Category: Puzzle

A Feast for Odin is a saga in the form of a board game. You are reliving the cultural achievements mercantile expeditions and pillages of those tribes we know as Viking today — a term that was used quite differently towards the end of the first millennium.When the northerners went out for a raid they used to say they headed out for a viking. Their Scandinavian ancestors however were much more than just pirates. They were explorers and founders of states. Leif Eriksson is said to be the first European in America long before Columbus. In what is known today as Normandy the intruders were not called Vikings but Normans. One of them is the famous William the Conqueror who invaded England in 1066. He managed to do what the king of Norway failed to do only a few years prior: conquer the Throne of England. The reason the people of these times became such strong seafarers was their unfortunate agricultural situation: crop shortfalls caused great distress.In this game you will raid and explore new territories. You will also engage in the day-to-day activity of collecting goods with which to achieve a financially secure position in society. In the end the player whose possessions bear the greatest value will be declared the winner.--gameplay description from

Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.In the game you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game) and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile depicts 1-3 types of wildlife from the five types in the game and you can place at most one tile on a habitat.) Four tiles are on display with each tile being paired at random with a wildlife token so you must make the best of what's available — unless you have a nature token to spend so that you can pick your choice of each item.Ideally you can place habitat tiles to create matching terrain that reduces fragmentation and creates wildlife corridors mostly because you score for the largest area of each type of habitat at game's end with a bonus if your group is larger than each other player's. At the same time you want to place wildlife tokens so that you can maximize the number of points scored by them with the wildlife goals being determined at random by one of the four scoring cards for each type of wildlife. Maybe hawks want to be separate from other hawks while foxes want lots of different animals surrounding them and bears want to be in pairs. Can you make it happen?

Introduced by the Moors azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist you have been challenged to embellish the walls of the Royal Palace of Evora.In the game Azul players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

At the edge of our solar system a dark planet may lurk. In 2015 astronomers estimated a large distant planet could explain the unique orbits of dwarf planets and other objects. Since then astronomers have been scanning the sky hoping to find this planet.In The Search for Planet X players take on the role of astronomers who use observations and logical deductions to search for this hypothetical planet. Each game the companion app randomly selects an arrangement of objects and a location for Planet X following predefined logic rules.Each round as the earth travels around the sun players use the app to perform scans and attend conferences. As they gain information about the location of the objects they mark that information on their deduction sheets. As players learn the locations of the various objects they can start publishing theories which is how players score points.As more and more objects are found players narrow down the possible locations for Planet X. Once a player believes they know its location and the objects on either side of it they use the app to conduct a search. The game ends when a player successfully locates Planet X and all players have a final chance to score some additional points.The Search for Planet X captures the thrill of discovery the puzzle-y nature of astronomical investigation and the competition inherent in the scientific process. Can you be the first to find Planet X?—description from the publisher

In Patchwork two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board. To start play lay out all of the patches at random in a circle and place a marker directly clockwise of the 2-1 patch. Each player takes five buttons — the currency/points in the game — and someone is chosen as the start player.On a turn a player either purchases one of the three patches standing clockwise of the spool or passes. To purchase a patch you pay the cost in buttons shown on the patch move the spool to that patch's location in the circle add the patch to your game board then advance your time token on the time track a number of spaces equal to the time shown on the patch. You're free to place the patch anywhere on your board that doesn't overlap other patches but you probably want to fit things together as tightly as possible. If your time token is behind or on top of the other player's time token then you take another turn; otherwise the opponent now goes. Instead of purchasing a patch you can choose to pass; to do this you move your time token to the space immediately in front of the opponent's time token then take one button from the bank for each space you moved.In addition to a button cost and time cost each patch also features 0-3 buttons and when you move your time token past a button on the time track you earn button income: sum the number of buttons depicted on your personal game board then take this many buttons from the bank.What's more the time track depicts five 1x1 patches on it and during set-up you place five actual 1x1 patches on these spaces. Whoever first passes a patch on the time track claims this patch and immediately places it on his game board.Additionally the first player to completely fill in a 7x7 square on his game board earns a bonus tile worth 7 extra points at the end of the game. (Of course this doesn't happen in every game.)When a player takes an action that moves his time token to the central square of the time track he takes one final button income from the bank. Once both players are in the center the game ends and scoring takes place. Each player scores one point per button in his possession then loses two points for each empty square on his game board. Scores can be negative. The player with the most points wins.

The Isle of Cats is a competitive medium-weight card-drafting polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-4 players (6 with expansions).In the game you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together. You will also need to manage resources as you:Each lesson you collect gives you another personal way of scoring points and 38 unique lessons are available. Complete lessons fill your boat and keep cat families together to score points and the player with the most points after five rounds wins.Note: The Isle of Cats: Kickstarter Edition is a compilation item consisting of The Isle of Cats base game and The Isle of Cats: Kickstarter Pack each of which are available as separate items and listed individually in the BGG database.

In Alchemists two to four budding alchemists compete to discover the secrets of their mystical art. Points can be earned in various ways but most points are earned by publishing theories – correct theories that is — and therein lies the problem.The game is played in six rounds. At the beginning of the round players choose their play order. Those who choose to play later get more rewards. Players declare all their actions by placing cubes on the various action spaces then each action space is evaluated in order. Players gain knowledge by mixing ingredients and testing the results using a smartphone app (iOS Android and also Windows) that randomizes the rules of alchemy for each new game. And if the alchemists are longing for something even more special they can always buy magical artifacts to get an extra push. There are 9 of them (different for each game) and they are not only very powerful but also very expensive. But money means nothing when there's academic pride at stake! And the possession of these artifacts will definitely earn you some reputation too. Players can also earn money by selling potions of questionable quality to adventurers but money is just a means to an end. The alchemists don't want riches after all. They want respect and respect usually comes from publishing theories.During play players' reputations will go up and down. After six rounds and a final exhibition reputation will be converted into points. Points will also be scored for artifacts and grants. Then the secrets of alchemy are revealed and players score points or lose points based on whether their theories were correct. Whoever has the most points at the end of the game wins.Flavor text: Mandrake root and scorpion tail; spongy mushroom and warty toad — these are the foundations of the alchemist's livelihood science and art.But what arcane secrets do these strange ingredients hide? Now it is time to find out. Mix them into potions and drink them to determine their effects — or play it safe and test the concoction on a helpful assistant! Gain riches selling potions to wandering adventurers and invest these riches in powerful artifacts. As your knowledge grows so will your reputation as you publish your theories for all to see. Knowledge wealth and fame can all be found in the murky depths of the alchemist's cauldron.

Charles IV has been crowned King of Bohemia and ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. From his castle in Prague he oversees construction of new fortifications: a bridge across the Vltava River a university and a cathedral rising within the walls of the castle itself. Prague is already among the largest cities in Europe. King Charles will make it the capital of an empire!In Praga Caput Regni players take the role of wealthy citizens who are organizing various building projects in medieval Prague. By expanding their wealth and joining in the construction they gain favor with the king. Players choose from six actions on the game board — the action crane — that are always available but which are weighted with a constantly shifting array of costs and benefits. By using these actions you can increase your resources improve the strength of your chosen actions and build New Prague City the Charles Bridge or city walls. You can possibly gain additional actions or even participate in the construction of St. Vitus Cathedral.Clever players will discover synergies between carefully timed actions and the rewards from constructing civic projects as all of the mechanisms mesh together. At the end of the game the player who most impressed King Charles wins.

Our planet has run out of resources and we are forced to move. We have discovered a series of planets and sent our rovers to test their environment with the hope of colonization. Our rovers have confirmed 1-6 viable colonization options.Planet Unknown is a competitive game for 1-6 players in which players attempt to develop the best planet. Each round each player places one polyomino-shaped dual-resource tile on their planet. Each resource represents the infrastructure needed to support life on the planet. Every tile placement is important to cover your planet efficiently and also to build up your planet's engine. After placing the tile players do two actions associated with the two infrastructure types on the tile. Some tile placements trigger meteors that make all planets harder to develop and prevent them from scoring points in the meteor's row and column.Planet Unknown innovates on the popular polyomino trend by allowing simultaneous yet strategic turn-based play via the Lazy S.U.S.A.N. space station in the center of the table.—description from the publisher

Draft dice and use the tools-of-the-trade in Sagrada to carefully construct your stained glass window masterpiece.In more detail each player builds a stained glass window by building up a grid of dice on their player board. Each board has some restrictions on which color or shade (value) of die can be placed there. Dice of the same shade or color may never be placed next to each other. Dice are drafted in player order with the start player rotating each round snaking back around after the last player drafts two dice. Scoring is variable per game based on achieving various patterns and varieties of placement...as well as bonus points for dark shades of a particular hidden goal color.Special tools can be used to help you break the rules by spending skill tokens; once a tool is used it then requires more skill tokens for the other players to use them.The highest scoring window artisan wins!

In the tile-laying game Castles of Mad King Ludwig players are tasked with building an amazing extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria...one room at a time. You see the King loves castles having built Neuschwanstein (the castle that inspired the Disney theme park castles) and others but now he's commissioned you to build the biggest best castle ever — subject of course to his ever-changing whims. Each player acts as a building contractor who is adding rooms to the castle he's building while also selling his services to other players.In the game each player starts with a simple foyer. One player takes on the role of the Master Builder and that player sets prices for a set of rooms that can be purchased by the other players with him getting to pick from the leftovers after the other players have paid him for their rooms. When a room is added to a castle the player who built it gains castle points based on the size and type of room constructed as well as bonus points based on the location of the room. When a room is completed with all entranceways leading to other rooms in the castle the player receives one of seven special rewards.After each purchasing round a new player becomes the Master Builder who sets prices for a new set of rooms. After several rounds the game ends then additional points are awarded for achieving bonus goals having the most popular rooms and being the most responsive to the King's demands which change each game. Whoever ends up with the most castle points wins.

At the turn of the 16th Century King Manuel I commissioned Portugal's greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra the king sought to build a summer pavilion to honor the most famous members of the royal family. This construction was intended for the most talented artisans — whose skills meet the splendor that the royal family deserves. Sadly King Manuel I died before construction ever began.In Azul: Summer Pavilion players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. Only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family.Azul: Summer Pavilion lasts six rounds and in each round players draft tiles then place them on their individual player board to score points. Each of the six colors of tiles is wild during one of the rounds.At the start of each round draw tiles at random from the bag to refill each of the five seven or nine factories with four tiles each. Draw tiles as needed to refill the ten supply spaces on the central scoring board. Players then take turns drafting tiles. You can choose to take all of the tiles of a non-wild color on a factory and place them next to your board; if any wild tiles are on this factory you must take one of them. Place all remaining tiles in the center of the table. Alternatively you can take all tiles of a non-wild color from the center of play; you must also take one wild tile if present.After all tiles have been claimed players then take turns placing tiles on their individual boards. Each board depicts seven stars that would be composed of six tiles; each space on a star shows a number from 1-6 and six of the stars are for tiles of a single color while the seventh will be composed of one tile of each color. To place a tile on the blue 5 for example you must discard five blue or wild tiles from next to your player board (with at least one blue being required) placing one blue tile in the blue 5 space and the rest in the discard tower. You score 1 point for this tile and 1 point for each tile within this star connected to the newly placed tile.If you completely surround a pillar statue or window on your game board with tiles you get an immediate bonus taking 1-3 tiles from the central supply spaces and placing them next to your board. At the end of the round you can carry over at most four tiles to the next round; discard any others losing 1 point for each such tile.After six rounds you score a bonus for each of the seven stars that you've filled completely. Additionally you score a bonus for having covered all seven spaces of value 1 2 3 or 4. You lose 1 point for each remaining tile unused then whoever has the most points wins.—description from the publisher

Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats.In Calico players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed and players are also trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also able to attract the cuddliest cats!Turns are simple. Select a single patch tile from your hand and sew it into your quilt then draw another patch into your hand from the three available. If you are able to create a color group you may sew a button onto your quilt. If you are able to create a pattern combination that is attractive to any of the cats it will come over and curl up on your quilt! At the end of the game you score points for buttons cats and how well you were able to complete your unique quilt pattern.—description from the publisher

The T.I.M.E Agency protects humanity by preventing temporal faults and paradoxes from threatening the fabric of our universe. As temporal agents you and your team will be sent into the bodies of beings from different worlds or realities to successfully complete the missions given to you. Failure is impossible as you will be able to go back in time as many times as required.T.I.M.E Stories is a narrative game a game of decksploration. Each player is free to give their character as deep a role as they want in order to live through a story as much in the game as around the table. But it's also a board game with rules which allow for reflection and optimization.At the beginning of the game the players are at their home base and receive their mission briefing. The object is then to complete it in as few attempts as possible. The actions and movements of the players will use Temporal Units (TU) the quantity of which depend on the scenario and the number of players. Each attempt is called a run; one run equals the use of all of the Temporal Units at the players' disposal. When the TU reach zero the agents are recalled to the agency and restart the scenario from the beginning armed with their experience. The object of the game is to make the perfect run while solving all of the puzzles and overcoming all of a scenario’s obstacles.You usually take possession of local hosts to navigate in a given environment but who knows what you'll have to do to succeed? Roam a med-fan city looking for the dungeon where the Syaan king is hiding? Survive in the Antarctic while enormous creatures lurk beneath the surface of the ice? Solve a puzzle in an early 20th century asylum? That is all possible and you might even have to jump from one host to another or play against your fellow agents from time to time.The base box contains the entirety of the T.I.M.E Stories system and allows players to play all of the scenarios the first of which — Asylum — is included. During a scenario which consists of a deck of 120+ cards each player explores cards presented most often in the form of a panorama. Access to some cards require the possession of the proper item or items while others present surprises enemies riddles clues and other dangers. An insert allows players to save the game at any point to play over multiple sessions just like in a video game. This way it's possible to pause your ongoing game by preserving the state of the receptacles the remaining TU the discovered clues etc.--description from the publisher

Rippling rivers rustling forests wheat fields swaying in the wind and here and there a cute little village - that's Dorfromantik! The video game from the small developer studio Toukana Interactive has been thrilling the gaming community since its Early Access in March 2021 and has already won all kinds of prestigious awards. Now Michael Palm and Lukas Zach are transforming the popular building strategy and puzzle game into a family game for young and old with Dorfromantik: The Board Game.In Dorfromantik: The Board Game up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas. The better the players manage to do this the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher.—description from the publisher

Build pieces develop an engine perfect your strategy and win the game!Project L is a fast-paced tile-matching brain burner with triple-layer 3D puzzles and lovely acrylic pieces. Challenge your friends to a game of simple design but intricate gameplay that makes a lasting impression!The core of the game lies in using your pieces to complete puzzles. Starting with just two basic pieces you use three actions every turn to develop a powerful engine. With more pieces of various types you can efficiently complete even the most difficult puzzles. The puzzles you complete award you points or new pieces to further fuel your engine. Can you outsmart your opponents?—description from the publisher

Everyone meant to use the cabin only as a shelter for the night but come the morning the door has been secured by a combination lock with no one knowing the combination of numbers that will let them leave. The windows are barred as well. An enigmatic spinning code dial and a mysterious book is all that you have to go on. Can you escape from this abandoned cottage?In Exit: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin players must use their team spirit creativity and powers of deduction to crack codes solve puzzles collect objects and earn their freedom bit by bit.

The bonfires are sources of light energy and warmth created by the guardians of light in order to brighten the cities on the otherwise dark planet. The residents of the cities however took the bonfires for granted and exploited them for their personal gain. Disappointed the guardians of light retreated and let the bonfires extinguish. The citizens could no longer live in the now dark cities and were forced to leave.You are a group of gnomes living close to the cities and you also need the light of the bonfires. Missing it now you try yourself to visit the cities and learn how to ignite the bonfires once again: You must visit the guardians of light on their holy islands and ask for tasks to prove your good will. For each completed task they will re-ignite one extinguished bonfire. Whoever manages to earn the greatest trust from the guardians and manages to brighten their city the most will win the game.You will play in turn order until a fixed number of tasks has been solved after which each player has 5 more turns. During final scoring you will receive points for your completed tasks (the bonfires) and any improvements made there (portals landscapes or guardians).—description from the publisher

Up to two thousand pounds in weight and over ten feet tall the bear is considered the biggest and heaviest terrestrial carnivore in the world. Of course there is not just one bear; on the contrary there are plenty of subspecies that differ from each other in various aspects. For instance only the Kodiak bear (ursus arctos middendorffi) weighs about 2,000 lbs. The polar bear (ursus maritimus) weighs only 1,100 lbs. but gets much bigger than the Kodiak bear being as much as 11 ft. tall!Bärenpark takes you into the world of bears challenging you to build your own bear park. Would you like another polar bear enclosure or rather a koala* house? The park visitors are sure to get hungry on their tour through the park so build them places to eat! Whatever your choices are make sure you get the next building permit and use your land wisely! (* No koalas aren't bears but they're so cute we couldn't leave them out of this game!)In more detail each player in Bärenpark builds their own bear park attempting to make it as beautiful as they can while also using every square meter possible. The park is created by combining polyomino tiles onto a grid with players scoring for animal houses outdoor areas completed construction and more. The sooner you build it the better! Cover icons to get new tiles and park sections. The game ends as soon as one player has finished expanding their park then players tally their points to see who has won.—description from the publisher

You are the mayor of a tiny town in the forest in which the smaller creatures of the woods have created a civilization hidden away from predators. This new land is small and the resources are scarce so you take what you can get and never say no to building materials. Cleverly plan and construct a thriving town and don't let it fill up with wasted resources! Whoever builds the most prosperous tiny town wins!In Tiny Towns your town is represented by a 4x4 grid on which you will place resource cubes in specific layouts to construct buildings. Each building scores victory points (VPs) in a unique way. When no player can place any more resources or construct any buildings the game ends and any squares without a building are worth -1 VP. The player with the most VP wins!—description from publisher

Created by Michael Kiesling Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra challenges players to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. The window panels are double-sided providing players with a dynamic player board that affords nearly infinite variability!Players can expect to discover new unique art and components in Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra including translucent window pane pieces a tower to hold discarded glass panes and double-sided player boards and window pane panels in addition to many other beautiful components!—description from the publisher

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone expansion to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with updated graphics that features ten more cases to be solved in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian-era London England. A London Directory map and newspaper archives are included with the cases.Included are six independent West End Adventures cases (redesigned and updated from the 1995 expansion) and a series of four new cases based on the Jack the Ripper murders.

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

Potion Explosion is a game for 2 to 4 players by Horrible Games. It was designed by Lorenzo Silva Andrea Crespi and Stefano Castelli.Dear students it's time for the final exams of the Potions class! The rules are always the same: Take an ingredient marble from the dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color they explode and you can take them too! Complete your potions using the marbles you collect and drink them to unleash their magical power. Remember though that to win the Student of the Year award being quick won't be enough: you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions in Potion Explosion!

Exit: The Game – Dead Man on the Orient Express is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms.One murder eight suspects. By chance the world-famous private detective Achilles Pussot happens to be on board the train - but he has been knocked out. Can you use his documents to solve the case before the Orient Express reaches Constantinople?An unforgettable unique gaming experience. Solve all of the puzzles as fast as you can! Can you solve the case before it's too late?Starting with season 3 the Exit series is divided into difficulty levels. Dead Man on the Orient Express is categorized at hard level.This game can only be played once. To solve the riddles you will have to write on fold and cut the game materials. This makes it possible to have especially diverse riddles. The paper and cardboard components are recyclable!

The new moon is a symbol for a new beginning the perfect time to start something new and to plan your future — and that is what Nova Luna (lat. for new moon) is all about. In each round of this abstract tile-laying game you have to plan your future anew developing a new strategy to cope with what the moon wheel has to offer you.On each turn you have to decide which new tile from the moon wheel to place in front of you. Every new tile brings a new task you have to fulfill. In order to do so you need to place tiles of the correct color adjacent to the task you want to complete but these of course again bring you new tasks. Each time a task is solved you may place one of your markers on it. So decide wisely and be the first one to place all your markers.—description from the publisher

Legends of Andor is a cooperative adventure board game for two to four players in which a band of heroes must work together to defend a fantasy realm from invading hordes. To secure Andor's borders the heroes will embark on dangerous quests over the course of five unique scenarios (as well as a final scenario created by the players themselves). But as the clever game system keeps creatures on the march toward the castle the players must balance their priorities carefully.At the heart of Legends of Andor is its unique narrative the linked scenarios of which tell an overarching story as the players successfully complete objectives. For each scenario or Legend a legend deck conveys the plot of an ever-unfolding tale...one in which the players are the protagonists. A wooden marker moves along the board's legend track at key points during each scenario triggering the draw of a new legend card the introduction of new game-altering effects and the advancement of the story's plot. In the end the players must endeavor to guide the fate of Andor through their heroic actions bringing a happy ending to their epic fantasy tale.Will their heroes roam the land completing quests in the name of glory or devote themselves to the defense of the realm? Uncover epic tales of glory as you live the Legends of Andor!—description from the publisher

This is a tile-laying race game with players starting with boards that are identical and one player drawing tiles that they all will use. They race to get their explorers to temples first and earn points. Along the way they can collect additional points by collecting items off the paths they create. The game ends when one player gets all of their explorers to their corresponding temples or whenever the last tile is drawn and placed. Most points wins.Description from the English Ruleset:Many moons have come and gone since your boats departed on the journey to Karuba. Once you arrive on the island each player will lead an expedition team of four adventurers. Now you just have to navigate your way through the dense jungle to make it to the temples. „Just“ may be something of an understatement; the ancient jungle trails have to be found and uncovered first! Hurry up and be the first to reach the temples to collect the most valuable treasures. Many paths have dead ends and you need to be patient to find the right/best way (through the jungle). Look! A gold nugget! You can pick it up and collect it same applies to the shiny crystals along the paths.

Welcome back to the palace of Sintra! King Manuel I has commissioned the best garden designers of Portugal to construct the most extraordinary garden for his wife Queen Maria of Aragon.In Azul: Queen's Garden players are tasked with arranging a magnificent garden for the King's lovely wife by arranging beautiful plants trees and ornamental features.Using an innovative drafting mechanism the signature of the Azul series players must carefully select colorful tiles to decorate their garden. Only the most incredible garden designers will flourish and win the Queen's blessing.—description from the publisher

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

In Bullet♥︎ players take on the role of heroines in a far-flung future Earth and use their incredible powers to defend the Earth from evil — as well as from one another! Each heroine's powers manifest in a different form with players controlling sound paper technology gravity triangles and more!Turns are simultaneous. Place bullets in your sight with the color of bullet determining the column and the number how far down in that column it is placed. Use actions to manipulate bullets to form configurations matching your patterns. Using a pattern removes bullets from your sight and sends them to the opponent. When placing bullets you skip over existing bullets in the column you place it in with the bullet hitting you if it is placed off your sight. At the end of the turn you'll gain even more bullets from the center bag as well as what the opponent sent ensuring each new turn is more hectic than the last!Choosing what order to place bullets use actions and use patterns in is key to staying alive as long as possible! Playing with the optional timer makes for even more intense play!Bullet♥︎ includes eight heroines to play and four game modes:—description from the publisher

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

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

On an Egyptian holiday players are visiting the highlight of the entire journey: the stone pyramids! But after rising through the narrow labyrinthine corridors they discover that they've lost the rest of the group. After wandering for hours they end up in a mysterious grave chamber — and suddenly the stone door closes behind them. The players are caught. On the floor is a sand-covered notebook and an ancient spinning code dial. Will the players escape in time or be forever buried under stone?In Exit: The Game – The Pharaoh's Tomb players must use their team spirit creativity and powers of deduction to crack codes solve puzzles collect objects and earn their freedom bit by bit.

In the game Azul players take turns drafting colored tiles from suppliers to their player board. Later in the round players score points based on how they've placed their tiles to decorate the palace. Extra points are scored for specific patterns and completing sets; wasted supplies harm the player's score. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.Azul: Master Chocolatier includes double-sided factory boards with these tiles being placed on these boards at the start of each round. One side of the factories is blank and when using this side the game plays exactly like Azul. The other side of each factory tile has a special effect on it that modifies play in one way or another putting a twist on the normal game. Additionally the tiles are modeled to look like chocolates and other treats despite remaining as inedible as the tiles in the original game.

Puzzling and animal breeding: Designer Uwe Rosenberg is at his best! In New York Zoo you are constructing an animal park. Build animal enclosures introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The game play is straight forward as you have only two turn options: Puzzle a new enclosure tile into your zoo area or gain new animals to populate your animal encounters. But be sure to time your actions well since you want your zoo to participate in as many animal breedings as possible.—description from the publisher

Paris is a two-player board game by José Antonio Abascal infused with Parisian aesthetics by the boardgame’s artist Oriol Hernández. The game is set in late 19th century Paris during the 1889 “Exposition Universelle,” or world’s fair when public electricity was a hot topic. Electricity spread throughout the city creating today’s beautiful nocturnal Parisian streets and coining Paris’s nickname “La Cité de la Lumiére” the city of lights.The most well-lit buildings are admired more highly by passers-by. In the first phase players can either place tiles or grow their reserve of buildings. The cobblestone tiles are divided into 4 random spaces (their color their opponents’ color a streetlight or a mixed-color space where either player can build).Then in the second phase players build on top of their color or the mixed spaces in effort to position their buildings as close to as many streetlights as possible. More streetlights solicit more adoration and points. The player with the best lit buildings steals the hearts of Parisian pedestrians and wins the game.—description from the publisher

As the subjects of a medical study the players have checked into a lab but while they're on time at the site no one else seems to be there — then they realize that something seems wrong here. Steam has started emerging from one of the test tubes and they've all gotten dizzy to the point of passing out. When they awaken they discover that the door is locked and no other way out seems possible. Only a notebook and an enigmatic spinning code dial seem to offer any clues for how to escape the lab...In Exit: The Game – The Secret Lab players must use their team spirit creativity and powers of deduction to crack codes solve puzzles collect objects and earn their freedom bit by bit. Extra material: It is highly recommended that you have pens/pencils writing paper and scissors at hand when you play the game. Note: There is a printing error in the first English Edition on the 2nd 'Star' clue card. Please refer to the forums if you are confused after using that clue card.

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

Build your very own thriving jungle by discovering various wild animals insects and plants in this beautiful board game.Life of the Amazonia is a strategic meeple placing game that combines bag building and pattern building. Players will restore land place various animals and plant trees and flowers to enrich their jungles and create the most ecologically rich jungle. Various lives must be placed in the jungle taking into account each unique characteristic of the plants and animals in order to create synergies within one another. To carry out these actions bag building that fits in with the player’s strategy is crucial. With 60,000+ various ways to set up the animal cards and diverse strategic options every game of Life of Amazonia will differ from the next.—description from the publisher

In Evergreen your goal is to build a lush ecosystem by planting seeds growing trees and placing other natural elements on your planet trying to make it the greenest and most fertile of all.You choose biome cards from a common pool to determine which area of your planet you'll develop in a round. The cards not chosen make those regions more fertile and thus more valuable. To create a huge forest you want to grow trees plant bushes and place lakes while using the power of nature to gain extra actions. Ideally you can concentrate your trees in the most fertile areas but without them overshadowing one another as you also want them to collect as much light as possible.

In 2014 Castles of Mad King Ludwig brought out the interior designer in all of us with its unique combination of mechanisms and opportunity to be a visionary architect at work! It became an instant classic for many wanting to play again and again creating endless luxurious castles while also attempting to achieve the most victory points over their opponents. This incredible collector's edition of the tile placement classic would be oh-so-pleasing to King Ludwig II of Bavaria…—description from the publisher

In Cottage Garden you compete in the art of gardening and are working two beds with a variety of flowers. Whenever no unplanted box is visible on a bed you have completed it then you count your points and replace it with a fresh unplanted bed. You gain points for all of the visible plant pots and planting bells.In more detail players select various polyomino tiles of flower beds from a central market grid depending on the location of the gardener then place them on one of their two personal garden boards. Each board has several garden elements that are worth points when not planted over and these are scored on two different tracks as soon as a garden has been finished. Crossing over a line on each track awards bonus tokens that can fill in empty spaces or give you a better selection of the flower bed tiles. Whenever a garden is finished you receive a new one to complete. After the gardener completes her fifth lap around the market the game enters its last round. The player with the most points from their completed gardens at the end of the game wins.Cottage Garden is the first part of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy.

Fit to Print is a puzzly tile-laying game about breaking news designed by Peter McPherson and set in a charming woodland world created by Ian O’Toole!Thistleville is the world’s most bustling little town — it’s a challenge to keep up with everything going on from who took home first prize for their baked goods at the community fair to who has been digging in Mrs. Brambleberry’s carrot patch.As an editor at one of the local newspapers your job is to tell their stories!The front page is due in just a few hours and you have no time for perfection. Grab the big stories before the other papers get a chance and make sure you get the right photos too. A newspaper is a business so the money has to come from somewhere — don’t forget the ads! After you’ve picked out a combination of stories photos and ads it’s time to lay out the front page. Did you take enough tiles to fill the paper but not so many that things have to be cut? Over the course of three hectic days your skills will be tested as you compete to be the most newsworthy editor!Fit To Print is a tile-laying game for the whole family. Players simultaneously collect newspaper tiles stacking them on their desks until they think they have what they need to make the perfect front page. Then they will yell “Layout!” and begin to lay out the page by carefully considering the placement of centerpieces articles photographs and advertisements. When everything is just right they yell “Print” to be the first off the press and gain their choice of centerpiece for the next round! This hectic spatial puzzle features over 100 unique newspaper tiles 6 characters with their own special abilities as well as 3 decks of Breaking News cards — so that each and every time you play you will be solving a new puzzle!If real-time games aren’t your style Fit to Print has a number of alternative modes to satisfy every type of puzzle gamer. In Slo-Mode players take turns drafting tiles from a shared market and arranging them on their front pages. In Puzzle Mode take a specific set of tiles and piece together the highest-scoring arrangements. Whether you enjoy relaxing solo puzzles on your own or frenetic action for up to 6 players you will have a blast helping the critters of Thistleville tell their stories!—description from the publisher

Numbers aren't worth anything in NMBR 9 unless they're off the ground floor and looking down from above.The game includes twenty cards numbered 0-9 twice and eighty tiles numbered 0-9; each number tile is composed of squares in some arrangement. After shuffling the deck of cards draw and reveal the first card. Each player takes a number tile matching the card and places it on the table. With each new card drawn after that each player takes the appropriate number tile then adds it to the tiles that they already have in play with each player building their own arrangement of tiles.The new tile must touch at least one other tile on the same level along one side of a square. A tile can also be placed on top of two or more other tiles as long as no part of the new tile overhangs the tiles below it; new tiles placed on this same level must touch at least one other tile while also covering parts of at least two tiles and not overhanging.Once all the cards have been drawn and the tiles placed players take turns calculating their score. A tile on the bottom level — the 0th level if you will — scores 0 points; a tile on the 1st level above this is worth as many points as the number on the tile; a tile on the 2nd level is worth twice the number on the tile; etc. Whoever scores the most points wins!

“You are Victor Lavel a young ambitious journalist working for a major newspaper. It's the year 1900 the middle of the Belle Époque and Paris flourishes. There are so many stories to cover the Exposition Universelle the Summer Olympics the opening of the first metro station but as a Lavel a family famous for solving crimes since the Middle Ages you are much more interested in murders kidnappings and robberies. Being a journalist helps you be among the first ones to know about them and your wits often make you the first one to find the perpetrator.”The new Chronicles of Crime: 1900 standalone game challenges players not only to skillfully collect evidence and interrogate suspects but also to solve some escape-room-style puzzles incorporated into each scenario.Can you guess the right combination to open the safe? Would you be able to decipher an encrypted message found on the crime scene? Can you trace the suspect by navigating a map? It won’t be easy but if you get stuck you can ask your colleague Charlotte for help. She runs the “Puzzles and Riddles” column in your newspaper so she can always give you a hint about the mystery you’re struggling with.Part of Chronicles of Crime - The Millennium Series Chronicles of Crime is back with a range of games called The Millennium Series. Three brand new standalone Chronicles of Crime games working with the same great system but providing interesting gameplay twists and refreshing universes that span an entire millennium from 1400 to 1900 and finally 2400. All three games are standalone but will offer connecting narrative threads for players to discover.-description from publisher

This world used to be a garden full of life; from the flying Vadora to the deep-dwelling Dwarves – but that was before Vesh came. The world has been lost and only one city remains; the oldest city in the world – and the last refuge for all of us. Now... we fight back.The City of Kings is a co-operative puzzle-based fantasy adventure board game for 1 - 4 players in which your character is tasked with exploring the hazardous world trading for vital resources and battling your enemies whilst uncovering a story of a world imperiled.You start by choosing one of seven stories or twelve scenarios then select your hero with each of the six heroes featuring twelve unique skills and nine customizable stats that allow you to specialize in attacking healing tanking worker management or whatever you desire. Aside from your hero you need to manage your workers who must gather resources in order to trade for new items and build structures to gain powerful bonuses.You explore across the Ageless Realms by turning over tiles discovering resources side quests hazards building sites traders and creatures as you continue to power up whilst preparing to enter Azure Rise.At its heart The City of Kings is a complex puzzle featuring endless strategic battles. Each creature is generated from a pool of spells characteristics and stats offering over 10,000,000 unique battle situations. There are no dice damage is persistent it’s up to you to customize your characters and work together to come up with a strategy to defeat whoever stands in your way.

The Initiative — a unique co-operative board game of story strategy and code-breaking — lets players take on the role of teenagers in 1994 who have found a mysterious board game called The Key. Not only will they play The Key but players will help the teens through a pivotal chapter of their lives by following a series of missions linked together via an interactive comic book.The game's campaign is broken into a number of chapters each taking 30-60 minutes to complete and each starting with you reading a page of the comic book. The story advances even if players fail a mission but winning may provide a reward in the future. Each chapter builds on the knowledge and story from previous chapters weaving narrative code-breaking and mystery into one thrilling game experience.

Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc.Unlock! Game Adventures includes three separate scenarios for you to explore each set in a different well-known board games universe:Note: Unlock! requires a free application to be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. Once downloaded an internet connection is not required during game play.—description from the publisher

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

Emperor Trajan plans to have a monument built for eternity: the Forum Trajanum. It is supposed to become the biggest and most glorious Emperor's forum that the Roman world has ever seen — not only in order to demonstrate his success as Princeps Optimus in an imposing manner but also to foster the well-being and the fame of the honorable citizens of Rome.In Forum Trajanum each player governs a Colonia founded by Trajan himself and thus is the head of one of the highest-ranking cities in the entire Roman Empire. While the players try to optimally develop their own Colonia they should not fail in supporting the Emperor's building project to the best of their abilities at the same time. The player who is most successful in doing so will — after expiry of their term of office — be admitted to the small circle of illustrious and mighty personalities surrounding the Emperor.

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

In Habitats each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland bush rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent for example while a bat needs rocks and bush and water a hart needs bush and grass and a crocodile needs mainly water. There is a snake baboon bee elephant otter lizard turtle eagle meerkat scorpio hog catfish rhino etc. each with its own landscape requirements — 68 different animals in total.Each player starts their individual park with an entrance tile and they are each represented in the marketplace of animal tiles by a ceramic figure (or a wooden ranger meeple in some editions). On a turn a player takes the tile to their left right or front; moves their figure to the space just vacated; then draws a tile to place where their figure started the turn.When adding an animal tile in your park you add its main landscape — the base space for the animal — to your park too. While placing this new animal its own piece of landscape can help to fulfill the requirements of your other animals' requirements e.g. the water on a hippo tile fulfilling the adjacent otter's need for water. Thus fulfilling every animal's desire for land becomes a more and more difficult task with each tile you add.Aside from expanding your park with different landscape types flora and animals you can improve its profitability by building extra entrance roads trek spots and watchtowers.Habitats lasts three seasons with each season giving each player 6-9 new tiles for their parks. Whoever has best met the goal of the season receives bonus points with a smaller number of points for second and third place. At the end of the game each player scores for each tile in their park based on whether that tile's requirements are satisfied. Whoever scores the most points wins!NOTE: BoardGameTables edition contains both XL Expansion and Double Expansion and is entirely replacing the previous editions.

You are movie producers in a failing film production company. You have one last chance to make a successful film - otherwise the company will collapse and you’ll never work in this town again! You have to use the resources at your disposal to produce this film on time and under budget ensure it’s a high enough quality and make some sense of the resulting story. No time to waste - roll camera!Roll Camera! is a cooperative or solo dice worker placement game of resource management and a central geometric puzzle representing your shooting arrangement. You throw the custom D6 Crew dice each face representing a different production department (camera light sound actor production design visual effects) and assign them to actions either on the main board or on your individual player boards. Your player board features a specific head of department (Director Producer Cinematographer Editor Production Designer or The Star) and contains unique action spaces that can be used on your turn.Place the Crew in specific arrangements matching those on the Shot cards resolve the constant Problems getting in your way and hold production meetings to play Idea cards from your hand to help out. Everything costs time and money and you lose if either one runs out. You must also ensure your film reaches a certain level of Quality in order to win!At the game's end you'll have a unique sequence of completed Shot cards which you can premiere using the story cues -- it's the filmmaking game that results in a real movie!—description from the designer

Art Society is a brand new art collection game with easy to learn rules for 2 to 4 players!In Art Society you are an art connoisseur trying to impress your peers by putting together the most fashionable art collection of them all! Bid on the hottest works of art then arrange them on your drawing room wall into a tastefully curated gallery that’s the envy of the local art scene.But beware! Fashion is fleeting and trends are difficult to predict. The paintings that you and your fellow collectors do not buy will eventually make their way to the museum changing the worth of your collection.In the end whose wall will be the talk of town?Illustration by: Giacomo Vichi Sofia Rossi Veronica Grassi Angelica Regni Doris Shermadhi Max Kosek

Exit: The Game – The Sunken Treasure is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms.Starting with season 3 the Exit series is divided into difficulty levels. The Sunken Treasure is categorized at beginners level.

The Danish city of Copenhagen is traversed by canals and harbors and part of it — Nyhavn (New Harbor) — is famous for the colorful gabled houses along the water.In Copenhagen players design new façades for these houses so that they fit seamlessly into this beautiful harbor setting. On a turn a player may choose to take two adjacent cards from the display (they may never hold more than 7 cards) or use cards to buy facade tiles in various shapes and colors. Any tile may be purchased but you get a discount if you place a tile touching another one of the same color. Building over certain spaces or completing designated rows grants the players new abilities to make their job easier. Finishing a row or column will award the player points (doubled if it is all windows) and the game is a race to 12 points.Copenhagen comes in several versions. The current in print versions are a Base Game with cardboard tiles and a Deluxe edition (2022 printing) with: an alternative cover laser cut acrylic tiles with transparent windows and the Nyhavn and New Facades Queenies (expansion modules). These queenies were previously released separately and may be purchased in cardboard as the Copenhagen Queenie Box.Editions No Longer Available: The original Kickstarter included a Deluxe edition (same cover as base game with a Deluxe edition stamp) with acrylic tiles but no Queenies and a Collectors Edition that came with the base game and a Queenie set.

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

Take the viral social experience of Escape Rooms to the comfort of your own home and for a fraction of the cost that you would pay! Included in this game are 4 unique 60 minute escape room puzzles that will test your cranial skills. Use images gears words keys shapes maps and more to solve the three stages within each escape room. An analog timer on the Chrono Decoder centerpiece incessantly counts down emitting ominous noises to create an environment shut out from the outside world. If the puzzles stump you for too long slide a hint card into the Hint Decoder to keep your team moving. Slide 4 keys into the Chrono Decoder when you think you have the answer... but beware if you're wrong a precious minute will be taken from you.The 4 escape rooms vary in difficulty designed to give any group the experience they expect and deserve. If you're craving more puzzles Escape Room expansions will be available but you'll need the base game first as the Chrono Decoder is essential to the experience. Included in the base game in order of difficulty is: Prison Break Virus Nuclear Countdown and Temple of the AztecPrison Break: Ten years in prison for a crime you didn't commit. Ten years of your life wasted for being in the wrong place at the wrong time it hardly seemed fair. You know the guards will reach your cell during the rounds in an hour. Every bone in your body tells you this is the opportunity of a lifetime; you're 60 minutes away from freedom!Virus: What a time to faint! You swear you could kill your lab partner but you know that won't be necessary. The liquid that's oozing out of the broken bottle will kill everybody in the room soon enough...Nuclear Countdown: The table is filled with all kinds of materials that send shivers down your spine. At that moment your phone rings and your worst nightmare becomes reality the bomb threat is real!Temple of the Aztec: The stories told about the temple were numerous. Anybody that had entered the temple was never seen again supposedly killed by vipers. But stories also spoke of the Eye of Aztec the largest diamond that ever existed--description from the publisherThis entry is for the original base game containing the four escape rooms mentioned above.

Decorum is a cooperative hidden information game where you and your partner share the same objective: decorate your home in a way that makes you both happy. The problem is different things make each of you happy and nobody says exactly what they need. Can you find a happy compromise or is it time to move out?!-Play through 30 unique scenarios each introducing new twists and challenges. -Keep your conditions a secret they say how you want the house decorated. -Add remove and swap objects or repaint rooms to make the house look just right… for you. -Respond with “Love it” “Hate it” or “Fine with it” to work together toward a perfectly decorated home. -There is a solution for each scenario the trick is figuring it out in time.At its heart Décorum is a pretty straightforward logic puzzle. There are a small number of ways to arrange the internal pieces that meet all the requirements listed on the player’s rule sheets simultaneously. The twist of Décorum is that it’s also a hidden information game. No player has all of the rules. While playing the players will have to watch their partner’s moves just as carefully as they’re planning their own. Even more crucially they’ll have to communicate why they’re making the moves they’re making–using the very limited means we’ve provided them.Décorum might be about solving a puzzle but it’s really a game about communication and compromise. The real challenge isn’t just solving the problem with the limited information you and your players have; it’s dealing with the frustrations that will inevitably occur when your partner does something that messes up your plan. In order to be successful in Décorum there will come a point where both players will have to let go of their initial strategy for how they were going to finish the board and start paying attention to what their partner is doing instead. By introducing and providing an incentive to resolve conflict Décorum mechanically encourages (or even requires) a positive form of compromise.Each player draws a Scenario card that lists a set of criteria of what types of décor a room must have or cannot have. For example No room may contain a lamp or Every room must contain a wall hanging. Players keep their criteria secret.The play surface is a board displaying various rooms in a house. Each room has multiple items that can potentially be placed in the room. Players take turns placing moving or removing colored tokens on the board where each token represents an item of home décor. Each token placed may conform with or violate the other players' criteria. After each token is placed other players may state they like the item of décor as placed or they do not like the item of décor as placed. Further discussion or explanation is not allowed.The game ends when all players' criteria are satisfied.

Thousands of plants and animals have been discovered but haven't been seen for decades and could be on the brink of extinction. In order to save these species we must first find them again. The Search for Lost Species is a game about this real-world search. You are scientists on an expedition to find one of those lost species focusing on those in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.The organization Re:wild has compiled a list of lost species around the world. They engage in expeditions with numerous partners to find these Lost Species and encourage others to conduct their own expeditions to rediscover these amazing Lost Species. In this deduction game you'll work to locate these lost species and put them back on the map!The game play changes from The Search for Planet X include: Players use a combination of deduction and movement to narrow down the possible habitats of the lost species. Players can use a special expedition action to search a specific habitat for a lost species. Incorporates cards that make the game asymmetric and provide more variability.Features: Report your sightings through the free app to determine if they are confirmed. Double-sided board provides two different island maps to explore. 6 different Lost Species to find!—description from the publisher

Renowned mediums are competing to figure out a secret object and prove they can connect with the World Beyond. The first team to figure out the secret object wins!To set up Phantom Ink divide players so that the Sun team and the Moon team each have one Spirit and up to three Mediums. The mediums on a team share a hand of seven question cards and the spirits begin the game by choosing one of the five objects on a card as the secret object. On a turn the mediums pass two question cards to their spirit with sample questions like What color is it most commonly? What fictional character has it or uses it? and If it were a musical instrument what would it be?The spirit discards one question card face up then returns the question card it's going to answer to their mediums then slowly writes the answer one letter at a time for all to see. As soon as the mediums think they know what this clue word is they yell Silencio and the spirit stops writing. The other team of mediums might see only the letter Y but if you know the question is What color is it? then you know the clue must be yellow. To end your turn draw two new question cards.On a turn instead of handing over question cards you can attempt to guess the answer — and to do so you write like the spirits one letter at a time. If you write an incorrect letter the spirits will stop you marking out your error with your partial guess giving the other team more information. If you guess the entire word correctly you win!Awards & Honors: Game Makers Guild - Seal of Approval The Dice Tower - Seal of Approval

Welcome to the Carlton House. Enjoy the luxury and solve the murders! How about a stroll in beautiful Queen's Park? Beware dogs and the occasional crime scene…Return to the streets of Victorian London but also venture into brand new locations in the latest installment in the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective line: Carlton House & Queen's Park! Like the previously released The Thames Murders and Other Cases Carlton House & Queen's Park introduces ten exciting cases each one drawing players deep into the world of Sherlock Holmes. Among these cases includes two classic long out-of-print expansions which are now revised and updated. Whether you're playing solo or with up to eight possible players you need your wits about you to solve the cases and beat Holmes himself!—description from the publisher

Paint the Roses is a 2-5 player cooperative logic deduction game that automatically adapts to your skill during play.Set in the puzzling world of Alice in Wonderland you and your friends are the newly appointed Royal Gardeners. You are working together to finish the palace grounds according to the whims of the Queen of Hearts. Use strategy logic and teamwork to finish the garden whilst staying one step ahead of the Queen otherwise the last thing you hear will be Off With Their Heads!.The Queen's whims are shared via cards secret instructions each player is given into how the garden should be arranged. Her whims are always changing so as soon as you solve one a new one is in your hand.Every turn together as a team you must guess at least one of these secret whim cards. You can't say what your card shows but by carefully placing a new shrub tile into the garden (taken from those available in the Greenhouse) you are able to reveal clues tokens that will show any matches between the arrangement in the garden and the secret whims each player holds in their hands.Although you can't discuss your own secret whim card you can openly discuss other players'. Share your theories at the table and then make a guess. Correctly guessing a whim will move you forward on the score track but the Queen is always following and her speed automatically adjusts based on your current score. Guess incorrectly and the Queen moves twice as fast her axe ever closer to your neck.—description from the publisher

A puzzly infiltration game for 1-4 players burncycle puts you in command of a team of robots in the far future. Their mission: taking down evil human-run corporations responsible for subjugating AI under their heel. Your team arrives at each corporate headquarters and must sneak inside shutting down the companies' physical operations as well as their circuitous digital networks. As you search rooms and advance to the higher floors you'll be rewarded with new items and abilities but you'll also be challenged by threatening guards fatal viruses and the architecture itself which was built to fight off robotic intruders.Key to this solo and cooperative experience is the idea of “creative action sequencing.” During each round of play all players will contend with a randomly drawn set of programming directives which tell them in what order their bots are allowed to take physical digital and command actions. Players can choose to skip over directives at the cost of having an incomplete turn or they can disobey the directions by paying costly action dice. The best players however find a way to work within the “burncycle”: essentially organizing their actions so that they benefit the team while staying within the directive order.Each of the corporate headquarters in the game use unique neoprene layouts on a larger mat changing the geography of the game to suit your target. Each CEO also has at their disposal a special threat meter which will trigger new obstacles for your robots as time runs out. If you don't complete the mission quickly you may end up leaving bots behind the victims of immobilizing power drains or destructive counterhacking.Your team wins the game if you complete your objectives on every floor without losing your command module or maxing out your threat level.-description from publisher

For those shipwrecked on the beach of this forgotten island a chained boat is the only hope — but the mysterious owner has left puzzles over the whole island. Will the team solve them free the boat and escape?Exit: The Game – The Forgotten Island is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms.

In Overboss rival Boss Monsters emerge from their dungeons to conquer the Overworld. Each turn players draft and place terrain tiles and monster tokens. Their goal: to craft the map with the greatest Power and become the ultimate Overboss!Designed by Aaron Mesburne and Kevin Russ (Calico) this fast-paced game combines drafting set collection and puzzly tile laying. It's set in the retro-inspired pixel art world of Brotherwise Games' best-selling Boss Monster but this is an entirely new experience.Build your map by drafting Forests Swamps Caves Camps Graveyards Dungeon Entrances and other landscapes. Each terrain type has a different point value and some increase in Power as you acquire larger sets. Players must balance optimal placement set values and disrupt their opponents' sets. You'll also need to manage monsters which award points when grouped together or placed on matching terrain.The game includes everything needed for up to 5 players: over 120 terrain tiles over 100 monster tokens 5 double-sided player boards a scorepad and more.—description from the publisher (updated for added content)

Elegant graceful and refined – that’s how you should design your Japanese garden! Careful planning and watchful eyes are needed as you tend your garden. Only by skillfully placing stones bushes trees ponds and pagodas on multiple levels can a player become the best garden designer of the season. Think you’ve got it figured out? Try one of the five included expansions!—description from the publisher

An alarm sounded in the eternal ice so the polar station has been evacuated and foreclosed but a small group of researchers has remained behind by mistake — and they have only one hour to find the code that will crack the lock program.Exit: The Game – The Polar Station is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms.

Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc.In the adventure Unlock! The Formula The Department has lost contact with one of their chemists Dr. Hoffman. Your mission is to retrieve the truth serum he had been developing. Deep in the New York subway tunnels you must seek out his laboratory locate the doctor and recover the formula before time runs out. The clock is ticking...can you escape?An included ten-card tutorial allows you to learn how to play without reading the game rules. Note: Unlock! requires a free application to be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. Once downloaded an internet connection is not required during game play.

Part puzzle part game. Play as either Land or Sea (or the Cartographer in a 3 player game). Each player plays with 2 double-sided hex tiles containing a mix of land and sea shapes. They take turns placing a tile each to make a map together. Land places tiles trying to complete land areas and Sea places tiles trying to complete sea areas. Completed areas score a point per tile; land areas for Land sea areas for Sea. Some tiles score bonus points for whoever completes the area they are in. So players may decide to strategically complete rival’s areas to gain their bonus points. Other tiles allow players to play their second tile or steal a player’s tile - but not their last one!Using 2 double-sided tiles (one side always revealed and the other always hidden until played) means there is partial information to plan around and some surprises too. Players replenish back up to 2 tiles from a choice of 2 face-up tile stacks.The strategy of the game involves careful tile placement to score from as many land or sea areas as possible while minimising your rivals’ opportunities to score from the tiles you play. Watch your rivals’ possible plays and control tempo strategically with Play Again and Steal tiles. Look out for opportunities to score valuable bonus points in your and your rivals’ areas. Carefully select tiles as you replenish your hand to prepare for your next turn.The game ends once the last tile is placed. The player or team with the most points wins.The basic Land vs Sea game is simple enough for light / family gamers. After you have played the basic game you can unlock more scoring options on the tiles to add surprising depth: 1. Mountain & Coral scoring - score for cumulative chains of connected Mountain (Land) / Coral (Sea) sections. 2. Caravan & Ship scoring - score for Caravans & Ships added to Trade Routes on the map and score each Trade Route you have majority in (more Caravans scores the Trade Route for Land more Ships for Sea) at the end of the game. 3. Waypoints - bonus points you can place on the map to entice cooperation or score for yourself.2 3 & 4 player modes: You can play head to head with 2 players or with 4 players in teams using the basic rules and any of the additional scoring options. 4 player games use Waypoints to prevent alpha players directly instructing their partner.The challenging 3 player mode uses all of the additional scoring options in a more asymmetric game. The Cartographer scores by connecting Mountain and Coral sections and all players compete for bonus points and Trade Route scoring.-description from publisher

Gloomy vaults lie under the city of lights. The catacombs of Paris swallow the light secrets and — apparently — also people. After the mysterious disappearance of a friend in the catacombs players in Exit: The Game – The Catacombs of Horror embark on a mysterious search through the underground labyrinth. Will players be able to find their friend in time and escape this cavernous world full of dark mysteries?Like other titles in the series Exit: The Game – The Catacombs of Horror includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game. What's different in this game is that it consists of two parts with each part being its own challenge.

Once upon a time a witch lived alone in her house in the depths of the forest. Her favorite hobby was baking yummy gingerbread; in fact she loved gingerbread so much that she built her entire house out of it. Unfortunately she wasn't the only one who loved it! Rude fairy tale characters passing by were eating away her walls windows and doors! One day the witch decided that she'd had enough of them all helping themselves and paying attention to which types of gingerbread these greedy intruders liked the most she came up with an idea on how to get rid of them once and for all...In Gingerbread House you place domino-like tiles in a 3 by 3 grid covering symbols that provide you with four different types of gingerbread and special actions. Tiles may also be placed on existing types of tiles forming a 3D structure in front of you. Covering two of the same symbol is extremely valuable as it provides a bonus gingerbread or action. Victory points are awarded for building the tallest structure completing orders by discarding sets of gingerbread as well as being the quickest to achieve certain conditions. In the end the player with the most victory points wins.

Escape Tales: The Awakening is a story driven escape room in card game form with immersive exploration no time limits when solving puzzles and a collection of tough choices that will captivate and immerse you deeply. As for the story here's the set-up:Players take on the role of Sam whose daughter has been in a coma for over two months and whose doctors still cannot explain how this happened or what caused it. According to them everything is fine with the girl; she's healthy and shouldn't be in this condition. Sam is desperate and looks for answers everywhere he can which leads to a weird meeting with Mark.Mark's son was once in a similar situation and his father was able to help wake the boy up. He has given Sam a scary-looking book and said that inside this book he will find a ritual called The Awakening. But Mark warned Sam that he needs to prepare himself mentally since this ritual will transfer him into another dimension where he should be able to find his daughter and understand what is the cause of this state. If Sam's lucky enough then he will be able to wake her up as well. Sam has held onto the book for more than a week. Finally he's ready to go into the basement and perform a ritual. Are you ready too?Content warning: suicide

The Isle of Cats Explore & Draw features gameplay like The Isle of Cats but with players now choosing a set of cards each round instead of drafting and then drawing their discoveries onto their boat.Explore & Draw is a competitive polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-6 players that is ideal for a quick break or taking to a friend’s house.In the game you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique shape and belongs to a family you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together.You will also find treasures Oshax (special cats) and ancient lessons which give you another personal way of scoring points.Complete lessons fill your boat and keep cat families together to score points and the player with the most points after seven rounds wins.—description from the publisher

TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND RELAX...You have come to the lake hoping to see a rare and beautiful sight. The lilies of the lake only open their blossoms in the rain and only rarely do all eight kinds of lily bloom at once. The goal of A Gentle Rain is to place the lake tiles in such a way to cause all eight types of lilies to bloom before you run out of tiles and the rain ends.Place each new tile you draw next to a tile already in play making sure to match the colors of all the tile edges touching the tile you are placing. Each time you manage to complete a square of four touching tiles a blossom opens between them.Keep Score or don’t.—description from the publisher

The spark of life is about to jump from your hands to spread out in the world. Deploy your mountain ranges and your deserts spread out your oceans and your glaciers. Handle wisely your continents to form environments suitable for the apparition of animal life and maybe you'll manage to create the most densely populated planet!In Planet each player receives a planet core without anything on it. Each turn players choose a tile with mountain/ice/forest/desert on it and place it on the planet. Then the player who fulfills the most conditions for the appearance of certain animals gains its card.—description from the publisher

I stumbled upon a midnight market. It wasn't selling flowers or farm goods. It was a more curious sort of cargo: energy capacitors strange crystalline material and something green and jiggly. Since then I've been dragged into it deep into the thick of it.I paid a stranger more than I should have for manufacturing plans I hardly understood. Worse yet they sold the same stuff to my best friend. Now I have to get my supply lines up and running to prepare for shipping my cargo — and if my friend starts shipping some of this curious cargo I'll have to intercept their trucks and corner the market that way.By hook or by crook I'm going to be the king of curious cargo...Curious Cargo is a two-player game in which you go head-to-head against your opponent by building up the infrastructure of your facility calling in trucks at the right moment all while perfectly timing the shipping and receiving of cargo to score the most points. Connect an interweaving web of lines to your shipping and receiving spaces. Play with two-color conveyor tiles or step it up for an advanced experience and play with all three colors. Ship your custom-shaped cargo tokens to your opponent to interfere with their logistics plans!The puzzling nature of Ryan Courtney's Pipeline comes alive in Curious Cargo! With six unique player boards for each player and two game modes a skillful challenge awaits even the sharpest competitor.

Before winter makes its appearance a particularly warm fall bathes the forest in a golden shimmer. During the Indian Summer New England blossoms one last time. Treetops are ablaze with countless colors — a living rainbow from green to orange to red. Slowly the first leaves are starting to fall. Meanwhile our steps and the diligent squirrels rustle the colorful foliage.On our walks through the woods we discover all kinds of little treasures; we collect berries nuts mushrooms and feathers. We pause for a moment to watch the shy inhabitants of the forest before we set off towards home once again. There a good book and a hot tea are already awaiting.Indian Summer is the second part of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy following 2016's Cottage Garden and this game is firmly geared towards experienced players. At the heart of the game are puzzle tiles with holes that are placed on individual forest boards to cover up treasures. When players get their hands on these they gain more options and an edge over their opponents. All that counts in the end is to be the first to cover your forest floor completely with leaves.

The castle is the highlight of the hike but hardly have the hikers entered the old walls when the squeaky doors close. Escape appears impossible — but strange hints may lead players in a new direction. Can they solve the riddles and find the way to freedom?Exit: The Game – The Forbidden Castle is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms.

Assume the role of the universes' most powerful heroines as you settle their disputes with excessive firepower! Use actions to form patterns clear bullets from your sight and bombard the opponent! Deal with the curtain of bullets coming at you each round and be the last heroine standing to win!Each heroine wields a dynamic power that changes how you play the game! Control fireworks zombies the news and more!4 game modes! Play solo with Score Attack. Free-For-All with 2-4 friends form 2 player Teams or fight each heroine's dangerous Boss Mode by yourself or with others!Combine Bullet⭐ with Bullet♥︎ to play up to 8 players!—description from the publisher

Explore places combine items and experience stories in Adventure Games a series of co-operative games from German publisher KOSMOS. In each of these titles players are presented with a mysterious story that they must unravel over the course of play. Working together players explore common areas talk to people look for clues and combine various items to reveal the secret of the story. Depending on what decisions the players make the course of history changes and there is no going back!Unlike the co-operative EXIT: The Game series titles in this series focus on the telling and discovery of the story with no time pressure. That said many different paths can be experienced during play with more than one correct resolution to the story waiting to be discovered. Each title consists of three chapters each taking about 75 minutes to play. Nothing is destroyed so the games can be played multiple times.In The Dungeon the players awaken in a prison cell in the middle ages with no memory of how they got there. What happened? What strange things are taking place in this dungeon? And most importantly how can they get out? Over three chapters players will jointly explore rooms combine objects and perhaps even encounter creatures that lurk in the dark rooms of the old castle...

HEXplore It is a hero building adventure board game. Enter a realm teeming with fantasy creatures heroes and villains.Select your hero by combining two character options: your Role and Race. Your Role is your profession and your Race is your heritage and species. This combination drives your Hero's strengths weaknesses and defines their special abilities. You'll use dry erase markers to keep track of your hero's strength.Travel across the map earning power ups by completing quests and battling opponents of several different types. Move carefully to avoid multiple dangers and travel from city to city visiting shrines and ruins along the way.Gain power quickly for the Dead King also moves... He takes away your cities as you play the game. For each city he destroys he gains more power.The object of HEXplore It is to power up your heroes as quickly as possible to eventually defeat the Dead King himself. The game is won if you confront and defeat him bringing light back to the Valley.

In MetroX players create subway networks by filling in the station spaces on their individual game sheets. Using the numbers revealed by the cards all players fill up their subway map with ◯s in the station spaces. However the number of times they can add stations to each line is limited so they have to make tough choices. Players can score many points by getting their star bonuses in stations with many intersecting routes. Players also get bonuses by being the first to complete routes. Try to fill in all your stations to minimize the penalties and achieve a high score!In more detail each player has their own sheet of paper with all players using either the Tokyo or Osaka map. Each sheet shows an interwoven subway system with the system consisting of many subway lines; each line has a name a number of indicator boxes a number of empty station boxes on the subway route and two bonuses. On a turn a player reveals the top indicator card from the deck of twenty cards then each player individually and simultaneously chooses a subway line then does something depending on which type of card is revealed:At the end of a turn if a player has finished a subway line by reaching the final space they announce this to all players then score the larger of the two bonuses for this line; all other players cross out the large bonus and can score the small bonus for themselves if they complete this line later. Multiple players can score a line's bonus on the same turn. If the indicator card has a shuffle icon on it shuffle all of the indicator cards together before the next turn.Once all the indicator boxes are filled the game ends. Players tally their points scored for completing lines and for writing numbers in boxes then lose points based on the number of empty spaces that remain on their sheet. Whoever has the highest score wins!

Your task in the tile-laying game Sanssouci is to create a flower garden for the world-famous Sanssouci Palace. Competing against up to three other landscape architects you'll have your own garden layout game board on which you'll build rose gardens and vineyard terraces labyrinths and fountains – but not just anywhere mind you. No the landscapers must meet certain building requirements and unfortunately you won't always have at hand everything that you might need.In game terms each player has a personal garden that's divided into rows and columns; each row shows a color while each column shows one of nine garden elements such as the wells or a pavilion. Players start with one noble at the top of each column. A shared tile supply board has five rows – with colored spaces matching the colors on each player board – and two columns which are unlabeled. At the start of the game ten tiles are placed on this supply board; each tile depicts one of the nine garden elements.Each turn a player plays one of his two cards in hand which determines the tile he can take from the supply e.g. take a pavilion tile take a tile from the red or gray spaces etc. The player has only a single card that lets him take any tile – but if he plays a card showing a garden element that isn't present then he can instead take any tile! The player must place this tile on his player board in the column that matches the image on the tile and the row that matches the color from which the tile was taken. If this space is already filled he flips the tile to show the gardener on the other side then places this tile on any free space in the same row or the same column. After placing the tile he may move one of his nobles along a path of placed tiles as long as the noble ends up in the same column in which it started but on a lower row. The player scores points equal to the row reached.The player then refills the supply and draws a new card. The game ends after 18 rounds. Each player then receives bonus points for each completed row and column. Furthermore each player has received two order cards at the start of the game each of which shows one of the nine columns; each player receives bonus points for the row reached by the noble in that column. The player with the most points wins.

Re-enter the land of Oz! Pay a visit to the wizard meet some familiar friends and challenge the Wicked Witch of the West. The Adventurers of Oz is an Unlock! adventure for up to six players.Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles.The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!

Your pre-Christmas ski trip definitely hasn't gone as planned: Just as you are taking a break and enjoying the crystal-clear mountain air you hear a noise and see a terrifying avalanche crashing down the mountain towards you. Your heart is in your throat you hastily grab your seven things and race down the slope. With the last of your strength you throw yourself into a nice in the rocks as everything behind you is buried in snow. Your heart races and you pull yourself together. You can hardly believe it but you are alive! Only then do you take a look around: is this some kind of cave?This advent calendar is both an EXIT game and adventure story: in order to free yourself from this predicament you must open a door of the calendar each day. Behind each door you will find a new and exciting riddle the solution to which will bring you closer and closer to escaping the cave!Will you solve the mystery of the ice cave and find an exit?--description from publisherLevel 2 of 5

In Factory Funner players are factory managers who select and install machines in their factory. They try connect all machine input and output pipes to the right reservoirs or to other machines in order to build the most profitable configuration. A new machine brings revenue. Other things you build (reservoirs and connectors (pipelines)) cost 1K money each.In each game round players may select one machine (from a number of machines equal to the number of players) simultaneously which means players try to quickly determine possible connections then grab the tile they want. But by choosing too quickly you risk taking a machine that doesn't fit well... When fitting in a machine a key tactic is to keep the most and best options for connecting future machines!After eight rounds the player with the most money wins.The second edition of this game — Factory Funner&Bigger — features the same gameplay as the original release but with a deeper box more connectors and slightly different colors for better usability and without the jump machine as it had a high luck factor and created rules difficulty during play.

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

Box ONE is an ever-evolving game of trivia codes puzzles and discovery - only from the mind of Neil Patrick Harris.There’s tons of great party games — but unlike the rest Box ONE is designed to challenge just ONE person: YOU! And you alone.Prepare to set out on an exciting adventure like no other as you discover decode and unlock the secrets of Box ONE.Look closely though as with all things - there’s more than meets the eye...Box ONE is the perfect gift for anyone into puzzles codes and escape rooms. The game represents years of thought and careful planning by Neil Patrick Harris. Everything you need to decode each challenge is inside the box. Can you decode it? Can you solve it? The clock is ticking...Please note that an internet connected device is required to complete this game.

The election of the Aztec High Priest is imminent. In order to prove their value and merit the contenders engage in a race for prestige to win the favor of the gods. Will you be able to make the most beautiful sculptures of feathered snakes (called Cóatl) to stand out and gain access to the coveted title of High Priest?In Cóatl players work to build the most beautiful and valuable serpents. The serpents or Cóatl are constructed with a head a tail and a number of body tiles each made from chunky colorful plastic. On a turn players will either take tiles from the central board to their personal board or work to construct one of their Cóatls with the different tiles they've collected.The game end is triggered when one player finishes their third Cóatl. Players receive points for fulfilling objectives and the one with the most is named the new High Priest!•••L’élection au titre de grand prêtre aztèque est imminente. Afin de prouver leur valeur et leur mérite les prétendants s’engagent dans une course au prestige pour conquérir la faveur des dieux. Saurez-vous réaliser les plus belles sculptures de serpents à plumes (appelés Cóatl) pour vous démarquer et ainsi accéder au titre tant convoité de grand prêtre aztèque?Dans Cóatl les joueurs construisent les plus beaux et précieux serpents à plumes qui soient. Ces reptiles appelés Cóatl par les Aztèques sont construits d'une tête une queue et un certain nombre de pièces de corps en plastique épais et coloré. À tour de rôle les joueurs prennent les pièces du plateau central et les transposent sur leur plateau personnel afin d'assembler stratégiquement des Cóatls en fonction des couleurs édictées par leurs cartes d'objectifs.La partie se termine lorsqu'un joueur complète son troisième Cóatl. Les joueurs reçoivent des points pour la réalisation d'objectifs et celui qui en a cumulé le plus est déclaré grand prêtre aztèque!•••In der aztekischen Mythologie ist der Schöpfergott Quetzalcoatl als Gott des Windes des Himmels und der Erde allgegenwärtig. Gefiederten Schlangen Cóatl genannt schmücken antike Tempelanlagen in ganz Mexiko.Erschafft die aufwändigsten und elegantesten Skulpturen geflügelter Schlangen auch Cóatl genannt damit einer von euch zum neuen Hohepriester der Azteken ernannt wird.Während des Spiels erschafft ihr Cóatl indem ihr Kopf- Körper- und Schwanzsegmente verbindet die den Voraussetzungen eurer Prophezeiungskarten entsprechen. Je mehr der Voraussetzungen erfüllt werden desto mehr Prestigepunkte bringt das fertige Cóatl.

Ladies and gentlemen step right up — the carnival is coming to town! In The Grand Carnival players compete to create the most impressive carnival this town has ever seen. You'll need to carefully plan your carnival's layout build attractions hire staff and manage the crowds all while learning a few tricks of the trade.Each turn players cover a number on their player board then select an action. The covered number determines the effectiveness of their action — and won't become available again until the next round — so players need to think carefully about which number to use. Possible actions include:• Place a Foundation Tile: Select a foundation tile to place on your fairground. The higher the number you cover the more tile options you have. Each tile is a 2x2 grid and is made up of construction sites and walkways. Attractions can be placed only on construction sites whereas guests can move only on walkways so place your tiles carefully.• Build an Attraction: Select a polyomino attraction and place it on the construction sites on your fairground. The size of the attraction you can select depends on the number you cover. Larger attractions can collect more tickets (and can be worth more points) but can be difficult for guests to move around.• Move a Guest: Select a guest token and move it along the walkways on your fairground. The distance a guest can move depends on the number you cover. If a guest moves next to an attraction place a ticket token on that attraction. If you move enough guests you can hire a carnival barker; barkers help guests move quickly through your carnival but take up precious space in your fairground.After taking your action see whether you qualify for any of the three Tricks of the Trade cards. Each trick has a requirement that must be met before you unlock its unique ability. Once a player unlocks a trick each of their opponents has one turn to meet the same requirement or lose access to that trick for the rest of the game.After seven rounds the game ends. Players earn points from sets of the same size attractions sets of each size of attraction carnival barkers guests that move all the way through your park and their tickets. The player with the most points wins!—description from the designer

At the beginning of The House on the Hill strange paranormal activities have surrounded an abandoned house for the past three days. When an investigation uncovers that these occult occurrences center on an excerpt read from The Book of the Dead you and your companions are tasked to enter the house find the book and stop the curse…Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game.

Build the most renowned amusement park of all time in Meeple Land! Buy the most beautiful attractions offer the best services and accommodate as many meeples as possible with buses and advertising. Meet the expectations of the meeples and success will be yours! Do not neglect any of your meeples however for the unsatisfied ones will tarnish your reputation...—description from the publisher

In Savannah Park you each run your own wildlife park and your goal is to group animals with their own kind — but everyone takes turns deciding what to move so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces.Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique animal tiles with those tiles laid out at random in your personal wildlife park. Three bush-fire spaces and one rock space will remain unoccupied in your park for the entire game and six tree spaces and four grass spaces are unoccupied at the start of play.On a turn you name a specific face-up tile that all players must pick up flip face down then move to a different empty space within their own park. Tiles that have been flipped cannot move again and once all tiles have moved the game ends with a scoring round. First tiles adjacent to bush fires are removed if they depict as many animals as the number of fires (1 2 or 3) on the bush-fire space. Score for each grass and tree uncovered on your board. Finally score for each of the six animal species; the bigger the main herd of each of species and the more water holes it contains the more points you score e.g. a herd of five rhinos and three watering holes is worth (5x3) 15 points. The player with the most points wins.Savannah Park includes a solo mode a set-up variant that allows you to place the bush fires and trees where you wish and a scoring variant that rewards you for bumping a lion out of the animals' way.

How do you take the perfect picture of a group of people if you only have one try? Each character has different wishes. Some want to be at the front of the picture; some want to stand next to another; and some really don't want to be next to that one particular person by any means. Do your best to make everyone happy – even if you don't actually know all the characters' preferences…In Picture Perfect first released as Der Perfekte Moment you need to arrange fourteen characters to take the perfect photograph. Each of them has three specific desires that you want to fulfill. Unfortunately these desires are hidden in envelopes.During the game the players try to take a look inside these envelopes to figure out how to place the characters correctly. To do so they trade their information with others — or maybe try to hide it...Whoever earns the most points at the end of the game has fulfilled the most desires and becomes the master photographer.

Unlock! Legendary Adventures features three new escape room scenarios that you can play on your tabletop.Unlock! is a co-operative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc. The three scenarios are:

Unlock! is a co-operative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards.Unlock!: Kids is designed for players ages 6+ and unlike other Unlock! titles it does not require an app.• Mac Unlock's Castle - Scotland is yours and so are its ghosts. . . and treasures!• Feather Balls & Mysteries - Lead the investigation among the animals and restore peace to the barnyard!• Fuss at the Park - Meet the wacky inhabitants of this fantastic amusement park.Contents: 1 Rulebook 1 Tutorial (11 Cards) 3 Stories (150 Cards) 7 Starting Special Components 38 Cardboard Tokens 1 Hints & Solutions Booklet

The Tonipal's Treasure sets you at the start of a hunt for the treasure of Captain Smith hidden somewhere on Tonipal Island. As your adventure begins you've been arrested by the Governor and thrown into prison — you'll need to escape quickly especially since Johnson a famous treasure hunter is also on his way to Tonipal in search of the very treasure that you seek.Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!

Trailblazers are the gutsy folks who pave and brave the trails of the great outdoors.  Whether by hiking boots cycling wheels or river paddle these tenacious travelers seek to feed their insatiable appetite for adventure.  With a scenic wilderness ever ahead and a freshly charted path upon the heels one mustn’t forget to eventually find their way back to camp.  For there are always new environments to explore further expeditions to undertake and more trails to blaze.In Trailblazers players compete to earn the most points by building biking hiking and kayaking loops from their campsites of the matching trail type. Each round players are dealt eight trail cards where they’ll draft two cards arrange those cards in their personal area and pass their hand to the next player three times. Cards must either be placed adjacent to or overlapping other cards. While players can push their luck by aiming to construct long and elaborate trails only closed loops that start and end at a matching campsite will score points. Players also compete to fulfill “First To” and “End Game” goal cards. After four rounds the game ends and the player with the most points from closed loops and goal cards wins.The standard edition of Trailblazers features a second deck of trail & player cards so you can play with up to 8 players. The box also contains two expansions (the Animals expansion and Adventurers expansion) that add another challenging layer of strategy and objectives to the experience. Finally there are three unique solo modes that utilize the goal cards Animals expansion or Adventurers expansion.

In Seikatsu players take turns placing tiles into a shared garden area with each tile showing a colored flower and colored bird. Players score for groups of birds as they place them but they score for rows of flowers only at the end of the game and only for the rows of flowers that exist from their perspective i.e. that are viewable as lines from where they sit at the game board.Seikatsu: A Pet's Life features the same gameplay as Seikatsu but with players placing tiles that show pets sitting on pillows instead of birds resting on flowers.

In Andor: The Family Fantasy Game a.k.a. Andor Junior each player chooses one of four heroes — magician warrior archer or dwarf — before beginning their quest to rescue the wolf cubs lost in the dwarven mine. However before beginning the search for the wolf cubs the heroes must first complete the tasks given to them by Mart the old bridge guard. Only after you have solved all of the bridge guard's tasks will he let you cross the bridge to the dwarven mines where you believe the wolf cubs are hiding. But watch out! While you are on your way the sly dragon is getting closer to the castle Rietburg. Should it arrive at the castle before the heroes have completed their tasks and saved the wolf cubs then all is lost and you lose the game. If you find all the wolf cubs before the dragon reaches Reitburg you win!Gameplay is similar to Legends of Andor with each game offering new challenges which you must master together before the dragon reaches Rietburg.

Break the Code is a logical deduction game played with number tiles and question cards. You win if you can guess all of your opponent's tiles in a two-player game or if you can guess the face-down tiles in the center for a three- or four-player game. Put on your thinking cap!Place all of the number tiles face down and shuffle them. Place your game screen in front of you then randomly take your tiles. Place them face up behind your screen in numerically ascending order starting from the left. If you have two tiles with the same number place the black tile on the left. Once you have placed your tiles removed any unused number tiles from the game. Lastly shuffle the question cards and place them in a pile face down. Draw the top six cards from the pile and place them in the center of the table.Deduce all of your opponent's tiles (or the center tiles) and correctly guess their colors and numbers in order from left to right.

The brilliant Dr. Eureka has important experiments for you to complete! You must solve his scientific formulas by mixing the molecules from tube to tube without touching them with your bare hands. Transfer your molecules faster than your competition in Dr. Eureka to prove you're the smartest scientist in the lab.The Challenge card deck is shuffled and the top card is turned face up. For fairness it is best to have the player turning the card over to count to perhaps five before each player at the same time picks up their test tubes and begins to move the balls around until they can match the Tubes shown on the card. The first to complete wins the round and the first player to win 5 rounds is the overall winner.

The first delicate flowers herald the end of a harsh winter. The sun shines longer day by day and pushes the snow back. Lush meadows bloom and curious marmots slowly awaken from hibernation. Finally spring is coming into the mountains — the perfect time for a hike. Choose your route carefully watch out for the burrows of the marmots and pack enough snacks. Your chances to earn an edelweiss hiking pin are rather low if you sit hungry in the snow.Spring Meadow is the grand finale of Uwe Rosenberg's puzzle trilogy following 2016's Cottage Garden and 2017's Indian Summer. The complexity of this game — the most interactive of the trilogy — is set in between those two games and fans of the trilogy will find familiar elements combined in an innovative way.Place your meadow tiles with 0-2 holes skillfully on your mountain board to receive extra tiles when creating or expanding groups of holes. Find your way around the burrows of the marmots because they can restrict you during tile placement. Scoring takes place depending on the players' selection of meadow tiles from a central game board. Whoever has the largest meadow during a scoring receives a hiking pin and the first player to earn their second hiking pin during scoring wins.New puzzle challenges are guaranteed with 172 tiles in 49 shapes.

2083. Humankind died out decades ago leaving behind mere vestiges of its time on Earth. As time went by nature reclaimed land all over. In this resurgent world apes have kept evolving. They've been gathering in tribes growing mastering human items and advancing in their quest for knowledge. As the leader of such a tribe you need to guide it towards collective intelligence.After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes. Starting only with tamarins they combine their cards each turn to collect resources and gather victory points attracting new apes into their tribe along the way: powerful gorillas resourceful orangutans versatile chimpanzees and wise mandrills. The first player to obtain 80 points prevails in the race to collective intelligence — and wins the game.— description from the designer

On returning from the far north the heroes find a devastated Andor. Conquered by the Krahder from the south and their skeleton army many Andori were enslaved and abducted by them. The heroes are the last hope for the kingdom.Legends of Andor: The Last Hope a standalone game that's a sequel to Legends of Andor includes a new map of the southern regions of Andor new legends and more.

The castle at the center of the Oniverse is under attack. The dream denizens of the oniverse rush to build their castle defense against three monster attacks. Towers allow you to see what is coming. Keeps can help minimize damage. Ranks can reduce the effects of the traitors found inside your walls. Of course the denizens have special powers of their own to aid in the defense. Will you be able to survive these attacks?Castellion is a tile-laying game in which you form parts of the castle for defense against monsters. Each turn you flip over a tile and either use its special ability or place it as part of your castle. The more towers and keeps you form the better your defense against attacks. Ranks prevent traitorous tiles from affecting you fully. When all three monsters have attacked and you still have a base of six tiles you win.

Game description from the publisher:In the puzzle game Dimension six task cards are laid out each round with these cards dictating how the balls in the game should be stacked on top of one another and side to side. These challenges aren't easy as some colors shouldn't touch one another.Fast puzzle-solving is important but more than that in the end whoever solves the most of these difficult tasks wins.NOTE: IMPORTANT RULE CORRECTIONGame description from the Thames & Kosmos 2015 Science Kits & Games catalogue:DimensionThe Spherical Stackable Fast-Paced Puzzle Game!Dimension is a fast-paced innovative puzzle game that takes place in three dimensions with 60 colourful spheres.All of the players play at the same time.Everybody tries to position the spheres on their tray to earn as many points as possible. The task cards indicate how the spheres must be placed to earn points: for example exactly two orange spheres must be on the tray black and blue must touch each other and blue must not touch white.Complete these tasks while racing against the timer. You get a point for each sphere you use and a bonus token for using all five colors but you lose two points for each card you don't follow correctly.Prove to your opponents that you are the master of multi-dimensional thinking!

The Wise One immortal keeper of wisdom and knowledge has sent Demigods endowed with earth-moving power to the far reaches of humanity. In Oros each player acts as one of these Demigods. They must instruct their Followers in the wisdom of the mountains through study worship and experience. And only in the heights of the mountains can the greatest mysteries be known.Oros is a tile-colliding volcano erupting mountain-making wisdom-gathering action-economy strategy game. On individual player mats players move their Followers between action spaces allowing them to manipulate a shared environment like a giant puzzle of plate tectonics. Action spaces allow players to shift rows of land move and collide land tiles form and erupt volcanoes worship to gain wisdom journey their Followers around the ever-shifting landscape and build sacred places of study and worship on mountains. Building sacred places and worshipping in sacred places brings wisdom which is used to improve the abilities available for each action space. Wisdom is also used to improve the end game value of each sacred place built as well as reach other goals worth end game points.When building sacred places the Demigods of the Wise One ascend a ziggurat which acts as a timer toward the end of the game. When one reaches the top players finish the round and then tally a final score.At the core of Oros is the unique ability to shift move build up erupt and reposition the land within an infinitely connected play environment. This mechanic turns every action into a puzzle of creative problem solving abstract thinking and a constantly evolving strategy. Another chief aspect of the game is the player mat which uses a minimal worker placement mechanic to govern action opportunity. The mat also maintains an action economy that evolves differently for each player as they invest their gained wisdom into a variety of action improvements. Because of these core aspects there are dozens of strategies for players to explore and every game plays out in a different yet competitive way.—description from the designer

It's your lifelong dream – to join the Star Patrol and be part of the crew of an interstellar Starship. You've worked hard graduated from the academy and received your first assignment as part of a team of young recruits confident in your training and ready to be put to the test. Nothing can possibly go wrong as you are prepared for anything...You are the Space Cadets.Space Cadets is a fun and frantic cooperative game for 3-6 players who take on the roles of Bridge Officers of a Starship. Each officer must accomplish his specific task in order for the team to successfully complete the mission. You might be the...If your crew can work together to accomplish the mission goals you just might make it home in one piece.

Oh no! Something terrible has happened: Santa Claus' golden book has disappeared! It contained a complete list of all the Christmas wishes. If the book isn't found by Christmas Eve there will be nothing but sad faces around the tree on Christmas morning. It is up to you to save Christmas — and time is of the essence!The thief's trail leads you to a remote mountain village. You quickly notice that something strange is afoot here...but what? And where has the golden book gone? You must find it but let me tell you: Behind the doors of this village there are many surprises waiting for you!Exit: The Game – Advent Calendar: The Hunt for the Golden Book is an EXIT game and a 24-part adventure story in one. To find the golden book you must open a little calendar door every day. Behind each you will find a new exciting puzzle the solution of which will help you to move onto the next room. Only if you follow the clues and solve all 24 puzzles will you find the thief and the book...and save Christmas.Level: Beginner

How do you make an ecosystem flourish with just enough of every life form in the chain to supply you with dinosaurs to dominate the lands? Resources are scarce animals can go extinct in an area and everyone must eat to survive — so moves must be cunning. Life hangs in the balance...In Gods Love Dinosaurs a cheeky wild and timeless take on the scientific tale as old as life itself you are a god who has been tasked with designing an ecosystem with a sustainable food chain of predator and prey animals. But you just love dinosaurs so all you really want to do is to make as many of them as possible!Each turn you'll add one tile to your ecosystem which will add new animals and give them room to grow. Every so often your dinosaurs will tromp around your ecosystem eating all the animals. The more they eat the more eggs they lay — and the more points you score! Just be careful not to overeat or there won't be enough food to keep your dinosaurs alive the next time.—description from the publisher

Dreamscape is a unique dream building game. Incarnate a dreamer collecting dreamshards in mysterious locations such as the lair of the Clockwork Golem. Create dreamscapes with these shards stroll along paths climb mountains and pass through waterfalls. A game of Dreamscape is played in six rounds consisting of two phases:In the Travel phase wander through the dreamworld in quest for dreamshards. Use with skill the key function of the locations you cross and save precious action points to collect more shards. But avoid Mr Nightmare who is lurking around to infest your dreams.Then comes the Creation phase in which you construct your own dreamscape in 3D using the collected dreamshards. Score points for completed landscapes as listed on your personal goals. And to shape your Dreamscape constantly evolving you can rely on the essential location powers.Furthermore a series of common goals offer new challenges with each game influencing your choices while collecting and building your Dreamscape.Dreamscape offers a game experience that cannot be compared to any other game with a unique combination of route-planning resource collecting and ultimately building your own little Dreamworld as a small tableau. In the end the wonderful dreamscapes you will create will leave you with a magical feeling constantly renewed.

Village Attacks is a co-operative castle defense game in which players take on the roles of the most infamous creatures of folklore and legend from around the world! Deep in a remote part of the world you and your monstrous associates have taken up residence in an immense castle. But the local village has had enough of the evil that lies at its door and has decided to lay siege to the castle in an effort to exorcise your wicked taint from the world.The villagers may be weak but they are not alone! News of your malevolent presence has spread far and wide; hunters and heroes have come from all corners of the globe to vanquish you! Some have come for fame others for the glory and some even for the reward. But they share a single goal; your doom!

Can you solve the riddles and stop the kidnapping before it’s too late?Criminal activity is rampant in the frontier town of Fortune City and now the sheriff has disappeared without a trace. With precious little time to find him players need to work together to solve the crime. Over the course of the game your investigation will lead you through Fortune City with clues and strange items to be found throughout. You will need to search for answers in the saloon drugstore gunsmith post office prison and bank. But in a unique twist you will decide the order in which you will visit these locations and who you will interrogate along the way. Together with your team you will collect clues and evaluate the townspeoples’ testimonies. But will you get the answers you need to rescue the sheriff in time?In the style of Dead Man on the Orient Express and Theft on the Mississippi players must get to the bottom of a kidnapping in the Wild West in addition to solving all the riddles.Difficulty level: 3.5 of 5Exit: The Game – Kidnapped in Fortune City is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.

Exit: The Game – The Enchanted Forest is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.A relaxing walk in the woods takes a very different turn when you suddenly encounter strange fairytale creatures and even stranger puzzles. Will you ever find your way out?!-- description from the publisher

Deckscape: Test Time is the first title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people are trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.In Deckscape: Test Time you have been selected from Doctor Thyme's most brilliant students for a special project. He'll test your skills and if you succeed you'll get a unique chance to help him on his newest and greatest invention. While he's explaining his project he distractedly pushes a button: an alarm cries loudly and heavy gratings shut all the windows and the exit door. The laboratory is locked! Doc Thyme falls through a trapdoor below his feet and the lights turn off. Will you be able to pass Doctor Thyme's exam and exit his laboratory? Using just sixty cards you will take part in a hectic adventure without leaving home.—description from the publisher

Freshwater Fly is the second standalone game in a series from designer Brian Suhre that integrates modern game mechanics with the surprisingly rich and uniquely refreshing world of angling. In Freshwater Fly you will encounter a rushing mountain stream teaming with fish armed solely with a rod reel and selection of flies. To catch fish and earn valuable achievement points you will need to carefully perform a series of tactical maneuvers while executing a deliberate and evolving strategy.Begin by examining the ever-changing hatch in the current and tie a fly to match your target fish at just the right time and turn of the river. Then choose to cast upstream to drift your fly with the current and gain extra bites on your line or push your luck with a pinpointed cast for the perfect catch. In either case it is wise to cast near rocks to boost your skill and uncover new fishing techniques while keeping your supply of finesse charged for the next challenge. Your rondel reel which physically spins provides you different bonuses as you draw in your line depending on how aggressively you choose to fight the fish you've hooked. Applying drag for instance will negate the fish's strength but leveraging your momentum could provide you a unique action to set you up perfectly for your next cast.At its core Freshwater Fly is a dice drafting and set collecting game with elements of creative puzzle solving and pushing your luck. Each turn you select one die from the dice pool and assign it an action that relates to the particular fishing maneuver you want to take. Higher valued dice typically earn you more powerful actions but accumulating lower dice totals can earn you free turns. The dice you select will also unlock or multiply various bonus actions you can use to solve the most stringent fishing puzzles in unique and rewarding ways.The sets of fish and flies you collect will help you achieve personal and common goals but to obtain victory you must focus on those goals which overlap in the most valuable ways while not falling behind in your total fish count. The game ends when a single player catches a seventh fish achievement points are awarded and the winner is declared.—description from the publisher

Framework consists of 120 tiles with each player starting with 22 tokens. On a turn the lead player draws and reveals one more tile than the number of players. Each player in turn selects a tile with the lead player being forced to take the final tile.Tasks might be two colors e.g. red and brown which means that both frame colors can be used to satisfy the task. Alternatively a task might be 4 yellow or 4 brown. Also conditional tasks exist in which you must first complete one task before you can complete the second one.Whoever first places all of their tokens wins. Framework also includes a solo game in which you attempt to place all of your tokens in an area of tiles that is as close to a 5x5 grid as possible.

Noside has returned to ruin your day! A thick smoke lingers over the region — it must be another trick of Noside. It's up to you to stop him before it's too late! A Noside Story is a brand new Unlock! adventure for up to six players.Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!

You have been thrust into the world of airline booking and tasked with managing competing airlines. You have to satisfy each passenger's different needs to score prestige for your airline. Book too few passengers and you may not be able to fill your flight. Book too many however and some passengers will obviously be really unhappy.In a turn you pick a passenger card with the orientation quantity and type (colour) of passengers depicted on the card. You then seat the passengers onto the plane according to the passenger card. When any type of passenger runs out the end game is triggered and points are counted and scored.Can you be the one who satisfies the most passengers and be the most prestigious airline?

You have followed an ancient map to a hidden cave which purportedly contains some kind of mysterious gate. Inside the cave you find a large metal circle made of concentric rings embedded in the rock wall. You approach the gate hesitantly and touch it. To your astonishment the metal rings can be rotated. Suddenly everything goes dark around you. When you regain consciousness some time later you are no longer in the cave but in a bizarre new world. Where are you? And how are you supposed to find your way back to the world you know? Only by working together as a team solving riddles as you travel from world to world will you be able to make it home safely.Difficulty level: 3 of 5Exit: The Game – The Gate Between Worlds is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.

Will your family’s stained-glass legacy stand the test of time? In Sagrada: Artisans you’ll compete as rival families each chronicling your construction of the cathedral’s windows over a campaign spanning generations.Gain powerful abilities and unlock wondrous new tools that you’ll carry through the campaign...and beyond. By carefully drafting dice and coloring in spaces to most cleverly meet each window’s restrictions and objectives you will be victorious!

Roll the die – place a ladder – catch the moon!Climb through the clouds and reach for the moon! All it takes is a few cleverly placed ladders a steady hand and a bit of imagination. Reach for the moon but don't stretch yourself too thin or you may lose the ladders under your feet. With the right mix of suspense and risk-taking you will ascend to success. In this dexterity/stacking game with a whimsical theme and beautiful design players take turns rolling a die to determine how they must place their wooden ladder (it must touch one other ladder two other ladders or be the highest point. Ladders will shift as more pieces are added adding an element of suspense and unpredictability. Raindrops are given to players whose ladders cause the structure to collapse; the winner is the player with the least amount of raindrops at the end of the game!

According to legend tonight's moon is at the right angle to find a priceless red ruby hidden in the tomb of Sir Reginald Wreston. No one has succeeded in finding it yet. Will you triumph tonight?Exit: The Game – The Cemetery of the Knight is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.

Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc.In Unlock! The Island of Doctor Goorse you and your team have crash-landed on the island of an eccentric antiques collector. Two to six players will be split into teams separated in the crash and forced to escape from two separate starting points. The twists and turns of this challenging adventure will test even the most talented escape artists. With your lines of communication cut can you and your teammates find a way off the island?An included ten-card tutorial allows you to learn how to play without reading the game rules. Note: Unlock! requires a free application to be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. Once downloaded an internet connection is not required during game play.

Deckscape: Heist in Venice is the third title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.In Deckscape: Heist in Venice you are professional thieves now retired but a mysterious missive forces you to reunite the old gang. The mission: sneak into the oldest casino in the world in Venice and steal a 1 billion euro chip! Each of you has specific skills and abilities and if you stick to the plan everything will be fine. Although yours is a risky job and an unexpected event could compromise the whole mission... Can you overcome the intricate security systems of the casino and then run away with the loot? —description from the publisher

In Perspectives each player holds key information for piecing together what has happened and finding the solution.WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE CASES!—description from the publisher

Exit: The Game – Advent Calendar: The Silent Storm is an EXIT game and a 24-part adventure story in one. To unravel the mystery of the Silent Storm you must open a little calendar door every day. Behind each you will find a new exciting puzzle the solution of which will help you to move onto the next room. Only if you follow the clues and solve all 24 puzzles will you find the thief and the book...and save Christmas.Level: Beginner

Every wizard in the neighborhood knows that the best spell components are grown fresh. Unfortunately only one particular plot of fertile soil in the area is the best for growing magical plants. Everyone agrees to share the garden but you have a plan: Your team of loyal sprites will use the powers of the plants to infiltrate the garden as it grows so that when everything is in full bloom the most potent patches will belong to you!In Power Plants you are a wizard growing a shared garden of magical plants with your rivals. Each turn you choose one of the patch tiles from your hand and add it to the growing garden. You can activate the added tile for its dynamic plant power or activate all the tiles it touches for their slightly weaker (but still very cool) grow powers. As the fields expand you strategically deploy your sprites to gain control of more and more of the fantastic flora. Will your magical horticulture skills pay off?Manipulate the garden's growth gather magical gems and deploy your team of loyal sprites to repel your competition and be in control of the most valuable fields when the garden is complete!—description from the publisher

Patchwork Doodle is a roll-and-write version of Patchwork with each player having their own 9x9 grid to fill in over the course of the game. Each player sets up by drawing a unique polyomino card from the starting deck then drawing that on their sheet.In each round players lay out a number of polyomino cards in a circle then place the rabbit between two cards. On a turn someone rolls the die moves the rabbit forward then removes the card indicated by the rabbit. Each player must draw the polyomino indicated on this card in their grid. Once a certain number of cards have been played the round ends players score points then you lay out more cards for the next round.Each player has four special actions available to them during the game: You can choose to draw the card before or after the chosen card you can cut a polyomino into two pieces before adding one piece to your grid you can fill in a 1x1 space in your grid and you can do one of the above actions a second time. When you take one of these actions you mark it off as each can be used only once (except for the one you use a second time if you know what I mean).You lose a point for each space that you don't cover so try to pack everything in as tightly as possible!

In Aqua Garden you're the owner of an aquarium and want to stock its six tanks with a variety of sea life but you have a limited amount of funds and only one employee on hand to place the fish in the tanks. Do your best to outshine the other aquariums in town!A game lasts 3-4 rounds depending on the number of players. You have your own aquarium board with six tanks and a shared player board has sea creatures placed at random on its perimeter. Seaweed and coral tokens are placed on the separate sea board along with five random sea creatures.During a round whoever is farthest back on the perimeter of the shared board takes the next turn moving their owner as many spaces as they want to an empty space then taking the action of that space. If you stop on an advertising space you receive funds based on what's currently in your tanks. If you stop on a sea creature space you take them all move your single employee 1-3 spaces clockwise on your aquarium board then place the creatures in one or both tanks adjacent to the employee. (If the employee passes the feeding event card you were randomly dealt at the start of the game then you receive funds from the bank based on how well the creatures in the two tanks next to the feeding event card match that card.)Each tank has only 4 units of oxygen available so you can't add creatures to a tank that would consume more oxygen than this. You can add one seaweed to each tank however to increase the available oxygen to 6. You must also observe other placement restrictions such as keeping sharks separate from fish and sea turtles. Additionally you can pay to purchase creatures seaweed and coral from the sea board.If during your turn the contents of one or more of your tanks matches one of the four randomized milestones on display you mark the highest empty space on that milestone with a token. The first player to achieve each milestone receives a related creature that they can place in any tank.If you've circled the board you wait for other players to finish then start a new round with players moving out in the order that they arrived. After the game ends players score points for the milestones achieved funds remaining order in which they finished and the sets of creatures they've collected in each tank.Aqua Garden includes manta rays remoras and flapjack octopuses that can be added to play to create new scoring opportunities.

Two thousand years ago on the borders of the Roman Empire life goes on as might be expected — but barbarians lurk across the border so not only must the players grow grain in the fields catch fish and chop wood but they must also maintain watchmen in a clever network of watchtowers to keep a lookout for fires and barbarian attacks.Limes is based on the designer's board game Cities and while the game system is roughly the same the scoring is completely different. In addition the tiles in Limes have a different layout from those in Cities. Together these changes ensure that Limes has become an entirely new game. (Limes includes two sets of cards one for each player but if you combine copies of the game any number of people can play at the same time.)Each player has his own deck of cards. One player shuffles his deck then places a card at random on the table; each other player takes this same card and places it on the table in his own area. Each player can optionally place one of his figures on this card; once a figure is placed on a card it cannot be returned to the supply. The second card played (and all subsequent cards) much be placed adjacent to or touching the corner of an already-played card. After each card placement a player can either place a new figure on this card or move an already-placed figure; a figure can move from one territory to an adjacent territory e.g. from woods to lake or from grain fields to woods.The game ends as soon as any player has placed 16 cards in a square (4x4 grid). Each player then receives points as follows:The player with the most points wins with ties being broken in favor of the player who has the highest score with a single figure.

Each year Vernon Cabbagehead (Mr. Cabbagehead to his friends) wants to be left in peace to grow his award winning vegetable garden for the annual Garden Club contest. However his tedious neighbours tend to interfere when he is away and frequently drop by to help themselves to the garden produce. Can Mr. Cabbagehead create a beautiful garden and finally win the blue ribbon?In Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden vegetable cards are drafted and placed in the garden plot a grid of six cards by three cards. Depending on which cards are selected one of the tedious neighbours may interfere with the garden in a variety of ways. Players must be careful in their choice of vegetable to plant in its position in the garden and in maintaining their supply of invaluable bees which give Mr. Cabbagehead more flexibility in planting.Once all cards have been drawn the game is over and the Garden Club committee visits to evaluate Mr. Cabbagehead's garden. The number and position of vegetables matter and players must be creative in developing a garden that is both pleasing to the eye and plentiful in vegetables.Originally released in 2016 in a print-and-play version with four neighbours the 2018 published deluxe edition of Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden adds more neighbours more variety in scoring and a streamlined set of rules that includes a fixed garden plot grid variant. More importantly the published version includes rules for two players.

Finished! is a puzzle-solving game a completely new way to play solitaire!It is a typical day at work. Your working schedule is chaotic as always and it‘s time to focus on the task at hand. Start sorting files and do not fall asleep. If you require a jolt of caffeine or rush of sugar there is a limited supply of coffee and a small stash of sweets to help complete your tasks and get finished!You start Finished! with a shuffled deck of 48 cards and try to sort these cards by cycling through the draw stack during eight rounds. You may sort cards only in your present area but helpful actions will let you manipulate your cards in many different ways. If you sort all cards starting from card 00:01 up to card 00:48 you win the game! If this is too easy for you the game offers four difficulty levels.Whether or not you win the game we will invite you to watch a short movie at the end of the game!

In Mondo players compete against each other while also racing against the clock. Each player has a small world board with empty spaces on it and all players simultaneously pick tiles depicting different animals and environments from the middle of the table and place them on their world board trying to create complete areas of the same environment. A new tile must be placed next to an already placed tile but the environmental borders don't have to match. (These errors will earn negative points when the board is scored.)When the timer runs out players score bonus points for each animal and each completed environment and score negative points for volcanic tiles empty fields on the world board and mismatched tiles (for example a tile with a forest border connecting with a tile with a water border).Mondo includes three degrees of difficulty in addition to additional goals and ways to achieve (and lose) bonus points as well as rules for solo play.

Team spirit creativity mystery and speed are in demand at EXIT: The Game – The Stormy Flight. The 1-4 players have little time to bring a complicated situation under control again: The players are part of the crew of a passenger plane headed to Barbados. Suddenly they get into the middle of an electrical storm. Water penetrates the machine and parts of the technology fail. Will the team be able to repair the aircraft and land safely? There is not much time left...

Welcome city planners! Design the best city block using patterns from the new and exciting Cube Shaker. You'll place a mix of tiles to help grow the thriving city. The best design wins the game!Shake That City is a family puzzly tile-laying game for 1-4 players that plays under an hour! The game is played over a series of rounds. The active player shakes the Cube Shaker and presses its slider to reveal a 3x3 pattern based on which they need to place the corresponding building tiles of a single color of their choice on their board. The building tiles correspond to roads factories shops parks and of course homes. The other players then pick any building color other than the one the active player picked then place matching colored tiles in the matching pattern on their board. Players earn points for tile-placement combinations and for the completed bonus point tiles around the edge of their board.• Roads wants to connect to an edge of the board. • Factories wants to be next to other factories and roads. • Homes want to be placed in clusters that are as small as possible — the smallest being a single tile — so long as they're not next to a factory. • Parks wants to be next to homes and factories. • Shops score increasingly more the closer they are placed to the city center but if they're not placed on an edge they need to be adjacent to a road connected to the board's edge in order to score. Without road access you'll have no products to sell!At game's end players earn points for tile-placement combinations and for the completed bonus point tiles around the edge of their board.

In Keystone: North America you and your friends will take on the role of biologists and work to build an interconnected ecosystem through the careful placement of cards. Use skills introduce important Keystone animals and perform wildlife research to maximize your points.Keystone: North America offers multiple ways to play! Go head-to-head against your friends in multiplayer and see who can build the healthiest ecosystem. Or experience a narrative adventure that will take you on a journey across North America with the Field Journal. This fully illustrated book contains a solo or co-op campaign where you will solve puzzles learn about amazing animals and explore the different ecosystems that make up North America.

In Voll verplant players create subway networks by filling in the station spaces on their individual game sheets. Using the numbers revealed by the cards all players fill up their subway map with Xs in the station spaces. However the number of times they can add stations to each line is limited so they have to make tough choices. Players can score many points by getting their star bonuses in stations with many intersecting routes. Players also get bonuses by being the first to complete routes. Try to fill in all your stations to minimize the penalties and achieve a high score!In more detail each player has their own sheet of paper with the game including subway maps for Amsterdam Berlin Paris and Madrid with the first two being recommended for new players. Each sheet shows an interwoven subway system with the system consisting of many subway lines; each line has a name a number of indicator boxes a number of empty station boxes on the subway route and two bonuses. On a turn a player reveals the top indicator card from the deck of fourteen cards then each player individually and simultaneously chooses a subway line then does something depending on which type of card is revealed:At the end of a turn if a player has finished a subway line by reaching the final space they announce this to all players then score the larger of the two bonuses for this line; all other players cross out the large bonus and can score the small bonus for themselves if they complete this line later. Multiple players can score a line's bonus on the same turn. If the indicator card has a shuffle icon on it shuffle all of the indicator cards together before the next turn.Once all the indicator boxes are filled the game ends. Players tally their points scored for completing lines and for writing numbers in boxes then lose points based on the number of empty spaces that remain on their sheet. Whoever has the highest score wins!

What are “Escape the Room” games?Escape the Room games began as digital adventures and quickly turned into real-life events all around the world where players are locked in a room and must uncover clues and hidden objects to escape. ThinkFun’s version of Escape the Room allows you to bring all the excitement of these experiences into your very own home!The Mystery: It’s 1869 and the town’s well-respected astronomer has not been seen since the untimely passing of his wife. Recently strange things have been happening at his manor – loud and unfamiliar noises an unpleasant smell and smoke billowing from the observatory. It’s up to you and your guests to solve the mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor!The Objective: Spend an evening working with your guests to solve puzzles unlock hidden clues and unravel the mystery of the Stargazer’s Manor. Will you and your guests be able to solve the mystery and save the astronomer before time runs out?

Your friend’s mysterious disappearance results in the discovery of an unusual item leading you to embark on a journey through time and memory. In this narrative puzzle adventure an intimate coming-of-age story is told through an object that serves as a tarot deck a puzzle game and a work of art. You will need to manipulate cards find hidden messages and solve logic and word problems in order to uncover the deck’s secrets.The tarot deck contains 78 cards--56 Minor Arcana and 22 Major Arcana the latter of which each represent a puzzle. Puzzles are solved using sets of Minor Arcana cards and clues from the story booklet and result in solution keywords that lead players to discover new pieces of the narrative. Some story passages grant items which can be later used to unlock extra scenes and some puzzles have multiple answers allowing players to unlock more of the story if they find all the solutions.Packed with gorgeous illustrations resonant storytelling and unique puzzles The Light in the Mist can be played solo or cooperatively in a small group. It’s non-linear structure and varied puzzle difficulty will engage players of all experience levels with over five hours of gameplay. Do you have what it takes to overcome the challenges thrown your way without getting lost in the mist?

In Looot you need to gather resources and capture buildings to develop your fjord. Fill your longships and complete your construction sites in order to rack up your victory points. Store up the most riches and you’ll be crowned Jarl of the Vikings!Looot is a clever management game using a double placement mechanism.On the Common board Players are Viking conquering a new territory which allows you to recover resource/building/objective tiles.On your Personal board: You build your village with the tiles previously recovered from the Common board to unlock victory points.It will call upon your optimization logic favoring the best combinations for this race for victory points.—description from the publisher

Welcome to the wilderness of North America! Breathtaking mountain views and spectacular geysers await you. Vast forests and prairie provide habitats for native animals. Your task is to group animals of the same species together in families as large as possible. But large families are only half the battle: to score a lot of points they also need access to watering holes and must avoid bad weather.A turn comprises two simple steps: First one player chooses a feature (species or watering hole) and a terrain requirement from a limited selection. Then each player must place one of their tokens showing that feature onto one of their park spaces obeying that terrain requirement. What seems no trouble at first grows more and more challenging and exciting as the available spaces become fewer and fewer. But it’s not only the choices of your fellow players that can disrupt your plans. There are also unpredictable weather tokens that you must take into account.After five rounds the game ends. Then you score your most valuable family of each species and the terrains you completely populated.Caldera Park is an interactive puzzle-game that achieves a perfect balance between strategic planning and luck. This and its accessible ruleset make it a great next step for anyone who enjoyed Savannah Park.—description from the publisher

Mind Space is a thoughtful game in which players are trying to achieve serenity by adding emotions to their Brain Board.Each emotion is represented by a polyomino shape. Five of the possible Seventeen emotion cards will be available each round and five rolled dice will determine which colors can be used to add those shapes to a Brain Board.After 12 rounds the game is scored and points can be earned by completing sections of the brain achieving public goal cards and meeting the organizational criteria of each color. The one section of each Brain Board with the most unfilled squares will result in a deduction of 1 point for each unfilled square in that section.

In AQUA your starting point is a hot spot that gradually becomes surrounded by expanding coral formations. These corals serve as habitats for small marine animals. By fostering biodiverse habitats you can then create ideal conditions for attracting the largest marine animals.AQUA plays over 17 rounds. On your turn you must take a new coral tile from the market and add it to your reef then you may also attract animals to your ecosystem if you create the correct patterns of coral.At the end of the game the player who grew the best coral formations and attracted the most large and small sea animals will score the most points and win.AQUA invites you to dive into the beauty and wonder of the ocean delivering an incredible variety of gameplay experiences for the whole family.-description from publisher

The Tesseract appeared in our skies six days ago over the exact magnetic north of the planet. It was the size of a city block. Since that time it has been condensing collapsing upon itself. It can now fit into the palm of your hand.Our world’s best minds must now find a way to contain and control the reactions of this alien artifact or its exponentially increasing destructive power will remove our planet from existence reconfiguring our space and time to the extra-dimensional needs of its creators. Can you and your team work together to shut down the Tesseract or will humankind simply be a blip in the grand scheme of the universe? Time will tell.Tesseract is a compelling cooperative dice-manipulation game for 1 to 4 players. The focal point of the game is a block of 64 dice the Tesseract which sits at the center of the board on a raised platform. Players will remove cubes to place in their individual labs transfer them as needed to others adjust the cube's values and importantly isolate the cubes into the containment matrix neutralizing them.To Contain a cube a player must have in their lab 3 or more cubes all of one value (a Set) or in sequence (a Run) either all of one color or having none of the same colors. By filling the containment matrix completely (24 total unique dice) they will stop the reaction and win the game. But if the Tesseract has its last cube removed beforehand - or if 7 breaches occur the game is lost and our world ceases to exist.Asymetric character abilities include a passive 'always on' ability and a unique action that is only available to that player. Research cards earned during play help give players an edge as do the even more powerful Containment cards unlocked from the matrix.Tesseract is a very challenging co-op game with lots of replay value built into the number of characters and various threat platforms which govern the difficulty. The game scales remarkably well and has a solo mode that is every bit as engaging. The tension mounts quickly as the Tesseract sheds cubes at the end of every player's turn primes them and potentially causes Breaches to occur bringing us closer to disaster.-description from publisher

Deckscape: Behind the Curtain is the fifth title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.

Patchwork Express features the same basic gameplay as Patchwork but with a smaller playing area and with larger and less complex pieces.In the game each player tries to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 7x7 game board. To start play lay out all of the light-colored patches at random in a circle and place a starting marker in a particular location. Each player takes some buttons — the currency/points in the game — and someone is chosen as the start player.On a turn a player either purchases one of the three patches standing clockwise of the starting marker or passes. To purchase a patch you pay the cost in buttons shown on the patch move the starting marker to that patch's location in the circle add the patch to your game board then advance your time token on the time track a number of spaces equal to the time shown on the patch. You're free to place the patch anywhere on your board that doesn't overlap other patches but you probably want to fit things together as tightly as possible. If your time token is behind or on top of the other player's time token then you take another turn; otherwise the opponent now goes. Instead of purchasing a patch you can choose to pass; to do this you move your time token to the space immediately in front of the opponent's time token then take one button from the bank for each space you moved.In addition to a button cost and time cost each patch also features 0-3 buttons and when you move your time token past a button on the time track you earn button income: sum the number of buttons depicted on your personal game board then take this many buttons from the bank.What's more the time track depicts six 1x1 patches on it and during set-up you place six actual 1x1 patches on these spaces. Whoever first passes a patch on the time track claims this patch and immediately places it on their game board.At some point during the game dark-colored patches are added to what's available for players to take and these pieces are smaller than the light-colored ones making it more likely that they'll fill in holes on a player's board.

Investigators embark on an unprecedented voyage with Kronologic and play in an era of your choosing! Do you think you have what it takes to be the first to solve the mystery?Unravel a series of unexplained affairs at the Paris Opera to reestablish the truth. Collect clues about the movements of the implicated characters by determining where they were at the time of the incident: on your turn align a suspect's card with a special perforated tile and get two pieces of information about their movements. The first piece is for your eyes only but the second one must be shared with other players!KEY POINTS: => An engaging puzzle with a clever twist of having shared and private information => Each investigation varying in complexity will test your insight and deductive reasoning => Three different eras (contemporary historic and futuristic) and every scenario can be replayed 5 times => Gorgeous artwork and neat components

Find the lost runes and save the planet Asteros!A long long time ago the ancient King of Asteros confined the brutal monsters in the Rune Gate and sealed it with four divine runes. But five days ago a mysterious evil power opened the gate and changed the code. Asteros is haunted by fear and disasters again! The wise leader ORAKL asked the Council of United Planets and they sent four famous agents: EKHO HAL ELLI and NOVA. ORAKL the wise and the four brave agents begin to fight against the evil powers to save Asteros. They must find the Code to reset the Gate and confine the monsters again. People call them Rising 5 hoping they will be able to restore peace on the planet.Rising 5: Runes of Asteros is a co-operative deduction and adventure game with a mobile phone application or a game master. Players must find the answer Code with the four Runes in the right arrangement before the evil power devours the planet. Players can explore the planet to collect energy or clues and to fight against evil monsters. When players try to unlock the code the App or the game master will give signs that lead to right code.If players successfully find the code they win; if the Darkness Level reaches the Red Moon because of the evil monsters or if the Character card deck is exhausted the players lose the game.

Race to the Raft is a co-operative path building tile placement social puzzle board game for 1-4 players.In the game you play the role of the disorientated island cats who are lost on the smoke-filled island. Nothing seems to be where it once was and you must find a safe route to the raft by placing pathway cards.As you build pathways fire — which is represented by different shaped tiles — will spread across the island limiting your options. You need to find the balance between creating long pathways and keeping the cats ahead of the flames as you move towards the raft.The game includes 81 scenarios from which to choose including a simple tutorial that gradually introduces you to new rules and an advanced tutorial for when you're ready for a far greater challenge.Choose cards build pathways and control the spread of the fire as you work together to guide all the cats in their race to the raft!—description from the publisher

For centuries the legendary wingaling dragon Trogdor the Burninator has terrorized the peasant kingdom of Peasantry with his scorching flames and greased-up beefy arm. Now he has descended from the mountains once again and will not stop until he burninates the entire countryside and all those unfortunate enough to get in his way!A cult of hooded creepos calling themselves the Keepers of Trogdor have devoted their lives to aiding the mighty dragon in his quest for total and complete burnination. That's where YOU come in!In Trogdor!: The Board Game you and up to five friends — or maybe people you just paid to come over — take on the roles of these acolytes of the Burninator each with their own unique abilities and magical items. Take turns guiding Trogdor on his destructive lost weekend around Peasantry. Help him avoid pesky knights and archers devour peasants burninate the countryside and of course the thatched roof COTTAGES!!—description from the publisher

In Spectacular you are creating and developing your own animal park for vulnerable species. In order to preserve the species you must ensure breeding within each habitat.During the game you select animal tiles and dice where the dice represent food for the animals. The color of the dice must match the habitat color of the animal tiles. Each turn provides crucial decision-making where you need to consider whether to draft a die of a certain value or ensure an animal tile which may not be available again.At game end for each area of connected tiles of the same habitat you score points for the sum of your dice of that color. However points are only awarded if dice values of 1 or 2 are placed on certain “family” tiles within the habitat! Over the course of the game you will also build watchtowers which will score you points for all three dice adjacent to them. To make your park even more spectacular you also aim to collect as many different species as possible with increasing points awarded for greater variety. Finally the player with the most points wins the game.After a few plays you may challenge yourself by playing with three (of 18) mission tiles. While they offer the potential for a higher score they also raise the difficulty level of the puzzle.Spectacular provides simultaneous play and ensures interaction between the players as your opponents’ decisions will affect which tiles and dice are available for you. The game also comes with asymmetric player boards (on their backs).Spectacular offers simple rules quick set-up short playing time engaging puzzles and can be played by 1 to 6 players with little downtime even with higher player count.—description from the publisher

We're in Australia a land of myth and magic and every night at sundown eight dreambirds gather around the holy rock Uluru. To make the magic work to its fullest they all wish to land in specific locations to fulfill specific conditions.Unfortunately they haven't coordinated their wishes among the flock so it's up to the players to sort out the puzzle so that as many dreambirds as possible have their wish granted. Oh and you better do it quickly because the sandtimer is running towards sundown.In Uluru: Tumult am Ayers Rock players must solve these dreambird puzzles individually and simultaneously then review their results together. Each unfulfilled wish results in a penalty point for a player. Play proceeds over several sundowns and the winner is the player who in the end has received the fewest penalty points.The game includes variable difficulty levels so that everyone from children to seasoned gamers can compete together and be challenged.Uluru: Tumult am Ayers Rock can be combined with Uluru: Neuer Tumult am Ayers Rock to add further variants and combinations to the game.

THE WHATNOT CABINET A Game of Rare Unusual and Intriguing ObjectsCURIOUS COLLECTIONS Everyone enjoys discovering small precious objects along beaches trails and the wilderness but a special few have a knack for assembling those found objects into a curio collection. Leave your house uncover intriguing objects assemble them in your whatnot cabinet and create a wonderful collection of curiosities.OBJECTIVE Collect tiny objects and score the most points by creating the best whatnot cabinet. Each round players travel away from home to find trinkets and doodads to add to their cabinets. As they do they score curio points for sets of like objects different and various other unique setups.—description from the designer

The train you're escorting through the Wild West contains some precious cargo. It's up to you to survive the adventure and escort it home safely. Tombstone Express is a brand new Unlock! adventure for up to six players.Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!

The cover of FYFE shows a dreamy South Seas location with a blue sea beach and palm trees — but what will you find as you dig in the sand and can you arrange your discoveries in ideal scoring combinations?Each player has their own 5x5 grid 7 lucky charm tiles and 15 scoring boards. The game includes 125 tokens with each token showing one of five colors one of five symbols and one of five numbers (1-5). The scoring boards show conditions that you must meet in order to earn the points listed on that board e.g. the numbers 1-5 in sequence tokens of the same color tokens with different symbols three tokens of one color and two tokens of another color etc.To start the game draw two tokens from the bag and place them at the bottom of your playing board. Place one of these tokens in an empty space of your grid then choose a scoring board and place it in the row column or (if appropriate) diagonal line in which that token was placed. On each subsequent turn draw one token place it on your game board then choose one of your two tokens to place. If this newly placed token doesn't have a scoring board pointing at it choose one of your unplaced scoring boards and place it in the row column or diagonal.As soon as a line is filled with five tokens if you have met the conditions on the scoring board for this line flip it over to the side that shows points; if you are the first and only player to complete this scoring board this round take the associated 3-point bonus tile. If you complete and score multiple lines on the same turn take 5-20 bonus points depending on whether you scored two three or even four lines at once.If someone drew a lucky charm token at the start of the round they draw a replacement token then all players can choose to use and discard one of their lucky charm tiles. These tiles allow you to exchange the tokens in your reserve place a token on the board as a joker swap an already fulfilled scoring board for another one and so on. Each unused lucky charm tile is worth points at game's end. After 25 rounds players tally their points for scoring boards first tiles lucky charm tiles and bonuses to see who has the highest score.

In Topiary players try to position their visitors on the outer edge of a beautiful topiary garden in order to give them the best view possible. Visitors can see the closest topiary sculpture to them and any behind that in the same sight line that are larger. You can score bonus points for visitors who see multiple topiary sculptures of the same type. Players slowly fill in the garden by adding tiles until everyone has placed all their visitors.

Quodd Heroes is a fast-paced modular scenario-based adventure board game that plays like a combination of Super Smash Bros. Mario Kart and Legend of Zelda all wrapped into one. Whether it’s a simple point-to-point rally-style race capture the flag or a quest to uncover hidden secrets each game is filled with unexpected events lots of player interaction ever-changing boards and a dash of mayhem.The core mechanism in Quodd Heroes is something you’ve never seen before. Each player controls a different cube-shaped character miniature and player board. You then assign a different movement skill to five of the six sides of your character (the sixth side has an ability unique to your character). When you begin the movement phase on your turn you “tumble” your character into an adjacent space and perform the movement skill associated with the face-up side of your character. Skills include: Tumble Jump Slide Diagonal Slide and Dash.While you work to complete the scenario’s objective(s) either on your own cooperatively or against other players game boards which are laid out in grids present obstacles like walls raging rivers chasms moving platforms rotating board sections trap doors tunnels teleporters and more. As you navigate the world you create new obstacles and shortcuts while battling your opponents by pushing them into pits blocking their paths and fouling their plans.As you explore the world you will find food runes items and pets in the form of cards. These cards enhance your abilities slow your opponents and modify the world around you. If you use your movement skills and cards strategically you'll emerge as the greatest of the Quodd Heroes.Player Turn Structure:1. Play cards (power up): Play as many cards as you like from your hand. Power up and alter the board prior to movement.2. Movement Phase: Perform your natural tumble by turning your hero miniature over into an adjacent space activate any board elements on that space then activate the movement skill associated with the side of your character that is now facing up. Move up to your maximum distance with that skill in any direction you like.3. Play card (recover phase): You many play any additional cards you like during this phase.4. Exploration phase: draw cards from the lineup of cards or the top of the deck equal to your exploration valueAt the end of each round an upkeep phase includes:- moving board elements and animals - play a world event card that effects all players - Adjust round tracker (in timed scenarios) - all heroes upgrade their hero by selecting an upgrade tile and placing it in their upgrade track. - First player mark passes to the left

Raxxon is a 1-4 player cooperative card game set in the Dead of Winter universe at the start of the zombie apocalypse. Players each choose one of six different specialists assisting Raxxon with the evacuation of healthy citizens from among the sick. Citizens take the form of face-down square cards in a grid. Through game actions these can be flipped to reveal whether they are sick or healthy. There are various types of sick and healthy cards each triggering different effects when flipped or killed. Flip too many Chaotic sick and you'll add more citizens to the crowd or even end the round prematurely. Killing off the healthy can have similar negative effects.Each round begins by creating a crowd - a grid of citizens from the citizen deck. Players take turns performing one action at a time after resolving any consequences marked on their character sheet. Character actions are powerful effects (kill quarantine evacuate etc) that interact spatially with the crowd (killing a row or column evacuating one card and adjacent cards of your choice) and have stacking consequences. At the start of each turn a player must resolve all their consequences from previous turns (flip citizens add citizens infect citizens lose evacuated citizens etc) before performing another action - and adding another consequence. Some consequences require players to draw Raxxon cards. Much like Crossroads cards from Dead of Winter Raxxon cards feature stories relating to characters in play. Many have multiple parts with different outcomes depending on the choices players make. Often the choices that make the game easier also grants power to the Raxxon corporation which can lead to defeat. Consequences don't clear until that player passes for the round.Once all players have passed the citizen deck is rebuilt using remaining cards in the deck the discard new sick citizens loosely quarantined citizens and any cards still in the grid. The deck is shuffled and used to create a new crowd at the start of the next round. Players win when all healthy citizens are evacuated. Players lose if the infection deck runs out (the deck of only sick people added to the citizen deck each round) or Raxxon maxes out on power and takes over the city.Part of the Dead of Winter series.Two promos for Dead of Winter are included in the box: KD James and Meryl Wolfe.

Minigolf Designer is a competitive free form puzzle board game for 1 to 5 players that plays in 60 to 90 minutes (around 20 minutes per players).In Minigolf Designer players will compete to collect tiles representing sections of minigolf holes and arrange them the way they want to form a 9 hole miniature golf course. However in the end the players will gain more or less victory points depending on certain aspects of their minigolf and also depending on the number of people drawn on their minigolf.Tiles are proposed to the players ordered from the least to the most valuable tile (depending on the number of victory points that the tile provides) but this order becomes also the player's next turn order.The game is simple and plays fast as players do only one thing during their turn: pick a tile and place it on their minigolf design. After placing around 40 tiles their minigolf is complete and players can score them to declare the winner.—description from the publisher---Microbadge available:

The Elite is a twenty-card mini adventure for Unlock! the card-driven escape room game from Space Cowboys! At the beginning of the adventure you and your friends find yourself locked in a hotel room with a mystery. You’ll need all of your wits and your logic if you’re going to escape before time runs out.The Elite can either be accessed via print and play files on the Unlock! website (you can link to this page in the weblinks section) or via a produced version.It also requires a free companion app to play. The link to this app can also be found in the weblinks section.Link to the print-and-play files: https://print-and-play.asmodee.fun/unlock/

What are “Escape the Room” games?Escape the Room games began as digital adventures and quickly turned into real-life events all around the world where players are locked in a room and must uncover clues and hidden objects to escape. ThinkFun’s version of Escape the Room allows you to bring all the excitement of these experiences into your very own home!The Mystery: The year is 1913 and you are the lucky winner of a free stay at Foxcrest Retreat where the famed Dr. Gravely has improved upon the latest in spa treatments and relaxation for those of high social standing. You take a long all-expense-paid train ride to the retreat. Upon your arrival however you and your fellow guests may find the health retreat is not what it seems...The Objective: Work with your guests to discover the dark secret of Dr. Gravely's retreat by finding clues and solving puzzles. But be careful...in the story the doors have shut and locked behind you. Will you and your guests discover the secret and escape the room before time runs out?

The game is a detective game where you get set of evidences and need to decide who is the criminal. You get set physical objects in combination with digital parts and use them for investigation. At the end of the process players need to enter the name of the criminal and it will be validated if it's correct. It's also possible to get hints which will help finding the right solution. Game can played in a cooperative mode as well as in a competition mode - players can split into teams and compete who is finding the criminal first.The game is designed as a realistic criminal case and requires investigations similar to those carried out by the Criminal Police in real life.—description from the designerIn unserem Spiel werden Sie als echter Detektiv tätig sein um den Fall eines verdächtigen Brands zu untersuchen der in der Stadt Adlerstein stattfand und zum Tod eines Bürgers führte. Wegen Brandstiftung mit fatalen Folgen wird ein Journalist angeklagt. Er sammelte zahlreiche Beweise mit dem Ziel seine Unschuld zu beweisen. Sie müssen ermitteln ob er die Wahrheit sagt und den wahren Verbrecher finden.Das Spiel ist als realistischer Kriminalfall ausgedacht und erfordert Untersuchungen ähnlich denen die von der Kriminalpolizei im wirklichen Leben durchgeführt werden.—description from the designer (German)

Museum: Pictura is a standalone set collection game for 2-4 players by Olivier Melison and Eric Dubus in which you take on the role of an aspiring curator in an art museum.Set in the roaring 20’s the game is gorgeously illustrated in art deco style by French artist Loïc Muzy while the 180 paintings featured in the game have been individually brought to life by Ekaterina Varlamov.Your goal is to create collections of some of History’s most iconic works of art. To do so you will be acquiring Painting cards and exhibiting them into your Museum represented by your player board to create Collections. These Collection can be based either on the painting’s Period (ranging from the Renaissance period all the way to Impressionism) or its Domain (Historical Landscape Mythological…). The Collections you create will earn you Prestige points and the player with the most Prestige at the end of the game wins.During play you will have to deal with the changing trends of the art world acquiring and exhibiting Paintings depending on what is currently in highest demand. Exhibiting Paintings of the types that are currently in fashion will gain you additional points!As your Collections grow you will be able to open them briefly to the public with a Temporary Exhibition which allows you to immediately score that Collection’s value and obtain special bonuses for the rest of the game. But beware your visitors will quickly grow tired of seeing the same types of Collection again and again so timing your exhibitions correctly is essential!Museum: Pictura brings exciting new mechanisms and strategies to the table while maintaining a strong family connection to its predecessor.-description from publisher

Dorfromantik - Sakura is the stand-alone successor to the Spiel des Jahres 2023 Dorfromantik - The Board Game.Dorfromantik - Sakura takes the players into the idyllic landscape of Japan with many new challenges. Sakura is the Japanese word for cherry blossom which comes into the game as a new element. In addition there are now more than 40 achievements from 6 boxes to unlock. These and other surprises await the players in Dorfromantik - Sakura.

Crystallo is a solo puzzle/abstract card game with a light fantasy theme. Explore the cavern lair of the wicked Black Dragon by placing cards free six magical creatures by creating crystal sets and if you should succeed with that task trap the dragon in his own cave. Collect treasure along the way and you may emerge a wealthy champion!Crystallo is played with a deck of 54 illustrated cards and 18 gems and runs about 20-30 minutes.—description from the designer

In Game of Trains each player is in charge of their line of trains. At the beginning of the game the train cars in the player's train line — each with their own number — are sorted in descending order. The aim of the game is to be the first one to rearrange your train line so that the cards are in ascending order. Each card has a train car with a number and also a special power depicted on it.On a turn the player can do one of two things: draw a card from the draw pile and replace one of the cards in their train line with the newly drawn card or take a face-up card from the middle of the table and use it as a special power. Cards that are replaced from a player's train line are put in the middle to be used as special powers and the cards that are used as special powers are discarded. Special powers include such actions as swapping two cards moving a card destroying everyone's cards and so on. The players keep taking turns until one has their train line in ascending order and wins.

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.

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.

In the Inuit language tukilik is used to define an object that carries a message and the northern landscapes are densely populated with such objects. The most well known of these are the inukshuk that is structures of rough stones traditionally used by Inuit people as a landmark or commemorative sign with the stones often being stacked in the form of a human figure.During each turn in Tuki you attempt to construct an inukshuk based on the die face rolled using your stones and blocks of snow. Players have only a limited number of pieces with which to construct the inukshuk so you'll need to be creative and use the three-dimensional pieces in multiple ways such as to counterbalance other pieces or even build on top of existing pieces. A solution always exists — you just need to discover it!You can choose from two levels of difficulty when playing Tuki to level the playing ground between newcomers and experts. Be swift yet precise and transform your stones into messengers of the north...

Deckscape: The Mystery of Eldorado is the fourth title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.In Deckscape: The Mystery of Eldorado you are a group of explorers who have long sought the legendary golden city in the heart of the forest without finding it. While you are flying back home the head of a statue crashes against the plane and you have to parachute to safety! You are alone tired and hungry lost in an uncharted area of the forest. Danger is lurking and you have only the few items you grabbed before jumping out. This could be your end...or the very last chance to unravel the mystery of Eldorado! Can you survive the pitfalls of the Amazon forest and find the legendary city of Eldorado?

In Haru Ichiban or The Wind of Spring two apprentice gardeners compete to use this wind to their advantage to create harmonious patterns of their blossoms upon the lilypads.Each gardener has eight flower buds numbered 1-8 with three of those buds being in hand at the start of a round. Sixteen lilypads are placed in the 5x5 pond with one of them turned to its dark side.Each gardener simultaneously chooses a reveals a bud with the player with the lower number becoming the Little Gardener and the other becoming the Grand Gardener. In order:As soon as a gardener creates a specific pattern with blossoms of his color he scores points: 1 point for a 2x2 square 2 points for a horizontal or vertical row of four blossoms 3 points for a diagonal row of four blossoms and 5 points for a row of five blossoms. If the gardener has fewer than five points the gardeners reset the board and start a new round with three buds of their eight; if the gardener has five or more points the game ends and he wins!

The magic exam is tomorrow so you and your classmates head to the library! With the knock of a magic wand on a precise stack of books — tada! — you can learn an entire subject in an instant. In exchange for this after-hours intrusion however the security guard asks you to clean up and organize the library shelves. So roll up your sleeves and get to work!In Atheneum: Mystic Library you must study for the exam while cleaning up the library! During the game you can score points for objectives by placing books on your shelves in specific configurations. At the end of the game you score points for full shelf compartments decorative candles and shelved books of your favorite subject. Whoever collects the most points wins!—description from the publisher

As the head of an international archaeological team it is your job to establish camps across the four corners of the globe and uncover the long-lost golden scarabs of Scarabya.Scarabya is a tile-laying puzzle game in which your goal is to score scarabs by positioning your tiles such that they create enclosed zones of 1 to 4 squares. Each scarab in an enclosed zone is worth a number of points equal to the number of squares in its zone. Players all play the same tiles in order. Each turn a new tile is drawn and all players simultaneously place their copy of the tile on their individual boards. The game is over after all 12 tiles have been drawn (and either placed or discarded). The player with the most points wins.

James Franklin—Patient Zero—collapses after stepping off a plane from the Congo at JFK International Airport. He is rushed to Forest Hills Hospital where he is placed in an isolation ward. It is quickly discovered he has Morbusian a constantly mutating virus that is resistant to all known antivirals. The survival of humanity itself is at stake!In Infection: Humanity's Last Gasp by designer John Gibson you are the director of the Department of Plague Control (DPC) field office in New York City. You make the decisions about what parts of the virus to study which personnel to hire and what equipment to purchase. You’ll soon discover you are working with an eccentric group of scientists who don’t always work well together—and one very resourceful lab rat named Marvin. As the casualties increase so does the stress and mistakes made as you try to complete your vaccine before time runs out for all of mankind!This strategy game uses simple mechanics in a multitude of combinations to create engaging deep gameplay as you try to eliminate an evolving virus that could spell the end of the human race. While random events from the Status Report cards might throw a wrench in your plans (or occasionally help you out) you’ll use the Lab Personnel and Equipment cards you’ve hired to piece together randomly generated Proteins into the different parts of a Vaccine all while managing dwindling Funding resources as the Death Toll Track climbs; each time that your Containment roll fails you come one step closer to losing this battle so make sure that you push everyone to their limits before the INFECTION reaches critical levels.Game Data: Complexity: 3 on a 9 scale Solitaire Suitability: 9 on a 9 scale

Arraial is the name given to traditional Portuguese summer celebrations during which people take to the streets eating drinking and having fun in the old neighborhoods that are bedecked with arches colorful balloons popular music and the aroma of sweet basil.In the game Arraial players try to make their neighborhood traditional event the most popular by attracting visitors to their celebration. Grab the most beautiful decorations hire the most inspired performers serve the most traditional delicacies take to the streets and host the party of the year! Arraial is a fast-paced game in which players take turns spending action points to get the best tiles (decorations artists...) and place them on their player boards to form the perfect match and attract visitors to their party. In the end whoever attracts the most visitors in their neighborhood wins.

Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes combine objects and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues check codes monitor time remaining etc.Note: Unlock! requires a free application to be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. Once downloaded an internet connection is not required during game play.—description from the publisher

In Block and Key adventurers place 3D clay blocks in a centralized raised playing area with the goal of completing their own request cards. The challenge is made more interesting as each player is limited to their 2D viewpoint.Each turn adventurers may either draw new blocks from the supply or place ONE block into the shared space. They may then check to see if they have completed any request cards before filling their hand.The first adventure to complete the number of request cards required by the player count ends the game. Scores will be tallied and one player named the victor.—description from the publisher

The scariest boardgame out there….based on the horror storytelling & experience trend.Solve the murders prevent your own! Growing up at Crafton Mansion you and your cousins lived out easy childhoods. But one fateful night everything changed when your parents were all burned alive. The horrible events had left you orphaned and so terribly traumatized that you are unable to remember anything that happened that night. Now fifteen years later you and your cousins are reunited at Crafton Mansion by one of your cousins Johnny but Johnny is nowhere to be found. All you find is a sinister message on the wall written in blood: Welcome back....—description from publisher (translated)You were enjoying a carefree childhood with your cousins at Grafton Manor. But a fateful night changed everything: Your parents were locked up in the garden shed and burned alive. You don’t have any memories of what happened that night. 15 years later you meet up with your cousins again at Grafton Manor. In a letter your oldest cousin Johnny asked for help to solve the murder case. However when you arrived you couldn’t find him anywhere. You only find a message on the wall written with blood: Welcome back! The Nightmare adventure thriller is guaranteed to send a chill through your bones! You’re on the search for the murderer who killed your parents. Find the perpetrator otherwise you’ll be in trouble! Nightmare - The Thriller Game is played with an app that guides you through the terrifying train of events. The game also comes with character and story cards that provide information and clues. When the power fails you have to put a blindfold on and wait for instructions. Be prepared for nerve-wracking events that change everything!A thrilling real-time game from the creators of Escape Room. The game is designed for 4-5 players aged 16 and above and takes approximately 2.5 hours to complete.

For countless years the Café de Paris has offered moments of carefree relaxation and a wonderful opportunity to pause and breathe amid a bustling city. Unfortunately the café must close for emergency renovation to ensure that it continues to attract numerous guests.In Intarsia players compete for the contract for the coveted redesign work on the parquet embellishing it with stylish intarsias. To win the contract players have to prove their skills by refining the floor with stylish inlays and outdoing their competitors with new tools.Each floor ornament can consist of one to four filigree wooden elements that are puzzled together from the outside inwards. The more pieces the ornament consists of the more victory points it scores! During the building phase wooden elements can be paid for with material cards and built according to the building rules. Whoever fulfills the requirement for a tool receives the tile that scores points. Only the person with the best building skills can secure the contract and give the café a new lease of life!The B-side of the floor plan offers variation for this clever and high-quality placement game.—description from the publisher

The great Pharaoh Mino has passed and rule passes to his eldest son: Pharoah Mido. Displeased with the plain appearance of the pyramid in which his father was buried Mido turns his attention to his own legacy. He wishes for his own resting place to better reflect his majesty and has decreed that 2-4 architects build pyramids encrusted with jewels: a pyramido. The architect who builds the most impressive pyramido will be appointed Vizier and enjoy wealth and power beyond imagination.Pyramido is a tile-placement game in which each stage of the pyramid creates connections between them. Players take turns choosing from the available dominoes to create their pyramid. To maximize their points players must match the jewel icons on the dominoes and place their markers of the same colors to activate the scoring areas. Each choice of domino and its positioning has a significant impact since the previous stages influence the score throughout the game.-description from publisher

Pakal is a real-time sliding-puzzle game in which each player has a 4x4 grid filled with 15 blocks some of which have a solid color on them and some of which are clear.Each round an objective card is revealed then players slide their blocks in their grid trying to show only the symbols on that card in their grid and hiding any other symbols from view. If you do this before time runs out you can grab one of the available scoring blocks then move your token on the scoring track to the next such symbol on the track. Thus the quicker you solve the puzzle the more likely you are to grab a block that advances you the farthest.Whenever you cross a red line on the scoring track you must replace a colored block in your grid with a clear one thereby making it more difficult for you to solve objective cards in future rounds.

Around the world with EXIT! The world-famous professor Ian Jones recently passed away. The archaeologist loved puzzles! His travels took him to all parts of the world. He tirelessly searched for treasures believed to be lost deciphered codes and translated secret writings.In this EXIT game the 1-4 players can prove what they have learned from the professor while searching for his estate. Can you decipher the professor's legacy? Luckily there are many tools at your disposal in this escape room game. Hurry the time is ticking!Exit: The Game – The Professor's Last Riddle is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.

Perdition's Mouth: Abyssal Rift is a new kind of dungeon crawl one that embraces the European school of game design with clever and elegant mechanisms and emphasizes strategy while minimizing luck. Cooperation planning and the enemy response deck eliminate the need for chucking dice creating a tense combat environment with meaningful decisions! The rondels provide another tactical layer including the enemy's devious and challenging AI.The rules allow you to learn to play in 15 minutes with a typical game round lasting less than ten minutes even with up to six players but deep strategic cooperation will be required for your band of heroes to make it through to the Abyssal Rift and maybe even come out alive.Perdition’s Mouth is designed to be played as a story-supported campaign over several gaming sessions. In the campaign you have to fight through at least six increasingly challenging scenarios and the level of success during each adventure has a direct effect on the rest of the story. Can you survive the labyrinth of the insectoid god?

Based on the wildly popular new form of live action gaming in which a group of people gets locked in a room and has to solve puzzles in order to escape Escape Room In A Box: The Werewolf Experiment has all the excitement of the “room” crammed into a box so players can have the same immersive and challenging experience in a one time play table top game in the comfort of their own home (and for a lot less money!).In Escape Room In a Box: The Werewolf Experiment a group of two to six people has only one hour to work together in order to find clues solve puzzles and crack the codes that will unlock the antidote and keep them from turning into werewolves!

The Realm of Sand the mirror of the material world and the source of magic in Ragusa has started dying. After thousands of years of overuse the magic has begun to dissipate. With the realm in peril time bends and reality shifts uncontrollably in the physical world.The Queen of Ragusa has embarked on a journey to the Realm of Sand to save her home. While she travels the plane awaking the power of the glyphs you as a royal magician must act quickly to assemble those glyphs and stabilize the magic to reconstruct the realm of sands. Who will help the queen save Ragusa and become hero of the Realm of Sand?

There's confusion among the Yōkai!These Japanese spirits have become intermingled in Yōkai and to calm them you have to group together members of the same family. They're hiding however so to carry out your task successfully you have to be clever and not make any noise to avoid frightening them...

Players craft potions in a secret marketplace. Hide ingredients to deceive opponents and use magical powers to mix concoctions. But beware - your opponents are brewing schemes of their own!Apotheca is played on a 4x4 grid. Players gain points by making matches of three potions of the same color in a row. The first player to make three matches wins. It's easily learned but the combination of asymmetric powers and secret facedown potions make the game a delicious challenge.Whenever a player makes a match they must place it on one of their apothecaries. This removes that apothecary's power for the rest of the game so it's important for players to keep revealing potions collecting gems and hiring new apothecaries... all while keeping their opponents at bay!Deduction is key to Apotheca. Players trap each other with clever spatial moves bluffing and misdirection. The action economy is very well balanced so every turn offers an opportunity for strategy and tough decisions.

Escape Tales: Low Memory is a story driven escape room in card game form with immersive exploration no time limits when solving puzzles and a collection of tough choices that will captivate and draw you deeply into a riveting story of a cyberpunk future. Low Memory is the next title in the Escape Tales product line — a standalone story that can be played and enjoyed without previous ownership of or familiarity with Escape Tales: The Awakening. All you need for a full satisfying narrative and challenging experience is already here!It is the year 2060. Elizabeth is saying goodbye to her husband. They are going on a family trip but Elizabeth must first finish a research project so she promises to catch up with him later. A moment later she watches her husband's autonomous vehicle leaving the driveway her thoughts already drawn towards her work. Another normal day — at least that is what Elizabeth believes.The following morning Elizabeth wakes up on her sofa. She is having a terrible headache and her home is trashed — turned upside down as if there had been a break-in. Although she keeps trying she is unable to recall anything after the moment she left work the evening before. Elizabeth decides to use the memory scanner. It is the perfect tool for the situation! However every technological advancement comes at a price...In Escape Tales: Low Memory players will delve into the stories of three characters and will uncover — step by step — the plot that connects them all. Prepare for three gripping story lines coupled with a healthy dose of plot twists. Escape Tales: Low Memory holds numerous surprises in store!Content warning: suicide

Little William has been having sleepless nights as of late. The poor boy has been attacked by monsters from nightmares: the boogeymen! Under the cloak of darkness you open William's door to seek out the monsters. Be careful as you fight with them; William is sleeping and you can't wake him up!The Night of the Boogeymen is an Unlock! adventure for up to six players. With just one hour on the clock players must work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and figuring out puzzles to solve the mystery and escape the countdown timer. The free Unlock! app runs the timer while providing clues giving hints and helping players succeed. Once the team has reached the solution and entered the correct code they've escaped and the game has been won!

Burger Up is a card matching puzzle game about the art of burger making. Fill orders earn prestige and be the best burger chef around!Players strive to become the most prestigious restaurant by building the biggest Burgers and by using the best ingredients.Players take turns which consist of four phases: the Market phase where players may purchase ingredients from the market the Building phase where players place up to 3 ingredients on their burgers the Burger Up! phase where players may score their burgers if they satisfy an order and the clean-up phase where players draw back up to 4 cards.The game ends when no more Order cards can be revealed. A bonus is awarded to the Chef who built the most burgers and then the winner is determined based on who has earned the most coins.

In the tile-laying family game Tipperary players are challenged to create their perfect vision of an Irish county by placing polyominoes and thus collecting sheep castles and whiskey. The linchpin is a 'magical stone circle that decides which of the tiles you can choose from. After twelve rounds one player will be named chief of Tipperary.Lookout threw in some cute animeeples - sheep sheep hurra!

Escape Tales: Children of Wyrmwoods is a story driven escape room in card game form with immersive exploration no time limits when solving puzzles and a collection of tough choices that will captivate and draw you deeply into a riveting story set in a dark and mysterious world. Children of Wyrmwoods is the third entry in the Escape Tales product line — a standalone story that can be played and enjoyed without previous ownership of or familiarity with either Escape Tales: The Awakening or Escape Tales: Low Memory. All you need for a full satisfying narrative and challenging experience is already here!Your name is Gilbert and you have spent your whole life in a small town its walls surrounded by an unsettling aggressive and dark wilderness. The woods outside the city walls are home to Wyrmvines hybrids of plants and animals fused into a deadly abomination by a long forgotten blasphemous sorcery.The town is safe ... for the time being. However you find little joy here as you are no more than a drifter a man with no family no home and no place in the world. All you have is what happiness you share with Sevillia – the only person in this misty town that sees you as more than yet another homeless wretch.Yet powers you know little about plot to claim the smallest measure of comfort which destiny has not yet taken away from you. For what lies beyond the town walls calls upon you and tugs at the strings of your fate in ways both subtle and irresistible. The time of grueling trials draws near. Be ready!Escape Tales: Children of Wyrmwoods features the dark and twisting story of a young man whose fate is beset by both the most mysterious of powers and by the tyranny of evil men. Prepare for a gripping story filled with plot twists and numerous surprises astonishing exploration and riveting puzzles. Faced with deeply personal choices which will influence the tale take a step into a grim fantasy world where little is what it seems at first.-description from publisher

In HOLI: Festival of Colors players gather to celebrate the end of winter as they spread colorful powder on each other dancing and celebrating new beginnings.Mechanisms & Features:

The Emerald Flame is a narrative tabletop puzzle game told in three parts. Commissioned by an organization shrouded in mystery players take the role of a historical expert embarking on a quest to piece together the recipe for a fabled elixir by investigating maps drawings alchemical diagrams and mysterious artifacts. Combining history hand-drawn illustration vibrant characters and original puzzles The Emerald Flame will challenge and engage players of all experience levels. Each installment takes approximately 1.5-3 hours to complete for a recommended group size of 1-4 people.From the creator of the “insidiously clever” puzzle adventure The Tale of Ord The Emerald Flame is a new epic for fans of escape rooms game nights and “not just games but…experiences.”—description from the designer

Deckscape: The Fate of London is the second title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.In this title a terrible threat hangs over London and the Crown of England needs your help! Your mission is to find four devices hidden in secret locations and defuse them before midnight. A single mistake and the situation could degenerate quickly…—description from the publisher

Patterns: A Mandala Game is another area-control design by Trevor Benjamin and Brett J. Gilbert. Patterns draws you in as you take turns swapping tiles from the large mandala at your table. Each player tries to mark contiguous colored areas as territory. Start by spreading the unique tea towel play mat first and creating a mandala by all but 2 out of 54 colorful mandala tiles. Whoever claims most point in the end wins.

A woman has come to your PI agency asking you to help track down her missing friend. He's gone missing last seen on an adventure with the eccentric Professor Challenger. They recently returned from a lost valley filled with strange creatures but Ned is still missing. Track down the professor and help bring back Ned to his friend!Expedition: Challenger is an Unlock! adventure for up to six players. With just one hour on the clock players must work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and figuring out puzzles to solve the mystery and escape the countdown timer. The free Unlock! app runs the timer while providing clues giving hints and helping players succeed. Once the team has reached the solution and entered the correct code they've escaped and the game has been won!

Nocturne is a puzzly spatial bidding and set collection game of sly mystics set in a whimsical moonlit forest illustrated by Beth Sobel!In Nocturne you play as a fox mystic casting magic spells to collect an assortment of enchanted items. You compete against rival mystics each of you deciding when to cast the most powerful spells to move through the forest most cunningly to secure the best collection. Each turn you decide which items are most valuable to you and when to hold the other mystics back.Through two rounds (twilight and moonlight) players compete to collect the strongest sets of magical items like firebird feathers creature skulls glowing mushrooms mysterious eggs and rare herbs. These items have value when collected in specific sets but can also be combined to fulfill recipes needed for concoctions scoring you even more prestige!Each round you begin with a set of numbered tokens that represent your spell strengths. These tokens are used to cast spells and bid on a grid of items (and special actions) on the forest floor. Once you cast a spell your rival mystics will have an opportunity to cast a more powerful spell onto an adjacent item hoping to compel it towards them and prevent you from collecting what you need! As the forest is explored different conditions of magical control will restrict pathways leading to strategic situations in which players can corner cast and secure multiple items with less powerful spells. If your spell casting comes up short you can always make an offering to the forest sprites magical mice that have their own cache of treasures they may share with you giving you further options to expand your collection.The set-up of the forest grid and twilight and moonlight goals along with concoction cards and special player abilities in each game provide great variability so that no two games of Nocturne will play out the same. Different spatial goals and situations will necessitate different strategies and tactics to outwit your opponents in this highly interactive and unique spatial bidding game!—description from the publisher

Mechanica Inc. will make the world spotless with their Tidybots: ambitious vacuum robots made for global DOMINATION cleanliness! Humans are messy. It’s time they got some help!Build the best Tidybot factory and ship out as many Tidybots as possible to prepare for (the definitely harmless) OPERATION CLEANUP. The player who has sold the most money worth of Tidybots wins!Mechanica is a game of tile-laying and engine building. Each player buys puzzle piece-shaped machines and slots them together to form their factory. The different machines all improve the Tidybots your factory can make: building new Tidybots upgrading them copying them and more. There are many strategies for putting your machines together and everyone has fun trying to build the perfect factory!Players compete to buy the best machines for their factory at the best prices while running their factories shipping out Tidybots for profit completing specialty bot blueprints to fill their vaults with money and turning the rotating shop wheel.Awards & Honors:BostonFIG Fest // 2019 - Most Innovative

A city in the mountains was discovered but no one dares to venture there without having mapped the place. Here is finally a mission for you an archaeologist with implacable logic.ArcheOlogic is a competitive deduction game whose goal is to first find the exact location of the buildings of the city.To help you? An Archeoscope the only research instrument capable of reading the coded cards left by the Ancients. Ask the Archeoscope your questions by adjusting its cogs note the precious answers and replace the buildings on your plan. Think carefully as some questions will take more time than others but maybe their answer will help you win...

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

Welcome to Forever Home the puzzly pattern-building game about second chances for shelter dogs.Using a combination of tile placement set collection and drafting you and your friends take on the role of shelter workers. Take it in turns to bring dogs into your shelter complete training cards and match pups up with new families. You'll be competing for valuable shelter commendations as well as gaining reputation for training and rehoming the dogs in your care. At the end of the game the shelter worker with the most reputation wins!Featuring quick and simple turns; a unique solo mode; and a second advanced side to the player board Forever Home is a replayable easy-to-love abstract game.—description from the publisher

Hollywood is calling! By chance you have ended up in one of the largest film studios in the dream factory. The shooting for the new Christmas blockbuster should actually be in full swing here — but the set is dark and deserted. Where's the film crew? And why hasn't the movie star shown up yet? Something is wrong here!Exit: The Game – Advent Calendar: The Missing Hollywood Star is an Exit game and a 24-part adventure story in one. To unravel the mystery of the vacant studio lot you must open a little calendar door every day. Behind each you will find a new puzzle the solution of which will help you to move onto the next room. Only if you follow the clues and solve all 24 puzzles will you find the missing star...

Copenhagen: Roll & Write features gameplay similar to the Copenhagen board game but with players now finishing the facade of their building thanks to the colors shown on rolled dice not drafted and played cards.In the game each player has a paper scoresheet that shows a building and five colored lines of boxes. A sheet in the center of the playing area shows various polyomino tiles in those same five colors with tiles of two and three spaces on one side of a central divider and tiles of four and five spaces on the other side. The game includes five six-sided dice that feature the above mentioned five colors on five of their sides as well as a sixth color that serves as a joker. Each player starts with two red stars on their scoresheet; you can spend one of these stars on your turn to reroll as many dice as you wish.On a turn you roll the five dice. If you have rerolls in reserve you can use them if you wish. You then choose a group of dice in a single color then you see the shape of the polyomino that corresponds to this choice then you draw that polyomino on the facade of the building with the polyomino needing to rest on the bottom of the building area. One space in this polyomino is brick (represented by an X) while the other spaces are all windows (represented by an O). If you created a polyomino of four or five spaces you cross it off the central sheet of paper as each tile shown on the right side of the sheet can be used only once.Each other player then gets to choose one of the dice that you didn't use to claim that polyomino then fill in the leftmost empty box of that color on their scoresheet. These boxes might have a symbol underneath them. If the box has a + under it then this player can cross off the + on a future turn to add one phantom die showing this color to whatever they rolled that round e.g. if you cross off a blue + you effectively rolled three blue dice that turn instead of two. If a box has a star under it then you can cross out that star on a future turn to use the power of that color:You can use as many stars as you wish on your turn.When you fill in a horizontal row in the facade of your building you score 2 points if all the spaces are filled with windows and 1 point if at least one space holds brick; when you fill in a vertical column you score 4 points and 2 points under the same condition. When you fill in predesignated rows and columns you receive an immediate bonus — either drawing one window in an empty space or crossing off two boxes in one or two color lines on your scoresheet. If you cross out the final space in a color line you score 2 points.Gameplay continues until someone has scored 12 or more points. Complete the round so that each player has had the same number of turns then whoever has the most points wins!

Jetpack Joyride is a real-time competitive puzzle game adapted from the mobile game of the same name! Players need to fly their way through a lab using a stolen jetpack over a series of three rounds. During each round:1) Players receive four new lab cards. 2) All players in real-time and at the same time grab tiles from the common pool and lay them to trace their way through their lab. 3) Points are scored through mission cards or by collecting coins! 4) The first player to reach the end of their lab triggers the end of the round. 5) Scores are totaled and written down for the round. 6) Players starting from the one with the lowest score pick a permanent gadget out of a river of four. 7) A new round begins!Whoever has the most points at the end of the third round wins!—description from the publisher

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!

Journal 29 is a unique book game where you can solve puzzles and submit your answers online to get the keys and move forward in the story. To solve the puzzles you need to think out of the box. You can write draw search fold pages combine different methods and try to get those puzzles right. Journal 29 is a 152 pages physical book with over 63 puzzles to solve.

Just outside Meeptropolis several meeples on a camping trip are attacked by a swarm of giant radioactive butterflies. As a result they all gain super speed and one other unique superpower turning them into...Mutant Meeples!The city of Meeptropolis has long been in decay with crimes happening one after the other all over the city. The city council has asked YOU to put together the best possible team of Mutant Meeples to serve as protectors for their fine city.Mutant Meeples is a puzzle game based on Alex Randolph's game Ricochet Robots in which players are looking to find the shortest path to get their meeples to the scene of the crime before any of the other players using a clever combination of Mutant Meeples and their unique superpowers and super speed. If you're the fastest to the scene of the crime you add a meeple to your super team; the first player to fill his super team with Mutant Meeples wins!But there's a catch – once one of your meeples has reached the scene of the crime he no longer participates. (After all he’s already made the team.) This gives players who have fewer meeples on their super teams more options and provides an additional challenge to players whose super team is almost full.Mutant Meeples contains a huge 22 double-sided board eight custom super-powered Mutant Meeples and much much more.Also included is the expansion:Mutant Meeples: Sidekicks allows for more variety in Mutant Meeples thanks to two new super-powered meeples – Nacho Fast and SwapMeet – that can be used in place of those in the original game as well as tiles that modify both sides of the game board making them easier or more difficult to match your cranial capacity.

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

Want to get out of prison? In Deckscape: Escape from Alcatraz players can choose to free (or not!) other prisoners in exchange for help — but is this morally right? And can you really trust these hardened crooks?Deckscape: Escape from Alcatraz is the seventh title in a series of co-operative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.

New York 1931: Al Capone has called upon you from Chicago. You must steal a revolutionary product from the multinational corporation 2M4GD CORP. Industrial espionage is not your forte but you can handle this job.Unlock! Fifth Avenue is a 25-card mini-adventure in the Unlock! series of card-driven escape room games from Space Cowboys. Fifth Avenue is available for print-and-play and at game conventions to demonstrate how Unlock! titles work; it requires a free companion app to play.

Scheherazade is in grave danger! She only has one hour to tell one last story to the Sultan but she's out of ideas. The scribe she asked to help her come up with a story has gone missing and she is begging you to find him and bring him back as soon as possible with a tale to please the Sultan. The princess' life may end in the hands of the executioner so act fast!Scheherazade's Last Tale is an Unlock! adventure for up to six players. With just one hour on the clock players must work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and figuring out puzzles to solve the mystery and escape the countdown timer. The free Unlock! app runs the timer while providing clues giving hints and helping players succeed. Once the team has reached the solution and entered the correct code they've escaped and the game has been won!

During a tour of a historic castle your attention is diverted to an intriguing labyrinth in the middle of the castle’s garden. Towering walls separate it from the outside world and as you pass through the old iron gate in amazement the sky suddenly darkens and the wind begins to pick up. With a loud clang the antique iron gate slams shut behind you! You try to open it but it’s locked. Suddenly to your terror a gargoyle climbs over the gate toward you. Only by working together will you be able to solve the puzzles and escape the mysterious labyrinth.Difficulty level: 2 of 5Exit: The Game – The Cursed Labyrinth is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.

Test your architectural skills in Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig a flip-and-sketch strategy game to draw the most extravagant blueprints for King Ludwig's next castle!Select rooms to add to your castle's floor plan. As you complete rooms' entrances by connecting them to other rooms earn new abilities such as adding or removing entrances earning new bonus cards and taking extra turns. Keep your eye on the King's favors to beat out your opponents for public goals as well as create courtyards and moats around your castle for some massive points to get ahead! The player who sketches the castle most suited to the whims of King Ludwig takes the royal victory!—description from the publisher

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

Unlock! Short adventures is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With 30 to 45 minutes on the clock players work through a deck of 30 cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!With this adventure infiltrate the carnival of Venice and fulfill your secret mission before the time runs out! Be careful behind every mask there may be an enemy!

P'achakuna takes you on a journey in the heart of the Andes together with your most loyal friend — your llama. The game includes both black and white llamas with you controlling one color and your opponent the other. White llamas move only through the green valleys while black llamas scale the barren mountains. Whatever the color however you want to visit mountain villages to deliver the dye that they desire ideally collecting dye for yourself along the way.In P'achakuna each player starts with one llama of their color in the center of the board in the white village with a white dye loaded on its back. The board is composed of hexagonal tiles that are either half valley/half mountain two-thirds valley/one-third mountain or vice versa. The tiles are extremely thick so that you can grab the mountain section of the tile and pluck it from the board. Six villages sit on the perimeter of the game board each corresponding to one of the primary or secondary colors. Each village has a random demand tile in it that shows two colors one in high demand and one in low demand; neither of these colors can match the color of the village.On a turn you may first rotate one unoccupied tile; by paying two dye resources from your personal supply you can rotate a second tile. You then must move each of your llamas at least one space but you can move them further if you desire and if the terrain allows them to do this. You rotate tiles to create long paths of valley or mountain so that ideally your llamas can travel far with each move.If you move a llama into a village you trade the dye on that llama. If the dye you carry isn't in demand in that village you simply trade that dye for the dye from the village say green for yellow. If the dye is in demand then you add 1-2 dye of that delivered color to your personal supply (depending on whether the demand is low or high) then you place a dye matching the color of that village on your llama. If you collect a color in your personal supply and don't have it in your scoring track you can place it in your scoring track. No matter what you replace the demand tile in that village making sure the color of that village isn't on the demand tile.During a turn in a village you can hand in four dye from your personal supply to acquire a new llama that is then placed in that village with a dye from that village on its back. Each llama moves on your turn and you can have at most three llamas.As soon as you have one dye of each of the seven colors on your scoring track you win.To hold the demand tiles the game includes a handmade fabric bag from Bolivia and Peru which supports the local community.

As photographers players are invited to the forests of Loco Momo to see who can capture the best shot! But the local animals aren’t quite prepared for their group photo and are scattered about. When calling them over one by one to line up in front of your lens they may just bring along a friend or two to really help you fill out your photo. Then position them in the best spots to create a charming photo worthy of the best photographer of Loco Momo!Loco Momo is a competitive game featuring drafting tile placement and set collection elements falling under the broader mechanic of “tile drafting.” Players first choose an animal tile and based on its unique movement the animal moves to a different clearing potentially allowing you to take even more animals of the same background color. Players then place your newly obtained tiles on your scoring board which scores points based on specific arrangements (e.g. number of identical/different animals in a row matching animals vertically linking background colors etc.). Like any good drafting game take which benefits you most but maybe keep an eye on what others may need! But distinguishing itself from others in the genre Loco Momo offers an approachable theme and (family) friendlier atmosphere as the scoring system removes some of the bite of “hate/spite” drafting.

Beneath the roots way way down through the layers of what was past the golden stove and even deeper than darkness…the sky opens back up. At the core of everything in the belly of the soul you’ll find Hara. Look to it when you are tired scared or hungry. Call out and it will find you.Champions of Hara is an adventure board game in which 1-4 players race to protect a dying world. Players will contain destructive energy by defeating monsters closing rifts and exploring the six different zones within Hara. In order to rise to the challenge players will need to unlock new abilities and collect powerful items. Each session takes approximately 30 minutes per player.In versus mode players will compete against one another in arena style combat. The winner is offered a powerful blessing by Hara’s stewards: a single wish to shape the future. However wishes are no simple matter. In co-op mode players will work together to overcome the fallout from the champion’s wish facing off against corrupted foes and solving scenario based challenges.

The old man was well-known for his eerie tales of the dark castle on the edge of the forest. Recently he set out on his own to find the shadowy lord of the manor but he hasn't returned. Fearing the worst you embark on a quest to find him. You must solve a series of riddles and piece together four jigsaw puzzles to uncover the mystery of Nightfall Manor and save your missing friend.In Exit: The Game + Puzzle – Nightfall Manor there are riddles within riddles hidden within four 88-piece jigsaw puzzles. Like other Exit titles Nightfall Manor has no game board but it also has no riddle cards. Instead there are four jigsaw puzzles that you will find and assemble one at a time. Each completed puzzle reveals a location containing more riddles to decipher.—description from the publisher

Sherlock Holmes needs help! The famous detective is said to have murdered the writer Ignatius Loyde and had to go into hiding. How did he become the prime suspect in this murder case? And what role does Moriarty play? The 1-4 players ages 12 and up support Dr. Watson and looking for evidence. In this EXIT® - The game they follow tracks together and approach riddle after riddle of the solution. Will they be able to solve the case?Exit: The Game – The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game. In the game players need to support Dr. Watson and look for evidence to prove Holmes' innocence.

The sultan has issued a decree: Whoever can build the most amazing palace in the city of Sultaniya will be made Grand Vizier. Become a character from 1001 Arabian Nights and build graceful minarets dazzling gates and soaring cupolas to draw the eye of the sultan and carve your name in history. Players will carefully select the best building tiles to erect the most impressive structures scoring points for following patterns and fulfilling secret objectives. Earn sapphires and use them to secure the services of the mighty Djinn whose aid will be invaluable in your quest to create the most stunning palace the city has ever seen.Game play:Players start out with a board with a triangle of 3-tiles worth built and have to expand that out to make the best (most VP-earning) palace. There are separate stacks of tiles for each layer of the palace color coded (blue red green and sky). Besides the color-coded levels there are attributes that have to match up like doorways and columns.To get tiles players reveal tiles from one pile and display them in front of the pile (up to 3 can be showing - the top of the pile is face up but can't be taken) and then choose a tile from any of the available tiles in any color. You try to choose a tile that will give you points and/or gems. The gems let you buy genies which have special powers like building twice in one turn or moving a tile you previously placed.Players are limited by the edges of the starting board including the bonus tiles (question marks). You have to have at least one tile beneath you to build and you can't make a hole in the palace so things are somewhat constrained. The tiles are two-sided and can be flipped if you need the mirror-image tile.Each player board has attributes that score points like windows or plants. You also have 2 hidden objectives/bonuses which might be points for making a column of windows. The game ends when someone builds their fifth sky tile. The player that scores the most points is the winner.

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.

In Neotopia a competitive fast paced tile placement pattern building game you are part of a team of Visionaries who are building a futuristic pilot city focused on the fields of Energy Technology Community and Sustainable food.You will be building elements on the three regions of the city in order to complete feature cards that you have in hand. A good combination of tile placement and card management can result in very impactful turns where several cards are completed and the city expands. Interaction between players is important because all players are building on the same board and can take advantage of what other players have built on their previous turns.You will try to build the most harmonious city possible because that will be vital for your score: in the end of the game you will score normally the regions where you have your two highest scores but you will triple the score of your lowest scoring region. So be aware! Even if it’s tempting to build on regions that are more developed and where you have already scored a lot points if you don’t start working on the development of the other regions you will not be able to win the game. Balance is the key point on Neotopia just like the type of future that the players are trying to build.—description from the designer

The noise of a carriage breaks the silence surrounding the Tudor mansion. The duke Edward York just arrived makes a gruesome discovery: count Ferdinand Tudor lies lifeless next to a bush of bloody roses. What has happened? Is it a tragic accident or a brutal crime? Collect the clues: a broken pocket watch an astrology manual the winning ticket of a horse race. Can you put the evidences together to solve the mystery?Decktective: Bloody-red roses is a co-operative investigation game featuring a 3D crime scene. Players must solve a mysterious case. They play their cards to share information discard cards that they think will lead them the wrong way discuss the clues they find with the other players make hypotheses and deductions to find the solution! At the end of the game players must answer several questions: Each correct answer is worth points. The more points they get the better their outcome.On their turn players either play a card from their hand and put it face up on the table sharing the information on it or they discard a card from their hand face down to the archive and are not allowed to talk about the information on it until the end of the investigation. Each card has a value from 1 to 10 in the upper left corner. A card can only be played face up on the table if its value is equal to or less than the current number of cards in the archive.—description from the publisher

Players organize their junk drawer by carefully arranging various shaped items within the four sections. Each section has a unique organizational goal and each round players must place one item in each section. At the end of the game each section earns points based on how well they are organized. The player with the highest score wins.—description from the publisher

In Enigma players are exploring an ancient temple solving different problems to make their way from room to room.Problem solving is done simultaneously in four different categories — tangrams block-stacking canal-building and balance problems — and those who succeed expand the temple with the problem tile they solved thus adding a new chain of rooms inside the temple or extending an existing chain of rooms. After placing a tile a player can occupy a room on that tile with one of his three archeologists as long as no other room of the same color is already occupied in that chain. When the chain is closed — that is when the chain has no loose ends that can be expanded upon — any archeologists in that chain's room return to their players and players score 1 point for each archeologist they receive. The game ends when somebody reaches 15 points and the player who has the most points wins.

In a mansion at the edge of town a security alarm is blaring. As the rookie police officer you've been assigned to investigate. Inside the mansion you discover the body of a murdered woman and another shocking fact: the front door—and all other doors—cannot be opened from the inside. You are locked inside this obscure mansion with a corpse and no door handles... Your only way out is to escape. In this Escape Room-meets-jigsaw puzzle board game you must solve the riddles in order to earn new puzzle pieces and unlock new rooms. It's your only way to exit the game and survive.In this Escape Room-meets-jigsaw puzzle board game you must solve the riddles in order to earn new puzzle pieces and unlock new rooms. It's your only way to exit the game and survive.Thanks to the packaging's clever advent calendar design you solve one large puzzle—the mansion—by completing 5 separate puzzles (the rooms). Read the story and solve the riddles in order to earn your puzzle pieces—and your eventual escape!Play with or without time pressure. Feel like being put to the ultimate test? Set a time limit for your escape. If you prefer to pace yourself forgo the clock and take your time to discuss the mystery and solve the puzzle.Housed in an advent calendar-like design the box includes all components for game play: riddles puzzle pieces (1 large house which is made up of 5 smaller puzzles) & a puzzle-style decoder to check your answers.

Description from the publisher:Cortex Challenge is the exciting new brain-busting card game by Esdevium Games which uses the same fast-paced approach to family fun popularised by Dobble and Jungle Speed! Cortex Challenge tests up to six players’memory cognition and sensory perception. It even includes texture cards that are used during ‘Touch Challenges’ where players must guess what they are feeling adding a unique element that is often neglected in games.Players’ brain powers are stretched to the max as they race to be the first to match symbols correctly remember all objects on a card or find the route out of mazes amongst many other tests!Winning challenges allows players to add pieces to their brain puzzle which they must complete before their opponents in order to win the game. Cortex Challenge is sure to tax the mental abilities of players both young and old!

Every stick is a sword. Every bike is a steed. Every memory is a possibility.In Vivid Memories you’ll take turns collecting fragments of childhood memories weaving a tapestry of colored threads in your mind. Throughout your journey you’ll store important moments in your memory bank -- gaining new abilities to help you score.Cleverly create connections and earn rewards for completing core memories matching the imagination behind each moment and working toward your lifelong aspirations for victory.During the game players take turns collecting fragments of memories from moment tiles placing them in their brain board to weave a tapestry of colored threads. Using abilities at the end of each round to cleverly create connections players are rewarded for how they store memory fragments while working toward completing “core memories” which give repeated benefits each round. Through their journey players store important moments in their memory bank -- gaining new abilities and new opportunities to score -- all while working to collect fragments and moments that match what they aspire to be.—description from the designer

Come join the Hive! Compete to link honeycomb shaped cards to the growing hive. The more sides you match the greater the payoff. Special cards help earn extra plays and deliver stings to your rivals. Just be careful to avoid those pesky honey-grubbin' bears!—description from the back of the boxRules: Play down a card with two sides matching other cards (i.e. blue touching blue and green touching green). Honey sides are wild. First player to put all their cards down ends the round and scores 0. Other players score according to cards still in hand. Lowest score after 3 rounds wins. Honeycomb: Normal cards have varying patterns of colors. Drone Bee: Has 3 honey sides and 3 colored sides. Worker Bees: Make other players draw cards. Draw amount increases with number of matched sides. Flowers: Make all other players draw cards according to number of sides matched. Bear: One side has to touch honey. No other cards can be played on the bear.—user summary

In passtally you take turns placing tiles on the game board to create a line connecting your player markers. The more tiles the line passes through and the higher those tiles are stacked the more points you score!ゲームボードにタイルを配置しながら、 自分のプレイヤーマーカー同士をラインで繋げて、勝利点を獲得していきます。 ラインがより高い段数のタイルを通過すると高得点のチャンスです。

Cosmic Factory is a speedy game of tile placement. Through five game rounds each player tries to build and optimize their personal nine-tile galaxy in a limited time. You must rearrange your planets into different zones while trying to keep your asteroid path as long as possible. Kaos cards challenge each player to adapt to a new rule each round. At the end of the game your weakest zone score is added to your asteroid path score to determine the winner.

Donuts must be made whole! That's the spirit driving your actions in Dollars to Donuts a delectable tile-layer where you can play off your mat! Match half donuts for cash and full donuts to score. Fry up a tasty win today!To set up the game place four 1x1 starting tiles on the 6x6 game board that represents your donut shop and take five dollar tiles from the bag; on their backside dollar tiles have either a half donut (plain chocolate sprinkle) or a set of donut holes (again in the three flavors). The starting tiles depict half donuts in these three flavorsOn a turn you can purchase a 1x4 donut tile that depicts half donuts along its edges from the six available tiles for a cost of $0-5. You then add this tile to your shop — with some of the tile hanging off the edge of the board if you wish — ideally lining up the half donuts on that tile with those already on your board. If you make a matching donut i.e. putting two sprinkle halves together then you take a sprinkle scoring token; if you make a non-matching donut i.e. a plain half combined with a chocolate half then you draw a dollar tile from the supply bag. Note however that jelly donuts give no dollar tile if paired with a non-jelly donut because who in the world would reward something like that?To end your turn you can place a dollar tile on your shop board to complete a donut (and score) or fill a space with donut holes (which might also score). Additionally you can serve a customer in line by offering them scoring tokens that match their desired donuts which will earn you more points than the tokens on their own.When one player has filled every space in their shop or the donut tiles run out the game ends with you scoring for satisfied customers neighborhoods served donuts still on hand and donut hole pairs in the shop while losing points for empty spaces in your shop. The player with the highest score clearly has the most popular shop in town!

By the end of the 1001st night the sultan Shahryar wishes to build the new realm of Almadi to honor the intelligence and wisdom of his wife Sheherazade. As the sultan’s advisor you are the architect of this great work. Design a thriving territory with sumptuous palaces fresh oases opulent markets and majestic caravans. Skillfully arrange the landscapes and use their effects to turn your work into a great success!Players build the Almadi realm in front of them by arranging the different Landscape types to the right of their starting tile. During their turn each player chooses a Landscape tile from one of the rows on the central board and places it in the row with the same number in their realm. By placing this tile the player can activate the effects of adjacent tiles.At the end of the game players score points based on the landscape layout in their realm the number of rubies collected the activation of certain effects and the royal objectives they have completed. They also score points if they have used the characters.The player who scores the most points at the end of the game will be the winner.—description from the publisher

Description from the publisher:In a forgotten time when magic could move mountains the Kingdom of Caladale was home to people of all kinds living in castles of unimaginable beauty — but on one fateful night an ancient spell of great power was cast by one unable to control it. By daybreak all of the castles were destroyed their walls and towers torn apart twisted together and scattered across the land.The people of Caladale must now rebuild competing for walls and towers from the broken and twisted remains of each other's homes to rebuild their castles and reclaim the glory of Caladale!In Castles of Caladale players lay tiles to construct beautiful castles and rebuild the kingdom. Building the most complete and largest castle earns a player glory throughout the land!

The Nautilus’ Traps brings you to the bottom of the sea. When a sea monster attacks your submarine at the outset of the adventure it's up to you to make your way through the depths and back to the surface if you're going to escape…before your oxygen runs out.Unlock! is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With one hour on the clock players work through a deck of sixty cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!

Amoebas have escaped and are slithering around in all directions! Catch them fast!In Panic Lab the player-scientists have their hands full trying to figure out which amoeba to catch and where it might have oozed off to. To set up the game shuffle the 25 cards then lay them out in a circle.At the start of a round one player rolls four special dice which indicate the color shape and pattern of the amoeba being sought as well as the color of the lab it left and in which direction it was traveling. Competing at the same time players need to find the lab then move in the right direction to spot the amoeba (which may of course be striped and not spotted).But wait! If you encounter a vent after leaving the lab you need to skip to the next vent in the circle before continuing your search. (Amoebas prefer to travel in the dark when possible.) Plus if an amoeba passes through one of three mutation devices in the circle you need to alter the criteria for your search looking for a tentacled amoeba instead of one with a tail for example or an orange/red amoeba instead of a blue/purple one. Zap!The first player to lay her hand on the correct card collects a token and the first player to collect five tokens wins!

In Psychic Pizza Deliverers Go to the Ghost Town players are divided into Pizza Delivery Professionals and a mayor (GM) who controls the ghosts and builds the town. The pizza delivery professionals have to find a pizza and deliver it to the right house in town all while avoiding ghosts barriers and mystic teleportation runes. The first player to find and successfully deliver a pizza wins. Luckily for them the pizza delivery professionals all possess mild psychic powers. They must use their abilities to sense and divine what's around them if they hope to deliver their pizzas.The main role of mayor is to moderate play and make the town. The mayor wins if no one is able to deliver their pizza. The game begins with the mayor building a unique town map that includes the starting location for each player pizza and house. On a player's turn they may choose to move one space in any of the four cardinal directions attack in any of the four cardinal directions in hope of banishing a ghost or use a psychic power. The mayor then resolves the action tells the player the location of any barriers adjacent to the player and whether or not the player senses any ghosts/pizzas/houses in any of the eight spaces surrounding the player.Attacking removes ghosts from the board and lets players draw one psychic card. Psychic cards allow players to make special movements on the board such as diagonal hop step or warp back to start.The players have only twenty turns to locate a pizza and deliver it to the matching house. The players have a gridded sheet of paper and a pencil to draw and record information about the town. The mayor has a special log sheet to track all the players moves and results.The game also includes several variant tiles that can be added to the town to vary gameplay.

You’ve discovered an ancient palace filled with treasures but you’re not the first to arrive. Your arch-nemesis has beaten you there. Bent on power and with thoughts of world domination you must stop him before it’s too late (and collect some of those treasures along the way)!Relics of Rajavihara is a solo campaign-style game but also a single play solo adventure game. Make your way through 50 levels of puzzling adventure spread out over 5 floors each floor introducing new challenges and each level harder than the last. Then once you’ve reached your nemesis and put an end to his devious plot you’ll unlock a new world that will allow you to play an infinite number of single play solo adventures that you’ll be able to take part in creating.Shift and slide blocks to complete the goal on each level. You'll have to find ways to navigate through obstacles and line blocks up in order to climb descend and complete the goal for each level before you advance to your next level.—description from the designer

Description from the publisher:With a grinding of gears and some uneasy rumbling Aperture Laboratories has resumed testing! Your team of test subjects has entered the Lab and is ready to perform all sorts of important dignified and dangerous testing procedures...all in the pursuit of cake! It's a fun and funny fast-paced fight to the finish — and by finish we mean your team probably died.The Lab is an ever-changing conveyor belt of death and dismemberment. But SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS must be at the forefront of the mind of every good test subject. In Portal: The Uncooperative Cake Acquisition Game a game of constantly shifting area control and cardplay by the creators of the Portal and Portal 2 video games players move and Portal their test subjects to various chambers in the lab. At the end of each player's turn one of the chambers on the end of the lab gives way plunging all test subjects on it into oblivion. But should your test subjects have numbered greater than all others in the falling chamber they earn you some wonderful parting gifts which can include cake.Yet these moist slices of industrial-grade cake must be stored in the lab where they are at risk of falling into said oblivion. Not to mention that your jealous opponents can pick up your cake and move it closer to that precipice. He who has acquired the most cake when a team has lost its last test subject wins. Do you risk gathering cake early for a quick win? Or do you bide your time and wait until you can protect it better? Win the game and prove the cake was no lie.Components: 1 Manual 1 Resource Board 18 Test Chamber Panels 20 Aperture Cards/Characters 4 Oversized Portal Gun Cards 1 Turret Miniature 1 Companion Cube Miniature 2 Portal Tokens 1 GLaDOS Token 32 Test Subject Miniatures 32 Cake Slice Miniatures 1 Free Portal 2 Steam Activation Code

Unlock! Short adventures is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With 30 to 45 minutes on the clock players work through a deck of 30 cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!With this adventure follow in the footsteps of a legendary pirate and discover his treasure. But beware the Baron Samedi!

Bark Avenue is a competitive route optimization pick up and deliver game centered around a day in the life of a dog walker in upper Manhattan. Players balance walking several dogs at once with competing needs - including walk length preferred activities bathroom breaks and compatibility with your other dogs.You will be challenged with solving the puzzle of returning dogs on time and determining which dogs to walk next! In between walks use public transportation to your advantage to position yourself for the best walks.As you progress in your dog walking career your good ratings will unlock new abilities such as walking more dogs simultaneously going off leash at the dog park and taking more end-of-turn actions including pickups and activities like visiting pet shops. Be wary of returning dogs late because you could lose out on most the pay!At 45 minutes - 1 hour this Gateway+ game is targeted at all players and pulls in dog lovers providing fun for new gamers and critical thinking and optimization problems for seasoned gamers.—description from the publisher

After the great success of Dorfromantik: The Board Game the next part of the Dorfromantik world is no longer about working together but about friendly competition. The basic principle of the Spiel des Jahres 2023 is retained but now both sides continue to expand their own landscape with the tile they have just revealed. Two new types of assignments also come into play with double and all-around assignments which can also be combined with Dorfromantik: The Board Game. Two independently playable modules also provide more challenge more variety more interaction. Four of the new special tiles can also be integrated into Dorfromantik: The Board Game and played cooperatively.Dorfromantik: The Duel allows two players or two teams to compete. And with two copies even up to four people can play. Who will create the most beautiful world of hexagonal landscapes? Who will be better at fulfilling the villager's orders while also mastering the challenge of new assignments?—description from the publisher

Using Word cards and Arrow tiles players create a crossword puzzle together. They discuss the grid trying to make as much sense of it as possible.Next players try to guess the arrow associations: For each arrow number (from 1 to 10) they write down on their note sheets the associations they think best summarize the words lined up in front of the arrows.Together the players reveal the associations they have written down. Each association found by a majority of players earns the group points: 1 Shell token (= 1 point) if the association has been written down by a majority of players. 1 Perfect token (= 2 points) if the association has been written down by even more players.Players add up the shells obtained to see which medal they get. Bronze Medal? Silver? Or Gold? And if players are really good they can even earn the special mentions Amazing! Incredible! or Perfect Masters!.The game also includes a Competitive variant for players who prefer a more challenging game. Two variants allow you to modulate the difficulty making it easier (for playing with children for example) or harder for experienced players.—description from the publisher

In Rainforest your aim is to create a jungle environment that offers a rich variety of vegetation which will allow you to reintroduce and protect the region’s iconic species: Monkeys frogs butterflies and parrots. Don’t forget to secure the long-term survival of your totem animal and you’ll be able to earn some precious extra points. Can you make your jungle a cradle of diversity?

AI Space Puzzle is a co-operative board game in which most players take on the role of people who have been evacuated from Earth on spaceships and one player performs as a distressed AI that has partially malfunctioned. Its task is to help passengers during this difficult journey and to do so it must try to create an effective communication system so that the passengers can be directed to the proper rooms while holding the correct security keys. The AI player uses various tokens to convey the required combination of colors and pawns but the meaning of the tokens is up to the players to decide.The game includes dozens of scenarios with increasing levels of difficulty each with new challenges that you must overcome to survive. Beep boop!

The residents of Town 66 can't stand it when houses with the same shape or color are lined up with each other. Try to build as many houses as you can while keeping in mind which houses in your hand can be built at the end.In Town 66 each player has a hand of tiles with each tile showing one of six house styles in one of six colors/patterns. (The color/pattern of a tile also shows on its reverse side.) The game has 36 tiles in total one of each possible combination.The first player places a tile in the upper-left corner of an imaginary 6x6 square then on each subsequent turn a player adds a tile to a row or column in this square so long as this tile is adjacent to at least one other tile and the color/house style isn't already present in this row and column. After playing a tile a player can choose to draw anew tile or not. If you play your final tile you win but if you don't draw new tiles you might find yourself unable to play!

TIME Stories Revolution: A Midsummer Night is a standalone scenario in the blue cycle of TIME Stories.Agents explore an alternate parallel time frame. Reality thus becomes a fluctuating concept and players will have to unravel the true from the fake in this adventure built like a great game of mirrors.

In the near future of Paradox a space-time disturbance called The Quake is fracturing entire worlds’ timelines and removing these worlds from existence. Two to four players take on the roles of scientists working quickly to repair these worlds’ connections to their past present and future by making new time strands — however every repaired connection ripples through time and fuels the Quake to fracture more worlds. When the storm’s power fades the most successful scientist will be hailed as a hero throughout the multiverse.Paradox takes familiar board game elements such as card drafting set collection and resource management then adds a Bejewelled-like grid of colorful disks for each player to manipulate along with a universe of worlds that must be protected by game’s end. As a result Paradox presents players with a unique experience that is simple to learn yet challenging to master as players navigate three interlocking systems to protect these worlds from the chaotic forces of the Quake.Paradox is designed by Brian Suhre and is illustrated by 15 artists each with their unique view of one of the worlds. Paradox plays in about 20-30min per player.UPC 748252122094

Description from the publisher:In the game Herbalism players take on the role of a group of novice pharmacists hoping to find the cure to the pandemic that is currently plaguing the country. Players must exchange information with one another in order to gain more insight into the ingredients of the cure; however only one can earn the title of God Farmer so be careful not to share all of your knowledge too easily!

Puzzle Dungeon is a solitaire hand management modular board set collection game in which you control a monster hunter making their way through a dungeon filled with several types of monsters and their kings.In Puzzle Dungeon the player uses the limited cards in their hand and cards they deal into play from a deck to defeat enemies which are dealt randomly each game to form a unique board. Players are limited by the order in which their cards are dealt and the order of the monsters in the dungeon so a strong strategy is required to win.Puzzle Dungeon features twenty double-faced monster cards. The front of each monster card features an average monster of that type: a vampire a goblin or haunted armor. The back of each monster card depicts that monster as a monster king. There are four of each type of monster. When the third monster of a type is defeated the fourth is flipped over to the monster king. Monster kings have punishing abilities and a strong effect on the game.—description from the designer

Lead the investigation in the universe of Zombie Kidz. Your mission: Foil the zombies' nefarious plans!Flashback: Zombie Kidz is an investigation game using pictures. Embark on a co-operative adventure with other kids or with your whole family in a world frozen in time. Discover the whole story bit by bit through the eyes of the characters living it. Put together all the points of view to discover clues uncover and figure out mysteries and answer the final questions. Explore the past to solve mysteries in the present and change the future to save the world from horrible monsters!

Maria is locked up in a psychiatric ward and must escape finding her son before it’s too late. The Pendulum of the Dead is the first episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.

Description from the publisher:In Einstein: His Amazing Life and Incomparable Science players take on the role of Albert Einstein during one of four periods of his life:Each Einstein has their own deck of Inspiration Cards based on the real happenings of his life. These inspirations give you simple theories to complete. Using ideas from four different branches of science - physics mathematics chemistry and philosophy - represented by four shapes each Einstein places tiles representing their ideas onto an emergent common board. Players get points for completing their own theories contributing to the theories of other players and helping to finish major theories from Einstein's life.As Albert Einstein transcended science and became a recognizable figure around the world so the game Einstein focuses on simple rules and quick playability an accessible strategy game for gamers and non-gamers alike.

Guide your adventurers skillfully through the jungle!Each turn in Karuba: Das Kartenspiel you carefully select two path cards from your hand to try to outwit the other players. Whoever has the lowest sum loses a card then all players use their cards to create a network of pathways to connect their adventurers with the temples. Who will best guide their adventurers through the jungle? In the end the player who collects the most points with valuable treasure and temples wins.

Assembly is a quick cooperative or solo puzzle card game that fits in your pocket.No two games will ever be the same because of a variable setup several role cards and the optional use of malfunctions activating on locking that force you to change your strategy. Also two-player games add limited communication into the mix and the optional use of sign language instead of verbal communication.With 2 base sets you can now play the double ring variant of Assembly which is suitable for 1-4 players (rules are in the File section).The Story:You are on an orbital platform that assembles luxury spaceships. After a recent micrometeorite impact a deadly virus has emerged and wiped out the entire staff. Luckily you seem to have natural immunity and now you must escape to help create a vaccine before the virus spreads to Earth.In an attempt to quarantine the virus the computer locked down all systems undocked all the spaceships and is currently venting the oxygen to prevent you from ever leaving. Fortunately it has missed one. Unfortunately it's still on the assembly line and only partially complete. You must finish building it to escape.Against all odds you have outwitted the computer and are now in the control room of one of the spaceship assembly lines where the incomplete ship lies in front of you. On the screen above your head you can see the required layout in blueprint form and on the assembly line you can see the completed Room Modules hanging around the edges ready for placement in the bays corresponding to the instructions overhead.You have discovered a rather limited set of commands to complete the ship but for some reason the controls keep glitching. Does the computer know what you are trying to do? You must work together and use your commands wisely to assemble the ship and make your escape.Can you complete the ship and escape before you perish?

Will you surpass your teachers' knowledge and grow up to become the best alchemists in the land? Let's find out! It's time to grab your potion ingredients sharpen your deduction skills and get mixing!Little Alchemists is a family-friendly deduction game that's designed to grow with the curious minds of young players. The game starts with simple concepts and mechanisms; you'll start by gathering and combining ingredients for brewing potions to sell. However as you collect keys by achieving your potion-making goals you'll unlock new chapters that gradually add more components mechanisms and complexity to the experience.Not sure how to make potions? No sweat! Potion craft takes mere seconds with the free Little Alchemists companion app. To make a potion players select two ingredient tiles then scan them using the companion app loaded onto a tablet or smartphone. This reveals the combined result and lets players acquire and mark the corresponding potion knowledge on their secret player board.With each potion you make you'll begin to discover the secrets that lie at the heart of alchemy. Players will have to use clever deductions to figure out the arcane properties of each ingredient then they can use that knowledge to their advantage throughout the game!Over the course of seven chapters that unlock over multiple playthroughs players will learn and master many new facets of the alchemy trade preparing them for what's to come. Each chapter is designed as a replayable experience that expands on the previous chapter with new layers of game mechanisms that add more subtle depth and complexity over time. Also fully exploring the world of Little Alchemists will introduce you to many of the concepts from and better prepare you for the original Alchemists game.—description from the publisher

The Lady and the Tiger is five games in one!Doors: A 2-player deduction game by Peter C. Hayward. Favor: A 2-4 player auction game by Allysha Tulk and Kevin Carmichael. Hoard: A solo game by Ken Maher. Labyrinth: A 2-player maze game by Philip Tootill. Traps: A 2-6 player bluffing game by JR Honeycutt.Inspired by the classic short story The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton each game offers a unique experience. Five amazing games packed into just eighteen unique cards!With stunning evocative art by Tania Walker The Lady and the Tiger is perfect for couples families ladies tigers and anyone who enjoys bluffing games.

Complete all levels in this virtual adventure.Otherwise it's game over!In live escape rooms participants are locked in and must manage to leave the room within 60 minutes. UNLOCK! lets you experience this cooperative experience at your home gaming table.Contained in Unlock!: Heroic Adventures but a German edition was released by itself.

Microbrew is a medium-weight worker placement / puzzle game hybrid for two players: The Tiny Tin Brewery have challenged YOU - leaders of their two most skilled brewing teams to a brew off! Who will create the tastiest beers and win the most loyal customers? Only one way to find out - Ready! Set! Brew!In Microbrew players take turns sending brewers to work stations to mash brew bottle and serve their own beer recipes to a stream of thirsty customers. Work stations aren't locked out like most other worker placement games - if you really want to push someone out - you can but their worker goes back to be reused this turn! This means rounds are very dynamic and require careful thought to not just optimize your little team but also to predict where your opponent wants to be so you can ride their wave!Brewing isn't just worker placement though - each player has their own Copper brewing kettle where their brewer's actions can let them play a simple but fiendish puzzle game to reorganize their kettle and complete a perfect recipe. Or not! Will you try to make each customer's perfect beer and win their loyalty or will you flood the market with average brews and let the marketing money do its thing?Microbrew was the winner of the 2017 Mint Tin Design Contest.

Micro Robots a simultaneous play game inspired by Alex Randolph's classic Ricochet Robots challenges players to quickly determine how a robot can move from one spot on the grid to another.To set up choose to use the black or copper side of the four game boards then arrange them in a 2x2 square. Each game board shows nine dice and once arranged the completed grid shows 36 dice with the dice being numbered 1-6 and showing six colors with each combination of number and color appearing exactly once. Roll the color die and number die to determine the starting location for the transparent robot then mark this space with the transparent starting token.In a round roll the two dice to determine the target space; you can mark this space with a transparent victory token or simply have everyone remember which space they're trying to reach. Everyone simultaneously tries to figure out how to move the robot to the target space and to move the robot it must move orthogonally to a space that shares either the color or number of its current location. If the robot starts on 3-green for example it can move orthogonally to any space that shows either a 3 or is green; if you'd move it to 5-green it can now once again move orthogonally to any space that shows either a 5 or is green; and so on.As soon as a player has a solution they yell out the number of moves then take the robot and demonstrate the solution. If the solution takes exactly the number of moves claimed the player earns a victory token; if not the player gives one of their victory tokens (if they have any) to the player with the fewest tokens. In either case the former target space becomes the new starting space for the next round.If any player possesses five victory tokens they win! If the 25 victory tokens are distributed before someone collects five then whoever holds the most tokens wins with ties being possible.Expert Micro Robots players can increase the challenge of the game by placing the target victory token on the board then rolling the two dice once again. The players must now determine a solution that first moves the robot to the space showing on the dice then to the final destination.The transparent robot in Micro Robots can also be used in Ricochet Robots. This robot moves like any other robot in that game except that for an additional move it can pass through a wall instead of stopping at it. It cannot move through the central barrier or the exterior walls and the only target space on which it can land is the colored vortex.

Long ago in a beautiful eastern kingdom a queen summoned her city planners to build her people magnificent new cities. Tradition calls for harmony between the human and natural realms with the shape of a rectangle viewed as ideal for building fortification. The city planners set out to build new cities for their queen. Who will build the best city and be rewarded with all the riches of the kingdom?In Tangram City you place city tiles on your board using secret information about what city tile will come up next. As the city tiles are double-sided plan your layout with the goal of harmony and the shape of a rectangle in mind. At the end of a round you receive points for the largest rectangle on the board and at the end of the game bonus points for harmony between the realms.· Build a big harmonious city using two-sided tangram tiles · Plan ahead using the secret information only you have

8bit MockUp (8ビットモックアップ) (later republished as Legendary Forests) is a multiplayer solitaire game akin to Take it Easy! or Karuba. Each player has an identical set of tiles and plays the same tile at the same time to their own tableau but where each player places each tile may differ.In more detail each player creates their own world by connecting the landscapes on their tiles. Each player starts the game with the same starting tile in play. One player the Leader shuffles their tiles face down then removes five tiles from play without looking at them. On a turn the Leader reveals the next tile calls out the number on it then everyone places that same tile somewhere in their landscape with the adjacent edges of each pair of tiles needing to match.When the Leader draws a tile with a red number everyone places their piece then starting with the player who holds the God piece (initially the Leader) everyone draws a monument tile from the center of the playing area and places it on an area in their landscape. Monuments come in three colors (while the landscapes have areas in four colors) and you use only two monuments of a color for each player in the game. After placing monuments pass the God piece clockwise to the next player.The game ends after everyone has placed their twenty tiles then players score points based on the areas where they have monuments. Each non-purple edge of a tile has a half-circle on it; when two such edges are placed together the owner of those tiles has created a cookie in that area. To score you look at each area where you have a monument. If you have no half-circles in this area — that is the area is completely enclosed — then you score 2 points for each cookie in that area. If you have any unconnected half-circles in this area you instead score 1 point per cookie. Whoever has the most points wins!The first edition of 8bit MockUp included tiles for 2-4 players while the second edition included tiles for 2-5 players. You can have any number of players compete in the same game as long as you have enough sets.•••プレイヤーは「神さまの見習い」となり、 神さまから提示される地形を上手に繋げて、神さまが気に入る国を作ります。 このゲームはタイル配置型のパズルライクなゲームです。 タイルの辺と辺の色が合致するように配置していき、20枚配置したらゲーム終了です。 ゲーム中に何度かモニュメントを建築するタイミングが現れます。 建築していた場所に応じて点数を獲得していきます。 複数セットのゲームをあわせることで最大何人でも遊べます。

Smitten is a cooperative micro-game for 1-2 players designed and published in celebration of Stonemaier Games' 10th anniversary. In Smitten players work cooperatively with limited information/communication to complete two identical 3x3 grids of cards each inspired by a Stonemaier game and illustrated by Vincent Dutrait. There are multiple difficulty levels and separate modes for solo and 2-player games.Smitten was inspired by comic book cards from Jamey's youth specifically a set where various cards formed a cohesive 9-card panorama image. In trying to complete two of these images in Smitten there is no set turn order; rather players indicate a preference to play or not play a card. The played card has instructions for the other player to place a card which they must do or the game instantly ends.Smitten is packaged inside a paper envelope; it's an entirely plastic-free eco-friendly product.—description from the publisher

Unlock! Short adventures is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With 30 to 45 minutes on the clock players work through a deck of 30 cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!In this adventure overcome the perils of the temple and find the sacred statuette! Overcome traps secret rooms puzzles and dangerous animals!

Unlock! Doo-Arann Dungeon (Le Donjon de Doo Arann) is a 22-card mini-adventure in the Unlock! series of card-driven escape room games. First published in the June 23 2017 issue of the French magazine Ravage it will be available to download in print-and-play form in Q3 2017.It requires a free companion app to play. The link to this app can also be found in the weblinks section.

The use of various symbols and devices to signify individuals and groups dates to the age of antiquity. Warriors often decorated their shields with patterns and mythological creatures.Heraldry refers to the design display and study of armorial bearings a shield used to identify a person or family. The concepts and systems of regular heraldic designs were developed by heraldic officers between 1000 AD and 1300 AD during a period known as the High Middle Ages.Originally conceived to assist with identification in battle the beauty and intricacy of various heraldic designs meant that they survived the abandonment of armor on the battlefield and preserved the honor of the family line. To this day we still see their use by individuals organizations corporations towns cities and regions.To blazon arms means to describe them in the language of Heraldry which has its own vocabulary syntax and grammar based strongly on an anglicized version of Norman French.A game of Blazon allows you to act as a herald designing your own heraldic shield by acquiring elements placing them on your Shield board and earning distinctions through careful choices.Objective Players score Prestige by placing Element cards on their Shield board. Players can score bonus Prestige by earning distinctions for their shields. The player with the most Prestige at the end of the game wins and is crowned the King of Arms.Playing Blazon Blazon is played in sequential turns. On your turn you must take either an Acquire action OR a Blazon action.If performing the Acquire action you may draw two Element cards from either the Tincture deck Device deck or one from each. You may keep both of these cards or exchange one (or both) for cards from the face-up display.Performing the Blazon action allows you to place Element cards from your hand onto your Shield board. You choose which card to place ensuring that you meet the matching Device or Tincture requirement on your Shield board. To place a card you must discard any number of cards from your hand the combined Prestige Value of which equals or exceeds the Prestige Value of the Element card that you wish to place on your Shield board.Herald Actions Once per turn at any time during your turn regardless of which action was taken you may discard one of your Herald tokens to take any one of the following Herald actions: Discard and refresh the display Take any single card from the display Place an Element card of any value on your shield for the cost of 1 or Take the top card from the Tincture or Device discard pile.End of Game The end game is triggered immediately when any one of the following happen: • A player lands on or passes 50 Prestige on their Prestige track. • A player fills every space on their Shield board. • A player claims their final Distinction award.

A letter with a clue to a lost painting by Vincent van Gogh turns up. The team must hurry to solve the riddle as you are followed through the streets and canals of Amsterdam...Exit: The Game – The Hunt Through Amsterdam is a puzzle game modeled after escape rooms and it includes components meant to be folded written upon or torn so it's marketed as a single-use game.

Decktective: The Gaze of the Ghost is a co-operative investigation game featuring a 3D crime scene. Players must solve a mysterious case. They play their cards to share information discard cards that they think will lead them the wrong way discuss the clues they find with the other players make hypotheses and deductions to find the solution! At the end of the game players must answer several questions: Each correct answer is worth points. The more points they get the better their outcome.On their turn players either play a card from their hand and put it face up on the table sharing the information on it or they discard a card from their hand face down to the archive and are not allowed to talk about the information on it until the end of the investigation. Each card has a value from 1 to 10 in the upper left corner. A card can be played face up on the table only if its value is equal to or less than the current number of cards in the archive.—description from the publisher

A murder has been committed on the South Pole station Aquilo. The alleged perpetrator was quickly identified and the evidence was also sufficient for the court to sentence him to death. Only a coincidence saved him from execution for the time being. His family however does not believe in his guilt and asks you to reopen the case. There are many hints available in the box that you can examine directly.The game is conceived as a realistic criminal case and requires investigations similar to those carried out by the Criminal Police in real life.It can be played as: - single team - competitive mode - replayed by other players—description from the publisherAuf der Südpolstation Aquilo ist ein Mord verübt worden. Der vermeintliche Täter wurde schnell ermittelt und die Beweise waren für das Gericht auch ausreichend ihn zum Tode zu verurteilen. Nur ein Zufall bewahrte ihn vorläufig vor der Hinrichtung Seine Familie glaubt jedoch nicht an seine Schuld und bittet Sie den Fall erneut aufzurollen. Dazu stehen Ihnen in der Box zahlreiche Hinweise zur Verfügung die Sie direkt untersuchen können.Das Spiel ist als realistischer Kriminalfall ausgedacht und erfordert Untersuchungen ähnlich denen die von der Kriminalpolizei im wirklichen Leben durchgeführt werden.—description from the publisher (German)

Unlock! Short adventures is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With 30 to 45 minutes on the clock players work through a deck of 30 cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!With this adventure try to find a way to the cursed sarcophagus in a labyrinth filled with traps! Can you find your way out of the Pyramid before it is too late?

Nobody likes to find chaos when going to prepare their Picnic but this time it has happened. You find all your meals and tablecloths mixed... It's time to reorder them!Picnic is a game for 1 to 9 players where we will try to organize our picnic in the best possible way. Through a SmartDraft system (Implemented in the previous game 'Juices') players will select their cards to put them in their playing area in such a way that they combine the largest possible number of elements food and tablecloths.Picnic has several game modes and modules to add complexity and replayability: Objectives placement systems restrictions ... Adapt your games as you wish!—description from the designer

Tiny Turbo Cars is a frantic race game for 2 to 4 players in which you program the movements of your tiny toy car in advance with a sliding puzzle acting as your remote controller.Choose your car grab your remote controller create the track and get ready to race! At the beginning of each round players have to work their way through their sliding puzzle controllers simultaneously trying to create the sequence of actions they want their car to perform during the round.Each symbol on the puzzle corresponds to one of the possible actions — but only the two middle rows of commands on your controllers will be applied so there's room for maneuvers but be quick! The first player to put down their controller will be the first to move their car during the round. Each player then executes the program they created and the sooner you play during a round the safer you are that your actions will actually play out as planned rather than crashing into unexpected obstacles...or other cars!But trying to be quick might also increase your chances of making mistakes and every time you take damage you lose battery power which will slow you down. But hey mistakes happen right? You can always recharge and be back in the race.This is a fierce race with pitfalls around every corner and unscrupulous adversaries! Don't miss your chance to shoot your missiles at your opponents — before they hit you! The first player to cross the finish line wins!—description from publisher

Maria is on the run with her son while also preparing for the big showdown. But will she make it? White Sleep is the second episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.A How to Play video is available here: 50 Clues: The Pendulum of the Dead

Decktective: Nightmare in the Mirror is a co-operative investigation game featuring a 3D crime scene. Players must solve a mysterious case. They play their cards to share information discard cards that they think will lead them the wrong way discuss the clues they find with the other players make hypotheses and deductions to find the solution! At the end of the game players must answer several questions: Each correct answer is worth points. The more points they get the better their outcome.On their turn players either play a card from their hand and put it face up on the table sharing the information on it or they discard a card from their hand face down to the archive and are not allowed to talk about the information on it until the end of the investigation. Each card has a value from 1 to 10 in the upper left corner. A card can be played face up on the table only if its value is equal to or less than the current number of cards in the archive.—description from the publisher

Life isn't easy in the enchanted forest. Elves and gnomes each have their own network of hidden paths. They don't want to be disturbed and will move into their houses only once they're protected from outsiders. Will you find your way or be lost in the forest?In Fairy Trails players play cards that expand the road network. Once a road is completed that player may place a stone on each of their houses that are bordering that road. The player who places all their houses first wins.—description from the publisher

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

The Morrison Game Factory is a narrative puzzle adventure based in a board game factory full of mystery. On the outside the factory is busily churning out games for the whole family to enjoy. On the inside hidden messages and untold stories await. Solve riddles crack codes and unravel the secrets of the Morrison Game Company...all while falling in love with the characters of this sweet and funny puzzletale.The Morrison Game Factory can be played solo or cooperatively and is best suited for 1-4 players. While designed for ages 14+ younger sleuths can join in the fun with some adult guidance. The total gameplay time averages about 2-4 hours depending on the group size and experience level.Contents: - Introduction letter - Maintenance log - Game board - Tuck box with cards - Morrison Game Company catalog - Dice meeples and other miscellaneous game components - A locked pouch containing even more secrets!-description from designer

Now play Tetris head-to-head against your friends in an all-new tabletop strategy game for up to 4 players.Each player drops tetrimino pieces into their own Matrix tower each turn. You know what to do. Another piece is up. Rotate. Rotate again. Move it and drop it… Score points by completing horizontal rows and racing to fulfill special challenges on achievement cards for bonus points! Place specific pieces to match the icons on your Matrix towers to earn even more. Who will come out on top?!

Some of the biggest questions in the world of science may be answered by studying quarks the smallest of particles. The problem with trying to study quarks is that you can’t find just one quark; you need to find them in groups called hadrons or some other exotic particles like the Pentaquark.In Pentaquark you are trying to give science a little helping hand by collecting the five quarks that form this particle at the detector of a massive particle collider. Move cards you need to the detector discard others so they may come back as anti-quarks and try to minimize the number of quarks scattered and lost. If too many cards are removed from the game the Pentaquark has slipped through undetected once again!

A spacecraft crashes in Blackwood Grove and the Kid is the only one watching. Federal Agents hunt down the signal but no one can get near the craft due to its crushing forcefield. Why can some objects pass through it but others are repelled? Hiding in the craft the Visitor hopes the Kid can figure out the rule before the Agents and help it escape. The agents want to dissect the Visitor and keep the ship.Visitor in Blackwood Grove is an asymmetric two-versus-many inductive-reasoning game in which one player — the Visitor — makes up a secret rule like Things that contain metal to determine which objects can pass through the forcefield. The other players — the Agents and the Kid — try to figure out the rule by seeing which objects pass through the forcefield and which don't. The Agents secretly test cards from their hands to learn what passes the rule and what doesn't. The Kid tries to predict which cards will pass the rule and she builds trust with the Visitor if she’s right.The Kid and the Visitor are on a team — if the Visitor makes a rule that's too easy the agents will solve it first and he will lose. If the Visitor makes the rule too hard nobody will be able to solve it and the Agents will win. If the Visitor makes the rule just right the Kid will figure it out before the agents and both the Kid and the Visitor win!Awards & Honors: BostonFIG Fest // 2017 - Audience Choice Award IndieCade // 2017 Official Selection Mensa Mind Games // 2019 Finalist Indie Mega Booth PAX East // 2018 Official Selection

Pick-a-Seal! may combine with Pick-a-Polar Bear! for up to 8 players. Pick-a-Seal will be launched in Essen 2014.The nanuks are determined not to be sitting bears due to global warming. Sourcing a supply of canned fish may be a way to survive the diminishing sea ice — and if nothing else it gives them a good reason to travel all the way from the North Pole to Germany to party down with their doggie friends there!Pick-a-Polar Bear first published as Formissimo features the same gameplay as Pick-a-Dog but with two new variants! To set up the basic game lay out 30 cards in a grid and give one card face down to each player. Each card has five attributes with each attribute having two states: large/small with/without a raised arm orange autumn/blue winter background with/without goggles and with/without canned fish. Someone shouts Go! then everyone looks at their card in hand. Players then start grabbing cards from the grid and stacking them in hand. The card grabbed must be identical to the top card in hand or differ from that top card in only one way. Thus as you grab cards the attributes of that top card will keep changing forcing you to look for matches in new ways.Once a player thinks he can't grab any more cards he yells Stop! The round ends and all players check their card stacks. If someone made a mistake when grabbing cards that player keeps none of the cards gathered that round. If the player who stopped the round made no mistakes he earns an extra card. If however he stopped the round when he could have collected more cards then he loses all the cards he's collected during this round.To set up for the next round give each player a new face-down card and fill in the holes in the grid. When the deck runs out complete that round after which the game ends. Whoever has collected the most cards wins!Pick-a-Polar Bear includes two game variants. In the first the player who has obtained the most cards in the preceding round cannot grab a card that's identical to his top card in the current round. For the second variant shuffle eight bonus round cards into the deck. If when laying out the cards in the grid the dealer reveals the back of a bonus round card when at least ten cards are on the table everyone prepares for the bonus round. The dealer reveals this card which shows two card elements such as upraised arm and goggles and everyone races to yell out how many cards in the grid feature these two elements. Whoever yells out the correct answer first receives the bonus round card which is worth 2 points; whoever yells out the wrong answer takes a -2 point penalty card. The dealer then continues filling the grid. (If the grid contains fewer than ten cards when a bonus round card comes up in the deck discard this card and continue to fill the grid.)

Dingo and his friends have gotten lost on Walkabout! Visit their dreams to lead them home!Dingo's Dreams is a delightful and clever family game for 2-4 players. Each player competes to be the first to successfully guide his animal through the dream world.Each player starts with a grid of 25 tiles set up at random in a 5x5 dreamscape. Each player also starts with one extra tile with a picture of their animal on it. The opposite side of all dreamscape tiles also has a picture of the animal. Each turn a random card is drawn telling players which tile they should flip. When a player flips a tile it means their animal is traveling through a part of the dreamscape. Each player's goal is to guide their animal through the dreamscape by positioning him in a specified pattern (which is different each game). After a card is drawn a player takes their extra animal and slides him into the dreamscape shifting one row or column of tiles until a new different tile emerges from the opposite side. The player will use this tile to shift another column or row on the next turn and so on until one player's dreamscape tiles match the goal. The player then shouts their animal's name-- Dingo! for example to win the round.Advanced rules add Hazard Tokens which increase the challenge substantially: to complete the required dream pattern the player may not have his animal in any of the Hazard spaces marked on the dream card.

The residents of Town 77 — located just down the road from Town 66 mind you — can't stand it when houses with the same shape or color are lined up with each other. Try to build as many houses as you can while keeping in mind which houses in your hand can be built at the end.In Town 77 each player has a hand of tiles with each tile showing one of seven house styles in one of seven colors/patterns. (The color/pattern of a tile also shows on its reverse side.) The game has 49 tiles in total one of each possible combination. Each player starts with a hand of random tiles.The first player places a tile in the upper-left corner of an imaginary 7x7 square then on each subsequent turn a player adds a tile to a row or column in this square so long as this tile is adjacent to at least one other tile and the color/house style isn't already present in this row and column. After playing a tile a player can choose to draw a new tile or not. Once you lower your hand size you can't increase it again. If you can't play on a turn you're out of the game and once everyone is out whoever has the fewest tiles in hand — or who played latest in the event of a tie — wins.If you play your final tile you win but if you don't draw new tiles you might find yourself unable to play!

Unlock! Short adventures is a series of escape adventures for up to six players. With 30 to 45 minutes on the clock players work through a deck of 30 cards as a team searching for clues combining objects and solving puzzles. The free Unlock! companion app runs the timer while also providing clues offering hints and confirming successes. Once the team has reached a solution and entered the correct code into the app they will escape and win the game!With this adventure escape from the mad cook by making witty recipes! Experience the frenetic atmosphere of a kitchen in full rush and don't let yourself be overwhelmed!

With Escape Room in a Box: Flashback you and your friends can play the ultimate room escape game at home -- and the heat is on! Your team of 2 to 9 players has 90 minutes to find clues solve puzzles and crack codes in order to escape the mad scientist werewolf Doc Gnaw. Solve 22 puzzles and unlock 4 real combination locks to construct a powerful amulet that holds the key to your freedom! This unique three-path escape room game can be played UP TO THREE TIMES -- if you stick to one path during gameplay you can play again on a different path with no overlap. And there's help from the outside: players can connect with Amazon Alexa to enhance the gameplay of Escape Room in a Box: Flashback. Good luck!—description from the publisher

It's première day where the best musicals of the city compete to fill theaters for weeks on end. To make your première is the most successful you will need to attract and sit the audience onto the best possible locations. This will not be an easy job. The word got round and the most important celebrities authorities and press do not want to miss this glamorous event. Will you be able to find the best seats? Now if you'll excuse me the Show must go on!PLAYING THE GAMETake a Seat introduces an innovative mechanic named Share & Write where the randomness is created by player interaction (instead of a dice or a card). In each turn players will get a reservation panel and they will have to decide whether to use the usher's ability or get direct points. Then they will need to mark a reservation in the board of their right or left (depending the turn) by scratching on any of the 4 tickets of the reservation panel. Finally they will have to assign seats on the theater by marking the outline and the circles that correspond to the selected pieces in the previous step.The game last 14 turns. Once ended you proceed to the final score. There are 3 areas to score: objective cards reservation majorities and usher bonus. Players add up all points to get the total scoring. The player with the highest score wins the game

Mask of Anubis is a mixture of VR (virtual reality) and a board game with a free application included that converts your smartphone into VR goggles!The purpose of the game is for players to cooperate to create a map of the maze. On a turn one player lands on one point of the maze and gets a 360º view of the maze by wearing VR goggles with a smartphone inserted. This player explains to the team members what they see and their teammates attempt to use this description to create part of the map of the maze.Each player gets one minute to explain what they see then the play passes to the next player (who will be presented a different view of the maze). Repeat this seven times then players win the game if the complete map is connected from the entrance to the goal correctly!An unexcavated pyramid has been found in a desert somewhere in Egypt. The interior of the ruin is a complicated maze and it is rumored that there is a King's Chamber inside. A treasure of the ancient God Anubis would be hidden in the depth of the maze. Professor B.Gammon his assistant Seneto and their pet dog Ludo are challenged to investigate the maze. However the entrance is just a small gap in the wall. Only a small dog can get through it. The professor decided to use the Mask of Anubis. The person who wears this mask can see the maze through the walls and create a map to help the dog Ludo to find its way to the Kings Chamber. Will Ludo be able to reach the King's Chamber with your help as a member of the investigation team?

In Reiner Knizia's BITS – a successor to his own FITS – all players are active at the same time and have their own board on which they will place multicolored tiles each turn. The game last three rounds with players scoring points at the end of each round.At the start of each round players reveal a communal task card which is added to any other task cards in play. If a player creates the shapes depicted or create colored groups of the appropriate size she'll gain or lose points as shown on the task card(s). Each player then randomly determines a different starting tile for the round and places it on her board. Then the building cards are revealed one at a time and all players take the tile shown and add it to their board by placing it in the top row of their row then letting it slide down into place among the other tiles. This continues until all tiles have been placed.Players then score (or lose) points for the round and the player with the highest score after three rounds wins! Players can complete an optional fourth round if desired and the rules also contain scoring targets for solitaire play.

In Rail Pass 2-6 players work together to deliver as many goods as possible in ten minutes with goods being represented by cubes and with the color of the cubes indicating their destination city.During set-up and before the clock starts players scramble the goods and arrange them in a row across the top of the city boards. The player controlling that city can see all the cubes that must be delivered but can pull goods only from the right or left end of the row when loading them on the trains.Once the clock starts all players take their actions simultaneously in any order and repeating any action as often as necessary. To transport cargo a cube must first be loaded onto a short or long train piece that is at rest in the player's home city train yard. No train can move without a crew peg and no crew peg may travel beyond the adjacent city. In order to transport cargo to more distant cities a train needs to stop and have the crew peg swapped or cargo exchanged between trains. While all this is going on players must avoid dropping or spilling cubes when picking up or handing the train to another player. Additional terrain components such as tunnels and bridges can be placed between cities and act as additional obstacles to negotiate. When time runs out calculate the score by multiplying the TWO LOWEST counts of cubes delivered to a city. Points are subtracted for dropped cubes or cubes delivered to the wrong city and also for crew pegs that traveled beyond their adjacent cities.With six players each takes one of the six main cities each producing goods which are delivered to the other five locations. In some scenarios with fewer players each player may control multiple cities.

The race is on to find out who’s the best chef in town and only the cook with the fastest hands and the cleverest plan will win!Your goal in Fold-it! is to cook recipes the fastest based on the order cards. When an order card is revealed everyone starts cooking at the same time. In order to cook the order each player takes their individual recipe cloth and folds it so that it shows only the items displayed on the order card. The round ends once all players have finished their order and if you made the order incorrectly or were the last to finish you have to give up a star token. If you lose all three of your stars you're out of the game.Once only one player is left with a star token they’ve won the game!

Woodlands transports you to the wonderful world of legends and fairy tales with four different stories of increasing difficulty. Each story consists of several chapters with each chapter showing a plastic overlay that features various collectibles obstacles and that chapter's goal. Each player then builds their own network of pathways on their personal playing board to beat the chapter and score as many points as possible. Once players are satisfied with what they've built the overlay is placed on top of each player's pathways to check which goals they've met.Two additional overlays may be used to increase the difficulty of any chapter — and to increase the difficulty further players may use the back side of their path tiles for a greater challenge.

In Zoo-ography players take turns drafting building tiles to construct a zoo while drafting sets of animals as they arrive on boats into the game. Players have to balance building pens to support the animals available while also building sufficient attractions to keep guests engaged. Each zoo can earn up to 10 stars by meeting a variety of specific goals involving biodiversity attractions features and aesthetics.

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.

Maria has gathered enough strength to confront Leopold but first she must track him down. The Fate of Leopold is the third episode of the murderous trilogy about Maria.50 Clues is an immersive puzzle game that offers the experience of an escape room but in a format that can be played at home. You combine objects solve puzzles and decipher codes to complete the story. A smartphone or tablet keeps track of the solutions and provides multistep hints if the need arises.A How to Play video is available here: 50 Clues: The Pendulum of the Dead

Being a runner in Mirror City's underworld ain't easy but you're determined to make a name for yourself amidst all the opportunities a dystopian future has to offer. After all you're the sharpest hacker in your district right? Keep a wary bio-enhanced eye over your shoulder as you ride the Metro though because other runners are determined to cut in on your action!Metrorunner is a competitive worker-movement and resource-collection game for 1-5 players set in a high-tech neon future featuring a tile-puzzle mini-game. Circling the districts of Mirror City on the Metro line you compete for resources as you race to fulfill contracts for the ruthless and greedy mega-corporations. Grow your influence and gain reputation squeezing every credit you can from corrupt factions while you secretly steal their data for your home district!Carefully plot your path around the city to avoid and cut off other runners while taking opportunities to use your skills and upgrades to hack into network nodes. Manipulate the circuitry of a central tile grid cleverly altering the pathways of an ever-changing puzzle to breach the firewalls.Secure your influence and notoriety by completing tricky jobs across the city hijacking black market tech and spending your hard-earned credits wisely. Only then will you rise above the competition earning a coveted place within the power struggle of Mirror City.At the end of the line will you win the respect of the underworld or fade into obscurity?—description from the publisher

Captain Jessica Kowalski's crew has been offered another offer from the Corporation. Apparently a ship carrying a precious load vanished a few weeks ago. The mission was simple: locate the ship assess the situation and make sure the cargo reaches Earth. However the last log entry was rather unsettling. She recorded: the AI of the ship detected alien lifeforms labelled Intruders aboard. Silence is scarier than usual…Side Quest: Nemesis is a game of puzzles and enigmas by the designers of the Escape Tales series but now in the Nemesis universe. SideQuest: Nemesis offers captivating puzzles an interesting scenario and difficult choices to make while under pressure. The game will test your creativity your perception your open-mindedness. Be aware the silence aboard is not a good sign and intruders are hiding in the darkness. Complete your mission and avoid being contaminated at all costs!

It is said that for every person who has inhabited the Earth there is more than one shining star in the universe...In Nebula you will have to collect stars to position them in your galaxy. Stars come in various stages from red giants to white dwarfs which you can get from star clusters. You can get stars by investing Time or going to Chaos. Then you must position them in some orbit and constellation respecting the law of gravity. Finally there will be objectives both personal and shared that can reward you and also some stars without glow that will remind us that death is part of stellar life.Give life to your Galaxy and find harmony within your constellations. The stories that will be invented while you watch them will last over time...—description from the publisher (translated)Se dice que por cada persona que ha habitado la Tierra hay más de una estrella que brilla en el universo...En Nebula deberás recolectar estrellas para posicionarlas en tu galaxia. Las estrellas se presentan en diversas etapas desde gigantes rojas hasta enanas blancas las cuales podrás conseguir desde los cúmulos estelares. Podrás obtener estrellas invirtiendo Tiempo o acudiendo al Caos. Luego deberás posicionarlas en alguna orbita y constelación respetando la ley de gravedad. Finalmente habrán objetivos tanto personales como compartidos que podrán recompensarte y también algunas estrellas sin resplandor que nos harán recordar que la muerte es parte de la vida estelar.Dale vida a tu Galaxia y encuentra la armonía dentro de tus constelaciones. Las historias que se inventarán mientras las observas perdurarán en el tiempo...—description from the publisher

The whole country of Andor is suffering from an unnatural cold.In four epic legends in The Legends of Andor: The Eternal Frost a team of 2-4 heroes embarks on an exciting journey to a strange land beyond the mountains. On a new double-sided game board you'll find loyal allies and face unexpected dangers. Together you will find out who is behind the magical threat of the eternal cold!—description from the publisher

Can players work together to complete adventures in a new virtual environment? Escape Room: Das Spiel - Virtual Reality includes a pair of virtual reality goggles that allows players to enter the game world live with the Escape Room app.Trapped in a submarine or crashed with a helicopter the players must work together to complete the adventure successfully and free themselves from the predicament but there is not much time to do this. In just one hour all tasks have to be solved in order to win together! The interactive environments to the adventures are 360​° scenes with many hidden puzzles and moving objects. Only through good communication will players be able to solve all tasks.In the new Chrono Decoder app the codes can be entered quickly and easily. (The Chrono Decoder from the base game can also still be used.) Escape Room: Virtual Reality lets players dive into new game environments. The players are no longer just players but part of the adventure. A unique experience that no one will ever forget!Escape Room The Game: Virtual Reality can be played with or without the original base game. Requires a smartphone with Escape Room The Game app download.

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

Every morning in Mumbai over five thousand workers dressed in white swarm out to deliver more than 200,000 dabbas (multistoried lunch boxes) to the offices of the Indian metropolis. These Dabba Walla have been an iconic fixture in the cityscape since 1890. The food is freshly prepared at home by families then collected from their front doors by the Dabba Walla. Even though some of the dabbas travel very far they are delivered punctually via a network of intermediate stations with an amazing reliability of 99.999%! Now it's time to join the Dabba Walla on their daily journey through Mumbai...The game Dabba Walla consists of two phases:• Pick-up phase: Take turns moving your Dabba Walla through Mumbai to collect dabba cards. Each time you pick up a card you then play one of the three in your hand to take the depicted dabba tile — a polyomino of 1-4 squares — and place it in your cart stacking tiles higher and higher as the rounds progress. Dabbas come in four colors and you must place them on flat surfaces filling holes with empty dabbas if needed. If you connect two half-chai symbols on tiles on the same level you draw a random chai tile with a bonus action. Keep all played dabba cards in a personal discard pile.• Delivery phase: After everyone has placed fifteen tiles in their cart it's time to deliver lunches! Pick up all the cards you played then complete a number of delivery rounds equal to the highest level that someone has stacked their dabbas. Each round each player plays and reveals one dabba card from their hand optionally playing chai tiles as well. Sum the value of each color of dabba then everyone scores their dabbas on the current level based on these values removing the tiles from their carts. (Note: If not all players have dabbas on the current level being scored they still play a card but they score nothing.)Once all the dabbas have been delivered players score for their remaining chai tiles then whoever has collected the most tips wins.Dabba Walla contains two expansion modules to provide additional ways to score or change the value of dabbas being delivered.

The realm is defended but the sword of protection is broken! The king has called on the best Swordcrafters to forge a replacement.In Swordcrafters players compete to forge the best sword scoring based on length quality and magic. Each round each player makes one cut in a grid of sword tiles to create a separation. After separations phase each player selects one grouping of sword tiles and assembles them into their sword. When there are not enough sword tiles to form a new grid scoring occurs.Players hold their swords in the center of the table to score based on length. Sword quality scoring is based on the highest number of adjacent matching gems on one side of the sword. Sword magic scoring is based on the highest sum of two gem types.A innovative 3D sword-building game where the player builds and holds their sword as they play.—description from the publisher

Dioses! is a card game in which players become oracles by combining different mythologies and gods to assemble the best ensemble and achieve victory. To do this players will draw cards from a deck and place them in their personal playing area trying to meet their requirements to earn the maximum number of points.—description from the designer

Rune is a fast-paced card game where you'll try to summon Zemilio from another world. Only the one who will collect the most mana from the rune stones will be able to complete the ritual.On their turns players place cards from their hand to link runes of the same type. A card has to be placed on top of part of at least one other card in game and has to follow at least one of the following rules:1) Place runes on top of the same color runes. 2) Runes have to match adjacent runes.Once placed a player can draw another card or place a rune master on top of a rune to control it and all the runes of the same colour adjacent to each other.Once all players have placed all their rune masters the game ends and players receive points for each rune controlled by their Rune Masters.

Every hundred years the catacombs of the Council Palace tremble with unleashed magic invoking powerful creatures and even changing the terrain itself. A challenge takes place between two powerful sorcerers to determine who presides over the Council for another century. Will you defeat your rival in this magical challenge? Will you become the next Great Wizard?SPELL is a dynamic game for two players who play powerful wizards in their quest to earn the respect of their peers through a logical challenge. You have to demonstrate your intelligence by completing more magical patterns than your opponent using the creatures you summon your powers to change the ground beneath your feet and the advantages of the patterns you complete.—description from the publisherCada 100 años las catacumbas del Palacio del Consejo tiemblan con la magia desatada que invoca poderosas criaturas y cambia incluso el propio terreno. Un desafío entre dos poderosos hechiceros para presidir el Consejo durante otro siglo. ¿Vencerás a tu rival en el desafío mágico? ¿Te convertirás en el siguiente Gran Mago? SPELL Es un dinámico juego para 2 jugadores a partir de 12 años que encarnan a 2 poderosos magos en su pugna por ganar el respeto de sus compañeros mediante un desafío de lógica. En SPELL tendrás que demostrar tu inteligencia completando más patrones mágicos que tu rival utilizando las criaturas que invocas tus poderes para cambiar el suelo bajo tus pies así como las ventajas que te otorgan los patrones que completas. Un juego en que se aúnan la lógica los combos y la visión espacial para crear un titulo que aprenderás a jugar en 5 minutos pero te costará bastante dominar.—description from the publisher (Spanish)

Unlock! Short Adventures: it's Unlock only shorter! Unlock Short Adventures are 30 to 45 minute Unlocks in a small format ideal for pocketing or giving as a gift. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms. Unlock! brings these experiences into your home around a table. After familiarizing yourself with the context of the scenario you begin your adventure in a room (a location map showing various numbers). Search the room for objects! Beware: some may be hidden! Visual and audio puzzles slow your progress. It's up to you to cooperate with your partners to advance and finish on time. Unlock! an interactive game combining traditional hardware and mobile application To play you need the free Unlock! app compatible with Android and iOS phones and tablets. It allows you to obtain clues locate hidden objects and enter the codes you discover. The app makes the game very real. It adds to the atmosphere with music dedicated to each adventure audio puzzles terrible penalties and a fatal countdown.Unlock! Short Adventures: Murder in Birmingham! An Escape room in your living room! Investigate Birmingham's underworld in 1920! The app sets the pace and mood for 30-minute games. The puzzles the app the clues the timer - all from Unlock!Unlock! Short Adventures : Meurtre à Birmingham ! Une Escape room dans votre salon ! Enquêtez dans les bas-fonds de Birmingham en 1920 ! L’application donne le rythme et pose d’ambiance pour des parties de 30 minutes. Les énigmes l’app les indices le timer du concentré de Unlock! Unlock! Short Adventures : Meurtre à Birmingham est une aventure de niveau de difficulté 3 (sur 3). Il contient 30 cartes d'aventures et 2 cartes de règles.

Favelas is a tile-laying game about the beautification of the iconic favelas of Rio de Janeiro! These stacked and ever-evolving neighborhoods are home to many people who stand to benefit greatly from this infusion of money modernization and beauty.The bad news is that the council who will approve the funding is fickle and constantly coming back with notes which alter the value of the colors that are used in this beautification.Played over three rounds this fast-moving Euro-style game will keep people watching for the majorities their opponents are going for — and which colors are being devalued or not.

During a visit to the ancient Egyptian monuments an unforeseeable event locks the players in a secret room inside the pyramid. Will they be able to decipher the enigmatic hieroglyphics and find a way out before the mummy catches them?Deckscape: The Curse of the Sphinx is the sixth title in a series of cooperative games inspired by real escape rooms in which a group of people is trapped inside a room full of puzzles and odd items. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles understand the plot of the story and make intelligent use of the items provided in order to exit from the room as quickly as possible.

King Nebuchadnezzar II has spoken: Build me the most wondrous gardens the world has ever seen! The gardening guilds of Babylon have answered and it is now up to the players as leaders of these guilds to build one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and lead their guild to victory in the cutthroat world of competitive gardening.Gardens of Babylon is a 1-4 player competitive euro-style game in which players strive to earn the most points by planting flower seeds on the most valuable tiles. Taking turns players place tiles to create a maze-like ziggurat of pathways strategically move their gardeners to gain positional advantage and plant seeds to claim tiles earning victory points and triggering cascades down connected waterways to steal those of their opponents in the process!Featuring simple rules and strategic thinking Gardens of Babylon offers infinite replayability with 78 distinct ziggurat tiles that form a unique 2.5-dimension modular board. A novel cascade mechanism allows a well-placed seed to change the course of the game in an instant offering emergent gameplay and keeping players on their toes until the very end.—description from the publisher

A murder at the local dive bar. A mysterious masked figure. A small town full of suspects. When owner Nick Webster falls from a cliff behind his roadside tavern his death is ruled an accident. But one of his employees suspects foul play and she needs yout help to prove it. Do you have what it takes... to Hunt A Killer?Players will assume the role of private investigators working together to uncover the truth about what happened to Nick Webster. Along the way you'll investigate suspects string together clues and crack a few codes to unravel the mystery and bring a killer to justice.You'll need to discover clear means motive and opportunity to find the killer. Accomplish this by carefully examining realistic witness statements photos items from the scene codes and other evidence to find the answer.Hunt A Killer: Death at the Dive Bar is an immersive murder mystery experience.Difficulty: 1/5 - Easy—description from the publisher

Each turn in Pick a Pen: Gardens the active player rolls the five colored pencils then chooses one and marks spaces on their individual player sheet. Each other player in turn drafts a pencil and uses it. Pencils show symbols on their different sides and the symbols on top of the chosen pencil determine what players do on their sheets.Each sheet shows bordered gardens and on a turn you fill in the indicated number of spaces in that color; all of those spaces must be adjacent to one another in addition to being adjacent to everything colored previously. Your goal is to fill gardens with only a single color or with five different colors scoring bonus points as you do so. The game ends when a player has completely colored all of their gardens or failed to color in five times.Pick a Pen: Gardens includes three difficulty levels of player sheets with flowers and trees on sheets 2 and 3 to help you earn bonus points in different ways.

Tucana Builders is a sequel to the award winning Trails of Tucana.Place tiles on spaces that match the revealed terrain card to connect animals to corresponding huts.All connections that score in round 1 will score again in round 2. So do you go for high scores in round 1 or will you try to create smart intersections for long-term benefits?Tucana Builders is an easy-to-teach game for those who enjoy challenging tile-laying puzzles.—description from the publisher

Ukiyo is a tactical puzzle-based 18-card game for 1-4 players. Players lay cards down horizontally or vertically to create patterns of symbols within a 6x6 grid. In multi-player mode players are aiming to complete the task on the last card left in their hand. In solo mode players are aiming to complete increasingly hard puzzles which consist of combinations of two three or four tasks. Ukiyo takes just five minutes to play and is suitable for all ages.—description from the designer

Escape Room: The Game – 2 Players is as the name suggests a two-player-only version of Escape Room: The Game with players needing to discover clues and solve puzzles in order to find the correct four-key code within all three phases of the game. Once you think you've found the code enter it into the Chrono Decoder — whether the app or the physical device included in the base game — to see whether you're correct!

In the remote mountain village of Mordengraf people are disappearing. Investigating reports of a 'creature' stalking the area you venture into Castle Mordengraf the Gothic castle overshadowing the village.Captured by an unseen force you must escape the castle's dungeon or become the creature's latest victim. But you only have three hours before the creature resumes its hunt ...Curse of the Dark is a co-operative escape room game where players must build out the floorplan of Castle Mordengraf uncovering and exploring new rooms of the castle to advance the story. The game features puzzle books map tiles and other interactive components and features. A smartphone or Internet-connected device is required for some of the puzzles.Curse of the Dark features a tiered hint system to enable teams of all abilities to progress through the game and story. The game can optionally be completed solo.Curse of the Dark is designed as a one-time experience as some of the puzzles require players to cut fold and write on the components. However Professor Puzzle do provide a printable pdf of the destructible components in the Files section on BGG and on their website to enable the game to be replayed.—description from the publisher

The sky is still rumbling when you arrive in front of your friend's house the eccentric Professor Alcibiades Tempus.A scientist obsessed with time in all shapes and forms he asked you to meet him at his home so that you can experiment with his latest invention!​Once there however you can't find him anywhere. Neighbors tell you that lightning struck his house.Note: The German edition was released by itself as well as part of the German version of Unlock!: Timeless Adventures.

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).

Swish is a pattern recognition card game reminiscent of Set that challenges a player to make matches – dubbed Swishes – before opponents.Swish includes 60 transparent cards; each card has some combination of balls and hoops on it with these items coming in four colors. To set up the game lay out 16 cards on the table. Players simultaneously try to create Swishes by spotting two or more cards that can be laid on top of one another in some manner so that every ball fits in a hoop of the same color. Create a Swish and you claim the cards used with new cards then being laid out. Whoever claims the most cards wins the game.The game includes varied levels of play so that the spatially clueless can compete against Tetris-heads.

For eons Pele fought Mo’o for dominion over Hawai’i. Mo’o summoned the elements and the animals of Hawai’i to create an insurmountable challenge. Do you have what it takes to become the champion of Hawai’i?In Latice Hawai’i players take turns laying tiles that each present an animal and an element. Tile placement requires the animal or element to match adjacent tiles. Players earn extra moves through superior strategy. Easy to learn hard to master Latice Hawai’i is an excellent addition to any collection be it humble as a gecko or worthy of the game rooms of Maui and Pele.The new edition features new components and thoughtfully revised content to create the best possible updated version of the game. Rules have been added for kid mode timed modes and advanced player modes—description from the publisher

Streams (a.k.a. 20 Express) consists of pens score sheets and a deck of forty cards (or bakelite tiles depending on the edition); the tiles are numbered 1-30 with two copies of #11-19 and one wild. Game play is similar to Bingo in that someone draws a tile and everyone must then write that number on her scoring sheet. This sheet contains a line of 20 spaces to be filled and while these spaces can be filled in any order if she can place the numbers in non-descending order – identical numbers placed side-by-side don't break a stream – she'll score points at the end of the game. The longer the stream of ascending numbers the more points she scores.Once twenty tiles have been drawn and the scoresheets filled players tally their points for each stream of non-descending numbers and the high score wins.The second edition of Streams includes normal and expert rules.

Braintopia Beyond is the follow-up to the fast-paced brain bender that tests your mental focus flexibility and speed. Comprised of eight different types of challenges up to six players race through a deck of cards fighting to keep up with the ever-changing mini-games and attempt to solve the puzzles faster than their opponents. Collect brain tokens by beating a single Touch challenge or claiming a pair of cards from any of the other seven games: Multitasking Observation Squares Analysis Unique Combination and Tracking. The first player to collect four brain tokens wins!—description from the publisher

You are the Teller a local practitioner of spiritual arts and keeper of “The Collection” a set of Tarot-like cards compiled from various old sources. For generations the knowledge of the Collection has been passed down to Tellers to be used to tell fortunes give blessings cast spells and most importantly to fight the dark evils that inhabit the haunted brambles. This morning two local children have gotten trapped by the dark evils in the brambles. Parishfolk are counting on you as the Teller to use the Collection to fight the dark evils and free the children from the wicked brambles.The Brambles is a solo card game where your goal is to save the children caught by the dark evils of the haunted brambles. To release the children you must play different card combinations powerful enough to defeat the 20 Bramble Evils thereby releasing the children. If you fail to defeat the evils before the Collection runs out the children are lost to the Brambles forever.

Cleverly build your garden. Harvest gems and enrich your seed bag with new amazing creatures so your next garden can grow even more abundant. Combine the unique abilities of your creatures and be the first to acquire the victory trophy.Each round in Gardlings all players simultaneously build their garden in front of themselves. You do this by drawing and placing tiles from your bag. You may stop drawing tiles at any time because if you draw too many gnomes they will steal gems from you. At the end of the round use any gems you matched in your garden to buy a new tile then return all of your tiles to your bag to prepare for the next round. Each tile features potential ways to match gems as well as a creature with a special ability. Your garden will grow larger and better each round and the puzzle of placing tiles will become increasingly complex.The goal of the game is to match enough gems to buy the victory tile.—description from the designer

When you saw the code words Project Nightshade come across your desk you insisted on the assignment... You were instantly reminded of the shadow operative who had slipped through the fingers of some of The Rigel Group's best agents. Now it's your chance to catch this criminal before it’s too late.As a master agent of the elite global task force The Rigel Group you expertly hunt down cunning spies and deadly double agents. You’ll need to use your wits local intel and tools of the trade to lure the spy into your trap. Just be sure you’re the predator and not the prey! This isn't just any spy; one false move could end your mission... permanently.Harsh Shadows is a solitaire game of espionage. To set up place nine location cards in a 3x3 grid then place discovery cards under each location. Place three file cards near the locations then place case cards under each file. Place decks for arrow cards and additional discovery cards nearby along with two agent tool cards. The spy and agent cards start in different locations.You are the agent and go first moving to an adjacent location and revealing a discovery card which could be an item clue or bomb; item and clue cards go in hand while bombs force you to discard. You can use a location's special ability and clues to reveal case cards under files. You might be able to place a tracking bug on the spy.For the spy's turn the arrow cards move the spy to an adjacent location where a new discovery card is placed at random. If the spy moves to your location discard a card. If you can't discard a card or discover you've discarded an item matching a case card you lose immediately.When the discovery deck is empty the spy attempts to escape. You must have placed a tracking bug on the spy have the three item cards in hand matching the case cards and make it to the spy's current location before the spy escapes.

Star Explorer is an international version of Night Sky Explorers a game released in 2024 by Lucrum Games only in the Polish language version and a limited run in English exclusively for Essen 2024. After selling out in two days it was picked up by Queen Games for international release in 2025. Star Explorer features updated artwork and component material but in terms of gameplay both versions are exactly the same.Discover the fragments of the night sky look for the particular stars and draw precise maps of the constellations. But beware! You do not want the big constellations to overshadow the small ones. Each card in the game represents one of the most famous constellations. Your task is to mark them on the rotating map following the special astronomical rules. Will your map be the most precise granting you the name of the true Night Sky Explorer?In this game players take on the role of astronomy enthusiasts who stare at the starry skies for hours. During the game they will use their boards with rotating maps to mark the star constellations they see - each player marks their unique constellations on their maps. Points are awarded for each constellation marked on the map that contains the correct stars. Additionally players receive points for placing their constellations in the right places on the map. The player with the highest total amount of points at the end of the game wins.—description from the publisher

The city of York is being built. Many buildings have already been completed but without a protective outer wall to defend against the Viking raids the city is bound to be pillaged and destroyed. The king has summoned his best architects to design new defensive walls for the city but only one design will be used. That architect will be hailed as the greatest architect in all the land.In Walls of York players must use the plastic wall pieces to construct a defensive barrier around the buildings on their city map. Each turn a player rolls the building die that dictates which types of walls are to be used. The players must enclose their city including the required buildings from the King's decree — but players must beware for the Vikings will come and lay waste at the end of the first age forcing players to build their walls anew in the second age. The player with the most coins at the end of the second age wins.

Unlock! Temple of Ra is a mini-adventure in the Unlock! series of card-driven escape room games.The Temple of Ra is going to be unearthed in the Valley of Kings. You are certain that it contains a fabulous treasure. Unfortunately no one pays attention to your theories so you decide to take a risk on your own and when night falls you sneak into the temple. After a long tunnel you finally see the ante-chamber appearing in the light of your torch...

Cupcake Academy is a cooperative game of logic and speed. Work together with your fellow pastry chefs to organize your kitchen based on your instructor’s assignments. Each assignment wants your cupcake cups to be arranged in a specific layout in the kitchen so you must quickly move the cups to empty plates or on top of smaller cups one at a time before time runs out!—description from the publisher

The Mirroring of Mary King is a two-player game in which one person is a mortal contemporary woman named Mary King and the other player is the ghost of Mary’s long dead ancestor a 17th century Scottish merchant burgess of the same name. While on a week’s holiday in Edinburgh Mary visits Mary King’s Close where her presence attracts the spirit of her long dead ancestor now a hungry ghost that wants to live again in Mary’s body. The two Marys engage in a battle for control of the living Mary’s mortal body.Players use control cards and power cards to exert their influence on Mary King’s psyche represented by 12 tiles arranged in a 4 x 3 grid. These tiles are flipped back and forth throughout the game as the players gain and lose control of them.The game progresses over five days starting on Monday and ending on Friday. Each player gets one turn each day with the ghost player always going first. As the week progresses the mortal and the ghost become more exhausted and more desperate: the number of control cards each may play decreases and the number of ideas they may pursue increases. At the end of each player’s turn both players suffer penalties based on the tiles of Mary that their opponent controls.A player may immediately win the game by completing their image of Mary using the 12 tiles or if their opponent runs out of cards. If neither player completes their image of Mary by the end of Friday the winner is determined by a scoring system based on their remaining cards and their control of Mary.—description from the publisher

Unlock! Short Adventures: it's Unlock only shorter! Unlock Short Adventures are 30 to 45 minute Unlocks in a small format ideal for pocketing or giving as a gift. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms. Unlock! brings these experiences into your home around a table. After familiarizing yourself with the context of the scenario you begin your adventure in a room (a location map showing various numbers). Search the room for objects! Beware: some may be hidden! Visual and audio puzzles slow your progress. It's up to you to cooperate with your partners to advance and finish on time.Unlock! an interactive game combining traditional hardware and mobile application To play you need the free Unlock! app compatible with Android and iOS phones and tablets. It allows you to obtain clues locate hidden objects and enter the codes you discover. The app makes the game very real. It adds to the atmosphere with music dedicated to each adventure audio puzzles terrible penalties and a fatal countdown.Unlock ! Short Adventures : Red Mask ! An Escape room in your living room! The app sets the pace and mood for 30-minute games. The puzzles the app the clues the timer - all from Unlock!Unlock ! Short Adventures : c'est Unlock mais en plus court ! Unlock Short Adventures ce sont des Unlock de 30 à 45 minutes en petit format pratique à mettre dans la poche ou à offrir pour faire découvrir le jeu. Unlock ! est un jeu de carte coopératif inspiré des escape rooms. Unlock! vous fait vivre ces expériences chez vous autour d'une table. Après avoir pris connaissance du contexte du scénario vous commencez votre aventure dans une pièce (une carte de lieu qui indique divers numéros). Fouillez-la pour trouver des objets ! Attention : certains peuvent être cachés ! Des énigmes visuelles ou audio ralentissent votre progression. À vous de coopérer avec vos partenaires pour avancer et terminer dans les temps. Unlock ! un jeu interactif qui combine matériel traditionnel et application mobile L'application gratuite Unlock ! compatible avec les téléphones et tablettes Android et iOS est nécessaire pour jouer. Elle permet d'obtenir des indices de repérer des objets cachés mais aussi d'entrer les codes découverts. L'application rend le jeu très concret. Elle contribue à l'ambiance avec ses musiques dédiées à chaque aventure ses énigmes audio ses terribles pénalités et son compte à rebours fatal. Unlock ! Short Adventures : Red Mask ! Une Escape room dans votre salon ! Devenez un justicier masqué au Mexique en 1811 pour délivrer un ami prisonnier ! L’application donne le rythme et pose d’ambiance pour des parties de 30 minutes. Les énigmes l’app les indices le timer du concentré de Unlock!Unlock ! Short Adventures : Red Mask est une aventure de niveau de difficulté 2 (sur 3). Il contient 30 cartes d'aventures et 2 cartes de règles.

In Pursuit of Cabrakan is a 24-card (4 cards are advertisements or information cards not used in-game) mini adventure for Unlock! the card-driven escape room game from Space Cowboys. At the beginning of the adventure you are at the mouth of a cave in search of a gold statue.In Pursuit of Cabrakan was produced as a special scenario for Gen Con 2018 events.It also requires a free companion app to play.

It's the crack of dawn on Christmas Day when the early morning silence is broken by a sudden “Kerplunk!” Something strange has dropped down the chimney! You race to the hearth to find a soot-covered envelope with “URGENT” scrawled across the front. Anxiously you open the letter and discover a cryptic message. As you begin to read the air fills with the sound of jingle bells and the sweet smell of peppermint. Just then you are magically whisked away to the North Pole! It seems that a dastardly crime has been committed and Santa needs your help to catch the ne'er-do-wells! There's no time to wait; Santa is counting on you! Are you ready to save Christmas?The Kringle Caper title #1 in the Holiday Hijinks line is an escape room style game in just 18 cards! As a group you will solve a series of puzzles to unravel a mystery.Puzzles may test your perception wordplay and lateral thinking. English language fluency is required.When you have solved a puzzle on the cards you will enter the answer into the companion website (compatible with all smart phones and computers) and it will check whether you are correct. If you are the website will tell you which card or cards to take next. The website also contains a graduated hint system so if you get stuck you can get just a small hint about the current puzzle to get moving again without giving too much away.This system is non-destructible: some groups may choose to write on cards but this is not required. A group cannot re-play the game but can pass it on to another group for their use.This entry in the series takes about an hour to solve and is rated 2 out of 3 in difficulty.

Help the master detective link the scarlet thread in this peculiar case.In live escape rooms participants are locked in and must manage to leave the room within 60 minutes. UNLOCK! lets you experience this cooperative experience at your home gaming table.Contained in Unlock!: Heroic Adventures but a German edition was released by itself.—description from the publisher

Four Gods is a real-time tile-laying game in which players create a world — one tile at a time — before laying claim to one of the four gods of their world and attempting to win followers by sending prophets into that world.In more detail players sit outside of a cardboard frame that represents the limits of the world. Each player starts with two randomly-drawn tiles in hand with each double-sided tile depicting 1-3 types of landscape out of the four types present in the world.When play begins each player simultaneously starts laying tiles into the frame; each tile must be adjacent to two sides to be placed so initially tiles can be placed only in the corners of the frames with players building inward from there. Players can place tiles anywhere that they can legally be placed (two sides are adjacent to the frame or previously placed tiles and all landscapes match across tile borders.Instead of placing a tile a player can place it in their personal discard area which can hold at most ten tiles. When a player has both hands free they can draw two new tiles from the bag; alternatively any player with a free hand can pick up any tile in any discard area and place it in the world.At any point during the game a player can claim one of four gods and that god's followers. Each god is associated with a particular type of landscape e.g. the merfolk god. Once a player has followers they can place a prophet on a tile they just placed to claim that section of landscape. Players can place any number of prophets in a landscape as long as they're placing each prophet on a tile they just added to the world.At any point in the game if a player thinks that a section of the board cannot be filled with a tile — e.g. a space that's surrounded by four types of landscapes — that player can place a round city marker in that space and then claim that city with a prophet. If a matching tile is found later a player can smash and collect that city replacing it with the tile.Once the world is filled or players agree that no more tiles can be placed the game ends. Each player scores five points for each city occupied or smashed. Each landscape with one or more prophets is worth a number of points to the player(s) with the most prophets in it equal to the number of tiles in that landscape minus the number of prophets in it. The landscape with the largest mass rewards its god with a large bonus with the second and third largest masses rewarding their gods with smaller bonuses; similarly the landscape that appears in the most distinct groups rewards its god with a large bonus with the second and third largest groups again rewarding their gods with smaller bonuses.Whichever god has scored the most points wins!

Dragons are back into our world and they are in vogue! As the proud owner of group of islands where dragons nest you’ll have to manage both the tourists’ expectations and the dragons’ appetite…Dragon Parks is a drafting game which makes use of transparent cards. Select a new card each turn to put on one of your three islands adding or covering dragons in this park as you do. Some dragons hate to be covered by others and will snap back at you and if you manage to hatch an egg by covering it it will attract new visitors!After 3 turns the season ends. You will then score visitors depending of the number of different dragons visible on each island with a bonus for the dragon type in vogue this season and extra visitors if you attract the Legendary Dragon to your parks… But beware if you have fewer sheep available than you have dragons you will lose visitors equal to the difference!The game ends after 3 seasons and the player with the most visitors at the end wins!-description from publisher

In Diáspora 1 to 24 players will try to solve the 24 cards that have an unique code in them. Through an e-mail communication with the interstellar ship where the three main characters of the game are traveling the players will reveal new mysteries and obtaining new information about the history of the game as they resolve the cards in it.—description from the publisher (translated)En Diáspora de 1 a 24 jugadores tratarán de resolver las 24 cartas que albergan un código único en ellas. A través de una comunicación vía e-mail con la nave interestelar en la que viajan los tres protagonistas de la historia los jugadores irán desvelando nuevos enigmas y obteniendo nueva información acerca de la historia del juego a medida que van resolviendo las cartas de éste.—description from the publisher