Reavers of Midgard is a single worker placement game with elements of set collection dice combat and engine building set in the Champions of Midgard universe.In Champions of Midgard your quest was to become Jarl. You battled back the trolls draugr and some of the epic monsters that once threatened the sanctity of your humble port town. Now it's time to go on the offensive.In Reavers of Midgard you'll be looking to gain glory by raiding nearby villages for their riches sacking well-fortified castles and battling both man and monster on the open seas. You'll not only need to take your rowdy crew of vikings and the food needed to keep them happy along for the ride but you'll also have to recruit a crew of elite warriors - the Reavers.Reavers can be used in three different ways. They can be made your ship's leader earning you a one-time bonus and enabling your warriors to be more versatile in combat. They can also be used to rally more warriors to your cause filling your ship to the brim with the right fighters for the right situations. Finally they can also be used to help your crew specialize earning you a bonus every time your crew sails into battle.Whoever can earn the most glory after six rounds will be the winner.
In Royals players take on the roles of the great noble houses of the 17th century fighting for supremacy in Europe at that time. With the help of the right country cards they occupy influential positions and obtain bonuses for this in the form of victory points. The higher the rank of the title associated with the position the more country cards required. Already-occupied positions can be contested by playing intrigue cards.The game proceeds over three periods with a scoring taking place after each of them. During scoring the players with the greatest influence in each of the four countries score victory points. After the third period scoring the game ends with the scoring of the individual titles. The player with the most victory points wins.
Your goal in Rival Restaurants is to be the first restaurant to get 20 popularity points and be crowned The Wiener! Players earn popularity points by buying and trading for ingredients and using them to cook (complete) recipes. The more advanced the recipe the more points it's worth.Each day players move through three phases:1. MONEY and MOVE: Players collect their income for the day and decide where they want to move. Turn economy is crucial as players are not permitted to move for the rest of the day once their location has been chosen.2) BUY and BARTER: Players have one minute to buy as much as they want but only from the location they're in. Players can also barter/trade with anyone in the game not just the people in their location.3) COOK and COUNTER. Any player who has all the ingredients required for their recipe can cook it and collect popularity points.In addition each player controls a chef equipped with their own chef power. Chef powers are asymmetrical and allow players to bend the rules in their favor. The base game of Rival Restaurants has twelve chefs and additionally at the beginning of the game each player must choose a restaurant to play with each restaurant having a unique level-up structure with rewards for reaching 3 7 and 12 popularity points. Lastly players can also choose to buy action cards that is development cards that are typically for one-time use.
Based on the lovely illustrated world of Matt Dixon Transmissions brings his world of mechanical friends to life. In the game players share robots as workers moving around a rondel-styled board collecting engrams and electricity. These are used to gather ideas to improve your use of the robots or items to score points at the end of the game. You also build your own set of connected flowing pipes while gathering birds and butterflies to score even more points. The game ends when no ideas are left a player's robots are complete or no pipes remain to be built. After all other players take one more turn the player with the highest total score wins!The game features a unique mechanism of worker selection and sharing with incredible illustrations adorable miniature robots and very welcoming play for everyone!—description from the publisher
You are a painter in Colors of Paris and you've decided to participate in Bateau Lavoir a friendly competition between several painters in a workshop in Montmartre Paris. The newspapers know about this challenge so perhaps this is a good opportunity to become famous following the path of Cézanne Toulouse-Lautrec Monet or Renoir...Colors of Paris is a management game in which you must take care of your paint tubes mixtures and time to create works all the while anticipating others to perform as needed within a rotating set of actions.
Once upon a time in the Far East deep in the mountains of a mythical land there was a world-renowned Dim Sum restaurant by the name of Steam Up.It was the first restaurant of its kind to achieve the three Gold Ingot status. According to the Gold Ingot Guide Steam Up was best known for its top 5 most popular Dim Sum: juicy shrimp dumpling tender meat dumpling soft and fluffy BBQ meat bun flavorful sticky rice and exotic phoenix claw. These heavenly tastes drew food enthusiasts and gourmets from all over the world!Come join us on a feast of Dim Sum. You are invited!Steam Up: A Feast of Dim Sum is a competitive 2-5 player light-medium weight Dim Sum set collection and action management game offering a delicious cultural experience.At the beginning of the game steamers filled with different types of Dim Sum are stacked and placed on a Turntable. Each player takes turns performing 2 different actions each round. Actions include gaining and spending food tokens to purchase Dim Sum in Steamers within their Feast Zone. Players may also play Fortune cards to benefit themselves or affect their opponents. Starting the 2nd round a Fate card is revealed each round to trigger an event that may affect all players.The game ends when a specific number of Steamers is purchased or the Fate deck is emptied. Final scoring is then calculated. The player with the most Hearty Points wins and leaves the table with the fullest stomach!
The Great Dinosaur Rush — or the Bone Wars as it's otherwise called — was a period of incredible advancement in paleontology (i.e. the discovery of fossils).In The Great Dinosaur Rush players compete to grab bones from the best dig sites and build new dinosaurs for prestigious museums gaining notoriety in the process by stealing bones sabotaging dig sites and otherwise impeding your fellow paleontologists.The game is played over turns each with two main phases: dig and build. During the dig phase players collect different-colored bones from dig sites and perform actions. Some dirty actions give players secret notoriety tokens. Notoriety adds to players' scores at the end of the game but having the MOST notoriety SUBTRACTS from the score! During the build phase players create their dinosaurs from the bones they collected maximizing them to score points in various museum categories: length size height ferociousness etc.You'll have to play dirty if you want to win — just not too dirty!
In Silver & Gold Pyramids you want to explore as many pyramids as possible and locate the tomb within each one.To start play each player takes four pyramid cards then keeps two of them face up in front of themselves. Shuffle the eight exploration cards each of which shows a different polyomino.On a turn reveal the topmost exploration card. Each player then marks off spaces in the shape of this polyomino on one of their pyramid cards. The first space covered on a card must be the entrance square. If you cover gems torches or skulls mark off these spaces on your personal player board; if you cover a potion erase two covered skulls. If you cover a red X mark one additional space either on this pyramid board or your other one; all marked spaces must connect orthogonally.If you cover the tomb on a pyramid board set that board aside and take a new board from the four on display or from the deck. When you've completed your second fourth or sixth pyramid of the same color — and the deck includes three colors — score the highest color bonus available.After seven exploration cards have been revealed the round is over. Shuffle all eight cards then start a new round. After four rounds players count their scores earning 10 points per tomb reached 5 points per pair of colored gems found 5 points for each round in which they covered at least one torch and their color bonuses after which they lose points based on the number of skulls covered. Whoever has the highest score wins.
Seek out prestigious stamps and compete to build the most lucrative collection in Penny Black. In each round choose which three stamps to add to your collection then strategically place them in your stamp album to score the most points based on your collection criteria. Each player's criteria varies and there's no telling which stamps will be available next.Keep an eye out for the Penny Black the world's first adhesive postage stamp that ushered in the art of stamp collecting – and that is a highly sought-after prize in this game since it can enhance the value of your album.The player with the most valuable collection after ten rounds wins!—description from the publisher
Award-winning quilt makers devote considerable effort to collecting fabrics for their stashes. They shop for specific colors often ranging into neighboring hues to achieve a nuanced scrappy look. Quilters love a sale where they may buy fabric just to have it on hand. If they can't find the colors they want they sometimes hand dye their own fabric. They use their time and skills converting fabric into blocks which they combine to make quilts. Often quilters work on more than one quilt at a time to keep things interesting. They may embellish their quilts with intricate quilting stitches. The best quilters make good color choices combine blocks skillfully use their time well and win generous purchase awards when they enter their quilts in shows.In Quilt Show quilters collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. The quilters race the clock as they amass block tiles that they can combine into one or more quilts at a time. They can mix block tiles of a single color or a single pattern to make a quilt. Three times during the game when the clock reveals it is time for a quilt show quilts are entered and prize money is awarded. At game's end the quilter with the most prize money wins!
Not far into the future a stone was found in a star — then more stones were found and it turns out that if you combine three of these stones in the right way you create a very valuable jewel. What's more you can combine them in a different way to create fuel.In Troika you are an adventurer who has dreamed of making a fortune so you've travelled to this star along with other wanderers. Unfortunately your spacecraft has no more fuel so while you'd like to create jewels if you don't also create fuel you'll die as the richest person at the end of the universe!In the game you place all the heptagonal tiles face down on the table and on a turn you either draw a face-down tile or take a face-up tile that someone returned to the table. You're trying to collect both three tiles of the same number (to serve as fuel) and three tiles in numerical order (to transform into a gem). If you have no fuel you can't win the game; of those who do have fuel the player with the most valuable jewel wins.
Universe Between the 13th and the 17th century more than 900 monumental statues Moaï were erected on the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui also called Easter Island. Become a powerful tribal chief of Easter Island and gather tribe members to best serve your village and please the Gods. Carve transport and erect Moaï to gather resources and turn these into offerings to honor your ancestors and secure your spiritual and political prowess.Gameplay Each game turn takes place in 3 phases. During the first phase each player sends one of his figurines on the board each in turn until all the figurines have been placed. The sorcerer will decide the order of the next turn and the villagers are placed on the board to become transporters or scupltor. Thanks to the number of sculptors present in the Quarry each player collects Moais of different sizes. Moai or Pukao must be transported through a continuous chain of transporters whether they are from your clan or not. But be careful you offer resource to your opponents when you use their transporter! Once arrived at your destination you can erect the Moai to take the Ahu tile you can play at your tune as well as one or more Resources depending on the size of the Moai. Styling your Moais will allow you to exchange resources to acquire Offering tiles. Atthe end of a round if the number of ahu with no Moai is less than or equal to the number of players the game ends,The winner is the player with the most victory points earned thanks to the Offering and Outstanding Offering tiles.—description from the publisher
