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Exit: The Game + Puzzle – The Sacred Temple

Exit: The Game + Puzzle – The Sacred Temple

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

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In Exit: The Game + Puzzle – The Sacred Temple an exciting race through the jungle begins on a small island in the Indian Ocean but before the players can explore the mysterious temple they have to solve tricky puzzles and assemble four puzzles. Everyone on the team must do everything they can to achieve the goal while shaking off annoying treasure hunters.In EXIT: The Sacred Temple you are racing through the jungle on a small island in the Indian Ocean trying to save the professor and find the Sacred Temple before the treasure hunters do.Only this time it’s different because there are riddles within riddles hidden within puzzles. Like other EXITs before it this game has no game board! But it also has no cards; instead in this new addition to the EXIT series there are four puzzles which you will find during play and assemble one section at a time one puzzle after another. Each puzzle creates an image that will show you what you need to find in the game and what each room looks like.At the start of the game all you have available to you are the puzzle bag containing pieces with a grayish-blue back and no pattern and the decoder disk. But there are also strange items to be found within the game that may be used to help solve the riddles found in each of the puzzles.The game ends when you have solved the last riddle and saved the Professor and the Temple!Difficulty Level: 3 of 5.

Cyberion

Cyberion

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–2

Game Type:

Strategy

The factory of the world of dreams is on the brink of destruction! The Evil Cogs have sabotaged all the machines and it is only a matter of minutes before everything implodes. At the head of a robot squad will you manage to repair the factory before all the failsafes have collapsed?Cyberion is a game of hand-management and you must use your robot cards wisely either to repair the machine cards or to trigger powerful effects. The machines get harder to repair throughout the game but you'll also have opportunities to increase the magnitude of the effects your robot can trigger.—description from the designer

Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc.

Adventure Games: Monochrome Inc.

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

Game Type:

Thematic

Explore places combine items and experience stories in Adventure Games a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together players explore common areas talk to people look for clues and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make the course of history changes and there is no going back!Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said many different paths can be experienced during play with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed so the games can be played multiple times.In Monochrome Inc. players have been instructed to break into the research building named in the game's title and once they get inside this tower's mirrored windows they are left on their own. What they find there what conclusions they draw from these items and how this nerve-wracking story ends is entirely in their hands. Only by co-ordinating their team will they avoid potential pitfalls carry out their mission and solve the mystery of this building.

Noobs in Space

Noobs in Space

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 3–5

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Uncategorized

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You are a team of newbie astronauts sent on an actual mission in an actual spaceship in actual outer space! Exciting right? It would be...if any of you actually knew what you were doing. Would have been nice to have at least one experienced pilot on board but now that you're here you'll just have to figure it out as you go along.In Noobs in Space a team of three to five players must complete a series of tasks and challenges together using what little knowledge you have. Not all hope is lost because each of you has a small part of the solution; you just need to figure out how to put it all together. While one player may know the task at hand but not have the resources to implement it those resources may be shared among three other players. They on the other hand do not know what is necessary based on the information they have. Since players cannot show cards to each other there must be a lot of clear communication and interaction by describing or reading out cards in order to gradually find out what should be done — and all of this must be done as quickly as possible.The story leads through several levels and each level consists of several tasks so the whole game is an action-packed event from beginning to end.

Exit: The Game + Puzzle – The Deserted Lighthouse

Exit: The Game + Puzzle – The Deserted Lighthouse

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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You trudge along the dark rocky coast seeking shelter from the raging storm. Drenched to the bone you look up to see a brilliant beam of light pierce the curtains of rain. A lighthouse! But suddenly and inexplicably the light goes out. You glance out into the water and spot a ship. It is heading straight for the cliffs! You realize that it is up to you to race to the top of the lighthouse and turn it on again before the ship crashes on the cliffs! But many puzzling obstacles stand in your way...In Exit: The Game + Puzzle – The Deserted Lighthouse there are riddles within riddles hidden within four 88-piece jigsaw puzzles. Like other Exit titles The Deserted Lighthouse has no game board but it also has no riddle cards. Instead there are four jigsaw puzzles that you will find and assemble one at a time. Each completed puzzle reveals a location containing more riddles to decipher.In EXIT The Game: The Deserted Lighthouse you must work to solve the riddles and reach the lighthouse’s top to activate its beacon saving the approaching ship before it smashes against the rocks and sinks to the bottom of the sea.At the start of the game all you have available to you are the puzzle bag containing pieces with a grayish-blue back and no pattern and the decoder disk. But there are also strange items to be found within the game that may be used to help solve the riddles found in each of the puzzles.The game ends when you have solved the last riddle and reactivated the lighthouse beacon to save the ship from sinking.Difficulty Level: 4 of 5.—description from the publisher

Mental Blocks

Mental Blocks

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–9

Game Type:

Party

Mental Blocks is a game of puzzling perspectives with players trying to complete a puzzle using oversized foam blocks despite seeing only one perspective of the design. You have to co-operate to complete the puzzle as a team but you have a time limit so don't just sit around staring at the pieces. In addition to the time pressure players have other challenges such as not being able to talk or to touch certain color blocks.Mental Blocks features sixty puzzles: thirty family mode puzzles and thirty challenge mode puzzles that ramp in difficulty. For an even wilder game you can add a traitor to the table to block your block-building...

Order Overload: Cafe

Order Overload: Cafe

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–6

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Uncategorized

You and your fellow players work in a coffee shop in Order Overload: Cafe and to keep your jobs you need to keep a handle on all the orders coming in. Will you be able to make the right drinks?In a round you deal a certain number of cards face up and read them aloud so that everyone knows all the orders placed then you deal these cards out face down to the players. On a turn you need to name an order that's in someone else's hand. Fail to do so and you're eliminated from play! If you collectively reveal a set number of drinks before everyone is eliminated then you clear the level and are ready to take on tougher challenges...What's the highest level you can clear?

Biss 20

Biss 20

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–8

Game Type:

Uncategorized

In Biss 20 you count from 1 to 20 together with each player saying one number in turn.Okay that sounds simple! And it would be if not for Fritz the bat who keeps coming up with new rules that you need to remember — and just when you've remembered one rule he's already waiting around the corner with the next one. How many rules can you recall?—description from the publisher

Stellarion

Stellarion

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–2

Game Type:

Family

You are the director of the Observatory. With your telescopes aimed at the stars planets and nebulas of the Oniverse you are ready to launch daring spaceships into the skies.Stellarion the seventh entry in the Oniverse series is a deck-management game. All the cards you need are split into eight decks and you know the contents of each one. You'll need to manage all these resources to ensure that you have the right cards available at the right time.—description from the designer

Greenville 1989

Greenville 1989

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 3–6

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Uncategorized

Greenville 1989 is a co-operative narrative game in which each player represents a character who has experienced or witnessed supernatural events. They must describe these events to their fellow players who must then locate this character and save them. This lead role changes each round giving everyone the chance to be lost or found — and you want to be found or else the group is pulled closer to the void engulfing the town that threatens to consume you all.Greenville 1989 has a sequel (ten years later): Paris 1889

Mysterium Kids: Captain Echo's Treasure

Mysterium Kids: Captain Echo's Treasure

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–6

Game Type:

Children's

Legend has it that the old mansion on the outskirts of the city is home to a fabulous treasure! Hoping to find it you decide to spend the night there. You are about to give up when the ghost of Captain Echo appears to help you find his treasure. He isn’t much of a talker but he plays a mean tambourine and he’s going to use it to tell you which rooms to search in!Players cooperate to find Captain’s treasure before the moon has traveled across the sky and the night is over. Each round one player becomes the Ghost of Captain Echo. The Ghost must use a tambourine to give clues that help the other players guess the correct Noise card. If they do they get to reveal a piece of the Captain’s treasure.—description from the publisher