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Chronicles of Drunagor: Age of Darkness

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–5

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Card Game Dice Exploration Fantasy Miniatures

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Daren has always been a land mired in conflict – from the moment the Mortal Races met in its rolling hills tall peaks and primeval forests there was bound to be strife between its wary peoples. With the discovery of Magic however came the potential for dramatic change in the world – for good or evil. Centuries after the discovery of the Art magic has shaped the fears and hopes of countless people and the heroes and villains that wield it have decided the fate of nations over all these years. Yet for all this struggle a tenuous balance remained between those who seek to strengthen all Mortal Races and those that seek to lord over them. Little do they know however that amidst the shadowed boughs of the Dead Irall an ancient evil seeks to rule once again. Few are aware that the fate of the land now lies with brave heroes who are the only ones who can prevent the oncoming Age of Darkness.Chronicles of Drunagor - Age of Darkness is a fully cooperative and strategy board game of tactical combat in a dungeon crawl adventure for one to five players. CoD-AoD is based on multiple 3D scenarios each of them played separately or on a continuous storyline. Each scenario has its own unique setup darkness rules and different goals that will be needed to be achieved in order to obtain victory. Played over a series of rounds until either the chosen adventure objective is achieved by the heroes or a single hero dies or is corrupted by the darkness itself. The order of activation is dictated by the initiative track and it alternates between heroes monsters and the darkness itself. Once they all activate a round is over and a new one begins so players win or lose as a team. The game is won when the adventure objectives are met. The game is lost when one player is either killed or corrupted by darkness.On a hero’s turn he can freely move up to 3 spaces (orthogonal and or diagonal are permitted) and spend 2 of his action cubes to trigger his abilities. If when passing his turn he no longer has any cubes on his available action cubes pool he must perform a recall action. On a monster activation he will always move to attack the heroes. Or if he`s in range of his target he will attack without even move. Each monster has its own primary target located on his card at the initiative track. On the darkness activation draw from the bag the number of darkness tokens dictated by the chosen adventure and follow the darkness rules for that adventure.As you go by the different adventures your heroes will find themselfs in a wide variety of scenarios and instead of only reading thru the descriptions of the place you are the game will show you beautifull illustrations of what you can see and how you can interact with the scenario. Every choice on how you interact with certain things could possibly change the way your adventure continues. Maybe you will find a secret passage or maybe you can find a locked chest the choice is up to you.Choose one of the heroes and take upon this quest to defeat the power of evil and the everlasting darkness from the land of Daren.—description from the publisher

Pioneer Days

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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American West Dice

Saddle up and guide your wagon train along the perilous Oregon Trail! Build a team of hardy folk and gather resources and equipment with a unique dice drafting system. But dangers await in the dice you don't choose! You can hire townsfolk buy wagons pan for gold and take on cattle — all the while preparing for inevitable raids storms and famine. Who will best face the perils of the wild frontier and lead their wagon train to victory?Pioneer Days is a dice-drafting game reminiscent of The Oregon Trail. While you pursue your strategy you must be prepared for impending disasters such as storms disease raids and famine.Round by round players draw dice out of the bag roll them then take turns drafting one to either collect silver hire a townsfolk or take an action based on the die value. Townsfolk confer immediate or constant benefits as well as end game scoring bonuses while actions help you collect wood medicine cattle equipment and gold nuggets. The unchosen die each round advances one of the disaster tracks based on its color and when a disaster gets to the end of its track all players must deal with its effects:At the end of each round you can satisfy the current town's favor conditions in order to earn their favor. Prepare for the disasters while you pursue your strategy and earn the most points to win the game!

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2

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Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Dice Settlers

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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American West Civilization Dice Exploration Territory Building

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With a piece of land to call your own a handful of resources a few families and a head full of dreams you embark on a journey of a lifetime. Beyond lies the New World full of opportunities to make your dreams of a new home a reality. But beware other settlers have come here as well and although their beginnings are as humble as yours each of them will want to influence these new lands as much as you. Will you become the most powerful?Dice Settlers is a civilization dice game of pool building resource gathering and area control. Each turn players reach into their bags of dice roll and choose their own actions: from exploring new lands and building the board through gathering resources and trading to developing technologies which offer new abilities each player chooses their own path to victory.A changing board a set of different technologies every time you play and a vast array of available strategies await!

Cosmic Frog

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–6

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Animals Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Cosmic Frog is a game of collection combat and theft on a planetary scale. Each player controls a two-mile-tall immortal invulnerable frog-like creature that exists solely to gather terrain from the Shards of Aeth the fragments of a long-ago shattered world. The First Ones seek to use the lands from the Shards to reconstruct the world of Aeth and your frogs are their terrain harvesters.At the start of the game your frogs descend from the Aether the cosmic sea between the worlds onto a terrain-rich Shard of Aeth. Once on the Shard you harvest land and store it in your massive gullet. When your gullet is sufficiently full you leap into the Aether and disgorge your gullet contents into your inter-dimensional vault for permanent storage then return to the Shard to collect more land. Although your frogs' collective mission is to gather as much land as possible for the First Ones your private goal is to prove yourself to be the greatest of their harvesters by delivering to them the most valuable vault. To do this you have to fill your vault strategically in a manner that both maximizes linear sets of identical lands and maximizes the diversity of lands in your vault at the end of the game.Throughout the game you're free to keep to yourself and focus on harvesting at your own pace...or you may attack other frogs and try to take lands directly from their gullets. You may even raid another frog's vault and steal the lands they have gathered if they have been knocked into the dreaded Outer Dimensions. As you are all immortal and invulnerable no frog is ever wounded or killed — just irritated and inconvenienced.But don't ever get too comfortable with your carefully crafted plans as the Aether is a chaotic and unstable place. Waves of Aether Flux will prompt you to mutate and you may have to change your strategy in accordance with your new powers. And Splinters of Aeth tiny slivers of the old world that swirl madly about in the Aether will periodically fall from their orbit and crash into the Shard destroying large areas of terrain and blasting apart the very Shard itself!The game ends when the Shard is stripped of all harvestable land or when a Splinter shatters it. When the game ends the player with the highest valued vault wins and the frogs move to the next Shard to gather more land for the First Ones...—description from the publisher

Thanos Rising: Avengers Infinity War

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Thanos Rising: Avengers Infinity War is a cooperative dice and card game for 2-4 players.In the game players recruit heroes and assemble a team to face off against Thanos and his villainous forces in an effort to thwart him from accomplishing his master plan: Collecting all six Infinity Stones to power the Infinity Gauntlet and wreak havoc on the very fabric of reality. Building upon the strengths of the characters on their team as well as other players winning requires critical thinking and communication to reach a common goal.

Nokosu Dice

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 3–5

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Abstract Strategy Dice Puzzle

Nokosu Dice is a trick-taking game for 3 to 5 players each playing Number Cards and dice in their hand to win mini-games and score points against the other players over multiple rounds. In each trick each player plays a card or die from their hand and the winner of the trick score a point. There is also a chance to win bonus points at the end of each round if the number of the tricks won in the round matches the last dice left OR if a player declares they would not win any trick for the round and actually won no trick.

Noctiluca

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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Abstract

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On the warmest nights of the year the otherwise quiet waters are filled with shimmering lights as the dormant noctiluca awaken. Renowned for their restorative properties the noctiluca are desired by many healers. Only the most skilled divers can navigate the waters to collect these mysterious glowing creatures and deliver them to healers across the land. Can you catch the embers of the sea?In Noctiluca 104 colorful translucent dice fill the pool on the game board to represent the different glowing noctiluca. Players take turns diving into the water from the edges of the shore to collect the noctiluca dice from the board and keep them safely in jars until they can deliver them to healers. After two rounds players compare points from their successful deliveries and the player with the most points wins.Thanks to a double-sided game board Noctiluca also includes a solo mode in which one player must rescue the noctiluca from the tempest.—description from the publisher

Nautilion

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–2

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Dice Fantasy Nautical

Description from the designer:Nautilion is a dice game in the Oniverse series!Take the helm of a Nautilion submarine and recruit a heroic crew to vanquish the treacherous Darkhouse that lurks in the oceanic depths. You must get to the Abyss lair of the Darkhouse before the Phantom Submarine (his henchman) reaches your homeland the Happy Isles — but to defeat the Darkhouse not only must you be faster than the Phantom Submarine you must also assemble the submarine's crew along the way.Each turn you roll three dice and give one to each of these figures: the Nautilion the Phantom Submarine and the Darkhouse. The dice of the Nautilion and the Phantom Submarine move those figures along a path formed by Crew tokens: the Nautilion from the Happy Isles towards the Abyss; the Phantom Submarine in the opposite direction. The crew token on which your Nautilion ends its move joins your submarine the one the Phantom Submarine reaches is lost!Only four copies exist of each of the nine different tokens so you have to decide carefully which die you need and which you can leave to your enemies. (The Darkhouse doesn't move but inflicts damage to you each time he gets a die with a high value.) To win you need to reach the Abyss with a full crew of nine different tokens.Five expansions are included with the game adding new crew members powers treacheries and challenges.

Steampunk Rally Fusion

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–8

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Dice Racing Science Fiction

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Steampunk Rally Fusion is a standalone game that can be combined with the original Steampunk Rally. It introduces new tracks with unique event cards new part abilities (Gear Up and Overcharge) and a new card type: Secret Projects. It also debuts new custom dice representing powerful Fusion energy!Take on the role of ingenious inventors from history. Draft cards to invent your racing contraption. Power your creation's abilities with combinations of steam heat electricity and Fusion dice. Use cogs to augment bad dice rolls and upgrade certain machine parts.Smashing through damaging terrain spaces may cause parts to fly off your machine constantly forcing you to adapt your strategy and discover new card synergies. Fortune favors the brash so get ready to Gear Up Overcharge your machine and remake history!—description from the publisher

Tiny Epic Pirates

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Exploration Nautical Pirates

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Tiny Epic Pirates is a 45 minute 1-4 player game of high-seas adventure utilizing a variable rondel action system and action combo-ing!. In Tiny Epic Pirates you take control of a Pirate ship with the goal of burying vast amounts of wealth on secret island hideaways.Each turn you move your Captain Token around your ship’s action wheel (rondel) selecting which action to perform... Plunder Trade Crew Up Attack or Search. Each player has a randomized and unique arrangement of these actions on their rondel. Sailing your Pirate Ship is something every player can do every time they take an action. Plundering allows you to acquire booty from settlements at a very reasonable rate. It’s amazing how negotiating changes when your blunderbuss is at the ready. A crate of gunpowder for a promise of no harm? Fair exchange. Trading allows you to sell your ill-gotten goods to the Black Market for gold. Each Market is only interested in a specific good so make sure you are sailing in the right direction. Timing is everything sell your good at the wrong time and it’s worth a pittance. Crew Up adds a new crew member to your growing Pirate Ship. Crew increases your ship’s combat advantage and unlocks new abilities for each spoke of your ship’s action wheel making that action more powerful every time you take it! Attacking Merchant Ships and other Pirates will grow your reputation. It also happens to be a great way to score some gold and more booty to sell. Be enough of a menace and you may just become a Legend of the Sea!Search the high-seas for treasures left behind by the unfortunate souls that preceded you. Salvage old ship parts for temporary aid or get lucky and find something worth selling.The end of the game is triggered once a player has buried three treasures. To do this a player must first acquire the amount of gold required to bury at the various bury spots on the map. After all players have had an equal number of turns. The player who has buried three treasures wins the game. Ties are decided by the player who has the highest legendary status followed by which player has the most gold.--description from the publisher

Discordia

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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Ancient City Building Civilization Dice

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The first cities on the Rhine emerged from Roman outposts protecting the border with Germania. As the governor of one of these cities your task is to develop it in the best possible way while also defending it against the Germanic tribes. Empress Agrippina and her son Nero will inspect your actions and honor the most successful governor.In 'Discordia' you develop your city by building farms barracks defenses harbors and markets and by trading with ships. Use your seamen soldiers merchants and farmers profitably fulfill decrees and secure privileges — acting carefully at all times so that your city grows neither too fast nor too slow. Will you have the best-developed city at the end of the fourth year or will you manage to impress the empress before then and win the game early?—description from the publisher

Amsterdam

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Amsterdam is a reimplementation of Macao with a new setting improved card balance and new gameplay elements. It challenges players to build combinations of abilities as well as to correctly calculate the advantage of delayed gratification for actions.In the game players are merchants in Amsterdam near the turn of the 20th century. At the start of the game two district cards are placed on each of the twelve spaces on the designated board. At the beginning of a round the next two district cards as well as two building and two profession cards (each from a deck of 54 of each type) are drawn to form the offer of six cards. Each of these cards has a cost in colored action cubes and grants a new action special ability or way to score points. In turn order each player takes a card from those on offer. Finally a market card is revealed that allows players to exchange money for victory points on their turn.Next the six colored dice are rolled. Each player decides which of the six dice they would like (players may choose the same die) then takes as many action cubes in that color as the number of pips. Players place their new action cubes on their rotatable windrose as many spaces in the future as the number on the dice. Finally the wheel is spun so that players gain access to all cubes that were located on the 1 space of their windrose.Action cubes are used to purchase cards that a player has taken claim one of the nine types of goods around the city of Amsterdam and ferry goods or workers through canals to warehouses. Players earn points for delivering their goods as well as for bonuses on cards they purchase and the player with the most points at the end of the twelfth round wins.

Favor of the Pharaoh

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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In ancient Egypt even a lowly peasant could seek an audience with the Pharaoh and in Favor of the Pharaoh 2–4 players vie for the Pharaoh's favor by working their way up through Egyptian society gathering influence (represented by dice and powers) to gain entry to the next level of society. Once any player gains the Queen's influence a final contest occurs for the Pharaoh's favor.Favor of the Pharaoh tasks players with building a dice-rolling engine—not to mention adding and manipulating dice—in preparation for a final roll-off between all players to gain the Pharaoh's favor and win the game.Favor of the Pharaoh includes more than one hundred tiles over twenty standard and custom dice dozens of bonus tokens level bars locking pyramids and more. With so many combinations of level bars and tiles no two games will ever be set up the same!

Corinth

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Under a blazing sun in 4th century BCE traders come from all corners of the Mediterranean Sea to Corinth to sell their goods; Persian carpets Cretan olive oil Roman grapes and Egyptian spices are highly prized by traders. Players have a few weeks to secure their place in Corinthian lore as its most savvy trader!Corinth is a roll-and-write game akin to a dice-only version of the board game Yspahan. At the start of a turn the active player rolls nine dice then places all the dice with the highest value on the gold space at the top of the chart then starts placing dice from the bottom of the chart up with each value of dice being on a separate level.The active player takes all the dice on one level then the action associated with that level. The top level gives the player as many gold as the number of dice they took; the bottom level gives goats instead of gold; and the middle levels allow a player to deliver goods to a number of market stalls on their personal player sheet equal to the dice claimed. (You have four colors of market stalls and once you start marking off say rugs in one of the blue areas you have to finish marking off all the rugs in that area before you can start marking off another blue area.)The active player can spend gold to roll up to three extra yellow dice and thereby increase the odds of getting to take a desired level; if the active player doesn't take any of these yellow dice they are removed from play preventing others from benefitting at that player's expense.Instead of marking off gold goats or goods you can use the value of the die or dice claimed (1-6) to move the steward on your personal score sheet. The steward starts in the middle of a 5x5 grid on your sheet and you must move it as many spaces as the number of pips on the die value claimed not crossing over any line you've drawn previously. You can pay 1 gold to move the steward one more or one fewer space and you can pay as much gold as you want to do this. You can receive gold goats or goods from where the steward stops but beyond that you can earn points. When the steward stops on a corner space of this grid you count the number of spaces circled to this point with some spaces counting twice then you write down that number scoring that many points at game's end. If you stop in another corner later you do the same thing again which compounds the value of all your previous movement.You can spend gold or goats to construct buildings that give you bonus powers such as collecting two additional gold whenever you collect any gold or moving the steward up to two spaces more or less without paying.After 16 turns (with four players) or 18 turns (with two or three players) the game ends and you tally points for goods delivered spaces visited by the steward buildings constructed and goats and gold still on hand.

Machi Koro 2

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–5

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Your favorite lovably quirky city is back at it again! Welcome to Machi Koro 2 where new adventures await but the bakeries and business centers still abound.In Machi Koro 2 veteran players will notice some big changes. Under the new zoning laws players receive a limited budget to choose their own starting establishments. The available cards are pulled from three decks and arranged for all to see. It's a race to grab the coolest new establishments and landmarks in the land!The cards in this set have exciting never-before-seen effects. But choose what you build wisely as your landmarks might also benefit your opponents! With more variety than ever before no two games will be the same. Machi Koro 2 will have fans visiting again and again!—description from publisher

Machi Koro Legacy

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Machi Koro Legacy features the same gameplay as Machi Koro. You are still rolling dice you are still collecting income and you are still racing to build landmarks — but then you unlock the [censored] and you start earning a little extra income by [censored] and then you start to explore the [censored] and you have to make a choice between [censored] and [censored]. Even if you aren't in contention to win a given game you still have [censored] to set up exciting [censored] for the next one. And then the [paragraph deleted]...Machi Koro Legacy features a ten-game series that tells a complete story set in the world of Machi Koro in which player choices create a unique gameplay experience.—description from the publisher

Space Cadets: Dice Duel

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 4–8

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Dice Fighting Party Game Real-time Science Fiction Space Exploration

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Your plan is quickly coming together. Simplicity itself. Just continue to close the gap to the enemy and launch when within range. Your crew is well-trained and work quickly at their stations just the edge you need to come out on top.“Engineering power to Helm. Move forward and close the distance to the enemy. Keep shields in the front. We're going straight in”. You can feel the bridge vibrate slightly as the engines come up to speed.“Captain all sensors are on weapon lock” says the Sensor Officer. “You can fire at will.”A slight smirk crosses your face. “On my mark! Launch both tor... Wait where did they go?” You look at the viewscreen puzzled with a growing sense of unease.Sensors starts shouting. “Crystal Warp! Captain they've done a crystal warp and they're directly behind us!”From your right comes the panicked voice of the Shields officer. “Umm Captain... All of our shields are to the front!”You start barking out orders. “Shields use the crystal we captured to raise the aft shield. Weapons start to move the torpedoes to the rear tubes! Helm get us out of here!”The crew gets to work but you look on in horror as two torpedoes lance out from your nemesis...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Space Cadets: Dice Duel – the Team vs. Team Real-time Dice-Rolling Game of Starship Combat! – pits two spaceships against one another in quick-paced combat. The players are divided into two teams each team playing the crew of a ship and winning or losing together based on how well they perform. The game ends when one side destroys their opponent by causing four points of damage through torpedoes or mines. Each ship has six Bridge Stations:Each player is in charge of one or more of these stations or has the overall role of Captain to coordinate everything. There are no game turns in Space Cadets: Dice Duel; instead the game continues with players acting as quickly as possible until one side wins.

Dice Throne: Season Two – Tactician v. Huntress

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2

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Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Rating: 7.9 | Players: 2

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

Rating: 9.2 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy Video Game Theme

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The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a 1-4 player cooperative tabletop adventure set during Tamriel's Second Era – specifically during the events of the Planemeld as the Order of the Black Worm plots to secure the Amulet of Kings. As the dark cult schemes however one of its members is planning an even darker betrayal one that will tie Tamriel in with Oblivion forever. Adventurers work to uncover her machinations and stop her plot amid a bevy of endlessly replayable content. As in The Elder Scrolls video games players will travel on an epic journey balancing exploration character building dungeon diving and close quarters combat.Each adventure in the game takes place over the course of three gameplay sessions with sessions being roughly two hours plus an additional half hour per player in length. Players customize and control a single hero throughout all three sessions of an adventure as they manage multiple skill lines classes and experience the many regions of Tamriel each with their own unique flavor and mechanics. Experience points are handed out generously allowing players to build interesting and unique characters in the consolidated timespan required in a tabletop experience. Session to session progression is meaningful but players are not required to remember complex narrative points or play with the same group forever.

Batman: The Animated Series Adventures – Shadow of the Bat

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Comic Book / Strip Dice Miniatures Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Running off IDW Games' miniatures-driven Adventures Universal Game System (AUGS) engine Batman: The Animated Series Adventures – Shadow of the Bat allows players to take the role of any hero in their roster in the game's 24 unique missions which areall inspired by fan-favorite episodes. Even villains can be swapped out in every mission to change up the threats that players will face.In Shadow of the Bat 1-4 players take to the streets as Batman Batgirl Robin Commissioner Gordon and Catwoman each with their own unique character abilities skills and custom dice. They have to work together to take down the likes of Two-Face The Penguin Mr. Freeze The Riddler Scarecrow Man-Bat The Joker and Harley Quinn. As with other AUGS games villains can be controlled by the game itself for full co-op play or by a fifth player. AUGS' modularity means that players can even create their own dream scenarios and teams including bringing in elements from other AUGS products.

Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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The harvest is in and now it's time to celebrate! The emperor has declared that this shall be the best harvest festival yet.In Lanterns Dice: Lights in the Sky players act as artisans decorating the palace lake with floating lanterns and launching fireworks to light up the sky. The player who earns the most honor has made the best impression on the emperor and wins.In more detail roll dice and choose which colored lanterns players can fill on their scoresheets. Earn gifts to perform special actions fill in additional colored lanterns and create powerful combinations. Cover completed shapes with fireworks tiles to score points and put on a spectacular show!

Windward

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Aviation / Flight Dice Miniatures Nautical

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You are a captain flying your Ship on the skies of the gaseous planet Celus. Gain the most notoriety by sailing the skies hunting crestors fighting opponents. Whichever player has the most notoriety points at the end of the game is the winner. To gain notoriety you can trade in Crestor teeth and gas at the trading post.Players take turns to move their ships take actions use supply cards and battle other players.

The A.R.T. Project

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–6

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Dice Travel

You are part of the Art Rescue Team with the aim of fighting against The White Hand an organization responsible for many thefts of priceless works across the planet. Your team of specialists the best in their field will travel from Japan to Rio de Janeiro via Scandinavia in order to recover stolen works of art. Will you manage to gather together enough clues in the allotted time to stop this cultural looting?In the co-operative game The A.R.T. Project you play together against the game. Each player draws two mission cards at the beginning of each round then all players decide the order of the round. Your jerrycan reserves weapons allies and clues are all held in common and their management is essential. When you play a mission you spend common resources and find clues that will be useful to everyone. Try to save seven works before the end of the mission deck...—description from the publisher

Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.The Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man Starter Set features fan favorite characters like Spider-Man Ghost Rider Kingpin and more! Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man premieres the Sinister Six Allies Underdogs and other exciting mechanics!With gameplay that supports two players in epic dice battles Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man will let players build their own team of heroes or villains! The Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man Starter Set is perfect for the Dice Masters veteran or someone looking to jump into the game fresh!Introducing more than 30 heroes and villains (and their dice!) Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man will be sure to stick out as a highlight of your Dice Masters collections!The Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man Gravity Feed features fan favorite characters like Spider-Man Gwen Stacy Aunt May Blink The Sinister Six Agent Venom Cloak Dagger and more!Marvel Dice Masters: The Amazing Spider-Man has brand new mechanics for Allies and Underdogs. Even when the odds are against Spider-Man he’ll surprise you with some new tricks!

Back to the Future: Dice Through Time

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Great Scott! Biff stole the DeLorean and went on a joyride through time disrupting events and scattering items through space and time! Now it’s up to you to help Doc and Marty repair the space-time continuum before time paradoxes unravel the very fabric of the universe. Jump in your time machine complete events return items and help! The future is in your hands!In this cooperative dice game you’ll take control of a DeLorean and travel through the entire Back to the Future film trilogy completing memorable events and returning key items to their proper place and time before the OUTATIME tracker reaches “Game Over.” Each round you and your fellow players will roll dice to determine your actions which include time travel moving meddling members of the Tannen family and more.You’ll use your dice to complete events from the films. Once an event is complete you’ll draw an item card which you’ll need to return by traveling to the year and location listed on the card. Then the OUTATIME tracker is reduced — buying you more time — and you earn an Einstein token. Einstein tokens provide one action anyone can use later. In a pinch you can even ripple dice by placing them on your space the board allowing other players in future years to pick them up and use them!After everyone has taken their actions advance the OUTATIME tracker depending on which year has the most unsolved events. Finally add Paradox tokens to all unsolved events on the board. In later rounds these will cause the OUTATIME tracker to go up even faster! Return all the items before the OUTATIME tracker reaches “Game Over” to win!

Zooloretto: The Dice Game

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

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Zooloretto: The Dice Game takes the basic Zooloretto / Coloretto game play – on a turn either add to the offerings on display or take one set of offerings – and replaces the cards with dice so that you'll never know which animals will pop up for you to take. Each player has her own scoresheet which represents her zoo with space for five types of animals: one crocodile two ostriches up to five lions. The scoresheet also has space to collect coins and barns for animals that don't fit in the appropriate pens.Dice can be placed in separate carts and the number of dice is limited to six eight or ten depending on the number of players. The round continues until each player has taken dice from a cart then a new round begins. The first player to fill the pen of a particular type of animal receives a bonus; if a player takes more animals than she has room for however she ticks off the barn for each type of overflow animal.The game ends once a player has filled all her animal pens or has space in only one pen. Players score one point for each animal and any bonus points they received; they lose two points for each barn ticked off but for each group of coins collected one penalty can be ignored. (Alternatively coin groups are worth one point.) The player with the highest score wins!

Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–4

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City Building Civilization Dice

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Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write is a standalone game set in the universe of Imperial Settlers and Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North. The game is heavily focused on engine building! Constructing buildings grants you a special bonus and with each passing turn the game offers you more choices as your empire gains momentum.Imperial Settlers: Roll & Write has two game modes. The standard mode is a 2-4 player competitive challenge in which you try to gain more points than your opponents. The adventure mode for a single player offers 48 unique game sheets. Each sheet presents unique challenges and gameplay as players have different buildings at the start. Tweak your engine and get as many points as you can! Grab your pencil roll your dice and create the most prosperous empire!

Martian Dice

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 2–99

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Dice Humor Party Game Science Fiction

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Your mission Martians is to swoop down on the pathetic denizens of the primitive planet Earth and scoop up as many of the inhabitants as you can manage. We are interested in samples of the Chicken Cow and Human populations so that we can determine which of them is actually in charge. The Earthlings might manage to put up a feeble defense but surely nothing that a small taste of your Death Rays can't handle. Make Mars proud – be the first Martian to fill your abduction quota!In Martian Dice you will roll 13 custom dice in an effort to set aside (abduct) Humans Chickens and Cows. With each roll you must first set aside any Tanks representing the human military coming to fend off your alien invasion. Then you may choose one type of die to set aside as well - one of the earthlings to abduct or Death Rays to combat the military. At the end of your turn if you have at least as many Death Rays as Tanks then you may abduct the earthlings you've been setting aside. You can't pick any type of Earthling twice in one turn but if you manage to abduct at least one of each you'll score a bonus!With each roll you will ask yourself do you feel lucky?

Rolling America

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–99

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Dice Number Puzzle

Rolling America based on the 2014 release Rolling Japan is a light multiplayer solitaire dice game. Each player has a map of the United States that's divided into fifty (abstractly represented) states which are then bunched together into six differently colored areas.On a turn a player draws two regular six-sided dice from a bag and rolls them; the bag starts with seven dice six matching the colors of the areas on the map along with a wild clear die. All players now write down each number rolled on any state of the matching color i.e. if the blue die shows 4 and the yellow a 2 write a 4 in one blue state and a 2 in one yellow state. If the clear die is rolled you can place this number in a state of your choice; additionally three times per game you can choose to use a non-clear die as any color. However neighboring states can't have numbers with a difference larger than 1; if you can't place a number without breaking this rule then you must place an X in a state of the appropriate color. (If all the states in an area are filled you can ignore the die or use one of your three color changes to place the number elsewhere.)Rolling America has a few changes from Rolling Japan. The guard action allows you to ignore the neighboring number restriction three times during the game and the dupe action allows you to use one of the active dice twice in the same region. As in real life Alaska and Hawaii are not connected to the continental United States so you can drop any numbers you want in those states!After six dice have been rolled mark one round as being complete then return the dice to the bag and start the next round. After eight rounds the game ends and whoever has the fewest Xs on their map wins.

Vengeance

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Mafia Miniatures Puzzle

Description from the publisher:Step into the shoes of a hero that has been bashed and tortured by one or more of the four gangs in the game. You win by building up your hero scouting gang dens to find the baddies who wronged you then taking bloody revenge through action-packed fight sequences made up of dice based puzzles.Vengeance alternates between montage turns and fight turns. In montage turns players heal and upgrade their heroes through new abilities and items. They also go out scouting gang dens to find the bosses who wronged them and take revenge on them in the fight turn.The fight turn is the heart of the game. Players pick one of the scouted gang dens containing a boss who has wronged them and burst into the gang den to exact bloody revenge. Players gain VPs for killing the boss clearing the den from all the minions or for maximum points both. Players have three turns to do this and get out of the den in one piece.Fights are basically dice-based puzzles. In each round of the fight players roll a set of dice and decide the order in which they play the rolled results. Upgrade skills and items allow players to swap die-results for others or string together a number of results to perform enemy-slapping combos. Upgrades thus work towards mitigating the luck of the die-roll giving players more control over their Fight actions.Players score points by killing bosses who wronged them i.e. matching the figure on their vengeance card with one of the face down Boss cards attached to each den and/or by clearing all minions of a gang which matches the color of a vengeance card they have in play.At the end of the game players also score bonus victory points through three mission cards in play.

King of Tokyo: Duel

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

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Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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As night falls on Tokyo two massive silhouettes rise from the smoke snaking up from destroyed skyscrapers. There can be only one who will be crowned King of Tokyo either by annihilating their rival or by inspiring terror and awe from the crowds.King of Tokyo Duel is a two-player tug-of-war dice game in the King of Tokyo line. Choose your uniquely-powered monster and roll new dice to draw the fame and destruction tokens toward you...or smash your rival with new special power cards to become the ultimate King of Tokyo!—description from the publisher

Dragoon

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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You and your fellow dragons have lived peacefully on your island...until now. The invasion of humans has awakened your instincts to dominate and hoard as much gold as you can get your claws on!Dragoon is an action strategy game with an ever-changing landscape. Village and city tiles populate the map each round using a coordinate system. During your turn choose between claiming villages and cities that pay you tribute or destroying them out right for instant gold. Challenge other players in dragon-to-dragon combat before they lay waste to your empire or enter your cave to steal your riches. You’re never out of the game until the last gold coin is snatched up!When game night strikes with a mixed experience group Dragoon is quick to learn and get started. Gaming vets and newcomers alike can have fun competing as 2-4 playable dragons.

Mino Dice

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 3–6

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Dice Pirates

In Mino Dice first released as Skull King: Das Würfelspiel players try to predict the result of dice battles and whoever predicts most accurately will come out the winner of the contest.The game includes seven types of dice: minotaurs griffins mermaids and four types of number dice. The game lasts 6-8 hands depending on the number of players and in each round each player draws a number of dice from the bag equal to the current hand e.g. five dice for the fifth hand then places them behind their screen keeping these dice a secret from all. After getting their dice each player simultaneously bids the number of tricks they think they'll claim during the round by putting out fingers on their hand. Record these bids on the scoresheet.The first player in a hand chooses a die from behind their screen then rolls it in public. If they roll a number die each other player must roll a number die of this color if possible; otherwise they roll a die of their choice. Alternatively a player can always roll a minotaur griffin or mermaid die. After each player has rolled see who has the highest die and claims this trick. A rolled flag is a 0 and cannot win the trick. The minotaur beats the griffin which beats the mermaid which beats the minotaur — and all of these special characters beat numbers. If no one rolls a special character the highest number rolled wins the trick with a tie being broken in favor of whoever rolled later. The player who wins the trick collects the dice in front of their screen then chooses a die from their collection to start the next trick.After all the tricks have been claimed players score points. If you made your bid exactly score 20 points per trick bid; if you missed your bid lose 10 points for each trick your bid was off whether higher or lower. If you bid zero tricks and make it score 10 points for each trick in the hand; if you miss a 0 bid lose 10 points for each trick in the hand regardless of how many tricks you made. If you made your bid and captured a minotaur with a mermaid without also capturing a flag score 50 bonus points; similarly if you capture a griffin with a minotaur without capturing a flag score 30 bonus points.Whoever has the highest total score after the last hand is complete wins.

Merchants of Magick: A Set a Watch Tale

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–8

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Dice Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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In Merchants of Magick which takes place in the Set a Watch universe you are the owner of a magic item shoppe crafting items and researching spells to sell to the Adventurers of the Watch.Each round four polyhedral dice are rolled then you select two of them to craft items or research enchantments for your shoppe. As you craft items and research spells you start stocking items and earn potions that let you manipulate the dice. Adventurers travel from shoppe to shoppe so you need to stock the exact items on the order cards in front of you. If you have an item an Adventurer needs you earn coin — but if you wait too long to fulfill an order Adventurers will become impatient and visit your competitor next door!After ten rounds the player who has earned the most coin wins.

Impact: Battle of Elements

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

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Impact: Battle of Elements a reimplementation of Strike challenges players to knock one another from the game by rolling their dice well and using the special powers available to them.Each player starts the game with five dice with one side being blank and the other five sides showing an elemental symbol. On a turn a player rolls one die into the arena which is set inside the bottom of the box. If any two or more dice show the same symbol that player then claims those dice and their turn ends. If a die shows a blank face it's removed from play; if no symbols match then the player can end their turn or throw another die in the arena.If the arena is empty at the start of your turn then you must throw all of your dice into the arena hoping to claim some back because if you ever run out of dice then you're out of the game. Whoever last holds dice wins!Impact: Battle of Elements includes a variant in which each of the symbols has a special power and when you make a match you get to use the power of that symbol.

Hollywood 1947

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–9

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Bluffing Card Game Deduction Dice Party Game

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The year is 1947 and you are a member of the thriving movie-making industry of Hollywood. However it is suspected that there are communists hiding among your small production studio slipping “un-Patriotic” messages themes props and lines into your movies! Will you be able to find all the communists before your studio is shut down? Or will you be suspected yourself and banned from the industry?In the game each player will secretly be a Patriot Communist or Rising Star. Each round every player will have a unique Job to perform (such as the Screenwriter Gaffer Director Actor Editor etc). These jobs will affect what kind of movie is getting made that round what cards are in players’ hands and who will receive special information. Players can choose to skip their jobs to instead re-roll any two of the dice in the game. At the end of each round the players with stars showing on their dice will get to add a card into the movie.The added cards will be shuffled one will be removed and the rest will be revealed. The team with the majority of revealed symbols (including the symbols on that round’s movie poster) wins the round! Indicate the winning team for the round by placing that team’s matching film-strip over the movie poster. The first team to win 4 rounds wins the game! The Rising Star plays both sides by trying to make the game go to 7 rounds and making the 7th round a tie.Hollywood 1947 is a social deduction game. You must never show your cards or loyalty to anyone but you may say whatever you’d like about the cards you put into a movie or about your true allegiance. Open discussion about which cards were added into a movie is encouraged. However if you are a Communist or the Rising Star lying will often help you accomplish your goals since the majority of players will be Patriots.That’s a wrap. Most players get the hang of the game after only a few minutes. So let’s go make some movies but be careful who you trust!Hollywood 1947 is the 5th standalone game in the Dark Cities Series by Facade Games. Previous games in the series include Salem 1692 Tortuga 1667 Deadwood 1876 and Bristol 1350.You can follow the Kickstarter at this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/travishancock/hollywood-1947-a-movie-making-game-of-strategy-and-deception-description from publisher

Dragonrealm

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Card Game Dice Fantasy

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Pack your lucky socks and get ready for an adventure exploring Dragonrealm! Sneak into the Witch’s Cabin search the Ogres’ Treehouse or storm the Dragon’s Lair. Add adventurers to different locations in the hopes of getting the most treasure. But watch out for goblins who might get there first and grab the treasure before you! In the end the player with the most treasure wins.Using the same thematic world as Dragonwood players now take on capturing locations using adventurer pawns.Players will play card melds of straights and sets (color or number) to roll dice to attempt to place units on locations. Once a location is full it is scored.New locations are revealed to be captured. Players continue in this manner until a certain number of locations are captured. Each location is worth a value in points and additional points are awarded for other events.

Cascadia: Rolling Hills

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Abstract Strategy American West Animals Dice Environmental

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Cascadia: Rolling is a series of puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write games featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest! Simultaneously roll dice collect wildlife and complete habitat cards to fill in different environments in Cascadia. Use special actions to manipulate your dice and dynamic completion cards to unlock powerful combos! There are two versions of Cascadia: Rolling. Cascadia: Rolling Hills features unique content specific to the prairie environments of Cascadia! Each version features unique content - get both versions to play 1-8 players on 8 different maps!:Roll your dice collect wildlife and Nature Tokens complete Habitat Cards and fill in the puzzle on your personal Environment Sheet to create the most harmonious ecosystem in Cascadia! Although the core rules are simple each unique Environment Sheet has its own twist so no two games of Cascadia: Rolling will play out the same!—description from the publisher

Chicken!

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–8

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Animals Dice Farming Party Game

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Pop open the tube and start chucking dice with family and friends! In Chicken! players will be rolling dice each turn—pressing their luck to score more Chickens while avoiding those foxes.On a turn a player must choose to roll all the dice passed to them or Chicken Out to roll fewer dice. Players will score points from the Chickens they roll but they will bust (and score no points) if 3 or more foxes appear across their dice.For each Egg symbol rolled a die is hatched from the Coop and then the active player will choose to reroll all of their blanks eggs and newly hatched dice or they may score their points and pass the dice to the next player. If a player chooses to Chicken Out at the start of their turn they lose a point for being a chicken but they get to place all Yellow and Orange dice back into the Coop.The first player to reach 25 Points from their Chickens wins the game!—description from designer

Calavera

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Bluffing Dice

Calavera is a roll-and-write game in which each player wants to make as many crosses on their block as possible because many crosses bring many points. But beware! If the players are too greedy their valuable points melt away again. Whoever chooses the best die result and makes the crosses in the right place wins. This is how it is played:Who can secure their valuable points and win the game?—description provided by publisher

Trick Shot (Second Edition)

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Miniatures Sports

Trick Shot Second Edition is a tense tactical fast-paced game of ice hockey with cool plastic miniatures and a streamlined rule-set. The game strikes a fine balance between luck and strategy while still being easy to explain and get to the table. Use smart positioning special abilities of your skaters and press your luck to outplay your opponent and score the most goals.This edition offers new abilities for all the Arena cards introduces new player cards introduces multiple improvements to game-play and more.

League of Dungeoneers

Rating: 8.6 | Players: 1–4

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League of Dungeoneers (LoD) is a detailed Dungeon Crawl and party management game. The game is designed to be a solo/coop game but could be played with a game master as well. The main task of the game is to develop your characters both by gaining experience but also by finding gold equipment magic and legendary items that can help you in your quest. The game is set in its own fantasy universe containing many of the races and monsters that you would expect from a classical fantasy setting. You could either run the campaign supplied with the game or run any of the 22 single quests.All dungeons are procedurally generated and all monsters and treasures are randomized making the quests different every time you play them. There is however a theme for each quest you embark upon so don’t expect to find a goblin among the undead in a crypt. There are more than 50 different room and corridor tiles each with details about furniture and 5 different large seized objective rooms. All rooms have different furniture and a chest is likely to contain gold or magic items where for instance a bookshelf is more likely to contain magical scrolls.Party morale and sanity are two important factors to monitor in the game. Meeting fearsome monsters and springing deadly traps will take its toll on the mental state of your heroes and too much strain will give your heroes unwanted disorders such as claustrophobia arachnophobia or stress syndromes. This will make them less effective and maybe even a liability for the rest of the party. To remedy this you will need to rest in between quests. If you can’t afford to rest due to lack of funds maybe that stressed out Dwarf will have to stay behind during the next quest forcing you to solve the task with a skeleton crew.Characters are designed around several stats such as strength and dexterity but also around skills such as Pick lock or Heal. Depending on their profession the heroes will excel in some of these while being quite useless in other. Through levelling you will also unlock talents which will boost certain areas of your character and perks which are powerful boosts that can be used a limited number of times. There are more than 100 talents and perks in the game. As your heroes levels up the monsters they meet will be tougher as well.Combat is an essential part of the game and is designed to promote movement and prevent those bogged down battles of attrition. With several types of attacks available both for monsters and heroes combat becomes more flexible and less of a chore. Add to this the decision if you should evoke that special perk that could change the outcome of the battle or save it to the next.Finally each dungeon has a threat level. This will increase as the Dungeoneers make their way through he dungeon. Making noises such as bashing down a door or maybe screaming because of your stress syndrome is a bad idea. This will increase the threat level which in turn increases the chances of something bad happening. Maybe you will trigger a wandering group of monsters or set of a trap? It can also give the monsters unexpected boosts during combat.I've have received some question and I thought I would make some clarifications:Complexity: Medium+ I would say. There is quite a lot of information defining each character which of course makes things more complex. However the actual gameplay is pretty straight forward once you get the hang of it. A gaming session can easily be paused by just taking a picture of the setup.What miniatures can I use?: You can use tokens standees or any other miniatures you have. The tiles are supplied with miniatures about 28mm with a 25mm base in mind but can of course be scaled to any scale you want to.How many different kinds of monsters are there?: A little more than 80. Some of these are variants such as Orc Orc brute and Orc berserker for instance. There are also several special characters that you will face during the quests not included in this list.Can I use other tiles or a 3D-printed dungeon with this game?: Yes! This is a simple matter of making your own rooms and corridors table. There is even a template for this in the files section.This game does not focus on stream lining but rather on creating a detailed dungeon crawler experience. It will require more on the behalf of the player than some of the more modern designs but for me it's the perfect level of detail.-description from designer

Welcome to Centerville

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Centerville is a relatively light board game for 2-4 players. Centerville abstractly models the growth and management of a small city — perhaps not unlike the one you're in right now.Players act as entrepreneurs tycoons politicians and other local movers and shakers working to develop a modern urban area. Fortunes will be made and fame will rise. As time goes by personal milestones will enrich the players even further.Throughout the game players will roll six dice keeping some and rerolling others then implementing the various die faces on the game board. This will result in political offices being gained and lost new vocations learned new land acquired or new buildings constructed. The end result is a vibrant community revered near and wide — but only the player who has best balanced their wealth and prestige will emerge the final victor.Playing time is 15-20 minutes per player.

Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1–2

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Hoplomachus [ha-ploh-ma-kuss] or Hoplo for short is a hex-based tactical board game set inside a gladiatorial arena. One to three players each representing an ancient city/civilization thought to have been lost to the world are now on Rome's doorstep vying for a place in the prestigious arena games.Players have a very clear objective: Eliminate the opponent's champion. Champions start the game in the arena but are inactive and defenseless. They will not fight until the crowd is behind them. Each player takes turns drawing playing and moving gladiators from their hand and assisting them with tactic chips.Based on opponent's moves and play style each person will need to adjust their strategies. Defend your champ take over and hold the crowd favor areas assault opponent's champion cover deployment zones eliminate tacticians to reduce enemy options fight beasts to gain crowd favor the list of tactical possibilities is endless.Hoplomachus combines combat tactics chip (units) management level progression (though crowd favor system) team play player vs board and so much more.

High Score

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–5

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High Score is an ingenious dice game with unique challenges. Turning over a new challenge card tells players how to score points this round and how you can re-roll your dice. Will even numbers score 0 points this round? What effect will the vortex have this round?After the first player finishes their turn the other players can attempt to beat their score but risk too much and you may come away empty-handed. Whoever has the most points after seven rounds wins.

Rolling Ranch

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–20

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Animals Dice Territory Building

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It's 5 o'clock in the morning. You wake up as you do every day and get ready to get out of bed... Wait the sun is already rising? Weird... The clock already shows 8:00 a.m.! What the hell happened to the rooster? You leave your house to check but as soon as you step out you had it figured out: A hurricane destroyed all the fences in the area and the animals fled! However they should not be that far and after fixing the fences it's your mission to recover them in the woods.In Rolling Ranch all players use the same result from the dice to rescue animals and improve their ranch with each player working on their own ranch sheet. Each player attempts to place the animals in their ranch the best way possible and to construct buildings and receive bonuses that will help them achieve the highest score. Everyone plays at the same time! Who will be the most successful ranch to rescue their animals?

Solarius Mission

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Civilization Dice Economic Exploration Science Fiction

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In the distant future the home planet is overpopulated and riots loom. The only solution seems to be to advance into space and to settle planets. Several technically advanced nations emphatically try to put this into practice.Under the name of Solarius Mission they begin a project to explore other planets build space stations and conduct interplanetary trade. Who is able to use the technical means available and to fulfill the vital Solarius Mission?With their space ship the players explore far away planets develop new technologies with their tech dice and send settlers into space. They try to prevent space contamination.Solarius Mission is a very eclectic game – it is important to think ahead and to optimize the personal strategy. Who acts especially prudent who will win in the end?Solarius Mission is a tactical and strategic civilization game in a pulp science-fiction setting with a dice-draft dice manipulation and resource-management mechanism. It can best be described as a mid-weight euro-style game.

Poseidon's Kingdom

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Animals Dice Memory Mythology

Poseidon has lost his treasured trident and your friends have disappeared while trying to find it. It turns out they have been captured by evil Hans the Kraken. Suckers! The Kraken plans to make a nice stew out of them. Can you prise open his tentacles release your friends and defeat him? Hope so. Oh it's probably not a good time to mention the shark...Poseidon's Kingdom features a wave that crashes dice onto the board and the engaging game play of the highly-praised anthill system (from Antics!). On their turns players first decide whether to improve their abilities by taking an action tile or place some of their personal dice onto the big 3D-wave which is rolled over when full distributing up to 15 dice in a couple of seconds randomly all over the board.Second they move one of their two creatures on the main board trying to land on a spot where they can pick up dice of any color they need. If they do they can either store the dice on special spaces of their action tiles for later use OR put together a special combination of 2-4 dice to get victory point tokens then place the dice back to the pools from where they came.Third the shark moves as many spaces as the space the creature landed on indicates. If the shark meets one or more creatures on its way they are eaten and players get skeletons to block one of their action spaces.After a special scoring round in the end the player who collected the most victory points wins.The second edition of Poseidon's Kingdom introduces the dolphin which can make your creatures immune to the shark.

Intrepid

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Space Exploration

Intrepid is a game about surviving 220 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station. Players take the role of astronauts from a variety of nations bringing their unique technologies to bear. Players must work together to generate enough life-sustaining resources each round all while working to resolve the disaster they are facing.Intrepid is a strategic and highly asymmetric cooperative game for 1-4 players that takes between 60-90 minutes to play. With a variety of nations and disaster scenarios each which play completely differently every game of Intrepid will be completely unique.—description from the publisher

Roll For It!

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 2–4

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Roll For It! is a casual family-friendly dice and card game. Each player starts the game with six dice of a single color and three target cards are laid face-up on the table. Players take turns doing the following: On a turn a player rolls all of her dice not already on cards then places any dice that match the targets on the corresponding cards. (Alternatively before taking her turn a player can first choose to reclaim all of her dice from all cards.)If the player now fulfills the target with her dice – e.g. a pair of 3s a quartet of 6s or a specific combination of numbers – she claims the card takes back her dice (and returns any other dice on the card to their owner) then places a new card on the table. Each card is worth a certain number of points. The first player to earn forty or more points wins!There are two sets of Roll For It! available -- the red set comes with translucent dice and the purple set comes with pearl dice. There are no duplicate cards between the sets. Each set allows play for 2-4 players but when they are combined up to eight players can compete in the same game of Roll For It!

Proving Grounds

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Real-time

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Maia Strongheart stands alone against the world. A cabal of conspirators has framed her for the death of her own mother the Sun Queen and they intend to usurp the throne from her family. To prove her own innocence and reclaim her birthright Maia must step into the proving grounds to complete a trial that will stretch her combat skills to the limit. Will the Wizened's chosen daughter vanquish her foes in the arena? Or will she be overwhelmed by the conspirators and their evil aspirations?Proving Grounds is a real-time solitaire dice game that merges narrative and gameplay in a brand-new way. In this box you will find a novella Only the Strongest Has the Heart of a Wizened Queen written by Monica Valentinelli. This sweeping story sets the stage for the events of the game. Read the story of Maia Strongheart as she fights to ascend to the Sun Throne then recreate her extraordinary battle!Proving Grounds has a training game and six different gameplay modules. Once you've learned the basics add a single module or mix and match to your tastes. If you're feeling truly adventurous put them all together for a true test of your gladiatorial combat skills!—description from the publisher

Fast & Furious: Highway Heist

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Get ready for an exciting new mission based on the blockbuster movie series playing as Dom Brian Letty Roman and the rest of Team Toretto on a harrowing high-speed heist! Go up against heavily-armed enemies with your hot cars daring driving and jaw-dropping vehicle-to-vehicle leaps of faith. Whether you are taking down a swerving semi filled with valuable cargo stopping a rampaging tank in its tracks or bringing down a high-tech helicopter as it rains fire from the skies you’ll have to work together to take advantage of every team member’s strengths.Each of the three scenarios is different and impacts how you and your high-stakes seeking team will strategize to win!On players' turns they will move leap from vehicle to vehicle fight back enemies and pull off crazy stunts (that also act as the timer for the game - run out of stunts to do and you lose the scenario). You'll accomplish this by passing dice skill checks which your variable player powers and vehicles' stats will impact. Each scenario has a different objective you must complete to win so get ready to work with your own Fast Family - it's up to you to pull off the job no other crew can do!-description from publisher

Castle Dice

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Medieval

Castle Dice is a light dice-drafting game in which the players have been ordered by the king to build castles along the borders of the kingdom. The player who can create the greatest castle will become the new heir to the throne. Players will explore the land by rolling the dice and then take turns gathering resources from them. These resources are then used to hire workers and improve castles. Players must gather and spend wisely as the Barbarians from the neighboring lands will attack players and steal their resources throughout the game. At the end of seven turns the player who has built the greatest castle (earned the most victory points) wins the game!

Marvel Dice Throne: Captain Marvel v. Black Panther

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 2

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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In Marvel Dice Throne you become one of eight of Marvel's most famous heroes including Black Panther Captain Marvel Black Widow Scarlet Witch Loki Thor Doctor Strange and Miles Morales Spider-man! Every Marvel Dice Throne hero was painstakingly designed and balanced to provide the most thematic experience possible allowing you to truly embody your favorite heroes like no other game. Featuring all-new mechanisms and asymmetrical designs these are our most innovative and exciting heroes yet.Marvel Dice Throne is a heart-pumping fast-playing game of skilled card play and dice manipulation supporting multiple modes of play including 1v1 2v2 3v3 2v2v2 or free-for-all.Attack your 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). All 8 heroes are compatible with the entire Dice Throne ecosystem Use upgrade cards to improve your hero abilities as the game progresses Play action cards strategically to manipulate dice and surprise your foe Features a deluxe highly functional Battle Chest storage system Each hero in the Battle Chest has their own beautiful set of custom swirl dice—description from the publisher

Fallen

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2

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Card Game Dice Exploration Fantasy

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Fallen is a two-player card and dice game with fast and challenging game play gorgeous art and plenty of re-playability all wrapped up in an ever-changing story.One player chooses a Hero to delve deep within a dungeon seeking the ultimate evil that waits below. Play as Seroth the Pit Fighter and fight to win at any cost Merace the Sorceress and cast devastating spells or Ranek the Thief striking from the shadows.Every Hero comes with a unique character card depicting the hero and the special abilities and proficiencies of that particular character. Each hero also comes with nine unique skills to choose from which are divided into three skill trees catering to a particular proficiency. Ten signature Power cards also come with each hero giving them special abilities that are themed to their style of play.The second player takes on the role of the Dungeon Lord summoning vile creatures and ancient spells to defeat the Hero. Play as the Archivist of Souls weaving dark spells that plague the hero the Forge Master part wizard and part machine filling the dungeon corridors with horribly augmented monstrosities or as Krogarn the Ogre king sending your primal horde and spirit magic to hunt down the adventurer.Similar to the Hero the Dungeon Lord has a character card that depicts the chosen form as well as showing the special abilities used by that character. In addition ten signature Power cards come with each Dungeon Lord that are specific to style of villainy.Unique Story cards bring the dungeons of Fallen to life. These cards deliver an immersive dungeon experience for players new to gaming yet have deeper mechanics to keep even die-hard players on their toes.After adventuring through the dungeon the Hero and Dungeon Lord clash in an epic battle between good and evil. The challenges are fast and furious as cards are played and custom dice are rolled.This is the game of Fallen.Featuring- Play as one of three legendary Heroes OR play as one of three sinister Dungeon Lords - Custom dice - Story cards that drive the action - Customizable Heroes - A full dungeon experience in 90 minutes

The Cousins' War

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2

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Wargames

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Card Game Dice Medieval Renaissance Wargame

The Wars of the Roses were fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster for over three decades during the 15th century in England. The houses were both branches of the royal family therefore the Wars were originally known as The Cousins' War. Each player represents one of the houses as they fight battles and gain influence to control England.The Cousins' War is played over a maximum of five rounds with each round representing between five and ten years of the conflict. Each round involves gaining influence across England and preparing for a climactic battle.In each round the players decide where the current battlefield will be playing action cards to deploy troops to the battlefield while also increasing or decreasing their influence in the regions after which they fight. Players resolve the battle by engaging in bluff and counter-bluff using three dice until only one side has troops remaining on the field. Winning the battle helps to consolidate your house's influence on the board.You win The Cousins' War either by dominating all the regions of England or by controlling the most regions at the end of the fifth round.Two promo cards are included in each copy of The Cousins' War: Guilds of London: The Secret Guild of Guildsmen and Snowdonia: Supply Wagon/Cannon

Super-Skill Pinball: Ramp it Up!

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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Super-Skill Pinball: Ramp it Up! is a standalone sequel to Super-Skill Pinball: 4-Cade that you can play solo with up to four people in a single box or with even more people with multiple copies. To play choose one of the four unique tables and matching backglass for scorekeeping then roll a shared pair of dice and get the pinballs rolling! You'll select one of the two die results then move your pinball to a bumper or spinner or target one level below with a matching number. Once you reach the lowest level pick which flipper's roll to use to send the ball right back to the top. Play well and you'll unlock bonuses like multiball score multipliers and more to help you get the high score!Super-Skill Pinball: Ramp it Up! features these four new tables:

HEXplore It: The Domain of Mirza Noctis

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–6

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Krasvetelia. The sun sets on this cold and desolate place. Once a beautiful land of craggy mountains fertile valleys and deep bottomless chasms it has now wilted like a rose in winter.The small kingdom tucked away from the rest of the world has had few rulers in its time. None certainly as evil as their current. It is rumored that Mirza Noctis came to power some two-hundred years ago. Eternally youthful the man is whispered to have controlled the bloodlines of this place carefully arranging unions between noble families and culling those of weaker bloodlines.Now the peoples of Krasvetelia live a harsh life starved of happiness. Writing is outlawed and the caste system in place prevents all but a handful of nobles from holding titles and land in Noctis’s name. Up until recently starving to death was most of Krasvetelian’s worries. But more and more people are going missing in this land. Devoured by darkness some say...The scholars left to themselves in their remote monasteries have recently unearthed a terrible secret: Mirza Noctis is working tirelessly his agents harvesting blood from the local populous. Years of unattachment to this land have left the people mostly unaware of his actions. But a terrifying fact is now clear: Noctis is working towards a massive blood ritual. He has all but locked away any tools that could be used to defeat him and the scholars worry he is just beginning. A greater threat is about to befall the land...—description from the publisher

Rolling Freight

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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Dice Trains Transportation

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Rolling Freight is a route building and cargo shipping game in which dice represent each player’s resource pool. Players spend these dice to purchase and complete rail contracts deliver cargo and improve their companies’ competitive abilities. Who can build the best rail network and deliver the most profitable goods? Get rolling and find out!Players begin the game with a pool of six dice with multi-colored sides. On each turn a player can spend his or her dice to purchase contracts construct rail links build switching stations purchase improvements and deliver one cargo of passengers or freight. Unused dice can be converted into stockpile markers for future use. By purchasing improvements players can gain more dice with special abilities become more efficient at laying rail or stockpiling dice or increase the points they receive when other players deliver cargo over their rails. Bonus points are awarded for delivering passengers quickly or delivering freight over long distances.The large two-sided colorful board has two maps. The western U.S. map from the California gold rush era is designed for 2 – 4 players. With many double-track routes this map allows newer players to effectively plan their networks and maximize deliveries. The southeastern U.S. map depicting the late Nineteenth Century has only single-track routes that are significantly interwoven. This provides more advanced strategic options and is intended for 3 – 5 experienced players.

Rattlebones

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Welcome girls and boys. My name is Rattlebones and you have been cordially invited to spend the day at my Fabulous Festival of Dice! Play games! Win prizes! Ride the train! I'll be wandering about the park and if you're the first one to find me you win! Won't that be delightful?Rattlebones is a game about transforming dice. You start with standard six-sided dice and throughout the course of the game you can remove sides and replace them with other sides that let you do all sorts of wonderful things. Every time you score points you get closer to finding Rattlebones and er winning the game. Yes winning! It's an experience to six-sided-die for!Game Summary Setup - Place the Rattlebones meeple at 55 60 or 65 VP space (for 2-4 players). Players each get 3 d6 (black white gray) -- basic d6 but the '1' is replaced by Rattlebones. - Place random tiles on the empty spaces on the board.Your Turn Roll a die. May spend 1-2 gold to roll an extra 1-2 dice. Then use each die one at a time: - if Rattlebones shows move Rattlebones back one space; game ends immediately if it hits a player score marker and most points wins. - if pips or Rattlebones showing move one of your pawns clockwise that many spaces (RB=1) and use the space you land on. Typically you may add a die face matching that space to the die you used (replace any face except Rattlebones). - otherwise take whatever action the face allows (e.g. earn a stock marker or star token which you may later turn in for VP; earn VP; steal stuff from other people; etc.).

Desolate

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1

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Card Game Dice Exploration Print & Play Science Fiction

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There had been no communication with station 04 on the distant moon X483. A rescue mission was mounted and you were on that ship as it lost use of its controls and crashed but meters from the station's entrance. After the smoke cleared you realized you were the only survivor.You made your way into the station in hopes of finding help only to be shocked by the horrors within. You are alone. You must escape. You must survive...What is Desolate?Desolate is a solo-play card and dice game. You have many choices that will ultimately equate to your survival or your demise. Do you explore the first room you reveal or press-your-luck and skip it to move on to another and be forced to resolve the second? When you encounter an alien you must decide how much ammo you want to spend (Each ammo equals 1 die roll) in order to defeat it. Do you over-spend for a certain victory or take a chance a spend less? When you defeat a foe and open a crate do you take the larger more valuable resource or the lesser valued resource that may be more useful now? Do you use a powerful one-use item early on in the game or wait?There are many choices per game and when you die and you will often you will not be able to blame the roll of a die or the draw of card as much as you will have to blame yourself. You will be invested. You may yell at the dice before rolling. You may jump to your feet when you find that final power cell and fire up the escape shuttle for a sweet sweet victory.

Moonrollers

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–5

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Dice Science Fiction

Moonrollers is a game of risk assessment and strategy that pits players against each other as ship captains competing to gain crewmates.Players begin by rolling 5 dice and must choose to attempt a requirement on an available crew card that matches one of their dice. Players commit any number of the matching dice and must choose whether to stop rolling or continue to roll their remaining dice. If they fail to roll a dice that matches a requirement they are attempting all progress that turn is lost. If they choose to stop rolling or complete the card their progress is saved via tokens.Some parts of each mission are particularly hazardous awarding players who attempt them with hazard tokens that are worth prestige at the end of the game. However the player with the most hazard symbols is reprimanded for their chaotic conduct and is awarded no extra end-game prestige.The end of the game is immediately triggered when a player has 3 crew of the same faction or a crew of each faction on their ship. The player with the most points won from completing requirements and from Hazards wins!—description from the designer

Posthuman

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fighting Science Fiction

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Our aspiration to omnipotence has led to the enhancement of our capacities so far beyond our species' limits that we created our genetic successors. Inevitably the evolved reached their first realization as a unified entity: the extinction of humanity as we know it.Posthuman pits you as one of the last human survivors in a world where nature is reclaiming the planet and our evolved offspring are working to eradicate us. Will you resist mutation and survive or give in to the inevitable and join the evolved?In the game players are humans on a solitary journey to a promised safe house. This journey takes them through ten zones with the zones being tile-based and randomly generated. As they travel they encounter each other other humans and posthuman mutants. Encounters with mutants may inflict scars and the more scars players have the less human they are and the more posthuman they become. Will they strive to cling to their humanity and make a run for the safe house winning the game? Or will they give in to the ever more tempting mutation join the posthuman and deny the win from the rest of the humans?

Paris: New Eden

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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City Building Dice Science Fiction

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The dazzling boulevards and historical monuments of Paris have been enveloped by lush vegetation. The once bustling city hub has been hushed to stillness following an apocalyptic event and your goal is to forge a new future. Equip your shelter manage your resources and rally a community of various survivors all while making your way through the jungle cityscape.Paris: New Eden features a clever dice-drafting mechanism that allows you to recruit survivors. Over the span of one year you will endeavor to build your shelter and overcome the array of obstacles that you encounter along the way. The dice allow you to recruit survivors of different types: tinkerers brawlers healers sages farmers jacks-of-all-trades or even useless survivors. At the end of each season your survivors allow you to bid to improve your shelter. These survivors are recruited in five key areas and central squares of the Paris that we know each one with different abilities:Players score points by recruiting survivors and feeding them by fulfilling objectives from the tower and by completing secret missions acquired at the bridge. At winter’s end the player who has accumulated the most victory points wins. The future of Paris is in your hands!—description from the publisher

Bloc by Bloc: Uprising

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Educational Political

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In Bloc by Bloc: Uprising each player controls a faction of revolutionaries—Workers Students Neighbors or Prisoners—fighting against the police in the streets of a city that changes with each game. Build barricades clash with police occupy districts loot shopping centers build mutual aid networks and liberate the city before time runs out and the military arrives!Object of the Game: When playing fully cooperatively all factions win or lose together and must cooperate to defeat the police and liberate the city. To liberate the city each faction must complete the objectives on 1 Conditions card. Each Conditions card specifies certain districts of the city that must be liberated and where occupations must be built. When playing semi-cooperatively each faction has a secret Agenda card that determines how it wins the game. Factions with Social Agendas can still win together cooperatively. But a faction with a Vanguardist or Sectarian Agenda can only win alone and must work covertly to undermine the other factions.Bloc by Bloc is played in rounds and each round is 1 night. The countdown marker starts with 10 nights remaining. Each night has 2 phases Nighttime and Sunrise.Nighttime: The Nighttime phase is when each faction takes its turn. At the start of a turn cards are drawn from the Police Ops deck that move and deploy police squads across the city. Higher Police Morale means more cards. Next the faction rolls action dice and spends those dice to take various actions around the city using their blocs. Each bloc represents an organized group of 5-15 people.Sunrise: After each faction has taken its turn the Reaction card orders police to attack and police vans to move around the city. Next factions may liberate districts and draw Liberation cards if enough blocs are gathered in those districts. There might also be a meeting to draw more Conditions cards. And don’t forget to check if the game has been won! If not move the countdown forward at the speed of Police Morale start the next night and continue playing. If time runs out or any 1 faction has no blocs in the city all factions lose.

OctoDice

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–4

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The theme of OctoDice is based on Aquasphere and the game mechanisms recall that board game. On your turn you roll six dice (three white and three black); two dice (one white and one black) form an action. Every roll you must pick exactly two dice to take out (any colour). In the end you combine the six dice any way you want no matter in which order you chose to take them out of your rolls beforehand. You can use only two actions on your turn. On your development sheet you enter the actions chosen for this turn and note your points. You can also decide to expand your lab which will give you bonus actions or points. Other players may pick any action combination from your dice roll to add to their sheet. Do not forget to fight Octopodes. The game ends when each player has 6 turns. The player with the most points wins.

Order of the Gilded Compass

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Dice

Order of the Gilded Compass is a dice assignment game for 2-5 players. In this game each player takes on the role of a treasure hunter seeking invitation to join the most prestigious of archaeological secret societies. Players scour the globe to unearth fantastic and valuable artifacts. By assigning their archaeologist dice to the right locations at the right time players acquire treasure maps and specialists to follow them dive for sunken treasure acquire rare finds at the auction house and even enlist the help of the Illuminati. The player who has the most treasure at the end of the game earns an invitation to The Order of the Gilded Compass and wins.Order of the Gilded Compass uses a variable set-up in order to create fresh and interesting game play experiences. Each game has five locations in play to which players may assign their dice for various kinds of treasures and bonuses and the game includes nine different buildings to allow for many unique combinations.

Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–6

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Action / Dexterity Dice Sports

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The fast-rolling hard-hitting body-slamming neck-crunching chair-smashing table-slapping dice game for 2 or 4 players...Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice is a two-player dice game (with optional rules for four-player tag-team play) based on the popular world of professional Mexican wrestling or Lucha Libre (a.k.a. free fighting). Players start with 21 points of health (or 18 in a tag-team match) and roll custom dice to try to either reduce the opponent's strength points to zero to win by a knock-out (KO) or hold the opponent down on the mat for a count of three to win by a pin.The player sitting near the 'red' corner of the wrestling ring uses 4 'red' wrestling dice the player near the 'blue' corner the 4 blue wrestling dice. Each player also has a HIT die and a PIN die.Players begin by each rolling their own set of 'wrestling dice' at the same time trying to ensure that they land in or touching the wrestling ring. The results of HITs BLOCKs COUNTERs and MISS rolled are played off against each other then the HIT dice can be rolled to see what damage they did. i.e Drop Kick Forearm smash Table slam etc. Damage is recorded on the Strength Score Card of the player being hit. If a player rolls two HITs in one round instead of rolling the HIT dice twice they can take a chance on the Luchador! die once which may result in their wrestler's trademark moves and inflict much more damage on their opponent.Any PINs rolled in a round may be re-rolled once only. However once an opponent is reduced on their strength to where they are pinable the PIN die is held until after the HITs have been inflicted then the PIN die is rolled. If PIN comes up the 'three count' begins. The player being pinned has three attempts to save using their wrestling dice or lose the match.In a tag-team match players have the choice of trying to tag-out to regain slight strength but it can also cost them... if they fail to tag and get dragged back into the ring by their eager opponent.

Shelfie Stacker

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

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So you’ve picked up a new game eh? Or did you finally get your eager hands on that expansion you’ve been waiting on for the past year? Well now the real game begins — how on Earth will you fit it into your alphabetized colour coordinated and divinely crafted new board game shelf? Well what does it really matter? It’s probably going to just sit there in shrink for the next six months anyway — sorry too real? Let’s just move on then...In Shelfie Stacker players compete to accumulate the most illustrious board game collection by carefully filling their shelf with their most recent purchases.The game is played over the course of 7 rounds. Each round groups of 3 dice are randomly rolled and placed into piles. These dice represent groups of board games. From their hand of 8 action cards players must select 1 card to play facedown. These cards will not only determine turn order but also provide a one-time ability to help players better stack their shelf.There are specific rules around how dice can be placed into players' shelves so careful planning is required. At the end of 7 rounds the player with the best shelfie wins!—description from the designer

Batman: The Animated Series – Gotham City Under Siege

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–5

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Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting Miniatures Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Gotham City’s most infamous villains have put the city into peril once again. Now Batman Robin Batgirl Commissioner Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department along with the unlikely aid of Catwoman are all that stands between restoring peace and the total destruction of Gotham City!Designed by Richard Launius and Michael Guigliano BATMAN – The Animated Series: Gotham City Under Siege is a cooperative game for 1 to 5 players Each player takes on the role of a powerful Gotham City super hero and must defend the city over the course of four acts with each act inspired by episodes from the first season of the show. Players will need to work together to find the right balance between completing challenging story cards or taking down the villains and masterminds running rampant in the streets!

Wreckland Run

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1

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Dice Racing

Load up your vehicle with supplies strap on a few weapons and prepare to make your wreckland run.Wreckland Run takes place in a post-apocalyptic landscape known as the Wrecklands that's filled with marauders and other dangers. Wreckland Run is played across a campaign consisting of 7 chapters. With each new chapter the continuing story will unfold in the campaign book. You will be instructed to open up a new envelope that adds exciting new bosses enemies and gameplay twists. The contents of these are secret for now. Do not reveal them until you’ve been instructed to!At the start of the campaign you will first choose a vehicle and driver. Choose wisely as this will be your combination that you’ll carry across all 7 chapters. Once you’ve completed a chapter you will move on to the next chapter in the campaign but the enemies and Parts you’ve encountered will remain in their decks increasing the power of your arsenal but also the ferocity of your foes!The game is played over three rounds each consisting of two phases Wreckage and then Run. In Wreckage you'll repair and outfit your vehicle with new and upgraded parts. In the Run phase you battle enemies over a series of turns and hopefully survive to fight another day! You win by defeating the Boss in the third and final round of the game!—description from the publisher

Cuzco

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–4

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As Chasqui you deliver important information by order of the Sapa Inca the ruler of the Inca Empire from the capital Cuzco to the villages spread across the Empire. You study at the University of Cuzco to increase your status and operate a blooming farm. Religion also plays an important role and therefore you send priest to the temple and collect offerings to propitiate the gods and grant their support.—description from the publisher

Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.WizKids has announced a Civil War set for its popular Marvel Dice Masters Collectible Dice Game. Marvel Dice Masters: Civil War will include Starter Sets Foil Packs a Team Box a Collector’s Box a Playmat and a Dice Bag. Release is planned for May.Based on the Marvel comic book Civil War storyline the set will include iconic characters from both sides of the conflict like Spider-Man Captain America and Iron Man. It will also introduce new mechanics for the game: Thunderbolts Enlistment and New Warriors.

DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice

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Game description from the publisher:DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.In this game each player fields one of the superhero teams with each hero — Batman Wonder Woman Hal Jordan Mogo Superboy Prime Sinestro and more — being represented by custom-tooled dice; each team must be composed of 15 dice and a player can purchase dice only from his team. Each hero also has one or more character reference cards which show the special abilities for the characters based on the die rolls. Different versions of these cards are available in booster packs allowing for more customization of your team. Players use these dice to collect energy recruit new heroes and battle head-to-head. In addition each player brings two basic action cards to the game which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase these cards. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light debuts both the Teen Titans and new Lantern Corps never before seen in Dice Masters! With gameplay that supports two players in epic dice battles DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light lets players build their own team of heroes or villains!

Rory's Story Cubes: Voyages

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–12

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Children's Game Dice Educational Humor Party Game Puzzle

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Roll the cubes begin with Far far away... start with the first symbol to grab your attention and tell a story that links together all nine face-up images. There is no wrong answer as the goal is to let the images spark your imagination.Rory's Story Cubes: Voyages – a pocket-sized set of nine cubes depicting 54 icons to inspire epic adventure – is the second expansion set for Rory's Story Cubes while also being a standalone item. Made to the same high quality as the original set the cubes are inked in dark green to allow for easy sorting if you choose to use more than one set during play.As with Rory's Story Cubes you can play Voyages as a game for one or more players as a party game for three or more or as an improv game in which each player contributes part of the story picking up where the last one left off. Win award points for speedy delivery inventiveness imagination drama and humor.Integrates with

French Quarter

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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Welcome to the French Quarter the heart of New Orleans! You're in town for a weekend trip with plans to spend your Saturday evening taking in as many of the city's unique sights and sounds as possible in a mere eight hours.Whether it's the distinct food local culture shopping hotspots mystic customs or the vibrant nightlife there's something to experience on practically every corner. There's live jazz everywhere you go and NOLA is world-famous for its street performers. Make sure you don't miss the spontaneous wedding parades known locally as second lines that roll through the streets!Play it safe or go wild — it's your choice. As you navigate the city your map will serve as both a guidebook and a memento of your trip. Reunite with your friends at the end of the night to compare notes and swap stories.In French Quarter you choose dice from the card row to take actions and travel via different methods of transportation with varying distances: walking carriage ride taxi streetcar riverboat or just hanging out to socialize.As you travel around the city you get to visit buildings and see performers where you stop. All these activities slowly fill up tracks that chart your experiences with food culture shopping mysticism and partying. You have to make tough choices between in-game bonuses and score multipliers! After eight hours of gallivanting about town players compare their end results to see who had the most memorable night in NOLA.-description from designer

Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerûn Under Siege

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Faerûn Under Siege is a game that utilizes WizKids Games' proprietary Dice Building Game platform in which two players take the role of warlords collect and assemble their party of adventurer dice and battle in head-to-head gameplay. Each turn players roll the dice to see what resources they have available buy dice send their party members into the field and then strike at the enemy warlord. There are multiple cards available for each type of die so players get to choose which one to use. This lets players specialize dice to suit play style.Additional cards and dice to expand your collection can be found in expansion packs. Each Foil Pack contains two cards and two dice that players can add to their Dice Masters Faerûn Under Siege collections. Players can create teams of their favorite fantasy characters from the Forgotten Realms universe.The Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters line will consist of starter sets a Collector's Box booster packs play mats and a Party storage box.

Karak II

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Children's Game Dice Exploration Fantasy

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Karak II is a standalone sequel to Karak and this second installment adds a more complex layer of gameplay while staying approachable for kids. Each player becomes a hero trying to defeat monsters and their leader: the Dark General. To achieve that they have to collect resources build and develop their cities and train new units (represented by dice) to add to their army. Over the course of the game players will defeat monsters carrying powerful soul stones – and the player with the most soul stones at the end of the game wins.—description from the publisher

A Column of Fire

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Novel-based Religious Renaissance

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A Column of Fire is an adaptation of the third novel in Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series following The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. (The novel is titled A Column of Fire in English and Das Fundament der Ewigkeit (The Foundation of Eternity) in German.)In the game set in Europe during the time of Elizabeth I Catholics and Protestants compete for power and influence in England France Spain and the Netherlands. In this politically unstable environment resourceful operatives and courageous secret agents plot to secure power for their rulers. The balance of power shifts back and forth amidst foiled assassinations successful rebellions and futile invasions — and not infrequently those who sympathize with the weak are expelled from the country.The real enemies then as now are not the rival religions. The true battle pits those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else — no matter what the cost. Who will best exploit the changing power conditions in Europe to win the game?

SoYou've Been Eaten.

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–2

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Adventure Card Game Dice Science Fiction

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NOTE: This is a game for 0 - 2 players. The BGG database does not allow a player count of 0.So you've been eaten.Don't worry this is simply an occupational hazard. In fact it is fairly common among Deep Space Miners (5th class) and some say that it is almost unavoidable. And well it is. Especially since the crystals that you seek happen to be inside giant space beasts. To mine them you need to well be eaten.But no reason to panic. We are here to help you deal with the physical and mental challenges of being eaten. This handy simulation/survival guide is standard issue for all recruits and will eventually lead to a productive if not potentially brief career in space mining.Should you achieve your objective and mine enough crystals to meet your quota it is then cost-effective for the company to activate your jet pack and extricate you from the proverbial belly of the beast. While the beast’s immune response was not enough to prevent its demise its contribution to human progress and corporate profitability are most definitely appreciated.In the eventuality that the bacteria present in the beast overwhelm you and you are digested do not worry. Your non-organic parts will ultimately provide much utility to future space miners. In fact you may encounter some such pieces of equipment in your expedition remains of attempts by evidently less-than-qualified recruits.Finally it could transpire that you do not collect the necessary crystals by the time you reach the end of the beast's digestive tract. In this case the so-called ending #2 you will then exit the beast from the other end than the one you entered. Alive and yet forever changed. In this case and after a thorough decontamination and quarantine period we will have to evaluate your performance versus that of the beast’s efforts to consume you.In So You've Been Eaten. the Miner and the Beast face off against one another. The Miner earns points by collecting crystals and the Beast earns points by developing immune responses and by its bacteria attacking the Miner.The Miner wins instantly by collecting all eight different crystals and the Beast wins instantly by digesting the Miner after the attack of four bacteria of the same type. Of course there's always the possibility that the Miner will simply pass through the Beast's system in which case the player with the most points wins!—description from the publisher

Cubist

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Educational Puzzle

In Cubist you and your opponents are architects competing to build a grand and inspiring new Modern Art Museum including its interior sculptures or installations. Aptly enough your building materials are cubes or more precisely dice!On each turn you roll two dice and place them in your studio as raw materials for your cubist sculptures. From there you position these dice to complete commissioned installations for the museum. Dice with identical numbers can be stacked on top of one another to give your sculpture elevation and grandeur. Dice with adjacent numbers go next to one another to construct unconventional footprints of modernism. You can press your luck by committing to a certain risky commission — hoping that no one else will complete it first — or play it safe by locking up your dice for later use.You can also use your dice to enlist the aid of masters of modern art like Juan Gris Franz Marc and Olga Rozanova. Each installation you complete allows you to contribute dice to the building of the Museum itself. You will have to sculpt cleverly but quickly to get the new Museum named after you!

Floor Plan

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–100

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Dice Print & Play Puzzle

In Floor Plan players take on the role of an Architect designing a house for a client. Each round a pair of dice are rolled and then players will act simultaneously using the dice to either draw a new room onto their floor plan or add crucial architectural and landscaping features.The game ends when any player has completed six client demands or is unable to use all dice in a turn. The player with the most points is the winner – the client likes their design best and they earn that lucrative commission!-description from publisher

Vengeance: Roll & Fight – Episode 1

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Real-time

Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a real-time roll-and-write game in which the frantic action around the table mimics the kick-arse fighting action in the game-world! Set in the world of Vengeance and designed by Dávid Turczi Noralie Lubbers and Gordon Calleja Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a standalone game that transforms the fast-paced dice puzzles of the original Vengeance into roll-and-write mechanisms in which you're building combos striking off enemies and scoring points for an action-packed brain-teasing fighting game that's easy to learn and hard to master.The aim of Vengeance: Roll & Fight is to infiltrate a gang den carve your way through its rooms and kill the Boss while completing side objectives printed on the dens themselves.The game is split into three parts: planning fighting and montage. In the planning phase players roll and re-roll 4 dice in real time aiming to roll a combination of dice that match an ability they wish to trigger in the upcoming fight phase. Assigning dice to an ability allows players to fill their hand back to four dice from a large common pool and repeat the process as quickly as they can manage.Once the dice pool is depleted the fighting proper begins. Here players take a set of dice assigned to an ability and execute that ability moving their piece through rooms full of enemies and crossing them out when they are hit with the multitude of available abilities. Finally players heal and upgrade their characters bring new abilities and items into play to help them on their road to vengeance.Vengeance: Roll & Fight comes in two boxes: Episode 1 and Episode 2. Both episodes are standalone games with the same rules but with entirely different content: different heroes dens bosses abilities and items. Each episode accommodates up to four players so combining the two increases the player count from 1-4 to 1-8! Content in both Episodes can be switched like-for-like as you choose.

Siege of Valeria

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1

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Card Game Dice Fantasy

Do you have what it takes to defend Valeria?For more than a month the monster-kin have surrounded your fortress at Valeria’s southern border with hordes of monsters and mighty engines of war. Your supplies are nearly exhausted but you’ve rallied your soldiers and holy troops to meet the foe’s latest surge. If you cannot break the siege in seven days your fortress will fall and the southern border will crumble.Siege of Valeria is a quick-playing survival game that tasks players with defending their castle from wave after wave of monstrous enemies. You will use cards and dice to defeat the assault and it is vital that you find clever ways to combo your powers!This game includes custom dice and art by The Mico.

Homebrewers

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–5

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Card Game Dice Science Fiction Wargame

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Dice Economic

Homebrewers is an engine-building and dice-trading game. Your dice represent the actions you can take such as buying ingredients participating in monthly events adding flavors to your recipes and of course brewing beer! Homebrewers is played over eight months (eight rounds). Each month you meet with the homebrewing club one weekend (trade phase) and take actions the other weekends (action phase).You'll be crafting your own unique beer recipes in four categories (Ale Porter Stout and IPA). Each time you brew a particular recipe your quality level for that recipe increases.You gain reputation in two main ways. First by moving up the quality tracks for the four beer categories in order to win medals at Summerfest and Octoberfest and second by crafting your recipes to meet the particular tastes of a panel of judges at Octoberfest.At the end of eight months if you've gained the most reputation as your club's best brewer you win!

Pocket Landship

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–2

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Wargames

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Pocket Landship is based on the print and play Board Game Geek Award nominated (2017) soloplay card wargame. In this version we see a steampunk theme and expanded gameplay with additional enemy and friendly options as well as multiplayer options.Command a Landship (the original British term for tanks) to clear a sector of enemy infantry artillery and enemy mech and alike.The player chooses a Landship to control with weapons or support units to create either a single high powered Landship or a more disparate defending force including a squad of shock troops.The enemy appears as waves of enemy mech artillery infantry and mine fields arranged in 2 rows of 3 cards.Each turn the player will roll 3 6-sided dice and assign each die to each of their cards to attack the enemies. Then for the enemy turn roll the 3 dice and assign them low to high left to right across the front enemy line then take the assigned actions.Each card has its own damage track. When a card is destroyed it is removed from the game. Win by destroying all 9 enemy cards. Lose if the enemy destroys your landship.-description from publisher

DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Description from the publisher:DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang.In this game each player fields one of the superhero teams with each hero — Batman Superman Power Girl and more — being represented by custom-tooled dice; each team must be composed of 15 dice and a player can purchase dice only from his team. Each hero also has one or more character reference cards which show the special abilities for the characters based on the die rolls. Different versions of these cards are available in booster packs allowing for more customization of your team. Players use these dice to collect energy recruit new heroes and battle head-to-head. In addition each player brings two basic action cards to the game which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase these cards. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.DC Comics Dice Masters: World's Finest will introduce new game mechanics: the “Allies” keyword as well as the “Iron Will” and “Vengeance” abilities. Over 30 heroes and villains make up the new card and dice for this expansion.

Jagged Alliance: The Board Game

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Miniatures Modern Warfare Video Game Theme Wargame

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Description from the publisher:Jagged Alliance TBG is a co-operative board game with miniatures allowing you to take the role of your favorite Jagged Alliance mercenaries to battle Deirdranna and her minions in a game with uniquely variable combat tactics.With its modular map tile system and scenario creation and flexible progression Jagged Alliance allows for brief skirmish games or evening-spanning campaigns and allows you to build your own scenarios as well!Players can add extra movement and improve their odds of hitting in combat by spending fatigue or damaging weapons for greater effects. Mercs can then rest and repair or heal themselves but each turn resting will move the time counter forward to the next counter-attack from the enemy or a new event that will change the conditions of battle and/or add extra side missions to solve. Players have to manage the different threats and missions while advancing their main goal on the map which changes with each scenario.Mercs take their gear allies and experience with them through the campaign continually improving their mercs.Players can gear up and improve mercs free sectors from occupying forces to receive cash and better gear save grateful civilians to man your militia or stumble into roaming bloodcats as you try to fight Deirdranna's nefarious commanders and their plots which will escalate the more sectors you liberate. The game uses elements from combat games such as Dark Souls Imperial Assault or Conan and adds more tactical player decisions and influence such as terrain and cover and different evolving enemies as well as new merc skills and tons of gears and weapons and a meta gameplay managing your militia and defending your hard won sectors.Also: Bloodcats!Based on the Jagged Alliance Video game series

Dice Theme Park

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Theme Park is a dice manipulation board game all about creating and running your own park of fairground attractions.In Dice Theme Park you are the park managers trying to create the most successful theme park in the area by getting your customers on the most rides possible! The dice in the game represent the customers with hex tiles representing the rides in your park. Employing a unique “Dice-cascade” mechanic once a customer has enjoyed a ride their dice value is reduced but they can still continue to enjoy more rides in the theme park until their value drops to 0 where they exit. This means the more efficiently you can move your dice around to activate the most rewarding rides the more points and money you receive!Dice Theme Park also features a card based turn initiative mechanic decided by your special action role cards (with values 1-6) with players selecting two cards each turn. The lowest total will gain first choice of the customer dice draft and ride tiles that round. At the end of the round those cards will then be passed to the player on your left.Dice Theme Park is more interactive and slightly more complex than Dice Hospital so it’s perfect for those looking for a more challenging experience with more ways to score and play whilst still keeping that same engaging and satisfying feel every time it is played.—description from the publisher

Arena: For the Gods!

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–6

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Dice Fighting Mythology

Arena: For the Gods! has two phases. First players use their life points to bid for the best equipment mounts and weapons. Second they fight! When one player dies the game ends and whoever has the most life points left wins.All cards in the game have a mythological theme featuring some of the most famous members of various cultures' myths and histories such as Mjölnir Osiris and Quetzalcoatl.

GoblinsInc.

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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Goblins Inc. is a corporation dedicated to building unstoppable giant doomsday robots and it's looking for a new Boss. Do you have what it takes?Team up with your greed-driven fellow goblins and build the ultimate doomsday robot. Meet other teams in epic battles and blow them up but always remember only one goblin can win because there is no G in team work!The game plays over two rounds in which you partner up with each of your fellow players to try to build the ultimate giant doomsday robot – but the other players don't know which hidden agendas you must complete to impress the Boss! During the four phases of the round the teams take turns designing building and piloting their robots in order to destroy the other team and get one step closer to becoming the next Boss of Goblins Inc.

Lure

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–5

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Welcome to the world of competitive fishing!Players compete to collect the most points by reeling in fish cards. To catch a fish players roll their dice to beat the fish's target number as well as meet any specific requirements on the card. Whoever completes those requirements and is closest to the target catches the fish!Players secretly bid on how many dice to use before the round starts. Bid less dice to go first but use more dice to make it easier to catch.Most points wins after the deck of fish cards runs out!Will you play aggressively and use fewer dice? Or will you count on your opponents to be too risky? Let's fish!—description from the publisher

Tumble Town

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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American West City Building Dice Puzzle

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Build the best tiny town in the West in this town and engine building game for 1-4 players that plays in about 45 minutes.As the mayor of a small community it's up to you to construct the best town possible. Choose from a selection of building plans choosen at the last town meeting and get constructing! Each building plan lets you mine a certain type of material and shows what values of materials are needed to build as each building has different requirements. Buildings can give you different abilities to be used on each of your turns from manipulating the dice materials to be different values to being able to transform specific die materials into other materials to giving you extra points for building certain types of buildings.Draft Building Plans: Only certain buildings are available each round so draft the plans that work the best in your town. Dice Manipulation: Certain buildings can let you manipulate the dice making it easier to continue building! Limited Dice: Buildings require certain dice types so take strategically to make sure you can complete your town. Spatial Puzzle: Place your constructed buildings along Main Street to create your town! The townspeople want a specific look for the town and if you meet their requirements you'll gain even more prestige!Can you build the best town in the West?—description from the publisher

Snowblind: Race for the Pole

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

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Snowblind is a press-your-luck and risk-management dice game in which 1-4 players take control of a polar expedition racing to be the first to return from the South Pole.The object of the game is to collect the most prestige points. The further you advance your flag and the more men who survive the Antarctic winter at the end of the game the more prestige your expedition receives. This requires careful management of crates food and camps: without supplies your explorers will not survive.Play proceeds over a series of rounds. Within each round players may make as many moves as they like from those available with each additional move becoming increasingly dangerous. In more detail each turn players may take an action (which involves taking a risk die from the action board adding the die to their dice pool then taking a corresponding action) or they choose to pass. Actions include moving explorers and crates hunting for food collecting research and building camps. After completing an action the active player rolls all the dice in their dice pool. High numbers result in exposure the loss of supplies (crates and food) explorers being incapacitated and even death. Exposure results can be offset by explorers remaining together (company) and the building of camps.A round ends when all players have passed. At the end of the round a weather card is drawn that may cause additional attrition then the next round begins. When the pack ice card is drawn from the weather deck one last round is played and the game ends.

Paku Paku

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–8

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Action / Dexterity Dice Party Game Real-time

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Who stacks up cups and plates to wobbly heights? Who will start sweating when the other players push the dice towards them? And whose paws will stay calm in Paku Paku a swift dice-rolling game for 2-8 pandas who are hungry for victory?

Trek 12: Amazonia

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–50

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Adventure Animals Dice

Explore uncharted and mysterious lands: can you thwart their dangers? Map undiscovered areas trace new trails in the rainforest and observe the vivid flora and fauna.Trek 12 Amazonie is a roll-and-write exploration game with evolutive gameplay and content. Every player plays simultaneously. To score points you have to create trials (chains of consecutive numbers) and zones (areas of a same number) and to observe the fauna. The player who scores the most win.During their turn a player rolls dice and chooses the result to create trials and zones. They can also observe animals to get bonus points. But be careful to avoid as many bad encounters as you can.

Tungaru

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–5

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Civilization Dice Nautical

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In a time when early sea-faring Polynesians roamed the Pacific they came across the archipelago of Tungaru today also known as Gilbert Islands. Rich in nutrients and resources they set about colonising these lands and spreading their culture.Tungaru sets players as early Polynesians in this dice placement and resource conversion medium-weight euro game. Players will jump from island to island in an effort to recruit Nomads as new tribe members colonise land spread their culture and exchange goods. Players use dice as workers Leader cards which are blind revealed which are then given to your neighbour and custom shaped meeples specific to their tribe. All in an effort to be the most successful tribe!—description from the publisher

Lobotomy II: Manhunt

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fighting Horror Miniatures

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Lobotomy 2: Manhunt is the sequel of Lobotomy. In this cooperative survival horror board game. Each of you will play as a patient of a mental asylum. The monstrous staff will do everything to keep you in so you will have to use your unexplainable powers to escape. Be sure to find the difference between reality and delusions before it is too late.

Blitz Bowl: Ultimate Edition

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 2

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Sports

Smaller in scale but no less bloody the six-a-side version of Blood Bowl gets a new season bringing you more gory gladiatorial action on the gridiron. With streamlined rules that are simple to learn but rewarding to master you can get into the game at a breakneck pace – quite literally for some players.This season two new teams are ready to tussle in a tumultuous try-out – six Human players form The Reavers while six Skaven make up The Scramblers. You’ll also get a pitch cards dice and everything else you need to play an action-packed strategic sports game for two – in less than an hour.—description from the publisher

Shaolia: Warring States

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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City Building Dice Fantasy Territory Building

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Shaolia is a board game filled with deadly strategy and countless possibilities to build your own kingdom.There are two ways to win in Shaolia. You can either deal 12 damage to your opponent’s palace and destroy it or you can achieve 18 culture score.The game is played through multiple rounds. A round consists of 3 different phases.-description from designer

Star Wars: Dark Side Rising

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Star Wars: Dark Side Rising is a co-operative card and dice game inspired by the events leading up to and through Star Wars: A New Hope.In the game players must work together to recruit rebels and prevent the construction of the ultimate weapon the original Death Star. Each player starts with an individual board that indicates the Rebel cell they are leading: Intelligence Leadership Support or Tactical. The player boards depict the Base of Operations — Tatooine Alderaan Yavin 4 or Lothal — and team leader (starting character asset) for each player: Captain Cassian Andor Leia Organa Luke Skywalker and Hera Syndulla.Players must coordinate efforts to recruit iconic characters such as C-3PO R2-D2 Obi-Wan Kenobi Admiral Raddus and Han Solo and organize their cells to thwart the Empire's rise to galactic domination.The main game board features a custom-sculpted 3D Darth Vader bust that commands the Imperial operatives and actions with orders to wipe out the Rebels and to make the Death Star operational. Meanwhile in a race against time players must be one with the Force as they direct their Rebel efforts across different locations in the galaxy including Scarif Eadu and Jedha. To restore freedom to the galaxy the Rebels must defeat enough sinister agents before the Empire can either complete construction of the lethal space station or eliminate too many Rebel assets.Star Wars: Dark Side Rising will be available only in European Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) regions due to licensing restrictions.Star Wars: Dark Side Rising is designed for two to four players ages 10 and up with an estimated runtime of 45 minutes. The cooperative game includes:1 custom-sculpted Darth Vader bust 1 Death Star board with 6 components 51 asset cards 4 Base of Operations / Rebel cell player boards 17 custom-sculpted dice Mission and Alliance tokens Damage and Operation counters

Brikks

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Puzzle

Brikks can be viewed as tabletop Tetris with each player trying to place falling blocks into their grid to score the most points.To start the game each player draws a different quadromino at the bottom of their individual game sheet. On a turn the active player rolls two dice — a colored d6 and a numbered d4 — then optionally rolls both dice again. The two dice determine which specific quadromino — that is which colored shape and in which orientation — all players must drop into their grid. To represent this you draw an outline of the block at the bottom of your sheet as if you had dropped it in from the top then X out the spaces covered by the quadromino.If you cover a circle on the grid that's the same color as the quadromino just placed there you collect two energy points. By spending one energy point on a turn you can possibly rotate the quadromino to be placed depending on what dice were rolled; by spending five energy points you can place exactly the quadromino you want ignoring the result of the dice. As you collect energy you might cover an X on the energy chart; if you do you track these Xs on a separate extra point bar with the points escalating for each X you collect. If you complete 2-4 lines through the placement of a single quadromino you collect an additional 1-4 Xs for this extra point bar.Each player has three bombs they can spend to blow up a block instead of placing it but by doing so you give up endgame points.As soon as you can no longer place a quadromino in your grid your game is over. Once everyone has filled their grid to the top tally your points. In addition to the extra points bar and any bombs unused you score 1-5 points for each horizontal line that contains 8-10 Xs with these line points doubling or even quadrupling as you go higher in the grid. Whoever scores the most points wins!Brikks also contains rules for a duel mode and a solitaire mode.

Marvel D.A.G.G.E.R.

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Comic Book / Strip Dice

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Nefarious forces threaten the world as we know it and it's up to a small group of heroes to come to its rescue. With the enemy's minions closing in and innocents in peril our heroes will need to work together to stop the villain's plans and save the world — but will they be able to save it in time?In Marvel D.A.G.G.E.R. players work together to challenge the forces of evil. Play as iconic heroes like Spider-Man Daredevil and Black Widow and race across the globe to complete missions battle enemies and square off for the final showdown against the nemesis. Choose the best aspect for your hero pull off awesome combos and wait for the perfect moment to unleash your ultimate ability. Team up with your allies and take on dangerous threats as you become the greatest heroes in the world!In more detail D.A.G.G.E.R. stands for Defense Alliance for Global and Galactic Emergency Response and the Alliance and Emergency Response elements drive how the game is played with heroes needing to strengthen themselves via combos in time to take on the nemesis.There are two types of combo tokens: empowered tokens and primed tokens. When a hero becomes empowered they can later discard their empowered token to add one success to any attribute test they perform. When an enemy is primed a hero attacking that enemy can remove a primed token from them to add one success to the attack result which means more damage dealt.What's more each hero has at least one combo ability that requires either an empowered token on themselves or a primed token on an enemy to trigger. Triggering these combo abilities comes with an extra benefit: advancing the team-up track a resource shared by all heroes that's used to pay for team-up abilities the strongest abilities in each hero's arsenal.—description from the publisher

Biblios Dice

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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Bluffing Dice Medieval

As a medieval monk you are charged with increasing the prestige of the abbey's collection of historical and sacred texts. By acquiring the resources for manuscript illustration and reproduction your abbey produces and sells its valuable works thereby bringing in finances necessary for maintaining a fine abbey. Will you succeed in making your abbey the most prestigious of all?Biblios Dice is a revision of Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game which is itself a dice version of Biblios (originally called Scripts and Scribes).The object is to acquire gold and to collect resources – scrolls manuscripts pigments quills ink – to exchange for gold. It follows the same basic theme as Biblios but with interesting changes due to the use of dice. As in Scripts and Scribes players compete in five different categories and the values of the categories change during the game. In addition depending upon the dice roll there may be many or few auctions during the game in which players auction their resources for gold or auction gold for resources.Biblios Dice differs from its earlier version Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game in a few important ways. Regarding the production and components Biblios Dice has much nicer artwork the game board has been divided into separate boards and the resource dice are etched. Regarding the rules Biblios Dice has a few important changes. The goal of the game is now to collect the most VPs rather than gold. There is only one type of auction in this game and the first and second place winners of the auction get dice (not winner take all). The auctions also do not happen as randomly but can be predicted based upon the progress of the mule on the market board.

Dungeon Academy

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–6

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Time to enter a dungeon — a dungeon composed of dice! — to kill monsters and score as much as possible.In Dungeon Academy each player has a piece of paper that shows four dungeons with each dungeon being a 4x4 grid. The game lasts four rounds and in each round you will go through one of these dungeons. Each player also has a character card that shows some amount of life (red) and mana (blue) along with a special power.What's actually in a dungeon is determined by dice that you roll at the start of the round. You roll sixteen dice then let them settle in a 4x4 grid. The dice show red and blue monsters in both small and large sizes as well as blue potions and red strength. You decide where to enter the dice dungeon and which dice to pass through in a continuous line that can change directions only orthogonally and you draw this corresponding line on your personal grid until you exit at some other point of the dungeon without crossing over your line. You then claim the lowest available number card with the number of cards matching the number of players.Once everyone has finished drawing a line through the dungeon you trace out that path step by step removing life (1 or 2) to defeat red monsters (small or large) and mana (1 or 2) to defeat blue monsters (small or large). You place new tokens on your character as you pass through potions and strength spaces. Once you're through the grid you score points for the monsters you defeated and you choose one of four quests on your sheet for bonus points. (In the second round you choose one of the three remaining quests so your choices diminish over time.) In player order based on your number card you take one of the available treasures which provide points and powers. Your life and mana levels carry over into the next round.In the second and third rounds you replace one of the dice with a labyrinth die that can be passed through only in certain directions and in the fourth round another die is replaced with the big boss die giving you something giant to take on before ending the game and tallying your final score.

Harry Potter Strike Dice Game

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

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Harry Potter Strike Dice Game combines elements of Strike and Impact with players rolling dice into an arena to attempt to cast spells and win dice back from the arena.In more detail each player starts with the same number of six-sided dice and one die starts in the arena. On a turn the active player rolls a die into the arena. If no die faces in the arena match the player can end their turn or roll again; if the player rolls an X (or hits any dice that then show an X face as a result) those dice are removed from play; if two or more dice have matching non-X faces then the player casts the spell matching the die face then recovers those matching dice from the arena (unless the spell says to do something different).If you run out of dice then you're out of the game. The last player with dice wins!

Grog Island

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Economic Pirates

Even for the mightiest pirates there comes a time when they must retire from their lives of invading and plunder — but what's coming afterward? Well on the five peninsulas of Grog Island they can invest their loot in rock-solid businesses such as peg-leg shops carpentries for figureheads workshops for voodoo dolls or the infamous Grog Hole pub.The core of Grog Island is its unique auction mechanism which uses five colored dice. The players use these dice and the pips on them to create and raise bids. While the winner of an auction can claim buildings on certain peninsulas the players who have passed are also rewarded: Not only do they receive goods like grog bottles or treasure maps but they also visit merchant ships where they can trade these goods for money parrots or treasure chests. The auction mechanism of Grog Island makes for tactical and interesting gameplay as in certain moments passing can be almost as rewarding as winning an auction. Finding the right balance between bidding and backing out is the key to winning.The game ends as soon as one player has claimed a certain number of buildings then all players score the secret goal cards they received both at the start of and during the game. These cards may give points for majorities on peninsulas as well as for claiming certain types of buildings or collecting certain goods. The player with the most points wins.

Tatsu

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2

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Abstract

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Abstract Strategy Dice

Tatsu is a two-player game in which players control three different types of dragon pieces. By rolling two six-sided dice to decide movement and either combining or splitting the values the pieces travel round the inside circle of the board only swapping to the outer circle when landing on the same space as another piece which will affect the piece in the following ways:Victory is gained when a player manages to destroy all of one type of the opposition's dragons or knocks all the opposition’s dragons off the board so that none remain in play.The Story Japanese legend tells of a great battle between two mighty Dragon Lord armies locked in combat on the peaks of Mount Hotaka competing to win the hand of Princess Kushinada the last and most beautiful of eight sisters. A battle so ferocious that the villagers fearing for their lives acquire the help of a powerful Wizard who casts a spell over the Dragon Lords to keep them imprisoned in a circle of combat and to be freed only at the battle’s end. Their struggle continues to this very day even though the Princess and their fateful story have long passed into legend.

HEXplore It: The Sands of Shurax

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–6

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy

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HEXplore It is a hero building adventure board game system. The Sands of Shurax is the third volume in the series.Journey into an entrancing land full of danger and intrigue. Collect Ravager Crystals and interact within a rich world directing your actions toward saving it from a titan of a beast the Ravager of Shurax.Make your way across the desert to perform missions work with caravan masters or ply your trade by gambling or even enter the gladiatorial arenas. Battle through a variety of encounters while traveling or move carefully and see what other discoveries you might find.To save the City-States you must build your heroes and gain power as quickly as you can. Kismet is what it will always be but your heroes have the power to change the world.The object of HEXplore It: The Sands of Shurax is to finish the game in one of four ways. Power up your heroes and choose one of four paths to victory. Can you save Shurax from the Ravager?-description from designer (edited)

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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Cat Café

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Make your corner in the Cat Café the best one possible! Entice cats by literally drawing toys for the cats to play with. Place the toys in the most favorable way possible and you win by attracting the most cats!Cat Café is a reimplementation and slightly altered version of the Korean game Cat Tower by Mandoo Games. Cat Café is a light roll-and-write game in which players draft one die each round then use the final unused die as well. Both dice are then used to 1) Draw a particular type of cat toy and 2) Place it on that level of a particular tower.Placing each toy in a particular position is important as it gives a player points in specific ways. Place a bowl next to different and unique other toys or place a cushion high up so that cats can sleep and watch from high up or even give the cats yarn to play with giving you potential majority scoring.—description from the publisher

なつめも (Natsumemo)

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 3–6

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Adventure Dice Humor Sports Travel

なつめも (pronounced natsumemo) means summer memo and it's the practice of children keeping a summer holiday diary.Natsumemo is a flip & write game with a summer vacation theme. Each player receives a special calendar sheet and a hidden sheet pencils and dice. Each round the active player flips the card of the week and declares the day on which the event will occur. All players choose to join or not join the event all at once and if they join write them on their calendars. Of course you cannot take part in the events of the day if you already filled that date on your calendar.The biggest feature is the special bond that grows between the characters who participated in the same event. Players plan the events in order to develop friendships and score more points. Oh only Hana and Vivian and I are free on Tuesday so if I suggest going to swim in the sea on Tuesdays and Wednesday maybe only I can deepen the bonds with the two girls ...! This is how boys and girls develop serious feelings and judgments are born one after another. Furthermore I was the only one who went to the sea when I tried to open the lid! These goofy developments the emotions that come from them are the most enjoyable!Another feature is homework. Players must balance having fun with friends and getting their summer homework done too. If you do not reach a certain number of pages by the end of the holidays you get deducted points. You will end up cramming all alone the last week instead of deepening your new friendships. This reality is unbearable.Agony laugh loudly please talk about sweet and sour summer memories by all means after play. It is certain that the calendar and the secret sheet will be important memorial items after the entry!—description from the publisher

Tiny Ninjas: Original

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–2

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Card Game Dice Fighting

Tiny Ninjas: Original is a 1-2 player fast-paced card & dice dueling game. Players start with 10 health and battle to reduce their opponent's health to zero. Players take turns using Ninja Cards to either attack or defend as each Ninja can be used in both ways. Hand management becomes critical as players decide which Ninjas to attack with and which to defend with. Many attacks and abilities are determined by rolling the TN Dice which can be done right inside of the Game Box. Tiny Ninjas: Original offers highly-engaging lightning-fast gameplay that will have players wanting a rematch again and again.

Pole Position

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1–6

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Dice Racing Sports

Pole Position is a race game that has the following features:Each race lasts 5 or 6 laps. In each race you have to choose which kind of tyres you use. Your strategy during the race is crucial:—description from the publisher

Quarriors! Light vs. Dark

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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In Quarriors! Light vs. Dark players take on the roles of Quarriors mighty mystical warriors who have the power to capture dangerous quarry from the untamed Wilds! They must conjure the mysterious powers of Quiddity cast powerful spells and summon their creatures to battle if they hope to overcome rivals and earn their rightful place as the Champion!Quarriors! Light vs. Dark has the frenetic excitement of a dice battle game with an added deckbuilding twist as players customize their dice pools during the game by using resources generated by their rolls.Quarriors! Light vs. Dark can be played as a standalone game or used as an expansion for the Quarriors! base game.

Cosmic Run: Regeneration

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Space Exploration

The year is 2123 and the planet earth is becoming uninhabitable. New powers of interstellar travel make it possible for earthlings to find a new home. Competing teams of human explorers use space stations spread throughout the universe as bases for discovering new worlds and befriending aliens to help them in their quest. Explorer teams are not only racing each other but an alien race also hoping to discover the planets. Will your team be able to reach a planets before the others to establish colonies?Cosmic Run: Regeneration is a revised version of Cosmic Run. Like the original Cosmic Run: Regeneration is a quick push-your-luck space race for 1-4 players. On a turn a player rolls dice and must commit at least 1 of them to one of the various exploration tracks or to an alien card. Some of the tracks require multiple identical dice with the most valuable tracks costing many identical dice. However once a player commits a die it cannot be moved. So players have to decide between a conservative approach (making sure and steady progress along less valuable tracks) or an aggressive approach (pushing one's luck to try to move up the highly valued tracks).Players may opt to use their dice to befriend aliens rather than explore because the aliens provide special powers that can eventually help them move along their exploration tracks even faster. The game may be played competitively or cooperatively.Cosmic Run: Regeneration is different from the original Cosmic Run in many ways. Regarding the rules these are the main changes: - A 6th planet track with its own rules for placement - A 6th type of alien card - The mechanism for the alien race landing on planets (which used to be meteors hitting planets) is now card-based rather than dice - Alien cards must be turned in during the game to score points - Alien cards are one use and easier to acquireThe game's components are also different insofar as this game has a full board and some updated graphic design.

Fuji Koro

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–6

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Japan Hōsei 4 (1707).Mount Fuji is on the verge of erupting. Red hot lava will soon consume the three secret Seien-ji (聖煙寺) sacred temples hidden deep in the bowels of the volcano. The Shōgun is determined to preserve the precious heritage and sends his most noble and gifted samurai warriors on a quest inside the volcano to retrieve the valuable goods.After a grueling climb through snowstorms and treacherous rocky terrain the samurai find the entrance that leads down into the cavern.The volcano rumbles and the walls start shaking! The floor underneath their feet crumbles and our brave samurai fall into the huge cavern that contains the three temples which are slowly sinking into the smoldering lava.It is now up to our heroes to explore the cavern and find as many of the relics sacred scrolls and monks as possible to bring back safely to the Shogun before the volcano erupts and all is lost forever.Fuji Koro can be played in a competitive mode with 2 to 6 players or a cooperative mode with 1 to 6 players.Players will try and gather sacred scrolls and blueprints for magical weapons gather resources craft the best possible gear and try to get out of the volcano before it fully erupts. To make matter worse players will encounter fantastical dragons on their journey throughout the volcano that they will have to try and defeat by themselves or with the help of other players.The game continues until the end phase of the game which is triggered by one player reaching 30 victory points. Once that happens players will have 8 final turns to escape the volcano.To win the game a player will have to score the most victory points by defeating dragons exploring the cave crafting the right weapons and bringing magical gear dragon teeth and monks to the Shōgun during the end phase of the game.—description from the publisher

FUSE Countdown

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Real-time Science Fiction

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FUSE Countdown is a new entry in the FUSE family one that’s playable both standalone or as an expansion for the original FUSE!Originally launched in 2015 as one of Renegade’s very first games Kane Klenko’s FUSE brought the tense action of bomb defusal to the tabletop in a quick and simple but extraordinarily challenging cooperative game! Taking just ten minutes to play and minutes to teach FUSE has appeal for all types of gamers!Veteran FUSE bomb-disposal techs may think they have the original game down to a science but FUSE Countdown will throw some new obstacles in their way while also providing some great new tools! Multi-colored dice Spark cards new configurations and Roles all add new elements to the game! Multi-colored dice can fill spots of either color allowing a new level of flexibility AND challenge!—description from the publisher

Farlight

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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Bluffing Dice Science Fiction Space Exploration

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Description by the publisher:FORGING THE FUTURE In the near future talented space corporations and agencies set out to explore mine and colonize outer space. Your organisation will compete to design the most efficient and powerful spacecraft to gather scientific knowledge construct facilities on distant worlds and transport colonists to the farthest reaches of our Solar System. Charge up the monster rocket boosters crew up and race for space!Designed by King's Forge designer Nick Sibicky Farlight is a well-oiled game of blind bidding tile placement and light resource management. Each turn players will make bids for spacecraft module designs or missions and assemble spacecraft designed to complete missions of increasing difficulty. The game is for 2-5 players and plays in around 45 minutes.

One Deck Galaxy

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–2

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Card Game Dice Space Exploration

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Your civilization has reached the stars and your population is hungry for discovery. Explore colonize research — but be sure to build up your strength to be ready for the dangers that await!One Deck Galaxy is a co-op space civilization-building game using only cards dice and tokens. Each card in the deck represents both a location in space your civilization has scouted but also the benefits it could reap by colonizing or studying it. These benefits increase your ability to roll dice and manipulate them and help your civilization grow stronger. When the deck runs out the era advances and your foes become more dangerous. If you're not ready they may overwhelm you and send your empire into decline before it can become truly great!

Forges of Ravenshire

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fantasy Industry / Manufacturing

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Grab a hammer and some steel it’s time to forge! The Blacksmiths Guild of Ravenshire is in need of a new Forgemaster. You and your fellow smiths are competing to see who can make the most money and become the new Forgemaster.Forges of Ravenshire is played over 4 seasons or rounds. Each season starts with the gathering phase where players will acquire contracts recruit guild members and gather resources. Players roll their dice workers and place one of them on an available location to gather resources. Then retrieve a different dice worker to gather even more resources. However the various workers are from different guilds and when retrieved will activate the guilds you have invested in. All players will take turns placing one of their workers and retrieving another worker 3 times.After the gathering phase is the production phase. Take those 3 dice workers you have taken and now place them on different areas of your forge to gather more resources make charcoal or steel and forge contracts to make money.At the end of every season check to see if any special titles have been earned. Titles bring prestige and hard-earned money.Finally roll your 3 dice workers again and prepare the county of Ravenshire for the next season.—description from the publisher

The Warp

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–4

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Bluffing Civilization Dice Miniatures Negotiation Science Fiction

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The Warp is a fast-paced 4X board game for 1 to 4 players (5-6 with a separate expansion). After 5 years of cataclysms and revolts you take command of one of the remaining colonies on the forsaken planet Yortar. You can choose 2 of the 16 unique asymmetrical alien races and lead your colony along the path of prosperity progress and/or conquest. You might even conquer the abandoned warp gate and find out who was behind the events that lead to the global catastrophe. On your journey you will face rival colonies the unstable wastelands and exiled races with shifting allegiances.The game features 66 possible missions objectives during play allowing players to choose their own playstyle. The core mechanisms incorporate area control card/resource management and euro engine building. Next to a dynamic dice system the combat system features bluffing and bribing mechanisms. The Warp also contains a team mode that can be played in 2vs2 and 2vs2vs2.—description from the publisher

The Ming Voyages

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–2

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Card Game Dice Medieval

The Ming Voyages are the seven journeys made by the Chinese treasure fleet of oceanic junks between 1405 and 1433. The Yongle Emperor constructed the fleet during a period of outward-looking expansion of Chinese influence overseas and its commander was Admiral Zheng He. The maritime power of the Ming Empire was used for political purposes not just for trade. The immense fleet was technologically far in advance of European counterparts until at least the 18th century. While it is purported by some that the fleet circumnavigated the world and discovered all its continents save Europe the voyages certainly reached Calicut in India and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf while making landfalls in the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa — but on the landward side of the Empire border troubles were always brewing.In The Ming Voyages one player will be the Ming Emperor who is trying to complete all seven treasure voyages in addition to protecting the Chinese borderlands from invading barbarians. The other player controls the three disparate barbarian factions who are trying to settle on the borderlands with China. Battles can occur in these borderlands with players use their three dice to roll for triples doubles and singles that are better than their opponent's rolls. Reserved cards can be used for re-rolls.The game uses multi-function cards (as in The Cousins' War) to provide actions for players to reinforce their armies and attack the enemy and for the Emperor to complete voyages. Play of a card may provide an out-of-turn action for the opponent so players must be careful of timing. Only the Emperor draws new cards. Players swap hands at the end of each turn so the Emperor always knows what the Barbarian Overlord holds and each player tries to exploit the out-of-turn actions.—description from designer

Seven Bridges

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–6

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Dice Transportation

Come explore the European city of Königsberg and learn about the logic puzzle that made its bridges famous!Seven Bridges is a roll-and-write dice drafting game in which players explore the historic city of Königsberg by colouring in connecting streets on their map. Points are earned by seeing different parts of the city but the various ways to earn these points are only unlocked by crossing the city’s seven bridges.Six dice are rolled at the beginning of each turn and each player drafts the roads from one of these onto their map. Should they select the one that lets them travel furthest or the one that points them in the right direction? After five rounds the player who tallies the most points wins!Seven Bridges stands out from most other roll-and-write games because it includes a map of a real-world city created by a professional cartographer! The elements of the game itself have been cleverly ‘superimposed’ onto the map as an overprint a technique once used to update or repurpose outdated maps.

Aventura Z: Vol 1 Lovecraft

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–2

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Adventure Card Game Dice Exploration Murder / Mystery Novel-based

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Adventure Z is a narrative game for one or two players. In Volume 1: Lovecraft players will take on the role of one or two investigators to solve a case cover in mystery and dark powers beyond the human understanding. Inspired in the H.P. Lovecraft literary work this volume has two separate adventures (Color Out of Space and The Shadow Over Innsmouth) with up to 40 different maps where the insight and cunning of the players will be essential to survive and discover up to five different endings per adventure. You will only need the notebook the deck of cards and a few dice unfolding the game quickly to enter the adventure. After each scenario the players will unlock new maps in which they will have to make decisions that will affect to the story similar to what happens in Choose your own adventure books or a role-playing game.Playing through the maps alone or as a pair will challenge players against dark enemies ghoulish puzzles clue investigation and puzzle solving.Adventure Z's mechanics are easy to learn each turn a player will have two actions that can be used to move their character investigate an area on the map or activate a team card trying to free new maps before they run out of time.A turn counter will limit the number of actions a player can do sometimes having to choose between investigating everything or running to the next map. The adversaries have their own artificial intelligence so you will not only have to control the survival of your characters.Delve into the stories of Lovecraft and be the protagonist of your own story!

Roll to the Top: Journeys

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–6

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Dice Number Travel

In this beautifully illustrated roll and write you'll take on the role of a young woman going on a once-in-a-lifetime journey around the world. Travel to incredible landmarks all over the globe - from the Pyramid of Giza to the Matterhorn. Follow the young artist’s journey through her postcards sent back home to her family to recount the details of her trip.Try to be the first player to fill in enough boxes to make it to the top of the landmark in this roll-and-write.All players will pull from the same pool of numbers rolled on the active dice using the values to make their way up from the bottom to the top of each landmark. Numbers must increase as you climb so combine the values carefully!Each location card will bring a series of unique rules mixing up play and adding to the challenge! At the end of each round use the action die to change the dice pool and continue your race to the top!Featuring many of the classic Roll to the Top landmarks this new edition provides new-and-improved game mechanics plus all-new illustrations by artist Horia Tundrea.

Dungeon Pages: Core Set

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1

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Dice Exploration Fantasy Print & Play

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Greetings young page and welcome to your first quest. We are thrilled to have someone of your prowess joining the Elder ranks. The Light knows we need all the help we can get to repel the creatures of darkness.Dungeon Pages is a tactical roll-and-write game where you play as a character embarking upon an epic quest through various dungeons. Each quest sheet contains a character section and a dungeon section.Each character section introduces a character and their ability and tracks their health and progress. Each dungeon section shows four minor dungeons and one boss dungeon and describes the monsters and traps found within.Each dungeon represents a step along your quest. As you advance through a dungeon searching for its treasure chest you will mark white spaces (empty spaces and trap spaces) to represent the areas you have explored. The more thoroughly you explore each dungeon and the more monsters you defeat along the way the more experience you will gain.Choose a quest sheet to embark upon your journey!

Islands in the Mist

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Aviation / Flight Dice Exploration Territory Building

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The islands still lie beneath the dense fog. The farther you go over the island with your balloon the more the fog lifts and you explore the breathtaking landscape.Use the local wind skilfully to save energy. Because you still need it often enough to accelerate or decelerate. Steer completely against the wind at the right time to reach your goal.You will discover the neighbouring landscape where the balloon is by placing tiles on the adjacent fields. This is how cities are built monuments are erected and landscapes grow.As the first of the game round you have the possibility to get more landscape tiles. As the last one you will probably only get one tile but you can determine the wind direction which can also be a decisive advantage.Once a player has connected all the landscapes to the balloon yard the game ends.

Würfelland

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Würfelland a.k.a. Diceland is a racing dice game in which nothing has to be calculated. Every plays each turn based on the same roll of the dice with all players racing to be the first to reach nine treasure fields and complete a territory of one chosen color. The game includes four double-sided wipeable playing boards for variety.

Dice Masters

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Game System

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Dice Masters is a 2-player card and dice game featuring custom dice from well-known entities like Marvel and DC Dungeons and Dragons and even WWE.Players face off in a dice building style game building to buy better and better character dice from their own 8-character team. Those dice are then rolled and used to battle the opponent with the goal of reducing them from 20 life down to 0.This game is both collectible and non-collectible and all sets are interchangeable and playable with each other.

Criss Cross

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–6

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A super-simple and addictive game where players have to transfer the symbols rolled to the grid of the block sheet. The more identical symbols are grouped the more points can be scored. The game is as simple as Sudoku and can also be played alone. How it is played: 2 dice are rolled and each player has to draw these symbols into their sheet following very simple rules: - the two symbols have to be drawn in orthogonally adjacent fields. (Single fields previously surrounded with symbols will never be filled.) - as long as there are adjacent spaces the symbols must be entered. The game ends when the sheets are filled or there are no legal adjacent spaces left. Each row and column are scored separately: 2 3 4 or 5 adjacent symbols of the same type score 2 3 4 5 points PLUS 4/5 bonus points for 4/5 symbols.The Grail Games edition of Criss Cross also includes Advanced rules which add a layer of complexity to the base game.

Untold: Adventures Await

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

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Untold: Adventures Await is the customizable storytelling game powered by Rory's Story Cubes. Players become the heroes of a thrilling tale that unfolds in under 60 minutes. Think of Untold as your favorite TV series except rather than just sitting back and watching you're right in the middle of the action!Every game of Untold is an episode of five distinct scenes each featuring intriguing locales dangerous threats and shocking plot twists that propel the action toward an epic showdown. Scene Cards and StoryCubes provide the elements of the adventure while Reaction Cards reveal what happens when the players take action.Untold takes collaborative storytelling in a whole new direction allowing players of all ages to unleash their creativity thanks to a unique game engine that's extremely accessible always unpredictable and rooted in inspiration. Players can also craft multiple-episode story arcs that will see their characters and their world grow as new challenges arise.Whatever genres of story you enjoy Untold lets one to four players experience endless and unforgettable tales. What amazing adventures will you have? They await you in Untold!

Lucidity: Six-Sided Nightmares

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Horror

Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares is a press-your-luck dice collection and manipulation game for 2–4 players. It takes less than a minute to learn and 20–30 minutes to play.Whenever you close your eyes you fall into the dream realm: a world of vivid hallucinations and dark monsters. You must use your wits to draw power from the dream realm and break its hold on you before the monsters can track you down and consume you!Each turn you randomly draw a number of dice from a shared bag. This represents the dreams you will encounter this turn. Return two to the bag to represent your chosen path through the dream realm and roll the remainder. After you have suffered the effects of your roll you must choose whether to rest (and clear your card of one or two dreams) or press on and try your luck on another turn – going deeper and rolling more dice every time you do so.You win by collecting 15 power symbols on your rolled dice – freeing yourself from the dream world's grasp. But if you collect too many of the wrong symbols you may find yourself twisted and turned by the monsters until you too become a dreaded Nightmare. Or something's dinner.Should you become a Nightmare your game completely changes. You can still win but only by consuming the dreams of the remaining Dreamers or sending minions after them to prevent them from becoming more powerful than you. If nobody has escaped by the end of the game the most powerful Nightmare is the victor.Without dreams you cannot win. But without control you risk becoming that which you fear most.Or maybe that was your plan all along.—description from the publisher

Sine Tempore

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy Miniatures Science Fiction

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Sine Tempore is a co-operative game in which 1 - 4 players face the game’s artificial intelligence as part of a campaign which guides them to one of three different endings.Sine Tempore is a game rich in high-detailed miniatures that plunge players into the planet’s alien atmosphere guided by spectacular scenarios.Each mission has an objective that needs to be successfully reached to determine whether or not a territory has been conquered and whether or not new sectors can still be explored.During the end game phase each conquered sector will provide colonists with access to the resources they need to build new structures and equipment.The final mission taken on by players will radically change their destiny.Sine Tempore will take you back to a faraway past thousands of years before Nova Aetas exploring new worlds in search of a new home where characters can live and prosper.During this long journey your spaceship will come across a number of different alien species some friendly others somewhat suspicious or openly hostile.In the box you’ll find 39 miniatures 4 of which are heroes with whom you will delve into the dangers of Primevus V through unexplored jungles used as hunting grounds by Primaevi and the ancient ruins of civilisation used by the latter as a resting base. A campaign designed to be replayed with different paths each time will lead you to 3 different endings in your search for the resources you need to survive.An efficient “end game” system will help you to develop your characters through a modern tree skill system and a tested crafting mechanism inspired by Nova Aetas.—description from the publisher

Valor & Villainy: Lludwik's Labyrinth

Rating: 8.1 | Players: 1–6

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy Fighting Medieval

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The Evil Wizard's plans were in ruin. In celebration Giuseppe the Caring Pizza Baron offered the victorious Order Without Borders twenty victoriously-priced Sun-Fired Pizza’s and use of his world famous -Pit of Balls-! Anticipating an evening filled with balls and pizza. danger was the last thing on their minds. Danger however is an insidious ingredient which has a means of working its way into even the most well-planned meals...Valor & Villainy: Lludwik's Labyrinth is a 1-6 player co-op adventure game where a band of noble heroes from The Order Without Borders must pursue the Mad Imp Lludwik into his terrible Labyrinth to quell the threat of a demonic invasion. Lludwik's Labyrinth is a both a stand alone full co-op game and a fully cross compatible sequel to Valor & Villainy: Minions of Mordak.- description from publisher

Spoils of War

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 3–5

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Bluffing Dice

The raid is over and the victorious Vikings gather in the chieftain's tent to divide the spoils of war! Piled high on a massive oak table are the best treasures taken during the raid: gleaming gems shiny swords fine armor and magical artifacts! Once strong allies the Vikings are taken by greed and soon a heated debate ensues — who will get which spoils? Fists pound the table insults are made and tempers rise!Spoils of War is a fast-paced and exciting game of bidding and wagering for 3-5 players. Each round players roll their dice then cleverly bluff and bet to outwit their fellow Vikings. The winners of each round get to claim fantastic treasures to add to their collection! With lots of twists and surprises no one knows who will win until the last treasure is claimed and the spoils are counted!

Aquileia

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 3–5

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Ancient City Building Dice Economic

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Aquileia the second most important city of the Roman Empire had been originally founded as an outpost against the Barbarian invaders. From its military origin comes the peculiar quadrilateral structure divided by the main streets. Later the city developed to become an important political and cultural center and a prosperous trading city especially for precious goods thanks to its convenient and efficient river port. Important monuments such as the Gladiator Arena the horse-racing Stadium and the famous theater were built as well as craftsmen's workshops patrician villas which completed the architectural network of the city.In Aquileia players want to become the most powerful figure in the city by trading and building. Each player representing a wealthy Aquileian patrician owns a certain number of henchmen (pawns) which he uses for these main activities: sports playing culture trading and building. Each activity can bring expenses earnings and sometimes victory points (VPs).Each round begins with a placement phase in which players take turns placing their henchmen on action spaces and their tiebreaker disc on the tiebreaker track. Placing the tiebreaker is mandatory; placing henchmen is not (but you probably want to place them). Once everyone has passed or placed all of their tokens players resolve the action spaces in numerical order:After six rounds the game ends and players score VPs for their hidden point cards and the product of their villas' values times laurel cards of a matching color. (For example a total of 8 points of blue villas and three blue villa cards equals 24 points.) The player with the most victory points wins.

Snails

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 2–4

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Animals Dice Exploration Humor Video Game Theme

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Listen all of you bellyslitherers! Gather around… and prove your mettle!There’s no peace on Gastropodia Islands. Especially not when all kinds of snails grab their weapons and face each other in deadly combat. Each squad is ready to show the other mollusks who’s the boss. They’ll do anything to stand victorious. Bazookas Molotov cocktails mines barrels full of toxic waste axes and swords… These are their tools of the trade used with blinding speed unusual for rather slow creatures. And where will you be? Well that’s pretty clear – right there at the snail vanguard leading your squad to victory!Snails is a dynamic game for 2-4 players ready to command squads of pumped up mollusks in pitched battle. Each squad is led by a unique Hero who grants their subordinates special abilities and enhances their chances to win by eliminating opponents with an assortment of funny weapons.The combat takes place on a dozen islands which get destroyed as the game progresses. Your snail may end up in water in not time and see for themselves that marine pollution is real! Additionally by excavating more and more island levels you may encounter all kinds of surprises – from new gear to mean crabs to lethal barrels.Simple and intuitive rules of Snails are based on action planning. Just secretly choose 5 Action Cards and 2 snails from your squad to perform them then watch the mayhem that you cause! Of course assuming that your rivals don’t outsmart you and eliminate your troops before they get to act… Add to this Heroes’ special abilities tens of various Action Cards representing weapons or special attacks and custom dice and you will end up with a great gaming experience.Fast but strategic and competitive gameplay immersive and funny artwork by “Djib” Reynaud – a world-famous French illustrator high replayability thanks to various game modes and battle scenarios… All this guarantees that you and your friends will have great fun whenever you play Snails.—description from the publisher

Emerge

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Animals Dice Environmental Exploration

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New islands have emerged from the ocean and as scientists you must research the new developing ecosystems present there. Watch the islands on the board grow in three dimensions as you learn more about them and add colorful plants and animals to each island as you explore their ecosystems.Each round in Emerge earn points by rolling your dice and using them to collect research and make discoveries. All players start with the same research board but throughout the game you can modify your own board and change what you're researching. After eight rounds score points based on how flourished and biodiverse your islands are as well as varying research objectives.—description from the publisher

Penny Papers Adventures: The Valley of Wiraqocha

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–99

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Dice Number

Penny Papers Adventures is a series of small strategy games in which all of the players use the same result of three dice to explore a location more thoroughly than their opponents by writing numbers in their grid in an optimal way to make the most victory points out of it. Challenge your ability to manage space and wisely use the special effects of the dice. Oh and don't miss an opportunity to mess up your opponents' grids when dangers appear! The number of players is unlimited as everyone plays at the same time!How well can you map your surroundings in The Valley of Wiraqocha? Between forests and mountains discover the remains of ancient civilizations — cities pyramids buildings — while neutralizing lurking snakes.

Dragon Farkle

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–5

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Gather your courage! The long-enjoyed peace of Yon has been disrupted by a ferocious and mean-spirited dragon — he's terrorizing the locals and eating their livestock without their permission! Fortunately a few wannabe heroes (that's you!) have risen to the challenge of slaying the beast. Get yourself a brave companion gather a powerful army and enter the Dragon's Keep for cheese and country in Dragon Farkle!To play you gather an army of loyal soldiers or steal them from your opponents hire suspicious-looking companions and gain allegedly useful items (most of which aren't even cursed) then fight that dragon you've heard so much about — or don't if you hate winning...

With a Smile & a Gun

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–2

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Dice Mafia

Al Capone famously said You can get pretty far in life with a smile but you can get a lot farther with a smile and a gun.With a Smile & a Gun is a fist-clenching game of intrigue and sneakiness in which two criminal gang leaders fight over the domination of a city's underground businesses during a very noir Prohibition Era. They have to outthink their rival send the police into their business use their network's abilities and decide when to lay low and when to go all-out.Mechanically speaking With a Smile & a Gun is a dice-drafting area-majority game about taking the last 4 — not because you need it but because your opponent does. Each round thirteen dice are rolled in a pool. A player then drafts two dice: one for their movement around the city which will place influence and one for an action. After both players have drafted three times a non-player character — one of five in the box — will use the leftover die for its own movement affecting the game in its own way. The player who attracted the least attention that is who has lowest sum of action dice takes a special scheming action then majorities will be scored for each district.After three rounds the player with the most points wins.

Fish Cook

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Dice Economic Print & Play

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Fish Cook is a simple Euro-style board game in which players take the role of chefs. The game is divided into several days that have two parts: Morning and Evening. In the morning players buy ingredients from the fish market and farmer's market; in the evening they cook recipes and earn money. The strategy revolves around buying ingredients as cheaply and efficiently as possible in addition to stealing the good ideas of your fellow chefs.

That's Pretty Clever! Kids

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Children's Game Dice

You want to get your hands on everything you can at the birthday party: balloons gifts candles and mountains of sweets! Will you be able to grab more than all the other partygoers?Auch schon clever (German for Also Pretty Clever) features gameplay similar to Ganz schön clever with one player rolling dice on their turn then choosing what they want while everyone else gets something from what's left behind.On your turn roll the five dice. The faces of these dice show a joker symbol or an icon on one of four colored backgrounds. Choose all the dice of one background color taking any jokers at the same time then use the symbols on these die faces to mark off items in this colored area of your score sheet:If you can't use a die that you took e.g. you took red blue and lilac balloons and could mark off only the first two then you must return the unused dice to any others left behind. Each other player then chooses dice of a single background color — and players can choose the same or different colors — and marks off what they can.If you mark off a circled item or a row of gifts next to a circle you can immediately cross off an item in the section of the same color as that circle. Crossing off this item might give you another bonus!When a player marks off all items in one area the game ends at the conclusion of that turn. Various items or rows that you complete have rainbow stars connected to them and whoever collects the most rainbow stars wins!

Guild Master

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Deduction Dice Fantasy Negotiation

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Guild Master is a fantasy tabletop game for 2-4 players. Players manage an adventuring guild competing with each other to become the most famous guild as an escalating series of events threaten the land. In each of the nine rounds players simultaneously and secretly program orders to send teams of adventurers out to do the following:All players then sequentially resolve their planned orders starting with each players' 1st order then 2nd order and so on and in the order they appear on the board (builders then adventurers A-F then contracts 1-6).Players plan and program orders carefully around other players' likely moves various strategies risks and rewards. They manage their guilds' growth and optimize combinations between their adventurer abilities and contract rewards to achieve their goals. As the game advances guilds become more powerful and must rise to meet an increasing number of game state changing threats. Recruiting increasingly powerful adventurers and upgrading your guild capacity are both key to victory. There are various ways to exert control over the board your dice rolls and your chances to get what you want.Most orders are resolved by paying coin or rolling dice based on your adventurers' skills. Sometimes players resolve these orders alone and sometimes cooperating with or in conflict with other guild's adventuring teams attempting the same thing at the same time. When players' orders overlap coins and negotiated prisoners' dilemma cooperate/conflict skill checks resolve the contest. Negotiation over shared goals contract bonuses and reward splits is encouraged and rewarding but not absolutely required to win.Everything you do earns you fame (victory points) and other rewards. At the end of nine rounds any remaining coins are converted to fame at a rate of 5 coins = 1 fame. Then any special prestige upgrade fame is added. The most famous guild is then declared the winner.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dice Masters

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fighting

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dice Masters is a dice-building game patterned after Quarriors! that features custom dice representing various characters from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) universe. Unlike other Dice Masters sets TMNT Dice Masters is sold in as a contained set that gives you all the dice and cards that you need to play. This is the first Dice Masters set that is sold as a contained set without the possibility to expand it with boosters.In the game each player brings a set of dice to the table; these form the player's team from which only they can purchase dice. In addition each player brings two basic action cards which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase them.During a turn a player draws and rolls a number of their dice purchases additional dice and fields character dice to attack the other player. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.TMNT Dice Masters is one of several planned Dice Masters games all of which can be intermixed (or played alone).

Looterz

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–6

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In Looterz players are racing to collect the most loot possible by recruiting a team of Looterz. Your loot is never safe though as many Looterz have the ability to steal Loot from other players.A player's turn involves four phases: Recruitment Looter Activation Recruitment then Sacrifice. Each recruitment phase allows the player to draw a card from the deck or put a Looter from their hand into play. Players are then allowed to choose to activate their Looterz in any order. Finally if players have more than three Looterz in play they must discard down to three.Looting is resolved by rolling dice. The number of hearts on a Looter indicates the number of dice a player may roll during the Loot resolution.

Gang of Dice

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

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The boss is going to retire. As one of his lieutenants you need to take over the reins of the family. But you're not alone in this race... Gather as many minions as possible to show that you are a true leader. Don't be too power-hungry though as it would displease the boss-he could even get rid of you with a bomb! How far will you go to take his place?Each round players reveal a Warning card that displays a particular dice combination or threshold. Each player chooses any number of their dice and rolls them. Your goal is to obtain the highest result without triggering the combination indicated on the card. The player who manages to do that wins the round and gains the dice rolled by all players. At the end of the game the player with the most dice wins.—description from the publisher

Star Trek: Super-Skill Pinball

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–4

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In Star Trek Super-Skill Pinball choose one of the four unique tables and matching backglass for scorekeeping then roll a shared pair of dice and get the pinballs rolling! You'll select one of the two die results then move your pinball to a bumper or spinner or target one level below with a matching number. Once you reach the lowest level pick which flipper's roll to use to send the ball right back to the top. Play well and you'll unlock bonuses like multiball score multipliers and more to help you get the high score!The game comes with four different tables each with its own unique art and challenges:

Da ist der Wurm drin

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Animals Children's Game Dice Racing

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In the dice game Da ist der Wurm drin players want to be the first to have their worm poke its head out of the compost heap at the end of the garden.To set up the game board attach a smaller game board with two slots in it to the larger game board on which the worms will crawl. The first slot has a row of daisies by it while the second slot has a row of strawberries. Each player chooses a color and places the worm head of that color in the appropriate track on the game board.On a turn a player rolls the die then places the appropriately colored worm section into the track holding his worm. The worm sections come in six colors and range from 1 cm to 6 cm long. On any turn a player can place her daisy (or strawberry) tile above the worm that she thinks will reach the daisies (or strawberries) first. If that worm does indeed poke its head into view through the slot before any other then that player can add the daisy (or strawberry) tile to her own worm. (Choose wrong and you discard your tile.)The first worm to poke its head out from under the far edge of the smaller game board wins. For a longer game players can keep their worms going until one stretches its head off the edge of the larger game board.

Gorechosen

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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From the publisher:Are you ready to prove yourself Khorne’s mightiest most ruthless champion? Gorechosen gives you the chance! This brand-new boxed game from Games Workshop lets four players slug it out for brutal supremacy in brutal pit fights. The box includes four plastic multi-part Citadel miniatures: the Exalted Deathbringer of Khorne the Skullgrinder the Slaughterpriest and the Aspiring Deathbringer with Goreaxe and Skullhammer – four iconic champions of Khorne.The game itself is a simple cunning and laugh-out-loud mix of subtle strategy and straightforward brutal combat and four players can play through a game in about an hour. 24 action cards let your chosen fighter pick from a variety of painful attacks and gambits (our favourite being the humble Shove should your victim happen to be standing next to one of the fire pits present on the game’s board) while 16 injury cards present in gruesome detail the inevitable results of standing in a spiked pit with three other crazed madmen. And the fun doesn’t stop with the feuding – players who have been knocked out can still influence the game thanks to special Fate of the Slain rules. Full rules for these fighters are presented on four fighter sheets and rules for four more (with miniatures available separately from Games Workshop) are included inside the game’s rulebook.Each fighter has a unique Kill Zone which dictates what they can hit and how powerfully. The Slaughterpriest in the box for example has enormous reach forwards with his axe (because it’s flipping massive) but is weaker when to the sides. (You can imagine an overhead chop rather than a sweep around him.) Each fighter also keeps track of his wrath using the Wrath Track. Wrath can be spent to make actions and is usually accrued when fighters are wounded – injury cards which are received when combatants are damaged affect wrath in this way.Wrath also has an effect on who goes first because the angrier fighters are the more chance there is they will act first! Each turn fighters put in a number of initiative cards equal to their wrath (each player has a unique design of initiative card) then the top initiative card is turned over dictating who will act. After that player has made an action the next initiative card is turned over and so on and so forth.

Die of the Dead

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–5

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A Dia de Muertos themed dice rolling game for 2-5 players.It's the Day of the Dead and players take the roles of friendly spirits guiding souls from Mictlán the world of the dead to the land of the living. The first player to guide souls up the 9 levels back to the land of the living is the winner.To do this players will choose maniplulate and roll caskets containing dice representing souls. They will have Candles Incense Marigolds and the Bread of the Dead to help them but need to hope for a little luck.Die of the Dead has beautiful Mexican art inspired by the tales and culture surrounding Dia de Muertos. Care has been taken to make the game as fun as possible whilst staying respectful to its roots.—description from the designer

FlickFleet

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2

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Action / Dexterity Dice Science Fiction

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For 10,000 years the Imperium of Earth has ruled the stars with an iron fist but now The Uprising have thrown off their totalitarian yoke and are gathering a following and a fleet. An Imperial battle fleet is dispatched from Earth to end them...The fate of the fleet is in your hands literally. Flick your ships to move. Flick dice to attack. FlickFleet is a two player dice dexterity game which combines tactical ship-to-ship combat with a dexterity element. Raise your shields and get your flicking finger ready!The game can be played as a points-based freeform game with each player choosing the ships they wish to field or by using one of a number of scenarios. Includes 22 fighters bombers and capital ships in the box and five introductory scenarios in the rulebook (with more available online).As with the expansions there is a deluxe and standard version of the base game. The deluxe edition includes engraving on all the pieces.—description from the publisher

Capo Dei Capi

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2

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Dice Mafia

It is prohibition in New York City. Rival gangs of mobsters use their influence to bribe politicians run casinos bootleg liquor and gain the favor of corrupt policemen. In Capo Dei Capi players compete to decide who will be the boss of all bosses.Capo Dei Capi is a 2-player dice game that requires players to push their luck each turn as they make tactical area control decisions. It is designed to be a very quick filler game (10-15 minutes) that still demands a certain level of skill and tactical decision-making. Yet because dice rolls can be unexpected players must be prepared to adapt and change their plans at the drop of a die.

Council of Blackthorn

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Dice Fantasy Medieval

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StoryThe King of Blackthorn rose to power on the strength of his sword gaining the devotion of the people as he forged a nation and purged the ravages of war. Once a much needed beacon of strength for a foundling kingdom he has now grown old and is no longer a vital part of a now robust and powerful country. Others have risen to prominence and power within his council. Adept in their machinations and plots the councilors have their own self serving ambitions. In a shadowy battle of subterfuge they ruthlessly vie against one another for true control of Blackthorn. In this dance of treachery each must seize as much power as able without drawing suspicion for whispers of treason echo through the halls of the King of Blackthorn. Whispers from fellow councilors designed to implicate and see the competition shortened by a head. The King will call for the axe for any he deems a traitor and there is always the risk that he is not as ignorant of the schemes as he seems.As a member of the Council of Blackthorn you must build influence with the kingdom’s factions to expand your political influence. Rumors bribes spies and poison are the tools of your trade. Council of Blackthorn is about secretly gaining power while convincing your rival council members that you are not a threat. Deflect all eyes onto your most powerful enemy and take the keys to the kingdom as well as a great seat at his or her execution. Attract too much attention to yourself and the King’s axe will find you!Gain influence accuse your rivals keep your head!Game Overview and ObjectiveCouncil of Blackthorn is a board game for 2 to 6 players. Each player assumes the role of a member of the Council of Blackthorn. There are several different council member characters to play. Each player must build influence with the kingdom’s political factions by playing ally and building cards. Custom dice change the game conditions for each round. As players gain influence and power they also gain hidden treason points. The players that appear to have the most power will typically gain more treason points. The player with the most treason points at the end of the game is beheaded for treason and is removed from the game. The remaining player with the most total influence points wins the game.

Mmm!

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–6

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Animals Children's Game Dice

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When the cat’s away the mice will play. But the mean black cat is still close when you try to fill your tummy with all the yummy food from the pantry and say “Mmm!”. The players are mice feeding on the Smiths’ food in their pantry and should not be caught by the family’s cat.Roll three dice on each turn and place at least one die on food space which matches the symbol on the die. You can reroll the remaining dice as long as you place at least one die each time. When you've placed all your dice your turn is done. If you fail to place any dice during your turn the cat will move one step closer to the pantry. If you placed all your dice on food spots you need to hurry and cover them with mouse tokens lest the cat still moves closer to the pantry. Try to cover all the food spaces on the board or the mean black cat will reach the pantry and end the game.Mmm! is a cooperative game for the smallest but with special rules for ages 7 and up it is also fun for the whole family! The two-sided board allows for both easy and more difficult play as the children grow.

Dice Kingdoms of Valeria

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Kingdoms of Valeria is a Roll & Write game designed by Levi Mote. On your turn you’ll roll six dice – two dice will activate the citizens for all players simultaneously but the other four dice are just for you. Will you hire citizens to patronize the guilds and fill up your treasury so that you can gain scoring options (Yellow Die)? Will you slay monsters for glory and rewards (Red Die)? Or will you build roads to Domains that give you citizens gold monsters and dice manipulation powers (Green Die)? Then consider how much Magic you have to make everything that much better (Blue Die).—description from the publisher

Keltis: Das Würfelspiel

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–4

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Keltis: Das Würfelspiel recreates Reiner Knizia's Keltis gaming system as a dice game with players once again trying to blaze through regions of negative points to reach sweet VP-rich territory.Keltis: Das Würfelspiel has five dice (with a different colored symbol on each face) a game board 40 wishing stone tiles and 16 wooden playing pieces. On a turn a player rolls all the dice rerolls any number of dice once then chooses on which of the five tracks on the game board he advances one of his four playing pieces.The first spaces on a track are worth negative points to whoever sits on them at game's end so players must make sure to advance their pieces far enough to score points. Along the way they also collect wishing stones either by rolling two wishing stone symbols or by moving a playing piece onto a wishing stone field; a player also earns or loses points based on the number of wishing stones collected.After a certain number of playing pieces reach the far fields on the track the game ends and the player with the most points wins.

Dungeon Dice

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Dice Medieval Negotiation

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Dungeon Dice is a competitive all-dice game with a classic adventuring feel in which players battle monsters and try to collect more dice than their friends. Players equip dice drink dice potions and kill dice monsters. If you've killed enough monsters grab a level-up die. You get the idea.In the game players take turns drawing monster dice from a bag. To defeat a monster players roll their dice and compare them to the monster's dice. The totals change as players use abilities and attempt to aid or sabotage one another. With each victory players earn more dice from bags full of potions weapons and magical artifacts. Players race to collect enough impressive dice to gain a claim on the throne thereby winning the game.

Truck Off: The Food Truck Frenzy

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–6

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Card Game Dice Print & Play

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Truck Off is a lightweight food truck card game that packs some serious bite! In Truck Off you send your food truck team hoping to score a sweet parking spot at a lucrative venue. Your timing and game plan will be critical to your success while your opponents will look for the perfect opportunity to get you to ahem truck off!Truck Off is played over five rounds after which the player with the most money earned wins. In each round players simultaneously select then reveal which venue they will park at placing their food trucks next to that venue. A die is then rolled at each venue to determine how many people actually showed up at each venue. Each player then simultaneously selects which special action(s) they choose to execute this round. Starting with the first player token players play and execute one action in a clockwise manner until all actions have been played and executed. After players are done executing actions profits are split between each truck at the venue.Truck Off gameplay mechanically captures the ups and downs of food truck ownership by rewarding both long-term planning and short-term tactics as well as throwing many curve balls such as low venue attendance competition and crazy weather.

Bohemian Villages

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–5

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Who will collect the most money in the Bohemian villages? As a merchant you want to have as many stores as possible. As an innkeeper you can earn money only if there are enough people in the village. As a miller or factory owner cooperation is key. And to become rich as mayor you need the support of the entire village. Every decision you make might also depend on the roll of the dice.Bohemian Villages is a tactical dice-rolling game that allows you to claim different types of buildings in a shared village and use the powers of those buildings. In the end the player who evaluates their options best and pursues the correct strategy will be the lucky winner.

Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

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Among the many reasons that Oaxaca (pronounced wah-HA-kah) is well known are its exquisite handicrafts. Drawing upon generations of tradition as well as Oaxaca’s vast quantities of raw materials entire families within this state in Southern Mexico dedicate their lives to perfecting their craft. You are a family of skilled Oaxacan handicraftsmen preparing to sell your artisan wares to eager tourists at a bustling tianguis (a large outdoor market) within Oaxaca City. Can you lead your family to a distinguished position with your exquisite craftsmanship or are your crafts common for the culture?GOAL Specialize in specific craft types to create more desirable handicrafts. The player who has the most valuable collection of crafts in their Market Stall at the end of the final round is the winner.

Dairyman

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Farming

Moo moo!! Milk a cow produce some milk!You are a dairyman milking fresh milk everyday working hard to fulfill the orders given by the farm owner. But be aware! If your milk spoils an entire day's work will go down the drain! Or maybe you can turn milk into cheese or ice cream products increasing their value and prevent them from spoiling! Can you become the best dairyman of the farm?In clockwise order players take turns to roll all dice and must lock one set of dice that have a sum of exactly 10. They may repeat this process until they want to pass. They may then trade their dice of 10s for milk tile(s) of equal value. If they fail to roll a sum of 10 their turn ends immediately and they will get a snow token as a compensation which may be used to flip the milk tiles later in the game to earn extra points or gain special abilities. When the stack of milk tiles is depleted the player with the most points on their milk tiles wins the game.

Assault on Doomrock: Ultimate Edition

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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A complete and updated version of the cooperative fantasy board game where you can die from an arrow in the knee poor decisions and dry jokes.A three-act fantasy adventure campaign featuring exploration and combat now with v4.0 rules numerous enhancements and improvements integrated expansions and twice the amount of content released for the game previously.While exploration is focused on creating meaningful decisions with impactful results combat in Doomrock is highly tactical and aims to be fair by introducing a minimum amount of output randomness and rewarding experienced play; all while giving a hardcore challange.—description from the publisher

Dice Manor

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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World-renowned property developers Mundane Manors Inc. are tired of making the same old boring dream homes! The corporate suits are looking to rebrand and they've challenged you their designers to dream BIG and create the most lavish homes ever imagined.The player who is able to build - and market - the most magnificent manor will be victorious!Over four rounds players will use their dice to bid for blueprints earn advertising space collect Inspiration tokens and give early tours of their manor. All leading up to the final round where it's time for the Grand Opening of their completed manors - in the hopes of earning the most praise from the community. The player who gets the most prestige (Victory Points) is the winner!—description from the publisher

Bloom

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–5

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Flowers are power in the freshly-picked dice game Bloom! Roll the dice choose a color then circle the number of matching flowers. Each roll offers a bouquet of possibilities: Should you try to snag all of a certain color or attempt to fill a mixed dozen instead? Choose wisely — the dice you pass might score for your opponents! With a little luck and a lot of pluck you'll be the blooming best!—description from the publisher

HexRoller

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 1–8

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HexRoller is a roll-and-write game in which each round players draft two of the dice rolled then fill in spaces on a hexagonal grid attempting to both complete regions and create lines of identical numbers in order to maximize their score. Who can use their bonuses at the right time to zoom into the lead?

Florenza Dice Game

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

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City Building Dice Renaissance

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Do not be deceived by the fact that this is a roll-and-write game: Florenza Dice Game is a fully-fledged resource management game. Not a quick little game but a deep tricky title however pocket-sized inexpensive and with zero set-up time! The game in short:3: Manage everything you gained from the dice to realize artworks in your district's palace or church or choose to construct buildings which can grant you useful effects during the game!

Kung Fu Zoo

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Action / Dexterity Animals Dice Fighting Sports

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If you hung around your local zoo after it closed for the night you'd see the nighttime rituals of the exotic animals you visited during the day. You'd see cages being cleaned and souvenir stands being restocked. If you were lucky you might catch an impromptu seal show or moonlight nightingale concert.And if you stayed late enough long after the last employee had left for the night you just might see the greatest and most secret of all zoo attractions—the late-night Kung Fu fights!Welcome to Kung Fu Zoo!Kung Fu Zoo is a dice-flicking dexterity game for 2-4 players. You control a team of highly-trained animals from crocodiles to zebras in a Kung Fu battle against your rivals. Who will be tonight’s champions of the zoo? Grab some dice and find out!In Kung Fu Zoo players use six-sided animal dice to do battle in an enclosed arena. There are two gameplay variants: Cage Battle and Points Match. In either variant players start with a team of dice-animals. But the similarities stop there. In a Cage Battle players take turns flicking their animals into the arena. Your goal is to knock your opponent’s animals onto their backs (stunning them) or through holes on the board (the “cages”). You win the match when all of your opponent’s animals are stunned or in cages. The first player to win three matches wins! In a Points Match players take turns flicking their animals into the arena. Your goal is to score 21 points before your opponent. Points are awarded at the end of each round based upon the position of your dice that are left on the board.

Deck Box Dungeons

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–2

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Adventure Card Game Dice Exploration Fantasy

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Deck Box Dungeons is a fantasy themed dungeon crawler with a companion app that fits in a deck box.Each player builds their adventurer by selecting a character card equipment card and special abilities card. Builds can range from a standard stealthy rogue with daggers to a mage that wields a greatsword. During the game players use the companion app to reveal new rooms and encounters which adds to replayability. Players must work together to slay monsters complete encounters and achieve the goal of their quest. Each quest has a different goal from escorting a priest to complete a ritual to killing a giant troll that has been terrorizing a nearby town.The companion app handles the quests and encounters allowing for quick setup times and streamlined gameplay. Random encounters and quest generation provides variety and replayability even when playing the same adventures. Using an app also allows for gameplay to be re-balanced and additional new content to be added after release.Note: Using the app is recommended but print & play quests are also available if you are unable or do not want to use the app.Designed for 1-2 players you can play with 1-4 players if you buy a second copy of the game.Components:

Guild Academies of Valeria

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 1–4

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You and your fellow Headmasters are trying to build out your academies recruit the best students hire talented guildmasters and influence important council ministers. Only select graduates can be tasked to fulfill quests ordered by the King while the so-so graduates are sent to the capital city to make their own way.GAOV uses action selection dice drafting and dice manipulation (Students) tile drafting resource management and engine building (Academies) contract fulfillment (Quests) and a unique system where players choose which game aspects they want to score (Council Ministers) to bring a new aspect of the Valeria Universe to life.—description from the publisher

Risk Strike

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–5

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Fast and fierce world domination! Get off the board and right into the action with this Risk Strike cards and dice game a fresh twist on the Risk board game! Gameplay is simple but highly strategic. Declare which continent you want to attack deploys your troops and roll the dice to start battling. Use tactics cards to sabotage bombard spy and more in pursuit of world conquest. Defeat your opponents in battle to conquer continents and earn domination coins. The first player to earn 2 domination coins wins! The Risk Strike game is an exciting blend of classic Risk gameplay and the raw emotions of fleeting alliances that can turn on you with the play of a card. It's a fun strategy card game for Family Game Night and with a compact size it makes a great travel card game for playing anytime nearly anywhere!Includes 42 continent cards 40 tactics cards 5 reference cards 6 domination coins 3 red dice 2 black dice and rulebook.RISK GAME AS CARD AND DICE GAME: Fast and fierce world domination! Get off the board and right into the action with this quick-playing Risk Strike cards and dice game a fresh way to play the Risk gamePLAY IN ABOUT 20 MINUTES: Enjoy all the intensity of the Risk board game in a fast-paced easy-to-set up card and dice game! The Risk Strike strategy game can be played in as little as 20 minutesDICE BATTLE TO CONQUER CONTINENTS: In this game of strategic conquest players compete to dominate the most continents. Roll the dice to battle your rivals for one of the 42 continent cardsBOLD STRATEGY: Strategize with tactics cards featuring troops and battle actions. Declare your attack and deploy your troops. Players can rally sabotage bombard spy and perform other tactical manoeuvresCOLLECT DOMINATION COINS TO WIN: Includes 6 coloured domination coins. Claim one by collecting a complete set of continent cards. Be the first player to collect 2 domination coins to winFAST FUN ANYTIME: The Risk Strike family card game brings edge-of-your-seat excitement to game nights and more! It's a fun game for fans of the original Risk board game and newcomers alike ages 10+—description from the publisher

Wiraqocha

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Dice Fighting Science Fiction

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We are in the early XXth century but the world is not as we know it. In 1895 exploring Amazonia Auguste Copperpot discovered a gate to a lost valley occupied by a primitive civilisation. Wiraqocha Valley was the name he gave to this remote Eden. This world enclosed a treasure that was going to revolutionize modern sciences namely the Somnium an orange luminescent crystal showing amazing properties. It can be used as fuel affects matter and even time. Immediately this virgin land became a new Eldorado for European colonists. Empress Victoria II decided to send several conglomerates to share this promised land and reap the fruits to her benefit. Zeppelin fleet full of scientists adventurers and looters clouded the Atlantic sky.Wiraqocha Valley is represented by an adjustable board consisting of 22 hexagonal tiles each of them being identified by a number from 1 to 12 or a dice combo (pairs or straights). In his turn each player rolls some six-sided dice combining them to take possession of territories or to protect from the opponents the ones he already owns. Every hexagon affords resources or special capacities which are means to influence die results to fit one’s strategy. There are three ways to win: bring back a huge cargo of Somnium to the Empress; acquire enough scientific knowledge to build the Leviathan a terrifying weapon serving the Kingdom; or find in the temple depths the four relics that will allow you to reach Wiraqocha’s treasure.

Wok and Roll

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–5

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In this modern Asian dice game you and your fellow players are developing menus to become the best zi char (Singaporean for Chinese restaurant) eatery in town.Every turn the active player rolls all 6 dice determining which to keep. Once locked in all the other players have the chance to use only the ingredients on the 4 white dice to cook their dishes.There are lots of ways to score points including keeping an eye out for special abilities as well as chaining combos to maximize your points. But above all don't waste your ingredients!Wok and Roll comes with two menus Simple and Expert so there's lots of different ways to play.—description from the publisher

Star Trek: The Dice Game

Rating: 7.6 | Players: 1

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Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme Print & Play Science Fiction

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In Star Trek: The Dice Game you alone are responsible for the Starfleet crew members aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise during its five year mission of exploration. In order to succeed you will need to complete missions and overcome the unpredictable challenges that may arise during them. If you complete the full five years of exploration you will return to Starfleet Headquarters in glory and be promoted to Admiral. But beware; as you travel ever further from Federation space the challenges and constraints you face will grow more and more extreme. Do you have what it takes to survive?Winner of the 2016 Golden Geek award for Best Print and Play Boardgame Star Trek: the Dice Game is a solo worker placement dice game.

Explorers of the Woodlands

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fantasy Miniatures

Explorers of the Woodlands is a forest-themed cooperative dice game / dungeon crawler for 1 to 4 players. It combines all the best of tile placement exploration rolling dice and bashing monsters in a gorgeous setting and comes with a fast paced classic game mode and a campaign mode.Gameplay: In classic game mode players will explore a forest of over 20 tiles. At the end of each forest a boss will spawn and the players will have to defeat it to win the game!During the Exploration phase each player adds one tile to the Forest making it bigger and bigger. During the Adventure phase each player will play their character in turn order. The active player rolls 4 hero dice and places them on their hero board to select and know what actions can be performed for the turn.Depending on the dice results players get moves special actions and unique abilities! Loot cards acquired while killing monsters or found in the forest and during events will also help the heroes reach their goal!In addition to the standard game mode the game comes with a 5-mission campaign with different objectives special rules and components for an even greater replay value.

Dieson Crusoe

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1

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Adventure Dice Novel-based

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You are drifting on a deserted island because your ship has been wrecked. The weather on the island is fickle and getting worse and the island is inhabited by dangerous beasts. You must somehow survive and escape from the terrible island!Dieson Crusoe is a single player dice game. You will have to use your dice wisely to survive on a deserted island and complete your quest. Store food gather resources craft tools and explore the island. But be careful. You'll also need roofs and fences to avoid harsh weather and ward off raids.The core mechanic is Dice Rondel system. Each day (round) uses 3 dice. Players have to think about what order to use them. The dice value determines both the type of action and the effect of the action. You'll have to figure out which sequence works best for you.The sequence also determines the weather and raids of the next day (next round). Actions that are effective today can pay off tomorrow's damage.Will you pursue efficiency today or safety tomorrow? Will you create your own solution to the dilemma?—description from the publisher

Dice Fishing: Roll and Catch

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–5

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As a lifelong competitive dice fisherman you are confident in your ability to catch fish with your remarkable rolls. But you can't be overly modest about your skills in this competition! Show your opponents you can walk the talk with your spectacular dice fishing skills and put these braggarts in their place!Publisher's summary あなたはさすらいの釣り師。数々の大会で釣り王の名を欲しいままにしてきましたが、今度の大会は様子が違います。強力なライバルの気配がするのです。他の釣り師を押さえて、真の爆釣王になるのはいったい誰でしょうか。このゲームの目的は、より多くのお魚カードを釣り上げることです。釣り竿（ダイス）を振って、お魚カードに書かれた数値と条件を満たすとお魚を釣り上げる事ができます。ゲーム終了時、より多くのお魚カードを獲得したプレイヤーが勝利します。

On Tour: Paris and New York

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–8

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Dice Music Number Travel

On Tour Paris & New York is a brand-new standalone game based on the original On Tour design and featuring some new opportunities for travel!Your goal is to plot the longest and most efficient route through these two magnificent cities where you are musicians in the 1920's trying to play in as many jazz clubs as possible. Each turn two ten-sided dice are rolled to make two two-digit numbers that determine where you visit (a roll of 3 and 7 creates the numbers 37 and 73). All players write each of those numbers in a location on their map. The regions they can write in are restricted by cards turned up in the middle of the table.New abilities to take riverboats and ferries will help you tour the city and become a jazz legend.At the end of the game each player draws a route on their map starting with a low number and visiting adjacent locations with higher and higher numbers. Players get a point for every venue they visit.-description from publisher

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Fire Nation Rising

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

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Card Game Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Avatar: The Last Airbender Fire Nation Rising is a cooperative card and dice game for 1-5 players who take command of Avatar Aang Katara Sokka Toph and Zuko as they fight back against the Fire Nation to restore balance to the world.During the first part of the game players will recruit Heroes from the four nations and battle a variety of Villains leading up to the Day of Black Sun all while advancing their position on the Balance Track while the Villains advance on the matching Ruin track. When either side reaches the top of their track the Day of Black Sun event is triggered giving a significant advantage to the side that reached the top.At the start of each turn the active player will choose one of three locations to visit. The Fire Nation will then attack activating villain abilities in one location and damaging Heroes in play.After resolving the attack the active player will assemble a pool of dice based on their starting set-up and additional Hero card abilities. Players will roll and assign these dice in order to match symbols on Hero and Team abilities Hero cards they wish to recruit Villain cards they want to attack and in Phase 2 Final Battles they must complete. Players match all of the symbols shown on a card to complete the related task.The difficulty level can be adjusted based on players’ familiarity with the game and the degree of challenge desired.—description from the publisher

Yeti

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Dice

Yeti is a quick family dice game with extraordinary components and funny illustrations.In Yeti players are competing adventurers and mountaineers looking for traces of the Yeti the legendary Snowman in the Himalaya. They want to find its footprints — or even better take photos of it — in order to collect points. To achieve this they need to improve their equipment and acquire the help of Sherpas to lead them up the mountains. Most importantly though they should hope for good weather because if too much snow falls the search of all players comes to a halt...

Dice Hospital: ER – Emergency Roll

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–6

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Dice Medical

In Dice Hospital: ER – Emergency Roll everyone tries to treat as many patients in their hospital as possible filling their wards admitting extra or critical patients choosing when and where to station nurses and using screens to isolate patients and satisfying the demands of the three Specialists.Each round the active player flips over an ambulance card revealing three actions and are tied to the dice which are also rolled and allocated underneath their respective colours on the card. Once the active player chooses their action other players choose any non-selected action and associated die to do their own action. At the end of the round the player to the left of the active player becomes the new active player.The game ends when the Ambulance deck is used up. The player with the most points wins.Dice Hospital: ER – Emergency Roll is a standalone 'flip roll and write' game set in the Dice Hospital universe.-description from publisher

On the Rocks

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

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Welcome to On The Rocks cocktail lounge where the city's best mixologists expertly prepare cocktails that the patrons are craving.In this competitive bartending game players complete cocktails for money and additional tips. But beware of rival mixologists removing and spilling ingredients from your cocktails.Players will select 3 or 4 cocktail recipes to prepare and serve in each of the three rounds. Roll the dice to draft your ingredient marbles from the shaker bag. Place the marbles in the centralized mixing area jiggers one at a time clockwise then select one bowl. Fill up your cocktails with those ingredients collecting a tip card for every completed drink.The first player to complete all three rounds of orders will proclaim Last Call. Players score their completed drinks and tips earned with an additional tip for completing all orders. Whomever has the most money wins!On the Rocks is a marble drafting cocktail recipe fulfillment game for 1-4 players. It is NOT a drinking game.

Roll & Raid

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–6

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Bluffing Dice

Roll & Raid is based on the management of resources with euro flavor where players will carry out their actions simultaneously bringing a lot of agility to the game. It also incorporates a strong and original component of interaction that provides a great deal of fun.In Roll & Raid each player will control a Viking clan and produce ships and weapons to raid in search of new cities to plunder. Do not hesitate to destroy the clans that mess with your plans as only in battle you reach glory and only through death will you arrive at Valhalla!—description from the publisherRoll & Raid está basado en la gestión de recursos con sabor euro donde además los jugadores realizarán sus acciones de manera simultánea aportándole mucho dinamismo a la partida. Este juego que además incorpora un fuerte y original componente de interacción que le aporta grandes dosis de diversión.En Roll & Raid cada jugador controlará un clan vikingo con el que producirá barcos y armas para incursionar en busca de nuevas ciudades que saquear. ¡No dudéis en destruir a los clanes que se entrometan en vuestros planes pues sólo en la batalla se alcanza la gloria y sólo con la muerte se accede al Valhalla!—description from the publisher (Spanish)

Dice Hunters of Therion

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fighting

In Dice Hunters of Therion a.k.a. Würfelhelden players slip into the role of a dice hero and take hold of the villains who are up to mischief in the kingdom. With their dice players secure the rewards or find valuable treasures. With courage and the favor of the dice they will succeed in claiming glory and honor in the name of Therion.

Om Nom Nom

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–6

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Animals Bluffing Card Game Dice

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All those carrots look so tempting that you might just snatch them – but what if the wolves have been expecting exactly that a greedy rabbit just like you? You never know...In Om Nom Nom during the game you will roll dice which will represent various kinds of prey. By clever play of your hunter cards you will try to eat the prey and thus gain victory points. At the end of the game the winner will be the player with the most points.The game consists of 3 rounds. Each round is divided into 4 phases – roll play score and cleanup. During the Roll phase one of the players rolls all the dice. After rolling the dice are arranged on the game boards. During the Play phase all players will play all 6 of their predator cards one by one. When everyone has selected their first card they are revealed simultaneously. This is where the action happens. Did You manage to guess what everyone else will play? Were You the only one brave enough to sneak Your mouse after the cheese? Or did You like everyone else play the wolf because no rabbit surely could resist that amount of carrots. During this phase players resolve all their played cards by capturing dice and cards of other players. During the Score phase players score points for captured cards and dice. And during the Cleanup when all 6 cards have been played players gather all their cards back in hand and a new round can begin. At the end of the third round player with the most points is the winner.

Panda Royale

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–10

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Each year as the mid-summer festival begins the seven panda clans gather to celebrate their many years of peace and prosperity. After all the feasts stories and games the Elders host the annual competition wherein the bravest of all pandas gather to battle for honor and glory. The panda clans each have their own powers and abilities and the Elders consider those strengths carefully as they assemble their teams.In the dice-drafting game Panda Royale each player starts with a single yellow die and over ten rounds builds a hand of ten dice to earn the most points with each color of dice having its own scoring properties. Players vie for the best drafting order to pick from the allotted dice each round.This quick-paced game can play up to ten players and games play in 20–30 minutes.—description from the publisher

Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 2–5

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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Description from the publisher:Hammerhal. Built in the glorious image of Azyrheim the seat of the God-King Sigmar’s power. Within its walls can be found danger and beauty faith and intrigue poverty and fortune. From the gleaming crystal spires of Goldenpath to the mist-shrouded vineways of Ghyra-un-Tyr there is seemingly no end to its marvels. Yet most who witness this splendour know little of the danger and menace that fill the outer districts of the city and that which lurks below…A band of heroes has been brought together by circumstance and are bound to hunt down and nullify a sinister Chaos plot in the dungeons and catacombs below Hammerhal. Lord-Castellant Arvios Sunhelm his Gryph-hound Archimaine and Cogsmith Golnir Coalbeard are joined by Loremaster Alnaryn and Fleetmaster Vizrin Kyre as they quest to uncover the Chaos Sorcerer Lord Redomir and put a halt to the vile corruption of the First City of Order.Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal is a boxed game for 2-5 players set in – and below – the splendid city of Order Hammerhal. Up to 4 players can quest in the catacombs and dungeons below the city while another acts as gamemaster setting fiendish obstacles controlling the antagonists and setting the story – it’s up to this player to take charge of revealing the secrets each dungeon has to offer.After each adventure the heroes can spend time in the Cinderfall district of the city visiting shops resting and taking part in the various shadowy delights Hammerhal has to offer! Your characters level up and increase their skills as you play and Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal is completely compatible with the Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower Hero Cards – any miniatures or rules you already own for that game can be used here.Speaking of miniatures Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal includes an impressive 31:As well as this the box includes a 72-page guidebook a 32-page adventure book for the gamemaster to use 18 double-sided board sections 55 cards 12 dice and a variety of counters and markers for tracking your heroes as they gain experience and skills under the city of Hammerhal.

Meduris: Der Ruf der Götter

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Economic Fantasy Mythology

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Description from the publisher:Following the call of the gods the players settle at the base of mountain Meduris. Building huts bringing offerings to the druid gathering precious runestones and building monumental temples is the only way to earn the favor of the gods in Meduris.1. Skillful use of the workers lets you obtain valuable materials. These are needed to build huts and temples.2. The larger the settlement,the more expensive it is to build a hut there. But if you can get in the good graces of the druid by presenting an offering then your effort pays off.3. Keep an eye on the other players: Who will secure the best building sites at the right time and collect the most valuable rune stones?4. Only a player who skillfully places their huts and temples and keeps enough materials ready for the big final round of offerings will win the game.Game description from the publisher: Dem Ruf der Götter folgend machen sich die Spieler auf um den Fuß des Berges Méduris zu besiedeln. Hütten bauen dem Druiden Opfergaben darbringen wertvolle Runensteine sammeln und monumentale Tempel errichten – nur so können die Spieler die Gunst der Götter gewinnen.

Skyline

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 1–4

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City building has never been so easy: Just roll the dice then build a building. However each die must be selected carefully to fit the building requirements. Push your luck too far – or select carelessly – and a player may find himself demolishing his city instead of building it up. Choose each die wisely and build efficiently in order to erect magnificent skyscrapers and create the best skyline!Skyline is a quick push-your-luck dice game involving set collection. Unlike other dice games that provide no relationship from turn to turn and no player interaction this game allows players to literally build upon their decisions each turn and react to their opponents' actions.Each turn players choose to roll dice from either the Construction Yard or the Abandoned District with the goal of erecting urban buildings. Buildings are made up of three types of dice: Ground Floor dice Mid-Floor dice and Penthouse dice. Some buildings are safer to build but provide little reward while other buildings have poor probabilities but can have substantial impact on the success of a player's skyline.After rolling their selected dice the player must use at least one of these dice to take one of three possible actions: Abandon Build or Cancel Construction. The Build action is the desired outcome of course but can be carried out only if the die result matches what they need to build. For instance all Ground Floor dice can be built without restriction but a High-Rise Mid-Floor die result can be built only on top of a High-Rise Ground Floor die. Likewise a Mid-Rise Penthouse die can be built only on a Mid-Rise Mid-Floor die. If the rolled results do not allow them to Build then the player must Cancel Construction on one of their existing buildings. If a player does not want to Cancel Construction then they must Abandon by placing that die in the Abandoned District which gives their opponents the opportunity to capitalize on this failure.At the end of the game points are rewarded for completed buildings according to their height. A Level 3 building – that is a building comprised of three dice – is worth 9 points while a Level 4 building is worth 16 and so on.Remember the dice control the results...but the players control the dice.

Desperados of Dice Town

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 2–4

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American West Dice

Desperados of Dice Town has the same setting as the Dice Town game from the same authors but this is a prequel of sorts with players now trying to free their fellow bandits from jail in order to do any number of ill-considered deeds. We'll figure that out later though — first let's free some desperadoes!Each player has five desperadoes in jail at the start of the game each with a different symbol on them. On a turn you roll four dice up to three times putting aside any dice you want to save. If you combine a hit with a symbol on a desperado you rotate that desperado disc moving him one step closer to freedom. Each desperado requires a different number of steps to reach freedom and once free when you hit that same desperado he now robs money from the other players.Certain dice combinations allow you to draw multiple bonus cards and choose one or two that you like and if you skunk out and don't do anything else you take the top card as compensation. The cards let you take special bonus actions like not paying opponents and using symbols in different ways.Win by freeing all of your desperadoes before anyone else or by being the last one in the game.

Ratzzia

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–5

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The pantry shelves are nearly overflowing with food and the mice are rushing to collect what they need to ensure their families have enough to eat through the harsh winter. Each family forages for themselves trying to do the best for the wee offspring. The first to fill their little sack will be the envy of all mousedom.Ratzzia is a game for two to five players. The dice represent the mice in each player’s family. Each time they roll the dice they must arrange the die results on the board in order to get as much food as possible.Each player has their own set of colored dice. On their turn they roll their dice and choose to place them on the matching spaces on the board. The dice represent mice climbing on top of each other in order to get rewards from the top shelf.Rewards can be delicious food or actions that help you store or steal food. After collecting some food it needs to be stored otherwise it can be stolen by other players! As soon as a player gets 25 points worth of food they win the game and survive the winter!—description from the publisher

Genius Square

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–2

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Children's Game Dice Educational Party Game Puzzle

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Roll The Dice & Race Your Opponent To Complete The Square!A worthy winner of the HPC Game Of The Year 2018/19 award this outstanding puzzle game is every bit as clever as its name suggests. Each player receives their own 6x6 grid and a set of the nine different shapes plus seven ‘blocker’ pieces. Roll the seven dice together and place a blocker in each of the co-ordinates that appear on the faces. Now race to fill every other space on the grid before your opponent.As unlikely as it seems the puzzles really can be solved in each of the 62,208 possible combinations often with multiple solutions. Sometimes you’ll quickly see a solution... sometimes you’ll be tearing your hair out. Brilliant!—description from the publisher

Pie Town

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–4

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Deduction Dice

Welcome to Pie Town a community built on apples and butter. Business here is no cake walk so manage your operation well and keep your secret recipe secret.Pie Town is a worker-dice placement game with hidden information. You need to manage your constantly changing workforce to harvest bake and sell pies while deducing other players' secret recipes! Now is your chance to become the best pie shop in town!

A Pleasant Journey to Neko

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Dice Environmental

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You and your friends have decided to journey to the Antarctic harbor of Neko in hopes of seeing the cute penguins living in the backdrop of the stunning glacier landscape. To get to Neko smoothly you each try map out the stops along your journey in order to see the most penguins. Your chances improve the farther your ships travel the more harbours you visit and the more goods you deliver. But avoid doing things that interfere with the Antarctica ecology and cause the penguins to move away! Will you be the one that sees the most penguins?A Pleasant Journey to Neko is a dice strategy game for 2-4 players. The game plays in four rounds across two periods each with a mid-game scoring phase. In each round players roll and draft their dice which are used to exchange resources activate existing card abilities or bid on more cards. Players can also take a number of free actions including exchanging resources adjusting their dice buying and moving ships and opening harbors to build more ship lanes.Try to plan ahead by building ship lanes that create custom hubs! These spaces give you additional locations to trigger powerful new actions. But don’t forget about advancing your ships too! Not only do they score you points but they can combo with the dice in the hubs you have created.A Pleasant Journey to Neko has a unique dice drafting mechanism and card laying system. Over a hundred card combinations exist making each game different and surprising. Also don’t forget about the advance mode where you will face more challenges on your way to Neko. Are you ready to go see the penguins? We wish you a pleasant journey to Neko!

The Institute for Magical Arts

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2

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The Institute for Magical Arts is in a state of discord due to the mysterious disappearance of its principal magician and headmaster Dr. Finneas. Two senior wizards are now contending to fill his shoes and bring a state of harmony back to the Institute. However the wizards have contrasting ideas about the Institute's direction. To gain the title of headmaster the wizards must gain the trust of their colleagues and gather as much magical powers through the tools of their trade as possible.The Institute for Magical Arts is a two-player dice and area control game in which players use dice rolls to place power stones onto different cards in an attempt to win those cards. Once won cards offer either special powers or victory points or both.

Deadball

Rating: 8.2 | Players: 1–2

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Deadball is a fast-paced baseball game for one or two players that uses real statistics and RPG dice to bring the ballpark to your tabletop. In fifteen or twenty minutes simulate a full game between real or imaginary teams using an elegantly simple system that's intuitive to die-hards and casual fans alike.For the dead of winter for the dead of night for when your team is dead in the water Deadball is there.

Dicetopia

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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The neon-clad city of Dicetopia lies before you. A seething cauldron of petty thieves devious corporations and ruthless smugglers. Or in other words the city of opportunity for you and your factions highly questionable motives! Unleash your agents to take over neighborhoods snatch loot perform shifty actions and carry out sneaky missions. Be the unbridled predator you’ve hopefully never dreamt of being in real life and lay the city before your feet!Dicetopia is a quick small box board game for 2-4 players with a playtime of 20-30 minutes. The game introduces a fresh mix of area control dice manipulation worker placement secret objectives and player interaction. On a player's turn they send out one of their agents to a neighborhood in the city. This single move determine the resource they'll collect their control of that neighborhood and what action they'll perform. When all agents has been deployed after six rounds the ultimate goal is to score the highest points based on the neighborhoods players dominates the die resources they have and their secret missions.The game has a randomized set-up and comes with 10 different factions 40 unique missions and 10 game-changing scenarios to make sure no game ever feel the same!

2D6 Dungeon: A Dungeon Crawler

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 1

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2D6 Dungeon is a classic style dungeon crawl print and play roll and write game designed for solo play. In it you explore randomly generated dungeons fight monsters and collect treasure as you gain experience and levels and strive to become a legendary adventurer. Every adventure and dungeon is unique.You are an adventurer who has that special quality which marks you out as exceptional. You have heard that there is a dungeon located nearby and after searching have discovered the entrance. This is your opportunity to make your fortune and although you know the challenges ahead will be difficult you sense you have what it takes to become a legend!—description from the publisher

Pax Penning

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 3–5

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Abstract Strategy Dice Medieval Political

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Take on the role of small kings local chieftains and wealthy peasants who have been invited by the first Christian king of Sweden to participate in his nationbuilding. He has participated in the Danelaw and saw how the Brits created a strong centralized kingdom and the role currency played in that. He wants to do the same but he can't do it without the help of the local movers and shakers: you.This would severely limit your strength but perhaps you would be stronger united. Perhaps you didn't have much strength to begin with and this is your opportunity to carve a place for your family in the new kingdom of the Swedes. Perhaps you can just marry your way into power and secure your future that way.Either way the world is changing. The end of the Viking age is here and you better not get left behind.—description from the publisher

Sunflower Valley

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–5

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City Building Dice Farming Trains Transportation

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In Sunflower Valley you draw your own mountain valley based on the tactical use of a shared pool of dice. Spread your villages throughout the valley and connect them with railways to earn points. Meanwhile gain extra rewards for cheering up your villagers by cleverly planting sunflowers around the mountains. Remember that your villagers need enough sheep too! And there are other players out there competing for the most valuable dice so grab a pen and start drawing your valley in this creative strategy game!Sunflower Valley is a creative pen-and-paper world-building game. Score points by drawing icons in the colored regions on your drawing map by cleverly using the dice. The game ends when no free spots remain on any player's drawing map. The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins!

Medici: The Dice Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1–4

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Comic Book / Strip Dice Fantasy Miniatures Movies / TV / Radio theme

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Dice Renaissance

Medici: The Dice Game is a new design by Reiner Knizia that shares the setting and feel of his classic Medici board game but using dice!Fast to learn and simple to play Medici: The Dice Game is a dice-selecting roll-and-write game. Over the course of three rounds 2-4 players will fill their ships with the goods presented at the wharf. They will earn money for having the most valued loads as well as for collecting majorities of the different goods.—description from the publisher

Masters of the Universe: Battleground

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 2

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Will Skeletor and his Evil Warriors conquer Castle Grayskull? Will He-Man and his friends manage to stop them? Will Orko succeed in casting any spells? Answers to these and many other questions can be found by playing Masters of the Universe: Battleground!Masters of the Universe: Battleground is a skirmish miniature game for two players where forces of good and evil clash in epic combat. This glorious battle will shake the earth and change the fate of the entire Eternia!Players equip their characters with the most excellent weapons spells and equipment; then they create decks consisting of 20 amazing fate cards. Those cards will be used to activate characters on the battlefield during the game. It is entirely up to the players how many cards they will use on each of their characters. Do you want to use all your cards on the mighty He-Man? Go ahead! However it may be challenging to win this battle alone.Unlike many skirmish games players don't have to accept the outcome of the cruel dice. Masters of the Universe: Battleground provides many ways to control luck. Characters can spend mana to reroll even the most stubborn dice perform a focus action to increase their chances and use the environment to their advantage.Gain victory points by knocking out the opponent's characters claiming objectives and fulfilling secret side missions. Whoever gathers the most victory points at the end of round four is a winner!-description from publisher

DiceWar: Light of Dragons

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 2

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Abstract Strategy Dice Fantasy

Light of Dragons is a tactical dice and positioning game in which players battle in the role of ancient peoples who are trying to become ruler over warring lands.

A Fistful of Penguins

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 1–6

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Animals Children's Game Dice

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A Fistful of Penguins is a quick engaging family dice game of gathering animals to add to your zoo. After three rounds the person who has made the most money displaying animals wins.To play roll the special animal dice to get a selection of animals to add to your zoo. Each animal has a unique way to earn you money: Kangaroos score by the square of their number so if you want to score them you should try to get a large group; lions are worth big bucks but if you score lions then only the lions score; camels are a decent $5 each but they score zero if any lions are present; squirrels steal money from the other players; and moose score the most but each moose must be paired with a squirrel in order to score.Penguins don't earn you money but they get you penguin tokens. A penguin token can be used to add another die to your group or to reroll as many of your dice as you wish. This makes it very valuable to start your turn with a fistful of penguins...The basic version is intended for casual family play and to teach gamers the faces of the dice. If you are rating the game for a BGG audience please play the advanced version before rating the game.

Bushido

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2

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Bushido is a game of dueling martial artists testing their training against one another. One shall prevail and prove their techniques superior. The other will return to studying until they are strong enough to win.Players begin with a card draft which represent the training of their fighters.After training players play a series of round wherein they play technique cards from their hands or change their guards in order to create a pool of combat dice which they hope to use to strike their opponent or defend their attacks.In this game damage escalates quickly so players must be able to block evade and strike simultaneously to try and keep the momentum of the encounter in their favor.The game ends when one warrior has bested the other.

Ghostel

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 2–4

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Ghostel is a semi-cooperative family game for 2-4 players that plays in 60 minutes.Prey on the phobias of guests by turning into their worst nightmares. Work with other ghosts to combine forces and scare away the hardiest of hotel patrons to earn upgrades and get even scarier!The randomised guest and dice roll mechanic means each round is different from the next but there’s more than luck to winning the game.Creepstone Manor has been closed for nearly a hundred years standing dark and silent above the town of Creepstone and that’s just the way resident ghost Spookie likes it! But now the manor has been reopened and turned into a hotel for the living. You play the part of one of Spookie’s ghostly minions charged with ridding the house of these warm-bodied usurpers. Use your skills of terror to send them fleeing into the night and win Spookie’s patronage. Who will be top ghost?The game of Ghostel is made of rounds and each round is split into a Day Phase and a Night Phase.During the day new people will enter the hotel whilst those who already spent the night and survived will calm down from their twilight visitations. Meanwhile the ghosts are hiding in the attic preparing for the next night by buying more Terror Dice Scare Tactics to improve their scaring and Spookie favours to give those extra little bonuses.During the night the ghosts walk the rooms using all their creepy tactics to frighten the humans away and show off for Spookie himself. At the start of the night Phase each player rolls their Terror dice to determine how scary they are for that night. Players can move one room per turn leaving behind a Terror die as they move. If the total of all dice in a room exceeds the courage of the human in residence of that room they're scared out of the hotel! Players then score based on who placed the highest scoring dice; however scoring is graduated so even a single pip die will still score the canny player some victory points.

Dragon Rampage

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 3–5

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Dragon Rampage a competitive fantasy game by Richard Launius is a strategic dice game for 3 to 5 players. Each player takes the role of one of the adventurers (all with different abilities) and the goal is to score the most points at the end of the game by fighting against or running from (or some combination of the two) the dragon you just woke up and tallying up the treasure and gold you obtain in the dungeon. Players roll seven specially designed dice and choose whether to focus on grabbing treasure (from the dragon or from another player) fighting the dragon protecting themselves (and their treasure) or running for the exit. Try not to draw the dragon's attention as you make your way and note that your fellow adventurers may hinder (or aid) you in your strategy and the final scoring varies depending on how the game ends so watch your step!The contents of Dragon Rampage is:1 rulebook1 game board 6 character mats30 hero wound tokens (red crystals) 1 first player token 1 re-roll token 8 dice72 dragon wound cubes (12 per player) 54 hero action tokens (9 per player) 6 player movement tokens (1 per player)

The Lord of the Rings: Journey to Mordor

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 2–4

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Sauron threatens to push Middle-earth into eternal darkness in his desire for the One Ring. All hope lies on Frodo Baggins and his friends from the Shire. Your task: Bring the One Ring to Mordor then destroy it in Mount Doom.With each roll of the dice Der Herr der Ringe: Die Reise nach Mordor players make decisions and try to move their hobbits as quickly as possible to get to Mount Doom. They're supported by Gandalf and the community but also potentially blocked by orcs and persecuted by Ringwraiths. Players must be bold enough to choose the right dice symbols and shake off the Nazgul.

Ninja Taisen

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2

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Dice Fighting

Ninja Taisen is a two-player dice-driven open information abstract game with a random set-up. Both players have identical sets of ten fighters with three fighters in each of three colors with values 1–3 along with a tri-colored boss valued at 4; these fighters are placed in small stacks of varying size onto a line that's eleven steps long. On a player's turn he rolls the three colored dice and can make up to three moves accordingly with the blue die moving a blue fighter etc. Moving a fighter that has other fighters on top of him moves these other fighters as well.If as a result of movement his fighter (or stack of fighters) encounters an enemy a fight between the two top cards in each stack occurs the result of which is decided primarily by the color (via a rock-paper-scissors mechanism) and secondarily by the number (highest wins). If the boss wins a fight its power is reduced by the enemy's power for the remainder of the current fight; if two fighters draw they both retreat one step toward their own village possibly precipitating other fights on the same turn. The fight continues until either pile is depleted.The first player to either defeat all of the opposing fighters or reach the end of the line (and clear out the opponent's fighters in his village) wins.

Valda

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–5

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SUMMARY Valda is a competitive strategy game where you as a viking warchief manage a village and resources play powerful spells and build temples. So you gather followers fight off enemies and climb the steps to divinity.STORY Realm of the gods: Loki the trickster god framed Thor in a moment of distraction causing the hammer of Thor to fall on Tyr. Tyr the god who was guarding Yggdrasil the tree connecting the worlds. Knocked out for a moment Tyr left Yggdrasil ungaurded. An opportunity for mortal viking to climbs the tree and become god. But only those who are worshipped and worthy can become a true god. Beware: when power is up for grabs competition is an the horizon. And the gods... well they will play their part.HOW TO PLAY (AND WIN) In Valda every player finishes 5 phases during their turn. As a viking chieftan you roll dice to harvest rare resources for your tribe. Then you scavenge and explore the worlds by drafting and playing cards and actions. Building temples in the different God-domains is an important goal to gain divine abilities and get access to more powerful spells. But beware enemies can attack you with the weapons of the Gods. Defend yourself and use your resources and shields wisely. Fight and build with honor to receive the grace of the Gods. Which God? That depends on your playing style. You like the aggressive playstyle then is Surtur your man you like having many options to eventually use the ultimate combo then Freya is the one for you and so on. Having a seat at the table of the most beautiful Asgardian palace beside the likes of Odin and Thor that is your only goal. By playing cards using your abilities and building temples you also gain valuable followers. The viking chieftan who has the most followers when the game ends is worthy enough to climb the world tree Yggdrasil and becomes a God! Oh.. and he also wins the game.—description from the designer

Titan Race

Rating: 6.1 | Players: 2–6

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Dice Fantasy Racing

In Titan Race each player is a rider astride a titan racing on one of the many wild circuits of Neverworld. It's a short brutal three laps as you jockey for position ram your opponents and leverage bonuses and your titan's abilities to race across the finish line!The game board is an infinite circuit that wraps around at opposite sides. Each circuit has specific features that allow for interesting tactical maneuvers. Movement is governed by drafting dice from a pool rolled at the beginning of each round. If you choose a die that matches the color of your titan you regain a life point.When you ram into another titan by moving into the same space you push that titan and deal them damage. There are also ways to lay traps on the circuit that will damage titans who encounter them. If you get KO'd due to taking too much damage you'll spend a turn resetting right where you were knocked out but you're not out of the race.Each titan has a special ability that can be activated once each round. Moving into certain bonus spaces on the circuit also grant players bonus cards that can be played for additional effects.

Snail Sprint!

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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During the slippery snail race in Mrs. Meyer's vegetable garden in Schneck-di-wupp! Sebastian Schneck Gloria Glibber and friends move forward at a snail's pace but that doesn't prevent them from creeping over each other or slipping past one another. Lucky dice rolls and skillful moves will get your snails to the winner's podium to receive the most points and win!

Penny Papers Adventures: The Temple of Apikhabou

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–99

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Penny Papers Adventures is a series of small strategy games in which all of the players use the same result of three dice to explore a location more thoroughly than their opponents by writing numbers in their grid in an optimal way to make the most victory points out of it. Challenge your ability to manage space and wisely use the special effects of the dice. Oh and don't miss an opportunity to mess up your opponents' grids when dangers appear! The number of players is unlimited as everyone plays at the same time!In The Temple of Apikhabou you must make your way through the temple to discover its treasures and secret passages...while avoiding wandering mummies.

RattleBattleGrab the Loot

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 2–5

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Dice Humor Nautical Pirates

Take to the high seas as the captain of your very own pirate ship. Seek out valuable merchant ships and raid them for their goods! Hire new crew upgrade your ship and give your treasure to the Pirate King for fame and glory!Rattle Battle Grab the Loot takes the fun of rolling dice and combines it with a rich scenario deck to make each game play differently. Each round the players battle it out with merchant vessels and other ships trying to grab as much loot as possible. One player takes dice from all the players rattles them in their hand then tosses them into the game box to resolve the battle. Where your dice land in the box in addition to the symbols rolled determines the results of the battle then players claim their loot. Players may now return to port to upgrade their ship hire new crew or give their goods to the Pirate King for his favor.When upgrading their ship players use physical pieces to assemble their vessel making each ship look different. In the box are dozens of punchboard pieces to customize your ship. In addition to common items and crew members there will be unique item upgrades and crew that can make your ship stand out among the crowd!At the end of the game the player who earned the most favor from the Pirate King wins! *Note: Per the publisher unfortunately there's a misprint in the components list in the rulebook:The correct numbers of Loot tokens in the box are: 10 Spices 18 Rum 18 Fabrics 10 ValuablesAlso the correct number of Special Loot cards from the mini-expansion is 5 (not 8).

Journey: Wrath of Demons

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Ancient Dice Fantasy Miniatures

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In Journey: Wrath of Demons a cooperative miniatures board game based on a classic Chinese novel four Pilgrims band together to search ancient China for the Sutras sacred scriptures that will bring salvation to a world overrun with Demons. After fighting different Bull Demon minions the climax of the game is the battle against the Bull Demon King. Game cards and custom dice combine for fast tense action and critical choices enhance the Pilgrims’ skills during the game.Journey is designed for 1 to 4 players each controlling one of the four Pilgrims: Tripitaka Monkey Monk Sha and Cho Hakkai. The game's AI controls the Demons and other creatures. Diverse playing styles are possible with a strong emphasis on cooperation because the players win or lose as a team. Each game will take 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on the quest and the style you play.The core game comes with ~10 quests each with different goals and unique rules. Do you ruthlessly hack and slash killing all demons in the Pilgrims' path? Or take a more virtuous path cleansing the demons' souls saving villagers and collecting good karma. Your decisions affect the Pilgrims' abilities skills and equipment. Killing demons may be quick but can you risk accumulating that bad karma? Side quests may enhance your Pilgrims' skill and karma but with more demons spawning can you afford to spend that time?Solo play is almost identical to multi-player games. Instead of multiple players controlling 1 or 2 pilgrims each 1 player will control all four Pilgrims. There are no other changes to the game.

Long Live the Queen

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2

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The Queen is dead! Long Live the Queen!After a terrible epidemic the Queen has passed on leaving behind her twin daughters: the determined Princess Black Rose and the ambitious Princess White Rose. The Queen expected to live for a very long time and had not taken the time to declare which of the two would succeed her. Thus the battle lines are drawn; each Princess has gathered her courtiers around her and is prepared to risk it all in pursuit of the throne. Will prestige be enough to rule the kingdom or will it take intrigue and violence?As a loyal servant for their Princess each player must manipulate her supporters and use their abilities effectively to gain enough prestige to dominate the proceedings or humiliate the opposing Princess into relinquishing her claim to the throne.In Long Live the Queen each princess is placed opposite the other with five character tiles placed face down on either side. Beginning with the starting player the game takes place in turns during which a player rolls the dice to determine which position is activated reveals or activates characters then may reposition a tile. To win a player must guide their Princess to victory either by accumulating enough of each type of prestige or by causing the opposing Princess tile to be turned face down.

Once Upon a Castle

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Players each draw their ideal Castle with battlements towers a nice dungeon for passing guests...in an effort to draw in visitors. The object is to build the most prestigious castle in the Kingdom using all the resources they can find in the area.

Bang! The Dice Game: The Walking Dead

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 3–8

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The Walking Dead Bang! Dice Game allows players to face off against one another in this fast-paced stand-alone version of Bang!Roll shoot Bang! Test your survival skills with this fast moving version of BANG! The Dice Game: The Walking Dead. Based on the world's best-selling shoot 'em up card game Bang! where players battle one another for supremacy! With each roll of the dice Walkers get closer to overrunning the Survivors can you survive?

Dice Conquest

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–4

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Take on a gauntlet of terrifying monsters either solo or in a group of up to 4 classic fantasy characters with a set of 7 included polyhedral dice as your weapons! Can you survive long enough to defeat the mighty dragon Kalterstorm?Each round you’ll draw three new monster cards joining any leftover from the last round. Then a player rolls all available dice and players begin their turns. On your turn you place any available die on a monster doing that die’s value amount of damage. If the value matches your character’s critical hit number you get to use your special ability as well! If the total damage is greater than that monster’s health you defeat the monster collect an item (if any) and move the dice back into the pool. But it’s not always so simple! Many monsters have special requirements like the Ogre who must be defeated before you can even target other creatures! Or the Gremlin who can only be defeated with three damage EXACTLY!It includes 8 Hero cards to try in different combinations as you attempt to survive to the end. Once you do you can mix in more and more of the included Trap cards for an added challenge!Dice Conquest is designed by Stephen Avery and Eugene Bryant and features illustrations by Mirco Paganessi. It includes a beautiful set of 7 polyhedral dice but players are also free to swap in their favorite set of dice instead!—description from the publisher

Dune: The Dice Game

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 3–8

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Dune: The Dice Game is a dice-driven game set in the Dune Universe created by Frank Herbert. The players represent various Factions vying for control of Arrakis the desert planet. Each of the 6 playable Factions has a small set of thematical special abilities that allow them to break certain rules in the game.Each turn you will need to politicize ally and employ the means of Kanly wisely recruit new troops ship them to the surface and attack in just the right spot. Fate in the form of the dice can be controlled to a certain degree but still might thwart your plans; Sandstorms and the mighty Shai-Hulud plague the surface of Arrakis; A charismatic leader might tip the balance in a forlorn combat in your favour.The game ends when one Faction or Alliance is in control of a certain number of Arrakis’ strategic Regions at the end of their turn or after 6 whole rounds.Inspired by and based on both this game tries to find a middle ground between the complexity and duration of Dune and the excessive simplicity of Dune Express while staying true to former’s general feel and steering closer to the lore of the original novels than both. Sounds a bit ambitious I know.

The Border

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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Your goal in The Border is to surround as many areas as possible as quickly as you can.Each player has an erasable game board that features nine areas with each area being surrounded by a path of hexagons and with these hexagons being grouped in six colors. Most of these paths border two areas. Two hexagons are white and contain an X mark.On your turn you roll five dice up to three times keeping and re-rolling dice as you wish. Each die has a different color on each of its six sides. Once you stop you can use the die results to X spaces on your game board but only if you can X off all the spaces in that group. If you roll four orange and one red for example you can X off a group of two three or four orange hexagons but not a group of five orange hexagons since you have only four orange on the dice.After you take your turn each other player can X off one space on their game board for each die that you didn't use on your turn — but only if those spaces are adjacent to ones that are already Xed. If you marked off a group of three orange hexes for example then each opponent could mark off one orange and one red assuming they are adjacent to previously marked spaces.When you mark off the final hex that borders an area you score that area earning 4-12 points depending on its size. Any other player who surrounds that area on a later turn receives only half as many points.As soon as a player completes their sixth area you finish that turn then everyone sums their points to see who wins.

Cosmic Run: Rapid Fire

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 1–2

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Dice Racing Science Fiction Space Exploration

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It is 2456 and the planet Earth has long been abandoned. The remaining humans in existence divided into political factions have been in search of a new home. Only two factions remain. As they race toward new hospitable worlds they are not only battling each other but a hostile alien race that is trying to sabotage their ships with space mines. Will your team make it to the planets to establish new colonies?Cosmic Run: Rapid Fire is a standalone 1-2 player sequel to Cosmic Run. It's a quicker yet more aggressive game because it includes direct attacks on your opponent. It is also a very portable game consisting of just ten dice and score sheets.

Barrel Dice

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 3–6

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The innkeeper of The Wild Boar tavern is a sly old dog! While they treat humble guests who don't ask for much to free rounds for hard-drinking boozers they close the tap and keep the cool brew for themself.Polterfass is a dice-rolling game without dice! Yes the dice have been replaced by small beer barrels and the active player each round is the innkeeper who shares their brew with players who keep their requests modest.The game includes nine barrels — two of them being special ones — that are rolled out of a dice cup. The normal barrel bases show numbers while the special barrel bases show symbols that allow the innkeeper to double other values or cancel them. After each roll only the values/symbols of standing barrels count.After the active player has rolled for the first time the other players secretly place cards with numbers in front of them. The active player then decides whether to reroll change the values or end their turn. Once their turn ends the guests reveal their cards and sum them. If the innkeeper's total is less than this sum they win this round keeping all the beer for themself while the guest with the highest card actually loses points! If the innkeeper's total is higher each player scores the value of their played card and the innkeeper keeps the rest.When one player has at least 75 points the game ends and the player with the most points wins!

Qwixx: Das Duell

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2

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Qwixx: Das Duell is a stand alone two player version of Qwixx.As in Qwixx players roll colored dice and match them up to fill out a score sheet to maximize how many points they will score at the end of the game. However in this game rolls can only be used by the active player but the players will share the same score board and mark their progression with stones of their player color.Stones can in some cases be bumped out by the other player while other stones are locked in permanently. As so Qwixx: Das Duell features a higher level of player interaction than Qwixx.At the end of the game players sum up their scores based on the placent of their stones. The player with the most points is the winner.

Mission Catastrophe

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–6

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Dice Science Fiction

You took the job on the Deep Space Mining Vessel Casimir because you needed a paycheck not because it was exciting. Lucky you! Now that the asteroid you were mining has been inadvertently turned into high-velocity flaming death headed straight for your ship you have plenty of excitement! The ship is doomed - you and your crew mates need to keep it running just long enough to get supplies and head to an escape pod. Just don't tell them that there's only one.In Mission Catastrophe you're a member of the alien crew on a doomed ship. You'll need to use the ship modules your unique role ability and the Operations Cards you obtain to collect supplies and find the remaining working escape pod before the ship takes so much damage that it explodes. Fixing the ship is an option - it may even be an imperative - but spend too much time on repairs and you'll be watching one of your crew mates escape while you float in the cold vacuum of space.Mission Catastrophe includes additional ship modules crew member roles and modes of play to provide a unique gameplay experience every time.—description from the publisher

Paradice

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–5

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Paradice is a game of dice placement and set collection where each player will complete different stalls to reach the maximum number of points at the end of the game.When a player completes a stall with the three dice following the requirements of that stall it gives them an extra power to use immediately or in another turn goes up a level on the scoring track and the points of the stall will be added at the end of the game.The different requirements of the stalls may be for example that all the dice are the same color that one of the dice is 6...etc.The player with the higher score by completing the stalls and getting bonuses will be the winner.-description from publisher

Castellans

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–5

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In Castellans players will compete to build the most impressive jurisdictions in the city of Kosk with hopes of becoming its next Castellan — but this is no easy task! It requires players to navigate the complexities of construction to pit short-term gains against long-term goals and to decide between the assurance of small payoffs now or the possibility of larger payoffs later. As construction continues the local Magistrate wanders each district of Kosk casting judgment upon everyone's work at different times. Will you out-smart other players and gain the Magistrate's favor? Will you do enough in the big picture — and at the right times — to pull off the victory?—description from the publisher

Rolling Japan

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 1–99

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Rolling Japan is a light multiplayer solitaire dice game. Each player has a map of Japan that's divided into the 47 prefectures which are then bunched together into six differently colored areas.On a turn a player draws two regular six-sided dice from a bag and rolls them; the bag starts with seven dice six matching the colors of the areas on the map along with a wild purple die. All players now write down each number rolled on any prefecture of the matching color i.e. if the blue die shows 4 and the yellow a 2 write a 4 in one blue prefecture and a 2 in one yellow prefecture. If the purple die is rolled you can place this number in a prefecture of your choice; additionally three times per game you can choose to use a non-purple die as any color. However neighboring prefectures — including those in different areas connected by blue lines — can't have numbers with a difference larger than 1; if you can't place a number without breaking this rule then you must place an X in a prefecture of the appropriate color. (If all the prefectures in an area are filled you can ignore the die or use one of your three color changes to place the number elsewhere.)After six dice have been rolled mark one round as being complete then return the dice to the bag and start the next round. After eight rounds the game ends and whoever has the fewest Xs on her map wins.

Lindisfarne

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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June 8 793 when the Abbey of Lindisfarne is sacked the West discovers the existence of dreadful warriors: The Vikings. The raids will happen all over Europe for many centuries to come bringing treasures and prestige to those fearless Jarls.In Lindisfarne you are the Jarl of your clan the Viking chief and you will raid Europe hoping to bring back treasures and prestige. Be aware the sea is unpredictable and without luck or the gods’ help you could land after one of your rivals or at the wrong location altogether...Roll dice and place your vikings wisely to obtain the lead on the three boards and win destination cards and objective cards...The game lasts six expeditions. Each turn players roll dice depending on the number of tokens they own. Then they place one or more tokens on one of the game boards trying to have the lead and choose which card (destination or objective) to take at the end of the expedition.The more tokens they place on a turn the fewer dice they will roll on the next turn.At the end of the game players win prestige points with the completed objectives the leads they got on each country and the frescoes they have reconstructed.The player with the most prestige point is selected to go to the King's council Harald.—description from publisher

Dungeon Lite: Orcs and Knights

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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In the cold and dark dungeons once mines drilled in the heart of the mountain dwell the fearsome Orcs and other perverse vermin. Hidden among their secret chambers is a treasure room guarded by a dragon. The objective of the game is to find the room and kill the fabulous animal but you must do it quickly since the Orcs have raised the alarm and soon numerous enemies will arrive. When the dragon dies the game ends.Dungeon Lite Orcs and Knights is a cooperative game of survival for 1 to 4 players brave fighters that thanks to the collaboration between them the improvement of their equipment and the management of the actions will reach the victory.During their adventure they will have to explore the dungeon fight against orcs and other enemies find treasures and equipment and solve their mission.During the round players receive two action cards and events are resolved. After that players can perform their actions: move attack explore find items and treasures.—description from the publisher

Sausage Sizzle!

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–5

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What's that delicious smell?!?!The humans are having a Sausage Sizzle and it’s drawing a crowd of hungry Aussie critters! One by one a Quokka Crocodile Platypus Echidna Snake and Kangaroo will try to sneak food away from the barbie. Making off with any food is good but those sausages sure look the tastiest!The game is played over six rounds with players taking turns in clockwise order. On your turn your goal is to roll and re-roll dice to get many of the same Critter together with high values on the Food dice.You can choose any Critter you wish for scoring but beware! You can only score one Critter each round and each Critter can only be scored ONCE during the entire game.But what about the Sausages?!?Normally a Sausage on the Food dice counts as a 1 but if you manage to lock in all four of your Food dice showing Sausages the value of a Sausage jumps up to 7 that round!What is a Sausage Sizzle?A traditional Aussie Sausage Sizzle consists of a beef sausage (a “snag”) in a slice of white bread with grilled onions and sauce usually tomato or BBQ. It has become an icon of Aussie outdoor living and a mainstay at community events.—description from the publisher

Coralia

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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The colorful reefs around the former pirate island of Coralia offer a paradise for scientists from all over the world who explore the underwater world with their diving robots and work to preserve the coral reefs. They send their ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles) down to find specific species. At the same time they keep their eyes open as to whether one or the other sunken pirate treasure can not be traced. A few pearls are also welcome to end up being not only a respected researcher but also a wealthy one ... This Dice Placement game is about winning the most points with a little luck and making the right decisions - an adventure for the whole family!

Tower of Madness

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 3–5

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Investigate unspeakable horrors without losing your marbles — literally!The veil between worlds in thinning an ancient horror is awakening and the very existence of the world hangs in the balance. You must investigate a series of horrific locations and discover the unknowable truth before the world ends — or go mad in the attempt to save it. Find the paranormal gates that have opened onto our world and be stout of heart and strong of mind for only then will you discover how to seal the gates and save humanity.In Tower of Madness a three-dimensional clock tower standing a foot tall and filled with marbles of four distinct colors stands before you. Thirty unworldly tentacles push through the tower walls in every direction in this high-tension push-your-luck dice game of Lovecraft-inspired horror. Fail your investigation dice rolls and you will be forced to draw a tentacle from the tower. Any marbles that fall as a result affect your character immediately whether adding to your discovery total gaining you spells and knowledge that man was not meant to have or gaining madness; drop one of the three DOOM marbles however and you summon Cthulhu and end the game.Investigate every horrific location in the deck each with its own unique dice challenge in order to save the world before your luck runs out. The player with the most discovery points is declared the hero and wins the game. Otherwise the insane players collectively enjoy a brief moment of victory as Cthulhu rises destroys the world and eats them last...as their reward.

Hour of Need

Rating: 7.4 | Players: 1–4

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The pages of Modern-day Saga Comics are filled with heroes and villains doing battle across both reality and the shared inter-dimensional space of the Astrallacy. While nefarious villains seek power and material wealth valiant heroes fight to defend those that are caught in the middle of these epic conflicts—it is these everyday people that make reality worth fighting for and now is their hour of need!Hour of Need is a cooperative game of comic book action for 1–4 players (or up to 6 players with available expansions). Designed by Adam and Brady Sadler Hour of Need is the latest installment in their line of Modular Deck System (MDS) games. Set in an original world inspired by modern comic books Hour of Need puts players in the roles of diverse heroes attempting to thwart dangerous villains from carrying out nefarious deeds!In each game of Hour of Need players will need to use their chosen hero decks to tactically solve problems and thwart their chosen villain's schemes as presented by the chosen issue deck and board. Utilizing simultaneous turns that provides the framework for collaborative strategy players have to work together to reveal the villain and prepare for the final showdown!Featuring fast gameplay highly-detailed miniatures and a variety of modular fixed decks for heroes villains and issues Hour of Need lets players create their own comic book stories in the MDS Comics world!—description from the publisher

Codeword Cromwell: The German Invasion of England8 June 1940

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 1

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Adventure Dice Wargame World War II

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From the producers of Where There Is Discord: War in the South Atlantic Codeword Cromwell is a military boardgame simulation based on a German Armed Forces Invasion of England in the summer of 1940.104cm x 72cm mounted mapboard depicting Birkham Stokes and its environs (same footprint as WTID) 198 thick one-inch counters representing the individual civilians military personnel and equipment involved in the fighting of 8 June 72-page Intelligence Briefing booklet 28-page Rules of Play booklet 120 Strategy Tactical and Character Event cards 6- and 12-sided dice and game box One double-sided A4 full-colour set of charts and tables One single-sided A4 full-colour game setup aid

RUMBLESLAM

Rating: 8.0 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Fighting Miniatures

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RUMBLESLAM was designed to be a quick and fun game that you can play within an hour and has evolved into so much more. It is fast paced and all players are always active so no one gets bored waiting for their next go.Battle one on one or team up with a friend to play against a pair of opponents. The more fighters in the ring the more action! Your team of wrestlers must try to eject the opponents team from the ring something that gets much easier after a successful knockout!RUMBLESLAM sees players tactically moving miniatures around a 1ft x 1ft board/ring you'll have an array of choices at your disposal to help win the match whether its performing dexterous wrestling moves a punch to the face or even spending your action points to get the crowd fired up in your favour giving your team that much needed boost to win the game. Players will use dice rolls relevant to a stat on a wrestlers character profile card to try and knockout the opponents team which will make ejecting them from the ring much easier.

Raging Bulls

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 1

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Animals Dice Print & Play Puzzle

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There is also an element of push your luck - do you risk losing a life (mallet) by going for that final fence to complete the Field or move on to the next Field and score less points?The game features 4 fields of increasing difficulty.There's just 1 page to print out and 1 page of rules. There's also a low ink (black) version available. You'll also need 3 regular dice a pen or pencil and something to draw a straight line with.Raging Bulls was an entry for the 2017 Solitaire PnP Design Contest

Orlog: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Dice Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2

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Dice Video Game Theme

PureArts and Ubisoft present the officially licensed Orlog Dice Game of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla! Played extensively by the Norsemen and Anglo-Saxons in every city of the video game Orlog is played by two players who use dice rolls and bonus effects to claim victory over their opponent.Players roll dice to generate attacks and acquire tokens for God favors - using a combination of both during attacks and for regaining health. Players cast their dice 3 times a round until resolution. Play continues until one player has lost all Health stones.Will you earn the favor of the Gods and receive their blessings to win? There’s only one way to find out.

Extra!

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–6

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Schmidt Spiele is releasing a series of tiny dice games with each game being packaged in a plastic container that doubles as a miniature dice tower. Sid Sackson's Extra! some changes from the game first seen in Sackson's book A Gamut of Games under the title Solitaire Dice is one of the new titles in this series.In Extra! all players play at the same time off the same roll of five dice. Each player divides the dice into two pairs and a lone fifth die. The value of this fifth die is placed in a reject tally chart and one box underneath this number checked. For each pair of dice the player marks a box next to the sum of these dice (2-12) on a scoresheet.Each player can have at most three values on his reject chart; when a player checks off the final box in a column on this chart he is out of the game. Once all players are out they tally their points losing 200 points for each sum row that they start without meeting a certain threshold. For rows marked past the threshold the player scores positive points with less common sums being worth more points. The player with the highest score wins.

Giga-Robo!

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Dice Fighting Miniatures Science Fiction

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Giga-Shards: techno-organic energy sources lethally harvested from living beings; blended with human DNA they transmute raw emotion into incredible power and make possible giant war machines with unimaginable speed and strength. The Zoider Armada a galaxy-conquering alien force has discovered this unique energy and has invaded Earth-space to abduct and dominate the human race. All seems lost but Earth finds a way to fight back—with the Zoiders own giant robot prototypes! The pilots who control these robots have goals of their own though and each competes with the others in a race to control the Giga-Shards. Some hope to defend Earth others seek only revenge and still others seek power to achieve their own mysterious ends...Giga-Robo is the customizable card-driven miniatures game of giant robot combat. Choose from a powerful roster of pilots and robots create a custom build of attacks and abilities and battle across a fully destructible city!Act on every turn — Respond to attacks with any card in your hand and gain resources from taking damage—you're never on the sidelines!The battlefield is a weapon — Smash your opponent across the map through buildings and hazards changing the terrain as you play!Dynamic cooldown system — Plan your turns and set up powerful combos by tracking when each of your cards will return to your hand!Unleash your fighting spirit — win your opponents’ Giga-Shards — forge your fate in combat!

King's Gold

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–6

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Dice Pirates

The Caribbean islands were once a lawless cove run by merchant marines transporting stolen treasures. When news reached the King that these pirates were amassing great riches he ordered a cut of their loot.Now in King's Gold it's your turn to be a pirate and you must try to pillage ships and other pirates along the way. How far will you go to deceive the greedy King and become the richest pirate on the coast and at sea? On a turn the active player rolls the five dice up to three times. If a die shows crossbones it's locked until the end of the turn; otherwise a player can roll or leave dice as he wants. After he stops he takes or loses gold as follows:When all sixty coins in the box have been removed the game ends and whoever has the most coins wins.

Angel Fury

Rating: 7.8 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fantasy Miniatures Mythology Religious Wargame

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Welcome to the world of the unseen!Armies of angels and demons clash in an epic battle over a human soul. While the forces of heaven try to influence for good the demonic fallen angels strive to draw the soul into darkness and despair. In the realm of the spirital world mighty angel warriors try to hold their positions against onstorming demons and tormentors by seeking to break their defenses or by taking control of valuable crystals and living water fountains to slowly turn the tide of war to their advantage. The mighty and mysterious 6-winged seraphs summon new angels to gain a foothold on the enemy´s flank. Meanwhile the archangels God´s chosen messengers move like lightning over the battlefield commanding their forces and bringing fear to the hosts of evil. The archdemons false gods of the ancient world no less cunning rise up to meet them in battle. They all know the victory belongs to the wisest leader. Are you that leader?—description from the publisherTake control of the forces of good or the hordes of evil. Command mighty seraphs or fierce tormentors. Each player begins with a starting deck customized by a unique general - either an archangel or archdemon. Each turn you will use your Command markers to move troops or initiate battles and then use the cards in your hand to modify those movements or battles - or build your turn around an epic Tactics card that provides even more value! You can use your resources to deploy more units increase your handsize or gain more Command markers! At the end of your turn you’ll gain more resources if you control certain Areas - or even 1 Soul Point if you control the Human Soul. When either the good or evil side has 7 Soul Points - the game is over and the soul has been claimed!

Space Cantina

Rating: 7.7 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Science Fiction

After the Intergalactic Federation approved the construction of the largest shopping complex known ito the universe dozens of space traders decided to start their new business in the space station. In Space Cantina you are one of them trying to make more money from your restaurant while struggling against a fierce competition.Every day creatures of many different kinds such as aliens cyborgs and robots pass through the space complex and you need to feed them and earn a good reputation by doing an outstanding service.Preparing food drinks and desserts and pleasing your customers who may be even food critics you have the chance to make your restaurant one of the most profitable businesses in the Universe!Space Cantina is a dice allocation and resource management game where each player manages a restaurant hiring assistants promoting them and serving all kinds of customers! The more you please aliens cyborgs and robots the more benefits they will offer you in return. However be careful not to delay too much when attending to your clients or you might lose!

Speakeasy Blues

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Mafia

Speakeasy Blues brings players back to 1920s Prohibition Era New York City when hooch smuggling mobsters dirty cops and the rich and famous ruled the nights. In order to make your mark as well as your fortune you’ll need to create the most prestigious speakeasy of the time before the 18th Ammendment is repealed.Collect expensive items such as yachts or cars to prove your worth. Invite in well known historical figures of society of the time to class up the joint. Make deals with mobsters while being careful to hide them from view during classy soires lest they detract from your reputation. Do favors for dirty cops to add to your set collection as well as to allow you to bust any mobsters on the attack from competing hooch vending entrepreneurs.Of course there is Jazz to liven up the night and add bonuses to your action selections as well as Soires to provide additional cash flow and reputation to your gin joint. So roll the dice draft a set for worker placement and enjoy a strategic and thematic delve into the high society law breaking liquor driven endeavors of the time. May the most hoppin’ and shakin’ speakeasy win!

Taverns & Dragons

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 1–5

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Adventure Card Game Dice Fantasy Medieval

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The King is on his way to the city and will feast at the tavern offering the most tempting banquet. Send your minions to gather the rarest ingredients for your recipes. Magic mushrooms wild plants dragon eggs... nothing is too dangerous for the King! Sharpen your blades and heat up your pans!Taverns & Dragons combines dice placement mechanics with worker movement creating a delightful mix of food fun and fiery strategy. Roll your dice and strategize as you guide your minions through the land. Will you move them gather precious resources or cook up delightful recipes? Choose wisely as your minions can also collect ingredients visit unique locations and embark on daring dragon hunts! Meanwhile valiant heroes await in the marketplace ready to lend their skills for shiny coins.To claim victory you must have the highest prestige points at the end of the game. Earn them by cooking recipes accomplishing missions engaging esteemed heroes and hunting dragons!—description from the publisher

Wizards of the Wild

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–4

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Animals Card Game Dice Fantasy

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In Wizards of the Wild each player is an animal wizard battling in the ultimate magic showdown at Stonehenge. Each species has a special power: Fox Hare Owl Raccoon and 4 more! The Acolytes of the Lost Masters — Cats and Dogs — run the games by setting up many challenges and spells. If you win you will be crowned the new King of the Forest!Wizards of the Wild is a fast paced engine-building card and dice game for 2-4 players that plays in about 30 minutes. Players roll custom dice to acquire spells defeat challenges and bribe acolytes. As the game progresses your spells and special abilities combine in a unique way to increase your power. Dark magic gives you the ability to enfeeble other wizards but you have to avoid too much of it lest it turn on you!

Island Siege

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2

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Card Game Dice Nautical Territory Building

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Island Siege is a fast-playing game of fort-building and colonization in the Caribbean Sea. Players build shoreside forts to defend their colonists from attack and to score points. Forts allow you to put colonists in play which in turn can safely build ships and buildings which provide abilities and points. Attacking allows you to chip away at your opponent's fort while gaining cubes which are used to build forts of your own. Your goal is to score 20 coins or get all of your colonists in play!

Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2

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Collectible Components Comic Book / Strip Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters is a dice-building game patterned after Quarriors! that features custom dice representing various characters from the 4K Media show.In the game each player brings a set of dice to the table; these form his team from which only he can purchase dice. In addition each player brings two basic action cards which are placed in the center of the table; both players can purchase them.During a turn a player draws and rolls a number of his dice purchases additional dice and fields character dice to attack the other player. A player wins once the opposing player has been reduced to zero life.Yu-Gi-Oh! Dice Masters is one of several planned Dice Masters games all of which can be intermixed (or played alone).

Kribbeln

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 2–5

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In Kribbeln the scoresheet lists certain challenges to hit after rolling six dice up to three times: no orange four different colors yellow with different numbers than orange and so on. (There are six different scoresheets in the game.) After each roll the player can set aside any dice they like and reroll others.If the player succeeds at the current challenge they write the sum of the dice on that line of the scoresheet; whoever scores the highest sum on this line earns as many points as the number of players in the game the next-highest sum scores one less etc. If the player doesn't hit the target they can enter an X for the challenge (scoring nothing) or use the topmost empty Kribbeln line on the scoresheet — but each Kribbeln score must be higher than the one before.After everyone has rolled once for each line the player with the highest score wins.

Drawn to Adventure

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–4

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Adventure Dice Exploration Fantasy

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In Drawn to Adventure you and up to three other adventurers will embark on an epic journey across the Five Realms where you can use your skills and abilities to slay monsters and complete quests. You will have the chance to earn many rewards such as mana to activate special powers; experience to level up your character; and—of course—glorious treasure!Drawn to Adventure is a campaign-driven roll-&-write game. Each player uses a dry-erase flip-book that contains six different hex-grid maps. Campaigns are played over three of the six maps. After the third map is finished the player with the most treasure wins. So grab your mighty pen and come along; fame and fortune await those who are truly Drawn to Adventure!—description from the publisher

Gauntlet of Fools

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 2–6

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Adventure Card Game Dice Fantasy Fighting

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Gauntlet of Fools is an adventure game of skill and fortune for 2-6 that plays in under 30 minutes. Choose your hero from hundreds of possible combinations. You'll make ridiculous boasts to get the best hero – but every boast comes at a cost. How awesome is your knight with a flaming sword after you boast that he'll fight blindfolded with a hangover?You'll find out in the gauntlet: fifty encounters that will kill you. That's right. You will die fool! But even a fool wants his gold and the monsters have it. Roll a handful of dice slay a monster get its treasure. Die with the most gold to win the game.The contents of Gauntlet of Fools is:20 class cards 20 weapon cards 50 encounter cards 30 dice 30 boasts tokens (5 of each) 20 wound tokens 50 gold tokens ..1-value: 24 tokens ..5 value: 12 tokens ..10-value: 12 tokens ..25-value: 2 tokens 41 ability tokens 28 penalty tokens 30 bonus tokens Playmat Rulebook Play example appendix

Mystic ScROLLS

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Real-time

Mystic ScROLLS is a real-time dice game in which each player is a wizard trying to cast as many spells as possible to capture the mystic knowledge of the hidden scrolls. It plays for 2-4 players 12 years old and up and each game lasts around 20 minutes giving you a fun game filled with adrenaline.Each wizard has his own spells and begins the round with 5 magic dice. When the players are ready we draw a new scroll card at the middle of the table and the round begins! During the round the players are rolling their dice as fast as possible trying to match the symbols rolled with the symbols depicted on their spell cards to perform the spell or in the middle scroll card to claim and cast it. Players can reroll their dice as much as they wish in order to roll the desired symbols performing more spells the faster they play.If a player rolls dice matching the requirements of a spell he places the dice upon the spell and immediately receives new dice from the dice pool. When the dice pool is empty or when a player claims the scroll card the round ends and all the spells are being cast.

Lying Pirates: The Race for the Pirate Throne

Rating: 7.5 | Players: 2–6

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Bluffing Dice Math Nautical Pirates Racing

Lying Pirates is a first to finish fast-paced dice game for 2-6 playersYou are the captain of your ship and the dice you have is your crew.The game plays in a number of rounds where every round consists of three phases. Betting sailing and action phase.The betting phase: Inspired by the classic game Liars Dice this poker-like mechanic will test your bluffing and probability skills.The sailing phase: All except the loser sail forward on the map and battle for their event/tile. Some events you really want to explore and some you want to avoid at all cost.The action phase: To aid you on your journey you'll have action cards on hand. Play these strategically to attack opponents and defend or upgrade your crew.—description from the designer

Rory's Story Cubes: Enchanted

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 1–12

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An expansion to the creativity game Rory's Story Cubes. This set includes 3 new dice with 18 thematic actions.This expansion can be played on it's own or in combination with the original game.The game is useful as an aid to creative problem solving language learning and story telling. Players roll the dice and then tell a story using the actions. Once upon a time...

Dungeon Crusade: Book I – Genesis of Evil

Rating: 7.9 | Players: 1–12

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Welcome to the world of Avalon!Dungeon Crusade is a solo/co-operative sandbox dungeon crawl. Inspired by the classic age of board games role-playing games and video games but fitted with new and fresh mechanics.In Dungeon Crusade your party will enter an ancient dungeon located beneath a village to stem the tide of evil beleaguering the poor villagers. Each time you visit the dungeon you will have an over arching goal that you need to achieve but you can also pick up side quests and even some odd jobs from the tavern to further modify your adventure!6 stalwart Heroes are accompanied by their trusty fetch hound Albus. Each Hero has strengths and weakness' and it is up to you to decide if you will split the party to cover more ground or stick together in case a larger threat presents itself...In the dungeon you will encounter wandering monsters who move about the board. Beware! These monsters might turn into raiding monsters and make their way to village.You can mine for minerals to craft enhancements for your weapons. You can seek out and hunt down rare and legendary artifacts. You can send Albus back to the village to get a potion in a pinch.If your quest is successful then the village celebrates in your honor and throws you a grand feast and presents your party with gifts. You can shop around for new gear from the ever changing marketplace gamble some gold in the house of chance visit a temple and pray for assistance and more!Don't get too comfortable because evil never rests and you'll find yourself back in the dungeon facing tougher challenges but hopefully better armed!

Virulence: An Infectious Card Game

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–5

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Bluffing Deduction Dice Medical Number

Virulence: An Infectious Card Game is an addictively quick and simple card game focused on viruses infecting a host cell - and how they assemble and replicate inside that host cell.Virulence has players take on the role of viruses competing to infect a host cell in order to replicate their own viral components thus scoring points.Each round players secretly choose one Virus card from their hand place it face down on the table then simultaneously flip these Virus cards to reveal each player's (and thus each virus') virulence. In order from the highest to the lowest virulence players then take turns selecting from the available Viral Component cards each awarding points in a variety of ways or allowing that player to build their hand of Virus Cards allowing them to win critical components later.Virulence is addictively simple and competitive because it combines blind bidding/bluffing with engine building a bit of luck and most importantly it can played be taught in 30 seconds and played 10 minutes.

The Batman Who Laughs Rising

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Comic Book / Strip Dice Movies / TV / Radio theme

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From the Dark Night Metal comic series the evil hybrid of Batman and Joker — The Batman Who Laughs — is determined to unleash the Dark Knights and Barbatos on Prime.In The Batman Who Laughs Rising a passage from the Dark Multiverse has allowed the most dangerous evildoers to infiltrate Gotham City and these Dark Knights alongside their menacing leader are eager to do their worst to the city.Players roll dice and work together to save the multiverse starting with one of four starting heroes — Wonder Woman Green Lantern Hawkgirl or Batman — and recruiting allies such as Harley Quinn The Flash and Cyborg whose skills can complete objectives or help recover what is lost to darkness. Take out villainous versions of Batman such as The Merciless The Dawnbreaker The Murder Machine and more before facing off with the psychotic Joker-ized antagonist himself who's represented by a custom-sculpted full-color figure who commands a fistful of chained Evil Robins!

BattleTech: Alpha Strike Box Set

Rating: 8.4 | Players: 2

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Dice Miniatures Science Fiction Wargame

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In Battletech: Alpha Strike you take command of large-scale engagements fueled by tabletop miniatures gameplay designed for the modern wargamer. Inside is everything you need to start tossing dice and moving miniatures on your game table.BattleTech is the world’s greatest armored-combat game. And in Alpha Strike you take command of large-scale engagements with tabletop-miniatures gameplay designed for the modern wargamer. Inside includes everything you need to start tossing dice and charging toward the enemy on your gaming table.The follow Battlemech Miniatures are included in this box: Fire Moth Nova Pouncer Timber Wolf Warhawk Archer Atlas Blackjack Locust Phoenix Hawk Warhammer Wasp WraithThe Wraith and Pouncer are the new releases the rest are new poses or variants.—description from the publisher

Divinus

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Dice Fantasy Mythology

Divinus is a competitive legacy tile-laying digital hybrid game in which you play as a demigod seeking to gain the favor of the Gods and ascend to a new pantheon. Players embark on a twelve-scenario campaign that will see them exploring lands completing quests interacting with Gods and impacting the outcome of the epic clash between Greek and Norse pantheons.At the beginning of each campaign scenario players open a sealed box of new quests components stickers Gods gameplay mechanisms and more. The Divinus app provides a narrative for players and sets the stakes for what is to come. Each turn players spend dice from their pool to explore new tiles from the world board. Laying tiles into their demigod map they must place tiles adjacent to one another and with matching features while working towards overall quest and God goals.Throughout the campaign players make permanent changes to their demigods by collecting powerful artifacts forging their dice by altering their faces and earning titles for the feats they achieve. Players will also permanently change the game world by altering tiles and placing new locations heroes and monsters onto the map tiles. When players complete quests or other significant goals they can make pivotal decisions through the Divinus app.Players will decide the outcome of dilemmas such as choosing which side is victorious in battle building or destroying a holy site and choosing whether a God lives or dies. Whichever outcome the player chooses the game components may be changed and the Divinus app will remember and present contextual options in the future that are impacted by the decision. Returning to a fort that you helped the Norse Gods build could see you praised while demigods favored by the Greek pantheon could be shunned.The Divinus campaign is ideally played over several game sessions due to the persistent and changing world. The rulebook grows with each scenario as new rules and content are unlocked. Once the campaign is complete players can replay their unique copy of Divinus with a post-campaign Infinite Replayability mode.—description from the publisher

Super Big Boggle

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–20

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Dice Party Game Puzzle Real-time Word Game

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Like the original Boggle the cubes are shaken in their container with its lid on. The cubes are settled into a grid. The lid is removed and the timer is started. Players race to find words within the grid and write them down. The letters of each word must be adjacent either diagonally or orthogonally. When time has expired players compare words and score for each original word based on its length.Super Big Boggle contains thirty six cubes in a six-by-six grid. There is 1 blank cube which acts as a block and must be worked around. The timer is four minutes long instead of three. And words must be a minimum of 4 letters instead of 3 (like standard Boggle).

Bandada

Rating: 6.2 | Players: 1–2

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Animals Card Game Dice Print & Play

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In Bandada you'll travel the world and photograph beautiful birds as you compete against your opponent to see who has the best portfolio by the end. Attract birds with their favorite foods as you use your drafted cards to manipulate twelve dice in three different colors. The unique scoring system on the cards adds an exciting element of strategy as you try to outsmart your opponent and come out on top. Will you be the ultimate bird photographer? Play Bandada and find out!

Aventura Z: Vol 2 Heroes

Rating: 7.0 | Players: 1–2

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Adventure Card Game Dice Fantasy Murder / Mystery

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Adventure Z: Volume 2 Heroes is a game system set in multiple realities in which one or two players will investigate up to forty maps with different mechanics to solve with multiple endings that depend only on your decisions.After each scenario you will unlock new maps where you will have to decide your course of action similar to what happens in a “Choose your own adventure” book. Play through the maps and face heroes and heroines adversaries investigation of clues solving puzzles...Adventure Z's mechanics are easy to learn each turn a player will have two actions that can be used to move their character investigate an area on the map or activate a team card trying to free new maps before they run out of time.A turn counter will limit the number of actions a player can do sometimes having to choose between investigating everything or running to the next map. The adversaries have their own artificial intelligence so you will not only have to control the survival of your characters.Delve into the stories of Heroes!Book as board game.-description from publisher

Vengeance: Roll & Fight – Episode 2

Rating: 7.2 | Players: 1–4

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Dice Fighting Real-time

Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a real-time roll-and-write game where the frantic action around the table mimics the kick-arse fighting action in the game-world! Set in the world of Vengeance and designed by Dávid Turczi Noralie Lubbers and Gordon Calleja Vengeance: Roll & Fight is a stand-along game that transforms the fast-paced dice puzzles of the original Vengeance into roll-and-write mechanics where you’re building combos striking off enemies and scoring points for an action-packed brain-teasing fighting game that’s easy to learn and hard to master.The aim of Vengeance: Roll & Fight is to infiltrate a gang den carve your way through it’s rooms and killing the Boss while completing side objectives printed on the dens themselves.The game is split into three parts: planning fighting and montage. In the planning phase players roll and re-roll 4 dice in real time aiming to roll a combination of dice that match an ability they wish to trigger in the upcoming fight phase. Assigning dice to an ability allows players to fill their hand back to 4 dice from a large common pool and repeat the process as quickly as they can manage.Once the dice pool is depleted the fighting proper begins. Here players take a set of dice assigned to an ability and execute that ability moving their piece through rooms full of enemies and crossing them out when they are hit with the multitude of available abilities. Finally players heal and upgrade their characters bring new abilities and items into play to help them on their road to vengeance.Vengeance: Roll and Fight comes in two boxes: Episode 1 and Episode 2. Both episodes are stand-alone games with the same rules but with entirely different content: different heroes dens bosses abilities and items. Each episode accommodates up to 4 players so combining the two increases the player count from 1-4 to 1-8! Content in both Episodes can be switched like-for-like as you choose.

Pirate Tales

Rating: 7.3 | Players: 2–4

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Card Game Dice Pirates

In Pirate Tales you take on the role of a pirate captain. You plan adventures in the seven seas and try to pass them with the luck of your dice. Upgrade your ship and improve your dice hand to scam as many doubloons and diamonds as possible. Play cards to get useful additional actions or the protection of the sea so that you can return home safely.But beware of the Kraken and all the other dangers on the high seas. If it is a fellow player's turn make yourself comfortable in the tavern and bid with the other captains on the success or failure of the active player. Will you emerge from the game as the most glorious and richest captain or will the Kraken be pleased?—description from the publisher

All on 1 Card

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–4

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In All on 1 Card — Alles auf 1 Karte — players need to complete the colored rows on their cards in order to score points but they can mark off rows on only one card at a time.During set-up each player is dealt two (erasable) cards that have five rows on them with the rows being 2-6 spaces long; the rows are in five different colors out of the six colors included on the six-sided dice.On your turn as the active player you roll the five dice then re-roll as many dice as you wish up to two more times. After you stop all players can then use the results of the die roll to mark off empty spaces on one of their two cards — but if you want to use a color rolled on the dice then you must use all of that color. If the die roll shows three purple for example you must cross off exactly three purple spaces; if you can't cross off three then you cross off zero!The turn that you complete three or more rows on a card you score that card earning points equal to the collective length of the filled rows. You can also earn bonus points for completing one or both rows with sun symbols. You then take a new card from the deck.The game ends the turn that a player completes their fourth card. Every player then scores for completed rows on their cards (but not sun symbols) then whoever has the most points wins.Another way to play All on 1 Card is to start by choosing three cards from the five you are dealt shuffling the others back into the deck. When you complete a card you choose one of three face-up cards as a replacement.

Barbaria

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 2–4

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Adventure Card Game Dice Fantasy Humor

Description from the publisher:In Barbaria you become mighty barbarians and set out searching for dangerous and great adventures. Wrestle monsters and warlocks hunt for treasures look for assistance and collect ancient runes which will give you the victory.Game author Peter Rustemeyer is an archeologist from Germany who has loved barbarians and everything about them from childhood. He has developed not only the mechanisms of Barbari but he's hand-painted spicy watercolor illustrations too which will definitely be a standalone topic for discussion during the game session.The rules are extremely simple and handled for five minutes. You have to get the particular number by the specified color dice to win the enemy. Fail? Don't worry! Use your trophies from the previous battles so that you can throw the dice again or set the needed number. Don't have any trophies? Negotiate with your friends. That didn't work? Well you're in trouble — but scars are ornaments for every warrior right?

Ninja Dice

Rating: 6.0 | Players: 2–5

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Dice Party Game

In Ninja Dice a push-your-luck dice game with a Japanese theme players compete to see which of them is the greatest Ninja.To play each player rolls House dice to create unique combinations of challenges including Locked areas Guards and nosy Residents. Players roll their Skill dice to come up with three ways to beat these challenges - Stealth skills Fighting skills and Lock picking. Players can also roll special Fortune faces that boost dice but only if the dice they are boosting lie in specific positions on the table a system that is new and unique to games of this kind!Beat the challenges to score points and escape and the next player can try to beat a new house. Fail to beat the house and the player can escape with what they've stolen or remain and roll again - but each re-roll adds the threat of the other Ninja who can now roll Threat dice allowing them to shoot the active Ninja – and each other – to steal treasure! Constant interaction between all Ninja forces all players to be alert at all times.Play proceeds in three rounds of increasing difficulty with the highest scoring player winning.

Eternal Palace

Rating: 6.4 | Players: 1–5

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Dice Environmental

In Eternal Palace you are a noble family who has pledged to help the Emperor rebuild his palace left derelict for centuries so that you may gain his favor. You must send your team to collect resources and rebuild monuments. You will also honor the Emperor by painting a beautiful picture of his beloved gardens and palace — but others are trying to impress him too and only one will have the honor of being chosen as the Emperor's favorite.In this game your team of workers is represented by dice and by placing them on the game board you contribute towards rebuilding the different parts of the Eternal Palace. Each location is reached based on dice rolls but if others have gone to an otherwise inaccessible location you may visit it too by paying fish one of the resources in the game. Complete tasks first — or contribute more than your competitors to these monuments — to earn tokens reflecting your overall effort. Recruit new workers to your team and use the painting pieces you receive as each location is unlocked to paint a record of your work layer by layer.Who will contribute the most to the reconstruction and gain the favor of the Emperor? Find out in this tense and highly interactive Eurogame!

Dark Horse

Rating: 6.7 | Players: 1–4

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American West Dice Territory Building Trains

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Dark Horse is a board game set in the Wild West with an average playing time of 30 to 90 minutes. The game puts one to four players in the role of a unique character in charge of a small territory in the old west. Some examples of the characters in the game are Banker Cowboy and Tracker. The characters have various abilities that give them advantages in the game as well as a starting bonus of some sort. Each player collects and uses various resources to build towns cities and rails to grow their territories. Players start the game with one city and two towns with the goal of growing out their territories to include additional towns cities and railroad connections throughout the areas that they control. The objective of the game is to collect the most victory points when the game ends. Players do this by expanding their territory collecting gold and obtaining Influence Points from certain actions on the game board. Players will need to watch each other’s progress as the game can end in several different ways.Summary of Play Each turn players roll two colored dice and place those dice on a specific action on the game board. The game has built in actions and tokens that allow players to manipulate their dice in certain ways. So players will have to decide whether to use these actions or limited tokens such as the Wild Die tokens to modify their dice. This allows players to use a majority of the dice rolls that come up each turn to further improve their position in the game.The game promotes fast play as each player takes turns placing one or more dice on only one action per turn. Actions can include but are not limited to drawing cards collecting resources building additional towns and cities and taking special actions such as the Sheriff Mayor Trader or Tycoon. Some actions such as Rail Baron require a certain natural die roll while other actions require that your dice add up to a certain value. Players gain influence points during the game by taking specific actions which counts for a players overall victory points needed at the end of the game. Players will also need to focus on building their railroad connections as efficiently as they can to maximize their score at the end of the game.

Hunted: Kobayashi Tower

Rating: 6.9 | Players: 1–2

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It’s your wife Sharon’s birthday so you decided to surprise her at work with some roses and that expensive chocolate she’s always craving. Your marriage has been in a bit of a rough spot lately and you were hoping today would be a bit of a turning point. Little did you know that as you arrived at Kobayashi Tower a group of terrorists were securing the building and rounding up everyone inside as hostages. You managed to elude them but your wife has been taken and is somewhere in the building.Now you’ll have to work your way through the skyscraper take out the terrorists and rescue your wife while the terrorists try to hunt you down.Hunted: Kobayashi Tower is a fast-paced solo game that constantly presents you with tense choices. All the cards are multi-use forcing you to make quick decisions about which ones to discard and which ones to activate. You'll have to balance running fighting and hiding if you want to save your wife and get out of the building alive.This game in the Hunted series uses a dice-rolling mechanism to resolve events and combat.—description from the designer

Rogue Dungeon: 2nd Edition

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–3

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Rogue Dungeon (2nd Edition) is a 1-3 player cooperative dungeon crawler originally designed for solo play. It plays like an old-school roguelike using hand management card draw and dice rolling as primary game mechanics. Explore the map of each dungeon level encountering traps and fighting monsters. Find treasures and various items such as weapons armor magical potions scrolls and artifacts to aid you on your quest. Gain experience to improve your hero abilities and skills and trade to improve your inventory. Players will need to figure out how best to use their hero’s abilities skills items experience and luck to survive the dungeon and defeat the final boss. Enjoy even more re-playability with new content and game modes such as the Tomb and large dungeon maps.—description from the publisher

Purple Haze

Rating: 8.3 | Players: 1–4

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Card Game Dice Modern Warfare Vietnam War Wargame

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You look at the wrecked Huey thankful you survived the crash. It got hit somewhere over the jungle. You lost the pilot. The gunner just fell out. Gone. On your way down you saw a glimpse of the other Huey. You think it got hit too but you can't be sure. You look around at your squad — wild-eyed Marines fresh out of boot camp — and sigh heavily. You gotta move fast. VC will be coming...Purple Haze is an immersive story-creation Tactical level Campaign wargame for 1 to 4 players that drops you into the heart of darkness: Vietnam 1967. You lead a squad of U.S. Marines through the dense jungles flooded rice paddies and straw-thatched villages of a war-torn country. Gut-wrenching choices will determine the fate of you and your mission showing if you have what it takes to survive.It is in part a story-creation game in part a Tactical level wargame and in part a Campaign game. Your decisions determine the story. Your tactics decide the outcome of life and death firefights. Your men will suffer. Some won't make it home. Those that do will get wiser get tougher. The goal: Complete the mission and get out alive.

Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants

Rating: 6.8 | Players: 2–4

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Action / Dexterity Children's Game Dice

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From the publisher:It's a perfect day for a picnic! The park fills with families spreading their blankets and setting out colourful plates loaded with delicious treats.But there has never been a picnic without uninvited guests ... ANTS!!In Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants players are competing ant colonies trying to steal the best plates of food from the picnic blankets. In this 2-4 player dice-rolling dexterity game the dice are your ants. Roll them onto the picnic cards trying to get the most ants onto the best foods. Different custom dice at your disposal represent your industrious Workers speedy Scouts and sturdy Soldiers. At the end of the day the colony that has arranged their stolen plates to best satisfy the whims of the Queen will earn the most points and win the game.

BEEEEES!

Rating: 6.6 | Players: 2–5

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Action / Dexterity Dice Real-time

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The buzz around the meadow is the High Queen seeks an heir. A grand test of skill and dexterity will be held to determine which fledgling queen will inherit the throne! So assemble your hive and make a beeline for the meadow!BEEEEES! is a buzzing real-time dice rolling game for 2-5 players where brains matter as much as speed. Players frantically roll dice to claim hive tiles in front of them and their neighbors. The player with the most dice on the tile strategically places it into their burgeoning hive. At the end of the game the player that has built the best hive wins!

Scripts and Scribes: The Dice Game

Rating: 6.5 | Players: 2–5

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Bluffing Dice Medieval

Banjooli Xeet

Rating: 6.3 | Players: 2–5

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Bluffing Dice Racing

The Wizard of the Tribe has died. As it has been recorded by our ancestors for thousands of years wizard-wannabes made their predictions for the ostrich race in the Holy Cave the one making the more accurate predictions becoming the new Wizard. Which ostrich will win the race? Who will become the new Wizard? The answers are not easy since it is an open secret that candidates are not limited just to making predictions...In Banjooli Xeet players become Wizards who must predict the order of arrival of racing ostriches in order to gain points while dodging obstacles collecting berries avoiding the dreaded Lion and not waking the sleeping crocodiles. Banjooli Xeet is a fast-paced race game for 2 to 5 players with a lot of bluffing crazy predictions and hilarious fun.En Banjooli Xeet los jugadores son Brujos y deben predecir el orden de llegada de los avestruces para ganar puntos sortear obstáculos recoger bayas evitar al temido León no despertar a los dormidos cocodrilos. Banjooli Xeet es un juego rápido de 2 a 5 jugadores con mucho faroleo locas predicciones y diversión hilarante.

Rating: 7.1 | Players: 1–4

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