there are not enough plans to refill the stock) the end of the game is triggered. The game will then be over at the end of the current round.Whoever has the most points provided by plans they have built wins!

When you die you can take it with you!Take on the role of Egyptian nobles at the time of the pharaohs preparing for death and burial in the Valley of the Kings. Players want to fill their tombs with food canopic jars statues amulets and other treasures and to do so they acquire cards that are laid out in the shape of a pyramid; purchase cards at the base of the pyramid and it crumbles to bring cards higher in the pyramid to the base where they can be bought. The pyramid resets each round with new offerings.You score only for cards that you remove from your deck and stash in your tomb so if you keep using valuable cards for their effects and don't entomb them before the game ends you could lose out on big points! Whoever collects the most valuable artifacts in her tomb wins.

Fields of Green takes place in the second half of the 20th century. Players take the role of farm owners trying to expand their property and business. By adding fields livestock and facilities they build an economic engine that will bring them closer to victory.Fields of Green inspired by Among the Stars is played over four rounds (years) during which players draft cards and add them to their ever-expanding farms. At the end of each year comes the harvest season when they must water their fields feed their livestock and pay maintenance costs in order to receive valuable resources that will allow them to further expand in the next year.Through various means player eventually convert their wealth to victory points and the player who gathers the most by the end of the fourth year wins.

Ascension: Return of the Fallen is the newest set for the popular deck-building game Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. The 65-card Ascension: Return of the Fallen is playable as a 2 player stand-alone game or can be combined with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game for an expanded game with up to six players. With its 65 all-new cards for the Center Deck the Return of the Fallen provides players with the ability to face the God Samael in a final battle to determine the fate of Vigil. It also includes a new Fate mechanic that can change the game with a single flip of a card.Ascension: Deckbuilding Game revolves around a Center Deck containing Heroes Constructs and Monsters. Players take turns recruiting Heroes or Constructs for their decks or defeating Monsters to earn honor and ultimate victory. Ascension: Deckbuilding Game joins other deck-building games including Dominion Thunderstone and Resident Evil and Fantasy Flights Living Card Games (Call of Cthuhlu Warhammer Invasion and Game of Thrones) as a new category of games that continue to increase in popularity. These games combine complexity of combat-focused card game experience with the benefit of not having to chase powerful randomly distributed blindly-packaged cards.

In Warhammer 40,000: Conquest a two-player Living Card Game you take the part of a warlord leading your armies into battle against your opponent in a bid to claim glorious victory. Even as you lead your bravest warriors into battle you must plan for the future establishing a presence on planets before the tides of war consume them in blood and fire. You must conquer the Traxis sector by strength of arms for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.Warhammer 40,000: Conquest introduces seven distinct factions: Space Marines Astra Militarum Orks Chaos Dark Eldar Eldar and Tau. Each of these factions possesses a unique flavor and style of play and an alignment wheel introduces the possibility of forming an alliance between two factions.At the start of play the Traxis sector lies open before you with planets awaiting the tramp of armies on the road to war. Each round begins with you and your opponent preparing for battle. Planet cards are arranged in a row between the players at the beginning of the game and the planet farthest to the left of the starting player is the first planet. Each round you or your opponent will clash at the first planet and the victor will capture the first planet.Capturing planets is your ultimate goal. Some planets possess essential materials necessary for the armies of the 41st millennium. Others offer strategic advantages to those who hold them while yet others are home to great technological wealth. Each of the planet cards possesses one or more symbols in the upper left hand corner designating that planet's assets. These symbols grant no abilities by themselves but the first player to collect three planets sharing a common symbol dominates the sector and wins the game.Your warlord grants powerful special abilities determines your starting resources and hand size and serves as a vital part of your army so you'll want to build your deck around your warlord to take full advantage of his strengths — and cover his weaknesses as defeating the opponent's warlord is another way to victory.

Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups. Unmatched: Houdini vs. The Genie adds two new heroes: Harry Houdini and The Genie of the Lamp.

Think only pirates time travelers vampires and bears can smash bases? Well get ready to be taught a lesson — in the nicest way possible!Pretty Pretty Smash Up brings the sweetest factions ever to the vicious fight for victory! Kitty Cats use their incredible cuteness to take control of enemy minions. Princesses ply their royalty beauty and even their love to get their way. Fairies' fickle tricks give you options like never before while the herds of Mythic Horses work together for dominance. Get ready — your opponents will never know what hit them!Pretty Pretty Smash Up can be played on its own as a two-player game or combined with other Smash Up titles to allow for up to four players to compete at the same time.Integrates with:

Conspiracy: Abyss Universe is a card game set in the world of Abyss.The card deck in the game consists of cards in five colors with twelve of each color and cards numbered 0–6. Each player in the game drafts cards and builds a reverse pyramid starting with a row of five cards then placing four cards in a row below that then three under that etc.On a turn you can draw 1–3 cards from the deck choose one of those cards and add it to your current row then place any remaining cards grouped by color near the deck; alternatively you can pick up all the cards of a color next to the deck and add them to your current row.As soon as the cards in your rows show two matching keys or three different keys you take either the revealed location card or the top card of the location deck and place it on the lattermost card with a key. Location cards increase the value of a card and sometimes have special powers. Some cards feature pearls and when you have as many or more pearls as whoever has the pearl majority card you take this card from them.The game ends as soon as someone finishes their pyramid then all players score their points. For each color you score points equal to the largest valued card in your pyramid. Additionally for each color you look at the largest grouping of cards in your pyramid and you score 3 points for each of those cards. Whoever held the pearl majority card at game's end scores 5 points for it. Whoever has the highest score wins.

Mottainai (pronounced mot/tai/nai or like the English words mote-tie-nigh) means Don't waste or Every little thing has a soul. In the game Mottainai a successor in the Glory to Rome line you use your cards for many purposes. Each player is an acolyte in a temple who performs tasks collects materials and sells or completes works for visitors. Every card can be each of these three things.You choose tasks to allow you to perform actions keeping in mind that other players will get to follow up on your task on their next turn. Clever planning and combining of your works' special abilities is key as is managing which materials you sell.Mottainai is a quick but deep game experience.

The shufflebuilding game Smash Up begins with a simple premise: take the 20-card decks of two factions shuffle them into a deck of forty cards then compete to crush more Bases than your opponents! Each faction involves a different gaming mechanism - Pirates move their minions around Zombies bring back their cards from the discard pile Dinosaurs have enormous power - and each combination of factions brings a different gaming experience.During the game players compete to score points from Base cards. Players play minions to the bases and you want to have the highest total power of minions at the base when it breaks. Sounds easy? Is it easy when an opponent's Alien-Ninja plays minions to your bases that destroy your minions? What happens when the Pirate-Dinosaur player plays Full Sail and frees King Rex to trample your minions into the ground or when the Wizard-Zombies player uses their mystic power to create an outbreak suddenly flooding minions to the base from their discard pile? Or if you were facing a Zombie-Dinosaur player instead who created an epidemic of massive beasts?!?With eight different factions Smash Up includes dozens of combinations to try. Pirate-Aliens play different from Ninja-Aliens for example. Which one will you use to crush your opponents?And did we mention the Dinosaurs have laser beams?

Hardback is a deck-building word game a prequel to Paperback. As an aspiring 19th-century novelist you work to pen your next masterpiece earning prestige along the way. Specialize your deck in certain genres to exploit card combinations and press your luck to draw extra cards — but make sure you can still string a word together!Players build a deck of letters with various powers and race to 60 fame points to win. Some of the features:In addition to the competitive race mode for 2-5 players the base game includes several variant rules including Literary Awards Adverts Player Powers and Events; and a co-op mode for 1-4 players in which players join forces against one of four simulated opponents each of which is proficient in a different deck genre.

So far your first year at the Elementary College has been slightly disappointing. They taught you to light a flickering flame at the tip of your finger but other than that you've spent much more time reading books than learning powerful spells as future great wizards like you should.So when you heard about the Big Book of Madness hidden in the great school library you couldn't help but to sneak in and peek in this intriguing tome in spite of your professors' warnings. When you slowly lift the cover of the terrible book dozens of dreadful creatures rush out threatening to destroy the world itself! This was your mistake and only you can fix it now! Learn from the library to fight back against the monsters and try not to sink into insanity...The Big Book of Madness is a challenging co-operative game in which the players are magic students who must act as a team to turn all the pages of the book then shut it by defeating the terrible monsters they've just freed.Each player has their own element deck that they build during the game and use for several purposes such as learning or casting a spell adding a new element to their deck destroy or healing a curse. Spells allow you to support your playmates improve your deck draw cards etc. — but the monsters from the book fight back. Each comes with terrible curses that are triggered every turn unless you dispel them in time. They will make you discard elements add madness cards to your deck or lose spells...If you manage to turn six pages and defeat all of the monsters you win the game!

What would your house look like? Would you rather have a huge bedroom with an elegant canopy bed or a spacious living room with a grand piano? You are going to play a part of designers who will plan a house and add more and more rooms to it.Dream Home is a family game about building and furnishing your new house. Over twelve rounds players collect pairs of cards consisting of a room card and an accessory card (roof helper furnishing or tool) and place them on their personal boards creating their dream homes.At the end of the game all players’ houses are finished and fully furnished. Players compare their houses counting points for functionality good design quality of roof and furnishing. The player with the nicest and most comfortable house wins.

The Hare & the Tortoise originally published as Royal Turtle is a card-driven betting game about animal racing loosely based on one of Aesop's Fables.At the start of a race each player secretly bets on up to two of five animals: turtle rabbit lamb wolf and fox. One animal is chosen at random for each player then after receiving a hand of seven cards each player places one of his cards face-down (possibly the same animal) as an additional bet. Players then take turns laying down 1-4 cards with all cards needing to show the same animal then refilling the hand to five cards. As soon as eight total cards have been played or four cards of any one animal the animals move (maybe).Each animal has a distinct characteristic that players can use to their advantage. The turtle always moves one space but it moves two if four of its cards were played. The rabbit always moves two spaces as long as cards are played. — unless four cards are played and it's at the head of the pack in which case it sleeps and doesn't move. The fox moves as many spaces as the number of cards played. The lamb moves one more space than the number of cards played — but if it reaches water it stops moving to take a drink. The wolf moves 1 space if one to two cards are played and one less space than the number of cards if more are played. The wolf also has 3 cards with a howl if one of these is played no one but the wolf moves.(The track consists of eleven road cards two covered with water.)After the animals move players start a new round of card-playing. A round ends when three of the five animals reach the goal after which each player scores points based on the ranking of the animals and how they bet. After three rounds the player with the most points wins.The original title of Royal Turtle is a homage to Reiner Knizia's Royal Turf another betting game about animals racing (albeit horses in that game).

Welcome to The Prodigals Club! You and your fellows are proper Victorian gentlemen who have realized that the lower classes have more fun. Now you are in a friendly competition to see which of you can destroy his own social standing most thoroughly.In The Prodigals Club you compete in three separate competitions: trying to lose an election trying to get rid of all your possessions or trying to offend the most influential people in high society. You can play any two competitions in combination or play all three simultaneously. Each competition interacts with the other two. To win you need to balance your strategy and play all the competitions well.The Prodigals Club is thematically related to Vladimír Suchý's Last Will. You do not need Last Will to play as Prodigals stands alone; that said the rulebook also explains how to combine the two games together should you desire to do so.

As in its parent game Kakerlakenpoker Kakerlakenpoker Royal has nothing to do with poker – except that the game is all about bluffing but with cards showing cockroaches rats and stink bugs instead of queens 10s and aces. To set up the game shuffle the deck and deal the cards out to players. On a turn a player takes one card from his hand lays it face down on the table slides it to a player of his choice and declares a type of critter e.g. Stink bug. The player receiving the card either:The game ends when a player has no cards to pass on his turn or when a player has four cards of the same critter on the table in front of him. In either case this player loses and everyone else wins.To this Kakerlakenpoker Royal adds new rules and new nasty royal critters to create more options for players during the game.

In Marvel: Remix players build a team of heroes and allies to take on infamous villains. They are dealt a hand of seven cards that will contain characters items or locations from throughout the Marvel Universe. Then players go about can arming their characters with powerful equipment or maneuvers and use their cards to pull off epic combos. The player that has the most points at the end of the game wins.The game box comes with 61 Remix cards 18 Villain cards a score pad and a rulebook. This game is for two to six players ages 12 and up and plays in 20 minutes.

Smash Up: Monster Smash consists of four new factions for Smash Up: vampires mad scientists werewolves and giant ants. Tremble before the power of the ants!Smash Up: Monster Smash can be played on its own as a two-player game or combined with other Smash Up titles to allow for up to four players to compete at the same time.

The Forever Sea is calling...The rugged coast north of Everdell Valley is a land brimming with adventure and mystery. Stalwart sailors search for bountiful islands and valuable treasures. Dutiful monks inhabit abbeys and scriptoriums meticulously translating and illuminating. Hard-working folk gather resources and build their cities in unison with the ever-changing waves of the mighty ocean.Welcome to Everdell Farshore a standalone game set in the country of Farshore. Through each season you lead a crew of critter workers to build up a prosperous city and to explore the enchanting ocean beyond. You must plan your actions carefully in order to build and to sail for only by adapting to the winds of change will you succeed.The wind is high. The sun is breaking the horizon. It is time to set sail for adventure!—description from the publisher

YOUR GARDEN AWAITS Spend the afternoon in your Floriferous garden. Relax while enjoying this elegant game of strolling through your garden and collecting flowers. Find joy in the abundance of nature. Find the most joy by collecting flowers and pairing them with abundance desire and mastery cards.Floriferous is played over three days which are divided into five turns. Each turn a player moves one step through the garden. After each move the player picks up a flower or desire card. After three days players sum their scores for their desires mastery and points earned during the game. The player with the most points wins.-description from designer

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.

It's Evenfall and the Clans of Magic are preparing for a new era. Evenfall is the time when the boundaries of reality collapse and the supernatural awakens. The World-Tree opens its glowing gateways to unknown distant regions. Send Witches from your clan to discover and control new Places of Power. Use them for arcane rituals and battle for the favor of the Powerstones. But there is only one seat on the Enchanted Throne! Do you have the skills to lead the world into a new era?Evenfall is a card-driven engine-building game with both novel and familiar mechanisms for 1 to 4 players. Manage your resources execute your actions in an efficient order and discover card and action synergies that generate victory points. The game ends after three rounds then the player with the most points wins.—description from the publisher

Thunderstone: Dragonspire is a fantasy deck-building game much in the style of Dominion. Before the game starts a selection of Village and Hero cards will be randomly chosen that players may add to their specific decks. Like Dominion every player starts with a basic deck of weaker cards that they can use to purchase other more powerful cards. In Thunderstone these cards may be different Heroes such as mages archers thieves or warriors; or they may be supplies the heroes need like weapons rations or light to reach further into the dungeon.A dungeon deck is also created by combining several different groups of monsters together. Certain groups of monsters may be more or less susceptible to different Hero types so players must take this into account when they choose what to buy.Rather than buying puny Victory Points players will use their deck to defeat monsters in the dungeon. From the monster deck a row of cards is laid out. On their turn players may choose to visit either the dungeon or the village. Plays can purchase other cards for their deck or level up their heroes in the village. If they instead go to the dungeon they play their heroes weapons items and spells to defeat any one of the available monsters. The deeper the monster is in the dungeon the more light is needed or the monster will gain power. Some monsters also have special abilities which may hinder the player. If they have enough strength they defeat the monster and place that card in their deck. This card is worth victory points and often can be used as money to purchase other cards. In addition to this players are awarded experience points for defeating monsters which can be used to upgrade their heroes into more powerful versions. The game is played until the Thunderstone is revealed from the dungeon and a player is able to claim it. The player with the most victory points in their deck is the winner.From the publisher:Thunderstone returns with Dragonspire! Featuring all-new art for every card (even Militia and Daggers) experience point tokens (not cards!) and the all new Setting cards which alter the game on a global scale. Dragonspire includes 18 new village cards 11 new heroes and 8 new monster sets.With enough cards to play the game right out of the box this is a great Thunderstone edition for those just getting into the game.Dragonspire also has a new storage box format plastic XP tokens and a brand new Dungeon board to help players keep up with light and darkness.Thunderstone: Dragonspire is not a an expansion but is instead a separate stand-alone game that may be played along with components of Thunderstone.NOTE: The Dragon-Humanoid divider included with the game is meant for a future expansion as a promo.

Aeon’s End: Outcasts continues the Expedition system that was introduced in Aeon’s End: New Age which allows players to replay all of the content they own in a short campaign format. After each game players will receive new treasures and player cards that allow them to become more powerful. However the nemeses that players will face grow stronger and stronger with each battle.—description from the publisher

You've finally reached the Temple of Secrets with its immense treasure of gold — but what awaits you here? Fabulous wealth or total destruction? The proud and mysterious temple guards who are hiding amongst the adventurers are trying to lure them onto the wrong track in order to protect their gold. Skillfully and with a deceitful tongue they try to convince you to open the grave chambers behind which lies a dangerous fire trap. Can you trust anyone in the group when you don't know whether they're friend or foe?Tempel des Schreckens is a quick-playing bluffing game that reimplements the gameplay of TimeBomb in a new setting and for a larger group of players.

Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!Unlock!: Mythic Adventures contains three scenarios revolving around these themes.• In the Clutches of Hades - You are Alix a slave in Greece during antiquity. Gaining your freedom will not be an easy task unless you ask the Gods for help.• Professor Noside's Animal-O-Matic - The Animal-O-Matic transfers you into the body of any animal. It's not dangerous I'm telling you! Will you stop moving James!• Around the World in 80 Minutes - I made the bet with these gentlemen from the Reform Club that we will travel around the world in 80 days. Passepartout! Hurry! The world awaits Phileas Fogg's masterstroke!—description from the publisher

Sentinels of the Multiverse is back and better than ever! With all-new art notably streamlined mechanics and new stories to experience this is the award-winning cooperative comic-book card game you’ve been waiting for!Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative game in which each player controls a Hero using their powers abilities and wits to work together with their fellow Heroes and save the world!Each game involves three to five Heroes fighting against one Villain in a perilous Environment. The game is fully cooperative so the Villain and Environment aren’t run by a dedicated player but rather are controlled by turning over cards from their decks and following the instructions on those cards.Each Hero Villain and Environment are represented by a deck of cards. Heroes and Villains also have character cards which provide their Hit Points and other information specific to that character.The game starts with the Villain turn then each of the Heroes in turn order clockwise around the table. The round ends with the Environment turn. After the Environment turn repeat the round starting with the Villain turn! The game continues in this order until the Heroes save the Multiverse or the Villain defeats the meddling Heroes one way or another.—description from the publisherContents: Heroes: Legacy Tachyon Wraith Bunker Absolute Zero Unity Argent Adept Fanatic Captain Cosmic Haka Tempest Ra Villains: Baron Blade Omnitron Grand Warlord Voss Citizen Dawn Matriarch Akash'Buta Environments: Megalopolis Ruins of Atlantis Wagner Mars Base Insula Primalis Magmaria Freedom Tower

Will the Merchants get their goods past the Sheriff?The bustling market in Nottingham is filled with goods from all over the kingdom. Most of it is entirely legal however Prince John is looking to make sure no contraband gets sold. He’s tasked the Sheriff to inspect Merchant’s wares looking for any illicit goods. The Sheriff’s shrewd but not above taking a bribe to look the other way. Which Merchant will end up getting the best goods through and make the largest profits in the market stalls?In Sheriff of Nottingham 2nd Edition players take turns playing the Sheriff looking for contraband goods and the Merchants trying to stock their Stall with the best goods. The Sheriff can inspect any bag they want but they must be careful as they’ll have to pay a penalty if they find the Merchants were telling the truth. This new edition includes updated rules as well as expansions such as the 6th Merchant Black Market and Sheriff’s Deputies.The game box contains 110 Gold Coins 216 Goods cards 6 Deputy cards 6 Black Market cards 2 Deputy standees 6 Merchant stands 6 Merchant bags a Sheriff standee a Booty tile and a rulebook

Each player in Circle the Wagons is fixin' to build up their own boomtown but only one'll build the best in the West!Blaze a trail by draftin' cards 'round the circle and placin' 'em in yer town tryin' to connect matchin' territories to score prosperity points! But don't forget about them three bonus cards in the center of the circle that can score ya even more points — that is if ya play yer cards right. With over 800 unique ways to score and millions of draftin' and placin' combos you'll never build the same town twice!Circle the Wagons is a 2-player map-building game designed by Steven Aramini (Yardmaster) Danny Devine (Ghosts Love Candy) and Paul Kluka; featuring the art of Beth Sobel (Herbaceous World's Fair 1893 and Lanterns) and logo design of Bryan Fischer (Chicken Caesar). Circle the Wagons is the winner of the 2016 Button Shy Wallet Design Contest beating out over 70 other games.

Diamonds is a trick-taking card game in which players collect Diamonds — not cards bearing that suit mind you but rather actual Diamond Crystals (acrylic crystals) included in the game.What makes the game of Diamonds different from other trick-taking card games is that when you cannot follow suit you get a Suit Action based on what suit you do play. Suit Actions are also taken by the winner of each trick as well as at the end of a full Round of play.Suit Actions will enable players to take Diamond Crystals from the Supply moving them to their Showroom (where they may score 1 point) or to their Vault (where they will score 2 points). The Vault is a secure area but the Showroom is vulnerable to theft by the other players.The player who won the trick leads a card to start the next trick. After a full Round of ten tricks whoever has taken the most cards in each suit once again gets a Suit Action. If a player has taken no tricks that player gets two Diamonds Suit Actions. Players then start a new round.Whoever has the most points in Diamond Crystals at the end of the game wins!

Maximum Apocalypse is a cooperative roguelike adventure game for 1-6 players. In Maximum Apocalypse civilization has already fallen. The players are survivors of the apocalypse whose mission is to survive the hostile landscape.The game map is randomly generated and different every time that you play. On each turn a player can use up to four actions to explore the map play cards equip weapons scavenge for resources draw cards or battle off monsters.Picking a unique survivor class within the group players must plan their strategy and work together while leaning on their survivor’s strengths in order to defeat monsters and avoid starvation. For example the Fireman is deadly up close with his ax and can easily chop down monsters; meanwhile the stealthy Hunter is great at scouting the map and avoiding traps — but roaming monsters are gathering quickly and time is running out. If you are overwhelmed by monsters or die of starvation the players lose. If they can find enough gas and get it back to their van to escape they all win and live to play another scenario.See also Maximum Apocalypse: The Roleplaying Game Quickstart Guide

Cooperation is key in Cahoots! Play cards to one of four piles by matching color or number. Work together as a team to complete a series of goals — without communicating what's in your hand. Can you make all piles purple or green? Every card lower than four? All cards add up to ten? There's only one way to win before time runs out: Play in cahoots!Note that the original Cahoots has a player count of 2-4 while Tippi Toppi (Schmidt Spiele's licensed version of the game) has a player count of 1-4. Notes a Schmidt editor: It is works quite well as a solo game too.Not to be confused with the other Cahoots game released in 2018.

BattleCON is a fast-paced head to head card game for 2 players based loosely around the mechanics and tactics present in 2D fighting games. In BattleCON players choose characters with unique abilities and powers to test against one another in a battle of tactics strategy and intuition.BattleCON: War of Indines is a standalone dueling card game designed for head-to-head play. Each player selects a character who uses a unique gameplay mechanism to give them an edge in combat. Take control of 18 different characters from a fire elemental an ocean guardian and her panda familiar a space-bending trapper a shadowy assassin and more! Each character's play style requires new strategies but uses the same foundational tactics making a new character easy to learn but challenging to master.Players move along a seven-space-long board trading blows and attempting to strike the opponent using attacks formed by combining a character's unique styles and abilities with a set of basic cards that all characters share. There is no hidden information: you always know exactly what cards the opponent holds just not the ones they'll choose! The last player standing wins!BattleCON: War of Indines can be played on its own or combined with other BattleCON sets to create an even greater pool of characters and play variants.______________________________________________________________________________BattleCON: War of Indines has two versions now dubbed Classic and Remastered. The Classic version contained multiple art styles as different fighters were drawn by different artists. This version contains multiple errors and outdated cards and is now permanently out of print.The new Remastered version features the same 18 fighters but updated to match the uniform art style of Devastation of Indines. It also includes balance changes to a few fighters new double-sided finishers updated art and components and a streamlined version of the rulebook that focuses on standard 2-player duels. The variants included with Classic that were removed in Remastered are still present in the Devastation rulebook and other expansions.

Strap up your piratical boots and navigate your ship through turbulent waters in Sail a co-operative trick-taking game for two players. Reach the end of this dangerous deep end and avoid taking damage from the Kraken to win the game together...or your crew will be sleeping with the fish!Before each round begins players exchange cards then play a series of tricks. Different game actions will be triggered depending on who wins each trick in combination with the unique character skills. However the crashing sea water and the roaring Kraken make for a deafening situation and players are unable to communicate about tactics and card information from the moment cards are dealt to the end of the action phase.Players win the game as a team if they sail their ship into the final token before the Kraken reaches the Death tile or the Kraken deck is exhausted.—description from the publisher

The lair of Jabba the Hutt is a place of danger and deception. Players compete using members of the Rebel Alliance and denizens of Jabba’s Palace in a game of rebel bravery and vile deceit.Based on the beloved card game and set in the Star Wars galaxy Star Wars: Jabba’s Palace - A Love Letter Game retains the simple and fun mechanics of the original as you utilize the talents of iconic characters from Return of the Jedi. Players take turns using the elegant “draw a card play a card” gameplay and then executing the card’s effect. Cards include characters like Luke Skywalker Boba Fett Salacious Crumb Jabba the Hutt and many more with each card offering different effects such as Boba Fett allowing you to take a card from another player or Salacious Crumb allowing you to look at another player’s hand.Players use abilities from members of both the Rebel Alliance and Jabba’s crew to outwit and outlast the others. On top of the classic mechanics from the original Love Letter game Star Wars: Jabba’s Palace - A Love Letter Game also introduces Agenda cards. This offers new win conditions adding another level of strategy to the game.Agenda cards like Exalted One awards the player with the highest number in hand the win. However cards like Jabba’s Court and Rescue Mission switch it up and award the victory to the player with the most Palace or Rebels cards respectively in the play area. These and other Agenda cards ensure varied strategies will be needed with every game beyond simply eliminating other players.In a quick card game of rebel bravery and vile deceit can you carry out your agenda while outthinking your foes?-description from publisher's website

Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc.In the cartoon-style adventure Unlock! Squeek & Sausage you need to stop the mad Professor Noside from destroying the world. In your attempt to thwart his plot the evil genius has caught you in a trap and you can't stop him until you've found a way out. Can you escape and foil his plot before the clock hits zero?An included ten-card tutorial allows you to learn how to play without reading the game rules. Note: Unlock! requires a free application to be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. Once downloaded an internet connection is not required during game play.

The shadows of the Sixth World have every kind of danger you can imagine: ultra-violent gangers flesh-eating ghouls mages that summon spirits from toxic waste backstabbing corporate raiders hard-nosed police officers and even dragons. You don't have much — mainly your guts your wits and your friends — but maybe that's enough. Between you and your teammates you can sling spells hack the Matrix talk a tiger out of his stripes and bring down a charging ork from a hundred yards away. Will that be enough to face down the worst the mean streets can throw at you? You're about to find out.Shadowrun: Crossfire is a cooperative deck-building card game for two to four players set in the gritty cyberpunk fantasy world of Shadowrun. Play a shadowrunner team and take on tough jobs such as protecting a client who's marked for death shooting your way out of downtown when a run goes sour or facing down a dragon. In each game you'll improve your deck with a mix of strategies while earning Karma to give your character cyber upgrades physical augmentations magical initiations weapons training and Edge.Shadowrun: Crossfire includes two obstacle decks a black market deck a crossfire event deck mission sheets role cards runner cards and upgrade stickers.

The King is dead! What happened? Nobody really knows but he was found face down in a wine barrel this morning. It could have been either foul play or his own thirst that did him in. Regardless the King is dead without any known heirs so it's up to the five factions of the realm to decide who will be the new king: Will it be you or your opponent? Do you have what it takes to win over the realm's factions?Claim is played in two distinct phases. In phase one each player gets a hand of cards that they use to recruit followers. In phase two they use the followers from phase one to compete and win over the five factions of the realms. Each faction has a special power that affects play and powers can be different in each phase! At the end of the game the player who has the majority of followers of a faction wins that faction's vote and whoever wins the vote of at least three factions wins the game!

This new re-themed version of Battle Line is a two-player strategy card game built around the theme of Medieval warfare. This re-themed version of Battle Line features 60 beautiful new cards by illustrator Roland MacDonald as well as 10 full-color tactics wildcards that give players extra flexibility and choices and help make each new battle wildly different from the last.Battle Line takes about 30 minutes to play. To win you must create powerful formations along your side of the line of battle that are superior to those of your enemy. Victory goes to the player who wins 5 of the 9 battle flags (an envelopment) or three adjacent flags (a breakthrough). Based on Reiner Knizia's original design published in Germany as Shotten-Totten Battle Line enhances and expands that game system to give players even more tactical options and gut-wrenching decisions.Battle Line places you in command of your army's strategies. How will you muster your formations? Will you use your powerful KingsGuard to vanquish your enemy or perhaps send the King of England or France to the front to win a critical flag? Or perhaps youll rely on your spies to determine the enemys strengths and weaknesses before committing your best forces. You'll always have plenty of choices. With every card play you'll determine the strength and direction of your attack while plotting to fend off your enemy's advances.In Battle Line you and your opponent lead the combined arms of the greatest units of the era. Will you like the great Kings of yore reign supreme? Play Battle Line and find out.-description from publisher's website

Honshu is a map-building card game set in feudal Japan. Players are lords and ladies of noble houses seeking new lands and opportunities for fame and fortune.One game of Honshu lasts twelve rounds and each round is divided into two phases. First map cards are played in a trick and the player who played the highest valued card gets to pick first from those cards played. Then the players use the map cards picked to expand their personal maps. Each player must expand their personal maps to maximize their scoring possibilities.Manipulating your position in the player order is crucial for mastering Honshu.

Similo is a co-operative deduction game and each version of the game — e.g. Fables History Myths — comes with a deck of thirty cards beautifully illustrated by Naïade showing the portrait and the name of a series of characters with a common theme.Your goal is to make the other players guess one secret character (out of the twelve characters on display in the middle of the table) by playing other character cards from your hand as clues stating whether they are similar to or different from the secret character. After each turn the other players must remove one or more characters from the table until only the right one remains and you win — or it is removed and you lose!You can play with one of the Similo sets on its own using the cards from say Fables both for the characters being laid out and for the clues being given to the guessers or you can use the cards from one set for the twelve characters on display and the cards from another set as the clues. The game is far trickier this way!

Every morning Odin sends his ravens Huginn and Muninn across the entire world to bring back news of what life is like on Earth. Naturally after thousands of years they've gotten a little competitive. Race through the landscape in opposite directions to be the first to return to Odin. Focus on speed or enlist the help of the trickster god Loki to create shortcuts and hinder your opponent. Can you be certain Loki's changes won't help your opponent instead? There's only one way to find out!The revised second edition of Thorsten Gimmler's award-winning Odin's Ravens has been completely redesigned with new rules and a beautiful new art style inspired by Norse mythology.FAQ Only the rotate action on the Loki cards can be used on a loop card or a card which has been slid partially out of the path.

Black Rose Wars: Rebirth is a highly competitive fantasy game of combat strategy and deck-building set in ancient Italy. Black Rose Wars: Rebirth is the second chapter in the Black Rose Wars series. Even though 25 years have passed after the Lodge was destroyed Mages have not forgotten the Old Ways. The Black Rose calls to them. They return to the Lodge to repair and rebuild the glory of the Black Rose who still imbues every inch of the place to hold their tournament to name the Crown Holder of the lodge for the following century. The Black Rose demands a champion.Every player represents a Mage in this struggle to prove themselves as the true beholder of the Black Rose's power. The mages will program spells to their board and execute them in turn order. Those spells may disable other mages spells arm traps arm powerful defensive moves deal damage or summon otherworldly beasts. The battle is played out on a hexagonal arena that requires tactics and planning to ensure each mage can pull off the perfect move. When a mage finally succumbs to their wounds they will die and return to their room. This disrupts position and planning but no mage is ever out of the fight!Black Rose Wars: Rebirth plays well with 1-4 players and is best played with lots of players for even more interaction. The expansions add a very large amount of options for replayability as well. This game is a stand alone game as well as an expansion for the original Black Rose Wars game.

From clucking chickens to rumbling tractors the sounds of a bustling farm are everywhere. It's up to your team of planners to turn this little farm into a flourishing ranching community!Having developed dream cities in Sprawlopolis it's now time to set your sights on the rolling countryside where farm ranches and roads intermingle master plan as ever seems just out of reach.Agropolis is a stand-alone expansion to Sprawlopolis bringing the same card-laying variable-scoring gameplay into a new setting: city blocks give way to orchards wheat fields livestock pens and vineyards. As before players draw three goal cards and then attempt to place cards one at a time to create a rural tableau that best satisfies those goals. New gameplay features help offset overly-powerful scoring combos and layer additional attributes onto certain types of terrain providing even greater depth of gameplay without sacrificing the original's signature elegance.Agropolis can be played entirely on its own but it can also combined with Sprawlopolis using special rules and goal cards provided in the Combopolis mini-expansion.

In a post-apocalyptic world the tribes of the wind are going to rebuild the world on the polluted ruins from the past.Players will have to plant forests build new villages and temples and decontaminate surrounding areas.They will be able to play cards from their hand. But be careful! The effect or even the possibility of playing the card may vary depending on... the back of your surrounding opponents' cards.Players may also send their wind riders to explore the area plant forests or build villages and temples using all the gathered resources.As the game progresses you strive to complete objectives that will allow you to unlock your guide's special abilities and to improve your tribe's powers.When someone builds their 5th village the end of the game is triggered. The player with the most points depending on pollution villages temples layout of their forests and other various objectives wins!—description from the publisher

In Augustus you vie with your fellow players to complete objective cards for special powers and ultimately for victory points. Each card has 2-6 symbols which you must populate with legionnaire meeples in order to complete the card. These symbols are drawn one at a time from a bag with all players gaining the benefit equally but interestingly the bag contains more of some symbols than others.So the pivotal skill you'll deploy is in making your choice of which three objectives you'll start the game with (you're dealt six) — balancing potential difficulty of completion against value of the reward — and then which of five available objectives you'll add to your plate each time you complete one of your three. The game ends when someone completes seven objectives.

Description from the publisher:Welcome to the realm of Rokugan: a land of samurai and mystics mad dragons and divine beings — a land where honor is stronger than steel. Here the clans serve the Emperor and engage in courtly deceptions and power plays even as they wage war against each other and the evil forces that plague their realm. This is the world of Legend of the Five Rings!Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game is a Living Card Game set in the world of Rokugan the original setting for the Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game. To play a Living Card Game players create individual decks of cards from a base game with a fixed set of cards; they can then add supplemental card packs to this game world with each pack also having a fixed set of cards in order to vary their game experience.While the connection of Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game to Rokugan and the Colonies — as well as its pervasive themes of honor nobility magic intrigue duty and warfare — should carry over from the original L5R CCG Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game is not compatible with that original game and will feature significant changes in the game mechanisms.

Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs is a solo play game with an original campaign story written by Isaac Childres that features a playstyle similar to Gloomhaven in a fraction of the size.Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs is set after the events of Gloomhaven and Forgotten Circles. The Aesther recluse Hail has earned a reputation for being highly instrumental in saving the city from recurring disasters and she absolutely hates it. Wannabe heroes are constantly barging in on her studies at the Crooked Bone looking for help in becoming famous themselves — not to mention all the demons that come by looking for vengeance. She briefly considered moving but as that would require effort she instead just placed an enchantment on her front door: Anyone who attempts to open it becomes miniaturized and therefore is no longer a problem.Your character is one such wannabe hero. In an ill-advised attempt at fame they try to visit Hail and poof. Now they're the size of a mouse and have entered an entirely different realm of lawlessness and self-preservation. They must find a new way into the Crooked Bone to convince Hail to return them to their previous size.Each scenario is a single card pitting one mercenary against a handful of enemies with simplified actions and AI. Each mercenary has a hand of just four double-sided cards but they can be used twice — both the front and the back — before they are discarded. Attacks are resolved using a die in conjunction with a modifier table and both the table and the mercenary ability cards can be improved as you level up throughout the campaign.—description from the publisher

The Rifts changed our world. Villages were torn apart Riftforce emerged from it and spread across the land. What seemed lifeless before started to rise and wake. Flames left campfires and waves poured out of their riverbeds. Even the sun and moon leave their footprints in the ground.We learned how to control those living elementals and formed guilds to perfect this knowledge. While competing for Riftforce the guilds forged temporary alliances to share their unique abilities and guard the access to the Rifts.Now it is your time! Choose your guilds combine their powers and rush into battle. Gain Riftforce from the land you control and all the elementals you destroy until you have enough to ascend into a higher state of power.•••In Riftforce the two-player duel card game each player starts by drafting four of the ten different guilds each with a unique power to forge their own asymmetrical alliance. Every game of Riftforce gives you a chance to discover new synergies between guilds which will greatly influence your overall strategy and strengths. Can you combine the flexible and mobile water guild with the all-consuming fire elementals who even harm their allies and unleash their full potential?The guilds’ elementals are the lifeblood of the game - they are your troops and at the same time the resource necessary to attack. Soon you will find yourself wondering how to use them best. Each turn you are torn choosing one of three possible actions. Do you want to strengthen your position at the Rift sacrifice elementals for powerful combo attacks or gather support for your next turn?Gain Riftforce by destroying the elements of your opponent and by controlling locations along the Rift. Only then will you ascend and win the game.Discovering new synergies between the different guilds clever gameplay combos and the deeper layers of strategy will keep you coming back to enjoy the game again and again.

On this forgotten island in a tiny corner of the ocean the animals are hungry! Your goal is to influence the wildlife - and arrange their meals - so there is only one animal left!In this game you will take as many turns as possible with a goal of only having one land animal card left on the table after starting with a grid of 16. On each turn you must move one animal to eat another smaller adjacent animal. If you cannot move an animal to eat another the game ends.—description from the publisher

In battle there are no equals.Dinosaurs eat man… Woman inherits the earth. The greatest predator the world has ever known is closing in on the tenacious Dr. Sattler. Who has the slightest idea what to expect? In Unmatched: Jurassic Park – Dr. Sattler vs. T. Rex the massive T rex unleashes fearsome attacks and seems unstoppable while Dr. Sattler makes full use of her surroundings and the aid of Dr. Ian Malcolm and his chaos theory. Who will become extinct first?Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.—description from the publisher

Tussie mussies exemplified the Victorian custom of assigning meaning to the flowers that friends and lovers exchanged. Inspired by the ideals of elegance and discretion these bouquets were carefully made to convey subtle messages to their recipients. Now you can choose the right flowers to make a winning tussie mussie of your own!Tussie-Mussie is based on a Victorian fad that assigned meanings to the flowers that friends and lovers exchanged.Featuring I-Divide-You-Choose drafting this microgame of 18 cards is played over three rounds. In turn players look at the top two cards of the deck then offer them one face-up and one facedown to an opponent. That opponent takes one leaving the other for the active player.A round ends when each player has four cards at which point the scores are tallied. The highest score after three rounds wins!—description from the designerCo-winner of the GenCan't Design Contest. Released in the September 2019 Board Game of the Month Club $20+ package.

All Hands on Deck!There's adventure to be had on the high seas when a group of press-ganged pirates becomes embroiled in the plots and plunder of the Shackles—an infamous island chain dominated by pirate warlords. But as these new swashbucklers make names for themselves rival scalawags enemy navies legendary sea monsters and the infamous Hurricane King himself seek to see them walk the plank. Who will survive when there's loot on the line?Launch a campaign to control the Shackles with the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set. This complete cooperative strategy card game pits 1 to 4 heroes against the traps monsters deadly magic and despicable foes of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game’s award-winning Skull & Shackles Adventure Path. Choose your character’s class; build a deck of allies equipment and magic; and explore lethal locations as you journey through multiple scenarios in an exciting fantasy adventure. Characters grow stronger after each game adding unique gear and awesome magic to their decks and gaining incredible powers all of which they’ll need to challenge greater threats in a complete Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Adventure Path.The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set includes:The contents of Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Skull & Shackles Base Set is:1 rulebook 5 dice400 cards: 7 character cards 7 role cards 7 token cards 1 adventure path card 1 adventure card 5 scenario cards 28 location cards 5 villain cards 36 henchmen cards 34 monster cards 18 barrier cards 52 weapon cards 33 spell cards 22 armor cards 37 item cards 32 ally cards 68 blessing cards 6 ship cards 1 fleet cardUPC 726670261410 ISBN 9781601256478

Dead Man's Draw is a simple and strategic card game of risk and reward for 2 to 4 players. Players take turns drawing cards and combining their special abilities to plunder the most loot without busting their entire hands.The core of your turn in Dead Man’s Draw is all in the flip: pulling the top card off the deck and using its special ability. Your turn isn’t over until you say it is though. You can keep pulling cards as long as you like – until you play a card of a suit already seen at which point you lose everything. Knowing when to stop and bank your cards is the biggest decision you make in Dead Man’s Draw but being too timid lets braver opponents pass you up with bigger more profitable turns.The cards’ special abilities are key to success in Dead Man’s Draw and they build off of each other. Each suit in DMD has an effect that the player can target when they flip a card of that suit.Anchor – Keep everything you drew before the Anchor even if you bust.Cannon – Destroy one card an opponent has previously banked.Chest – Double your haul by banking as many cards directly from the discard pile as are in the river when you bank the Chest – but only if you also bank a Key.Hook – Play one of your previously banked cards.Key – Enables the Chest special.Kraken – Oh no! You’re forced to draw at least two more cards.Map – Draw three cards from the discard pile and play one.Mermaid – No ability but worth more points (Mermaids are numbered 4-9 instead of 2-7).Oracle – Look at the next card before deciding if you want to play it.Sword – Steal an opponent’s previously banked card and play it.Many of these work well together like using a Hook to re-play a Sword from your hand to steal an opponent’s Chest to go with your Key – racking up huge points by playing abilities well and not solely through the luck of the draw.As soon as the deck is depleted players total up the value of the highest card they’ve banked from each suit. High score wins.

A new Galaxy has just been discovered on the borders of the Empire! Commanding your Spaceship you go explore this new Eldorado full of treasures and mysteries. Planet after Planet your discoveries allow you to build up your Crew. Hire Specialists and Robots to benefit from their abilities. Attract Empire Emissaries on board which will entrust you with new missions worth Credits. Grab your part of the wonders that this new Galaxy is full of to become the wealthiest explorer !Wild Space is a tactical card game in which you aim at combining your cards efficiently. Each time that you add new cards to your collection you reinforce your Crew earning Credits and preparing your next combos. Wild Space carries all the excitement of the best combo card games within short plays and with accessible rules.How to play ? Wild Space carries all the excitement of combo card games with accessible rules. On each turn a fresh action selection system offers you two simple types of options : add a new card to your Crew or draw new cards. When you play a card you trigger its ability if the cards in your Crew fulfill its condition. Putting new cards into play is therefore useful for getting powerful abilities right now but also for gathering the conditions for triggering future abilities. Learning how to plan your actions is key for triggering efficient combos and being able to put several cards into play at once. And knowing that the Credits that you need to get at the end of the game in order to win are based on how your Crew is composed only emphasizes that.—description from the publisher

It's a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe. Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor It's a Wonderful World this new game offers more interaction a bluff mechanism and new challenges.The game is played using modules each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other. The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.Split & Trap Players take turns offering their cards to one another in two areas in the center of the table.One player picks 2 cards from their hand and either places them in the same area or splits them between the two areas. The other player chooses an area and claims the card(s) in it. The players take turns repeating this step until both players have offered all of their cards. Each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place cards face down otherwise all cards are played face up.Planification Each player chooses which of the cards they have collected to build and which ones to recycle for immediate resources.Sequential Production Each player produces their Kingdom's resources sequentially. Since resources are produced in a specific order it is important to plan ahead to optimize your production and development.At the end of the fourth round the player with the most victory points wins the game.—description from the publisher

In 6 nimmt! you want to score as few points as possible. To play you shuffle the 104 number cards lay out four cards face-up to start the four rows then deal ten cards to each player. Each turn players simultaneously choose and reveal a card from their hand then add the cards to the rows with cards being placed in ascending order based on their number; specifically each card is placed in the row that ends with the highest number that's below the card's number. When the sixth card is placed in a row the owner of that card claims the other five cards and the sixth card becomes the first card in a new row.In addition to a number from 1 to 104 each card has a point value. After finishing ten rounds players tally their score and see whether the game ends. i.e. whether someone has at least 66 points. When this happens the player with the fewest points wins!6 nimmt! works with 2-10 players and the dynamics of gameplay change the more players that you have. One variant for the game has you use 34 cards 44 cards 54 cards etc. (instead of all 104 cards) when you have three four five etc. number of players. This change allows you to know which cards are in play thereby allowing you to track which cards have been played and (theoretically) make better choices as to which card to play when.6 nimmt! 25 Jahre includes 28 additional cards to be used in a new variant. The game now lasts only two rounds and at the start of play each player receives three special cards. Just before you have to place your number card in a row you can choose to play one of your cards with these cards opening a fifth row moving a previously placed card to a different row inserting one card between two others allowing up to six cards in a row instead of five blocking a row replacing the card you played and more.After all number cards have been played players tally their scores keeping any unplayed special cards then shuffle the number cards and begin a new round. At the end of the second round whoever has the fewest points wins.

In the two-player co-operative trick-taking game The Fox in the Forest Duet players team up helping each other move through the forest. Collect all the gems before the end of three rounds of play and you win!To set up the game place gem tokens on the designated spaces of the game board and the team tracker token in the center of the movement path. At the start of each round shuffle the deck of thirty cards — which contains three suits each numbered 1-10 — and deal each player a hand of eleven cards. Reveal one card as the decree card to determine the trump suit. For each trick one player leads a card and the other must follow suit if possible. The winner of the trick moves the team tracker toward them a number of spaces equal to the number of fox footprints on the cards played. If the tracker lands on a space next to a gem the players collect one gem. If the tracker would move off the end of the path return the tracker to the center of the path then add a forest token to one end of the path reducing the number of spaces upon which you can move (with you sliding gems next to this covered space next to the new end of the path).The odd-numbered character cards have special abilities when played allowing the trick winner to move the tracker in the direction of their choice or to ignore the footprints on one of the played cards so that you can land on just the right spot. One character allows players to exchange one card with each other while another allows a player to change the decree card.At the end of a round you add five gems to designated spaces add a forest space to shorten the path then receive a new hand of eleven cards from a freshly shuffled deck. Collect all 22 gem tokens and you win. Run out of time or head off the end of the path with no forest spaces in reserve then you can just keep running in defeat or shuffle the cards and start the game anew.

The world has grown smaller. Civilizations around different continents have established independent free trade cities in order to ease trading between distant lands. One of those cities Yengzuh is now looking for a new ruler – a new Trade Master.The post is only open every ten years and the selection of the said individual is no small task. It’s handled by holding a trading competition as it’s in everyone’s best interest to get the best merchant chosen for the job.All the participating merchants are prestigious but the competition also tests their ability to deal with unexpected situations. After all the winner will be responsible of keeping the global prices more fair and stable for years to come.There are only twelve free trade cities in the world. Yengzuh near Pandala is one of the oldest. The Guild of Extraordinary Traders from Dale promoted the founding of the city after the trade wars in Asia had spread too wide. The city’s harbour has tens of great ships all the time loading and unloading passengers and cargo.In Dale of Merchants 2 players take the roles of those participating merchants learning new techniques trading goods and managing their stock. The player who first manages to complete their astounding merchant stall wins the game and gets access to the guild!Dale of Merchants 2 contains six new decks and can be played by itself or combined with the decks from Dale of Merchants. The game includes a new ruleset for four players that introduces team battle! These new rules greatly enhance the four-player experience by adding cooperation between teammates and cutting downtime. These rules can also be used with the original game's six decks.The new decks are: 1)Crocodiles disturb other players 2)Platypuses have more control over cards 3)Polecats have a die 4)Owls are moved to action by things that happen (mostly what other players do) 5)Fennec foxes affect all players 6) Sloths do things at the start of your next turn

The Royal Monstrological Society counts among its members the most renowned and respected experts in monster lore throughout the entire empire. Each year the Society permits only a single new member to join so applicants compete to prove their worth with the most magnificent menagerie of monstrous beasts they can find... and capture.To aid in these quests of discovery the Society grants every aspiring monstrologist a small stipend which they can use to hire additional experts and fund their journeys to the magical lands where the most exotic beasts reside.After four seasons of hunting would-be members present their collections at the organization’s annual banquet an event known as the Carnival of Monsters.Carnival of Monsters is a card-drafting game in which players try to collect sets of Land Cards so they can capture and display strange and exotic Monsters hire talented Staff to help run their enterprise and pursue their own Secret Goals. Points are awarded for displaying Monsters completing Goals and earning Gold Crowns (Crowns) over four “Seasons” of play.In the end the player with the most profitable and spectacular carnival is the winner!—description from the publisher

The Isofarian Guard is a solo/co-op narrative driven adventure board game for 1-2 players.Welcome to Isofar a wild land severe in its beauty. The Isofarian people take great pride in their ability to flourish among the hostile wildlife and cruel elements of their mountainous home. As a member of the Isofarian guard life is never dull. You try to keep the peace among your fellow Isofarians (a never-ending job) as well as deal with constant threats from the aggressive Falmund Empire to the south.But now the old patterns are shifting. New forces are at work that will challenge the very underpinnings of reality. You will guide eight different Isofarian Guards throughout 5 interweaving campaigns as they deal with a power that threatens not only Isofar but the entire world.In The Isofarian Guard you will travel throughout the cities and wildernesses of Isofar on a beautifully illustrated world map fight off enemies using a unique and highly customizable battle system and use your wits to talk your way out of sticky situations. As you forge important alliances opportunities will arise for you to craft stronger gear gain new powers and step into the destiny you were called to.—description from the publisher

In the northwest corner of Nunavut Canada a formerly inaccessible bay off of the Arctic Ocean has become reachable through a secret inlet. Untouched by the hands of time and fed by both the ocean and warm fresh water springs Ridback Bay is teeming with sea life. A remote timeless bayside village is now being inundated by entrepreneurs awaiting the influx of the world's greatest fisherman to harvest this plentiful bounty. The docks and warehouses are being revitalized and now it is time to begin the real adventure. Go build your Fleet and become master of the high seas!Fleet is an exciting strategic card game with in-depth decisions and thrilling game play that new and experienced gamers can enjoy! In Fleet you'll acquire licenses launch boats and fish the great briny blue. The player who best manages his resources and acquires the most VP via fish licenses and boats will build the strongest fleet and lead his crew to victory!

Each turn in Vikings Gone Wild — a deck-building resource management game based on the online real-time strategy game — players can either buy permanent buildings sitting in front of them (resource factories resources containers etc) or buy units towers and special cards that improve their deck and offense/defense capacity.The only way to win is by successfully attacking each other and each attack involves interesting bluffing mechanisms in which the attacker doesn't know the defense capacity of their opponent...

Squires welcome to Medieval Academy the place where you'll be trained to become a knight. You'll have to master the arts of Jousts and Tournaments complete dangerous Quests and polish your Education. You'll also have to serve the king and show that you have a sense of Charity and Gallantry. Only one of you will be knighted by King Arthur so it's time to show what you’re capable of. —Father Advevan Nicolus Emilius chairman of the Medieval Academy.In Medieval Academy a family+ game each player takes the role of a squire who wants to outdo the others in the different training categories to score Chivalry Points. To achieve this goal during the six turns of the game the players must wisely draft the cards that are the most useful to them and play them at the right time to move their discs up the training tracks.At the end of turn VI the squire who has the most Chivalry Points wins the game and is knighted by King Arthur!

Disney Lorcana is a trading card game (TCG) that features Disney characters in both original and reimagined art styles that live in an all-new world with unique and magical gameplay.The game is set in the rich and fantastical world of Lorcana a combination of the words lore and arcana. Players will take on the mantle of Illumineer a powerful sorcerer and band together Disney characters from Lorcana's The Great Illuminary a treasury of all Disney songs and stories ever made.Disney Lorcana doesn't have an official player count on the packaging but the designers have suggested 2-6 is an appropriate range.

As a ROVE (Results-Oriented Versatile Explorer) you're used to surveying the fringes of space but now you've crash-landed on an unfamiliar planet. You'll need to reconfigure your reusable modules to get to safety!ROVE is a solo spatial puzzle game. In each game of ROVE the player will face a series of mishaps that can only be solved by arranging the 6 module cards in a specific pattern. Moving a module requires Movement Points gained by discarding cards from hand for the listed amount. Players may gain additional Points if their current module layout matches the pattern shown on the discarded card.Each module costs 1 Movement Point per activation and uses its own unique movement style such as only moving diagonally or pushing other modules a single space. Modules also have powerful single-use abilities that can help get players out of a tight spot. Properly timing these abilities -- as well as effectively using the limited number of Movement cards -- will help the player complete ROVE’s mission successfully.

Duelosaur Island is built around a clever hand-management mechanism. Each card in the game serves three potential purposes. They contain the DNA sequences for dinosaurs you could create the blueprints for attractions you can build and certain actions that you can take by discarding them. Do you create the dinosaur on the top of the card to attract guests to your park? Or do you build the attraction on the bottom of the card which can add to a player's hand-limit income and end-game victory points? Or do you discard the card to combine DNA towards creating another dinosaur?Duelosaur Island comes with five new full-color DNA dice. You can mix and match dice between Dinosaur Island and Duelosaur Island for even more variability in both games such as the new security symbol that can appear on dice to upgrade your security level instantly!

20 Strong is a new deck-based game system from Chip Theory Games capable of being played in about 30 minutes or less. We say “game system” because the idea behind 20 Strong is a small nucleus of simple adaptable rules that can then be applied to a variety of unique decks each with their own set of mechanics. We are launching 20 Strong with three such decks – one set in the world of Too Many Bones one set in Hoplomachus: Victorum and one in the new universe of the space-faring Solar Sentinels. We have more decks in development and plan to release them regularly if our customers are excited by them. For now 20 Strong is a solo-only game but even that could differ in future decks using the ruleset.The object of a game of 20 Strong is to progress through a shuffled deck of cards each card bearing a unique challenge. This challenge could be in the form of an enemy a unique scenario or some other requirement (for example players of the Too Many Bones deck might expect to see a Lockpicking challenge or two). Challenges usually require a certain number of successes to complete which you earn by rolling a set of 17 dice with different odds for a hit (these dice along with three adjustable stat dice make up the “20” in 20 Strong).If you roll enough successes you complete a card’s challenge and gain its rewards. If you don’t you take damage and move on to the next card – unless of course your HP stat is reduced to 0 costing you the game. If you manage to make it through an entire deck you take on one of the deck’s final bosses attempting to score enough hits against this powerful enemy to claim ultimate victory.Of course it’s never so easy that you’d want to spend all of your dice on a single card. In addition to your HP Stat you’re also keeping track of your Strategy (which controls how many rerolls and items you have) and your Recovery which controls how many dice return to your pool after taking on a challenge. If you roll more dice than your Recovery those dice are exhausted lowering your pool for your subsequent challenges. It’s a game of pressing your luck strategic decision-making and resource management. We think you’re going to love it!—description from the publisher

Viceroy is a board game of bidding and resource management set in the fantasy universe of the famous Russian CCG Berserk. As the players struggle for control over the world of Laar they recruit a variety of allies and enact various laws. These cards allow players to develop their state's military and magical might increase their authority and get precious gems they need to continue expanding their nation.As the game progresses each player builds their own power pyramid using character and law cards. Each card has its own effect that depends on the level of the pyramid where the card is played. These effects may give more resources more cards or victory points. The player who has the most power points at the end of the game becomes the ruler of entire Laar and the winner!

THE GAMEPLAYStreet Masters is a 1-4 player cooperative miniatures board game inspired by classic fighting video games. Featuring over 65 highly detailed miniatures unique decks for fighters & enemies custom dice and lightning-fast gameplay Street Masters lets players match up powerful fighters against villainous organizations in a wide array of exciting scenarios. Designed by Adam Sadler and Brady Sadler the game offers modular and elegant gameplay set in a unique and exciting world of brutal combat.THE STORYWarriors from around the world known for their legendary fighting abilities and skills receive mysterious invitations to participate in a martial arts tournament. During the tournament the organization surrounding it reveals their true identity — The Kingdom — and their purpose to recruit fighters to join their militia or enslave those against them. While several of these warriors made it out in time many were never heard from again.Five years later a government project called Street Masters initiates in order to counter-act the war against The Kingdom now having divided and seized control over the world by several of its factions. Those who join the Street Masters project must work together to take down each faction crippling parts of The Kingdom before they're able to launch their end game.

In Hostage Negotiator you play the part of a law enforcement agent responsible for negotiating the release of hostages taken by an unscrupulous figure hell-bent on having his or her demands met.Each turn in the game represents a conversation between you and the hostage taker. You'll play cards and roll dice to increase conversation points decrease the threat level and release hostages. Hostage Negotiator uses a unique hand-building mechanism that puts cards you purchase directly in your hand for next turn rather than leaving you wondering when the cards will show up like in deck-building games.In Hostage Negotiator there are multiple paths to victory but the hostage taker has other plans. Will you try to calm him and get him to surrender? Will you stall and bide your time before sending in the team for a major extraction? How many hostages will you save? These are many of the exciting decisions you will make in a game of Hostage Negotiator!

In Yukon Airways you will be at the controls of your very own seaplane with the mission of transporting travelers to the different points of the Yukon. Embark your passengers (dice) using a draft system and use your ticket cards to take them to the different locations on the map. For each passenger you get money and the possibility of improving your plane if the passenger finds a point of interest that satisfies their tastes at the destination (when the color of the die matches the color of one of the cubes at that destination). At the end of the game you will earn extra money according to the different locations you have visited. The player who has earned the most money at the end of the week wins.—description from publisher•••En Yukon Airways te pondrás a los mandos de tu propio hidroavión con la misión de transportar viajeros a los diferentes puntos del Yukón. Embarca a tus pasajeros (dados) mediante un sistema de draft y usa tus cartas de Tique para llevarlos a las diferentes localizaciones del mapa. Por cada pasajero obtendrás dinero y la posibilidad de mejorar tu avión si el pasajero encuentra en el destino algún punto de interés que satisfaga sus preferencias (cuando el color del dado coincide con el color de uno de los cubos de la localización de destino). Al final de la partida ganarás dinero extra según las diferentes localizaciones que hayas visitado y los tiques para la época de Navidad que hayas logrado vender. Aquel jugador que al finalizar la semana haya conseguido más dinero se proclamará ganador.

Unlock! is a co-operative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc.Star Wars: Unlock! uses the Unlock! game system to send you on three new adventures full of ships droids and action!(1) An unforeseen delayYou are smugglers in the Outer Rim facing danger and the unexpected every day. Today while transporting expensive cargo belonging to Jabba the Hutt you are intercepted by an Imperial Star Destroyer!Imperial operatives impound your ship and confiscate everything in your cargo bay. You know it is only a matter of time before they take a close look and discover Jabba‘s hidden illegal goods. There‘s no time to waste. You need to break out of your cell rescue your astromech and get hold off the cargo. Then all you need to do is recover your ship and escape!Your objective: Escape with your astromech (co- pilot droid) and the cargo.(2) Escape from HothEcho Base an important Rebel stronghold has managed to remain hidden on the ice planet Hoth for some time. The hostile climate provides excellent cover and protection from the Empire- but you must always remain vigilant!You head out on a routine patrol with your trusty tauntaun mount a hearty creature native to Hoth. After an uneventful morning you take a brief break to rest your tauntaun while you contact Echo Base with an update. However due to heavy atmospheric disturbance you can‘t reach them.Your mission: Continue your patrol explore the ice planet and contact Echo Base!(3) Secret mission on JedhaYou are an Imperial spy sent to infiltrate the Holy City of Jedha. An Imperial pilot transporting a crate of priceless kyber crystals crashed their Zeta- class cargo shuttle on the surface. You must retrieve the crate without alerting the Rebel scum Saw Gerrera or any of his lawless mercenaries on Jedha. There is an Imperial informant waiting for you on the surface with more details. Meanwhile Imperial Command orbits Jedha in a Star Destroyer. They are within communications range and expect regular updates.Your mission: Gather intel maintain your cover story and recover the kyber crystals!

Here to Slay is a competitive role-playing fantasy strategy card game that's all about assembling a party of Heroes and slaying monsters (and sometimes sabotaging your friends too) from the creators of Unstable Unicorns.In this game you’ll assemble a full party of heroes to slay dangerous monsters while working to avoid the sabotage of your foes. The game also includes items you can equip to your heroes 1V1 challenge cards and roll modifiers to tip the odds in your favor.The first person to successfully slay three monsters or build a full party with six classes wins the game!Every player gets to choose a party leader character to represent them throughout the game. Each party leader card has a class and a skill that gives you an edge over your opponents. Whether you enjoy fighters bards wizards or thieves you'll find a party leader that's right for your play style - but choose wisely because you only get one party leader for the whole game!Your heroes are brave adventurers ready to attack monsters and go head to head with your foes! The game includes over 40 unique heroes. Each hero card has a class and an effect and each hero’s effect has a roll requirement. In order to use a hero’s effect you must roll two dice and score equal to or higher than that effect’s roll requirement. Heroes take advantage of items magic and modifiers to increase their chances of making their dice rolls. In order to slay that monster you must roll two dice and score equal to or higher than that monster’s roll requirement.  Be warned: Each monster has a roll range in which they’ll fight back and if you score within that range your party might be in grave danger…Don't like what your opponent just played? Throw down a challenge! Challenge cards can be played instantly to try to stop another player from playing a hero item or magic card. Playing a challenge card initiates a 1V1 challenge in which you and another player both have to roll the dice. If they win the challenge they still get to play their card but if you win the challenge you get to send their card directly to the discard pile!— description from the publisher

One Deck Dungeon is a card game roguelike — a dungeon delve that is different every time difficult to survive with a character you build up from scratch. The deck consists of various foes to combat and other perils from the dungeon. Each card depicts both the obstacle to overcome and the potential rewards for doing so. When you defeat a card you claim it as either experience an item or a skill tucking it under the appropriate side of your character card to show its benefits. The longer you take exploring the dungeon the deeper you'll delve and the difficulty will scale up quickly! If you make it far enough you'll have to fight the dungeon boss. Survive and you'll be a legend!One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows is a standalone expansion for One Deck Dungeon that contains new heroes new dungeons new perils new foes and new mechanisms: Poison and event Perils! It can be combined with the original game for a hybrid dungeon experience with the heroes and dungeons being compatible with the original or played on its own.

The Hunger is a race in which each vampiric player must optimize their card deck hunt humans to gain victory points fulfill secret missions and eventually acquire a rose and return to the castle before sunrise. The more you hunt the slower both you and your deck become which will make it harder and harder to get back before daybreak. Can you become the most notorious vampire without burning to ashes at sunrise?During the game players spend speed to move their vampires around the map hunt humans worth victory points and add new cards to their deck.The game ends at dawn after which the surviving player with the most victory points on their cards wins!—description from publisher

Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.Unmatched: Redemption Row features three characters from the Marvel comics universe: Luke Cage Ghost Rider and Moon Knight.

Smash Up turns over the wheel to all of you! Through a huge nomination and run-off process players from all over the world helped choose four of the factions that take part in Smash Up: It's Your Fault!. The winning four factions were Sharks Superheroes Mythic Greeks and Dragons - with the Shark Delivery System Tornado faction thrown in as a bonus!

Trains returns with all-new cards and strategies for you to build the best rail system in Japan. Trains: Rising Sun not only features all new cards it includes three entirely new boards. Two of the boards are designed specifically for two-player games while the Nagoya map is for 3 to 4 players. This standalone game can mix easily with the original Trains game for even greater replay possibilities!Trains: Rising Sun also introduces Route Bonus Cards allowing you to score additional points for being the first to connect specific stations. Route Bonus Cards are included for the original Trains game as well!Finally Trains: Rising Sun includes the Trains: Nagoya Map expansion that was first produced only by the designer for use with the original OKAZU Brand production of Trains. (This item is not linked to in the information box for database reasons.)

In La Cosa Nostra you take on the role of a mafia boss. In the beginning you control a crew of gangsters and a couple of businesses. During the game you will hire new gangsters to do the dirty work and collect your money. Investments lead to new lines of business or monopoly positions: take control of the drug dealing moneylending or prostitution. Bribe politicians and cops invest your money in night clubs casinos or the waste management industry. To get the big deals you need to cooperate with the other families — but never rely on those friendships. The others will take the first opportunity to stab you in the back so you better do it first...Each player controls gangster cards that serve to either gain money or attack other players. Actions are planned secretly placed face down then played in turn. Often you need certain business cards to succeed. If you don't own them yourself you can negotiate deals with the other players. The players bargain spy threaten and deceive each other.Each of the four rounds brings new action cards into the game and the number of gangsters increases. Thus the possibilities for actions become more diverse the jobs more profitable and the attacks more powerful. Co-operation gets more attractive and treason alluring because at the end of the day money is the only thing that counts.

Progress! That's what these Dark Ages need someone with a little get-up-and-go. You've been a serf in this one-pig town long enough and it's time to shake things up. You've opened a guildhall for like-minded professionals from all over Europe to work together build their trades and get some economic stability.Now if only everybody else didn't have the same idea...Well you'll just have to do it faster than those other guys! Gather professionals into chapters and use their combined might to reach for victory. Collect complete color sets of professions (all five colors of Trader for instance) which you use to buy victory points (VP). The first player to gain 20 VP on her turn wins.In Guildhall each profession grants you special abilities and these abilities grow stronger the more of the set that you complete. When you cash in the set for victory points however you lose the ability until you can build it up again. Which professions are worth risking VP to keep?

Heirs to an exceptional knowledge that has survived the ages it is now up to you to preserve the vestige of your civilization.Ancient Knowledge is a strategic card game in which you erect monuments and build artefacts to pass on your knowledge. Time will make your constructions ephemeral,so make the right decision and combine the many cards at your disposal because all knowledge is doomed to disappear…It's up to you to find the best synergy so that you can pass down knowledge before the decline of the emblematic monuments you have constructed monuments we still find nowadays in the four corners of the globe. From Mexican pyramids to the Sphinx of Giza passing through the famous cities of Tiwanaku and Babylon only the cleverest builder will shine through the ages and seize victory. In this game your only enemy is time.Prove to your opponents that you are the worthy representative of your Legacy! Will your monuments withstand the trial of time?—description from the publisher

Escape the Dark Castle is a simple cooperative game of retro-atmospheric adventure.Players take on the roles of prisoners wrongfully incarcerated in the depths of The Dark Castle. Whether it’s the Abbot the Tailor or any of the six playable characters each prisoner is represented by a character card and a custom character die showing that prisoner’s unique endowment of Might Cunning and Wisdom – the game’s three traits.Embarking on a desperate quest to escape the players must work together using custom dice and item cards to overcome the castle’s many horrors traps and challenges - each of which is represented by a large illustrated chapter card. At the beginning of each game 15 of these chapter cards are drawn at random from a larger deck to create a unique castle every time.Gameplay involves one player revealing a new chapter card each turn in a motion like turning a page of a book. When a card is turned the next chamber or passageway into which the prisoners have stumbled is revealed. There is no turn order. Instead players decide as a group who will turn the next chapter card and there are often grisly consequences for the one that does!Once revealed the chapter card will explain the situation facing the group and what must be done to get through it. In the style of choose-your-path adventures most chapters offer the group a choice about how to proceed. Bribe the drunken guards or attack them? Charge the beast or lure it out? Steal from the kitchen stores or keep moving? When the players choose to enter (or fail to avoid) combat all players roll their unique character dice simultaneously to make an attack against the enemy. They need to collectively muster the right combination of Might Cunning and Wisdom to defeat the foe in question or risk taking damage. Blocking Resting and the use of Weapons Relics and Potions will help to keep the prisoners alive.The goal of the game is for the group to complete every chapter in the castle deck then defeat the final boss. To win they must keep every member of the team alive - if any player is killed the game ends immediately.

The mad Fire Elemental lord is out to burn down the dream forest. Attacking in waves using Fire Elementals your only defense are trees and fountains and those animals brave enough to offer aid before scurrying away to safety. Using a unique drafting system and combining it with a tower defense game will you be able to keep your forest green?Sylvion is a tower-defense type game in which attacks come down four rows and in waves. You build a deck using a unique drafting process and play cards from your hand by paying with other cards in your hand. You can play cards to the rows like fountains and trees or play animals for instant effects or to manipulate the enemy decks of cards. When all the waves have finished you must have kept the heart of the Sylvion verdant or else the whole forest of the Oniverse will be destroyed.This game can be played in an introductory style advanced mode and includes two expansions and an appendix for further challenges and complexity.

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—description from the publisher

It’s the turn of the 20th century the golden age of museums. As interest in and accessibility of museums grew exponentially many institutions underwent an intense period of expansion on both an intellectual and physical level searching to grow their collections for profit and science.You play as a curator of one such museum and it’s your job to build the biggest most coherent collection that you can in this game of collection and bartering featuring over 300 individual illustrations by Vincent Dutrait and authentic architectural facts. But it’s no simple task!Each player in Museum has a small collection of relics to get them started after which they will have to send explorers around the world to uncover others. These relics each have a value which is either the cost to add them to your museum or how much they contribute towards adding other relics to your museum. “Spent” Relics are added to your reserve. You can withdraw them from it by exchanging them for an equal number of items; however your opponents also has access to your reserve!During the game you will be required to assemble different collections. These can be from different categories (war agriculture architecture etc) or periods (Ancient Egypt Rome Aztec etc). Patron cards will give you bonus cards for amassing certain collections. Explorer cards will allow you to hire famous archeologists to confer bonuses to your museum and event cards will provide you with some game changing circumstances that you’ll have to work around based on historical events!All these different elements make compiling your collection an interesting and sometimes tricky experience! At the end of the game points are scored based on collections and their value and the player with the most points wins!Solo play unlocked as a Kickstarter exclusive.

Burano is a beautiful island of Venice in Italy known for its colorful houses. Walking through the island you will see these vibrant houses on both sides of the canal as well as the personal décor placed by the inhabitants of these houses and shops. Tourists always linger on the street to appreciate and enjoy the view. The colorful houses of Burano need a fresh coat of paint in order to stay beautiful and vivid. Use your creativity to refurbish and decorate the houses and amaze the tourists and local people with your masterpiece!Walking in Burano is a family game. Players place the Floor Cards in order to receive a visit from different characters. They will score points based on the various symbols on the houses. To be the player with the most points at the end of the game.•••Burano ist eine hübsche Insel in Venedig die für ihre bunten Häuser bekannt ist. Wenn man auf der Insel spazieren geht sieht man diese strahlenden Häuser auf beiden Seiten des Kanals außerdem die Verzierungen die die Einheimischen an ihren Häusern und Läden angebracht haben. Immer wieder verweilen Touristen hier auf den Straßen um den Anblick zu genießen. Die bunten Häuser von Burano brauchen neue Farbe um hübsch und strahlend zu bleiben. Nutzt eure Kreativität um die Häuser zu renovieren und zu schmücken und versetzt Touristen wie Einheimische mit euren Werken ins Staunen!Legt Etagenkarten aus um Besuch von verschiedenen Leuten zu erhalten. Dafür erhaltet ihr Punkte die von verschiedenen Symbolen auf den Häusern abhängen. Wer am Ende des Spiels die meisten Punkte hat gewinnt.—description from the publisher...In Walking in Burano players draft up to three cards to complete the five houses in their section of Burano. The more cards drafted the less money earned to build floors of the houses. The player then pays to play up to three of their cards. When a three-story house is complete a scoring card is added underneath the completed house.Tourist cards score points for things like the number of cats visible on the house the number of potted plants or other similar conditions. The resident cards will score points for larger areas like for the number of pedestrians walking up and down the street; for the number of different shops along the canal; or other horizontal sections of the player's tableau.There are point penalties if houses are mismatched colors if two neighboring houses are the same color or if there are boarded up windows on a card.When a player completes all five houses in their section of Burano the game ends after all players have had an equal number of turns. The player with the most points wins.

Unmatched is a highly asymmetrical miniature fighting game for two or four players. Each hero is represented by a unique deck designed to evoke their style and legend. Tactical movement and no-luck combat resolution create a unique play experience that rewards expertise but just when you've mastered one set new heroes arrive to provide all new match-ups.Unmatched: Hell's Kitchen features three characters from the Marvel comics universe: Daredevil Elektra and Bullseye.

After a long search in several comic bookstores and online stores you managed to acquire the most important comic books of all your favorite heroes. Well almost all of them! Some rare and important editions are still missing from your collection. The first appearance of your favorite villain that special edition that influenced a generation of story lines the spetacular debut of the new uniform the memorable confrontation with the archenemy and the valuable number one! You already know where to find them and you also know that you are not the only one in search of these precious gems. Will you be able to collect all the comics needed to be recognized as the greatest collector of all time?Comic Hunters is divided into three rounds. In each round players will visit three of the four locations where they can purchase Comic Book Cards. At the end of the round players must place cards on the table to start or expand their collections. When adding a comic to a hero's collection the player will move his markers on the icon tracks according to the Spotlight Icons of the new card in play (Number 1 First Appearance New Visual Special Edition and Memorable Clashes.). The further the player advances on each track the more points he or she may get. In addition each collection scores based on the number of cards it contains. After three rounds the player with most points is acclaimed as the greatest comic book collector of all time and wins the game!-description from designer

Welcome to the Dungeon — first released as Dungeon of Mandom — is a push-your-luck dungeon delve in which 2-4 players take turns essentially daring each other to go into a dungeon with less equipment than they start off with while filling the dungeon with monsters. Players can win the game by winning 2 rounds or get eliminated from the game by losing 2 rounds. Each player has a 2-sided players card that has a white side and a red side. The first win taps the player card and the 1st loss flips the card over to the red side. A 2nd loss will have the player turn the card back into the box.The game is played in rounds. The player sets up the base character and all the equipment equipped. This represents every player as a fully equipped dungeon delver.Each round the start player (the person who challenged the dungeon last or the last player to be in a dungeon) can choose to draw a card from the monster deck or pass their turn.If they choose to draw they can do one of two things: (1) keep it and de-equip an equipment or (2) place it face down in the dungeon. Placing it face down in the dungeon creates the dungeon deck and fills the dungeon with monsters that the challenger will have to face later. If they choose to pass their turn they cannot participate in the rest of the round. Once only one person is left after all the other players have passed their turn that player then becomes the challenger and must go into the dungeon with only the equipment he has equipped.The player then flips cards off the dungeon deck and fights the monsters within. Some equipment allow you to null the enemy damage or be able to withstand it by increasing your HP. If the player survives the dungeon with at least 1 HP they win that round. If not they lose. The players then reshuffles all the cards to make a new monster deck and re-equips all the equipment to start a new round.The game ends when someone has won twice or one player is the last man standing.Welcome to the Dungeon includes four different sets of character cards whereas Dungeon of Mandom has only a single character.

Long ago your ancestors built great cities across the world. Now your tribe must explore forests deserts islands mountains and caverns to find these lost cities. Claim the ruins build places of power and restore the glory of a bygone age.Unearth is a bend-your-luck game of dice placement and set collection. Designed by Jason Harner and Matthew Ransom it plays in under an hour with 2-4 players. Each player leads a tribe of Delvers represented by five dice (3 six-sided 1 four-sided and 1 eight-sided). Players take turns rolling and placing dice in an attempt to claim Ruins.The game's elegant core mechanic is accessible to players of all skill levels. High rolls help players claim Ruins while low rolls help players collect Stones. This opens two paths to victory: claiming sets of Ruins or using Stones to build Wonders. Delver cards help you affect your dice rolls or dice in play and Wonders can grant abilities that impact the late game.

A midnight bell tolls on the streets of Wildegrens as the villagers shutter their windows against the darkness. Something moves through the night–in the forest through the fields across the old battlefield. The isolated village is in danger. Crops are failing animals are dying and villagers are disappearing. Townsfolk are scared. Some of the women are fighting back but the villagers suspect that these women may be dealing with the devil himself. From behind the old school a shadow crosses to the town well. A feeble light reveals two witches who nod to one another shutter the lantern and make their way towards the dark woods.Witchcraft! is a fast-playing card-driven solitaire game where you lead a coven of witches in a fantasy world where magic is real–and so are the monsters. Building on the hidden / revealed mechanism of Resist! you will decide when to use magic to defeat the challenges you face–revealing yourself to your fellow villagers and being imprisoned for witchcraft. As you complete missions and defeat enemies you will try to prove to the villagers that magic is not evil and convince a jury that you are protecting the village. Three jurors will decide your fate and their conviction is strong. Can you persuade them? Or will evil overcome you and the village?At the beginning of the game you assemble a coven of witches from families of women represented by a deck of cards. Selecting multiple witches from a family makes that family more powerful. Each family is focused on different tasks in the game–revealing challenges increasing attack power uncovering the conviction of the jurors or capturing familiars to help you in your fight. The fight is real and each of the eight jurors face a different villain. Is it the Headless Horseman Baba Yaga the Scarecrow or some other fiend? On setup you choose three jurors their missions and their unique challenges–providing 56 possible combinations with great variety in the types of challenges and monsters you will face. If you fail two missions or lose five villagers you lose the game. Even if you defeat the missions you still face the trial and you are only sure of your fate when you reveal the conviction of the jurors and see if you have done enough to persuade them.—description from the publisher

Gloom of Kilforth is a card game of high fantasy with a Gothic edge playable in 1-3 hours where 1-4 players working individually or together must take their humble adventurers on a journey through a dark world of magic and peril. They will visit strange places stranger people and overcome powerful enemies in their mission to discover mysterious artefacts and mystical Spells. Players follow their Hero’s tale from modest beginnings through an epic story to an exciting climactic battle for the fate of the world. Gloom of Kilforth takes about 45 minutes per player to play.AwardsGloom of Kilforth was awarded one of the Top Ten Games of 2017 by Tabletop Gaming Magazine. Gloom of Kilforth was awarded Best Solitaire Game of 2017 by the 1 Player Guild.

In Villainous: Despicable Plots each player takes control of one of three Disney characters each one a villain in a different Disney movie specifically Lady Tremaine (Cinderella) the Horned King (The Black Cauldron) and Gaston (Beauty and the Beast). Each player has their own villain deck fate deck player board and 3D character.On a turn the active player moves their character to a different location on their player board takes one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from their hand) then refills their hand to four cards. Cards are allies items effects and conditions. You need to use your cards to fulfill your unique win condition.One of the actions allows you to choose another player draw two cards from that player's fate deck then play one of them on that player's board covering two of the four action spaces on one of that player's locations. The fate deck contains heroes items and effects from that villain's movie and these cards allow other players to mess with that particular villain.Villainous: Despicable Plots is playable on its own and its characters can also face off against those in the other Disney Villainous games.—description from the publisher

Journey deeper into the world of the Crucible in Age of Ascension the second age of KeyForge! This continuation of the world's first Unique Deck Game contains 204 new cards seamlessly integrated into a card pool that contains a total of 370 different cards creating an entirely new collection of Archon Decks for you to discover explore and master!The KeyForge: Age of Ascension two-player starter provides you with all the tools you need to either begin or expand your adventures on the Crucible featuring two unique Age of Ascension Archon Decks a Quickstart Rulebook two Poster Playmats and all the keys tokens and chain trackers you and your chosen opponent need to start playing!In more detail KeyForge is played over a series of turns in which you as the Archon leading your company use the creatures technology artifacts and skills of a chosen House to reap precious Æmber hold off your enemy's forces and forge enough keys to unlock the Crucible's Vaults. You begin your turn by declaring one of the three Houses within your deck and for the remainder of the turn you may play and use cards only from that House. For example if you take on the role of the Archon Radiant Argus the Supreme you will find cards from Logos Sanctum and Untamed in your deck but if you declare Sanctum at the start of your turn you may use actions artifacts creatures and upgrades only from Sanctum. Your allies from Logos and Untamed must wait.Next you must strive to gain the advantage with a series of tactical decisions leveraging both the cards in your hand and those in play to race ahead of your opponent. If you wish to weaken your rival's forces you may send out your allies to fight enemies on the opposing side matching strength against strength. Otherwise you may choose to use your followers to reap adding more Æmber to your pool.Notably no card in KeyForge has a cost — choosing a House at the start of a turn allows you to play and use any number of cards from that House for free leading turns to fly by with a wave of activity! Yet balance is key. If you simply reap more Æmber at every opportunity your rival may quickly grow their team of minions and destroy yours outpacing your collection and leaving your field barren. But if you focus on the thrill of the fight alone and neglect the collection of Æmber you won't move any closer to your goal! If you succeed in finding a harmony within your team and have six Æmber at the start of your turn you'll forge a key and move one step closer to victory. The first to forge three keys wins!

Timeline: Events is a card game played using 55 cards. Each card depicts a historical event on both sides with the year in which that event occurred on only one side. Players take turns placing a card from their hand in a row on the table. After placing the card the player reveals the date on it. If the card was placed correctly with the date in chronological order with all other cards on the table the card stays in place; otherwise the card is removed from play and the player takes another card from the deck.The first player to get rid of all his cards by placing them correctly wins. If multiple players go out in the same round then everyone else is eliminated from play and each of those players are dealt one more card for another round of play. If only one player has no cards after a bonus round he wins; otherwise play continues until a single player goes out.Timeline: Events can be combined with any other title in the Game: Timeline series.

The Mad Titan Thanos seeks the Infinity Stones to bend the universe to his indomitable will but courageous heroes are assembling to stand in his path to ultimate power. Based on the beloved card game and set in the Marvel Universe Infinity Gauntlet: A Love Letter Game features the elegant mechanics of the original re-imagined in a one-vs-many twist for thrilling team play. While one player takes on the role of Thanos on a crusade to change the universe as we know it 1-5 other players must deploy iconic heroes to defeat him before he can achieve his aims.Throughout the game players take turns drawing a card and playing a card then executing its effect. Hero players can call upon the likes of Iron Man Spider-man Thor and Scarlet Witch for their abilities to battle and gather intel about their opponent’s schemes. A worthy adversary Thanos plays with a two-card hand drawing from his own deck of minions and powerful Infinity Stones. The heroes will have to use their abilities in strategic combinations to knock his health down to zero before he can do the same to them—or find all six Infinity Stones and win with a snap of his fingers. Who will prevail in this battle for the universe?—description from the publisher

Jump on board the good ship Tranquility and set sail for paradise. Take care though because in a land where the day blends into night it's easy to lose track of time and you still need to find that special little island to call home.Tranquility is a co-operative card game in which players must fill the sea with islands — specifically island cards with numbers on them — and guide the ship home before any player runs out of cards. Note that in the world of Tranquility the only way to play is in silence.---The goal of the game is for the team to complete the grid before any player runs out of available actions. Cards must be placed so that the grid ascends in numerical order from bottom left to top right. All the players win if they manage to complete the grid and have placed a Start and Finish card. All players lose if a single player can no longer play or discard any cards legally following the instructions given below. The players may not however communicate.Play is taken in turns moving clockwise with the quietest player going first. On a player’s turn they must do one of the following: 1. Play a card or 2. Discard two cards. Then they must draw back up to a hand of five cards. Cards must be placed so that the grid ascends in numerical order from bottom left to top right. If the card is placed next to an existing card in the sequence then they must discard cards from their hand equal to the difference between the numbers face down in front of them e.g. placing a 5 next to a 3 will require two cards to be discarded from their hand. This applies even if the cards are on different rows.—description from the publisher

Heroes of Terrinoth is a cooperative card game of questing and adventure that invites you and up to three allies to take on the role of unique heroes choosing from twelve distinct and powerful heroes split between four archetypes — healer warrior mage and scout. These archetypes are further diversified into different classes that your heroes can pursue as your power grows. Regardless of which archetype and class you embrace you and your friends must combine your powers leaning on one another’s strengths to survive your journeys and defeat the enemies who stand against you. Over the course of eight thrilling quests you will face villainous foes battle deadly creatures and save the realm!

A village-building card game set in the world of Valeria. Establish resources construct buildings and attract adventurers to your Village to be crowned the next capitol city.Each player takes a turn taking one action from the following list and all other players may follow the action but with fewer rewards:Tax: Take 1 Gold and Draw 1 Card. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Harvest: Draw 3 Cards. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Develop: Discard 1 card to add a Resource to your village. (Follow: Discard 2 cards to add a Resource to your village.) Build: Add a building to your village. Draw a card. (Follow: Add a building to your village but do not draw a card.) Recruit: Pay 1 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village. (Follow: Pay 2 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village.)Building cards can be used for 2 reasons. 1) Pay resources to add it to your village as a building and gain its benefit and VP. 2) Develop it as a Resource and place it under your Castle card.When building use resources you have developed or pay another player 1 Gold to use their resource.The game ends when a player has built or recruited 10 buildings/Adventurers.

Fog of Love is a game for two players. You will create and play two vivid characters who meet fall in love and face the challenge of making an unusual relationship work.Playing Fog of Love is like being in a romantic comedy: roller-coaster rides awkward situations lots of laughs and plenty of difficult compromises to make.Much as in a real relationship goals might be at odds. You can try to change keep being relentless or even secretly decide to be a Heartbreaker. It’s your choice.The happily ever after won’t be certain but whatever way your zigzag romance unfolds you’ll always end up with a story full of surprises – guaranteed to raise a smile!

Game description from the publisher:Built by the Romans during the first century in Belgian Gaul Tournay experienced most of its growth along the Scheldt river. Unfortunately the river also contributed to its troubles because in 881 the Normans traversed its watery path and thereby easily captured the city. That act of aggression stunted Tournay's prosperity. This game invites you to participate in the reconstruction of the city in order to establish a glorious era that will last for more than seven centuries. Help your district flourish by cleverly coordinating the work of the city's three domains: military religious and civil. Certainly the prestige of your buildings will brighten the entire city!Tournay is a card game from the same designing team as the 2010 release Troyes with artwork once again by Alexandre Roche. In this game players manage a district of the city and its three classes of citizens. The cards are classified by level (I to III) and color to form nine distinct decks. Players initially have two citizens in each class that they will use each turn to carry out one of five available actions such as drawing cards or using the powers of their buildings.In each player's district the building cards save them money make more efficient use of the decks of cards or recruit new citizens. The character cards optimize the use of buildings if properly positioned. It's up to you to create the most effective card combinations. Finally constructed prestige buildings will give you valuable prestige points depending on how your district has developed. But beware: Your opponents will also benefit from every prestige building you build!Note that an expansion is included in the base game's box so advanced players can add still more replay value to this dynamic game!Game Summary There are 3 sets of cards (yellow red white) in 3 groups (I II III); also a set of black event cards. There are always 3 face-up event cards most of which are bad. Players start with 2 meeples in 3 colors (yellow red white) placed on their Plaza card.The game ends at the start of the Start Player's turn if 2+ players have all 9 cards in their display; OR if only 1 player has but at least n-1 Town Crier cards have been revealed. Everyone then gets to play one final card (paying normal costs). Earn VPs for all cards in display and for all Event cards you've combated. Most VP wins!

Each player plays as a clan leader and has to secretly and wisely play a card from their hand representing a member of their tribe to try to take over some territories. Strategy and timing will be crucial for scoring! The player that scores the most points after 9 rounds wins the game.Subcontinent of Vaalbara Neolithic era. Your tribe sets out to explore uncharted lands in order to establish sedentary villages. Use the various talents of your tribe to optimize your development expand your territory and enforce your hegemony!All players have the same deck of 12 cards representing the members of their tribe. Each turn players choose secretly one card. In the order of initiative of the revealed Characters players will be able to activate their powers and take over one of the available Territories. Each type of Territory has its own way of scoring points (collection pair diversity risk…). Deciding between playing the best powers and high initiatives at the most opportune moment will be difficult. After 9 rounds the player with the most points wins the game and unites the tribes of the continent under their banner!—description from the publisher

The zombie apocalypse is here! After The Virus is a cooperative deck builder in which you and your friends band together to survive and complete different missions. The 15 included missions form a storyline if played in sequence but don't expect to survive that easily because the zombies will attack you in ever increasing numbers!Your deck is invaded by more zombies each time it is reshuffled so you need to search the area deck for useful weapons and other things to help you. Some stuff can be added to your deck while others will stay in your play area and still other things will be usable only once in the game. To manage your deck and play area well is critical if you are to complete the mission before you are overwhelmed by the zombies!